WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.940 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The Bible tells us that those 3 00:00:10.940 --> 00:00:15.640 who are in authority are God's officers, pointed to enforce righteousness 4 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:21.200 everybody. You see, when the government says for you to do wrong, that's when you 5 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:24.200 stand up against it. 6 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:32.720 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:32.720 --> 00:00:38.120 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:38.120 --> 00:00:43.000 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:48.440 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:53.960 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 11 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:00.760 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 24, the Bible says in verse 24, then comes the end. 12 00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:05.960 That is the end of the world as we know it of human government. When he delivers the kingdom 13 00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:13.080 to God that is Christ delivers the kingdom to God the Father. When he puts an end to all that's 14 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:19.720 human rule and all human authority and human power, for he must reign till he has put all 15 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:25.080 enemies under his foot. Listen, that might bother people. That's first Corinthians in the 16 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:30.200 New Testament. There is a time when Christ is coming and he will banish all human government. 17 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:36.520 He will establish his government on earth. The government of God reveals the sovereignty of God 18 00:01:37.160 --> 00:01:44.520 by the fear of divine government, the fear, the reverential awe and fear. You mean fear? Yes, 19 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:51.400 the government should be so righteous in its conduct. Listen, even if bad people get elected, 20 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:57.560 do you know what they're supposed to do? Silly me. How naive am I? Forget about the person who 21 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:04.920 gets elected. Are they not sworn in? Every single one of them are sworn into office. Did you know that? 22 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:11.640 You know how that happens? Somebody of authority could be anybody that's of some form of authority 23 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:16.840 brings forth the Bible, the guy, the gal puts their hand on the Bible, raises their right hand 24 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:24.040 and swears to uphold the Constitution. So help me, God, is how it closes. God heard that 25 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:32.200 when you absorb the power given to you, when all of a sudden you go from being a businessman 26 00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:39.800 in California, maybe not, a pretend screenwriter who gets elected and the moment you show up in 27 00:02:39.880 --> 00:02:48.040 Washington, people open your doors for you. They call you Mr. Senator or your honor and everything's 28 00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:56.120 waiting for you perfectly at your desk. Everything is manicured for you. You get instant respect 29 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:04.520 and you get inside information. All this kind of stuff going on, listen, without God, 30 00:03:04.600 --> 00:03:10.600 that kind of power will go to your head and it will ruin you. Listen, people with God have had that 31 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:22.120 power and it has ruined them. We need to fear the Lord. Walk before him knowing that there's a 32 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.640 day of judgment coming. Verse 2 says, therefore whoever resists the authority, resists the ordinances 33 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:33.400 of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. You can masquerade it all you want, 34 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:39.880 you can call it a bill, you can call it a proposition. If it offends God, it will be actually an 35 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:47.000 albatross or a millstone tied around your neck in the day of judgment. When people make bad laws 36 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.320 and they get away with it, don't think they got away with it. God will revisit their decision 37 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:56.920 making process as an authoritative figure that God gave them the authority, allowed them to have it 38 00:03:56.920 --> 00:04:03.000 and they abused it. They did not honor God and they will own that in the end. Every single one 39 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.600 who holds, listen, as a pastor, Book of James tells me, I'm going to own every single thing that I 40 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:13.880 said to you in the way of teaching. The Bible says all Bible teachers will be judged with a 41 00:04:13.880 --> 00:04:25.080 stricter judgment when they stand before God. Wow, the word resist means to position to oneself 42 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:33.560 against or in opposition to the governing authorities. The word ordinance means divine institutions. 43 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:41.960 The base are the foundational rules and customs. And so in verse two, their crime is that they 44 00:04:41.960 --> 00:04:49.880 legislated and argued against God. Listen to this. Psalm 94, verse 20. This is amazing. Can unjust 45 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:57.880 leaders claim that God is on their side? Leaders who decrease, permit injustice, they 46 00:04:57.880 --> 00:05:04.920 gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death? Wow, that's a powerful verse. 47 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:11.160 A couple of verses there. That's Psalm 94, 20 and 21. And listen, I read this in first 48 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:19.000 Sacramento, 1-1. In first Sacramento, 1-1, I'm just kidding. It sounds like it, right? It's Isaiah, 49 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:27.240 chapter 10. Boy, listen, Isaiah, chapter 10, verse 1. Wow, I call it first Californians, 1-1. 50 00:05:27.960 --> 00:05:34.760 Woe to those who decree and righteous decrees, who write misfortune, which they have prescribed. 51 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:41.160 I just quoted the Bible, folks. You know what this means? God says woe to those who do bad government. 52 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:47.480 God gave you government to do the right thing. You came to power and you've taken it and you've 53 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:53.240 prostituted it and you've pimped it and you've done the wrong thing and you'll write a law that 54 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:57.640 will grease your palms. You wrote a law and you put it forward that will line your pocket. 55 00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:07.400 God says I see that to how do we stop these things? By getting involved in voting and knowing 56 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:12.600 about the issues and stopping so committed to entertainment, we've entertained ourselves to 57 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:17.960 the point now that we're the ship is sinking. The Titanic is going down and we're out there 58 00:06:17.960 --> 00:06:25.160 ranging the chairs, putting on music. The ship is sinking. And the amazing thing about 59 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:31.960 comeback is that God can grant this nation or this state of comeback if we will turn to him. 60 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:36.520 He's promised us if we will turn. It would if it doesn't turn. God is saying that they, 61 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:42.200 God is saying this. If it doesn't turn, it's on you. I've given you the power in this country, 62 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:47.000 this unique country, the greatest experiment in governance and the history of man. 63 00:06:48.200 --> 00:06:53.560 I've given it to you. What are they doing with it? Wow. I don't know if you've ever been a 64 00:06:53.560 --> 00:07:04.200 Monticello. But just outside the gift shop in Monticello is this logo that Thomas Jefferson 65 00:07:04.200 --> 00:07:08.520 had made up. Have you ever seen this before? I think it's, have you seen this? 66 00:07:08.520 --> 00:07:17.480 Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin used that a lot as well. 67 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:23.720 Wait a minute, is that, yeah, but that's not the Bible. No, I understand that. But how about this? 68 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:29.880 Standing up against tyrants is obedience to God. When tyrants begin to say, we're going to kill 69 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:37.000 Christians. You should stand up. You're going to die anyway if you're a Christian. You should say 70 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:45.880 something. Listen, I'm being sarcastic right now. That's if you care. So listen, so because 71 00:07:45.880 --> 00:07:53.560 a law is passed, listen, because a law is passed, does that make it right? Absolutely not. Because 72 00:07:53.560 --> 00:08:00.600 a lunatic could have passed a law. And we are the land of lunatics. 73 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:12.680 But listen, do the laws honor God and His words should be our question. If the answer is no, 74 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:18.200 they are to be opposed. That doesn't mean you riot. I mean, you speak up. It doesn't mean you 75 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:32.600 throw a brick. It means you email your legislator. It's almost like people, it's almost like people 76 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:36.600 in the, in the, in the apathy does this. It's like, well, I'd rather throw a brick than email my 77 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:44.280 legislator. And actually, that's easier because it's carnal. You're hearing me. You mean a brick? 78 00:08:44.280 --> 00:08:48.280 I mean, a brick could be like two pounds. That's a lot of weight. You want me to throw through a 79 00:08:48.280 --> 00:08:56.760 window? No. I want you to email your legislator. Oh, well, that's like 50 pounds. You see what I'm 80 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:04.920 saying? Because one's carnal and the other one is doing righteousness to send an email to your assembly 81 00:09:04.920 --> 00:09:10.440 or senator or governor and say, this is wrong what I'm seeing. And I'm going to make sure that the 82 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:16.520 population knows that this bill is tied to your name. Did you know that's doing righteousness? 83 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:23.880 You see why crazy people throw bricks through windows? It's easier. We don't do that. 84 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:35.000 But when something's wrong, woe unto us if we don't speak up. And so do the laws punish evil doers 85 00:09:35.880 --> 00:09:44.840 and those that are lawless, not anymore, but listen, they're supposed to. That guy's just 86 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:48.920 supposed to be afraid of the law and good guys are supposed to be happy with the law. 87 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:58.200 Do the laws benefit you and your family and your community at large? If the answer is no, 88 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:06.040 then they're in opposition to God. You see, Jack, you know, you're really 89 00:10:06.680 --> 00:10:10.680 separates the church and state and all that stuff, man. Oh boy, you blew that out of the water. 90 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:15.800 Yeah, I'm going to show you some how much that's believed. I got a couple of three, 91 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:25.400 five slides. Justice, the guardian of liberty. That's what it says. You probably can't see that. 92 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:30.760 You see all those law givers from left to right, go all the way left to the right. They're all 93 00:10:30.760 --> 00:10:36.440 law givers, by the way. All of them are known historical law givers. There's one guy who's got 94 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:42.600 to hog the show. He's in the middle and he's facing everybody. He's really showing off too. 95 00:10:43.160 --> 00:10:50.120 He's sitting down and he's holding two tablets. They're labeled one to ten. 96 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:58.360 They're labeled one to ten. Next slide. Yeah, there he is. And those are not horns. Those are 97 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.720 things to keep them from falling off the building. They all have them. It looks like Yoda, though, 98 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:13.240 to the left, isn't he? To our left. Next slide. Yeah, this is inside. I don't know if you've 99 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.520 ever had a tour of your been inside, but inside the Capitol building, when you see someone speaking 100 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:23.960 on the news and they're speaking, you don't often see them look this way. Look at my neck, 101 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:29.320 head. You don't often see them look up. If they look up at about that angle, they don't want to 102 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:33.000 look up there. You want to know why? All the way around the room are all the, all the, 103 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:40.360 the side views, silhouettes of ancient law givers. Hamarabi, you name it. They're all there. 104 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:45.800 The only guy in the middle with the full face is looking right at the rostrum. 105 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:57.160 What's his name? Moses. Separation of church and state. They didn't even know anything about that. 106 00:11:58.920 --> 00:12:08.120 It doesn't exist anyway. And again, isn't it funny how the atheists in the crazies are quick to say 107 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:12.920 separation of church and state? Really? Do you really believe that? Because they really don't believe 108 00:12:13.400 --> 00:12:20.760 that. Because if we were to say, okay, that means the government cannot tell us anything, right? 109 00:12:20.760 --> 00:12:24.600 Separation of church and state. You don't want the church to say anything to the government, 110 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:30.440 right? That's right. You can't say anything to the government. Okay. Then the government 111 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:36.040 can't say anything to us either. Isn't it funny? They think their argument works. There's a 112 00:12:36.040 --> 00:12:40.360 separation. Well, first of all, there is no separation. Our government makes that very clear. 113 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.240 And poor Ben Franklin, if he called everybody to prayer after what you read a little while ago, 114 00:12:45.880 --> 00:12:51.240 to that he didn't know it. Are you hearing me? Every day Congress opens in prayer. 115 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:58.120 The Bible tells us that those who are an authority are God's officers, 116 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:07.400 appointed to enforce righteousness, everybody, you see? When the government says for you to do 117 00:13:07.400 --> 00:13:13.160 wrong, that's when you stand up against it. And you say, well, how can you say that? I'm 118 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:17.960 paraphrasing. You can read it later. It's in Acts chapter 5, but it's crystal clear. 119 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:26.600 So when the believers were preaching the gospel, the empire said, no more preaching the gospel. 120 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:38.600 Get everybody all upset. So we forbid you to preach. Like England is doing right now. England's 121 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:46.280 done. By the way, it's over. England's gone. No more preaching. You'll be fine. You'll be in 122 00:13:46.280 --> 00:13:54.920 prison. So they told that to our brothers and sisters 2,000 years ago. And they said, 123 00:13:57.800 --> 00:14:06.120 you guys talk among yourselves as whether that's right or not. But if you're asking us to obey you 124 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:12.520 versus God, we're going to obey God. And they went out and they preached and they got arrested 125 00:14:12.520 --> 00:14:20.840 again. And they said, didn't we not tell you to not preach in that man's name? Is that great? 126 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:27.480 Are you guilty? I want to be guilty of preaching in that man's name. Don't say his name anymore 127 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:38.040 unless you're cousin. Right? Now we're going to beat you up and then turn you loose to teach 128 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:43.320 you lesson. And they beat the snot out of the disciples and then turn them loose. And the Bible 129 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:49.320 says when they were released from getting beat up, they went out in the street and they said, 130 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:58.040 that was awesome. They said, we are honored to have gotten in trouble for his name. 131 00:14:59.800 --> 00:15:06.600 And they went and preached the truth. So you might say, and they did say, you didn't say 132 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:11.880 pastors all across the America wrote and said to me, during COVID, 133 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:19.800 you're making us look so bad by being such a bad witness. Don't you? Are you kidding? I've kept 134 00:15:19.800 --> 00:15:31.560 the letters. You should Romans 13 says you are in sin, Jack. You need to obey the governing 135 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:38.280 authorities. You need to shut the doors of the church. You cannot listen on and on. They just run 136 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:48.360 on. It's like, oh my goodness. All the while, silly me, 137 00:15:50.680 --> 00:15:56.040 God said, preach this gospel to the ends of the earth, never to forsake the assembling together 138 00:15:56.040 --> 00:16:03.080 of the saints. And when the governor made that his rule, which is not law, he made it his rule. 139 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:09.880 You must remember in tandem, when we were told not to come to church, you could still have an 140 00:16:09.880 --> 00:16:16.600 abortion, you could still go down to the strip club, you could still buy pot, and you could still 141 00:16:16.680 --> 00:16:29.000 go to a bar, friends, family, church, a living example of Romans 13, when the powers issue wrong 142 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:40.760 doings, they have lost the mantle of God's authority. Authority is given by God to exercise righteousness. 143 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:48.120 And if it is enforced, people live peaceable lives. Your daughters can walk down to 144 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:55.560 bascon robins and get an ice cream without any fear. Your kid could play in the street without 145 00:16:55.560 --> 00:17:03.800 getting run over. You could leave your door unlocked and nobody would dare enter. I'm sorry, 146 00:17:03.880 --> 00:17:11.720 I'm talking about my past. That's how I grew up. Listen, Father, I pray Lord God that you would 147 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:18.520 cause us all to walk up out of this place under this banner. Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of 148 00:17:18.520 --> 00:17:25.480 God the Father, that Jesus Christ was crucified for our sins and resurrected from the dead. Jesus 149 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:32.280 lives, the government of God is coming, but the kingdom of God is already within us. And so until 150 00:17:32.360 --> 00:17:39.640 you come for us, may we shine as lights in this ever-increasing, darkening world. May we speak up, 151 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:46.920 may we pray, may we get involved, anything, Father God, but may we never be found out in the book of 152 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:53.720 Revelation that having known to do the right thing and to not have done it and to wind up being 153 00:17:54.920 --> 00:18:00.760 placed in the category of all those who will inherit hell at the top of the list in the book of 154 00:18:00.760 --> 00:18:10.120 Revelation. Number one at the top of Hormongers, murders and rapists at the top is the coward. 155 00:18:11.320 --> 00:18:19.320 Wow, Lord, please, baptize us in the power of your Holy Spirit, fill us a fresh and may we fear 156 00:18:19.320 --> 00:18:25.720 you and you only and thereby have no fear at all in this world. In Jesus name and all God's people 157 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:27.880 said, Amen. God bless you. 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