WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.300 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth 2 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:15.060 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.180 It seems as though that man, if he could, he'll establish something that is as close to heaven 4 00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:24.180 though he may not even know heaven or have ever studied about heaven. 5 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:28.900 My argument to you is it's in you to want to experience paradise. 6 00:00:28.900 --> 00:00:32.860 Why do you have a vacation trying to find that perfect place? 7 00:00:32.860 --> 00:00:34.340 Oh, paradise. 8 00:00:34.340 --> 00:00:41.660 It's all part of the argument about heaven and are you going there? 9 00:00:41.660 --> 00:00:48.180 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:48.180 --> 00:00:54.100 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 11 00:00:54.100 --> 00:00:57.340 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 12 00:00:57.340 --> 00:01:03.900 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:01:03.900 --> 00:01:07.420 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 14 00:01:07.420 --> 00:01:10.580 Here is Jack Hibbs. 15 00:01:10.580 --> 00:01:15.740 Heaven will be our topic for this foreseeable future as we look at this series. 16 00:01:15.740 --> 00:01:20.540 The Bible's description of heaven, it's amazing because, be honest with you, if you just 17 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:25.820 read your New Testament, you're going to get a couple of snippets about heaven. 18 00:01:25.820 --> 00:01:30.180 You'll be flying blind though much of the way. 19 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:37.980 Heaven is a doctrine that is revealed in the Bible and you need to read the entire Bible 20 00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:45.500 and that just makes sense that the grand prize, if I can put it that way, is heaven. 21 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:50.660 And yet God has given it to us in such a way, listen carefully now, that the Bible, though 22 00:01:50.660 --> 00:01:58.100 you and I are spoiled in this world that we live in, we have a book that is bound together, 23 00:01:58.100 --> 00:02:01.620 66 books make up one Bible. 24 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:07.060 And as we've talked about the magnitude and the diversity of its authorship when it comes 25 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:14.140 to the human side, we know that scientifically, linguistically, archeologically, every 26 00:02:14.140 --> 00:02:20.380 kind of way, there's one divine author of the Bible and that is the Holy Spirit. 27 00:02:20.380 --> 00:02:26.540 And that said, this book has been designed that if I were to tear out the book of Romans 28 00:02:26.540 --> 00:02:32.340 and drop it in, let's say Arizona and tear out the book of Galatians and drop it in California, 29 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:39.340 if I were to tear out the book of First Timothy and give it to Utah and if I tore out 30 00:02:39.340 --> 00:02:42.460 the Philippians and dropped it in New York, are you with me? 31 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:52.420 If we tore up every book and handed it out so that the reader only had one book of the 32 00:02:52.420 --> 00:03:04.060 Bible, even if it's Habakkuk or Hosea or Genesis, they would come to the knowledge of either 33 00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:12.540 Christ as Savior or God as Holy and I am not or a sacrifice needs to be given or Jesus 34 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:15.780 died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. 35 00:03:15.780 --> 00:03:22.780 What I'm saying is God has distributed the gospel message in His Word throughout all the 36 00:03:22.780 --> 00:03:27.540 books of the Bible, said if you only had one book, it gets saved. 37 00:03:27.540 --> 00:03:31.740 Or if you had one book, you would know that you're rejecting the one who loves you. 38 00:03:31.740 --> 00:03:37.940 Some things for sure, just one book of the Bible would cause you, it has to bring you 39 00:03:37.940 --> 00:03:41.100 to the point of decision. 40 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:47.260 There's no gray area in the Bible and the Bible tells us about heaven. 41 00:03:47.260 --> 00:03:54.620 It's funny because every culture has a utopian dream. 42 00:03:54.620 --> 00:04:02.340 Every culture has a paradise of some sorts. 43 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:08.140 The God of the Bible is the only one that says, this is what heaven is like, this is what 44 00:04:08.140 --> 00:04:17.340 you're going to do, this is what you're going to see and this is how you get there. 45 00:04:17.340 --> 00:04:25.180 I don't know but if you go to any place that's of significance, it's probably of course 46 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:35.580 a national park or a national monument but I like when I go on vacation, one of the things 47 00:04:35.580 --> 00:04:40.300 I like, the police don't think less of me when I tell you this and I'm assuming you think 48 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:43.340 more of me than I think. 49 00:04:43.340 --> 00:04:46.460 I love museums, love them. 50 00:04:46.460 --> 00:04:55.540 I can spend all day in a museum and if I have a chance I'll do it and I love places like 51 00:04:55.540 --> 00:05:03.420 the Smithsonian and it's just spectacular, it's not so much that it's the museum, it's 52 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:07.020 the fact that when you go in, for example, the national portrait gallery is one of my favorite 53 00:05:07.020 --> 00:05:08.620 places on earth. 54 00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:11.860 When you walk in there, it's not the museum I'm walking into, I never think about it that 55 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:12.860 way. 56 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:14.820 I never think, I'm walking into the museum. 57 00:05:14.820 --> 00:05:17.340 I don't care about the museum, I don't care about the gates, I don't care about the 58 00:05:17.340 --> 00:05:23.100 guy counting, the people going through the turnstile, I just want to get in front of those 59 00:05:23.100 --> 00:05:29.540 oil paintings and I just want to go into it, I want to run right into that thing and 60 00:05:29.540 --> 00:05:37.220 I want to be there and maybe you've seen a grand palace or a great chateau or cathedral 61 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:44.140 or castle and it's not so much that it's some grand super amazing thing, it's that there's 62 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:47.620 a part of you that wants to be in there, you know what I'm talking about, I mean that 63 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:52.300 in a healthy way, I'm not talking about invading somebody's house, that's like you know that's 64 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:58.500 a really nice place, well just stand at the curb and enjoy it but you can't go in there, 65 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:02.100 but there's a part of you that wants to go in there, in fact there's even people who 66 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:07.140 have really nice houses that once a year they'll sell tickets for you to go through their 67 00:06:07.140 --> 00:06:13.140 home and that goes to charity, why do you want to go into those homes, I want to see 68 00:06:13.140 --> 00:06:19.260 what they've got, no but really peel it back, peel it back, it's just awesome, there's 69 00:06:19.260 --> 00:06:24.220 an awesome, is this a word, awesomeness, or is that just a fellow, is that American or English? 70 00:06:24.220 --> 00:06:31.860 Really awesome man, it's got awesomeness to it, where you want to go in there and so part 71 00:06:31.860 --> 00:06:36.540 of experiencing a museum, they're not all in oil, some of them are actual structures 72 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:42.180 in existence and so when I travel, if I get the chance, remember traveling, you're 73 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:48.180 just building that, you used to visit places, so I want to show you a picture in regarding 74 00:06:48.180 --> 00:06:54.460 heaven I want to give you this argument, this is in Russia, this is Queen Catherine, Catherine 75 00:06:54.460 --> 00:06:59.180 the Great's palace, by the way that's only one third of her palace, this is her summer 76 00:06:59.180 --> 00:07:05.780 house, where you're at by the way, it's the Bay, the Bay, you are the Bay, okay, and 77 00:07:05.780 --> 00:07:09.740 I don't remember if it's the Baltic or the Finnish Bay, I don't remember if some of 78 00:07:09.740 --> 00:07:14.500 you are from Russia, you'll know, but she would pull up in a boat and then she would 79 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:19.420 get out of the boat and she'd get in a gondola and they would take her right up this and she 80 00:07:19.420 --> 00:07:24.020 would go around that big water fountain in the middle and she would go up those stairs 81 00:07:24.020 --> 00:07:28.660 that's doing her house, just like you go home every night, that's it, and it's absolutely 82 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:33.580 amazing, and we've been there a couple of times with mission outreach, we would take 83 00:07:33.580 --> 00:07:37.940 the mission teams there on breaks, if we had a day, we would take a day off and we would 84 00:07:37.940 --> 00:07:42.460 go and see such things, and you stand there and you always want to stress the fact, look 85 00:07:42.460 --> 00:07:46.020 at it, look at that, look at that, even if it's something, everybody's mouth hanging open, 86 00:07:46.020 --> 00:07:49.540 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really something, and then you have to turn to the group and 87 00:07:49.540 --> 00:07:55.660 you say, just remember, just remember, this is the best that man can do, it ain't bad, 88 00:07:55.660 --> 00:08:00.980 but it's the best that man can do, and you appreciate this, not in a weird way, but 89 00:08:01.060 --> 00:08:08.700 it's like, that's awesome, it is awesome, but why is that in the heart of man, to even build 90 00:08:08.700 --> 00:08:13.980 such a thing? That's kind of foundational to our argument today, how about the next one, 91 00:08:13.980 --> 00:08:21.220 this is one of our favorites, if you ever get a chance to go to, this is either Oxford 92 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:29.220 Shire or Cutswald of England, this is the English countryside, this is Vlaenham Palace, 93 00:08:29.220 --> 00:08:35.220 this is where Winston Churchill was born, by the way, this is where the Duke of Marburo 94 00:08:35.220 --> 00:08:44.220 was given this land, thousands and thousands and thousands of square acres of a gift for 95 00:08:44.220 --> 00:08:50.820 rescuing the crown of England at that time, and this was gifted to him, it was built and 96 00:08:50.820 --> 00:08:55.820 given, and it's spectacular, it's one of the greatest structures you can ever go to, if 97 00:08:55.820 --> 00:08:59.940 you're ever in England, you got to make your way there, there's a grandness to this that 98 00:08:59.940 --> 00:09:07.180 when we read, now listen everybody, think now, use some divine or should say some sanctified 99 00:09:07.180 --> 00:09:14.740 divine imagination linkage with the Word of God, a moment ago you read about a river flowing 100 00:09:14.740 --> 00:09:22.500 from the throne of God, about the nations of the earth, the kings will come and bring their 101 00:09:22.500 --> 00:09:30.300 glory before the Lord, you read a moment ago that from the trees the leaves will be picked 102 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:37.380 and the leaves will be used for the healing of the nations, is that interesting? That the 103 00:09:37.380 --> 00:09:45.300 street for example of Main Street Heaven is some sort of a translucent, transparent, gold 104 00:09:45.300 --> 00:09:53.780 reflection, we look at stuff like this and we say my goodness that's spectacular and you've 105 00:09:53.780 --> 00:09:57.380 got to study that for a while, you got to look at that for a while by the way, listen when we were 106 00:09:57.380 --> 00:10:06.020 there we didn't know until we went on the tour, you're looking at the back of the house, the front 107 00:10:06.020 --> 00:10:10.740 of the house, do you see the driveway, it's lined by two trees, I think it's five miles long, 108 00:10:11.540 --> 00:10:17.220 do you see the driveway at the top of the screen, that's the driveway, I'm serious, 109 00:10:20.500 --> 00:10:28.340 if this isn't man's heart, man who has created the image of God that there is something within us 110 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:36.420 that beckons us to a heaven, even if we have to try to build it on earth and there's something 111 00:10:36.420 --> 00:10:42.660 about that in our lives, this next home is much more humble than those two I saw you, it's not 112 00:10:42.660 --> 00:10:49.460 very big either, it's probably the most famous house in the world, but it's not all that fancy, 113 00:10:52.180 --> 00:10:59.460 it's not all that spectacular but what it stands for, it's but it says something and there's a 114 00:10:59.460 --> 00:11:07.780 grandeur to it and that's within us, somebody designed that, George Washington had a lot to do 115 00:11:07.780 --> 00:11:13.940 with the design of it, but there's a simplicity but there's an elegance to it and that speaks about 116 00:11:13.940 --> 00:11:21.700 something that's within us and we need to remember that, so this next picture here, look at that, 117 00:11:22.660 --> 00:11:31.780 it's calming, do you love this? You know how long you have to travel to go to that location? 118 00:11:32.660 --> 00:11:38.260 That's right, about 35 minutes, Pasadena, today right now, did you know that? 119 00:11:39.540 --> 00:11:44.100 How many of you've been to the Huntington Library, Raise Your Hands? That's not enough, wait, 120 00:11:44.180 --> 00:11:49.940 just I want to see, how many of you have not been, Raise Your Hands? That's unacceptable, 121 00:11:51.860 --> 00:11:57.540 this is perfect, heaven, the Bible tells us about heaven, it's spectacular, let me ask you something, 122 00:11:57.540 --> 00:12:04.580 are you going there? If you had a chance, would you go? 35 minutes down the freeway is this, 123 00:12:04.580 --> 00:12:10.820 did you know that? Look, if you didn't know it, you're excused, if you know it and then 124 00:12:10.820 --> 00:12:18.260 I've ever went, something's wrong with you, this is the Huntington Library in Pasadena and it's 125 00:12:18.260 --> 00:12:23.700 spectacular, is it not? You can go there, you can spend the entire day, it's huge, it's beautiful, 126 00:12:23.700 --> 00:12:28.100 you know I like about it, it reminds me of heaven, when I read, you know you've never been to heaven, 127 00:12:28.100 --> 00:12:36.900 no, no, but I've read about it and if things on earth speak to me, a hint, look, this is like a 128 00:12:36.980 --> 00:12:45.220 Nordurve, right? You know you go somewhere and they give you whatever that is, why is it the more, 129 00:12:45.220 --> 00:12:53.220 the more swanky the place, the more idiotic is the Nordurve, so what is that? What is that thing? 130 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:58.020 I'd get out of here, no man, why do they not ever have an Nordurve that's just like a little 131 00:12:58.020 --> 00:13:02.980 miniature hamburger like the size of your thumb? Instead it's this thing with eyes and it has 132 00:13:02.980 --> 00:13:08.340 antenna and it's like, get it away from you, oh but that is from France, get it out of here, 133 00:13:09.380 --> 00:13:16.020 right? Now the Nordurve is supposed to communicate something, think about this, God's creation, 134 00:13:17.780 --> 00:13:24.580 on earth that is fallen, this earth that is war bound and full of hate and violence and craziness 135 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:31.540 and then you have this, God put this in the heart of man to craft and my argument is, 136 00:13:31.540 --> 00:13:38.500 it's because God has put eternity in our hearts, we want to know. Next picture, 137 00:13:40.500 --> 00:13:48.340 where is this? Honey, the library in Pasadena, 35 minutes from here, you should go. 138 00:13:48.340 --> 00:14:01.620 Okay, here's a long shot, next one, where is that? Honey, the library in Pasadena, 35 139 00:14:01.620 --> 00:14:09.860 miles from here, but have you been? See, you can know all about it, but have you been? See, 140 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:14.740 the Bible tells us that our citizenship as Christians is anchored, secured in heaven, 141 00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:20.100 that's why you long to go to heaven. Now the next picture is washed out, I apologize, 142 00:14:20.100 --> 00:14:25.220 the next one is cherry blossoms, oh excuse me, boy is that wrong. Okay, that's good, they washed, 143 00:14:25.220 --> 00:14:31.900 they washed that photo right out. Wow, where do you think this is? That's the Honey 144 00:14:31.900 --> 00:14:39.940 in the library in Pasadena, 35 miles from here. Is that spectacular? You say where are the honeytons? 145 00:14:40.100 --> 00:14:48.820 The people who own that house. Next slide. You get every service responded the same. 146 00:14:51.220 --> 00:14:56.180 We're not being gaudy or weird here, what we are saying is there's something about that that says, 147 00:14:56.180 --> 00:14:59.620 you know what, that's awesome. You say, well that's not my flavor, I understand this, 148 00:14:59.620 --> 00:15:06.740 not my flavor either, but the thing is, I appreciate it. That design, that ability, I believe, 149 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:13.060 is only true to the human creation. We have no evidence whatsoever that angels can do this. 150 00:15:15.140 --> 00:15:21.380 It seems as though that man, if he could, he'll establish something that is as close to heaven, 151 00:15:21.380 --> 00:15:25.860 though he may not even know heaven or have ever studied about heaven. My argument to you is, 152 00:15:25.860 --> 00:15:32.900 it's in you to want to experience paradise. Why do you vacation trying to find that perfect place 153 00:15:33.620 --> 00:15:39.700 called paradise? It's all part of the argument about heaven, and are you going there? 154 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:49.140 Next slide. This is one of the rooms at the Honeyton Library in Pasadena, 35 miles from here, 155 00:15:49.140 --> 00:15:55.300 35 minutes from here. In fact, you know the blue boy, the famous oil, 156 00:15:55.300 --> 00:15:58.260 seam in the middle, right there, that's him, that's not an knockoff, that's really him. 157 00:15:59.220 --> 00:16:05.780 It's spectacular. Next slide. Oh, okay. Now, wow, that's a change. Where's that? 158 00:16:06.660 --> 00:16:12.580 Honeyton Library in Pasadena. That's one of the gardens. That's near the T-houses over there 159 00:16:12.580 --> 00:16:18.180 to the right. You guys need to go if you've not been. It's awesome. Walk around praising God 160 00:16:18.180 --> 00:16:21.140 the whole time. Lisa and I look at two idiots. We're just walking around like, good, 161 00:16:21.700 --> 00:16:31.780 amazing. Praise the Lord. Fantastic. Next slide. Don't you want to run in the grass? 162 00:16:32.740 --> 00:16:37.300 You can, if you go to Pasadena at the Honeyton Library, you can run around there. 163 00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:47.060 You can go in the grass. You can look at all those statues. Heaven, if we have this in our world 164 00:16:47.140 --> 00:16:52.740 today and God said that he's the creator and the Bible says in James that he's the giver of all 165 00:16:52.740 --> 00:17:00.340 that is good and comes down from the Father of Lights. If I want you to go there to experience this, 166 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:06.980 how much more does God want you in heaven? He made it. It's his. He belongs there and you 167 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:15.380 belong there. He loves you, but you can't go there unless because heaven is not our default. 168 00:17:17.140 --> 00:17:23.700 Heaven is a decision that you and I need to make regarding Christ Jesus if we're going to go there. 169 00:17:24.820 --> 00:17:30.420 Next slide. That's the one that's washed out. All that white you see kind of looks like snow. 170 00:17:31.620 --> 00:17:39.220 That's all pink. That's cherry blossom season in the spring, about March-ish. It's absolutely spectacular. 171 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:44.100 I think that's it. I'm tired of talking about that place. Anyway, you just got to go there. I 172 00:17:44.100 --> 00:17:49.700 don't want to talk about it. I want to go see it. Kind of like heaven. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 173 00:17:49.700 --> 00:17:58.580 chapter 2 verse 9, but as it is written, I is not seen. Nor ear heard. Nor have it entered into 174 00:17:58.580 --> 00:18:05.220 the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him. Verse 10, I love verse 10, 175 00:18:05.220 --> 00:18:16.260 but God has revealed them to us through his spirit. Listen, that's him coming after your 176 00:18:16.260 --> 00:18:22.260 thought life right now. God is saying, you can't see it, you can't hear it, your brain can't 177 00:18:22.260 --> 00:18:27.780 fathom it, but I tell you what, I'll reveal a little ordurve of it to my kids. 178 00:18:28.580 --> 00:18:37.780 For the spirit searches all things, just the deep things of God. Why do you live? What's your 179 00:18:37.780 --> 00:18:44.660 purpose? What's the end game, friend? How does this all wrap up? Is it heaven for you? 180 00:18:49.380 --> 00:18:53.620 This Jack Kemp's podcast, as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities, 181 00:18:53.620 --> 00:18:58.260 are listener supporting. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 182 00:18:58.980 --> 00:19:10.740 Go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected.