WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Real Life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.360 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:20.200 This little mini-series here in the Book of Romans can absolutely get our messages thrown 4 00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:21.520 off the air. 5 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:25.880 The thought constantly enters my mind, or if I really say what you would have me to say 6 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:29.160 God, then we could lose our YouTube audience. 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.320 And God says to my heart, I don't care, I'll take care of them. 8 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.440 Well, if I really say that, then Facebook's going to remove us. 9 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:39.440 God says to me, I got this far without Facebook. 10 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:45.040 I got it from here, Jack. 11 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:51.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibb's.com slash podcast. 12 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:57.480 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 13 00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:00.720 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 14 00:01:00.720 --> 00:01:07.280 To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 15 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.720 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 16 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:14.400 Here is Jack Kibb's. 17 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.960 I want you to know today that I'm going to be giving you the pure truth of God with 18 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:25.960 this hope in mind, that if any of these things apply to your life, you will run like Christian 19 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:32.560 in Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's Great Classic, and you'll run as it were out of and 20 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.800 from the city of destruction, and you run to the celestial city. 21 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:41.960 That is of God's salvation, of God's salvation and hope and joy. 22 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:48.120 Know this, all of us, every single one of us need salvation that comes through Jesus Christ, 23 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:53.000 but we must repent of our sins and come to Christ. 24 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.240 No one can bring their sins to Christ and say, I want to believe in you, but will you approve 25 00:01:58.240 --> 00:01:59.240 of this? 26 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:01.080 God says no way. 27 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:02.080 Why? 28 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:05.080 Because He loves you too much. 29 00:02:05.080 --> 00:02:09.560 He loves you so much He tells you what's wrong and what needs to change and what He can 30 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:15.800 set you free from, and every single one of us need to be set free from certain things 31 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.840 that dog our lives and plague our souls. 32 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:25.400 But we're talking about issues today that go right up against the great shrines of our 33 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:30.560 modern world and our age right now, and that is emotion, feelings. 34 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:38.080 And all around the world churches now have succumbed to an emotionally-based theology, 35 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.560 and we will preach and we will go with what makes us feel good. 36 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:51.400 In fact, I want to show you a very famous cover of Time Magazine on Good Friday, April 37 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.640 8, 1966. 38 00:02:53.640 --> 00:03:00.720 Time Magazine published its famously controversial cover story, Is God Dead? 39 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:03.040 And I'm reading right from the article now. 40 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:08.400 I see in that stark query in bold and red lettering against the all-black background 41 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:15.640 Time Magazine informed its readers that those three words represent a summons to reflect 42 00:03:15.640 --> 00:03:23.240 on the meaning of our existence written by Times' religion editor, John Elsen. 43 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:28.720 The article attempted to capture, quote, the nation's shifting theological mood from 44 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:37.000 the complacent faith of the 1950s to the metaphysical confusion of the 1960s. 45 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:45.160 The cover itself quickly became an icon of the period's social and religious transformations. 46 00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:51.080 John Lennon suggested that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ among contemporary 47 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:52.960 youth. 48 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:59.520 Elsen framed his story as a clarion of the new atheism of the 1960s. 49 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.800 A testimony, too, and I quote, a cultural crisis of faith in which the very premise of 50 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:10.920 a personal God was coming undone. 51 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:11.920 And that's a true statement. 52 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:16.120 Our culture continued from 1966 to slide downward. 53 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:22.000 And I want to remind you, the Psalmist wrote to us in Psalm 14, verse 1, the fullest 54 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.040 said in his heart, there is no God. 55 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:27.560 They are corrupt. 56 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:29.440 They have done abominable works. 57 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:31.680 There is none who does good. 58 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:37.280 The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there are any who understand 59 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:39.920 and who seek God. 60 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:41.800 They have all turned aside. 61 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.080 They have together become corrupt. 62 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:48.640 There is none who does good, no not one. 63 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:54.120 And God looked down from heaven in 1966 and he saw the cover of Time magazine. 64 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.280 Is God dead? 65 00:04:56.280 --> 00:05:02.080 But the whole movement of that article and that story really was reflective upon a culture 66 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:05.040 that had systematically been forgetting God. 67 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.960 Listen, let's just take this as a bunch of skeptics. 68 00:05:07.960 --> 00:05:13.820 According to God's Word, God's Bible tells us that there is a lie out there that results 69 00:05:13.820 --> 00:05:19.440 in us believing it and what is the result of that lie being believed is that we embark 70 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:23.680 upon the destruction of our physical bodies. 71 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:30.960 Now this seems very odd because as we grow further on in time, man has a tendency to take 72 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:38.520 care of his body more, primping and preening and fixing. 73 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:42.640 And I'm sorry I'm going to tell you, Jayverna McGee said, now I'm not talking about putting 74 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:43.640 on makeup. 75 00:05:43.640 --> 00:05:46.360 Jayverna McGee, you ever read him, you ever listen to him? 76 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:47.360 It's beautiful. 77 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:48.360 I got to tell you. 78 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.200 I may not fit exactly, but you got to have it. 79 00:05:50.200 --> 00:05:52.480 This would be worth the drive just to hear this. 80 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:58.080 Dr. Jayverna McGee said, God is not talking about you putting on makeup if you need it. 81 00:05:58.080 --> 00:05:59.800 He said, by all means. 82 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:07.000 If the barn needs painting, paint it. 83 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.400 But he's not talking about that. 84 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:16.200 He's talking about an over-interest and throughout history when cultures go to the extreme, they 85 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:19.320 become obsessed with the physical. 86 00:06:19.320 --> 00:06:22.520 And we're living at a time like that. 87 00:06:22.520 --> 00:06:29.440 But the sad thing is because we are spiritual creations, it's about dishonoring the bodies. 88 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:34.920 And the God's definition, remember that, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 89 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.640 That is that they, they team up with one another with the intent, listen to this, to mismanage 90 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:41.640 their bodies. 91 00:06:41.640 --> 00:06:43.360 Who would do such a thing? 92 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:49.720 To hurt their bodies, to degrade their bodies, to use their bodies, to break their bodies, 93 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:57.160 to misuse, to molest or to undo their bodies, so says God. 94 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.520 Do you either believe today in chance, crash, evolution, or you believe in the existence 95 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:05.560 of God? 96 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.240 But whatever you believe in, it's got to be able to explain what's going on in our world 97 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.080 today. 98 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:17.040 If you're evolutionist, then you say, eat, drink, and be married for tomorrow we die, and 99 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.040 it doesn't matter. 100 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:19.440 There's no morality. 101 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:21.720 This is what's so convenient about evolution. 102 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.480 You'd get to do anything you want to. 103 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.480 We don't have to call our legislators anymore to tell them, don't pass that bill. 104 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.200 It's ill for our community, or it's wrong for our children. 105 00:07:34.200 --> 00:07:42.960 We don't have to call them anymore because if evolution, if an accident rules, then what 106 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:50.600 did Doris say, case, Sarah, Sarah, whatever will be, will be? 107 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.520 What a horribly fatalistic view. 108 00:07:54.520 --> 00:08:00.400 But then God says, no, you know what, I made you in my image, and you have a stamp inside 109 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:01.400 of your soul. 110 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:04.600 If you're a believer or not, you've been stamped. 111 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:09.360 My son came into the world and he's the one responsible for giving every human light that 112 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.240 is illumination of thinking, that the existence of God is something that people have to listen. 113 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:21.680 Wrestle out of themselves, rather than wrestle in the existence of God, did you know that? 114 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:27.640 People by God's creation has stamped you with the built-in argument regarding the existence 115 00:08:27.640 --> 00:08:30.080 of God. 116 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:34.160 You've got to work hard at getting God out of your heart and out of your life and out 117 00:08:34.160 --> 00:08:36.160 of your thinking. 118 00:08:36.160 --> 00:08:40.040 But we read in Romans 1 that it's a destruction if you do. 119 00:08:40.040 --> 00:08:42.560 It's a terrible thing. 120 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:44.520 And so it's this teaming up. 121 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:48.920 The book of Jude, chapter 1, there's only one chapter, so you're safe with Jude. 122 00:08:48.920 --> 00:08:50.640 Don't ask me what chapter. 123 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:57.640 Verse 22 says, and on this, on some have compassion, that is when preaching the gospel. 124 00:08:57.640 --> 00:09:02.040 On some have compassion, making a distinction, that word means making a judgment call. 125 00:09:02.040 --> 00:09:05.560 It means when the believer is sharing with somebody, listen, when you're sharing with somebody 126 00:09:05.560 --> 00:09:12.120 who is absolutely already devastated, the Christians to make a judgment call on that. 127 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.920 And reach out to them with love and compassion because that's what they need. 128 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:22.320 But look what Jude goes on to say, verse 23 says, but another is safe with fear, pulling 129 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.440 them out of the fire, hating even the garment, the file by the flesh. 130 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:26.760 See, what does that mean? 131 00:09:26.760 --> 00:09:30.200 There are some people that are brazenly stuck in their sin and they don't see anything wrong 132 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.200 with it. 133 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:35.760 And to those people, you have to say to them, listen, it gives me no pleasure to tell you 134 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:40.560 that you're heading on a path of absolute destruction and then comes hell and Jesus came 135 00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:42.480 so you don't have to do that. 136 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.240 Stop doing this to you. 137 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:57.760 Just using fear, it's not fear like, boo, or it's the fear of truth. 138 00:09:57.760 --> 00:10:03.680 Some say with compassion, some graphically portraying the end of their ways. 139 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:05.120 And this is vitally important, why? 140 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.720 Because everything I say to you, friends, listen up. 141 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.400 Everything I say to you from this moment on in Mac, actually has been everything I've 142 00:10:10.400 --> 00:10:13.040 been saying to you this far. 143 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:16.480 It's going to come out strong, it's going to come out direct, but you need to know something. 144 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.200 I love you. 145 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:19.200 You can hate me. 146 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.200 I don't listen. 147 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:21.200 I don't care. 148 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.200 Sometimes I hate me. 149 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.240 So I'll join up with you sometimes. 150 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:29.720 But I'm telling you this right now because we want you to go to heaven with us. 151 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:31.080 We don't want you to believe the lie. 152 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.920 We're living a demonically energized age when good is wrong and wrong is right and 153 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:40.120 black is white and evil is good and good is evil. 154 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:44.160 Left is right and right is left. 155 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:49.640 But there's a voice from the Word of God speaking to you about truth that will save you 156 00:10:49.640 --> 00:10:51.600 and rescue you. 157 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:56.120 He says in this the word uncleanness, and I'm going to give you a barrage of information 158 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.280 right now that may or may or may not mean anything to you. 159 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:06.680 But uncleanness, that word means impurities tainted in relation to metals, a metal that 160 00:11:06.680 --> 00:11:13.800 is not fully purged or purified of its impurities, in other words, contaminants. 161 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:17.000 So he says there are those who have contaminants. 162 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:21.720 There's impurities in their lives and he goes on that there's less. 163 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:25.280 This word lust means inflamed passions. 164 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:30.360 It paints the picture of in them and I talked about this last time and within them there's 165 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:35.920 a striking of a match and there's a burning. 166 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:38.400 And I mentioned I'm going to say it again in case you missed it. 167 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:42.480 I don't know anything about being a woman, I don't intend to ever be a woman. 168 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.640 I will never I don't have that temptation to claim such a thing. 169 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:51.000 So I'm going to talk about men right now and I told you this before, guys listen up, 170 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:56.240 women you won't know what I'm talking about but the guys notice that lust in a man is 171 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:04.480 not in some body part, it's not it's not here but when a man lusts it's right here in 172 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:05.480 this region. 173 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.480 It's a strange thing. 174 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.440 If you want to say it's in the heart I understand what you mean, it's in the proximity 175 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.280 of the chest of the mid abdomen area. 176 00:12:15.280 --> 00:12:23.960 There's a burning that's right here and that's where lust strikes. 177 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:25.800 I don't know why that's the case. 178 00:12:25.800 --> 00:12:31.440 I don't know if anybody knows why that's the case but it's true and it's right I think 179 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:38.600 it's significant that it's right in the middle of the person and this fire begins. 180 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:42.760 So whoever we're talking about they have impurities in their lives that they have allowed 181 00:12:42.760 --> 00:12:49.880 to stew to be there to continue and then they feed upon it they stoke it and they begin 182 00:12:49.880 --> 00:12:57.400 to lust instead of resisting the temptation it's let loose to do whatever and what does 183 00:12:57.400 --> 00:12:58.400 it lead to? 184 00:12:58.400 --> 00:13:03.880 First Corinthians 6, 18 says, flee sexual immorality, I'll come back to this in a second, every 185 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:12.440 sin that a man does is outside of the body but he who commits sexual immorality sins against 186 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:14.120 his own body. 187 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:21.080 You need to write that down, yes all sin is sin to God but on our side there are certain 188 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:27.920 sins that have certain ramifications and according to the Bible sexual immorality 189 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:34.320 destroys our physical bodies, I find that fascinating. 190 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:45.880 We certainly know today by the amount of prescriptions being written for sexual dysfunction issues 191 00:13:45.880 --> 00:13:54.400 that many of them nowadays are being written to younger generations because of pornography 192 00:13:54.400 --> 00:14:01.280 and that's that word sexual immorality, poor Nia and again we'll talk about this more. 193 00:14:01.280 --> 00:14:05.040 And then the word dishonor, it leads to dishonoring the body. 194 00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:08.680 Now none of this is happy talk, I know, listen church listen up but you just stop and ask 195 00:14:08.680 --> 00:14:13.760 yourself, man am I sitting in a room where I'm hearing facts right now? 196 00:14:13.760 --> 00:14:19.840 I love the fact that you're in church hearing about facts, I would never go to a church 197 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:27.680 that calls me to check my brains out at the door before I come in and I wouldn't go. 198 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:33.840 I'm asking you to think and again remember we're coming at it as a skeptic, does the 199 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:41.720 Bible talk about a people group who at a time would begin to dishonor their bodies with 200 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.720 lust and the word dishonor is to devalue, to treat yourself or another in an unworthy manner. 201 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:56.120 That's interesting because it assumes that there's worthiness to them, to treat another 202 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.840 shamefully, to use someone for your own pleasure. 203 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:07.960 The word means to hold in contempt or to deconstruct, I find it amazing, it's not in my notes, 204 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:13.640 you won't see it there if you're following, but if my member serves me right, didn't 205 00:15:13.640 --> 00:15:22.760 Amnon, member David's son Amnon, he was a pervert, Amnon, and Amnon saw one of his sisters 206 00:15:22.760 --> 00:15:29.720 and the Bible says she was really cute, and Amnon faked that he was sick so she would 207 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:38.960 come and bring him soup, and it said that he was just crazy, he was crazy hot for her, 208 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:44.360 and when she came to bring him soup, he disregarded the soup and grabbed her, took her clothes 209 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:49.760 off and raped her, and then the Bible says as soon as he raped her, he looked at her, 210 00:15:49.760 --> 00:16:00.120 and he hated her, that's called a rape, and that comes from, listen, viewing that person 211 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:06.200 and any person in a devalued manner as Christians, I don't care how debase a human being is, I 212 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:12.600 don't care if it's some guy going to the electric chair, what breaks our heart about that is 213 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:17.320 the fact that that person was created in the image of God and they went wrong, and it 214 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:22.600 breaks our heart to see someone crash their lives, that alone should cause every one of 215 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:29.480 us as Christians to get up and to engage our culture to try to make it honoring to God, 216 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.640 because you know what, even the atheist will benefit from that, they just don't know it, 217 00:16:33.640 --> 00:16:40.280 they fight against us but they don't even know why, we're like parents trying to give 218 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:50.600 the little ones vegetables, and here's a big word church family, see the word exchange, they 219 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:57.400 exchanged, that scripture says that he gave them up to the inclinus of the lust of their hearts to 220 00:16:57.400 --> 00:17:03.240 just honor their bodies among themselves, who verse 25, exchange the truth of God for a lie, 221 00:17:03.880 --> 00:17:10.920 the word exchange, listen carefully, this so defines our moment, it means to attempt to change 222 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:19.880 one thing to another, to go about to exchange the purpose or the design or the use or the intent 223 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:29.560 of something for which it was not purposefully designed to do useful, making it now useless, 224 00:17:29.800 --> 00:17:36.920 to deviate from what is normal or functional, does that word not describe the argument of today 225 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:44.920 in our media and in our public schools, and the Bible says it's all a lie, I can't believe you 226 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:50.360 said that pastor, this is my point, this is why I have to talk about this, well you shouldn't, 227 00:17:50.360 --> 00:17:56.040 because the media will counsel you, listen here's the fun part about who I get to be, 228 00:17:56.600 --> 00:18:02.520 you got, for those of you who don't know, how can they cancel me, because listen 63 years ago, 229 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:10.200 my mother tried to cancel me, and that abortion attempt failed, so if listen, as far as I'm concerned, 230 00:18:10.840 --> 00:18:18.680 I was scheduled to die 63 years ago, so any day that I have now is a bonus, and if you want to cancel 231 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:25.560 me, if you want to cancel me, just know this, I expect you to do that, so in that I'm canceling you, 232 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:31.000 because I have to speak the truth, because you know what, I'm going to heaven, 233 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:39.560 and listen, it's this truth that rescues people, you're not stuck, you are not stuck in the world 234 00:18:39.560 --> 00:18:47.000 that's preaches, that you can be exchanged from one thing to the next based upon their cultural 235 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:53.400 experiment, you have to listen to that, you do not have to listen to them, listen to the God 236 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:59.880 who made you, he's speaking to you, he loves you, and he built you for a purpose as an intent 237 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:05.080 for why you are a male and a female, there's a reason, and when you do not believe in God, 238 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:11.480 then you will tamper to try to change things, and in that you are molesting, at least seeking to 239 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:15.960 give them the less truth, which hallelujah, you cannot do. 240 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.880 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener 241 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:33.080 supported, will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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