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 --> 00:00:10.880 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. So are you gonna go to heaven? 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.280 Are you sure? Can you be for sure? Are there those who are on their way to heaven? 4 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:20.320 And they may not make it, or are there those who don't even think about God at all? 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:25.320 And they're going to go? What's the truth on this? Does Jesus really know who really belongs? 6 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:29.400 Let's hang on. Let's dive in. Let's get into the Bible and see. 7 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:38.600 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:45.000 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.200 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying, 10 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:56.360 amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what 11 00:00:56.360 --> 00:01:04.200 God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast and really 12 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:14.920 important. This is coming out of something to be very honest with you as we are currently at this 13 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:22.200 time frame moment going through on Sundays at the church, the book of Romans. I couldn't wait. 14 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:31.080 I love Romans chapter one to eight. Love it. Who couldn't love it? But the way that I was brought 15 00:01:31.080 --> 00:01:38.680 up spiritually at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa under Chuck Smith. And I'm only telling you that 16 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:46.360 because I went to Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa under Chuck Smith, I couldn't wait to get the Romans 17 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:53.720 9, 10 and 11. Right now we're halfway through Romans 9 on Sundays. And the way that I was brought up, 18 00:01:54.920 --> 00:02:02.520 Romans chapters 9, 10 and 11 are thrilling. They're awesome. And I'm having a great time. I think 19 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:08.840 we're something like, don't quote me on this because I'm kind of off the calendar in my head, 20 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:16.680 but I'm going to guess that this is at least our third or fourth Sunday in Romans 9. And we've 21 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:24.920 only gotten to the 13th verse in a month because we're just unpacking it systematically. And listen, 22 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:30.520 number one, letting the Bible interpret the Bible. So I happened to have gotten saved at Calvary 23 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:37.240 Chapel, Costa Mesa. Greg Laurie was giving the gospel on a Monday night. I thought he was the 24 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:42.360 pastor of Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa until I went to church the following Sunday. I got saved 25 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:49.240 in a Monday. I went to church on Sunday and this this bald older man came out and I thought, 26 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:57.800 who's this guy? Oh, Calvary, Costa Mesa was Chuck Smith's ministry. And he cracked open the Bible. 27 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:05.880 And guess what? Book of Romans, brand new believer, book of Romans, my jaw dropped. I don't know 28 00:03:05.880 --> 00:03:13.320 how long it took us to go through it, but it was just incredible. And guess what? I don't remember if 29 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:25.720 ever, if ever Chuck in the in the nearly two decades that I was there, I don't remember Chuck 30 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:31.480 Smith ever bringing up much, ever men's names. He was never a name dropper, ever. 31 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:37.640 But when I went through the book of Romans with him, it was just, it made such so much sense. 32 00:03:37.640 --> 00:03:45.400 It's so awesome. And I'm so glad I did. And the reason why that's important is because 33 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:51.000 there are people sadly, and I know I'm going to upset some of you guys. Can you just hear me out 34 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:55.800 right now? You guys, we get all kinds of input from people. And some people are just 35 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:03.160 bizarro, fanatical weird. And when I say fanatical weird, it's like this stuff. I think these are 36 00:04:03.160 --> 00:04:12.040 fanatically weird people who when I say, man, I love a W tozer. Oh my gosh, tozer's a freak. He 37 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:18.200 believed that you could actually experience God. Tozer talked a lot about experiencing God. And 38 00:04:18.280 --> 00:04:24.200 it's like, wow, I'm so surprised that people have a problem with a W tozer because I read 39 00:04:24.200 --> 00:04:30.280 everything that I do read through the filter of my Bible. This is the Bible. Whatever tozer's 40 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:39.720 written is not the Bible. Can you handle that? Whatever Charles Spurgeon wrote is not the Bible. 41 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:45.720 Charles Spurgeon wrote, but Charles Spurgeon wrote about. But if I quote Spurgeon, some people 42 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:51.240 because frankly, they're so shallow and frankly immature, they start foaming at the mouth and 43 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:56.120 their eyes rolled in the back of their head because I quoted Spurgeon. What a pathetic response 44 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:06.760 to an incredible man of God who he had his own quarkiness. So Charles Stanley had his quarkiness. 45 00:05:06.760 --> 00:05:16.200 Chuck Smith had his Dr. David Jeremiah, J. Vernon McGee, excuse me, if you, me, I have mine, 46 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:22.360 if you don't think you have your quarkiness, not all of us come to the exact same landing on any 47 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:27.960 particular verse of the Bible at all times. That's where there's commentaries written by man. 48 00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:34.200 They're not inspired by God necessarily. Now the Bible versus their quoting, they are. And some 49 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:40.520 of the teaching where it is in line with scripture 100%. You can tell the believer can tell when 50 00:05:40.520 --> 00:05:46.440 somebody says, look, I'm going to say something. Get ready to foam. Get your napkin ready. You're 51 00:05:46.440 --> 00:05:52.280 going to have, you're going to have a seizure in a moment. You will never hear me publicly 52 00:05:52.280 --> 00:05:59.960 endorsed William Barkley. William Barkley's got some very bizarre views in his commentaries. 53 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:07.560 William Barkley, the commentator, but I read Barkley because he's profoundly insightful and 54 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:18.200 accurate regarding background content. Background content, William Barkley's great. But William Barkley 55 00:06:18.200 --> 00:06:23.880 didn't believe in the miracles of Christ. That's bizarre. That's nuts. Guess what? If I'm going to 56 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:29.960 teach on the miracles of Christ, guess whose book I'm not going to use. Barkley, 57 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:39.080 you know why? I boast in Christ in him alone. I've read enough of this book to know that all books 58 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:45.800 must bow to this book. And so I've got an anchor that when I read anyone's book publication, 59 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.480 if I listened to anyone's podcast or sermon, I judge it all against the Bible just like you should 60 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:57.400 do me. And by the way, that's what Acts 17 11 is all about. Everything Paul said he was teaching 61 00:06:57.400 --> 00:07:04.360 and preaching should be judged against the Word of God. Isn't that awesome? So I mentioned William 62 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:13.400 Barkley. I glean from him just like Ruth glean from Boaz's field, right? I pick what I want. I pick 63 00:07:13.400 --> 00:07:22.600 what I need. If I read a Spurgeon, I pick what I want. I pick what I need. When I read from 64 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:33.640 oh, here's a note, watch. If I read from J.C. Ryle, great insight, especially the Gospels, 65 00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:45.560 wow. But do I hold to the views of Soteriology, for example, that J.C. Ryle held too? Not all of them. 66 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:54.760 You say, how can you say that? You're just jack. How can you judge J.C. Ryle? That's easy for me 67 00:07:54.840 --> 00:08:06.600 to judge J.C. Ryle. I just go to the Bible. So for example, you're not going to hear me mention often 68 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:19.800 the men of God who are known for what people listen, please listen, what people have made them into 69 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:33.880 B in the realm of controversy. So for example, big fan of D. Martin Lloyd Jones, big fan. 70 00:08:35.400 --> 00:08:38.920 Now some of you now, now you're leftized rolling in the back of your head because 71 00:08:39.880 --> 00:08:47.960 Martin Lloyd Jones said that he was a Calvinist. The funny thing about Martin Lloyd Jones is that he 72 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:58.360 has profound evangelistic sermons. Let me see what's the point. Well, here's the beautiful point. 73 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:05.160 You've got John Calvin's teachings and not all of those conclusions on tulip. If you know what I mean, 74 00:09:05.160 --> 00:09:10.600 you know what I mean? If you don't, you don't need to know. But I don't agree with the definitions 75 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:18.280 of tulip of the today modern Calvinist person. In fact, if John Calvin came back, he'd probably slap 76 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:27.560 some people up around the face because I don't even know if Spurgeon or Calvin or Luther would agree 77 00:09:27.560 --> 00:09:32.280 with all that stuff. But listen, there's stuff, for example, Martin Luther, who Martin Luther, 78 00:09:32.280 --> 00:09:37.880 the great reformer. Of course, he was the great reformer. But did you know that Adolf Hitler used 79 00:09:37.880 --> 00:09:43.800 Martin Luther's view of the Jewish people to justify, he used Martin Luther as a cover 80 00:09:44.680 --> 00:09:52.200 to do his demonic antics, Hitler did. Did you know that? Did you know that Adolf Hitler thought 81 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:59.080 there's parts of Luther that were right on that he could use to make himself look good against 82 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:05.080 the Jews. Martin Luther was an anti-Semitic individual, the great reformer. People who want to 83 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:14.920 talk about that, I don't care. I don't care because he's dead and gone, okay? What I care now 84 00:10:14.920 --> 00:10:21.080 is about, what does the Bible say? It's the only care I've ever had. People will say to me, 85 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.760 good, bad, or ugly, whatever your view is, is irrelevant to me, is, well, you're so bold about 86 00:10:26.760 --> 00:10:33.960 what you believe. You know why? Notice I have a little thing that I've practiced in my life. 87 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.880 I don't get excited about things unless I know what I'm talking about. 88 00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:46.920 So for example, I don't know why I just turned the pages on this. I was in John chapter 10, 89 00:10:46.920 --> 00:10:53.560 that's where I wanted to bring this up. I was in John 10 and how do you hear this? How do you 90 00:10:53.560 --> 00:11:03.000 respond to this? Are you ready? Listen up. And this, this, this is a dovetail. It does, 91 00:11:03.800 --> 00:11:14.440 dovetails or coalesce is perfectly with Romans 9, 10 and 11. John 10, 27, Jesus said, 92 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:25.320 my sheep hear my voice. I know them. Question, when did God know those who are his sheep? Answer, 93 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:42.120 Romans 8 and Romans 9, just to pick one area of Scripture, that from about Romans 8 to 30, 94 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.680 and then into Romans 9, verse 1, 95 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:59.080 all of God's doctrines Ephesians 1, verses 4 and 5, I think, and Ephesians 111, I think, 96 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.800 deal with predestination because it's a biblical doctrine. What does that mean? 97 00:12:06.520 --> 00:12:13.320 Well, read the Bible. The Bible says that based on God's foreign knowledge, he predestined those, 98 00:12:14.520 --> 00:12:19.800 and it says right there in Scripture, he works in them, his sanctification work, it says, 99 00:12:19.800 --> 00:12:25.960 all the way out to glorification, whom he for new, these he also predestined, these he predestined, 100 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:31.640 and he goes all the way to glorification. When I was taught the Bible as a brand new believer, 101 00:12:31.640 --> 00:12:37.640 see, I didn't have any denominational influence. I had no church background at all. I just think, 102 00:12:37.640 --> 00:12:44.520 God, I went to a church where a guy sat down on Thursdays on a stool with the Bible open, 103 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:49.160 or he stood by in a pulpit on Sunday with the Bible open, and all you heard was Bible. 104 00:12:49.800 --> 00:12:56.600 In a little bit of expository Bible, a lot of Bible, a little bit of expository, a lot of Bible, 105 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:05.160 and so I didn't have any trash. I didn't have any baggage of influence from other great believers 106 00:13:05.160 --> 00:13:13.800 before us. So denominations often are very passionate about their founders to the point where 107 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:19.640 they will ignore other parts of Scripture to stay true to their denomination. That's very sad. 108 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:26.840 I do believe that that's in a can to teaching the traditions of men over the doctrines of 109 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:32.600 God. That's a boo-boo man. That is bad news, and that's where Paul was messed up. A soul of 110 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:39.320 Tarsus was messed up before he became Paul, the apostle. So my question to you is this. Jesus 111 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:47.080 says, my sheep. Oh, Jesus knows who his sheep are. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them. When did 112 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:56.440 Jesus know them? What does the Bible say? He knew them in foreknowledge. When was that exactly? 113 00:13:57.400 --> 00:14:02.440 The Bible says in Ephesians 1 before the universe, before the foundations of the world, materialism 114 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:11.400 was ever created. I'll ask you this one. When was Jesus created? You see, He's never been created 115 00:14:11.400 --> 00:14:19.880 exactly. You know why? Because He's God. So what can He know? He knows everything. Yes, He does. 116 00:14:20.760 --> 00:14:24.840 foreknowledge is that He knows everything in advance before anything ever was. 117 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:32.600 Before a billion years ago ever existed, Jesus knew who his sheep would be. 118 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:44.440 Does that freak you out? Go ahead. Not me. I love it. Awesome. God, thank you. Wow. I feel so 119 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:53.480 safe. In secure, my sheep hear my voice. They follow me. They follow me. Do you want to follow 120 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.240 Jesus? Or do you want to follow Luther? Do you want to follow Jesus? Or do you want to follow 121 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:01.480 Chuck Smith? Do you want to follow Jesus? Or do you want to follow John Calvin? Do you want to 122 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:11.480 follow Jesus? Or do you want to follow Tozer? Or I don't know. Whoever, Billy Graham, David 123 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:17.160 Jeremiah, Stanley, Spurgeon, fill in the blanket. It doesn't matter any name you want. 124 00:15:21.160 --> 00:15:23.560 The answer should be no. You do not want to follow them. 125 00:15:23.640 --> 00:15:29.240 You want to glean from their ministries like I hope you can glean from this one. 126 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:37.720 But beware. Judge everything against the Bible. The Bible is the final word. See people get into 127 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:43.000 two name battles, word battles when they are not letting the word of God have its authority. 128 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:49.800 If you come up to me and say, Pastor Jack, I believe that people should be baptized forward. 129 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:56.920 There's people who actually say this. Great. Knock yourself out. Go for it. 130 00:15:57.640 --> 00:16:01.480 Really, are you agreeing with people? Then do you believe that you should only be baptized 131 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:08.040 forward? I didn't say that. I only have one stipulation about baptism. Sorry, too. 132 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:14.760 Number one, you better have repented of your sins to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 133 00:16:14.760 --> 00:16:20.600 First, if you get baptized before that, you're not baptized. You just got wet. 134 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:27.400 Nobody gets baptized unless they're born again. Period says the Bible. 135 00:16:28.520 --> 00:16:33.720 Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. I just had a word battle 136 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:41.720 yesterday with Catholic doctrine, penance. This person actually said, show your penance 137 00:16:42.520 --> 00:16:47.160 and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. I said, you change that word in 138 00:16:47.160 --> 00:16:54.360 meaning to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Now we got something 139 00:16:54.360 --> 00:17:01.160 to work with. But if you're telling me that go do your good works and the good deeds that you need 140 00:17:01.160 --> 00:17:07.480 to do and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the book of Galatians says you have fallen 141 00:17:07.560 --> 00:17:13.240 from grace. You're not saved. You're believing in works and Christ's blood. Can't do that. 142 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:19.240 You cannot mix works in with blood. If the blood is covering your life and you're born again by 143 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:27.160 the grace of God Almighty, Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9, not by works, but by faith and Christ 144 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:34.040 in Him, then you're born again. But if you try to mix your morality and add it to his blood, 145 00:17:34.040 --> 00:17:39.240 you've just contaminated his blood. Can't do that. It's impossible, unacceptable to God. 146 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:46.520 It's by grace and it's having faith in what Christ has done for you, grace, grace. How Lindsay, 147 00:17:46.520 --> 00:17:50.680 I think it was. Oh, how Lindsay, the guy that made the movie, the Lake Great Planet Earth, how could 148 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:59.000 you? Yeah. How Lindsay, a human being said, a great way to remember the doctrine of grace is 149 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:11.000 the acronym God's riches at Christ expense. Look, he may have been a movie maker, but that's 150 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:17.960 pretty awesome stuff. That's good doctrine. Grace is God's riches at Christ expense. 151 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:26.760 It's not God's riches at Christ expense and yours or mine that blows up the whole world. You 152 00:18:26.840 --> 00:18:34.280 can't even spell grace if you add me or I to it. It doesn't work. And so Jesus is my sheep here, 153 00:18:34.280 --> 00:18:40.760 my voice. They, they, and I know them. They follow me and I give them eternal life and they shall never 154 00:18:40.760 --> 00:18:48.280 perish. Pretty bold, yeah. I love it. Neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. Do you believe 155 00:18:48.280 --> 00:18:53.880 that? I believe that with all my heart. I don't need it. Listen, I believe that so much. I don't 156 00:18:53.880 --> 00:19:00.440 believe I can snap myself, snatch myself out of his hands. What does that make you? Are you, 157 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:06.600 are you a Calvinist or are you Armenian? Are you, what are you? I don't even know what I am if 158 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:14.840 you're going to use those human terms. I'm not following any man. I know this before the 159 00:19:14.840 --> 00:19:20.840 universe ever was and before I was ever created in my mother's womb, Jesus knew based on his 160 00:19:20.840 --> 00:19:26.680 foreknowledge forever ago that there would come a time in my life when I would hear the gospel 161 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:37.800 by his grace. And even though I didn't quite understand it, I was so convicted. I felt, look, 162 00:19:37.800 --> 00:19:44.200 I don't care what you say about this. I remember where I was sitting on June 20th, 1977, 163 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:51.960 go look and see, look it up. It's a Monday. It's just before 9 o'clock PM and I remember where I was 164 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:58.280 sitting and how I began to sweat as I was brought under the conviction of the Holy Spirit who I 165 00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:07.480 didn't even know existed. And I found out that I was going to hell by default because of my sinful 166 00:20:07.800 --> 00:20:16.040 life. I was so convicted. I was mortified. You didn't have to convince me I was going to hell when 167 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:23.720 Greg Laurie enumerated on that night a sermon titled How To Inherit Hell. You didn't have to 168 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:31.880 convince me by 8.50 PM that night. I had no idea what was coming. I'd never been to church before 169 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:41.720 my life. And when he said, if you want to have your sins forgiven, I perked up. This is what you 170 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:49.320 need to believe and confess. And he gave the gospel. I said it. See, what were you feeling? What 171 00:20:49.320 --> 00:20:57.240 was I feeling? I was feeling like if I didn't pray immediately that the earth was going to open 172 00:20:57.320 --> 00:21:04.200 up and swallow me. I was going to go straight to hell. I am not kidding you. I was freaked out 173 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:11.000 convicted because I was guilty. He went down this list of 10 things and I was guilty about 7 of 174 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:19.000 them. All I needed to do was to be guilty of one of them. And the Holy Spirit just dialed down on 175 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:24.200 me. Man, he pressed in and I was so busted. I had no place to hide. I went forward that day, 176 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:30.360 that night by myself. In fact, I asked somebody to go with me. They said, 177 00:21:30.360 --> 00:21:36.840 dude, you're on your own. I was so glad they said that. Sounds pretty cruel, right? I'm glad. 178 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:44.200 I had nobody hold my hand to the altar. It turns out I didn't need anybody to hold my hand to 179 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:51.560 the altar because Jesus, before the foundations of the world knew that when the gospel would go 180 00:21:51.560 --> 00:21:58.040 forth, he knew that I would respond to his offer of eternal life. And in this case, 181 00:22:00.600 --> 00:22:06.120 in your case, if you believe this or not, I believe that God is the creator. And he didn't make us 182 00:22:06.120 --> 00:22:13.000 angels, even though they do have free will. Angels were not created in the image of God. We were. 183 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:17.800 I believe this. And this is one reporter's opinion. I'm not even asking you to believe this. 184 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:27.480 But I believe that God built into us a little bit of sovereignty whereby we can actually make 185 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:37.640 choices. And if I choose to accept the gospel and be born again, I have to give God all the glory 186 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:43.400 for inviting me, for allowing me to heaven, for sending Jesus. When I walk into heaven, 187 00:22:44.360 --> 00:22:47.880 I know it's going to be by his grace. I'm not going to pat myself on my back and say, 188 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:53.640 well, boy, did I make the right decision on June 20th, 1977? Are you kidding? I'm going to be 189 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:59.240 on my face saying, thank you, thank you, thank you, God. In the same token, because God gave us a 190 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.000 little bit of sovereignty to make a choice when the gospel is presented. And there are those 191 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.840 people who say, I don't want this. I'm religious. I've got, I was baptized as an infant. I don't need 192 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:15.080 Jesus or I'm an atheist. I don't believe this. And or I don't like the way God's running the 193 00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:20.600 universe like Christopher Hitchens didn't like the way God was running things. And denied God. 194 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:29.880 If you die and wind up in hell, guess who you have to blame? Only one person, you. God 195 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:35.960 provided the way of eternal life and you refused. I imagine if I send you a letter and it's 196 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:41.800 addressed to you and you don't open it up, who's bad is that? It's not mine. It's yours. 197 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:47.080 Who are you going to blame? You know, everybody in hell read Luke chapter 15 and 16. Who are you going 198 00:23:47.080 --> 00:23:53.800 to blame? Those that are in hell today, they only have one person to blame. It's themselves. 199 00:23:55.400 --> 00:24:01.240 Romans chapter one makes it very clear. Nobody goes to hell or heaven. Even if you're in the remote 200 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:09.000 jungles of South America, God reveals himself to you. Romans chapter one, read it. All of mankind 201 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:17.320 are without excuse. Even if you live in the, you've never heard the gospel and you live in the 202 00:24:17.320 --> 00:24:23.800 desolate regions of this Siberian wilderness in Russia, according to Romans one, God is speaking 203 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:33.480 to you in creation and speaking to your heart. So the bottom line is this. I revel in the joy, 204 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:45.160 the freedom, the comfort. I don't worry or fret if I'm the elect or not. I know this. I never 205 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:52.440 would have wanted Jesus into my life unless Jesus knew me from the foundation of the world. 206 00:24:54.520 --> 00:25:03.960 I became his sheep on June 20th, 1977, but according to Jesus, based on his foreknowledge, 207 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:10.280 I had always been one of his sheep. I just hadn't been born yet. He knew that. I didn't know that. 208 00:25:12.120 --> 00:25:17.560 And so he says those that are mine, not only will they not be able to be plucked out of my hand, 209 00:25:17.560 --> 00:25:24.440 you can't take them out of my father's hand. I and my father are one. I love that almost at a time. 210 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:33.480 In fact, allow me to draw this. So this, and forgive me in advance for this. I'm not an artist, but 211 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:46.680 so it kind of to me looks this way. Okay, so here's the, okay, so sorry, 212 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:56.840 that doesn't look like much to you right now. But let's say, let's let's put S for son and F for 213 00:25:56.840 --> 00:26:08.280 father. Okay, here we'll do this. One's got a hole. Yeah, one's got a hole through the hands. 214 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:19.400 The other one doesn't. And then there's me. Here's my feet sticking out. 215 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:36.280 You see that? That's me in the middle. Right, that's me in the middle of the God sandwich. 216 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:45.000 I'm in Jesus's hands. I'm in the father's hands. Nobody can take me out of there. Nobody. 217 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:54.040 Death in our life, principality does her powers. Nothing. I love this. Listen, if you don't agree, 218 00:26:56.360 --> 00:27:02.760 yeah, you don't need to eat, you don't need to email me or text me that you disagree. I'm enjoying 219 00:27:02.760 --> 00:27:08.920 this thing called Christianity. I'm enjoying the salvation that he has given. I try to give 220 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:15.960 the gospel to as many people as possible. And I let him use that gospel to every creature that 221 00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:22.520 goes out. I let I let I'm supposed to give it. Whatever they do with it is between him and them. 222 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:32.840 And the reality of being saved is that now I don't live for those things that I used to live 223 00:27:32.840 --> 00:27:40.040 for. I live for him. And now I want to do what he wants me to do. And now I don't need the 10 224 00:27:40.040 --> 00:27:48.200 commandments posted on the wall of my home or my office. Don't need him. He posted them in my heart. 225 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:54.520 And do you know what you know what's greater than the 10 commandments is the commandment that says 226 00:27:54.520 --> 00:27:59.400 love God with all of your heart. And I'm working on that every day when I say work. I yield myself 227 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:05.640 every day to him. I don't work on anything except to stay close to him. And I'm commanded to love 228 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:10.360 my neighbors, including my enemies. There is no 10 commandments if that's your pursuit. That's 229 00:28:10.360 --> 00:28:19.880 the first commandment if you think about it. And if your Christianity terrorizes you and those 230 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:26.520 who are around you, how sad is that? Nobody wants to join your team. Maybe nobody wants to go to your 231 00:28:26.520 --> 00:28:33.800 church because you're teaching a miserable gospel. There's no joy in it. It's all what are you 232 00:28:33.800 --> 00:28:38.200 going to do for God? What are you going to do for God? You got to get up and do this for God. How 233 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:45.400 about this? How about you come to God and fall on your face in front of him and let him wash 234 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:50.120 you of your sins. And then the Holy Spirit takes control of your life and he does with you what he 235 00:28:50.120 --> 00:28:55.080 wants to do. Don't get up in the morning and say, God, this is what I'm going to do today. You need 236 00:28:55.080 --> 00:29:00.680 to get up in the morning and say, Lord, what are we going to do today? What do you want me to do today? 237 00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:06.360 It's not what I want to do. It's what he wants to do. And there's such liberty in that 238 00:29:07.080 --> 00:29:14.840 that no matter what happens today, if today there's a 10.10 earthquake that hits Southern California 239 00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:20.840 and I perish or I don't have a house anymore, that's God's business. That's not my business. 240 00:29:22.360 --> 00:29:33.240 He knew in advance. It's a pretty worry free life. You want to get bogged down in the words of man, 241 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:38.040 knock yourself out. I would rather listen to what he has said and rejoice in him. 242 00:29:38.760 --> 00:29:43.080 Listen, as always, it's time for us to live out what we believe in. It's time for real life. 243 00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:49.960 That's our jingle. It's time for us to live out what we believe in. It's time to live real life. 244 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.480 It's time to do real life. It's time to experience God's real life. 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