WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.640 real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.640 truth equip the saints and impact our culture we got to stop allowing the 3 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:21.320 world to intimidate us okay you can't do that you cannot fight the Christian 4 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.120 fight if the world says something about you and you wither like a little flower 5 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:31.260 because some stranger posted something about you listen note to self go ahead 6 00:00:31.260 --> 00:00:37.560 and have social media if you can handle it but don't read the comments 7 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:44.480 you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast 8 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:49.880 today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.720 life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us 10 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:59.880 that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to 11 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:05.340 listen now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack 12 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:12.280 Kibs. Jesus said in John 1633 these things I have spoken to you that in me you 13 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:16.680 may have peace in the world you will have tribulation or difficulty but be of 14 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:24.080 good cheer I've overcome the world I love that in an Acts chapter 1 beginning 15 00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:29.080 in verse 6 the Bible says therefore when they had come together they asked Jesus 16 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:34.280 saying Lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel and Jesus said to 17 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.960 them it is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father has 18 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:45.280 put in his own authority verse 8 but you shall receive power when the Holy 19 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.280 Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in 20 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:57.400 all Judea Samaria and to the end of the earth and that verse that passage is so 21 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.040 true that the fact of the matter of it happened in your life when you came to 22 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:09.280 Christ because you are we are those dwelling in the ends of the earth from 23 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.360 Jerusalem it's remarkable I love the fact that in Matthew's gospel chapter 4 24 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:18.000 verse 11 the Bible says that when Jesus was being tempted by the devil that the 25 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.600 devil left him and behold angels came and ministered to him isn't that 26 00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:28.960 precious I love that but listen to what Luke 413 says about that when the devil 27 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:37.000 had finished tempting Jesus he left he left him until the next opportunity came 28 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:42.600 so I want you to be on guard and I want you to be strong right I want you to put 29 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:50.120 on Christ I want you to put on tough understanding and realizing that the 30 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:56.240 enemy is going to try look for weaknesses don't give them any don't leave your 31 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:04.360 spiritual door unlocked or your spiritual window cracked open if you're a 32 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:08.400 husband in here don't raise your hand but if you're a husband in here you should 33 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:14.400 pray over your wife or for your wife every day before the sun comes up before 34 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:21.280 anything before hell gets a chance to wake up you cover her in prayer I think the 35 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:27.200 Bible is very clear about that God and his goodness has made us in him to be 36 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:34.520 tougher than we think when Jesus had his disciples together you know I don't 37 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:40.080 know what the moment was like if you're watching the chosen series watch that 38 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:45.720 take a look maybe it's something like that going on but at some point there's 39 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:56.720 a moment where Jesus is to Peter Peter Satan has asked me if he could 40 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:01.360 sift you as we now that doesn't sound so bad to us because we don't do wheat and 41 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:08.360 we don't do sifting we just go to the store to sift wheat is to take wheat and 42 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:17.320 this very very heavy dense log has like nails in it and a donkey would pull 43 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:24.880 that over the wheat and would thrash it just just tear it up until it comes 44 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:31.440 away from the chaff and all of that violence exposed what you want to eat 45 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:39.000 versus what you don't want to eat so Jesus tells Peter hey Satan asked me if he 46 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:47.920 could sift you like wheat so Satan is looking for an opportune moment right so 47 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.120 what what led him to ask Jesus that which is an amazing moment if you think 48 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:55.480 about it because Jesus probably sitting there and all the guys having fun they're 49 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.160 you know playing cards or whatever they're doing I don't know they're sitting 50 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:04.600 around or something I don't know and in the and Satan speaks to Jesus and says 51 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:12.880 can can I have can I have Peter and don't worry I'll just I'll do to Peter what I 52 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:19.480 did to Job how's that and I've told you before that I would think 53 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:24.280 confidently that when Jesus said Peter Satan's asked for you he's asked to 54 00:05:24.280 --> 00:05:31.160 just beat you up I'm sure that Peter's just going yeah it's okay like no big deal 55 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:39.960 because you told him no right all right I mean wow that's a close call I'm glad 56 00:05:39.960 --> 00:05:46.180 you told him no you told him where to go I'm sure no actually Peter I didn't 57 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:52.900 tell him no when he's done with you and you survive use that to strengthen 58 00:05:52.900 --> 00:06:00.860 your brothers is that heavy that's heavy say I don't want that to happen to me so 59 00:06:00.860 --> 00:06:06.220 put on tough put on the word of God put on Christ makes a big difference and 60 00:06:06.220 --> 00:06:15.140 then thirdly is this put on what is strong put on what's strong for we do not 61 00:06:15.140 --> 00:06:18.820 wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and 62 00:06:18.820 --> 00:06:23.420 against the rulers of the darkness of this age against spiritual host of 63 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:30.860 wickedness in heavenly places this these spiritual entities but put on strong 64 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:37.580 verses 13 to 14 would mean this that in the words of William Grinnell he wrote 65 00:06:37.580 --> 00:06:48.780 this in 1616 what have we Bibles for ministers and preaching for if we mean not 66 00:06:48.780 --> 00:06:56.860 to furnish ourselves by them with armor for the evil day that's a good word be 67 00:06:56.860 --> 00:07:02.380 strong therefore verse 13 says take up the whole armor of God that you may be 68 00:07:02.380 --> 00:07:08.500 able to withstand in the evil day to withstand is amazing statement it means 69 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:15.580 to set up in line of a defense to have a wall as it were of protection against 70 00:07:15.580 --> 00:07:22.580 that which is opposing you to resist or to ward off and I love this to deflect 71 00:07:22.580 --> 00:07:27.740 away be strong the believers to be strong that when the enemy throws something 72 00:07:27.740 --> 00:07:32.820 out as we are to deflect it away and we do this church it's not like we have to 73 00:07:32.820 --> 00:07:37.820 work at this we just have to assume it because it's been given to us and then he 74 00:07:37.820 --> 00:07:43.820 goes on to say having done all to stand stand therefore and that word stand 75 00:07:43.820 --> 00:07:50.020 means to just simply dig in we're gonna hold her around we're gonna dig in can 76 00:07:50.020 --> 00:07:56.620 I say this can I encourage you about this I know that in a group this size or in 77 00:07:56.620 --> 00:08:02.820 time that there may be situations where you need to fight for your child or you 78 00:08:02.820 --> 00:08:06.900 need to fight for your parents or you need to fight for your husband or fight for 79 00:08:06.900 --> 00:08:14.700 your wife don't give up don't underestimate what's going on one of the greatest 80 00:08:14.700 --> 00:08:19.140 things that when we are not walking in the spirit and thinking about putting on 81 00:08:20.020 --> 00:08:26.540 these things of God then we often miss what's happening to us and we assume it's 82 00:08:26.540 --> 00:08:32.460 just well this happens to everybody and we're not being sensitive to that fact 83 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:38.700 that you and I are a child of God and nothing can come near us I love this the 84 00:08:38.700 --> 00:08:44.940 Puritans would say this everything that comes into our lives as believers must 85 00:08:44.940 --> 00:08:51.220 first be filtered through the Father even if the enemy knocks on your door it 86 00:08:51.220 --> 00:08:58.540 could be a test but it's Father observed don't think for a moment that your 87 00:08:58.540 --> 00:09:02.820 teenager has reached a place where you say I've had enough you're on your own 88 00:09:02.820 --> 00:09:08.460 and that is their moment of great crises and those are the last words on the 89 00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:12.300 planet that they need to hear you may think they need to hear it you may say it 90 00:09:12.300 --> 00:09:19.340 frustration don't do it teen rebellion that struggle all that's going on they 91 00:09:19.340 --> 00:09:27.620 need faith they're searching number four we need to put on what is right 92 00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:31.560 having girded your waist with truth I want to show you this image it's kind of 93 00:09:31.560 --> 00:09:36.600 cool looking that's just a great thing it just looks great somebody should 94 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:45.480 introduce this as a fashion you see that belt it's kind of a lot but that's 95 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.920 actually as elaborate as that is you see the leather strap it's not fancy like 96 00:09:50.920 --> 00:09:56.400 all the other stuff it's not something you know that stands out but the word 97 00:09:56.400 --> 00:10:04.480 actually means to be multi wrapped or numerous belts around us that hold all 98 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:10.120 the armament together and that is a great thing because why does the Bible 99 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:18.000 paint that picture because it's truth that holds you together we're having a 100 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.680 conversation earlier this evening about truth and the beautiful thing about 101 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:30.280 truth is you don't have to create it it is what it is Jesus is truth and truth 102 00:10:30.280 --> 00:10:36.920 never changes while the world's freaking out truth truth just just waits it's 103 00:10:36.920 --> 00:10:43.400 always there it's ever consistent and a world without truth runs around like a 104 00:10:43.400 --> 00:10:52.600 nerve-cut loose a world without truth makes stupid decisions insane ideas bad 105 00:10:52.600 --> 00:11:00.200 logic irresponsible crazy but the number one thing here on this regarding our 106 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:07.120 armament is truth and we have it in his word there's no reason why any of us 107 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:13.480 should lack truth it's available to us it's beautiful number five and we'll 108 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:18.520 have to end here number five is this put on what is bold and I want to be 109 00:11:18.520 --> 00:11:23.600 careful how I end this put on what is bold meaning this having put on the 110 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:31.360 breastplate of righteousness when I say bold I don't mean arrogant ugly bold 111 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:38.640 like the world you know the world's boldness is ego arrogance it's really 112 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:47.800 it's really so not attractive to say the least but to have God's boldness comes 113 00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:53.840 from putting on the breastplate of righteousness check out this image of 114 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.880 the breastplate this is just a little image of it look at the look at the 115 00:11:57.880 --> 00:12:05.040 intensity of that we talk about being bold we can be bold as believers because of 116 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:11.120 the breastplate of righteousness if you understand it you and I have zero 117 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:22.040 righteousness of our own zero if we thought we had some form of righteousness on 118 00:12:22.040 --> 00:12:27.160 our own I guarantee you this we would not be bold we would be arrogant but when 119 00:12:27.160 --> 00:12:33.360 we realize that his righteousness is given to us by the cross what Jesus did at 120 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:38.160 the cross he purchased that with his own blood and he turns around and gives 121 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:44.280 us notice the placement the breastplate of righteousness it is to protect the 122 00:12:44.280 --> 00:12:49.960 vitals of the believer if you think about it what could possibly be your 123 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:57.960 spiritual lungs your spiritual heart the vitals of who you and I are these 124 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:03.640 deep things of the spirit not who you are physically this is not who we are who 125 00:13:03.640 --> 00:13:10.680 is inside of us the person within and for the believer we are this one that is 126 00:13:10.680 --> 00:13:14.920 wrapped in the righteousness of Almighty God and the breastplate of righteousness I 127 00:13:14.920 --> 00:13:21.760 mean think about all the hits that that takes at war or in war and you 128 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:27.640 protected the vitals of your being are protected how it's his righteousness that 129 00:13:27.640 --> 00:13:34.480 protects you I love the fact that God's righteousness is there and given to us 130 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:40.800 and it's supplied to us and the Bible tells us in Proverbs 28 verse 1 that the 131 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:46.760 wicked flee when no one pursues them you know what that's called paranoia the 132 00:13:46.760 --> 00:13:52.600 wicked because they're so guilty somebody says how you doing what do you mean 133 00:13:53.160 --> 00:13:57.560 they're all jittery all the time they've got a story they got an angle they're 134 00:13:57.560 --> 00:14:03.520 lying about everything what's wrong with you everybody's after them somebody 135 00:14:03.520 --> 00:14:08.840 told me recently this guy couldn't believe it I saw it where this guy on TV 136 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:16.040 they showed this guy taken a picture of a mountain lion mountain lion Puma right 137 00:14:16.040 --> 00:14:19.760 that's all the same thing we could it depends on where you live in America we 138 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:25.360 have him here in Chino Hills mountain lions listen what don'ts if when you see 139 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.560 one say oh my goodness it's so beautiful it is beautiful and look it's looking 140 00:14:29.560 --> 00:14:36.480 right at me it's so big hello it is looking right at you and it is so big okay 141 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:41.760 don't think it's a big kitty because you know you can be on your mountain bike 142 00:14:41.760 --> 00:14:45.880 or you can be on your jog and you can an hour later look back and there he is 143 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:53.240 again and he's looking at you with the same look except this time he's a 144 00:14:53.240 --> 00:15:00.440 little bigger because he's closer that's how Satan works in our lives the 145 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:05.840 wilds the methodology of the devil he will stalk you and watch you for hours 146 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:14.840 sometimes days weeks months maybe he figures out a plan even years but we need to 147 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:23.200 get tough and we saw that against this attack that is spiritual we have the 148 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:28.800 ability by God's grace to wrestle against these spiritual entities and so I 149 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:34.280 want to leave you guys with this this is a word of encouragement Jesus said in 150 00:15:34.280 --> 00:15:42.440 Matthew 5 verse 10 he said blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness 151 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:49.040 sake meaning for doing the right thing his righteousness will cause you to do 152 00:15:49.040 --> 00:15:53.960 the right thing but that's not gonna go down well in the world when you say 153 00:15:53.960 --> 00:16:03.400 that's not right when we start watching in a community how to detect human 154 00:16:03.400 --> 00:16:09.000 trafficking in a community it's in every community and the more wealthy the 155 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:18.400 community the more trafficking follow the money and you need to know that you 156 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:24.080 need to know how to see that and do what about it know what to do so you can do 157 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:28.720 the right thing to do righteousness well I'll let somebody else do it no you've 158 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.400 got to do if you see it you got to do it remember it used to be the model of the 159 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:38.120 CIA or somebody homeland security oh they they need to do it themselves but it 160 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:43.560 sees something say something remember that that's a good thing for us see 161 00:16:43.560 --> 00:16:50.840 something say something for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when 162 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:55.100 they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for 163 00:16:55.100 --> 00:17:01.200 my sake rejoice and be exceedingly glad this is Jesus speaking for great as your 164 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:06.160 reward in heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you 165 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:13.440 verse 13 you are the salt of the earth salt stings an infection and heals 166 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:21.040 the wound right it preserves things and makes food taste better it's amazing 167 00:17:21.040 --> 00:17:27.000 depends on how you use it for what if the salt loses its flavor how shall it be 168 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:33.240 seasoned the word is actually how shall it be re-seasoned you can't do that it 169 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.120 is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men 170 00:17:38.120 --> 00:17:45.160 you us are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be 171 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:49.360 hidden nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand 172 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:54.880 and it gives light to all who are in the house let your light so shine before men 173 00:17:54.880 --> 00:18:00.240 the word means unbelievers the entire world all who you come in contact with 174 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.360 generic before men that they may see your good works this is amazing that they 175 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:14.560 may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven this jack hips 176 00:18:14.560 --> 00:18:18.560 podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener 177 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:23.840 supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to 178 00:18:23.840 --> 00:18:30.840 jackhids.com to learn more and stay connected