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 --> 00:00:09.320 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.920 If God said He loved you 30 years ago, He loves you now the same. 4 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:18.000 If He doesn't, He loves me more. Nope. He doesn't love like we do. 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.760 Listen, we don't grow on God. You know, God Denver says, Jack, you know, you're 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.160 such a ding dong. But after these years, you've grown on me. Thank God. He doesn't, 7 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.840 He's not that way. It never changes. Everything that you and I want in need in the 8 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:36.560 world around us that doesn't move out from underneath our feet. God is the one that 9 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.600 supplies it. And you'll never change. 10 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:47.760 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcasts. 11 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:53.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 12 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:58.360 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 13 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:04.360 that's like saying, Amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, 14 00:01:04.360 --> 00:01:09.080 open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's. 15 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:15.080 In the book of Acts, chapter 17, Paul is in Athens. He's waiting for his ministry team 16 00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:19.880 to show up. They're a little bit late. So he's taking a walk around the Agura heading 17 00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:28.520 up the hill up to Mars Hill. And in Acts 17, verse 24, Paul says, God, who made the world 18 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:33.240 and everything in it since he is Lord of heaven and earth. Well, that's stopped. Listen, 19 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:38.440 that stopped the Greeks right there. Wait, what'd you say? Yeah, how you guys? I'm talking 20 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:46.440 about my God. He's the Lord of heaven and earth. They would have said, wow, we haven't heard 21 00:01:46.440 --> 00:01:50.920 about this God. We've got a God for this and a God for that and a God for the other thing, 22 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:56.360 but who are you talking about? My God is the Lord of heaven and earth. And they would have 23 00:01:56.360 --> 00:02:06.040 went, wow, he doesn't dwell on temples made with hands. He what? Nor is he worshiped with men's 24 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:11.400 hands. Don't bring him in offering. You guys can wash your hands of all that blood, 25 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:15.640 all that sacrifice, all that stuff. He doesn't want stuff. 26 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.200 Yeah, you don't need to come and worship him with your own hands as though he needed anything 27 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:31.480 since he gives to all life, breath, and all things. Can you say him into that? This is the God 28 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:37.720 of the Bible. This is incredible. This is awesome. And much beautiful about this is, God is 29 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:43.720 just saying, I need nothing from you. Don't you want to know God like that? I do. 30 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:52.120 Psalm 50 verse 12. It's quite enlightening. Psalm 50 verse 12 says, God is speaking. I love this. 31 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.240 And then you got to admit, there's got to be some divine sarcasm in this. God says to the people, 32 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:02.840 if I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. For the world is mine and all that's fullness. Isn't that 33 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:08.760 awesome? Why did he say that to them? Because they are probably thinking God needs us. 34 00:03:10.200 --> 00:03:19.160 You know, God could really do a lot with me. What? So God says to them, hey, you know what? 35 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:26.040 If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you about it. I love that. Kind of getting back to the guy 36 00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:31.240 that's begging for money to keep the ministry going. Really? It seems to me that if God's in the 37 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:36.040 ministry, you shouldn't have to beg about getting the money to keep it going. Because God's going to 38 00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:47.000 say to you, I don't need your help. I don't need that. So it led me to write this down. It's in 39 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.080 the notes, by the way, if you've downloaded the notes, it's on page five at the top. Why do you 40 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:59.400 exist today? So if this God is who he is, he's existed before time ever began. He's the God of 41 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:06.520 all physics. He's the God of all creation. And he dwells outside of that. He's greater than his 42 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:14.360 creation. Then I have to ask the question, why do I or why do you exist today? That's a good question. 43 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:19.480 God has a plan. Well, you know, you've got your story and I'm my story's so bad, 44 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:27.160 Pastor, you don't know. If your story's bad, if your story's bad, then God's got great things in 45 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:36.280 store. That's what he does. Oh, I was abused and I was this and I did or I did the abusing or 46 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:43.560 I rubbed the bank or the bank robbed me or whatever's going on and is this horrible? God steps in 47 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:48.280 and he goes, let's fix all that. Let's take all this stuff and make it an amazing testimony 48 00:04:48.280 --> 00:04:53.560 about how I rescued you so that other people will come to trust in me too, that I can redeem lives. 49 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.200 But you got to ask yourself, why do you exist today and why are you alive today? Listen, 50 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:04.280 God is real. You may be saying today, I don't believe in God. Listen, you should have to ask this 51 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:09.720 question, answer the question, is why are you alive today? I'll tell you because God has given you 52 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:16.440 today. You have no control over your heartbeat. You have no control over your lungs and your 53 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:22.280 renal system and your brain, your neurological system, your cardiovascular system. You have no 54 00:05:22.280 --> 00:05:32.280 control over that. Why are you alive? The Bible makes it very clear that we are alive to 55 00:05:32.280 --> 00:05:40.360 bring glory to God. He didn't ask that of angels. He didn't ask that of animals. Isn't that 56 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:46.280 amazing? No. The Bible hints around that animals, though he created them, that the animals in 57 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:52.600 some way shape or form speak of his wonderful creative ways. The heavens certainly declare the 58 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:57.240 glory of God. We all know that and look, you love your animals. Don't you love your animals, 59 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:01.880 whatever they are? How many of you are cat people in here? Raise your head. There's a church 60 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:12.440 down the street for you. No, I'm kidding. Just joking. Just kidding. Cats are, I love cats. I love cats 61 00:06:12.440 --> 00:06:19.960 if they act like dogs. We used to have a cat, acted like a dog. We loved that cat. But nobody can 62 00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:24.760 turn away a little kitten. They're just the cutest thing. Why is that? What does that mean 63 00:06:24.760 --> 00:06:30.840 in anything to you? I'm going to argue with you because God thinks they're amazing and God 64 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:36.280 thinks you're amazing and you're blessed by that little gift. You like dogs? How many of you 65 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:41.480 like birds, parrots, that kind of stuff? You parrot people? Okay, that's pretty amazing. I don't 66 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:47.400 like an animal that's smarter than me personally, but that's great. But people have relationships with 67 00:06:47.400 --> 00:06:52.360 their animals, even if the animal doesn't know you guys have a relationship. We talk to our dogs 68 00:06:52.440 --> 00:07:00.680 like they know what we're talking about. Maybe they do. But where does that come from? You're going 69 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:06.520 to tell me evolution invented that? Well, I mean, we evolved, but then we're now tapped into a 70 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:18.520 different part of our psyche. Yeah, you know what? No. God says before you ever had that dumb thought, 71 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.080 he said in the Bible, I created all this stuff for your pleasure. Adam and Eve were supposed to 72 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:27.720 walk around the garden. They were supposed to have fun with all the animals, tour around, 73 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:34.520 travel around and do other things. And God said, I've blessed you. Go have a great time. Have 74 00:07:34.520 --> 00:07:38.840 dominion over at all and enjoy it all and make a bunch of babies. That's what God told me to do. 75 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:42.920 And I wish they would just would have stuck to their original plan because 76 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:53.240 Eve had a little deviation from the course. And here we are. But church family got his 77 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:57.560 unchanging. But the time I have left, the Bible teaches us. One of the reasons why we should love 78 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:05.960 him is because he's unchanging. He's a God that never changes. And you need to know who he is 79 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:13.400 to appreciate the fact that he never changes. If God says something like this, listen, 80 00:08:13.400 --> 00:08:19.240 if God says, I'll never leave you or forsake you. You know, he says that in the Bible. And you, 81 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:22.760 listen, you're going to, you're going to come. First of all, the first time you read that, 82 00:08:22.760 --> 00:08:28.360 you go, well, that's nice. You don't really care. Let's be honest. You don't really care about 83 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:34.200 that because you don't need to care about it. Are you hearing me? It's like, for example, 84 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:41.640 people really didn't care much about water in L.A. Exactly until the fire came. 85 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:49.720 Now, water has become the most precious thing there is in this region of the world. 86 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:55.400 You don't, listen, you never appreciate your freedom until it's taken away from you. 87 00:08:55.400 --> 00:09:06.120 We don't appreciate our health until the doctor says, I need to have you sit down. I have something 88 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:13.160 to say. Are you hearing me? We don't even appreciate our sins being forgiven by the Lord Jesus Christ 89 00:09:13.160 --> 00:09:23.720 as we've come to Christ as a believer until what? Until your mind is troubled? Have you ever had 90 00:09:23.800 --> 00:09:31.000 your conscience be stirred up in such a way where you need the comfort of God's word? 91 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.120 And then that word comes and then all of a sudden when you feel like 92 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.800 you're the only one in the world and everybody's abandoned you. And all that verse comes back 93 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:50.520 from years ago. Do you remember? I will never leave you or forsake you. That's the God we have. 94 00:09:51.160 --> 00:10:00.520 He's unchanging. If God said he loved you 30 years ago, he loves you now the same. 95 00:10:00.520 --> 00:10:08.440 He doesn't love me more. Nope. He doesn't love like we do. Listen, we don't grow on God. 96 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.080 You know, God never says, Jack, you know, you're such a ding dong. But after these years, 97 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:19.480 you've grown on me. Thank God. He's not that way. It never changes. Everything that you and I want 98 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:25.400 in need in the world around us that doesn't move out from underneath our feet. God is the one that 99 00:10:25.400 --> 00:10:31.720 supplies it. And you'll never change. Malachi, chapter three, verse six is four, I am the Lord 100 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:38.760 and I change not. I don't change. What a great comfort that is. And then he's eternal. We should 101 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:44.760 love him because he's eternal. This should be the foundation of where we're going as a church. 102 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:49.160 He's eternal. All of these attributes. He's unchanging. He's eternal. He loves us. 103 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:54.920 All of this with meaning that we might love one another. 104 00:10:56.040 --> 00:11:00.360 The Bible tells us that in Isaiah nine six, a verse you guys all know very well, 105 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:09.320 but he's the eternal God. Read it. You can watch. Follow along. Nearly three thousand years old 106 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:15.160 today, this verse. For unto us a child is born and to us a son is given. The government will be 107 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:24.520 upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, 108 00:11:24.520 --> 00:11:29.880 prince of peace. Everybody gets that just fine and I understand where you stop. You stop that 109 00:11:29.880 --> 00:11:35.240 everlasting father. You said, I thought Jesus was the son. He is the son. That word translated 110 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:45.960 is he's the father or the governor of time. Jesus oversees physical time and eternity. That's his 111 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:51.480 job. That's what he that's his business. That's what he loves. I love that. You see, for example, 112 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:57.160 this sermon's taken forever. I've only got nine minutes. I'm running out of time. If I were really 113 00:11:57.160 --> 00:12:05.080 biblical, I would trust Christ as the governor of time and I would keep going. No, I'm kidding. 114 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:12.840 Of course. He rules over time and so we have this physical world and you and I can believe in 115 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:17.240 God, but we're so caught up in this physical moment that we live our physical days and we count 116 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:23.960 the calendar. Remember this, everybody. So when you look around, you can either count the calendar 117 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:29.960 and you can mark off the days and what are you doing? You make in progress? What's the deal? 118 00:12:30.040 --> 00:12:35.400 I get it, but understand this. Be careful that you don't get caught up in marking off the calendar 119 00:12:35.400 --> 00:12:42.280 dates as though what? As though you've lived another day? Did you really? I don't think, listen, 120 00:12:42.280 --> 00:12:47.480 we're living until we're seeing God in every aspect of our lives and I mean that completely. 121 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:54.200 I'll give you something that happened yesterday. Many of us were here for Pastor Roy Totten's 122 00:12:54.360 --> 00:13:01.800 graduation service to heaven and back on the screen, they had his Bible verse at a second Timothy 123 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:07.400 chapter 4 that he's kept the faith, he's finished the race and laid up for him as a crown of glory 124 00:13:07.400 --> 00:13:11.400 in heaven which God will give to him, but not only him only, but to all those who have loved his 125 00:13:11.400 --> 00:13:16.520 appearing. That was Paul's farewell to Timothy. Pastor Roy headed up on the screen back here. 126 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:21.320 Behind the words was a beautiful shot of the Pacific Ocean. You could tell. 127 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:30.520 And so the way my mind works, the service was going on and people were talking and I was standing 128 00:13:30.520 --> 00:13:37.400 over here and I could see the screen and then I turned and I'm looking and I'm looking at the 129 00:13:37.400 --> 00:13:43.560 screen right there and I said to myself, gosh that looks like Newport Beach, that looks like 130 00:13:43.640 --> 00:13:51.080 Huntington Beach that looks like that looks like our beaches. God you're so good. Lord you're so good 131 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:59.560 and here we are at Roy's service, even death itself and the life of a believer is a great thing. 132 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:06.040 Did you hear what I just said? Now I didn't say this so much publicly as was going on in my head 133 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.640 and then I thought this a crime scene has fingerprints all over it. 134 00:14:14.280 --> 00:14:19.160 And when they take up the fingerprints they find out who done it, right? 135 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:27.320 When you look at a tree or the clouds blowing by or the ocean waves, the sand, 136 00:14:28.680 --> 00:14:33.080 when you look at what God has done, is there not enough fingerprint evidence 137 00:14:34.040 --> 00:14:37.080 to convince you that he's a God worth loving? 138 00:14:38.040 --> 00:14:42.600 Is there enough evidence to convince you that what you're worried about? You ought to just stop it. 139 00:14:43.880 --> 00:14:48.920 What are you doing? Because I bet you that thing that you're worried about, I bet you if you take 140 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:54.760 a deep breath and look again, there's God's fingerprints are all over it. You say you don't understand, 141 00:14:54.760 --> 00:15:00.920 I'm sick, I've got disease, I've got this, somehow. Listen, guess what? You may be wonderful but 142 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:07.320 you didn't, you're not somebody outside the scope of God's infinite wisdom. He's with you. 143 00:15:09.880 --> 00:15:17.240 You're not alone. He's with you in it and you turn to him and you say, Lord, I need some 144 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:23.800 encouragement and don't be surprised if he says, I told you before, follow me. I'll never leave 145 00:15:23.880 --> 00:15:31.080 you or forsake you and I'm with you right now. I'll see you're my kid. I'm going to bring you 146 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:38.440 all the way through. What if I die? What if you die? The worst thing could happen is if you survive. 147 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:46.040 We're Christians here, people. Listen, if we don't see God's fingerprints, we think the worst 148 00:15:46.040 --> 00:15:57.960 thing that can happen is you die. Oh, no. My dear friend, wonderful believer, servant of God, 149 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:08.120 he died and well, hey, I mean, he died. Really? Is that the end of the story? 150 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:17.720 What's the fingerprint evidence? Christ rose again from the dead. The Bible says because he's risen, 151 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:24.040 we rise also. Listen, because he lives, we live also. That's the evidence. 152 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:30.840 After you remember that, death sets me free from the binds and the from the grip of this world. 153 00:16:31.640 --> 00:16:36.600 My Jesus rose again from the dead. So I, when I leave this place, that's where I'm going and the 154 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:43.720 fingerprint evidence of his works is everywhere. Doctor, explain how these cells work, explain how 155 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:51.720 the universe runs, explain how the tides move, explain your existence, explain it and the doctors 156 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:57.960 is just going to, because at first you're going to say, well, you know, we have evidence and 157 00:16:58.040 --> 00:17:06.120 soience about the, no, you don't. You might know how the cells work, but you can't tell me why. 158 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:14.280 You can tell me the how, but you can't tell me the why. The why is God has made your body Christian. 159 00:17:14.280 --> 00:17:19.320 God has given you a will. He has given you a mind. He's given you who you are to walk with him to 160 00:17:19.320 --> 00:17:23.960 know him. And then this world that is perishing that you want to, you want to really want to save 161 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:31.720 the world, right? I find it very bizarre that people who want to save the world or save the whales 162 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:37.400 are also the same people who are all about flushing the babies. Have you seen the bizarre correlation? 163 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:45.480 Save the whales. Flush the babies. Isn't that weird? I find that so strange. Do you want to save the 164 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:56.520 world? Then become a Christian. And what do you mean by save? The Bible says there's going to be 165 00:17:56.520 --> 00:18:04.840 a day when this world is no more, but every single one of us will live forever. Where will you be 166 00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:11.640 living? You want to save the world? He's the eternal God. He's the old present God. That's one of 167 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:18.760 his attributes. He's all present. When the Bible tells us in Revelation 1 verse 8, listen up. 168 00:18:18.760 --> 00:18:22.440 I'm going to read you this verse. I'm going to show it to you on the screens. And if you 169 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.600 belong to a cult, watch what happens. In fact, people look at those that are around you. 170 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:33.080 You're going to have a little, this is a little cult detector. Here's the reason why I'm saying that. 171 00:18:33.080 --> 00:18:40.120 Because in all of the cults, you're never easily known. You don't have to get into the minutia 172 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:44.520 of all their doctrines. All you have to do is ask them, who's Jesus Christ? 173 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:56.520 Some will say, a great prophet. Ask another group, who's Jesus Christ? He's one of many gods. 174 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:06.600 Who's Jesus Christ? Someone comes to your door and says, oh, he's just an angel. He also goes 175 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:13.960 by the name Michael. Jesus says, this is who he is. Are you ready, everybody? This is the, 176 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:23.160 this is Jesus speaking about himself. I am the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end 177 00:19:24.040 --> 00:19:33.160 says the Lord, see capital LORD? That's his name. Says Yah or Yahweh. Who is? Who was? Who is to 178 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:41.400 come? The Almighty. That's who he is. That's who the Jesus of the Bible is. If that's the Jesus 179 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:52.200 you know, I hope he's the Jesus you know. This Jack Hibb's podcast as well as all the broadcasts 180 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:57.640 outreach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special 181 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:04.360 gift? Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.