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 --> 00:00:12.240 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. We don't need to suffer alone in 3 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.720 this world and if you're a Christian you will not suffer alone in this world. 4 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:22.520 In Paul the saying, at this present time we suffer but we're not alone. We are 5 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:28.560 being conformed from glory to glory. I love that. These things I've spoken to you 6 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.040 that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation but be of 7 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:39.480 good cheer. I've overcome the world. Isn't that great? 8 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:47.480 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:52.800 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:57.640 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 11 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:03.240 that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:09.720 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:13.480 Friends listen up especially men. I don't know what the big deal is with men. 14 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:19.760 Guys listen we need to take the lead on this and that is either we need to set 15 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.440 our clocks earlier or we need to go to bed later or we need to adjust something in 16 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:29.080 our life schedule that we're in the word of God so we can lead our wives or the women 17 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:35.320 in our lives or the sons in our lives. Men we've got to do this. We have we have all 18 00:01:35.320 --> 00:01:39.440 the excuses. I get it. I got to move the lawn. I have to move my neighbors lawn. I got 19 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:43.560 to change my oil. I got to do it. We've all done that. We've all heard it all. We've 20 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:49.840 all heard it. I'm talking about can I put it to you this way. Jesus says up until now 21 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:55.240 the kingdom of God has suffered violence but the violence take it by force. Very few 22 00:01:55.240 --> 00:02:00.360 people know what that verse means. The kingdom of God is under attack but for the kingdom 23 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:09.000 of God to advance those who have faith won't flinch. You keep moving. Our flesh needs 24 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.320 to suffer a little bit. It's always yelling at us. I'm hungry. I'm sleepy. I want this. 25 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:23.320 I want that. We need to say shut up and sit out. I want to watch golf which is funny. 26 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:29.120 I always want to watch golf. I've never held a. I'm not sure if I held a club. I wouldn't 27 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:35.160 even know what gender hold. I don't know what they're doing but golfing is important 28 00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:39.800 to me at the most inopportune moments because my thoughts are like this. It's time to read 29 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:46.320 my Bible. I wonder if there's any golf programs on it. What's wrong with me? Guys, please 30 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:55.520 somebody say men, am I alone on this? We've got to discipline our bodies to do the right 31 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:04.920 thing and in this life we are going to suffer. Here's the amazing thing for all of us. Suffering 32 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:10.680 makes us more like Jesus. There's no other way to achieve that. The world suffers without 33 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:18.320 any purpose. We suffer with a purpose. That doesn't mean please don't do this. You know 34 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.800 there's those Christians they mean well but they go praise the Lord my house burned down. 35 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:32.760 Hallelujah. Bless God. Okay, I don't know what you were even talking about. Okay, it would 36 00:03:32.760 --> 00:03:37.960 be more convincing if you were kind of crying and tearful. We loved our house. It was so 37 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:45.360 great but it burned down and I'm sure God's got a plan. Okay, now you're talking. I mean 38 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:55.400 be real, will you? But we will suffer. You go to Chuck's hospital in Orange County and 39 00:03:55.400 --> 00:04:01.520 you walk down the hallway and there's parents there that don't know God and their child is dying. 40 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:13.840 You can't comfort them. They're beyond being consoled. They're suffering. One of the greatest 41 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:20.000 pains a human can suffer without Christ. I don't understand that friends. I guess that's why people drink. 42 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.280 I get it. I would grab a bottle also and drown my sorrows. Where am I going to go? Well, listen, 43 00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:33.680 the actual answer is you go to Jesus and they'll never know unless we tell them. We don't need to 44 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.320 suffer alone in this world and if you're a Christian you will not suffer alone in this world. 45 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:46.120 In Paul the saying at this present time we suffer but we're not alone. We are being conformed 46 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:57.320 from glory to glory. I love that. Look, I enjoy getting older in Jesus. I should explain that. I'm 47 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:03.640 getting older in body too but the longer you walk with Jesus it takes less than it takes time 48 00:05:03.640 --> 00:05:10.200 and I live in this world like you do and so that means my body. My body is not keeping up with the 49 00:05:10.200 --> 00:05:19.320 inside of me. This is a problem because I want to do this, this, this, this, and this and it's 50 00:05:19.320 --> 00:05:26.520 all achievable up until about two o'clock in the afternoon and then something begins to happen. 51 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:33.320 You know in the morning we've got these grandiose ideas. Let's go. We're going to do this and then it's 52 00:05:33.320 --> 00:05:39.720 like, aren't taking that. Right? Why? What's going on? The body, the body, it's the body. 53 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:50.200 But in our culture today by the way, there are some states in America where they want to get 54 00:05:50.200 --> 00:05:57.080 away with the older people. You think about how demonic this is. If that's the sin, if we don't live 55 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:03.640 an age that manifests Satan's presence, Satan wants to kill the young and he wants to kill the old. 56 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.720 And it isn't interesting that let's be honest. The Bible speaks a lot about the young and a lot 57 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:16.040 about the unborn and the Bible speaks a lot about the old. You know we're supposed to honor the old. 58 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:22.920 Have you seen how gray my hair is getting? That means you're supposed to honor me man. Be nice will you? 59 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:31.960 But the Bible says there's wisdom that comes with that. And we need to get older people to start 60 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:36.920 speaking to junior hires. Can you imagine? Can you imagine a older person saying, listen. 61 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:45.640 Oh, we used to have a horse and buggy. Am I going too far back? 62 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:55.000 Something like that, you know, I don't know. But that needs to happen. That needs to share. 63 00:06:55.640 --> 00:06:59.640 But as we get older, it's a funny thing because you know the Bible says he's written eternity in 64 00:06:59.640 --> 00:07:07.240 our hearts. And we want to be with them. The true believer wants to be with God. We're only 65 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:12.440 hanging around here right now because he's using us in people's lives. And we all pray, Lord, 66 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:23.240 are we done yet? I mean, let's go. And double. But there's grace in all of this as the body ages. 67 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:28.840 I have seen the grace of God because I, for me, I wake up, I look in the mirror and I'm actually 68 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:38.200 starting to look better the older I get. Now explain why. My eyes are fading. I get up now, 69 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:42.600 listen, 10 years ago, I'd get up and go, what's that? Now I get up and I say, 70 00:07:43.960 --> 00:07:48.520 hey, and then Lisa goes, what are you doing? Where are you going? I've got to go to Home Depot. 71 00:07:48.520 --> 00:07:53.000 She goes, no, you're not going outside like that. Have you seen your hair? Have you seen your face? 72 00:07:54.520 --> 00:07:58.040 I look fine. Why? Because my eyes are out of focus. 73 00:08:00.760 --> 00:08:02.120 But that's the mercy of God. 74 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:10.520 Do you remember? I grew up. I was very picky about what I, I don't know about you. When you're 75 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:16.280 young, it's like, I don't want that. I don't want that. But have you noticed, God is so good. 76 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:21.320 Is you get older? It's like, what is it? Now you don't even ask. Just shovel it in. 77 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:28.440 Everything tastes good now. Have you noticed that? Everything tastes great. And that's not good 78 00:08:28.520 --> 00:08:34.440 because then you start to gain weight. So then you gain weight. But then God and His mercy, 79 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:42.440 He intervenes and your teeth start getting loose. So you can't eat the stuff you're used to eat. 80 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:49.000 So you start to lose weight. So by the time you look in the mirror, you look great, man. 81 00:08:49.160 --> 00:09:01.480 The outward body is perishing. But the inside of us as believers are growing toward glory and 82 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:07.960 ultimately, ultimately heaven. That word's suffering by the way. Let's put that word up in the 83 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:14.600 Greek language. The word suffering is this. Plathema, it's that which befalls one. Technically, 84 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:22.680 that which befalls everyone in this world. Everyone has sufferings. Watch this. The word means hard 85 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:29.960 passions. So what does that mean? Hard passions. The word hard passions is something that is so 86 00:09:30.760 --> 00:09:38.920 grievous to you. Maybe, and each of us have our own definition of what that is. It could be a broken 87 00:09:38.920 --> 00:09:45.080 relationship. It could be a marriage. It could be the death of a parent or a son or a daughter. 88 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:53.800 And it causes us. It grabs us at times. We could be in the middle of the most wonderful moment 89 00:09:53.800 --> 00:09:59.320 in our minds, you know what I'm saying? Our minds for a moment pause and it goes to that moment 90 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:05.800 when we heard of their passing or the moment of the accident or the crash. Are you with me? 91 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:16.600 And that where is on you? And the word means it's hard. It's there. It will be there for all of your 92 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:22.360 life. But the good news is, according to the scriptures, you can manage it with Jesus. 93 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:30.040 The believer has this assurance that the word also means crushing emotions. Emotions that 94 00:10:30.040 --> 00:10:35.480 crush you. See what do you mean by that? It's this. Emotions that keep you from catching your breath. 95 00:10:36.280 --> 00:10:43.320 The picture is a plank. Imagine laying flat on your back and a big plank is put on your chest 96 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.360 and then somebody starts stacking bricks on it. Do you ever feel like that? 97 00:10:48.040 --> 00:10:53.320 Have you ever been in a condition, a situation with news or something that's happened that's 98 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:57.400 come to you and you have a hard time catching your breath, your shallow breathing. You're not even 99 00:10:57.400 --> 00:11:03.720 aware of it until you realize, man, I got a headache and your temples are pounding and then 100 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:11.720 you realize, wait a minute, this is so painful. I'm not even breathing rights. My heart's racing 101 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:22.600 over this news. I'm so glad that the Bible is so honest. This is the book that addresses these 102 00:11:22.680 --> 00:11:32.440 issues of life, crushing emotions. Listen, layered pressures of life, layered. Job experienced, layered 103 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:40.760 pressures of life. Hey, Job, yes, all your donkeys are dead. Oh man, what am I going to do? 104 00:11:41.800 --> 00:11:47.160 In that day and age, having all your donkeys dies, like having all your work trucks blow up. 105 00:11:47.160 --> 00:11:59.560 Oh, Job, next guy comes. All of your sheep are dead. What? Oh, Job, you know, all your camels have 106 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:09.880 died. What in the world's going on? Then the next guy comes, Job, there was a storm last night. 107 00:12:10.680 --> 00:12:14.280 All your kids were having a beautiful get-together, all of your family 108 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:19.400 and all of your sons and daughters were killed in this horrific storm. 109 00:12:22.040 --> 00:12:23.800 And Job just sat down and wept. 110 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:31.400 And I think she meant this with compassion. I know people want to beat up on Job's wife 111 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.160 for saying this. I don't think it's right. I think that's armchair quarterbacking. She sees 112 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:43.160 him weeping in the loss of everything and she says, Job, why don't you just curse God and die? 113 00:12:46.280 --> 00:12:50.520 And then he tells her, listen, naked, I've come into this world and naked, I leave blessed 114 00:12:50.520 --> 00:12:56.200 be the name of the Lord. What an attitude. What has he seen? He's seen suffering in the right 115 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.480 perspective. God's got a plan in this. I can't explain it. I can't put the pieces together. 116 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:11.720 You've got layered pressures weighing you down. I think she said that out of compassion for him. 117 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:17.480 I think she didn't want to see him weeping anymore in bereavement. The Bible tells us 118 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:21.000 throughout the end of the book of Job, which is an awesome book. We should all read the book of 119 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:29.080 Job. People avoid it. You shouldn't avoid it. It's like Christian voodoo, well if I read the 120 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:34.200 book of Job, then it's going to happen to me. Listen, yeah, better luck in a fortune cookie down 121 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:41.000 to P.F. Changs for crying out loud. What is that? That's crazy. There's great theology in the book of 122 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:47.400 Job. The Bible tells us that at the end, Job's life was restored better than it was at the beginning. 123 00:13:47.400 --> 00:13:52.120 I don't know how you do that, but God does that. He makes the end of your life better than the 124 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:58.840 beginning. That's what he said to us. And I think God loves the fact that we hold him to his word 125 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:03.480 and say, Lord, you did it at the job. I need you to do it to me. Everything's fallen apart. 126 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:11.560 We were with the youth yesterday evening, last night at Huntington Beach for the 127 00:14:12.920 --> 00:14:20.680 junior hires. And this one young boy came up to me and he said, Pastor Jack, will you pray for me 128 00:14:20.760 --> 00:14:30.440 in my home? My home? Yeah, what's up? And he said, my dad's divorcing my mom. And here's this 129 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:35.240 little guy standing on the shore concerned about his mom and dad. Little kids should not have to be 130 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:41.480 concerned about their moms and dads. Well, you don't know the things I've suffered. Listen, 131 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.640 the Bible says you've gone through nothing that's such as his common demand kind. 132 00:14:46.520 --> 00:14:53.960 Oh, but you don't know. I married a witch, man. Really? Okay, if you married a witch, 133 00:14:53.960 --> 00:15:02.760 then you were stupid in the beginning. Who marries witches? So the truth is she wasn't a witch, 134 00:15:02.760 --> 00:15:14.120 was she? No. Then how did she become one? Oh, no. Yes, she do. Here's how she became one. 135 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:24.040 You created her. The world tells us divorce is the answer. God says, I hate divorce, 136 00:15:24.680 --> 00:15:31.560 because listen, the only one who benefits from divorce is the attorney. In fact, I'm sure every 137 00:15:31.560 --> 00:15:39.160 attorney is bowing down to some statue of the God of attorneys and saying, let's have some more 138 00:15:39.160 --> 00:15:46.680 divorce. The kids pay the price. No, I mean, what do you mean kids pay the price? I wrote the check. 139 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:53.960 Oh, that's nothing. The kids pay the price. And so here's the deal. 140 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.800 Women, you may or may or may not be aware of the fact that according to God's design, 141 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:10.120 God created man, your husband, to protect you, to love you, to watch over you, and to make sure 142 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:16.920 that you become the woman that God created you to be. It doesn't mean that that's machoism. 143 00:16:16.920 --> 00:16:25.080 Machoism is a sin. I'm talking about biblical masculinity, which is this. Hey, babe, you're really 144 00:16:25.160 --> 00:16:31.160 bright in this area or that. You should do something about that. You should read Proverbs 31 and go 145 00:16:31.160 --> 00:16:39.000 for it. Hey, you know what? And you build her up. Guys, listen, God has ordained the man to be 146 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:43.400 listened to the head of the home. What do you think that means? Oh, I'm the head of the house. 147 00:16:43.400 --> 00:16:50.840 I'm the head of the house. No, that doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that. The word actually means 148 00:16:50.920 --> 00:16:56.200 that you're the first one to the block. Did you know that to the block? The chopping block. You're 149 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:01.400 the first one. The man, the husband, the first one to be sacrificed for the preservation of the home. 150 00:17:01.400 --> 00:17:06.200 The Bible says that the man does not provide for his home. He's worse than a non-believer. 151 00:17:07.560 --> 00:17:15.640 Think of that. You want to save your marriage? Commit yourself to doing Jesus stuff. 152 00:17:16.360 --> 00:17:23.320 Listen, wear her down with love and overtures and actions of love. If that's not her language, 153 00:17:23.320 --> 00:17:30.760 find out what it is. Does she like to sit around and read books? Yes, I hate it. Then get some 154 00:17:30.760 --> 00:17:40.840 comics for yourself and go deep while she reads your book. Whatever it is, husbands are to dwell with 155 00:17:40.840 --> 00:17:44.760 their wives according to understanding. I have no idea why we're even talking about this now. 156 00:17:46.360 --> 00:17:58.920 Suffering. That's it. Suffering. You're going to be shocked, guys. It's love us complicated. Then you 157 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:06.120 made it up to feel. And you start doing those things. And then she starts getting happy, 158 00:18:06.520 --> 00:18:13.480 which makes you happy. Slams the door on Satan's face, by the way, which is beautiful. I hope 159 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:21.880 end his tale at the same time. And God begins to move. But I wonder how much suffering is brought 160 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:30.120 in upon our lives unnecessarily. The suffering I want you and I to go through is the suffering that 161 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:35.320 comes about, obviously, naturally from this world. But I hope we experience suffering because we've 162 00:18:35.320 --> 00:18:39.720 upset the kingdom of hell. How about that? Wouldn't that be great? If hell got all upset, 163 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:45.560 it's something that you did. That's awesome. So what's going on? Satan's really upset with you. 164 00:18:45.560 --> 00:18:48.440 Are you kidding me? Do I get a badge? Where's the trophy for that? 165 00:18:50.360 --> 00:18:53.240 But if we get in trouble because we're done, that's not a good thing. 166 00:18:56.040 --> 00:19:00.200 John 16 verse 32, John 16, Jesus said, indeed, the hour is coming. 167 00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:09.640 Yes, and as now come that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave me alone. 168 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:15.640 And yet I'm not alone. Because the Father is with me, by the way, the Father is with you now too. 169 00:19:18.040 --> 00:19:23.640 These things I have spoken to you that in me, you may have peace. In the world, you will have 170 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:31.960 tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. And that great? Man, I love that. 171 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:41.880 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener 172 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:49.480 supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com to learn 173 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.200 more and stay connected.