WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:12.200 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Who will deliver me from the 3 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:18.440 body of death? I love that. Not what? Give me a pill, give me a prescription, give 4 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:23.120 me some advice, give me some counsel, give me something. It's not a 5 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:32.240 something. It's who? It's Christ. You can get the outlines of this podcast by 6 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:39.080 going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and 7 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:43.240 encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave 8 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:49.160 us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then 9 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:53.800 that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's 10 00:00:53.800 --> 00:01:00.080 word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. It's pretty amazing. Second Corinthians 11 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:06.840 4 verse 16 says, therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is 12 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:14.040 perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. Look, my body's 13 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.680 physically ill right now, but my spirit's saying let's go. Right? You have 14 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.880 somebody, you have someone, you know someone who's dying of cancer or something? 15 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:27.560 Their body is the only thing that's dying. You remember this. If you know 16 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:34.640 somebody who's on hospice like that, take your Bible to them, start reading to 17 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:39.040 them out loud. I say pastor, you don't understand. It's my dad. He's really old 18 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:44.960 and he's really mean. And well, how sick is he? Is he gonna get up and beat you up? 19 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:50.640 No, he's all plugged into machines. Then take your Bible and read it to him. 20 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:56.720 Listen, you see, my friends in a coma, have you heard about people in 21 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:02.840 coma? Sometimes now I begin to wonder, people are in coma. God has locked them 22 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.880 out from hearing everything else. People that often come out of a coma will say, 23 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:13.840 I heard everything. I heard everything I was said for six months. So you better 24 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:18.400 watch out what you're saying in front of that coma friend of your earth. But give 25 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:28.160 them the Bible. Put on praise music. Wow. The Inward Man's being renewed. By the 26 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:32.320 way, the day that the Christian dies is the day that the inside of us outgrows 27 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:35.200 the outside. 28 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:41.600 Caterpillars do that. Caterpillars crawl up your wall, spin a 29 00:02:41.600 --> 00:02:50.080 chrysalis or a cocoon, turn into liquid. Metamorphul is the Greek word. Comes 30 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:56.920 together as a butterfly and reaches a point of growth that breaks open the 31 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:05.840 shell. What happened? The inside grew to the point that it was greater than 32 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:15.920 the outside. When that happens for the believer is the moment of death. That 33 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:18.120 ought to cause you to look at death a little bit different if you're a 34 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.520 Christian. If you're not a Christian, you should freak out because that's not 35 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:26.200 happening to you. The moment you drop dead is you get on a slide that takes you 36 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.160 straight to hell and it's buttered or greased on top of it. Not funny. Jesus 37 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:36.640 died in the cross so you wouldn't have to experience that. Everybody in hell 38 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:44.960 today got there because they wanted to go. Man. Verse 17, 2 Corinthians 4 for our 39 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.080 light affliction which is but a moment is working for us a more exceedingly 40 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.200 eternal weight of glory. Isn't that beautiful? Secondly, under this point is 41 00:03:54.200 --> 00:03:59.640 the fact that we fight the invisible. We fight the invisible. He says in verse 23 42 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:05.040 but I see another law in my members. That's his body parts. It's an interesting 43 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:09.960 word by the way. The word members is mellows. It speaks about, I mean it's not 44 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.520 very attractive but it means it pertains to our human body but it 45 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:19.880 pertains mostly to a limb. You know, limbs are limbs, limbs, digits or appendages. 46 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:29.560 That sounds kind of cold. How's your appendage? Isn't it funny word, huh? But I see 47 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:36.800 another law in my members, in my appendages. What law is that? It wars against 48 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:46.000 the law of my mind. My hands say I want to touch that. You see, Jack, are you 49 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.120 insane? There's no brain. There's no, there's no determining factors in your 50 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:57.680 hands. I know that weird. And yet the Bible says it happens. And I want to ask you 51 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.360 right now, does it not happen? You can be the most saintly person alive on the 52 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:09.560 earth today and on the inside. You can have this desire that shoots like a arrow 53 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:17.840 into your thinking. Oh, I want that. I want to touch that. I want to taste that. 54 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:23.600 Immediately. Remember, up goes the wall. The mind goes the war against the 55 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.560 appetites of the flesh and you're called a Christian. When he says this is 56 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:32.840 another, he says another law. It's interesting. That word is heteros. It 57 00:05:32.840 --> 00:05:40.080 means it implies there's another man, heteros, like heterosexual. It's, listen, 58 00:05:40.080 --> 00:05:44.560 it's one kind, but there's two sides to one coin. Have you ever heard that term 59 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:49.320 before? There's only one coin in the argument and that's human, but there's two 60 00:05:49.320 --> 00:05:54.560 sides to the coin. Male, female, spiritually speaking. There's only one part of 61 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:01.280 you. But now that you're born again, there's two sides to you. It's you, but 62 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:07.480 there's the old you and the new you that war against. I wrote this down. I don't 63 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:11.400 know if it blesses you or not, but it's something to me. Are bodily members, my 64 00:06:11.400 --> 00:06:19.480 body, become the tools of our will? Is that not true? Whatever I will determine 65 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:25.600 beside my body is going to do. Number two, I thought this, that my bodily 66 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:34.360 members become the tools for our will. I choose to do it and then I decide how I'm 67 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:40.360 going to do it. That's either good or bad. For our bodily members number three, 68 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:48.800 become the tools by our will. That's the key of our will, for our will, by our 69 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:58.240 will. I decide. You decide. Jesus says, walk with me. I say, no. I say later. I say, 70 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:04.420 yes. And that's true about all of us. Listen to this. You know I love 71 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:09.920 C.S. Lewis. Listen to this. We never find out the strength of an evil impulse 72 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:17.920 inside of us until we try to fight it. Is that great statement? That word 73 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:25.020 warry means to declare war, the mind, the war that is being raged against my 74 00:07:25.020 --> 00:07:31.200 mind, the word mind, it's ethereal, invisible, the reality of man. Your mind is much 75 00:07:31.200 --> 00:07:34.920 more the reality of you than of course your physical body, which is simply a 76 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:42.000 puppet to execute what your mind is all about. Logic, understanding, reason, 77 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:47.040 comprehension, the rationale of man. A lot of people want to talk about reason. 78 00:07:47.080 --> 00:07:51.240 Isn't it funny right now? You know because I don't feel good. I think I might be 79 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.360 in hard on you today. I just feel like I'm being a little 80 00:07:54.360 --> 00:08:04.920 honry and I'm just thinking. So people today are running around saying, well it has 81 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:10.420 to be rational and logic. No, no kidding. Of course. So what is it that you're trying to 82 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:20.100 explain? And people say now in the name of rational. They actually take the 83 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:27.580 literal meaning of words and they flip it upside down. Well, yes, somebody. Is 84 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:34.300 it rational? Out of the well a year ago there was 74 genders and now there's 85 00:08:34.300 --> 00:08:47.740 over 100. So is it rational for you to pick one? Yes. And I determine that on who I 86 00:08:47.740 --> 00:09:01.180 want to be today. What if we take a blood test? Can we take a little DNA? Why would 87 00:09:01.180 --> 00:09:07.620 you want to do that? Because we want to find out what you really are here. You see what's 88 00:09:07.620 --> 00:09:11.340 going on? Listen, the Bible tells us in the last days evil will be called good. Good will 89 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:15.780 be called evil. Light will become darkness. Darkness will become light. Men will say this 90 00:09:15.780 --> 00:09:21.780 good is evil and evil is good. And if you don't think we're near the end, the very, very 91 00:09:21.780 --> 00:09:28.820 first chapter of the Bible chapter one of Genesis is under wholesale attack by Satan. 92 00:09:28.820 --> 00:09:37.020 And you begin to destroy man in the image of God. The end is near. Thirdly, under the 93 00:09:37.020 --> 00:09:42.580 second point is that we fight from freedom. Verse 23 says, and bringing me into captivity 94 00:09:42.580 --> 00:09:50.180 to the law of sin, which is in my members. In other words, my body is trying to pull 95 00:09:50.180 --> 00:09:58.620 itself into destruction. It's all about instant gratification, my body. And it's fighting 96 00:09:58.620 --> 00:10:08.500 my spirit. Right? Your body wants stuff now and your spirit is looking from an eternal 97 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:14.860 perspective. And there's a war. But listen, we fight from freedom. When it's this bringing 98 00:10:14.860 --> 00:10:19.500 me into captivity, that's if I allow it. Now we're not perfect. Each and every one of us 99 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:23.700 will at times allow it. But just know what this is saying here. You don't have to stay 100 00:10:23.700 --> 00:10:30.060 there. Are you a Christian? But you've been held captive by sins. Let's push it to the 101 00:10:30.060 --> 00:10:37.380 extreme. Are you addicted? Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ? But he hasn't been the Lord. 102 00:10:37.380 --> 00:10:44.820 He's your savior. And you're in constant turmoil because the drug or the porn or the money, 103 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:54.260 gambling, holds you captive. You don't have to be held captive by it any longer. You need to 104 00:10:54.260 --> 00:10:59.140 get along with God and cry out to him and watch what he does. I'm not going to listen. I'm not 105 00:10:59.140 --> 00:11:04.820 saying that he'll snap his feet could. He could heal you of it in a second. He can and he does. 106 00:11:04.820 --> 00:11:09.940 There are times, though, most often where he will begin to develop your walk and you'll go 107 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:16.580 through a detox session, so to speak, from the world, not from the drug. I don't care about the 108 00:11:16.580 --> 00:11:24.660 drug. Oh, I'm so hooked on whatever, whatever. I'm so hooked on it. I can't break it. Go to God 109 00:11:24.660 --> 00:11:32.260 with that thing and let him detox you out of it. You can't do it. And the Christian, the Christian 110 00:11:32.260 --> 00:11:37.940 can say, I can't do it. See the person who's got confidence in when they're flesh says, I can do 111 00:11:38.900 --> 00:11:45.540 it. I'll just go to Malibu, check in. Pay $10,000 a day. Come out. I'm fine. You know how those 112 00:11:45.540 --> 00:11:52.340 companies stand business? Lot of repeat customers. Only Christ can break those chains. 113 00:11:53.620 --> 00:12:01.380 Man, if Hollywood knew that, if New York knew that, if Hong Kong knew that, the world would be 114 00:12:01.380 --> 00:12:12.260 different. Freedom, captive. That word means to take, to lead away captive, to take as a prisoner, 115 00:12:12.260 --> 00:12:19.700 to take by force or by stealth, to seize upon, to bind up. 1 Corinthians 10 verse 12 says, 116 00:12:19.700 --> 00:12:24.980 therefore, let him, who thinks he stands, take heed, lest he fall. Listen to that Christian man 117 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:29.780 speak that way. Isn't that awesome? Hey, if you think you're tough and you can take it all, 118 00:12:29.780 --> 00:12:34.900 you better think again. No temptation is overtaking you, except such as this common demand, 119 00:12:34.900 --> 00:12:39.220 but God who is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able, 120 00:12:39.220 --> 00:12:44.580 but with the temptation, notice Satan tempts you. God doesn't bring the temptation. The world 121 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:50.020 Satan in your flesh tempts you, but God's watching so that you don't get swallowed up by it. 122 00:12:50.020 --> 00:12:55.380 Notice it says, with the temptation that's coming from the world, God will also make the way of 123 00:12:55.380 --> 00:13:00.260 escape that you may be able to bear it. Isn't that great news? That's awesome. Third and finally, 124 00:13:00.260 --> 00:13:08.900 this verses 24 to 25. Am I me as the statement? Sounds like a question, but is it the statement? Yes, 125 00:13:08.900 --> 00:13:20.580 you are you, and we know the one to whom we belong. I'm so grateful for this. Verse 24, 126 00:13:20.580 --> 00:13:26.820 teaches me that a sinner. I'm a sinner in need of redemption. Oh, wretched man, that I am, 127 00:13:26.820 --> 00:13:33.460 says the great Paul the Apostle. Hey, Paul, what do you got to say for yourself? Oh, wretched man, 128 00:13:33.460 --> 00:13:43.140 that I am. Who, circle the word who? Not what? Who will deliver me from the body of death? 129 00:13:44.180 --> 00:13:49.940 I love that. Not what? Give me a pill. Give me a prescription. Give me some advice. Give me 130 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:58.420 some counsel. Give me something. It's not a something. It's who? It's Christ. When he says, 131 00:13:58.420 --> 00:14:03.940 wretched, the word means distressed. Listen to this. It means miserable. Oh, miserable man, 132 00:14:03.940 --> 00:14:13.380 that I am. Oh, alone man, without any resources, man. The word employs the imagery of being alone or 133 00:14:13.380 --> 00:14:23.780 abandoned at sea. Friend of mine told me when he was in U.S. Navy SEAL training, they took him, 134 00:14:23.780 --> 00:14:32.820 him and his five or the guys took him 14 miles off the coast of Coronado. They had underwear on 135 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:38.740 and a knife. That's all you had. You had your underwear and a knife. They throw you, well, 136 00:14:39.380 --> 00:14:44.660 they don't throw you. Okay, get out. You jump into the water, stay together as a team, 14 miles out. 137 00:14:44.660 --> 00:14:49.540 Listen to this. At 18 inches, your head's 18 inches above water at the top of your head, but your 138 00:14:49.540 --> 00:14:56.580 eyeballs are about six inches below the top of your head. At that, 14 miles on a moonless night, 139 00:14:58.580 --> 00:15:04.420 you can't see the horizon. And they said, we'll see you, you should be back at a certain time. 140 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:09.460 We've done this a thousand times before. We'll see you. That's sure. And they drive away. 141 00:15:10.420 --> 00:15:14.980 The boat leaves. They're supposed to listen. Classified information. They learn how to read the 142 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:21.380 movement of the water to find out which direction's land. They start swimming in that direction as a team. 143 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:26.900 They believe this. If a shark attacks you, the rest of you guys are all going to stab it and kill it 144 00:15:26.900 --> 00:15:31.380 and you're going to continue on and you'll be able to use your underwear. You can tear it and 145 00:15:31.460 --> 00:15:35.460 turn it. Help the guy out. We'll see you at the beach. 146 00:15:39.780 --> 00:15:44.740 Abandoned. The whole point is to get them abandoned, but they know down deep inside. 147 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:52.580 They wouldn't have put me out here unless I can make it. They know something about me. I don't know. 148 00:15:53.460 --> 00:15:57.620 Well, listen, God knows something about you and you and I often forget. And that is the Holy Spirit 149 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:07.780 as a homing device, as it were in you, like GPS leading you home. Oh, Richard man that I am. 150 00:16:08.500 --> 00:16:16.900 Happy is the man who can say that today. Oh, Richard man that I am. Who shall deliver me from this 151 00:16:16.900 --> 00:16:24.500 body of sin and death? We can't officially read Romans chapter 8 verse 1 yet, but you're feeling it. 152 00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:34.820 Somebody said moving from the darkness into the light causes details. All right, causes details. 153 00:16:35.780 --> 00:16:44.660 Moving from the darkness into the light causes details to come into view. It is in the darkness 154 00:16:44.660 --> 00:16:50.660 that most listen to this, most anything looks good. Everything looked good in the dark 155 00:16:51.300 --> 00:16:59.140 because it's true identity cannot be fully discovered. It is only after the light is turned on 156 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:05.460 that what is present can be seen for what it truly is. See us, Lewis put it this way, 157 00:17:06.100 --> 00:17:15.940 listen to this. If a thing is free to be good, it is also free to be bad. And free will is what 158 00:17:16.020 --> 00:17:24.500 has made evil possible. Why then did God give them us humans free will? Because free will, 159 00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:32.980 though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness 160 00:17:32.980 --> 00:17:40.980 or joy worth having. Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness 161 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:51.220 is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself, badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, 162 00:17:51.220 --> 00:18:00.100 not an original thing. Leave it to him. Brilliant. Awesome. Number two quickly, we're almost done. 163 00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:07.860 A sinner, that's who I am. Am I me? Yep. A sinner who has saved, saved. 164 00:18:11.060 --> 00:18:17.300 My body keeps me in the category of still being a sinner. The inside of me has put me in the 165 00:18:17.300 --> 00:18:24.820 position of righteousness, of loving Christ, of wanting to have the separation from my body. 166 00:18:25.620 --> 00:18:31.060 Happy is the man or woman who recognizes I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God. And if you 167 00:18:31.060 --> 00:18:35.460 know what I'm talking about, that doesn't give you license to sin. It gives you the 168 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:44.900 function to hate it all the more. It's beautiful. We're saved. Have you trusted Christ? The Bible says 169 00:18:44.900 --> 00:18:51.620 you're saved. And then finally, you guys, it's this, a sinner who knows the truth back to the truth. 170 00:18:52.260 --> 00:18:58.260 So then, verse 25, with the mind, I myself serve the law of God. 171 00:19:00.020 --> 00:19:06.100 But with the flesh, the law of sin. So what does that mean? It means he continues to fight day and day 172 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:06.260 out. 173 00:19:10.980 --> 00:19:15.860 This Jack Kemp's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener 174 00:19:16.820 --> 00:19:19.780 supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 175 00:19:20.580 --> 00:19:26.100 Go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected.