WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.580 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Don't be sloppy for somebody say 3 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:17.160 don't be sloppy with your agape. Don't be sloppy with the love of God in your life. 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:24.680 Don't become lazy. The word would be this. Don't be a lazy Christian. 5 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:32.480 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:32.480 --> 00:00:37.840 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 7 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:42.760 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 8 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:48.080 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 9 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:53.680 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's. 10 00:00:55.080 --> 00:00:59.000 We are to be working together as a body of believers and it's quite beautiful. 11 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.800 I wrote this down. How do you treat others in your life by the words and the deeds 12 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:09.920 coming out of your life? Notice it's the words and the deeds that come out of our life. 13 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.640 Quite remarkable. I wrote this also to myself as a note and verse, or I should say page 14 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:22.640 six. This is, there's only one only one way that I know of to have this be a reality 15 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:30.560 in my life and it is to intentionally neglect myself. If I believe that he is taking 16 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:35.360 care of me, church listen, do you, do I believe that God is taking care of me? Do you 17 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:40.880 believe that God is taking care of you? Then if I believe that he's taking care of me, 18 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:48.920 then I can focus on others, then I can intentionally neglect myself. I don't have to take care 19 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:55.080 of me. Do you have that? I am called to take care of you. You're called to take care of 20 00:01:55.080 --> 00:02:00.200 me because he has promised to take care of me and he's promised to take care of you. Do you 21 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:08.280 see the circuit? He's the pioneer. He's the one that takes care of us. So here's the fun thing 22 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:13.720 about being a Christian. I don't have to worry about what I'm going to eat. He'll get something 23 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:18.360 to me. I don't have to worry about where I'm going to live. He's promised to take care of 24 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:29.000 me. What I'm supposed to be concerned about is what you eat and how you live. I just say my 25 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:36.280 job. I ask God to forgive me of even thinking that. My calling, my purpose is to make sure 26 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:43.960 that you're okay, that you're eating well, and that you're safe. That love goes both ways. 27 00:02:45.480 --> 00:02:49.640 The church conducted itself in such a way that the world ought to knock down these doors to 28 00:02:49.640 --> 00:03:00.520 get in here and say, Scoot over everybody. Love me too. It's amazing. The final thing is this. 29 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:07.480 We do the acts of the Holy Spirit. We do the acts of the Father. It is the Father who communicated 30 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:14.040 his love to us through Jesus. Jesus communicated his love toward others by being our prototype, 31 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:20.760 our pioneer. The book of Hebrews calls him the author and the finisher of our faith. He's awesome. 32 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:27.160 And then thirdly, it's the Holy Spirit. And verse 11, we are to be doing the acts of the Holy 33 00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:35.240 Spirit. Look at it with me. Not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. 34 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:40.520 I'm going to be honest with you guys, note in your Bible, some of your Bibles have fervent 35 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:47.560 in spirit with a lowercase S. Some of your Bibles have an uppercase S, uppercase S, of course, 36 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:53.640 meaning the Holy Spirit. I'm going to let the theologians argue about which meaning it is. 37 00:03:53.640 --> 00:04:00.840 There's great guys on both sides. To me, it's irrelevant. It is this. Not lagging in 38 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:07.800 this diligence is this. Don't be sloppy for somebody. Say, don't be sloppy with your agape. 39 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:16.520 Don't be sloppy with the love of God in your life. Don't become lazy. The word would be this. 40 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:25.320 Don't be a lazy Christian. And this is a big deal in our day and age right now. I think this is 41 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:33.400 part of the satanic drug that is floating in the atmosphere where you're starting to see people 42 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:38.360 right in the midst of battle. I mean, everybody, do you realize we're in an amazing battle time 43 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.920 spiritually speaking. There's people falling asleep right in the middle of the battlefield. 44 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:49.320 Satan's just putting them to sleep. One of the things is laziness. 45 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:55.960 Spiritual laziness. You know, we're supposed to bring our bodies. You know, our bodies. 46 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:05.800 Oh, my body, my body. Your body is the problem. My body is my problem. My body thinks it's 47 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.360 in charge all the time. It always tries to take the lead. And you have to tell me, get back here. 48 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:18.280 Sit down. Let's go to a prayer meeting. My body says, no way. I don't want to sit there. 49 00:05:18.280 --> 00:05:23.240 You ever heard that? I don't want to sit there. Well, then we'll kneel. Kneel. On knees? 50 00:05:25.320 --> 00:05:27.720 No, we're going to go. How long? An hour. An hour. 51 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:34.200 And your body thinks up. All kinds of stupid things. You can do it an hour. 52 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:43.320 The body. We're supposed to bring our body under obedience to the Lord. We'd all be doing fun right 53 00:05:43.320 --> 00:05:50.680 now. Think about it. A friend of mine. He was a pastor of a church. This is decades ago. He said, 54 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:57.320 I love the ministry. I love studying. I love preparing sermons. And he was actually dead 55 00:05:57.320 --> 00:06:01.320 serious. And he's just talking about this because I'm a man. I'm really struggling. I go, what 56 00:06:01.320 --> 00:06:06.440 are you struggling with? He goes, it's the people. And he didn't even see it. He didn't even realize it. 57 00:06:06.440 --> 00:06:13.720 He goes the people. Everything's fine until I basically go public and be a pastor and then all the 58 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:22.440 drama starts. And I said, are you for real right now? What's supposed to happen? 59 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.120 Ministry. There wouldn't be ministry if there wasn't people. 60 00:06:26.760 --> 00:06:33.800 Because people listen, we move in our flesh. And that's the problem. 61 00:06:35.080 --> 00:06:41.000 But our flesh can get lazy. And what the warning is here is, don't become a lazy Christian. 62 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:54.920 I'll read next week. What's that? I'll do that next week. 63 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:02.680 Have you noticed that somebody who says, I'll do that tomorrow? Did you know that? 64 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.520 If you live by that, I'll do it tomorrow. Did you know that you'll never do it? Because it's always 65 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:13.320 tomorrow. You ever think about that? I'll take care of that tomorrow. And you keep saying that. 66 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:20.360 It's always tomorrow. It'll never get done. So lazy. For example, I'm telling you right now. 67 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:24.680 Please, I've been challenging you. 5 a.m. What are you doing at 5 a.m. in the morning? 68 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:31.720 Whatever you're doing. Your body's saying, hmm, so warm. I'm, 69 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:40.200 your body's like, I'm fine. Don't bother me. And I'm saying to you, make yourself hurt. 70 00:07:41.960 --> 00:07:48.680 Set your alarm. Get up. Join me. Live. Listen, it's only 5 to 10 minutes. 71 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:54.680 People are praying. We've had up to 250,000 people praying together. 72 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:01.640 And that's growing. You had to join us. We're live all around the world. We go through a verse 73 00:08:01.640 --> 00:08:08.120 which is the structure of our prayer and in 10 minutes we're off. And we're praying. And people 74 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.080 are posting their prayers and people are praying for each other all over the world. 75 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:18.360 Well, I'm a pastor. You mean 5 p.m. You meant to say 5 p.m. That's too late. 76 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.160 Not really. It depends on where you live in the world. But for us, it's 5 a.m. 77 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.840 And I'm inviting to join us. But that's the sacrifice. Exactly. 78 00:08:30.440 --> 00:08:35.960 Make your body cry about it. Drag your carcass along. Come on. You know it's true. That's why you 79 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:41.320 got to put perfume on it. It's dying. It smells if you don't do something with it. 80 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:51.560 And the Bible says here that we're to be to be fervent and spirit hot. The word fervent is boiling 81 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:57.560 hot in the spirit serving the Lord. Can you imagine? You're supposed to be hot. That doesn't mean 82 00:08:57.560 --> 00:09:06.840 crazy. But your heart is to be boiling for an in spirit serving the Lord. Hear that machine gun 83 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:12.200 theology of Paul's coming at you. Isn't it beautiful? And we're supposed to have hot hearts blazing 84 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:18.760 hearts, hearts of blaze, hearts of glow serving the Lord. Nothing worse. Listen, people, 85 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:24.360 you know this. There's nothing worse than to show up for ministry or to go to a church and 86 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:31.160 the people that serve their hearts are not hot for Jesus. They come out and they go like this. 87 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:44.920 Hey, let's praise the Lord. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. Let's shout hallelujah. 88 00:09:45.640 --> 00:09:50.840 You know what I'm saying? It's like what is this? What? At least the Jews when they go to the 89 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.120 whaling wall. Have you ever been there? Have you ever seen them? They're going like this. 90 00:09:55.000 --> 00:10:00.680 I'll never forget it. It was like I think it was like 1993 or 1994. My first time in Israel 91 00:10:00.680 --> 00:10:04.920 and the Jews are praying like this. And I didn't know. I didn't know you weren't supposed to talk 92 00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:10.120 to them. I mean, not when they're praying, but when they walked away, this particular group of Jews 93 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:14.360 they don't talk to Gentiles. And I didn't know. And I said, hey, excuse me. And they're like, 94 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:22.040 I said, what are you guys moving for? It's pretty amazing. And they just like 95 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:32.600 and I asked a mirror. It was a mirror. A mirror was a mirror. He was like that big back then. 96 00:10:33.640 --> 00:10:37.640 He's so just young a mirror and they said, what's the deal with that? And he goes, 97 00:10:37.640 --> 00:10:46.680 he said, it's them expressing that they're loving the Lord with all their strength. And so they move. 98 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.000 Now, if it's religiously done, it's just the lower back exercise. 99 00:10:54.920 --> 00:11:01.080 Right? It could be like the oil well movement. It doesn't mean anything. 100 00:11:02.040 --> 00:11:11.000 But if they mean it, it changes everything. So when someone might be worshiping like this, 101 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.600 you know, you might come into this church, a non-denominational church is like, what is that person's hands up? 102 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.840 What are they doing? Well, I don't know where they came from, but that's the way they're worshiping 103 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:26.440 the Lord. Just leave him alone. Well, that guy's over there kneeling down. That's his thing. 104 00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:30.680 Leave him alone. Well, I just want to stand there. Go ahead and knock yourself out. 105 00:11:31.400 --> 00:11:36.520 Just leave him alone. How are you hearing me? Because you know what? If we right now got in an 106 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:44.040 airplane and we went to Nairobi, let me tell you, even the black people in this church would look 107 00:11:44.040 --> 00:11:51.160 really white. Because man, have you seen how they worship the Lord? They're worshiping Jesus 108 00:11:51.160 --> 00:11:55.160 like this, man. And we're like, oh, how can they do that? Is that legal? 109 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:03.320 And wherever you plant your flag so to speak spiritually on any continent of any people group, 110 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.880 it's different. And I think God loves it. I think He loves it. 111 00:12:12.040 --> 00:12:16.920 Serve in the Lord. So we have to be hot. I'm going to show you something. 112 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:20.920 I'm going to show you the verse first. Book a revelation, chapter three again. 113 00:12:20.920 --> 00:12:26.920 Jesus said, into the angel of the church at Leodicea, you do not want to be a Leodicean kind of 114 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:32.280 Christian. I personally believe I have a pretty hard view on this. I must admit very few people hold 115 00:12:32.280 --> 00:12:39.000 my view. I believe the church at Leodicea is not even a Christian church. I think it's fake. 116 00:12:39.640 --> 00:12:45.640 I think it's a church that Jesus is saying is not a church. If you read it, he's on the outside 117 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:50.600 of it trying to knock on the door to get inside of it. It doesn't even have a handle on the door. 118 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:57.400 They don't even want him in. And I'm only going to read you a part of it. But just make sure you are 119 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:05.720 not a Leodicean Christian because that is not going to work. And do the angel of the church at 120 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:10.280 Leodicea is right. These things says, the amen, the faithful and true witness in the beginning of 121 00:13:10.280 --> 00:13:17.160 the creation of God. I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish that you 122 00:13:17.160 --> 00:13:24.280 were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my 123 00:13:24.280 --> 00:13:32.520 mouth because you say, I'm rich. I've become wealthy and I have need of nothing. And do not know that 124 00:13:32.520 --> 00:13:41.640 you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. This is Jesus talking. Wow. Don't be like this. 125 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:49.720 So notice Jesus says in verse 16, I wish you were cold or I wish you were hot. If you're a careful 126 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:56.360 Bible reader, you will discover that being hot is really pleasing to Jesus and being cold 127 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:01.240 is really pleasing to Jesus. Did you know that? Again, we westernize things and mess it up. 128 00:14:02.760 --> 00:14:09.880 The bad thing is lukewarm. You got it? Jesus said, I wish you were cold. What's he saying? Is he 129 00:14:09.880 --> 00:14:16.200 wishing, is he, what's he wishing upon them? That they were cold. Ice cold. Is that good? Oh, 130 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:22.760 just wait. It's wonderful. Or I wish you were hot, boiling wonderfully hot. Well, that I can 131 00:14:22.760 --> 00:14:32.120 relate to, lukewarm. Nobody likes lukewarm nothing. And Jesus says, notice, this is going to 132 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:36.600 mean something to you in a second. He says, because you lukewarm, I'm going to puke. 133 00:14:40.280 --> 00:14:47.960 Wow. The old King James, by the way, it's so, it's so appropriate. The old King James says, 134 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:54.920 I'll spew you out of my mouth. Every guy knows when a guy vomits he pukes. When a girl vomits, 135 00:14:54.920 --> 00:15:09.080 she spews. Like it's, oh, look at her. A guy is like, that's the word Jesus is using. Vomit out. 136 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:17.400 I'm sick. Why is this the case? I knew you had asked. So, do you see Leo to see a number one 137 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:24.760 on the map? This is Turkey, Asia Minor. And the region of your first century, Frijia. Do you see 138 00:15:24.760 --> 00:15:31.160 number two, Hieropolis? See that at the top? And do you see the city of Colossi? Number three. 139 00:15:32.040 --> 00:15:38.600 So I want you to look at this way. Keep looking at the map, but allow the topography to do this for 140 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:45.960 you. Number two and number three are the higher elevations. Okay? The higher elevations. 141 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:55.080 The lowest elevation is Leodicea. It's in a valley. The likeus valley. The likeus river 142 00:15:55.080 --> 00:16:03.000 flows through that valley. Hieropolis, in fact, European physicians and Middle East physicians 143 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:10.760 will write a prescription to their patient to travel to Hieropolis to take mineral baths in 144 00:16:10.760 --> 00:16:17.320 the hot water because it's very, very therapeutic. Still to this day. Don't look at it now, 145 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:22.920 but look at it on YouTube. It's beautiful. We should go sometime as a church tour of the seven 146 00:16:22.920 --> 00:16:31.160 letters to the seven churches. All right? Then look at the city of Colossi. Colossi is in the foothills 147 00:16:31.160 --> 00:16:39.240 below the great mountains that capture ice cold snow, of course, snow being ice. It percolates down 148 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:45.240 into the mountain. And out at Colossi comes ice cold water in people traveled from all over the 149 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:52.040 region to bottle the ice cold water that comes out. And they say that it's incredibly powerfully 150 00:16:54.120 --> 00:17:00.200 what's the word revitalizing the minerals and it's cold. And you can be refreshed. Jesus said, 151 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:07.960 I wish you recalled. I could be refreshed by you. Or I wish you were hot. I could be ministered 152 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:14.680 to by you. Those two locations flow down. And when those locations of the hot water hit the 153 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:22.600 likeus river and the cold water from Colossi hits the likeus river. Just moments downstream as a 154 00:17:22.600 --> 00:17:30.920 town called Leodicea. And the water is lukewarm. And if you drink it, you will throw up. You will 155 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:37.960 vomit and makes you very sick to your stomach. It has agents within it that actually induces vomiting. 156 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:47.480 Here you are reading your 2000 year old Bible that Jesus talked about two geographical locations 157 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:53.000 all come in together to one specific geographical location. And if you drink the water there, 158 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:57.720 you're going to puke. Can you imagine going to a church that's dead and you want to throw up? 159 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:05.400 It's there's no moving of the spirit. There's no word of God. Jesus is not exalted. There is no cross. 160 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:11.800 There's no sin that he died for to free you from by him saving you. There's no life after death. 161 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:21.320 And Jesus is watch out. Don't ever forget this picture. This is powerful. Be hot for God. 162 00:18:21.800 --> 00:18:29.400 Or be refreshing to the Lord. 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