WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:11.160 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. The War of 2024 will be 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.840 against the marriage, but it's very clear that according to the world around us 4 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:19.440 marriage is an absolute joke. It's made fun of, it's mocked, it's played with, 5 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:24.080 it's toyed with, like a cat plays with a little mouse. Listen friend, your marriage 6 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:28.040 is under attack. You want to know why Satan hates your guts? 7 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:35.600 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 9 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.880 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 10 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:51.440 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.880 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 12 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:01.680 You all need to pay attention if you name the name of Jesus. Hang on to your seats. 13 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:08.640 The faith is going to be under attack in 2024 more than you have ever seen it in American history. 14 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:16.640 Guaranteed, all of the powers and players are already in place to execute their 15 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:22.240 wrath on those who believe in this Bible and Jesus Christ. 16 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:29.840 I just want to say that the most precious thing that you own in life, it's not your car, 17 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:39.280 it's not that jewelry piece, it's not your home, it's your faith, the greatest position. 18 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:45.840 I mean to tell you right now, I am not kidding you. If somebody stacked gold five feet high 19 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.080 with gems and pearls, you know, stupid that is? Think about how dumb that is 20 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:55.680 versus the truth of God. I'm going to go with the truth of God every time because listen, 21 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.520 I learned, I don't have to have this because I learned a long time ago that $50 can ruin your life. 22 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:09.600 Okay? Oh, but that's a stack of gold. Do you know what that means? That can really ruin your life. 23 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.800 It's not going to satisfy you, not going to make you happy. In fact, you're going to be more 24 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:18.480 unhappy. And then you're going to start worrying. What do I do with it? That's the first 25 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:21.680 thing to come out of your mouth is, what am I going to do with it? That's your problem. 26 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.160 You give me the word of God. This last forever people, the promises and the fulfillment and 27 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:34.080 eternity is forever. Gold is so nothing that God uses it for asphalt and eternity in heaven. 28 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.720 It's just that. Can you imagine Gabriel's, God, what do we do with this? Yeah, just pave the street 29 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:48.960 with it. Let my people walk on it. Faith, Bible says in Hebrews 11, Hebrews 11, verses 1 to 3. 30 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:54.320 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Listen to this. The evidence, you ever, 31 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:59.520 you ever think about putting faith in evidence in the same sentence? God does. The evidence of 32 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:06.240 things not seen. For by it, the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith, we understand that the 33 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:11.520 worlds were framed by the word of God. What does that mean? God said it and there's Jupiter. 34 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:25.440 By it, the worlds were framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made 35 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:31.840 of things which are visible. Faith, your faith. So what do I do about it in this war of 2024? 36 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:38.960 What do I do? What do we do? We do this. 2 Corinthians 10 verses 4 and 5 for the weapons of 37 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:46.320 our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God. For what? Pulling down strongholds, casting down 38 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:51.840 arguments and every high thing that it results itself against the knowledge of God. Listen, 39 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:58.560 fourthly bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Take your mind and 40 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:04.480 bring it under Jesus as control by inviting them to govern over your mind all the time. That's 41 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:10.880 what you're going to want to do regarding faith in this world and you being attacked. Romans, 42 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:18.720 or excuse me, 1 Timothy 118, this charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies 43 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:26.720 previously made concerning you that by them you may wage the good warfare. The Christian, 44 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.880 listen, Christian, are you a Christian? Yes, I am. Are you waging a good warfare? See, 45 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.200 the Bible implies that you and I are in a fight. We're in a fight right now with Christians. 46 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:48.480 Against an invisible war. Romans 13 verse 12, this is powerful. Romans 13 verse 12, 47 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:54.320 the night is far spent. The day is at hand. By the way, if you've ever heard of the doctrine 48 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:59.200 of Eminency, you see, I've never heard of that. The word Eminency is not in the Bible. Neither 49 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:05.520 is the word Bible in the Bible. The doctrine of Eminency means that Christ could come at any time. 50 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:10.000 And this is one of those verses that backed that up. The night is far spent. The day is at hand. 51 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:17.440 Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of lights. 52 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:26.240 That's what we're going to do. That's what we must do. Jude chapter 1 verse 3, beloved, 53 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:31.200 while I was very diligent to write you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to 54 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:38.560 write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once and for all delivered 55 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.280 to the saints. The word contend is the word that you think it means. Think of a championship 56 00:05:43.280 --> 00:05:49.120 boxing match. You go in it to win. Nobody steps into the ring and says, you know what? I'm going 57 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:54.560 to lose this. I'm just going to lose it. No, you've made it there and you go into that ring because 58 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:00.560 you've qualified and you fight. The Bible says for the believer contend earnestly look for the faith. 59 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.120 People are going to be attacking the faith that you hold to. It doesn't mean you roll over and 60 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:12.320 play dead. It means you stand up and you speak truth. That's what we have to do this year people. 61 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:19.920 If we're silent, then we become irrelevant and we fall into the tactic of the enemy. First 62 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:26.160 Peter chapter 3 verse 15, first Peter 3 15 says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and 63 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.240 always be ready to give a defense. Hear that kind of language to everyone who asks of you a 64 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:39.200 reason for the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. What a beautiful Christian that is. 65 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:45.120 Number four, everybody mark it down if you would. The war of 2024 is against the church. 66 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:53.040 Obviously, my goodness against the church. How do I answer this one? What is the church? Where is 67 00:06:53.040 --> 00:07:01.120 the church? Seriously, do you know anything about church history? If you know something about church 68 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.840 history, my challenge to you right now kind of makes you sick to your stomach. The church wherever 69 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:14.800 it has been alive, it has been an absolute issue for people to have to deal with. The church. 70 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:21.600 It's not that little thing on the corner of every town and you choose to go there or not maybe. 71 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:30.400 Historically, the church is a living, breathing organism that affects the world around it so much so. 72 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.760 The people who literally act like Jesus become hated. Did you what I said? 73 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:44.400 Supposed you're just going to sign up to be hated? I'm asking you to sign up to be like Jesus. 74 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:50.320 And Jesus said, if you do that, the world's going to hate you. Friends, you want the world to hate you. 75 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:58.480 If the world says, oh, he's awesome. She's awesome. They're awesome. Yikes. Jesus is watch out when 76 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:04.240 the world speaks well of you. See, we have fallen to the trap of how many likes, how many likes, 77 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:13.760 how many friends? That's not a good thing. James 3.17 says, but the wisdom that is from above is 78 00:08:13.760 --> 00:08:21.360 first pure. This is the church, pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy, 79 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:26.320 good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. When she go to a church that was like that, 80 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:34.560 that'd be beautiful. John 13 verse 35, this is our response to the church being attacked. 81 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:41.200 By this, Jesus said, all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. 82 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:55.040 John 1431, but that the world may know that I love the Father and as the Father gives me 83 00:08:55.280 --> 00:09:05.280 commandment, so I do a rise and let us go from here. Loving God, loving one another. Another 84 00:09:05.280 --> 00:09:13.280 action item for us is Matthew chapter 5 verse 13. You know this well church. Jesus said to every 85 00:09:13.280 --> 00:09:18.240 single one of us right now that would say, I'm a Christian. This is what Jesus says to you today. 86 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:26.480 You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be re-seasoned? 87 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:35.760 You can't re-infuse salt and assault. It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and 88 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:41.040 trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world, a city that is set on the hill, 89 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:46.000 cannot be hidden, nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket. Who would do that? Can 90 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.840 you imagine light in the lamp and then put it in a basket? They burned down your house. 91 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:58.720 You certainly burned the basket, but on a lampstand and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let 92 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:06.080 your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. 93 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:14.880 That's powerful. The war of 2024 will be against the marriage, but it's very clear that according 94 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:20.000 to the world around us, marriage is an absolute joke. It's made fun of, it's mocked, it's played with, 95 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.280 it's toyed with, like a cat plays with a little mouse. Listen, friend, your marriage is under attack. 96 00:10:25.280 --> 00:10:30.080 You want to know why Satan hates your guts? I don't think I ever loved him in the first place. 97 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:37.440 Let's say you didn't. Are you married? Yep. Then make it work. Did you know you can choose to love 98 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:44.320 anybody? Did you know that? Have we forgotten this? If you think, oh no, I have to feel it. 99 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:50.000 Well, enjoy it because that's going to be like 18 to 22 months. You're going to get a buzz. 100 00:10:50.000 --> 00:11:00.160 18 to 22 months. He walks by and you're going to go, oh, that's the honeymoon period of a 101 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:09.200 relationship. Married or not, it's the honeymoon period. She walks by and he's, she could say, 102 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.360 jump off the bridge and he'll say, which one? You have to wait 18 to 22 months. 103 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:21.200 And then that goes away. It's supposed to go away. You can't live like that. 104 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.320 You can't live like that in the long term. How are you going to eat? Who's going to go to work? 105 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.480 You go. No, no, you go. No, I'm just going to look at you. No, I'm going to look at you. 106 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:35.760 No, you go. No, no, you go. You can't live like that. You got to... There comes a time after a 107 00:11:35.760 --> 00:11:41.200 moment. He said, okay, we're married. Let's make this work. You move along and I'll change the oil. 108 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.560 No, I'm kidding. But you know what I'm saying? You don't. It's okay. 109 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:55.760 God says in Genesis 1 verse 26, then God said, I love that. I'm so glad it says that. 110 00:11:55.760 --> 00:12:03.440 Then God said, boom. Let us make man an hour image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion 111 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.280 over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, 112 00:12:09.280 --> 00:12:14.720 and over every, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 113 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:21.840 Imagine what that must have been like. Walking up, walking up to a giraffe, and talking to it, 114 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:29.040 getting on its back and running around, you know, I don't know. But everything was there for you. 115 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:35.520 Can you imagine walking up to a lion? Wouldn't you like to just nuzzle up and 116 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:39.200 cut it with a lion? That nose on the thing is like this, just the nose. 117 00:12:41.520 --> 00:12:48.560 Did you know what I'd learned last night? I'd learned that the heart of a blue whale is the size of a 118 00:12:48.560 --> 00:12:56.720 wolf wagon. Did you know the heart of a blue whale, the size of a wolf wagon? Did you know 119 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:03.200 its back tail, its tail is the size of a private airplane's wings? Did you know, listen to this, 120 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.920 did you know this has nothing to do with the message? I'm just on, I'm, did you know that the 121 00:13:09.920 --> 00:13:19.040 tongue of a blue whale is the same weight as an elephant, an adult elephant. It is the biggest living 122 00:13:19.040 --> 00:13:27.280 thing that has ever been known to live on the planet ever, the blue whale. Now I'm trying to 123 00:13:27.280 --> 00:13:33.120 tie this into the sermon, but it's not going to work. Oh, all these amazing things. Verse 27, 124 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:40.480 so God created man in his own image, and the image God created him, male and, what? 125 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:47.920 Male and female? He created them, didn't God know? 126 00:13:53.280 --> 00:13:57.760 Then God blessed them, and he said to them, be fruitful and multiply. Oh, now I get it. 127 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:08.960 To be fruitful and multiply, you have to be a he and a she. He and she makes more he's and she's. 128 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:21.360 Imagine that. Boom, God, God said. Then God said, and the war is today and your world in mind, 129 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:28.800 are you going to believe God? Are you going to believe the psychologist from Stanford University? 130 00:14:29.760 --> 00:14:33.200 Seriously, that's what we're getting pitted up against. Absolutely amazing. 131 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.920 I'll have you stand because that will remind me that it's time to go. 132 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:46.880 Genesis chapter 2, verse 20, follow with male. I'll read it. So Adam gave names to all cattle 133 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:53.600 to the birds of the air and every beast of the field, but for Adam, listen to this, everybody, 134 00:14:53.600 --> 00:15:00.800 there's a blessing in this, but for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable to him. 135 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:07.280 The word means there was no helper that fit. Adam didn't look like any of them and they didn't 136 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:13.200 look like him and he didn't act like them and they didn't act like him. And the Lord God 137 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:20.160 caused the deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed 138 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:26.880 up the flesh in its place, then the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man. He made into a woman 139 00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:34.160 and he brought her to the man and Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, 140 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:38.240 which is amazing statement. If you know anything about the marrow that's in a rib, 141 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:46.800 she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, a man shall move out of 142 00:15:46.800 --> 00:15:55.840 his mom and dad's house and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh and they were 143 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.200 both naked, the man and his wife and we're not ashamed. Isn't that amazing? You know what? 144 00:16:02.800 --> 00:16:06.640 This is so brilliant. Every man knows this, by the way. We're just not big fans publicly about 145 00:16:06.640 --> 00:16:11.440 this passage. You know what it means? God says, hey, Adam. See these animals? None of them are right 146 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:17.920 for you. So Adam's standing there. He gives names to all of them and as they're going by, Mr. 147 00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:26.640 Mr. Mrs. Hippo. Mr. Mrs. Gorilla. Mr. Mrs. Platypus. That had to be weird. 148 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:36.160 Right. And then at the end of the day, God goes, okay, that's it. And it's like, I feel kind of 149 00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:47.760 long, God. God intensified his loneliness. Adam, nobody's right for you. Adam, no one fits for you 150 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:54.480 and you should be very glad about that, Adam. I'm going to make someone, especially for you. 151 00:16:57.280 --> 00:17:04.480 So you think about this. Bible says in the book of Ephesians, wives ought to submit to their husbands. 152 00:17:06.320 --> 00:17:07.520 Thanks for coming. God bless you guys. 153 00:17:07.520 --> 00:17:21.600 Can you imagine the right home in your car? Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. 154 00:17:21.600 --> 00:17:26.960 How come? Why? Because why? The husband is head of the wife. You know what head means? 155 00:17:27.520 --> 00:17:32.960 It means he's the first one to be sacrificed. Do you know that? Remind your husband of that one. 156 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.640 Hey, woman, you need to submit. Yeah. Well, you need to die. 157 00:17:43.600 --> 00:17:51.360 Has also Christ as head of the church. Didn't he die? For the church. And a savior of the body, 158 00:17:51.360 --> 00:17:57.520 therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands and everything. 159 00:17:57.520 --> 00:18:03.120 How come? Why? Why should I? Husbands love your wives just as Christ also love the church and 160 00:18:03.120 --> 00:18:11.360 gave himself for her. That's precious. Ladies, you find a man like that? He's easy to submit to. 161 00:18:11.360 --> 00:18:16.960 In fact, the word submit won't even come up. You won't even hear about it because he loves you so 162 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:23.040 much. It's like, oh my goodness, this guy's, this guy's the real deal. And guys, listen, you want 163 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:27.520 to be like, oh man, I want to be a Christian man. I'm going to rock it for Jesus 2024. 164 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:34.960 Yeah, you married? Yeah, you bet. Okay, well, it starts in your marriage. At the end of 2024, 165 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:41.040 your wife should be able to fill out your report card. Seriously, that's your first ministry 166 00:18:41.040 --> 00:18:48.880 is that wife in your life. And that should be exhibited by you being willing to be sacrificed 167 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:55.840 for her welfare. Yeah, yeah, we know, we know what the word is saying to all this. I can take care 168 00:18:55.840 --> 00:19:02.160 of myself. Where do you know that? In fact, let's be honest, you take care of us most of the time. 169 00:19:03.120 --> 00:19:08.240 And us guys, we don't do good on our own. If all the women of the world got raptured and we 170 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:15.040 were left behind, we'd kill each other over the rams playing the goats today. We don't do good on 171 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:18.800 our own. That's why there's only two days in a weekend. Man would kill himself. 172 00:19:20.800 --> 00:19:28.720 We need a woman in our life. We need wives. Marriage, the world has destroyed it. The only hope for 173 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:39.280 marriage is right here in this room to show the world in the war of 2024 that you're fighting it 174 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:45.680 right? You're walking in truth, you're walking in light and you're walking in love and your family 175 00:19:46.560 --> 00:19:52.480 will exhibit the characteristics of God. That's the will of God for us this year. In Jesus name and 176 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.680 all, God's people said, Amen. God bless you guys. 177 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:06.160 This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 178 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:13.360 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more 179 00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:15.440 and stay connected.