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 --> 00:00:10.840 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. This is the great challenge for 3 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:16.160 the church in the 21st century. Know what you're called to do believer and then 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:20.920 do it with all of your mights, do it with all of your heart and do all that you 5 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.000 do to the glory of God. 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:32.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:37.920 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 8 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.800 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 9 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:48.200 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:53.880 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibb's. 11 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.800 The book of Philippians chapter two verse 13 says, 12 00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:05.560 for it is God who works in you both who will and to do for his good pleasure. I love that. 13 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:10.360 I expect that to happen in my life, by the way. God, you said that. This is fun. I don't know 14 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:14.040 about you guys. I don't know how you think, but if you want to try thinking like this, 15 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:17.800 go ahead if not forget it. But when this is God's Bible, this is God's word, 16 00:01:17.800 --> 00:01:25.000 when he says something, look, it's amazing to me. First of all, I didn't write it. He wrote it. 17 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:32.200 I didn't make this up. He said it. If he said it, then he's God and he has to do it. 18 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:40.520 So the bottom line is this. So God, do you understand that right? It's your desire to work in me, 19 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:48.040 both to do and to will your purpose in my life. That's your good pleasure, God. So do it. 20 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.720 Can you imagine? Do you want to listen? Do you want to be thrilled? Look, I highly recommend 21 00:01:53.720 --> 00:01:58.920 obeying Jesus and live a thrilling life. You don't need to buy a bungee cord for this. 22 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:05.080 You don't need to jump off a bridge. You know my life's so boring. I think I'm going to jump out of 23 00:02:05.160 --> 00:02:10.840 a plane. You know, there's people that live like that. They live from adrenaline rush to adrenaline rush. 24 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:17.400 I do not want to even know people like this. Friends of astus, you guys want to go on vacation? 25 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.200 You don't want us to go on vacation with you. Because when our lives are so constant, 26 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:30.600 crazy all the time, when we go on vacation, you need a spatula to turn us over. You guys want 27 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:40.440 to go hike up a mountain? You go. You know what I'm saying? Following him is thrilling and it's a 28 00:02:40.440 --> 00:02:49.240 life of discovery in him because of what he's given to us. And so now we begin to look at this list. 29 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:54.920 We start now with this list of the gifts of the Spirit of God and all the wild church be asking 30 00:02:55.160 --> 00:03:04.120 yourself, Lord is this for me? The Bible says in 1 Peter 4 verse 10, as each one that's you 31 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:12.360 has received the gift, minister it to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God 32 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:18.200 verse 11. If anyone speaks, these are the verbal gifts of any type, let him speak as the oracles of 33 00:03:18.200 --> 00:03:27.960 God. Wow. If anyone ministers or serves the other capacity, let him do it as with the ability with 34 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:35.000 which God supplies that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. Amen, awesome. 35 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:44.600 So here's a preamble to the spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 12 verses 1 and 4 to 7. Now concerning 36 00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:52.840 spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. The word ignorant is not an insult. 37 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:58.760 The word means uninformed. Ladies and gentlemen, I love teaching a, I love pasturing a church that 38 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:04.040 is non-denominational. You don't need to raise your hands, but so many of you are Catholics, so many 39 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:09.320 of you are Presbyterians, so many of you are Methodists, so many of you are a Pentecostal. Are you 40 00:04:09.320 --> 00:04:14.120 hearing me? There's just every, and look, a lot of people, I know, a lot of people go to their 41 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:19.320 churches, and then they come here for Bible study. Did you know that? This is not their primary church. 42 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:26.120 You're here right now, and you're the member of the First Baptist Costal of Pomona or El Segundo 43 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:31.480 or whatever, but you come here for Bible study. I don't care, as long as you study in the Bible. 44 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:37.720 And what's fun about this is that when the Scripture tells us, don't be dumb about spiritual gifts, 45 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:44.120 guess what? Most of the church in the world is dumb about spiritual gifts. They never teach it, 46 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:49.000 like Bible prophecies not taught in a church, many times the gifts of the spirit are not talked 47 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:57.080 about in a church. That's very sad. And we have a lot of stunted believers. Charles Spurgeon said, 48 00:04:57.080 --> 00:05:04.760 we have Christian ets that have to live off of sermons. Because they're not matured. The only 49 00:05:04.760 --> 00:05:09.640 way that you mature as a believer is you practice your gift given to you by the Holy Spirit. You want 50 00:05:09.640 --> 00:05:18.760 to grow, then get used by Almighty God. And so he says in verse 4, 1 Corinthians 12, there are 51 00:05:18.760 --> 00:05:25.880 diversities of gifts, all kinds of gifts, but the same spirit, the same Holy Spirit. There are 52 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:33.960 diversities or differences of ministries serving, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of 53 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:40.840 activities, that word activities in Greek is the word energies, plural. But it is the same God 54 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:46.680 who works all and all. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one, that's each one 55 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:51.960 of us, everybody, for the profit of all. Did you know that? This is a big church right here right now. 56 00:05:51.960 --> 00:05:57.320 Just this service alone is a big gathering of people. Did you know that according to that verse 57 00:05:57.320 --> 00:06:02.280 right here, you and I need one another? The tragedy is we don't even think we need one another. 58 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:08.120 I'll give you an instruction at the end about how much we need one another. Nobody in this 59 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:16.440 gathering should be sitting there saying, well, not me. Yeah, you. The reason why you're saying not 60 00:06:16.440 --> 00:06:22.440 me or you doubt it is because you are not being used by God because you are either terrified, 61 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:30.040 timid or scared. And he's saying to you today, stop playing it safe. Somebody invite you to go 62 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.440 to the movies. Do you have a prayer about it? Somebody invite you to go see them, watch the 63 00:06:34.440 --> 00:06:40.040 Rams, play the goats. Do you pray about it? Somebody says you want to go to the beach or go snow 64 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:45.720 skiing? Do you pray about it? No, you say what time are we leaving? When God speaks his truth to you, 65 00:06:46.520 --> 00:06:55.320 respond to him. We're completely ready to go for anything of this world. And then God says, 66 00:06:55.320 --> 00:06:59.320 I want you to do this. Oh, pray about it. Oh, all of a sudden you're spiritual, huh? 67 00:07:00.840 --> 00:07:06.120 When God taps your heart as he will today for some of you and he's going to invite you to put in 68 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:12.360 to practice what you think, what you think he's calling you to do. It's just a thought. Maybe it's him 69 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:19.240 step out. Watch what happens. You say, what if I fail? So what? You can remove that gift off your 70 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:25.720 list. It's not failing. And you'll find your place. It's God's will. It's awesome that you find 71 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:34.920 your place. We also know this. The Bible tells us in Ephesians 4 verse 4, there is one body in one 72 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:42.600 spirit. So there's one church and there's one Holy Spirit. Just as you were called in one hope 73 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:49.000 of your calling, verse 5, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. You see the word baptism that doesn't 74 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:56.600 mean water. You can read 1 Corinthians 12 for this one. The moment you were born again, John chapter 75 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:05.640 3. The moment you were born again, 1 Corinthians 12 happened. The Holy Spirit placed you inside the 76 00:08:05.640 --> 00:08:11.160 body of Christ. It's called the Holy Spirit baptizes you into the body of Christ. Don't confuse 77 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:18.920 that with Jesus' baptism upon your life with the Holy Spirit. You got that, everybody? If you don't 78 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:25.800 get that, you're going to have a hard time. Verse 6, 1 God and Father of all, who is above all, 79 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:32.760 and through all, and in y'all, but to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of 80 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:40.200 Christ's gifts. Verse 11, and he himself gave some to be known as some. Watch, let me do it this way. 81 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:45.480 He gave some to be apostles. Let me explain this. I believe for the record, I believe in all the 82 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:51.560 gifts of the Holy Spirit. The reason why, even though I've not seen them all, happen, the Bible 83 00:08:51.560 --> 00:08:57.800 gives them, there are new testament gifting, and there's no area and scripture that says they'll come 84 00:08:57.800 --> 00:09:05.800 to an end until eternity comes for us. Okay, you got that? So what about, you mean there's like 85 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:11.640 apostles? Not according to the 12 apostles that you and I know in scripture, but there's the 86 00:09:11.640 --> 00:09:16.440 ministry of apostleship. And I'm not talking about the guy that was on TV last night calling 87 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:25.320 himself Apostle William. Okay, that's crazy. To be an apostle is not a title, but it's a use of 88 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:30.200 God in your life. Meaning, are you a church planter? I met somebody last service who was an 89 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:36.280 ministry and a family and in the life where her parents, they plant churches throughout Ghana, 90 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:42.360 Africa. That's very much an apostle type of activity. Are you hearing me, everybody? 91 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:49.000 Don't get old goofy and weird about it. There were the 12 apostles. There's not a 13th and there's 92 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:58.600 not a 435. Those were those guys. This modern day gifting for the church or for church planters, 93 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:04.840 those that forge out into unknown territories. Some prophets, I'm pointing to this area now, 94 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:09.960 just by example, prophets, those who herald fort, the word of God. We'll talk more about this 95 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:16.120 toward the end. Some evangelists, we're all to do the work of evangelists, but there are those 96 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:22.600 who are evangelists. They have an amazing ability to communicate the gospel of salvation to people. 97 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:30.920 Listen, they're not disciple makers. They're evangelists. Big difference. Their passion is to 98 00:10:30.920 --> 00:10:40.760 win people the Christ. Listen, in the way the church works, the evangelists lead somebody to 99 00:10:40.760 --> 00:10:46.280 Christ and then the person says, well, what do I do now? The evangelist says, why don't you come 100 00:10:46.280 --> 00:10:51.560 right on over here? Here's my friend, a pastor teacher. Then they are made into disciples 101 00:10:52.280 --> 00:10:59.880 for the rest of their lives. Some pastors and teachers, here's the point, for the equipping of 102 00:10:59.880 --> 00:11:05.880 the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, epic. Verse 13, 103 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:11.080 here's the point also, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the 104 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:16.360 Son of God to a complete or perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 105 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.920 mature believers, that we should no longer, and here's the benefit, we should no longer be 106 00:11:21.560 --> 00:11:26.440 children, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine. If you've ever seen 107 00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:31.160 people like that, tragically, you and I know too many people like that. They're like all giddy about 108 00:11:31.160 --> 00:11:35.160 this. Oh my goodness. And they're all up on this thing and then they hear something else and 109 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:41.160 they're pulled this way and they're like a feather and a hurricane. It's like good grief. 110 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:47.000 What do you believe? I don't know, but it feels good. And then tomorrow they believe something else. 111 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:53.000 Don't be carried to and fro by every wind of doctrine. And the cunning, listen, 112 00:11:53.000 --> 00:12:00.440 if there's a warning here that's so, so poignant by the trickery of men, they're out for your soul, 113 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:06.040 people, there are demon possessed people who are out for your soul in the cunning, 114 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:12.840 craftiness of deceitful plotting. That's scary. Can you imagine somebody who looks totally normal 115 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:23.400 to you, but they're actually like a lion, crouching and following you to pounce upon, to pounce upon, 116 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:33.240 to pounce upon, to pounce upon your soul. But speaking the truth and love may grow up in all 117 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:40.840 things into him who is the head even Christ. What a powerful truth and reality that is. 118 00:12:41.800 --> 00:12:46.040 So church family, mark this down. Number seven is that we're to be using what's been given to us. 119 00:12:46.680 --> 00:12:52.280 We're to be using what's been given. I'm so happy to say this using what's been given. Don't go 120 00:12:52.280 --> 00:12:58.680 and vent something. God wants to give you something to go use. And then we say, well, how do I do that? 121 00:12:58.680 --> 00:13:05.160 Let God do it. Now these are big things. This is Bible here. And our human temptation is, 122 00:13:05.400 --> 00:13:13.160 well, how do I get this to work? You don't get it to work. You present yourself a living sacrifice. 123 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:20.440 Here I am, Lord. Show me my gift. Stir up within me what it is that you want me to do. 124 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.840 For what purpose was I born into this world? You think about that for a moment. Some of you are 125 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:30.760 not Christians. What's your purpose in this world? He drink and be merry, man. No, come on seriously. 126 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:36.200 Just wake up and knock it off. Why are you alive? Make money? Knock yourself out. 127 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:42.280 Why are the people who make your money still searching for meaning in life? Come on, think about it. 128 00:13:42.280 --> 00:13:47.800 Why are you living? What's the purpose? This is not an accident. You can't point any accident. 129 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:55.800 You've been created for a purpose. Jesus Christ has that purpose. He's holding it. 130 00:13:56.760 --> 00:13:59.800 You know, it's like he wants you to unwrap it. Will you just unwrap it? 131 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.240 I cannot think of a gift without just taking me back of my childhood of shaking. 132 00:14:08.680 --> 00:14:13.240 When my parents had gone to bed at sneak back out, I'd go down the hallway at Christmas time 133 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:19.960 and I would find a box that has my name on it and I would shake it. Sometimes I don't know 134 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:30.840 how this happens. The paper would get ripped. If it said Mattel or Hot Wheels, 135 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:36.680 oh, this is going to be great. But you got to unwrap it. 136 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.040 And maybe in your life, your life's not been unwrapped yet. 137 00:14:42.920 --> 00:14:48.360 And you don't know why you're living. God knows why. 138 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:54.680 And so we need to be using what's been given to us. And so he says in verse 7, 139 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:59.720 regarding ministry, the word in your Bible, some of your translations say service. 140 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:07.960 That's good. Either way, let us use it in our ministry. He who teaches and this is redundant. 141 00:15:08.040 --> 00:15:15.800 Let us use it in teaching. Knowing and using your spiritual gift, listen, is how you learn more and 142 00:15:15.800 --> 00:15:22.200 more about Jesus, your Lord and Savior. There's no shortcut to this family. Listen up. 143 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:27.000 You want to know Jesus? How bad do you want to know Jesus? You want to know Him really bad? 144 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.400 You want to know Him? Is your heart just saying whatever it takes, man? I want to know God. 145 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.960 This is awesome. And that's the work of God, but just know this. 146 00:15:37.640 --> 00:15:44.280 You could know someone to a point. And then you can find out more about what that person is 147 00:15:44.280 --> 00:15:49.000 involved in. And if you learn that, you can learn more about that person, even more so are you with 148 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:55.000 me. The more you make, overtures toward that person, you get to find out more about the color they 149 00:15:55.080 --> 00:16:00.680 like, the food they like. I think you get my point. The closer you get, the more you see them, 150 00:16:02.040 --> 00:16:11.080 until at some point in time, you cannot get close enough to them. God's relationship with us 151 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:17.880 is exactly that. He wants you to press into Him. In a sense, can you imagine this? He wants you to 152 00:16:17.880 --> 00:16:24.760 get so close that when you hug Him, your impression is left on His robe. You know, some people do 153 00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:29.960 that when they might give me a hug. And it's okay when I'm wearing a shirt, but it's really not 154 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:35.800 good when I'm at a conference or I have a suit on. And if the person's wearing makeup, I've had 155 00:16:35.800 --> 00:16:43.400 makeup on my shoulder, just like somebody, what happened, Pastor Jack? Somebody ran into me at 156 00:16:43.400 --> 00:16:50.680 a hundred miles an hour. That's what's left of their face. Well, God wants us to be like that. 157 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:58.680 Pressing into Him. And we press and we want more of Him. And that's a work of God. If I had the time, 158 00:16:58.680 --> 00:17:05.320 I'll read something about that to you, but when the Scripture says, let us use it. Let us use this 159 00:17:05.320 --> 00:17:10.040 gift that God has given you. You'll get to know Jesus in ways you never thought possible. 160 00:17:11.800 --> 00:17:17.560 Because you know, He's out and about touching people's lives. And wherever He's doing that, 161 00:17:17.560 --> 00:17:25.080 I want to be there. And you want to be there, I trust. And when you're like that with Him, 162 00:17:25.080 --> 00:17:30.840 you wind up picking things up from Him. He's amazing, but we are to use what's been given to us 163 00:17:30.840 --> 00:17:37.480 because our God operates in an amazing economy. You waste nothing. You've heard of Doge. 164 00:17:40.600 --> 00:17:46.600 God's been operating Doge for a thousand million years, you know. So God says, hey, in the same way, 165 00:17:47.560 --> 00:17:55.640 in the same way, I gave you my life so that you can have life. And you accepted me into your life 166 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:01.720 as Lord and Savior. And so I've given you this gift or these gifts, and I want you to use them under 167 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:07.560 my power. And so I want to know how you're doing. By the way, that's called the Day of Judgment 168 00:18:07.560 --> 00:18:16.120 for the believer. Did you know that? It's called the Bema Seat. Listen, every non-saved human being 169 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:20.840 that has ever lived will stand before the Great White Throne Judgment found in Revelation 20. 170 00:18:22.120 --> 00:18:29.560 Nobody in Revelation 20 goes to heaven, not a soul. They're all judged and then they're 171 00:18:29.560 --> 00:18:36.760 carted away into hell based upon the level of their wrong they receive punishment. Revelation 172 00:18:36.760 --> 00:18:42.200 chapter 20, the judgment seat of Almighty God, the Great White Throne Judgment. If you're a 173 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:48.520 born-again believer, the Bible says you'll have no business, you'll have no worry of that judgment. 174 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:56.760 But the believer will appear before the Bema Seat of Jesus Christ, where Jesus judges his own 175 00:18:56.760 --> 00:19:03.400 children, his own family, the church based on what? Based on the faithfulness that you and I 176 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:11.640 exercise to what we were supposed to do. And this is critical. You cannot be a Christian 177 00:19:12.760 --> 00:19:21.880 who doesn't know what they are supposed to do. If all else fails today, I pray and I'm not joking, 178 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:27.640 I pray that you didn't get no more sleep or no more rest until you hear from him as a believer. 179 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:34.520 This is the reason why I placed you into this world. Until you hear the reason why he gifted you 180 00:19:34.520 --> 00:19:43.720 with that spiritual gift. This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcasts outreach 181 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:49.080 opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 182 00:19:49.080 --> 00:19:55.560 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.