WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.660 real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:16.860 truth equip the saints and impact our culture. There's a slavery of this 3 00:00:16.860 --> 00:00:21.180 world and there's a slavery to Almighty God and let me tell you one will leave 4 00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:24.660 you completely dead gutted and ruined and the other one will leave you 5 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:29.140 absolutely fulfilled joyful and will lead to eternal life and there's one 6 00:00:29.140 --> 00:00:34.620 thing for sure you and I are absolutely slaves of one or the other and you 7 00:00:34.620 --> 00:00:41.860 can't sit it out. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to 8 00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:48.660 Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages 9 00:00:48.660 --> 00:00:52.700 you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of 10 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:58.340 those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that 11 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:02.780 rating will encourage others to listen now open your hearts to what God's 12 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:09.860 word has to say to you here is Jack Kibs. You guys remember years ago because I 13 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:15.020 had his album Bob Dylan slow train coming you got serve somebody remember 14 00:01:15.020 --> 00:01:18.560 remember he's going he's talking about slavery he's talking about yielding to 15 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:26.060 Jesus it might be the devil it might be the Lord but you got serve somebody remember 16 00:01:26.060 --> 00:01:36.660 that and it's true he was absolutely true and saying that and what's 17 00:01:36.660 --> 00:01:41.060 amazing to me is we got a Bible in our hand right here and we're reading Paul 18 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:45.940 the Apostle and some people might pride themselves in saying well I 19 00:01:45.940 --> 00:01:53.740 studied I studied Socrates good that's awesome and you should well I studied 20 00:01:53.740 --> 00:02:00.980 Plato he was the student of Socrates that's fantastic that's great and somebody 21 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:08.900 might say why studied Aristotle that's awesome and somebody might say well I 22 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:13.860 studied Aristotle's student Alexander the Great okay that's great guess what 23 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:18.640 not one of them the great philosophers of mankind and throw in there by the way 24 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:28.320 all of the Oriental mystics and the enlightened ones the gurus not one of 25 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:31.280 them have the audacity to take on what we're looking at in this section of 26 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.840 Scripture that they're sin that there's righteousness unrighteousness that 27 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:43.040 there's the grace of God there's the law of God there's eternal life there's 28 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:51.680 liberty and freedom think of it you and I possess such an awesome eternal 29 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:57.440 power in the word of God in fact Hebrews 412 says for the word of God is living 30 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:02.360 in powerful I love that statement now maybe it's because I have a cartoon 31 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:06.320 mind but when you go to breakfast today after service you had to take your Bible 32 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:10.020 into the restaurant and set it on the table right there well he opened it up 33 00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:18.020 kind of a hangover like that look you could take a magazine you could take 34 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:21.360 anything you could take a library book nobody will pay any attention to it you 35 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.860 take your Bible to breakfast this morning and take it into the and just set it 36 00:03:25.860 --> 00:03:32.340 there the server is gonna freak out why because that thing is it's like speaking 37 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:40.060 when people are not even aware that it speaks what is that the Bible just do 38 00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:44.060 this please side note if you take your Bible into the restaurant and put on 39 00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:51.340 your table you have to tip big right don't be some don't be some crummy 40 00:03:51.340 --> 00:04:00.300 tipper if you're representing Jesus you got to give a wapper you know but the 41 00:04:00.300 --> 00:04:03.660 word of God is living in powerful it goes on to say that it's sharper than any 42 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:08.420 two-hit sword piercing even to the division of the soul and the spirit the 43 00:04:08.420 --> 00:04:12.180 Bible does this and of the joints in the marrow and is a discernor of the 44 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:18.300 thoughts and the intense or the intentions of the heart and there is no creature 45 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:23.340 hidden from its sight listen but all things are naked and open to the eyes of 46 00:04:23.340 --> 00:04:28.940 him to whom we must give an account what a powerful statement that is two 47 00:04:28.940 --> 00:04:34.300 things the Bible teaches us that in the book of Revelation chapter 20 all those 48 00:04:34.300 --> 00:04:39.340 who are not born again will stand before the judgment of Almighty God it's called 49 00:04:39.340 --> 00:04:43.220 the great white throne judgment and here's what that means about we must all 50 00:04:43.220 --> 00:04:50.300 appear before God naked it's not naked like you don't have clothes on oh no 51 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:57.500 no no no it's it's way worse than that it's naked because the inside of who we are 52 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:05.060 is turned inside out that's that's what's being implied no one will be able to 53 00:05:05.060 --> 00:05:09.340 hide no one will be able to pull the wool over God's eyes the Bible says that 54 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:13.940 those that stand before the judgment of Almighty God their insides are turned 55 00:05:13.940 --> 00:05:19.140 outward and God sees it all and the Bible says that they'll have to answer for 56 00:05:19.140 --> 00:05:22.500 that now that's the judgment of the unbeliever that's the great white 57 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:26.140 throne judgment on the other side there's the judgment of the believers those 58 00:05:26.140 --> 00:05:31.300 who are you and I born again believers going to heaven we appear before the 59 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:36.700 judgment seat of Christ big difference mind you but even still he will turn 60 00:05:36.700 --> 00:05:42.100 us inside out why did you do what you did did you do anything at all what were 61 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:47.780 you thinking what who were you worshiping what was going on was there a real 62 00:05:47.780 --> 00:05:51.700 connection between what the Bible says and how you lived your life when you 63 00:05:51.700 --> 00:05:59.700 claim to know the name of Jesus this really matters when God goes to work he 64 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:05.300 transforms Proverbs chapter 4 verse 23 this is fantastic by the way you should 65 00:06:05.300 --> 00:06:09.020 put the you have a teenager you have a school you have a classroom you should 66 00:06:09.020 --> 00:06:13.500 put this on the inside door and on the outside of the door this is just good 67 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:18.700 period Proverbs 4 23 keep your heart with all diligence for out of it spring 68 00:06:18.700 --> 00:06:27.140 the issues of life wow that's powerhouse scripture number one the word keep 69 00:06:27.140 --> 00:06:34.740 here is to garrison it's to have a military dispatch deployed imagine that 70 00:06:34.740 --> 00:06:38.660 picture well we're talking about our hearts yeah the Bible says you need to have 71 00:06:38.660 --> 00:06:43.540 an army around your heart to guard it you want to know why our hearts our 72 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:50.660 hearts they're pretty our hearts can be pretty stinky that's why God needs to 73 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:57.100 give us a new heart he says they keep your heart with all diligence fortify 74 00:06:57.100 --> 00:07:04.700 it strengthen it how do we do that with the word of God but why should we do it 75 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:10.620 well because for out of it that is the heart spring the issues of life the 76 00:07:10.620 --> 00:07:15.860 way that you live your life and for whom or what you live your life for is 77 00:07:15.860 --> 00:07:21.100 answered right here in Proverbs 4 verse 23 you're you are living out what's in 78 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:25.800 your heart remember what the Bible says Jesus said out of the mouth out of the 79 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:32.580 mouth or out of the heart the mouth what speaks oh I'm sorry you have to forgive 80 00:07:32.580 --> 00:07:36.340 my French no that was actually your heart and why do the French always get 81 00:07:36.340 --> 00:07:41.300 blamed what's with that kind of funny anyway I don't think they appreciate it 82 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:47.860 but oh you know what you know nobody's perfect you know I understand we all 83 00:07:47.860 --> 00:07:56.740 get that but how are you living your life what is your lifestyle and what's so 84 00:07:56.740 --> 00:08:02.540 important is do you have a life worth living are you living a life worth 85 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:07.220 having because if you're living in life worth having it speaks of 86 00:08:07.220 --> 00:08:14.060 momentary and then it's gone but if God goes to work then it's all together 87 00:08:14.060 --> 00:08:18.200 different very powerful so church here we do or here we go let's mark this 88 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:23.420 down verses 12 to 14 is this and that is having a life worth living is having 89 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:29.260 the power of God and I want to stress the power of God not the power of man not 90 00:08:29.260 --> 00:08:34.380 your power not my power do you have the power of God now if you're Christian 91 00:08:34.380 --> 00:08:40.860 do you know this if you're Christian the power of God has been given to us but 92 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:45.700 listen the power of God in the life of the believer only works right when we 93 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:52.740 use that power it's available think of it think of the power of God being in a 94 00:08:52.740 --> 00:08:58.860 in a box or in a can or in a container you got to pull it out it's right there 95 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:03.300 in front of you the power of God not the power of man this is very very exciting 96 00:09:03.300 --> 00:09:08.460 I think for us to understand is that Christianity is the exhibition of the 97 00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:14.380 power of God in our lives Jesus in Acts chapter one said go wait and 98 00:09:14.380 --> 00:09:19.820 Jerusalem until the coming of the promise the Holy Spirit I'm gonna send to 99 00:09:19.820 --> 00:09:26.500 you and you will be empowered with power from on high and that power will come 100 00:09:26.500 --> 00:09:32.100 and be upon you every are you guys okay you're very quiet you know it's 101 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:37.180 because you're so focused is that what it is okay I hope so every believer you 102 00:09:37.180 --> 00:09:40.820 know so many times oh God I need power and God looks over a cloud and says 103 00:09:40.820 --> 00:09:48.580 already gave it to you right think about it oh God I need peace he shouts down 104 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:53.380 and says I already gave you peace you need to wake up to the realization you 105 00:09:53.380 --> 00:09:58.740 are a child of the living God and he's not bankrupt you're not walking around 106 00:09:58.740 --> 00:10:04.940 you're like a popper the peace of God is yours to have now the reason why you're a 107 00:10:04.940 --> 00:10:09.340 believer and you don't have it is because you have not taken it out of the box and 108 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:16.860 the power of God imagine how tragic it is for ministry to say you know what if 109 00:10:16.860 --> 00:10:22.820 you do this this this and for other things you'll get the power of God that's 110 00:10:22.820 --> 00:10:28.660 called religion you can find that down the street that's not here we want you to 111 00:10:28.660 --> 00:10:34.940 meet Jesus in his book and the power of God is what does Christianity in your 112 00:10:34.940 --> 00:10:41.540 life stop pushing the brick up the hill it's absolutely amazing it's his power 113 00:10:41.540 --> 00:10:46.740 look at the first thing in verse 12 therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal 114 00:10:46.740 --> 00:10:52.100 body that you should obey it in its lust now I'm gonna have to explain this this 115 00:10:52.100 --> 00:10:58.460 sub-point or subtitle to this now hear me out I've never used this before ever 116 00:10:58.460 --> 00:11:04.140 in 32 years of teaching so let me explain it so having the power of God and 117 00:11:04.140 --> 00:11:10.540 that is the power over my demons now this is what I'm not saying I am not saying 118 00:11:10.540 --> 00:11:18.460 you mean you mean that demon and the nicotine no you mean that you mean that 119 00:11:18.460 --> 00:11:26.580 demon of of I'm trying to remember you know lust no you mean that demon behind 120 00:11:26.580 --> 00:11:32.740 the door over there no I'm not talking about some little spiritual fang 121 00:11:32.740 --> 00:11:37.060 fuzzy thing running around you know I'm not talking about that I'm talking about 122 00:11:37.060 --> 00:11:42.860 when I say my demons this is us together the things in our lives that seem to 123 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:48.820 just dog us as believers and we never get victory over them I'm not talking about 124 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:54.060 demonic activity though it it is a fact in fact I should say this if you're 125 00:11:54.060 --> 00:11:58.300 here today and you're saying I don't believe in that stuff I don't believe in 126 00:11:58.300 --> 00:12:01.420 Satan I don't believe in demons I don't believe in fallen angel I don't believe 127 00:12:01.420 --> 00:12:05.500 in that stuff well boy they sure got you sucker you just fell right head long 128 00:12:05.500 --> 00:12:08.900 right into it you're on a battlefield and you're getting shot at and you've been 129 00:12:08.900 --> 00:12:14.260 shot you don't even know it and then listen and then there's the believer on the 130 00:12:14.260 --> 00:12:19.060 other side that the Bible over and over again tells us we're in a battle and we're 131 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:22.460 not in a battle against flesh are we the Bible says that we're in a battle against 132 00:12:22.460 --> 00:12:28.260 invisible things principalities and powers it's a much pressure jacked can you not mention 133 00:12:28.260 --> 00:12:34.020 that right now this is exactly the point we need to stop beifying the powers of 134 00:12:34.020 --> 00:12:41.340 darkness and realize that God's power for those of you who've been with us to 135 00:12:41.340 --> 00:12:45.300 Israel and that one trip I don't know what trip it was but we were heading up 136 00:12:45.300 --> 00:12:50.940 to the Temple Mount area and there was a bus load of Nigerian Christians who 137 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:55.220 just got off the bus they have they had their beautiful Nigerian robes on and 138 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:59.300 they were going up the hill and they're going they're singing a song and they 139 00:12:59.300 --> 00:13:07.580 go they were singing this song say it's power power this power Jesus power super 140 00:13:07.580 --> 00:13:13.180 power and we're like like yeah I mean it's kind of hard I'm like white guy I'm 141 00:13:13.180 --> 00:13:21.900 trying to like but man they were like say it's in power power this power Jesus 142 00:13:21.900 --> 00:13:28.660 power super power and it's like I mean yeah you know it's like that is true 143 00:13:28.660 --> 00:13:34.540 things got power but Jesus has super power and that's super power he didn't 144 00:13:34.540 --> 00:13:40.060 keep it in the box he gave it to us in his word and the Holy Spirit's job in our 145 00:13:40.060 --> 00:13:44.940 lives is to have that power active listen with all due respect Jesus Christ died 146 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:52.140 in the cross for our sins how do you for that but listen the Bible says greater 147 00:13:52.140 --> 00:13:58.500 love is no man than this than a man lay down his life for his friends and that is 148 00:13:58.500 --> 00:14:04.580 Bible and that is true John 15 here's the deal listen carefully it's not enough 149 00:14:04.580 --> 00:14:14.820 it's what the death of Jesus Christ as awesome as it was is not enough unless what 150 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:18.820 do you mean unless what are you adding to this I'm not adding anything to it here 151 00:14:18.820 --> 00:14:24.460 it goes this is the gospel Jesus Christ died in the cross and rose from the 152 00:14:24.460 --> 00:14:31.160 grave listen the one who died on the cross cancel the power of sin that was 153 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:42.160 upon our lives he died in our place God went to the cross in human skin for us but listen if 154 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:47.200 you and I got to heaven solely on that then that's all that's needed but he rose 155 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:54.880 again from the grave that promises Jesus physically rose from the dead he busted the grave 156 00:14:54.880 --> 00:15:01.960 think about that he broke it the very thing that hunts you Jesus broke it death in the grave 157 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:09.240 it's not just that he died he died and he rose again from the grave thank God praise the Lord we 158 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:16.160 have a living Savior he's alive and that empty tomb in Jerusalem is proof of that you know I just 159 00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:19.600 got a funny feeling I don't know you know this world you were living in a wacky world right now 160 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:25.760 and people are believing the dumbest things you can just throw you can throw noodles against the 161 00:15:25.760 --> 00:15:34.000 wall and people will go look at that map it's like what I wouldn't be surprised in this day and 162 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:39.360 age because listen if you can destroy the resurrection of Jesus Christ you can destroy Christianity don't 163 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:47.360 you think Satan knows that okay listen don't you think that Satan is probably already engineering some 164 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:56.400 national geographic archaeologist is going to find Jesus' body when the Hilton was trying to build a 165 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:04.720 hotel in Jerusalem and they open an old look the body of Jesus that's what Satan listen he's a 166 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:13.520 liar and that's the problem listen every religious leader's body is somewhere come with us to Israel 167 00:16:13.520 --> 00:16:18.320 we'll run into the tomb and look and it's like there's nothing there what are we looking at 168 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:27.200 absolutely nothing travel 15 hours to go to his tomb and see nothing why he's not there he rose 169 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:35.680 again from the dead he's alive he lives the power of Almighty God and the Bible says do not let sin 170 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:41.360 rain in your mortal bodies mortal this body now because why what does it say that because 171 00:16:42.160 --> 00:16:46.800 we have a tendency to have sin rain in our bodies you see Pastor Jack I love the Lord I'm walking with 172 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:54.800 God I understand that and I hope we can dig a little deeper today God has worked in our lives and 173 00:16:54.800 --> 00:17:02.320 he's put all these horrible things that we want you to do behind us but what about those things 174 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:10.640 that still plague us things that are so they're sin and they rain but they are so subtle we don't 175 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:16.560 pick up on them we've even we've even said that's just part of my as part of my personality 176 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.680 which we justify it away we have to be careful about that 177 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:30.400 that it keeps us from what God wants to do in our lives next do not let sin rain the word and 178 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:40.800 Greek actually says this stop it stop it stop it stop allowing sin to rain in your life and church 179 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:47.040 guess who who is Paul writing to anybody remember the believers in Rome they were Christians he's 180 00:17:47.040 --> 00:17:54.080 telling them it's like him writing to the church of Chino Hills and saying stop letting sins 181 00:17:54.080 --> 00:18:03.920 rule in your mortal body stop it are we allowed to say stop it anymore you know do you love your kids 182 00:18:07.120 --> 00:18:11.600 so your kids when your kids say I want I want cheesecake for breakfast 183 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.800 no you're not having cheesecake for breakfast I thought you loved me I do love you that's why 184 00:18:18.800 --> 00:18:23.840 you're not having it if I didn't love you you could have the whole cake I don't care but because 185 00:18:23.840 --> 00:18:30.320 you are my kid I love you you ain't eaten cheesecake for breakfast how about for lunch I'll think 186 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:38.640 about it how about what about dinner most absolutely but if you notice listen if a kid wants to have 187 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:44.160 cheesecake breakfast lunch and dinner and you give it to them you don't love them a diet of cheesecake 188 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:49.280 it eventually kill you and when you have this stuff in your life it's just there it just keep 189 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:55.520 it keeps you back it doesn't keep you out of heaven keeps you from growing and I don't know 190 00:18:55.520 --> 00:19:01.920 maybe I'm pushing it too far but as a Christian my fear is not if I'm not growing I just might 191 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:07.360 as well be in heaven right if I'm not growing I'm terrified of not growing I'm my biggest fear is 192 00:19:07.360 --> 00:19:17.040 not growing as a believer this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach 193 00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:22.480 opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift 194 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:33.920 go to jackhibs.com to 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