WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:10.840 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Everybody stay tuned, we've got 3 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:13.760 an amazing question that you're going to want to hear the answer to, you're 4 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:16.600 going to want to hear the question asked, and we're also going to be talking about 5 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:24.000 how do you, how do I get ready to meet the Lord Jesus Christ? Stay tuned. 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:32.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:37.840 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:42.720 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:48.240 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:53.680 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.640 Hey you guys, welcome to our podcast today and we're getting a lot of activity 12 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:05.280 regarding these end time events. So we're going to, you know what, we're just going to keep 13 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:11.840 going until that well dries up, I guess, to a point. And one of the things that we're responding to, 14 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:20.720 many of you sincerely have been really examining where your faith is, which is awesome if this 15 00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:26.400 podcast can get you just to that point where are you really a believer? What is it that you believe? 16 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.040 How can you know for sure about anything? That if we can answer that or at least point you 17 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:39.280 toward the Bible, which is the truth, then great. Then we've done a good work and God is honored 18 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:44.480 and listen, your soul is satisfied because Christ does that stuff. For those of you who know what I'm 19 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:50.240 talking about, Jesus satisfies souls. And so listen, right now we're going to take up the question. 20 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:53.760 We've got three of them in total. We're going to do one right now and then we'll get into the 21 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.400 male bag, so to speak. And I'll look at some of the questions that have come to us. 22 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:02.880 So number one for today, now try to knock this off in 20 minutes or so because I know you're busy 23 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:07.840 and you're on your way. How can you get ready? You talked a lot about the rapture, pastor, Jack, 24 00:02:08.480 --> 00:02:12.880 how can you get ready? Number one way to get ready is to make sure that you have a personal 25 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:19.040 relationship with Jesus Christ, not your church, not your mosque, not your synagogue, not your 26 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:26.800 nothing. Jesus only, see what does that mean? Very simply answered the book of John chapter three. 27 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.280 In fact, why don't you, when you read it, read John three, project yourself into John three 28 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:38.640 and put on Nicodemus's sandals, put on his robe and have a sit down with Jesus. It's so perfect. 29 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:47.040 I'm not kidding. Get in chapter three of John and sit in Nicodemus's seat and let Jesus speak to you. 30 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:54.240 And Jesus is going to tell you, don't you know that it's impossible for you to enter the kingdom 31 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.960 of heaven. It's not going to matter about your religiosity. It's not going to matter about how 32 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.800 moral you are. It's not going to matter how great you are. It doesn't matter if you're a 33 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:09.040 Jew or Gentile. It doesn't matter. What is required for you to get into heaven is that you be born 34 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:16.320 again. Jesus used the word, well, in the English version of the Bible, it's born again. The word 35 00:03:16.320 --> 00:03:22.720 is actually born from above or have a second birth. And Jesus explains it. So number one, you 36 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:26.640 start in John chapter three, okay? That's what you want to do and you're step to getting ready. 37 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:32.400 Number two is that you want to continue on from that moment. Let's say you accept Christ 38 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:39.600 today. You continue on growing in the grace and knowledge of God. What does that mean? It means 39 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:46.480 that you, listen, it means just like a baby's born. Now I don't know how it is today. My kids are 40 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:54.400 in their 40s. So I don't know how it is today. But when our babies were born, they couldn't go 41 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:03.280 home from the hospital until they pooped, they peed, and they started a nurse. And when that happened, 42 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:09.680 then the doctors or the nurse or whoever signed off on our kids and basically says, okay, 43 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:17.040 they've come through production, they've gone through inspection, and now they're released. 44 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.920 And so out of the hospital we went, they were able to poop, they were able to pee, they were 45 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:31.200 able to eat. And so what happened? Their lives began. Same is true about being born again. We need 46 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:38.800 as we get born again, we need to desire this sincere, listen to this, milk of the word the Bible says. 47 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:43.120 And so you start in taking the Bible. Giving you heart to Christ is your salvation. 48 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:52.800 From that moment on is called discipleship. That means you keep going now. And true salvation 49 00:04:52.800 --> 00:05:01.280 in your life is the beginning of an amazing journey, an amazing story of God working in your life. 50 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:09.040 That's how you get ready. Third thing is this is that you be always aware that Christ could come 51 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.720 at any time, thus we were talking about their rapture. You need to be one who is discerning the times 52 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.840 in the seasons in which you live and where you live. What's going on globally? What's going on? 53 00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:26.000 And am I ready to meet Jesus? And you might naturally say, well, what if Jesus doesn't come back 54 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:34.880 in my lifetime? You win. It's awesome. You win anyway. Why? Because you die ready. We should live and 55 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:43.040 die ready, meaning always ready to meet Jesus, right? It's a it's a it's foolproof or what's the 56 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:51.040 term failsafe? It's a failsafe. If you're born again and you're growing as a disciple in Jesus Christ 57 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:58.800 and you are looking for his coming throughout scripture where it managed to be looking, be looking, 58 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:03.120 be looking, be looking watch. You're going to be made complete at his appearing. All of these 59 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.760 scriptures, when you live like that, you're prepared for two things. Number one, the rapture, 60 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:13.760 number two, for death. It works out great. Can I throw a four thing in that I wasn't going to 61 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:20.480 throw in? Number four, you'll be happy. It's a great way to live. Why? Because listen, when you 62 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:27.360 live like that, the Bible says in the Old Testament that the righteous, they are as bold as lions. 63 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:33.520 You get to live before Jesus every day. You live before God every day and that really keeps 64 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:39.280 you clean. Keeps your spirit clean. When temptations come, you just say, get out of here. When that 65 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:44.480 thought comes, hey, just click here. Take a peek. No one's going to be looking. That's called Satan 66 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:51.040 Pempting. Don't do it. Don't do it. Recognize it. So wait a minute. I recognize that. 67 00:06:51.760 --> 00:06:57.920 Nope. Lord, I'm asking you in Jesus name, Lord, rebuke Satan from my life and you get up and go, 68 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:02.800 you know how wonderful it is to live free like that? And should I die or should the Lord come back 69 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:10.240 with a trumpet blast? I'm ready. So it's absolutely thrilling. How can I be ready to meet Jesus? 70 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.760 That's how. That's how. Start there with all those things that we just laid out. Those four 71 00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:22.720 things. Be free. I'll throw this in. Sorry, I don't remember who said it. My genre of reading 72 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:29.120 is Charles Spurgeon, JC Ryle, a lot of Martin Lloyd Jones, Harry Ironside could have said it, 73 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:37.840 a W Tozer, Cs Lewis. I might be missing somebody, but that's kind of my main go to stuff. 74 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:48.160 And I might have been Cs Lewis who said that it appears that those who believe that Jesus could come 75 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:56.880 at any time are those who did the most on earth before heaven. I love that. 76 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:03.840 It might have been Jonathan Edwards. It doesn't matter. You can search it and see. Those who had 77 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:12.640 a pre-millennial, pre-tribulational, imminent doctrine view of Christ return do the most now because 78 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:20.240 they we sense that we're running out of time. So let's get it done motivation. And that commentator 79 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:26.720 that great that came before us stated in his research, it seems as though that those who believe 80 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.840 that Jesus could come back at any time did the most for the kingdom of heaven while here on earth. 81 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:38.640 Beautiful word. Okay, we have some questions. Let's take this one just because it is so much fun. 82 00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:42.960 I think I have the time. I'm looking at the producer guys. I think we're okay with time. 83 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:52.000 This is a whopper. It's right here. So you know, I'm not making it up, but it is a lot of fun. 84 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:56.560 So I'm sorry, I don't have your name. So but you'll know who you are. 85 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:05.760 Um, you say, hey, Jack, if you believe all kids are raptured, how do you explain Psalm 583? This 86 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:11.680 is what Psalm 583 says, by the way, the wicked are estranged from the womb. That's everyone. 87 00:09:12.400 --> 00:09:18.800 Every human being is estranged from the womb. In fact, you want to be even more, let's take your 88 00:09:18.800 --> 00:09:26.160 microscope and go electron microscope. David said about that. I was conceived in sin. 89 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:36.000 Wow. So David was not only conceived in sin, David admits, David declares the truth that 90 00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:43.120 the wicked are estranged from the womb. That means we're programmed to sin. No doubt about it, my friend. 91 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.720 So they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies, you put a question mark. No, 92 00:09:51.360 --> 00:10:02.400 when you're born, you can't speak. You can only nurse poop and pee, right? You have all the lying, 93 00:10:02.400 --> 00:10:09.760 you have murder capabilities, you have lying capabilities, you have suicide capabilities, you have 94 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:13.600 fill in the blank. Do you understand what I'm saying? You have the sin nature. You and I were born 95 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.160 with the sin nature. Here's the amazing thing, my friend, you're missing a big, big point is that 96 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:25.360 God does not hold us accountable for the doing of sin until we are aware of the law. Read the book 97 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:33.360 of Galatians, read the book of Romans, and that will be very clear. God will not hold a five-year-old 98 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:40.480 accountable for his sins if the rapture happens at the time of a five-year-old's life, 99 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:45.760 because the five-year-old doesn't, that's by the way, that's why evangelicals do not baptize 100 00:10:46.800 --> 00:10:52.720 babies at birth. What are they repenting of? You're supposed to believe in that repent and 101 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:57.680 believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. That's the gospel. The gospel begins with 102 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:05.040 the word metanoia. Repent. How does a three, four, how does a six-month-old repent and believe in 103 00:11:05.040 --> 00:11:12.000 the Lord Jesus Christ with water baptism being the source of salvation? That's crazy. That's church 104 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:17.840 tradition. That's not biblical theology. To repent means you must come to the understanding that you 105 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:24.320 have violated the law of God and that you are willfully asking God to forgive you of your sins 106 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.160 because you recognize that Jesus died on the cross for your sins. He rose again from the dead 107 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:36.240 and that now you're putting your faith in Him to save you from your sins. We do not baptize 108 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:45.520 kids unless they're able to tell us in the waters of baptism. Can you tell me why you're being baptized 109 00:11:45.520 --> 00:11:52.560 today? And listen, when a nine-year-old says, because I'm a wretch, I'm a sinner. I ask them, 110 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:57.920 what do you mean by that? Because I've been reading my Bible since I was five and I've come to 111 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:05.760 the realization I'm a liar. I stole money from my mom's purse. That makes me a thief 112 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:12.240 and Jesus died on the cross for my sins and I want him to forgive me and I want to be baptized 113 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:18.080 because I prayed to receive him when I was four or five but I didn't realize what I was doing 114 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:25.600 until in Sunday school here at church, I heard the gospel in a clit. Friends, that can happen. 115 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:32.560 That can happen like Charles Spurgeon at an age in his early teens. That could happen when 116 00:12:32.560 --> 00:12:38.720 you're 25. It can happen when you're aware, like in this kid I'm referring to nine years of age, 117 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:44.960 you have to be aware of sinning. So, friend, listen, you go on to say this and this is where your 118 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:52.000 question gets really, I mean, it's kind of, follow me with this. According to your belief, 119 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:58.560 Pastor Jack, and you said, you're really, you blew this one, Pastor Jack, had Joe Biden, 120 00:12:58.560 --> 00:13:04.560 Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Alistair Crowley, 121 00:13:04.560 --> 00:13:09.200 he invented the Church of Satan in San Francisco. Of course. 122 00:13:09.920 --> 00:13:13.120 Um, died as children. They would go to heaven. 123 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:20.720 Correct, friend? You said, ridiculous. Well, that's, that's your theology. 124 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.960 The Bible doesn't hold those guys, would not have held those guys accountable 125 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:34.880 at the age that they didn't know what they were doing. Think about that. Adolf Hitler didn't know, 126 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:43.200 see, you know Adolf Hitler now, but Adolf Hitler in the womb, you're holding his sins accountable 127 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:49.440 to him in the womb or at the age of three or at the age of six. Come on, that's ridiculous. 128 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.960 You want to talk about ridiculous, that's ridiculous because you're acting like God. 129 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.240 That's, that's really nuts because that, that thing, same thing could be applied to you. 130 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:04.720 According to your logic, you're not going to heaven. It gets worse. You said, 131 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:14.480 not only that, but seeing as the majority of people grow up to reject the Lord, 132 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:22.720 if all babies and children go to heaven via the rapture or death, that would make a, abortion, 133 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:36.160 a huge blessing. That's wild. Why? Because people who otherwise would have grown up to reject 134 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:43.680 the Lord and be consigned to the lake of fire would instead be in heaven. And let's not forget, 135 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:53.680 you said, love not freely given is not love. I do agree with that. Love not freely given is not 136 00:14:53.680 --> 00:15:00.240 love. I don't know what that has to do with your assessment of. We should abort people before 137 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:08.240 they have the chance of rejecting the gospel so they don't wind up in hell. Think, think of what 138 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:16.960 your logic is. Your, your side love not freely given is not love. Your logic is saying, 139 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.760 let's kill people before they have the chance to exercise the choice of love, God or not. 140 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:31.040 That's kind of hitler-esque, right? Let's annihilate. Now, this is very strange because you're 141 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:41.360 actually in your argument saying that people in the future who are going to sin beyond the age 142 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:47.760 of accountability and reject the gospel of Jesus, it's better for them to die in the womb or to be 143 00:15:47.760 --> 00:16:04.800 killed before they reach that point. Your argument actually is robotica. What is it? It's a doomsday, 144 00:16:04.800 --> 00:16:14.800 I'm missing the word. It's a thought process of hopelessness. It's weird. Jesus died on the 145 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:20.560 cross for sinners. If I apply your logic, then all sinners would be removed before birth. 146 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:29.440 Then what did Jesus die for? The unborn only? The Jesus die for only those who are in the age of five 147 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:34.480 or six or eleven. The age of accountability is not a number, by the way. It's the person's ability 148 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:39.360 to comprehend that they are rejecting God. I mentioned before, that's in the manifestation of 149 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:44.400 teen rebellion. Teen rebellion is announcing to you, mom and dad, that the kid is saying, 150 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:50.800 I am slipping away from your faith covering. I'm now able to start thinking on my own. Thus, 151 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:55.600 I don't think I need to obey you anymore. I don't think I need to clean my room because who are 152 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:02.720 you to tell me what to do? Teen rebellion is my teachers are stupid. The Pope is stupid. My parents 153 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:08.560 are stupid. That judge is stupid. The president's stupid. Everything's stupid. I'm the only one 154 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:13.200 that's smart. Why can't people see that? That's called teen rebellion. What's going on? Age of 155 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:17.840 accountability is popping up. And they need to get their questions answered. Mom and dad, listen, 156 00:17:17.840 --> 00:17:23.680 you better be taking your kid to a good Bible teaching church that has an awesome youth group that 157 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:32.160 teaches Bible, not tidily wings or foosball or marbles. I'm old. That's only the stories I have. I 158 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:39.120 don't know. Xbox. God forbid, a youth group ministry should be powerful to answer questions like 159 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:45.680 this that honestly can be easily refuted because the psalmist is talking about the fact that 160 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:50.000 we're born sinners. That's why Christ came and died on the cross. But we don't know about that 161 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:55.840 until we're convicted by the Holy Spirit. John chapter 14, John chapter 16, the Holy Spirit will 162 00:17:55.840 --> 00:18:00.480 come and convict us of sin. That does not happen to three year olds. It happens to people who are in 163 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:06.000 the age of accountability. And when you're convicted of your sin, then you run to Christ for forgiveness. 164 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:12.240 And you get forgiveness because Metanoia, you repent of your sins and you ask him to forgive you. 165 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.680 And then knowing that he rose from the dead is your justification from the penalty of sin 166 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:24.960 and you're placed into the body of Christ. So listen, I love your question. It's crazy nuts. But 167 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:36.400 if this is really your thought process, then either A, you're not a Christian and you need to 168 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:43.200 become a Christian or B, you are a Christian and you've been wrongly taught about the sovereignty of 169 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:50.400 God and the imparted sovereignty of man. God gave us that sovereignty, which justifies your 170 00:18:51.280 --> 00:18:57.360 comment at the end, which I agree with. Love not freely given is not love. I can read it upside 171 00:18:57.360 --> 00:19:03.200 our backwards better than I can read it forwards. You're contradicting yourself. So that's very, 172 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:08.320 very important. Listen, like always you guys, we'd love for you to hit the subscribe button. 173 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:13.920 Please help us. I'm not begging you at all. Exactly. I'm pleading with you. How's that? Hit the 174 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:20.480 subscribe button. 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