WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:11.120 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. When we get Christianized, we 3 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:17.580 have a tendency to look at those things and say those filthy people, banish them 4 00:00:17.580 --> 00:00:21.580 and bail every single one of them. 5 00:00:21.580 --> 00:00:35.180 I'm reading about us or who we used to be. 6 00:00:35.180 --> 00:00:41.860 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:47.180 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:47.180 --> 00:00:52.060 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:52.060 --> 00:00:57.660 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:57.660 --> 00:01:05.020 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Paul 11 00:01:05.020 --> 00:01:12.380 writes to the church in Galatia. Now as I begin to read this, ask yourself, have 12 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:18.140 you had a crisis of faith? Are you washed clean? Are you safe in the arms of 13 00:01:18.140 --> 00:01:24.220 Jesus? Now the works of the flesh are evident which are adultery. You can't 14 00:01:24.220 --> 00:01:31.140 sleep with somebody who's married. Fornication, that's two single people. 15 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:37.420 Uncleanness, ludeness. Uncleanness is bad. 16 00:01:37.420 --> 00:01:46.460 Ludeness is in the area of sexual joking or sexual conduct or sexual provocation. 17 00:01:46.460 --> 00:01:53.860 Many posts, even commercials. Stinking commercials on TV are lured. 18 00:01:53.860 --> 00:02:00.860 You got to cover your grandkids eyes between NFL plays because they go to a 19 00:02:00.860 --> 00:02:06.540 commercial, ludeness, idolatry, worshiping things, sorcery, interesting word. 20 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:13.500 The Greek word is pharmacy or pharmacai. It means hallucinogenic mind-altering 21 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:21.260 drugs, hatred, contentions, always fighting with somebody. You've just got to 22 00:02:21.260 --> 00:02:26.500 fight. You'll get in a fight with an aunt. 23 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:32.740 Jealousies outburst of wrath, temper out of control. Selfish ambitions, 24 00:02:32.740 --> 00:02:40.020 dissensions, people who divide other people's lives. Heresies, envy, murders, 25 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:47.900 drunkenness, revelries, revelries are like orgy parties. Drunkenness, drugs, 26 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:51.300 close fly off. First thing that happens when you get 27 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:55.260 inebriated by the way is that your moral standards fall. Scientists will tell you 28 00:02:55.260 --> 00:03:01.060 this. I was in a court case where the special witness came forward from USC and 29 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:05.260 said, when you start to get buzzed, the first thing that happens is your moral 30 00:03:05.260 --> 00:03:14.540 standards drop. That's how it happens. And the like. So these we would all see. 31 00:03:14.540 --> 00:03:20.500 Yep, I get that. Yep, yep. Which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in 32 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:24.780 the past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of 33 00:03:24.780 --> 00:03:29.420 God. You see, didn't David do that? Didn't David have sex with Besheba? David 34 00:03:29.420 --> 00:03:34.140 fell and it was a whopper. But David's lifestyle was not to take advantage of 35 00:03:34.140 --> 00:03:40.660 women. David paid horribly for that fall, by the way. You never would have 36 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:45.380 want to have received what he did. And by the way, generations behind him. Next 37 00:03:45.380 --> 00:03:52.220 verse, but fornication and all in cleanness or covetousness, let it not even be 38 00:03:52.220 --> 00:04:00.580 named among you as fitting for saints. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking. 39 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:06.380 Combined, these are dirty, filthy conversations, dirty jokes, things that when 40 00:04:06.380 --> 00:04:11.180 you hear people, you know who they are. Or you may not know who they are. But 41 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:13.460 you'll be somewhere and you hear people talking like that and you feel like you 42 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:16.300 need to take a shower when they're when you leave their presence. You're just 43 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:21.260 like, man, that was a defiling plane ride. The people behind me, the foul mouth. 44 00:04:21.260 --> 00:04:30.500 You ever seen people like that? Listen, I don't know about you. But all of those 45 00:04:30.500 --> 00:04:35.740 things that are we're reading right now, when we get Christianized, we have a 46 00:04:35.740 --> 00:04:42.180 tendency to look at those things and say, those filthy people banish them, they 47 00:04:42.180 --> 00:05:01.820 help every single one of them. May flames suck them up. I'm reading about us, or who 48 00:05:01.820 --> 00:05:09.460 we used to be. Of course, gesting, which is not fitting, but rather giving of 49 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:14.860 thanks. For this, you know that no fornicator, unclean person or covetous man who 50 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:19.460 is an idolatur has any idolatur who has any inheritance in the kingdom of 51 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:24.780 Christ and God, let no one deceive you with empty words. You remember the title 52 00:05:24.780 --> 00:05:29.900 when eyes can hear us? For because of these things, the wrath of God comes upon 53 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:34.700 the sons of disobedience. That means active, by the way. It's happening now. It's 54 00:05:34.700 --> 00:05:43.820 going on. Therefore, do not be partakers with them. Don't hang out with them. Well, I 55 00:05:43.820 --> 00:05:48.860 used to be, you know, all big into pornography. God rescued me. So now I'm gonna go 56 00:05:48.860 --> 00:05:56.020 witness to the girls at the strip club. No, you're not. No, you're not. Somebody else 57 00:05:56.020 --> 00:06:00.660 can do that. You're not, you're not you. So if you're an alcoholic and God 58 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:05.100 delivered you from that, I'm just gonna go down to Joe's barn grill and 59 00:06:05.100 --> 00:06:11.140 witness those guys. Maybe you guys should switch witnessing ministries, but 60 00:06:11.140 --> 00:06:15.980 don't do that. Therefore, do not be partakers with them. For you were once 61 00:06:15.980 --> 00:06:23.940 darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light. Okay, 62 00:06:23.940 --> 00:06:28.100 we're gonna keep going here. First Corinthians, chapter six, verse nine, first 63 00:06:28.100 --> 00:06:33.620 Corinthians, six, nine. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not will not inherit 64 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:38.500 the kingdom of God? Stop right there for a second. Did we not just read that in Romans 65 00:06:38.500 --> 00:06:43.940 four, that God declares the ungodly, godly, that God declares the unrighteous 66 00:06:43.940 --> 00:06:50.260 righteous by believing or by faith in Christ, right? When that happens, your 67 00:06:50.260 --> 00:06:54.780 lives transformed because you've experienced God. And you're continuing to 68 00:06:54.780 --> 00:07:00.220 experience God on a daily basis. Okay, you can't say that you're a Christian and 69 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:08.300 you live like this. It's impossible. You can't. He won't allow it. Do not be 70 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:13.540 deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, 71 00:07:13.540 --> 00:07:18.220 nor sotomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor 72 00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:23.820 extortioners, will inherit the kingdom of God. Here's verse 11, kaboom. 73 00:07:23.820 --> 00:07:29.760 Man, if I said, God bless you, thanks for coming. Have a great week. You'd say, 74 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:40.980 can you read verse 11? Please read verse 11. And such were some of you, but you were 75 00:07:40.980 --> 00:07:45.980 washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord 76 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:52.420 Jesus and by the spirit of our God. Somebody should say amen. Thank you. Thank 77 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:59.100 you, God. My gosh, I look back over my life. And if I would have died at that 78 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:05.220 moment, there's no doubt where I would have gone, but not have gone well. Verse 79 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:09.580 seven tells us, knowing what it's like to know the real you. This is the only way 80 00:08:09.580 --> 00:08:14.740 for you to know who you really are. This is experiencing Christ. Blessed are 81 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:20.900 those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered to be free, to be 82 00:08:20.900 --> 00:08:24.580 literally free. The word covered here means in the Greek language, that which has 83 00:08:24.580 --> 00:08:31.180 been a tone for, paid for, cleared of, no longer present. What an awesome truth that 84 00:08:31.180 --> 00:08:37.180 is. And then finally, look at verse eight, knowing what it's like to be truly free and 85 00:08:37.180 --> 00:08:46.420 look how I put this free. I did that deliberately, deliberately free. Yes. And free 86 00:08:46.420 --> 00:08:53.500 error. The moment you and I came to faith in Christ, we were set free. The only 87 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:58.100 reason why you and I would have struggles is because we do. It's because we 88 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:02.620 allow certain things into our lives where maybe still towing with it or it's 89 00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:09.660 still there. We haven't killed it yet. That temptation or that pressure and 90 00:09:09.660 --> 00:09:14.060 something's church cheer up. There are some things that you and I will never have 91 00:09:14.060 --> 00:09:18.900 total victory over until we die. That for the believer, death is the great 92 00:09:18.900 --> 00:09:24.500 liberator. It's fantastic. Okay. None of us are a fan of getting to the point. I 93 00:09:24.500 --> 00:09:31.660 don't want to have needles. I don't like that. I don't want tubes. Right. I don't 94 00:09:31.660 --> 00:09:40.660 want to Dr. Bill, you know, Santa Fe, Southbound Pacific, something. Right. 95 00:09:40.660 --> 00:09:47.140 Car stalls on the track. Okay, here we come Jesus. But a believer ought not to be 96 00:09:47.140 --> 00:09:52.540 concerned about where they're going. Makes no sense. I'm a believer, but I'm not 97 00:09:52.540 --> 00:09:56.700 sure if I'm going to make it. Then you're not a believer. Truth is, you could be a 98 00:09:56.700 --> 00:10:01.220 believer, but you don't understand what the scriptures say to you. You don't 99 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:06.340 need to live there. You can live free now. Verse 8 says, bless it. Happy is the man 100 00:10:06.340 --> 00:10:13.740 and the woman to whom the Lord shall not impute sin. No more check. No more clipboard. 101 00:10:13.740 --> 00:10:20.100 Suzy, what are you doing over there? What do you think? Billy, what was that 102 00:10:20.100 --> 00:10:25.620 thought? No, because the Holy Spirit lives in you now. He's the one that's doing 103 00:10:25.620 --> 00:10:31.900 all the checks and balances inside of you. Man, if we had to do Christianity, we 104 00:10:31.900 --> 00:10:38.540 had all dropped out of exhaustion. Thank God he does it. So here you go. We're ending. 105 00:10:38.540 --> 00:10:47.580 Jeremiah 29-11. Listen, I'm going to ask you something. Jeremiah 29-11-14. For I 106 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:51.180 know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord thoughts of peace and 107 00:10:51.180 --> 00:10:57.020 not of evil to give you a future and a hope. And you have a problem with that? Is that 108 00:10:57.020 --> 00:11:07.820 bother you? Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me and I will listen to you. 109 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:12.020 And you will seek me and find me. I think that's one of the cutest verses in the whole 110 00:11:12.020 --> 00:11:18.220 world. God says, seek me. I'm going to go hide. You go, come, come, come find me. 111 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:22.860 This foot's sticking out. You know how that is? When you're playing hide and see with 112 00:11:22.860 --> 00:11:27.900 a three-year-old, you hide behind the curtains, but your arm is hanging out because they'll 113 00:11:27.900 --> 00:11:35.260 never find you. They'll never find you unless you give part of yourself away. And when you 114 00:11:35.260 --> 00:11:40.460 search for me with all of your heart, I will be found by you, says the Lord. Is that okay? 115 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:47.260 You have a problem with that? Micah 7 verse 19. Will you respond to this? Listen to this? 116 00:11:49.820 --> 00:11:57.420 He will again have compassion on us and he will subdue our iniquities and he will cast all our 117 00:11:57.420 --> 00:12:02.540 sins into the depths of the sea. You have a problem with that? This is God of the Bible, by the way. 118 00:12:02.540 --> 00:12:07.420 Should that not freak you out and have it give you an awesome day today? 119 00:12:10.700 --> 00:12:15.500 Please listen. I know right at time. I don't know how to, man, I'd do anything. I would do anything 120 00:12:15.500 --> 00:12:22.940 I could to make this a technical or reality, but I have to trust the Holy Spirit to do what he 121 00:12:22.940 --> 00:12:29.260 does with this word. Because I'm, I've thought of like, you know, Billy Sunday, 122 00:12:29.260 --> 00:12:33.740 anybody remember Billy Sunday? Because Billy Sunday would take, he's trying to make a 123 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:39.180 point. You take furniture and break it and people and this is, this is your, this is your life 124 00:12:39.180 --> 00:12:46.540 with sin and he was, you know, and remember he's a great baseball player too, right? He's very 125 00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:53.420 dramatic. I can't do that. I throw my back out, I'm sure, but, but I'd do anything I could for 126 00:12:53.420 --> 00:13:00.460 you to see the word and pictures as it were in technical color. When you, when you hear this, 127 00:13:04.060 --> 00:13:16.940 if it doesn't cause you to thank him or revel in having experienced God, I pray today, 128 00:13:16.940 --> 00:13:22.140 if you don't know what that's like, that you leave here today so troubled in your soul, 129 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:27.660 that you can't sleep tonight, that you turn left and right on your bed because you're saying, 130 00:13:27.660 --> 00:13:33.980 God, what is that? He was saying things today. I don't even know. I don't know this. I don't know 131 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:37.420 this. I don't know what you think about me, God. I don't know what's going to happen to me when 132 00:13:37.420 --> 00:13:50.220 I breathe my last breath. I, I don't know. Verses we who are just like you can say, I know what you've, 133 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:57.020 I know where you're at. I've been there. My prayer is for you to be where we're at because we're 134 00:13:57.020 --> 00:14:06.140 right here and now and that is this. That same cry that you're crying, we've cried. But we asked 135 00:14:06.140 --> 00:14:14.300 him to cause his word to take over in our lives and a piece came in that cannot be bought. There's 136 00:14:14.380 --> 00:14:20.620 not a drug, there's not a drink, there's not an app, there's not, there's not a bungee cord, 137 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:26.860 there's not a parachute, there's not a slot machine, there's nothing that can provide this. 138 00:14:28.300 --> 00:14:37.900 Nothing in this world. So why not this for you? Why not this? Psalm 103 verse 12. As far as the 139 00:14:37.900 --> 00:14:46.380 east is from the west and he navigators in here, figure that one out. So far, so far has he 140 00:14:46.380 --> 00:14:54.380 removed our transgressions from us. I love that, everybody. Listen, you can go, if, if you got 141 00:14:54.380 --> 00:15:01.180 an airplane and you flew east, when would you get west? You'd always go east until you run out of 142 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:07.660 gas and then you go dead. And if you go west, you go west until you run out of gas and then you go 143 00:15:07.660 --> 00:15:15.820 dead. But you can only go so far. Help me out. I'm failing to my, yeah, no, I know that, North and 144 00:15:15.820 --> 00:15:27.260 South, but is North only like 8,000 miles or 18,000 miles? Anybody remember? From the pole to the 145 00:15:27.260 --> 00:15:32.620 pole? It's, it's thousands of miles. It's not far. And then as soon as you hit the North pole, 146 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:40.220 what happens? You start going south. Thank God the Bible doesn't, as far as the North is from the south, 147 00:15:42.060 --> 00:15:52.220 that's not very far. That's not far enough for my life. Lord, get it away, get it away, get it away. 148 00:15:52.220 --> 00:16:00.620 I don't want to meet the 19-year-old Jack. Get him out of here. God says, don't worry about it. 149 00:16:00.620 --> 00:16:07.980 I removed him as far as the east is from the west. Okay then, that's good. What's wrong with this? 150 00:16:09.740 --> 00:16:17.900 Why don't you enjoy this? Isaiah 45, 22, first sermon, Spurgeon ever preached. 151 00:16:18.300 --> 00:16:25.820 Look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth. How much does it cost to look? Nothing. 152 00:16:28.700 --> 00:16:36.700 How much effort does it take to look? Just look. Just look to him and be saved. 153 00:16:36.700 --> 00:16:46.300 John 6, verse 35, we're almost done. And Jesus said to him, I'm the bread of life. 154 00:16:48.140 --> 00:16:54.300 He who comes to me shall never hunger. And he who believes in me shall never thirst. 155 00:16:54.300 --> 00:17:05.660 Amen. Exactly. I can say amen to that. But I said to you, but I said to you that you have seen 156 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:12.300 me and yet do not believe. That's such a serious statement, believe like Abraham. 157 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:21.580 All that the Father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out. 158 00:17:21.580 --> 00:17:32.700 What's wrong with that? And here's the last verse, Revelation 22, I Jesus have sent my angel to 159 00:17:32.700 --> 00:17:40.780 testify to these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, 160 00:17:42.060 --> 00:17:48.860 the bright and morning star and the spirit and the bride. That's the church, which is awesome. 161 00:17:48.860 --> 00:17:53.900 She's in heaven at that time, Revelation 22. That's us. And that weird, that's us right there. 162 00:17:54.460 --> 00:17:59.100 That's the future us. We're going to watch this happen something. 163 00:17:59.740 --> 00:18:12.780 Come and let him who hears say come and let him who thirst come. Whoever desires, let him take 164 00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:16.300 the water of life freely. 165 00:18:21.180 --> 00:18:25.980 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listening 166 00:18:26.140 --> 00:18:30.060 and supporting. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 167 00:18:30.860 --> 00:18:36.380 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.