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 --> 00:00:11.360 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Listen, we're not of the rainbow 3 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.360 alphabet soup world of confusion. We actually love people and we love them 4 00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:23.480 honestly and we love them fully and we want all people to be with us in heaven 5 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.660 forever with Christ, forgiven of their sins like he has forgiven us and for us 6 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:31.860 to experience that eternal life that Christ purchased but the world is against 7 00:00:31.860 --> 00:00:36.660 that. The world wants people to be blinded and the world wants people to be lost 8 00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:41.340 and that's why you see today the battle for the microphones so to speak 9 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:44.580 because whoever has it is going to speak you their truth or they're going to 10 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:49.260 speak air and we are called to speak truth. 11 00:00:50.260 --> 00:00:56.660 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 12 00:00:56.660 --> 00:01:01.980 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 13 00:01:01.980 --> 00:01:06.820 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 14 00:01:06.820 --> 00:01:11.980 that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to 15 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:18.420 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack Hibbs. 16 00:01:18.420 --> 00:01:25.180 You and I are living in a hostile age so we better be nice to one another. We 17 00:01:25.180 --> 00:01:31.260 better love one another all the more. If we could actually see God's assessment 18 00:01:31.260 --> 00:01:35.540 and God's call upon your life in mind as to how much we should be loving one 19 00:01:35.540 --> 00:01:40.660 another I think it might shock us because things could change in a second 20 00:01:40.660 --> 00:01:45.580 whereby your life and my life become incredibly dependent upon your life and 21 00:01:45.580 --> 00:01:54.220 my life. And we have this sense of being individuals in America and I get it 22 00:01:54.220 --> 00:02:01.300 and independence in America early on was never independence from God it was 23 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:06.940 independence regarding our personal responsibility to God but as a nation we 24 00:02:06.940 --> 00:02:11.420 were a nation that proclaimed that our dependence was upon God which allowed 25 00:02:11.420 --> 00:02:17.460 for us to be individually dependent or independent as we were dependent upon 26 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:23.500 God we were able to stand on our own two feet so to speak. The church today more 27 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:28.580 than ever needs to heed the call to stand upon the truth of God and to speak 28 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:33.180 the word of God and to live out like never before our Christianity folks we don't 29 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:37.500 have much time. You say why what's coming I don't know what's coming but you're 30 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:42.900 getting older by the minute and how do I know because I resemble that 31 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:49.180 remark we're running out of time and while we're able we want to live for 32 00:02:49.180 --> 00:02:55.220 Christ and so the title of this series right now is this what this world cannot 33 00:02:55.220 --> 00:02:59.100 say can you write that down it's we're gonna be talking about the things that 34 00:02:59.100 --> 00:03:03.700 this world cannot say the world can tell you a lot boy the world is very proud of 35 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:09.900 all of the social media stuff that it puts out the world is just publishing 36 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:18.780 everything but you know what the world can only repeat like a one-string guitar 37 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:26.380 its own philosophy its own views what the world cannot say are the eternal 38 00:03:26.380 --> 00:03:30.980 things of God and you've got them you've got them in your heart I trust you've 39 00:03:30.980 --> 00:03:35.580 got them in your hand right here the Bible and you've got them in this Bible 40 00:03:35.580 --> 00:03:40.220 study today number one we look at it it's in verses one to three and it is this 41 00:03:40.220 --> 00:03:45.060 what this world cannot say we see it here and that is when this world speaks ill 42 00:03:45.060 --> 00:03:48.260 of you can you write that down and I want you to write that down to put a 43 00:03:48.260 --> 00:03:53.980 little smiley face off to the side of this first point the world and what it 44 00:03:53.980 --> 00:04:00.900 cannot say it cannot understand your Christian life and it cannot give you the 45 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:06.500 the do that that this world should give you and I folks we cannot expect the 46 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:11.100 world to pat us on the back because they are of the world and you are not of 47 00:04:11.100 --> 00:04:15.580 this world you are of the kingdom of heaven and you think God thought the world 48 00:04:15.580 --> 00:04:19.820 does not think those kind of thoughts so how does the world respond and by the 49 00:04:19.820 --> 00:04:25.380 way these points were made up Friday and early Saturday before I ever got a 50 00:04:25.380 --> 00:04:30.540 phone call regarding the persecution in South Korea so maybe God is trying to 51 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:35.980 say something to us that the world of unbelief will speak ill of you they will 52 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:40.900 view you and I as the enemy they will view you and I because we don't listen 53 00:04:40.900 --> 00:04:48.660 we're not of the rainbow alphabet soup world of confusion we actually love 54 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:55.260 people and we love them honestly and we love them fully and we want all people to 55 00:04:55.260 --> 00:04:59.620 be with us in heaven forever with Christ forgiven of their sins like he has 56 00:04:59.620 --> 00:05:03.780 forgiven us and for us to experience that eternal life that Christ purchased 57 00:05:03.780 --> 00:05:09.020 but the world is against that the world wants people to be blinded and the world 58 00:05:09.020 --> 00:05:15.260 wants people to be lost and that's why you see today the battle for the 59 00:05:15.260 --> 00:05:19.580 microphones so to speak because whoever has it is going to speak either truth or 60 00:05:19.580 --> 00:05:24.660 they're going to speak air and we are called to speak truth but just know this 61 00:05:24.660 --> 00:05:29.380 the world is going to speak evil of you young people today can you just get that 62 00:05:29.380 --> 00:05:33.660 into your bloodstream please right now if you think that you're going to be 63 00:05:33.660 --> 00:05:38.580 looking at social media and you make a post about aren't aren't those lovely 64 00:05:38.580 --> 00:05:42.860 butterflies someone's going to write on your post I hate butterflies which 65 00:05:42.860 --> 00:05:48.020 wrong with you butterflies are evil don't you know it's a conspiracy and then 66 00:05:48.020 --> 00:05:50.540 your feelings are going to get hurt and they're going to want to go commit 67 00:05:50.540 --> 00:05:55.220 suicide because somebody that you don't even know criticized you about your 68 00:05:55.220 --> 00:06:01.860 post on butterflies I'm being facetious but not really the world has gone mad 69 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:07.540 and as the world goes mad you and I need to be more anchored and 70 00:06:07.540 --> 00:06:12.820 truth than ever and so when the world speaks ill of you and I we shouldn't be 71 00:06:12.820 --> 00:06:16.620 surprised number one we see here it displays by the way when it does it 72 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:23.460 displays our values this is in verse one when they who are strong we then who 73 00:06:23.460 --> 00:06:27.900 are strong ought to bear the scruples are the weaknesses of the weak and not to 74 00:06:27.900 --> 00:06:34.260 please ourselves this is a conclusion of the previous chapter of chapter 14 75 00:06:34.260 --> 00:06:39.260 he's talking about brothers and sisters bearing one another's weaknesses that 76 00:06:39.260 --> 00:06:43.700 we love one another to put up with the fact that we're we might be different 77 00:06:43.700 --> 00:06:47.780 from one another and we might be in different development areas of our 78 00:06:47.780 --> 00:06:52.780 spirituality and none of us are to congregate as the super holy over here the 79 00:06:52.780 --> 00:06:56.020 kind of medium holy here and those guys don't even know what they're doing 80 00:06:56.020 --> 00:07:00.260 over here and we divide up not at all the churches are supposed to be the 81 00:07:00.260 --> 00:07:05.780 opposite of that I don't know if you realize this or not but and I don't know 82 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:11.060 how it is but many years ago 20 I don't know 20 years ago 25 years ago I spoke 83 00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:16.180 quite a few times in schools in Germany and I was really impressed with some of 84 00:07:16.180 --> 00:07:19.500 their structure regarding education because their whole thing was this 85 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:25.940 in those days they said a really high standard and kids they were 86 00:07:25.940 --> 00:07:29.820 eventually brought up to those standards in other words they didn't have kids in 87 00:07:29.820 --> 00:07:34.380 a class and then dumbed them down and kept them there they put the kids in the 88 00:07:34.380 --> 00:07:39.580 class they set the bar high and the kids eventually some sooner quicker than 89 00:07:39.580 --> 00:07:43.860 others made it to the high bar are you with me and I think of the 90 00:07:43.860 --> 00:07:47.540 gospels like that the word of God is like that the word of God speaks the 91 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:52.580 truth to all people and he calls us up he calls us number one to love one 92 00:07:52.580 --> 00:07:57.380 another and to bear up with one another's weaknesses if we do that then all 93 00:07:57.380 --> 00:08:02.180 criticism and all clits will begin to go away your spiritual welfare will 94 00:08:02.180 --> 00:08:07.900 become the most important thing to me and mine to you and so to speak we will 95 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:13.060 hold each other's hand as we grow along but this word bear in the Greek 96 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:18.020 language is this and it's a beautiful word to bear up it means to take up to 97 00:08:18.020 --> 00:08:24.140 carry alongside I love the picture that that paints in my mind alongside I see 98 00:08:24.140 --> 00:08:29.460 somebody walking along my life carrying the burdens that I'm experiencing in 99 00:08:29.460 --> 00:08:34.500 this life of course who is that someone is Jesus himself but when he says when 100 00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:37.940 the scripture says that you and I are to bear one another's burdens we'll read 101 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:43.620 that verse in a moment we are to take up whatever is burdening you to carry 102 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:48.580 alongside to lift up and off from another this is the Christian life this is what 103 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:54.620 we live for to take a burden off another and to have it placed upon you we would 104 00:08:54.620 --> 00:09:02.260 say something like this how can I help you how what can I do to alleviate we 105 00:09:02.260 --> 00:09:10.400 just this last week heard that a man at this church a doctor cycling on his 106 00:09:10.400 --> 00:09:19.500 way home died was killed leaving behind his two children here and this 107 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:24.380 church now is mobilizing on what to do and how to do it his family involved as 108 00:09:24.380 --> 00:09:28.260 you can imagine but to hear such a thing you don't you don't say oh wow that's 109 00:09:28.260 --> 00:09:35.220 unfortunate hey you know what what's for lunch you can't do that notice that in 110 00:09:35.220 --> 00:09:39.020 your life as a believer when you hear about something the responses how can I 111 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:44.700 get involved what can we do to help a vitally important truth regarding us as 112 00:09:44.700 --> 00:09:50.180 believers Galatians chapter six verse two is a good verse to apply here it says 113 00:09:50.180 --> 00:09:54.980 bear same exact word bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of 114 00:09:54.980 --> 00:10:04.060 Christ let's carry one another's loads it's remarkable so I often now since I 115 00:10:04.060 --> 00:10:08.780 got this thing I've been using it as illustrations but you guys know that I 116 00:10:08.780 --> 00:10:14.100 have this this old beat-up pickup truck and I I had it here on Thursday and a 117 00:10:14.100 --> 00:10:20.460 woman who was here for some services she said that's the truck and I said 118 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:25.380 yes she said well when you said it was old and beat up I didn't think it was 119 00:10:25.380 --> 00:10:32.220 that old and that beat up and and Matt and I were looking at her Matt and I 120 00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:37.020 I'm two guys looking at her the woman she's looking at this truck which is 121 00:10:37.020 --> 00:10:44.900 absolutely perfect and Matt and I are going and she says oh why don't you 122 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:54.620 pain it what she doesn't know is that it's a four-wheel drive and when you 123 00:10:54.620 --> 00:11:00.740 put it in four-wheel drive low and put it into first gear and you let the 124 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:06.820 clutch out you could fall asleep why it will just go it a drive-through fences 125 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:12.320 over hills over cars through buildings and you'll whatever direction it's 126 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:16.360 pointing it will get there no matter what's in the way and it's it goes about 127 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:21.960 this fast when it's in first gear and two-wheel drive and you can't stop it it's 128 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:28.000 just along and you know what that it reminds me now when you see me driving 129 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.120 around town and that truck you got to remember this illustration that's like 130 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.680 the Christian life you can put tons of stuff in the back of that thing and 131 00:11:35.680 --> 00:11:41.880 put it in low gear and it just you can't stop it you're not gonna get 132 00:11:41.880 --> 00:11:51.320 there fast it ain't shiny it's not cute but it's beautiful why because it it 133 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:56.720 is carrying a load that most vehicles cannot carry and it's going to make it 134 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:01.100 all the way to the end that's your life in my life hey listen we may not 135 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:05.760 cute we may not be cute but we're beautiful in the eyes of the Lord carrying one 136 00:12:05.760 --> 00:12:09.960 another's burdens finding out what is it that you need what is it in your 137 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:16.360 life how can we help it's simpler than what you think if each of us armen had 138 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.400 you turn and greet one another a moment ago do you realize if before you leave 139 00:12:20.400 --> 00:12:24.760 this service today you you were to say hey can I get your cell number if I'm not 140 00:12:24.760 --> 00:12:28.360 being too forward please can I get your cell number and if you ever have need of 141 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.480 anything let me know and here's my number what's let's exchange numbers and let's 142 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:38.480 be brothers and sisters in Christ if you need me call me imagine what would 143 00:12:38.520 --> 00:12:44.800 happen just this service alone because it may it may be just like this hey I'm 144 00:12:44.800 --> 00:12:50.240 just calling you I don't need anything from you I need everything from you I need 145 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:58.320 you to pray for me think of that just pray for me somebody might call you that's 146 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:04.280 bearing one another's a burden and this world knows nothing about that and it 147 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:11.420 can't don't expect the world to do good things for you you are not of this 148 00:13:11.420 --> 00:13:17.680 world but those of us who are of the kingdom of heaven we need to love on 149 00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:22.200 each other like we have never loved on each other before because the hour is 150 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.920 late Christ is coming and we may not always have these freedoms and we might 151 00:13:26.920 --> 00:13:31.160 look I hope not I don't ever want to look back and say oh I wish I would have 152 00:13:31.160 --> 00:13:36.240 taken advantage of that opportunity when we had the freedom to or the health I 153 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:41.960 was healthy enough to do it or I had an extra ten dollars in my pocket and I 154 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:48.560 didn't do it yeah are you hearing me anybody so very important the Bible tells 155 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:53.720 us regarding what Christ set for us as an example that if we carry one another's 156 00:13:53.720 --> 00:14:00.000 burdens we so fulfill the law of Christ the law of Christ is love and I see love 157 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:06.700 displayed this way this may surprise you but this is in my opinion God's love 158 00:14:06.700 --> 00:14:14.400 on display it's an ancient prophecy Isaiah chapter 53 it's nearly three 159 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:20.620 thousand years old the prophet said who has believed our report that's God 160 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:25.440 speaking to the prophet to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed for he 161 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:31.800 shall grow up before him as a tender plant speaking of the Messiah folks if you're 162 00:14:31.800 --> 00:14:38.480 Jewish today you know this this is the Messiah this is one of those forbidden 163 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.360 scriptures that the Jews are not allowed to read of course not because if they 164 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:50.320 read it they'll find out who their Messiah is and as a root out of the dry 165 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:56.440 ground he has no form or comeliness and when we see him there is no 166 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:00.920 beauty that we should desire him that might come to a shock but according to 167 00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:06.440 the prophet Isaiah God is speaking that if you saw Jesus walking the shores of 168 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:12.920 Galilee you couldn't distinguish him from any common individual did you know 169 00:15:12.920 --> 00:15:16.640 that because in our minds you know if we're looking at a Rembrandt or some sort 170 00:15:16.640 --> 00:15:20.840 of oil painting Jesus is kind of glowing as he walks along the shores of 171 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:26.480 Galilee there's a little gold halo over his head not so according to the Bible 172 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.960 I appreciate this I don't know about you but Jesus wasn't born in some ivory 173 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:36.920 palace he was born in a stable and he was laid in a manger do you know what a 174 00:15:36.920 --> 00:15:40.880 manger look like listen if we ever get a chance to take you to Bethlehem right 175 00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:45.200 now Bethlehem is not a safe place to go but if we went to Bethlehem like we 176 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:50.000 have in the past if I showed you a manger you would be a pulled a manger was a 177 00:15:50.000 --> 00:16:01.560 slumber crusted stinky trough that you fed cattle and sheep or goats with they 178 00:16:01.560 --> 00:16:07.880 must have lined that and put Jesus right in that manger if you were God would 179 00:16:07.880 --> 00:16:13.920 you bring your son to the world like that God did why do associate with us and 180 00:16:13.920 --> 00:16:19.040 if you were God wouldn't you have Jesus looking perfect like I don't know who 181 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:24.240 perfect is these days what is perfect these days but who are you this person 182 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:30.680 the most handsome man in the world who says who says this stuff she's the most 183 00:16:30.680 --> 00:16:35.720 beautiful woman in the world how do you know but these are magazine covers 184 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:43.400 Jesus would never make the magazine folks he looked just like you and I 185 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:52.680 common but this is God's love on display do you view him like this verse three 186 00:16:52.680 --> 00:16:58.040 goes on in Isaiah 53 he has despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows 187 00:16:58.040 --> 00:17:03.040 acquainted with grief wow the Messiah came into the world and that's what he felt 188 00:17:03.040 --> 00:17:09.720 that's what he went through yep and we hid as it were our faces from him he was 189 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:15.880 despised and we did not esteem him surely he has here it is born our griefs and 190 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:22.200 carried our sorrows can you say man yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by God 191 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.600 and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions this is the Messiah he 192 00:17:27.600 --> 00:17:35.480 was bruised for our equities and the chest ismen of our peace was upon him and by 193 00:17:35.520 --> 00:17:43.200 his stripes by his beatings the lashes upon his back and his face being hidden we 194 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.920 are healed why would God do this verse six all we like sheep have gone astray we 195 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:54.480 have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the Messiah the 196 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:00.560 iniquity of us all this is Jesus the ultimate example is Jesus carrying the 197 00:18:00.560 --> 00:18:06.840 sins of the world to the cross that means you and I can carry one another's 198 00:18:06.840 --> 00:18:12.560 cares and concerns in the burdens that you have Christ carried our sins and he 199 00:18:12.560 --> 00:18:20.000 watched them away he did that and if you understand that then you get to 200 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:25.680 experience freedom from guilt and shame because you're the one that become 201 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.600 keenly aware of the fact that there used to be a different you and now there's a 202 00:18:29.600 --> 00:18:36.600 new you and he died for you because he loved you 203 00:18:38.520 --> 00:18:43.480 this Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 204 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:47.640 listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special 205 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:55.200 gift go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected