WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.400 Real Life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:15.560 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.120 You open up this book, ladies and gentlemen, you start reading this book and you'll find 4 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:23.400 out something about this book and it will absolutely get inside of you. 5 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:26.560 We've often said that you're not just reading the Bible, you think you are. 6 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:28.560 The Bible actually got you. 7 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:39.120 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibb's.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:45.040 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:48.320 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 10 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:54.160 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 11 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:58.240 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 12 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.680 Here is Jack Kibb's. 13 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:06.560 Just when you thought it was over, our first argument is found in verse 7 and it's this, 14 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:13.200 is that truth shakes you at the core, truth, and you're not taking. 15 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.240 Can you write down truth? I know that's a difficult word these days, truth. 16 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:24.160 Who would have thought that the word truth now has so many meanings which are lies, 17 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:28.240 by the way? I have to tell you this, I don't mean to upset anybody, but if I'm the first one to 18 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:32.800 tell you, then let me be the first one to tell you. You ain't got no truth on your own. 19 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:37.440 Well, that's your truth. No, it's not even my truth. 20 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:40.480 There's only one truth the Bible says and truth comes from God. 21 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:46.320 You say, oh yeah, but what about gravity? How does God get involved in that? 22 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.800 Great question. The Bible says that God invented gravity. You say, what does it say that? 23 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:59.760 God's the creator. He's the creator of the physical and the non-physical existence of things. 24 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:06.000 Truth is something that God has given us and you don't mess with it. You either agree or you 25 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:11.840 disagree, but listen, if you want to live agree with truth. If you want to die, disagree with truth. 26 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:18.480 And the Bible says that God is the author of truth because God himself is true and God's truth 27 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:25.600 shakes us to the core and we don't like it. We don't like it and Paul is going to be talking about 28 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:32.720 the effect. In verse 7, we learn this that truth is factual. You just write that down. Somebody 29 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:39.920 said, now it was just this week, there was a woman argue in your case on TV regarding 30 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.160 she wants people to pay her for something and she was on the news and she was saying, 31 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:51.680 I want this money and I want it now and she actually said this. She said, this is my truth 32 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:58.640 and I want what I want and that's when I got involved in the conversation. She couldn't hear me 33 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:04.240 but I was talking to my TV about, lady, you can't do that with truth. You can't do that. You 34 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.840 can't have your truth and you over here have your truth. What happens if your truth bumps into 35 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:15.360 this truth and if I won't mess? That's impossible unless you've lost sight of truth. There's one 36 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:22.800 true and that is God and God says this in verse 7, what shall we say then? What a tremendous 37 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:27.840 statement. Paul is throwing his arms up with passion. The whole structure of the Greek language 38 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:35.840 is this, what shall we say? What can we say? What can be sad? Is the law sin? 39 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:45.120 Certainly not. The word means perish the thought on the contrary. See, Paul was getting in trouble 40 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.720 for this reason. People were saying the Judaizers, hey, this guy Paul is saying that if you become a 41 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:56.400 Christian and follow Christ, you don't have to keep the law and Paul said, that's exactly what I'm 42 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:04.480 saying because you guys don't understand what the law is all about. And he writes the book of 43 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:10.800 Romans and the book of Galatians to tell you that the law is holy. The law is awesome. It's perfect. 44 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.080 But you can't keep it because we're imperfect. So try all you want. The relationship that you need 45 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:25.200 with God cannot be on that level of rulekeeping because you're constantly at a loss. Legalism, 46 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:31.840 for example. What does it do to you? It absolutely sapped you from all strength. It bewilders you 47 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:38.080 and it winds up making you, I think, a slave in the worst case and that is a religious slave. 48 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:45.360 You can't think for yourself. You can't read for yourself. You can't have any questions. Don't ask 49 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:55.600 any questions. And you're imprisoned. And so Paul as a faithful Jew, he meets Jesus Christ and I'm 50 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:00.800 wondering, by the way, before that Acts chapter 9 experience and what was going on in his mind 51 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:06.560 before Christ revealed himself. Think about the groundwork that God was doing in his heart. What 52 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.560 about you? Listen, think about the groundwork that God has done in your life before he revealed 53 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.720 himself to you. What was going on? Did you live a perfect life and have it easy and realized, 54 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:22.240 wait, this is weird. Maybe you lived a horrible life. Were you abused as a child and you're wondering, 55 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:26.560 what's wrong with this world? And God was saying to you at the same time, it's pretty sick, isn't it? 56 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:31.680 But see, we have a fallen nature which is what causes you and I to turn to this God that we don't 57 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:37.040 even yet claim to believe in and hold him accountable for the stuff that's wrong. We're angry at him 58 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:42.320 and we're not even sure if we believe in him yet. And then God speaks to us in the word, what 59 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:51.360 was going on in Paul's mind when Jesus revealed himself on that Damascus road must have been incredible. 60 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:57.440 Was he coming to the point where he's thinking now how unfulfilled he is? He's reached the top of his 61 00:05:57.440 --> 00:06:07.040 game. He's got this status and look, we all know this one. He was empty. We know this about you. 62 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:11.520 If you're not a follower of Jesus, we know something about you that you don't know until right now. 63 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:20.000 We know that you're empty. I got money, Jack, I've got power, I got status, I got fame, 64 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:27.120 I got recognition, I got the house, the boat, the plane, you're empty. You're searching 65 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:36.800 because none of those things can satisfy your lonely soul. And what Paul is speaking is deep 66 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.440 stuff. You want religion? You're not going to find it here. Paul is saying forget that. 67 00:06:43.200 --> 00:06:48.400 God has given us the law to show us we can't get from here to heaven on the law 68 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:56.960 because nobody's perfect. There's only one. First Corinthians chapter 2, verse 6 says, 69 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:04.000 however, we speak wisdom among those who are mature. That's what I praise happening here right now. 70 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:10.000 By the way, Paul's speaking to a church in Greece, Corinth. So when we speak the word of God, 71 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:15.040 we're talking about speaking right here right now to believers. Somebody told me sometime ago, 72 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.440 I've heard it numerous times, but you know, Pastor Jack, the church would get bigger if you didn't 73 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:25.120 teach the way you do on Sundays. What? No, I'm not going to listen. Change Sundays, make it more, 74 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:30.320 do what you do on Sunday on Wednesday when there's a more committed group of people. Make it easier 75 00:07:30.320 --> 00:07:36.560 on Sunday and by the way, make it shorter and you'll have a lot of, you'll grow. How far did some of 76 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.800 you have to walk to get here today from your parking spot? There's people in overflow right now. 77 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:48.560 Are we here doing church to make a big church? Nope. We're doing this. We're here right now with 78 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.560 a Bible open and listen, we together are coming to the Word of God to see the wisdom of the ages, 79 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:03.520 which is not some performance, but this book. It's God's Word. And Jesus said, my sheep will hear 80 00:08:03.520 --> 00:08:08.800 my voice and they'll follow me. That's the Word of God. And so Paul is saying, when we speak the truth, 81 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:14.160 there's going to be those who are of God who are going to say, wow, that's just right there, man. 82 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.960 And there's going to be people who are going to say, when is this over? I got to get out of here. 83 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:25.920 All of that is good news. It means the Holy Spirit is moving. So listen, 84 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:34.560 nor of the rulers of this age who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a 85 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:40.720 mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, verse 8, 86 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:45.760 which none of the rulers of this age knew had they known they would not have crucified the Lord 87 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:53.200 of glory. But the natural man, this is the unsaved man, he may be religious, but he's natural, 88 00:08:53.200 --> 00:09:00.240 he's not supernatural, he's not born again, does not receive the things of the Spirit of God 89 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:06.480 for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them. Why? Because they are spiritually discerned. 90 00:09:07.680 --> 00:09:14.480 There are those who gather together in church and they just do time and they think somehow it's 91 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:19.120 marked down. They can't tell you what was said, what was taught and they don't even understand it. 92 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:26.880 But they're religious. And Paul is saying it's time to stop that to get back to the truth because 93 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:32.000 the truth is factual. You open up this book, ladies and gentlemen, you start reading this book and 94 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:37.200 you'll find out something about this book and it will absolutely get inside of you. We've often 95 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.000 said that you're not just reading the Bible, you think you are, the Bible actually got you. It's 96 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:48.960 reading you. This book gets inside of you, it gets inside your thoughts and it goes to work. 97 00:09:50.560 --> 00:09:55.760 And it's awesome. Listen, the other thing is this in verse 7 is that the truth is surgical. 98 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:01.520 Now that's a violet word, isn't it? It's surgical. I had to have that surgically removed. That's 99 00:10:01.520 --> 00:10:07.520 serious. Have you noticed that if somebody's got skin cancer, what do the doctors do? Listen, 100 00:10:07.520 --> 00:10:16.800 do they cut out the cancer? Yes and no. They cut out the cancer and what else? And a lot of good 101 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:26.320 skin also. Why? Because they want to get it all. But they're very surgical about it. 102 00:10:27.920 --> 00:10:30.640 If you've got cancer on your shoulder, we're not cutting your ear off, 103 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:36.560 but we're going to take enough to make sure that we got it all off your shoulder. Are you with me? 104 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:44.560 Surgical. The truth is surgical. The truth of God. God's truth. And the Bible here says, 105 00:10:44.560 --> 00:10:50.160 I, Paul says, I would not have known sin except through the law. You see, it's the law of God. 106 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:57.920 In this case, he's referring to not the 613 laws that were given in Judaism, but he's talking 107 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:07.040 about the 10 commandments. 10. And Paul is saying, the 10 commandments announced to me, 108 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:12.640 I'm a sinner, the 10 commandments. It says right here that I wouldn't have known sin, 109 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:19.600 that weren't known in Greek as ganosco. Look at the meaning of it. I wouldn't have known sin 110 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.000 without the law to come to the place of being able to recognize it. I wouldn't have been able 111 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.560 to recognize it without the law. Regarding sin, I wouldn't have been able to perceive it. 112 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:33.520 Regarding sin, I wouldn't have become aware of it. It's to understand what was previously not 113 00:11:33.520 --> 00:11:42.240 understood, ganosco. A very powerful reality that causes sin to become obviously wrong. You start 114 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:48.800 to wake up to what's wrong. God is stirring your heart. You may not have any Bible knowledge. Watch 115 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:54.560 this. You may not have any Bible knowledge, but the Bible says right now, you should not steal. 116 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:03.120 God says, don't steal. And then you start thinking about stuff you've lifted from the office or 117 00:12:04.800 --> 00:12:10.400 you moved the decimal point over in that piece of paper or whatever it is. God says, don't steal. 118 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:16.640 God says, don't lust after your neighbor's husband or wife. Don't look at them with desire. 119 00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:27.840 God says, don't do that. Think of it. And God goes down the line. But at the top, He says, 120 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:33.520 love me with all of your heart. And that's where I failed, by the way. I don't have to worry about 121 00:12:33.520 --> 00:12:39.440 two through ten. When I became a Christian, I realized the reason why I came to Christ is because 122 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:49.840 it was very clear to me that I had failed number one. God's word is very surgical. So much so, 123 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:56.160 listen to this Hebrews chapter four, verse 12. Listen, oh my goodness, for the word of God is 124 00:12:56.160 --> 00:13:05.120 living and powerful. Think of that. Sharper than any two-edged sword. Think of a scalpel coming at 125 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:11.040 you. And you're standing there and you're thinking, I'm okay. No, they're wrong. Feel anything. 126 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:18.560 Sharper than any two-edged sword. Peer seen even to the division of the soul and spirit and the 127 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:24.080 joints and the marrow and as a discernor of the thoughts and the intense of the heart. And there 128 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:29.200 is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him, 129 00:13:29.280 --> 00:13:36.000 to whom we must give an account. The Bible says this of its authority to dive inside of us. 130 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:45.600 Absolutely incredible. Just when you thought it was over and you got religion, 131 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:51.040 you might hear a message like this and God says, that's not it. You won't find me there. 132 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:57.600 Well, I've been a member of the first Baptist of the past 50 years. God says, waste of time. 133 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.600 Well, I serve and I give and I do this. God says, I don't want it. 134 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:13.280 God wants your life. Not your wife. He wants your life. Your life, personally, 135 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:23.280 to know you on a day-to-day basis. And when the reality of God's law hits you, you're no longer 136 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:28.160 wanting religion. You're no longer wanting the rules because you realize, holy cow, 137 00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:35.920 do I need to get away from this? This is a silly analogy, but you know how we pretty much conduct 138 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:41.360 ourselves as adults, but you might be standing around whatever. It doesn't matter where you're at. 139 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.920 It wouldn't matter. The environment is completely irrelevant. You feel a little tickle in the back 140 00:14:45.920 --> 00:14:50.000 of your neck. You're not excited. That's funny. It must be a little hair or something. And you're 141 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.680 talking to some friends and then you feel it more. And then you reach back there and you feel this 142 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:59.440 huge spider jump onto your hand. What do you do? You just go, oh, wow. Oh, I know spider. 143 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:06.880 Is that what you do? How is it? I'm 200 pounds. How is it? Kind of a little spider that weighs. 144 00:15:06.880 --> 00:15:13.440 Who knows what kind of a size can turn me into a screaming crying little wimp? 145 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:21.360 Oh, get away, get away, get away, get away. Don't act like you don't do that. You're all like, 146 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:30.000 you feel something. You see it's a spider and you flick it off and run around in your old 147 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:39.120 hippie-gabie doubt about it. Think of that picture when you think of the law revealing sin to you. 148 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.600 You've been thinking this about your husband, your wife, or your neighbor, or your kids, 149 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:50.640 or your parents. And God says, I see that. And you like, you jump like a spider on your neck, 150 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:58.640 spiritually speaking. Because God reveals Himself to you and He says, I know you. Here's what's 151 00:15:58.640 --> 00:16:07.120 amazing. God knows us and He loves us anyway. How's that? Acts chapter 2, verse 37. You guys okay? 152 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:13.840 Acts 2, 37. Acts chapter 2, verse 37. Now when they had heard this, this is the preaching of the 153 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:22.400 gospel. They were cut to the heart. Sounds like Hebrews 4-12, huh? And said to Peter into the 154 00:16:22.400 --> 00:16:29.280 rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? So stop right there. Peter was preaching 155 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:36.880 the gospel. They were convicted to the heart. Surgical strike by the word of God. You want to know 156 00:16:36.880 --> 00:16:42.400 if God's real? Do something wrong. If you don't feel anything about it, then you're dead. 157 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:50.960 If you, in your heart and mine, it's, I should never have done that. Oh, in fact, Jack, just the 158 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:57.280 thought, just what you said, go do something wrong. I can't. You want to know why you can't? 159 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:04.720 Because the Holy Spirit inside of you has written God's law not on stone, but on your heart. 160 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:13.200 God, the Holy Spirit comes inside of you and establishes the holiness of the law and you don't 161 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:19.040 get proud about it. You get more humbled by it because you're the one who knows as a believer 162 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:23.600 and a follower of Christ that what God is doing in your life, he's doing it and you're not. 163 00:17:23.600 --> 00:17:29.840 You don't walk around all pride, all proud. Can you imagine a Christian that is arrogant? Yes, 164 00:17:29.840 --> 00:17:37.920 hi. Aren't you blessed to have me in your presence? That is insane and impossible. 165 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:45.040 The more God will use you, the more He'll take you out of the knees to make sure He gets the glory. 166 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:51.200 And that's a beautiful way to live. What do we do? What shall we do? And Peter says something. 167 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:58.320 Verse 38, listen to this. Peter says something that many churches will not mention. Peter said to them, 168 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:05.840 repent. That's it. Repent. The word in Greek is meta-noia. Noia, mind, think, meta again, over. 169 00:18:05.840 --> 00:18:12.160 Think over. Think again. Change your thinking. The way you've been thinking, think different. 170 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.880 That's why this word was used in the first century for saling ships. 171 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:29.520 Hey, the navigator says to the Helmsman, repent. It means turn 180 degrees now. 172 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:37.520 It's a nautical term. Turn your ship around. Biblically speaking, turn your mind around. 173 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:40.800 Everybody gets offended with the word repent. I can't believe you said that word. 174 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.080 Listen, there is no salvation. There's no heaven without that word. 175 00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:55.520 Zip, not a knit, none. No heaven without repentance. That word is the first word of the gospel. 176 00:18:55.520 --> 00:19:00.560 Did you know that? Repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. 177 00:19:00.560 --> 00:19:05.760 Peter says, repent and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ 178 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:11.440 for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Repent. 179 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:17.840 Change your mind. That's surgical friends. Do you agree? That's to the point. 180 00:19:22.800 --> 00:19:27.200 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are 181 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:34.880 listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibbs.com 182 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:43.920 to learn more and stay connected.