WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.820 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:12.420 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Death Nox using your sin. Remember 3 00:00:12.420 --> 00:00:18.260 that the older you get and the closer you get to death and if you have the grace 4 00:00:18.260 --> 00:00:24.660 of God to extend you a time to contemplate you'd want to repent of your sin 5 00:00:24.860 --> 00:00:31.660 because death knocks on your life, knocks on your door. 6 00:00:35.660 --> 00:00:41.740 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:41.740 --> 00:00:47.380 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in 8 00:00:47.380 --> 00:00:52.580 Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's 9 00:00:52.580 --> 00:00:58.620 like saying, Amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open 10 00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:04.780 your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:11.400 In Judaism, in Paul's day, when a child was born from the beginning, listen, the baby 12 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:18.140 is born and many Jews do this to this day, the moment the baby starts to breastfeed 13 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:25.220 after birth. The mother will not say what she says until she, I guess, women you know 14 00:01:25.220 --> 00:01:32.340 how when the baby starts to actually intake milk, you know this. We don't know. Let's 15 00:01:32.340 --> 00:01:40.340 guys. And so when it happens, the mother knows. And so notice the position of the baby, 16 00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:47.340 the baby's ear is closest to the mother's mouth. Baby's nursing mother detects. He's 17 00:01:48.020 --> 00:01:55.020 eating. He's being comforted. His tummy's being filled. He's, he's, this is great. And 18 00:01:55.020 --> 00:02:04.020 that's when she says in Hebrew, the Lord, he is God. The Lord. He is God. The Lord, he 19 00:02:04.020 --> 00:02:11.020 is God. Is it precious? So from, from Paul's moment of nursing, he had heard the Lord he 20 00:02:14.940 --> 00:02:21.940 is God all the way up until the age of 12. He was in a certain category of teaching in 21 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:26.900 the traditions and in the scriptures to the age of 12. You want to know what's important 22 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:33.580 about the age of 12 in, in first century Judaism was this. At the age of 12, you now become 23 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:40.580 the son of the law. You had a son of the law party. Kind of like a 13 year old, now what 24 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:49.780 bar mitzvah, bar mitzvah for the, for the young lady. And now he's 12. And he's now the 25 00:02:50.540 --> 00:02:57.540 son, a son of the law, which now he studies other portions of scripture. And this is what 26 00:02:57.540 --> 00:03:00.900 most scholars and historians understand. Are you guys getting this? It's kind of fun. 27 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:07.900 I love this stuff. It's this. Okay, I'm 12. I'm in class. What's up? Okay, get out 28 00:03:08.700 --> 00:03:15.700 your pen. Here we go. Thou shalt not covet. And he says, what? And it's believed from 29 00:03:21.260 --> 00:03:27.060 that moment from the age of 12 to who knows what Paul's age was when he was converted 30 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:34.060 that the wheels of conviction began. How about you? A lot of people, by the way, confused 31 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:42.060 this reality with teen rebellion. They start thinking, wait a minute, I know, I know this, 32 00:03:44.220 --> 00:03:49.300 I know that. And they start having emotions and they start making decisions. And instead 33 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:54.540 of making decisions on facts, they make decisions on feelings and emotions. We again, psychologists 34 00:03:54.540 --> 00:03:59.540 say, oh, he's in a state of teen rebellion. The Bible says he's come to the age of accountability. 35 00:03:59.540 --> 00:04:06.540 It's not 13. It could be 11. It could be 17. It's the capacity of the child. He or she, 36 00:04:08.220 --> 00:04:14.020 doesn't matter. But when they begin to push back from your faith, that's the time when 37 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:19.520 you get your good close friends and fast and pray because your son and your daughters 38 00:04:19.520 --> 00:04:24.520 is now walking away from your faith that's got to happen. It's like a spaceship disconnected 39 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:30.560 from the booster. It's got to happen. It's got to happen. They can't live under your 40 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.920 faith forever. But then they come to this place of their own thinking. And that's where 41 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:41.920 all of your years of prayer and in Bible and life and consistency and children's ministry 42 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:48.320 to help. And all that goes to work. And the kid has a struggle. What's the struggle? They 43 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:54.320 wake up to the fact, I'm a sinner. And I want to do this now. And I can't if I want 44 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:00.320 to. What am I going to do? They got to choose. Their will has been brought to the place 45 00:05:00.320 --> 00:05:09.320 of decision. Just like Satan, as Lucifer, just like Adam and Eve, just like you and I, 46 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:14.880 remarkable. We're illuminated. The reality does that to us. And so because he didn't know 47 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:18.440 anything about the law when the law was made known to him, he found out I'm a covetous 48 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:23.280 person. He got nailed by the 10th commandment. And the Bible tells us that when the commandment 49 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:28.440 came, that is, the light bulb, picture this, the light bulb in verse 9 turned on over 50 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:35.280 his head, sin revived. Notice, sin was always there. It just puffed up and said, I'm in control 51 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:46.800 now. And he said, when that happened, I died. I died. Wow. I want to give you this quote. 52 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:53.040 It says there, we get, I think we'll have it on the screens. No pastor would want to admit 53 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:58.120 what I'm about to say. But unless you understand the purpose and the function of the law of 54 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:04.920 God, there is no possible way for you to understand the purpose and function of salvation. 55 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:10.600 The cross of Jesus Christ in the empty tomb. There's no possible way for you to be saved 56 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:17.000 by having your sins forgiven unless you understand the law. Think about that. Oh, please forgive 57 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:25.640 me for what? Right? Think about it. Okay. Listen, my son wants to be baptized or I want 58 00:06:25.640 --> 00:06:41.120 to be baptized. For what? Go to heaven? Right? Wrong answer. It is a pastor's job to make 59 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:48.680 sure that the congregation under his teaching knows that without faith in Jesus Christ, it is 60 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:57.440 impossible to enter the kingdom of heaven. It's a fact. Have you experienced the rescuing 61 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.760 from the law? God's law is awesome, pure and amazing. But God's law, because you and 62 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:14.160 I can't meet its requirements, it has condemned us. And when we hear this, it kills us. 63 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:21.760 And yet this is exactly how the path of life must proceed. We must understand that we are 64 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:29.480 lost without him before we can be found in him. Maybe this will help, because think about 65 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:37.600 it. When you were young, you thought the world was your oyster. I was going to say fruit 66 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:43.840 salad or whatever the thing is. Okay. The world is your oyster. What is it? I don't get 67 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:59.200 that. Who likes oysters? That's like a curse. Oh, the pearl? I don't like that. So here you 68 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:06.560 go. Galatians chapter 5 verse 16. Now let's just place ourselves into this. I say then walk 69 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:11.560 in the spirit, capital S. Walk with God. Walk with Jesus in your heart and your life. And you 70 00:08:11.640 --> 00:08:18.040 shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Stop right there. The Holy Spirit puts the law inside 71 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:23.720 of you. He does it and he activates it so that you actually wind up doing the impossible because you 72 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:29.800 can't do it. But the spirit of God begins to do it in you. Amazing. That's that born-again 73 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:35.880 experience. And these are contrary, or sorry, verse 17, for the flesh lust against the spirit 74 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:40.520 and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another. That's how you know 75 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:49.480 you're a believer. Are you at war with yourself? There's two realities fighting inside of you. 76 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:55.240 So that you do not do the things that you wish, verse 18. But if you are led by the spirit, 77 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:00.840 you're not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident. This is the world. This is the 78 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:09.320 this is what the the unbelieving world lives for, which are number one adultery. You know what adultery 79 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:15.000 is? Adultery is where both of the people are married to other people, but they're in union and 80 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:21.800 sex. They've had they've committed the Greek word pornia. It doesn't mean that they had this 81 00:09:21.800 --> 00:09:29.640 some young faces around here. It doesn't mean they wrestled all the way. It means that they entered 82 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:37.480 into an activity that even though they didn't wrestle, they did other things. You know what I'm saying? 83 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:46.680 Things. Okay, the Bible calls that adultery. One, both can be married or one. Somebody's got to be 84 00:09:46.680 --> 00:09:54.920 married. It could be both or one. If it's the one, he's not only she's not only committed adultery, 85 00:09:54.920 --> 00:09:59.640 it falls under the realm of fornication. When two people who are not married before the eyes of 86 00:09:59.640 --> 00:10:07.480 God, their experiencing or they're engaged in what is known as fornication. By the way, the four of 87 00:10:07.560 --> 00:10:18.120 these are sexually based. Uncleanness, ludeness, and verse 20 talks about really something that encompasses 88 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:28.280 everything. Adultery. Adultery is a very highly passionate, driven form of covetousness. 89 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:36.040 Sorcery is a weird word. We see sorcery, but in the actual Greek language, it's pharmacai, 90 00:10:36.040 --> 00:10:46.920 where you get the word pharmacy, pharmaceutical. But the word means to bend your mind, to ingest 91 00:10:46.920 --> 00:10:51.480 something that changes your way of thinking. Things like this, I can't cope. It's too much. 92 00:10:52.920 --> 00:10:59.160 I need a drink. So, okay, listen, if you're not a Christian, drink away, buddy. Right? Let's be 93 00:10:59.160 --> 00:11:04.120 honest. If you're not a Christian, drink up for tomorrow, you die. He drink and be married, 94 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:10.200 right? He drink and be married. For tomorrow, we die. Go ahead. If you're a Christian, 95 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:22.440 that's what God gave us prayer. Give me a beer. Give me an ear? No. Pray, Christian, are you stressed? 96 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:27.880 Call out to God. Are you stressed? It's not going to kill you. I'm going to take a pill. 97 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:34.440 Stop, stop, stop. Get on your knees. Get on your knees. Literally, get on your knees. 98 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:42.520 Lift your hands. Pour out your concern to him. Pour out your concern to him. That's why in my 99 00:11:42.520 --> 00:11:47.480 office, I told you before, I have incredible. I'll show them to you someday, prescription pads. 100 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.120 It's like a doctor's office. You can't tell the difference. It looks like a real doctor. 101 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.960 I could probably go to jail for a life. They look real. But if you look real close, 102 00:11:59.400 --> 00:12:04.440 it says, for example, you know, amount of refills, and I have, take your medicine, don't miss 103 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:09.320 this thing, and all of these promises that are written on this pad are based upon the word of God. 104 00:12:10.920 --> 00:12:17.160 And I give them, I give them Ephesians five and Psalm two, and then I sign it and put their name 105 00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:22.600 on here. Here, go. I'll show it to you someday. I just have to remember. Why? Because that's 106 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:30.520 the real fix. That's the real prescription that you and I need. So now watch, see, even right now, 107 00:12:30.520 --> 00:12:34.040 the spirit of God is starting to hit some of you and you're going, wait, what are you saying here? 108 00:12:34.040 --> 00:12:37.960 What are you saying here? I'm not saying anything. I'm just telling you what the Bible says. 109 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:46.280 Hatred, we live in a hateful world. Contentions, best way to remember contentions is this person 110 00:12:46.280 --> 00:12:51.000 that has contentious spirit about them. They get to fight with everybody about anything. 111 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:58.440 They get to fight with an ant. And they're just everything's what. Isn't it a nice day? Why is it nice? 112 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:03.880 It's like, man, back off. Who, who are you telling the back off? It's just like calm down. Don't tell 113 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:12.440 me to calm down. You know those kind of people? They're horrible. Gelacies, jealousies, outbursts of 114 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:21.160 wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, people who just cause divisions everywhere they go. They 115 00:13:21.160 --> 00:13:29.480 just leave a wake of destruction. Heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like 116 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:35.080 of which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in the time past, that those who practice such 117 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:41.400 things will not inherit the kingdom of God. That's called heaven. You're not going if that's how you live. 118 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:45.880 Now listen, in the crowd this size, or maybe somebody's watching on TV before they turn 119 00:13:45.880 --> 00:13:51.320 out the channel, they're like, get the remote. Turn them off. Why? Because the spirit of God 120 00:13:51.320 --> 00:14:00.120 took the word of God and got them. Why would he do that? Because he loves you. He loves you. 121 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:05.400 You guys, reality exposes. Look at verse 10. Exposes you and I to the real you. You know, you have an 122 00:14:05.400 --> 00:14:10.520 MRI machine. You ever seen other things work? You'd feel completely fine. Dr. Says, you need an MRI. 123 00:14:10.520 --> 00:14:19.320 I feel fine. Just doing MRI and you do an MRI and it reveals stuff inside of you. God's word 124 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:24.840 does that. Third and final point, we end with this you guys, verses 11 and 12, and that death 125 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:31.480 stands waiting at your door. Just when you thought it was over, and the fact is, oh, you know what? 126 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:37.400 Lured my life. I've come to the end. Just when you thought it was over. 127 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:42.600 I don't know if you've had a chance to see this as pastors. We see this. 128 00:14:44.520 --> 00:14:52.120 I've lured my life. I'm fine. I've handled everything my way. Me and Frank Sinatra. 129 00:14:52.440 --> 00:15:05.240 And you know, as long as they still have that in them, you just have to wait. They haven't suffered 130 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:13.320 enough. And then you come to a point where it's just really tragic for the family and for that 131 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:21.240 individual. When you as a minister, you're dealing with the family and if you see the individual 132 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:27.560 go one way or the other way, there's no middle ground. The individual will double down and die 133 00:15:27.560 --> 00:15:34.680 cursing God. Isn't that funny? Die cursing God. Die cursing the one they do not even believe exist. 134 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:41.400 They slip into a Christless eternity called hell because that's where they wanted to go. 135 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:48.920 Or there are those who are fighting against God and they start softening up as the pain increases 136 00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:59.640 and they wind up bowing their knee in the heart as it were and they accept the lured, the power of 137 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:11.000 that. Death knocks using your sin. Remember that. The older you get and the closer you get to death, 138 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:19.640 and if you have the grace of God to extend you a time to contemplate, you would want to repent of 139 00:16:19.640 --> 00:16:34.120 your sin because death knocks on your life, knocks on your door. Sin took advantage by the 140 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:43.720 commandment and deceived me since deceptive friends. Just take a bite, Eve. It's beautiful, isn't it? 141 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:53.240 The Bible says when she saw that it was good to look at and good for her life and tasty, she took of it. 142 00:16:53.240 --> 00:17:10.840 And by it killed her. Death knows that you're not perfect. Death knows that. It is swirl in your mind. 143 00:17:12.520 --> 00:17:16.840 You've never believed in God. You fought against God all your life, the God that you don't believe in, 144 00:17:16.840 --> 00:17:32.120 but now the hour has come. You don't have to do. Listen, Lisa's dead when he was dying at USC, 145 00:17:34.360 --> 00:17:39.720 a believer, the whole room full of believers were all in there. It was amazing. He's dying. 146 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:48.520 He's got his air on his mask. We're all standing around. We thought we were doing pretty good, 147 00:17:48.520 --> 00:17:53.960 but he takes his mask off. He goes, can't you guys sing a hymn or something? Sing some hymns. 148 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:03.000 I don't know if the cancer killed him or the sound of our voice killed him, but I'm kidding, of course. 149 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:12.120 But I remember one of the doctors saying, we've seen this happen before. He should be gone by now. 150 00:18:12.600 --> 00:18:16.920 It's like he's waiting. I mean, these are God moments. Nobody can explain this. He should be dead, 151 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:23.800 but he's not dead. Why? Because his oldest son is getting a late flight out of Spokane 152 00:18:24.600 --> 00:18:35.880 to get down to see Dad before he dies. It's bigger than that. The oldest son needs to make up with the next oldest son. 153 00:18:37.560 --> 00:18:44.440 So the oldest son shows up. He's the last one to finally get their shows up, and her dad says to the older one, 154 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:53.960 make up with your brother, give your heart to Christ. It's like a Joseph moment. You need to make up with 155 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:03.080 your brother, and you need to come to Christ, and they had a sweet moment together, and then, 156 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:11.080 Dad, well, not Dad. He just moved to heaven. But that's quite remarkable. 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