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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. There's going to be a

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generation when Christ returns, not in the manger, not born of a virgin, that's

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already happened, that when he comes back in power he's going to speak forth

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and resurrect his dead and he's going to call up his living and meet them in

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the air. What an amazing thing. You can get the outlines of this podcast by

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going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and

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encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave

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us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes, then

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that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's

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word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. His return is without warning. Now I

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need to unpack this for a second. Everybody you have to watch my hands because I'm

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not smart enough to articulate it with my mouth so you have to look at it this

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way. Jesus came at the first coming born as a baby skin flesh humble took upon

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himself the form of a human. Bible says so live 33 and a half years, crucified,

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died, resurrected from the dead. You read it a moment ago, ascended back to

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heaven from where he came. He died in our place. He was our tonement. That's the

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first coming. He presented himself to Israel by the way at his first coming. The

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second coming he comes in his glorified state. Yes it's flesh but it's glorified.

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He comes. He returns to Israel. He returns to Jerusalem and he establishes his

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kingdom and mind you. Revelation chapter 19 tells you that when the heaven when

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heaven's door is opened up and he comes out of heaven he's returning in the

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second coming to earth and it says to punish all the inhabitants of the earth for

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their iniquity. Isn't that interesting? If you're astute you're saying wait a

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minute. I thought he died for all of our sins at the cross. Oh he did but he's

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coming back to punish those who refuse to receive the gift. They shunned the

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gift. They threw it back in his face and he's not doing it because he's angry.

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Not like the way you and I would think. He has to judge sin and when he returns

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in the second coming the Bible calls it the great and terrible day of our

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Lord and Christ. That's the second coming and he physically returns to

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Jerusalem but when I'm talking about the awakening that is without warning in the

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middle of those two events that deal with Israel and Jerusalem is an event in

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the middle that deals with the church. It's called the rapture in Latin or

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Harpazzo in Greek or caught up in English. In John chapter 14 verse 3 I love

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this. John 14 verse 3 Jesus said if I go and prepare a place for you I will come

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again and receive you to myself. Oh that's good news. That where I am there you

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may be also. Do you see that? Okay you guys hey everybody I'm leaving you see

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you. I'm all done. Resurrected from the dead. Time to go back home but don't

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worry about it. If I go I promise to go I'm gonna prepare a place for you. I will

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come again and receive you to myself. The word that implies I'm gonna hold

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you to my chest. Okay that where I am we can you can look at this way that where

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I have been preparing to place for you that place that where I am well that's

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where I'm gonna take you. According to the Bible that could happen any day. It

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could have happened any day since he left. We are so now near the end of time as

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we know it as we've studied over the years in the scripture tells where there

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will be a time when he focuses on the nation of Israel for the last and final

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time before his great second advent. Yet something's gonna happen before that

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and it's gonna be the fulfillment of John 14. You see what's it gonna be like?

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We don't have to guess and first Thessalonians 4 verse 13 without a warning. He says

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Paul said to the Thessalonians by the way you can go take a cruise it's one of

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the oldest cities in the world you can still visit today. Isn't it amazing that he

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says do I do not want you to be ignorant rather than concerning those who have

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died or fallen asleep. Don't be uninformed. Don't be without knowledge. It's

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amazing to me that if you were to meet a graduate student from some seminary

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today and you were to ask them can you tell me about the first come in of

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Christ? Can you tell me about the second come in of Christ and can you tell me

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about what happens in between that according to scripture? Did you know that most

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seminary students cannot answer this question that I just put before you

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right now? They've never been taught it. They don't know it. And the Bible says

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I don't want you to be ignorant about this stuff. That's the first warning. My

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goodness right there about there won't be a warning. Be ready man.

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Concerning those who have fallen asleep lest you sorrow as others who have no

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hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again watch this even so God will

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bring with him those who sleep or those who died in Jesus. So I don't want you

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to be confused about this when a believer dies the Bible says when the flesh dies

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to be absent from the bodies to be present with the Lord. Okay so if you drop dead

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right now if I drop dead right now my body falls down but my spirit immediately

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goes to be the with in the presence of the Lord. Okay instantly it's awesome.

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That's for the believer. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who

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are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those

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who are asleep or those who die. Say wait a minute what? So imagine this somebody

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dies they're a believer we go to forest lawn we bury them right where at their

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service Uncle John's dead but Uncle John believed in Jesus so he's really with

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with Jesus but we we're stuck with his body so we have to bury him so we go to

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forest lawn and we put him down on the ground and I'm saying verses in prayer

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and the families gather together and they're weeping and I make the announcement

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his body is going to be on the ground until the resurrection. Well imagine we're

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on the slopes of forest lawn mortuary watch what happens for the Lord

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himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel

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and the trumpet of God the dead in Christ will rise first we just put him in

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the ground we just put him in and there's a trumpet blast there's a shout

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there's a voice and up he goes just and then nanoseconds behind him we're

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following him his body's resurrected watch this his body's resurrected then we

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her alive look what it says then we her alive for 17 and remain shall be caught

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up the Latin word is rapture the Greek word is Harpazzo together with them who's

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the them the them are the dead that's been resurrected so awesome oh I want to

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be doing a funeral that day it's it'd be like it'd be like a it'd be like a

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pop tart you put him in you put him in oh my goodness that'd be amazing then

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we her alive in her nation we caught up to meet them in the clouds to meet the

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Lord in the air sounds like John 14 huh and thus we shall always be with the

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Lord therefore comfort one another with these words the awakening of his return

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Christ is coming at a time where the Bible says for the church there's no

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warning there's no warning it's imminent always what what's gonna happen to me

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first Corinthians 1550 now this I say brethren that flesh and blood like this

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cannot inherit the kingdom of God you and I need to be changed nor discorruption

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inherit encryption behold I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we

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shall be changed in a moment in a twinkly of an eye at the last trumpet for the

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trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incredible this is a shocking

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statement the scholars have enjoyed over the last two millennia notice

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everybody watch the screen I'm gonna read it wrong so that you remember this

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forever for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised

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incorruptible and they shall be changed what did I miss what did I miss up we let

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me read it again now for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised

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incorruptible and we not the dead Paul was believing in his lifetime and it's not

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until second Timothy chapter four where he stopped saying we when he is told

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he's gonna lose his head for Christ that's when he stops using the word we we

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shall be changed there's gonna be a generation when Christ returns not in a

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manger not born of a virgin that's already happened that when he comes back in

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power he's gonna speak forth and resurrect his dead and he's gonna call up his

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living and meet them in the air what an amazing thing what a glorious thing we

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can expect that his return can be expected the Bible teaches us and Luke

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chapter 12 verse 35 the Bible says let your waste be girded and your lamps burning

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the lamps symbol of the Holy Spirit and you yourselves be like men who are

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waiting for their master verse 37 blessed are those servants whom the master

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when he comes we'll find them watching being an attitude of watching therefore

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you also be ready for the son of man is coming in an hour you do not expect is

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that awesome I love it and then finally under this point here it's this his

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return is our deliverance you see if you're a follower of Jesus this world this

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is this is this is as close to hell as you're gonna get is this world right here

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if you're a believer this is bad as it gets think about it think about it the

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cancer the rot the pain the hurt all that this is this is the for the believer this

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is as bad as it gets when we go home we're going home to perfection to absolute

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absolute joy light thing all of the amazing beautiful holy things that God has

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made are going to be perfected before our eyes an incredible wonder we

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sing these songs of Christmas we sing about his deliverance of us happily we

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don't have a clue what we're about to experience see what do you mean do you

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know something I don't know anything I don't know when he's coming nobody knows

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the day or there but I know this if you're the youngest person in the house today

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if you live to be an old man or woman it ain't it ain't far away from now that's

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not long isn't time a weird thing kind of place tricks on you right it's like

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wait I thought it wait it's what it's what month is it why we just go here

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man the the fact that he's going to deliver us the Bible tells us that in Luke

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2 11 we read it earlier today in the town of David a savior has been born to

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you he is the Messiah the Lord boy there it is he is the savior why because we're

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lost we need saving he's Messiah because we need a tonement and he's the Lord

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listen he's our master you will not be going to heaven if you're not following

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Jesus think of that that's a very simple thing a lot of people think they've

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accepted Christ just for a fire insurance they accepted Christ they think

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they're not going to hell they think they're they'll go live up their

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life and they don't have any passion for God at all no love for God no

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conscience for God they got the little Jesus card your first the the membership

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card what membership card think about maybe you're new here today you're

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visiting it's Christmas you're visiting and you think well you know what what

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I decided to be a member we don't have membership well then why do I why would

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I go to your church because we don't have membership well don't you want to

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know what I want a card we'll make you a card membership no membership there's

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no membership in the Bible there's only one the membership the Bible says

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that Jesus Christ his body is the church and the Holy Spirit is the one that

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baptizes you in the body of Christ did you know that and it says we're

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members one of another well where's your card we don't have a card the moment

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we have a card then we start trusting that we'll frame it we'll go play it look

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I got my card God doesn't issue cards God issues forgiveness and salvation to

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any man or woman boy or girl who will turn to him and love on him deliverance

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and then number nine is our closing argument the applause of his return the

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applause what do we mean by that well number one we can applaud him for his

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goodness hasn't God been good listen think about your own life right now I don't

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does whatever you're going through you've got to stop say Jack are you serious

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no I'm very serious the I heard this great program the other day I was

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driving and somebody called this great thinker was being interviewed and

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somebody called in and they said if God is so good then why is there so much

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bad in the world and the guy said the great thinker what mentioned his name

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the great thinker said how do you know there's any bad in the world and the

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guy's the guy pause he was like shot what he said how do you know that there's

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bad in the world well this is wrong that's wrong yeah but how do you know it's

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wrong you can only know it's wrong when you put it up against that which is

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good to to find out something bad you've got to have a reference point and the

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reference point will be good the goodness of God God has been good to you you

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may be an atheist today he's still been good to you and he's so incredibly

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patient in his goodness right he is patient so we hate patients God says when

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you God says we're praying God will give us a word from the Bible wait wait we'd

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rather hear yes or no but wait can you and you tell your kids you know look

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we're such hypocrites you and I don't handle it very well at all and then we

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tell our kids that are four years old you're gonna have to wait and then they

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freak out and we're going what's wrong with you and then God says to you you're

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gonna wait and then you just melt you just fall apart and cry no wait yes God

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says wait and we can thank God for his goodness and his patients because people

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are walking around the world cursing God there's a website you can go to now and

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you can officially log on and post forever your cursing of the Holy Spirit if I

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were God the first post I would have just went

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still marshmallow I'm not God though people who don't believe in God should be

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glad that I'm not God he's so patient aren't you glad he's patient I'm glad he's

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patient he's so kind his goodness we applaud his goodness God is good the Bible

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tells us in Psalm 145 verse 9 the Lord is good to all and his tender mercy is

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over all his works God is good you just need to look for his goodness it's

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there everywhere remarkable and then next we applaud him for his grace the

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Bible says listen Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 this comes as a ginormous

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insult to a lot of people for by grace that's God's grace for by grace you have

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been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God yeah

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listen let that soak in for a minute you say what does that mean that means you

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ain't going to heaven on your own merit it means people who have lived the

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worst darkest most sinister life they're closer to heaven than than you are

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because you see yourself okay and we're not okay we just know how to dress it up

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I mean I mean for those of you who are visiting don't come back next week and

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expect a tie I'll tell you that right now I don't do this I was pressured into

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this Jesus did not wear a tie just trying to be as biblical as possible here

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but people you know it's Christmas and you should wear a tie I'm doing this I'll

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do this that maybe you know you'll listen to the message how's that but just

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know this none of us are getting to heaven on our works it's impossible that's

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an insult to God if you think you're good there's only one good and that's

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God and this is listen this is his path for by grace by grace grace listen

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grace operates in the world of what we conclude with and that is the applaud of

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God for his gift grace gives gifts God says to us I love you so much that I have

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given you my gifted only son the only one that will ever be glorified there's

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not another one coming he's the only one he's the one and only and I want to

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give him to you and and with this gift when you unwrap this gift you go into a

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whole new world and that's just that's just a start of it and we reach out

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and we're thinking what's the what's the what's the hook and God would say to you

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don't don't do that to me I'm God you're not hurting my feelings you're just

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not understanding me I'm telling you I I said it earlier for God so love the

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world I choose who I love and I've chosen to love you and I want to give you

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this gift of eternal life do you understand now the magnitude of the expense

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of that gift when somebody says I don't want it you keep it that was the very

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gift that would remove from you the curse that's upon your life because of

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Adam and Eve and the their blood that flows through our veins that's why we're

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liars that's why we that's why we are humans and we do what we do we've got to

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get made new and the Holy Spirit does that the moment you accept the gift but

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if you push the gift away you you are moving away from you the very very

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thing you need to be made new for given and you're denying the love of God upon

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your life there's no one you can blame for this it's your choice and so we pray

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I pray that you choose him

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