WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.640 real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.960 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.240 It's the beginning of you when you come to the end of yourself, your friends can't 4 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:19.240 handle that. 5 00:00:19.240 --> 00:00:20.240 Why? 6 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:21.240 Because listen, they're dead. 7 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:23.360 They're dead because they're spiritually dead. 8 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:28.920 You are alive because you're physically dead. 9 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.920 Look at it. 10 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:39.280 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackibs.com slash podcast. 11 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:45.320 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 12 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.560 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 13 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:55.160 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 14 00:00:55.160 --> 00:00:58.720 Now open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 15 00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:01.720 Here is Jack Kibs. 16 00:01:01.720 --> 00:01:08.240 June 20th, 1977, Monday night, around 9 p.m. at night, Caverchapal, Costa Mesa. 17 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:13.360 In that moment, when I responded to the gospel reality, the truth hit me in the face. 18 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:15.680 My old man died. 19 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:20.520 I was 19 years old, but in that moment, old Jack died. 20 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:25.000 And here's the number one reason how I know that because from that moment on, there was 21 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:28.000 nothing but struggle in my life. 22 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.120 No, I mean that in a good way. 23 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:31.120 Struggle. 24 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:32.760 I never had a conflict with myself. 25 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.160 Whatever myself wanted, I got it. 26 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:39.680 I didn't withhold, like Solomon said, I didn't withhold anything from me. 27 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:40.680 Neither did I. 28 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:41.680 Neither did you. 29 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:42.680 Don't look at me like that. 30 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.800 You didn't, whatever you wanted, you manipulated around to get it. 31 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:46.800 That's what unbelievers do. 32 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:48.720 I don't blame them. 33 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:50.480 It's all they're living for. 34 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.680 And then Jesus walks into the picture. 35 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.200 And can I say happily ruins everything? 36 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.200 He shakes it all up. 37 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.200 Oh, we don't do this anymore. 38 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:03.200 What? 39 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.200 And we're not doing that. 40 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.280 Not just in maybe a little bit. 41 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.280 Nope, not at all. 42 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.280 How about this? 43 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.120 Gotta go. 44 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.480 And Jesus moves into your life. 45 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:17.000 And listen, he doesn't take out everything at once. 46 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.520 He goes from room to room. 47 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:24.000 He's like a chippin' Joanna Gaines, you know. 48 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.880 They work on the house and they get each room done at a time. 49 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:29.120 But they all work off a blueprint. 50 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.520 Do they not? 51 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.240 And that blueprint is Jesus Christ in you. 52 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:35.920 That's what God's doing to the life of the believer. 53 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:39.200 That's why you're alive right now in the 21st century. 54 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:41.240 That's why you're here. 55 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.680 There's a blueprint that God is working. 56 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:52.040 In best you die to you and accept that reality so that he can get the job done. 57 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:53.720 It's a beautiful thing to die to yourself. 58 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:56.720 It's a beautiful thing to come to the end of you. 59 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:00.480 No longer having to control it all. 60 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:03.960 This means that our new lives are now being animated. 61 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:04.960 I love that word. 62 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:08.800 Animated by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. 63 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:15.760 Ezekiel 36 verse 27 says, Ezekiel 36 27 says, I will put my spirit within you. 64 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:16.760 This is God speaking. 65 00:03:16.760 --> 00:03:18.560 This is awesome. 66 00:03:18.600 --> 00:03:22.760 I will put my spirit within you and cause. 67 00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:24.680 See the word cause. 68 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:25.600 This is a big word. 69 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:30.400 If you look it up later, the word cause here is Ezekiel 36 27. 70 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.760 The definition and application of this word cause is huge. 71 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:37.880 It's so broad, but it means this accomplish. 72 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:44.400 I will put my spirit within you and accomplish, administer, carve into you. 73 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.720 I like that. 74 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:48.480 To carve into you. 75 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:49.480 That's powerful. 76 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:50.880 To bestow upon you. 77 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:54.800 Here's another word I love to celebrate. 78 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.000 That's what it means. 79 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:57.800 Let's read it again. 80 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:04.680 I will put my spirit within you and cause you to celebrate as you walk in my statutes 81 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.720 and you will keep my judgments and do them. 82 00:04:07.720 --> 00:04:09.040 Put an awesome statement. 83 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:13.960 See, I told you earlier in the beginning, God doesn't call us to do anything 84 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.720 that we are to do in our own effort. 85 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:19.600 Notice what God said there in Ezekiel. 86 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.920 You're going to do my judgments. 87 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.520 You're going to keep them. 88 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:25.760 It's impossible. 89 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:27.840 Yes, it is. 90 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:28.360 Aren't you glad? 91 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:29.120 It's impossible. 92 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:30.960 Let's frustrate in this horrible. 93 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:31.800 Yes, it is. 94 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.920 You need to come to the end of you. 95 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.000 But it's killing me. 96 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:41.600 Amen. 97 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.600 What do I do? 98 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.200 Hallelujah. 99 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:49.000 You mean I can't save myself? 100 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.960 Celebrate. 101 00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:52.960 How does this make sense? 102 00:04:52.960 --> 00:04:55.720 I've been trying to, I've been a good boy, a good girl on my life. 103 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.280 I've been trying to just cross all the tees and dot all the ice. 104 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:02.160 Give it up. 105 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:03.360 Look, be a good citizen. 106 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:04.800 Don't get me wrong. 107 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:06.600 Keep the speed limit. 108 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.600 Keep your trash in your own car, will you? 109 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:16.040 But when it comes to salvation, you can't do any of that stuff. 110 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.640 Now, the good news is God says, I will put my spirit in you. 111 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:26.360 I will cause you to walk in my statutes and keep my judgments. 112 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.360 God will do it. 113 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.840 The implications of this are profound in liberating. 114 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:35.640 It's great when you come to the end of yourself. 115 00:05:35.640 --> 00:05:39.640 Look, we're talking about dying to self. 116 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:40.880 This is true story. 117 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:42.200 Well, I say it's a true story. 118 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:46.800 I read it in a book written by J. Vernon McGee, so it better be true. 119 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.320 I trust that guy, especially now that he's dead, I really trust him. 120 00:05:51.320 --> 00:05:55.000 You can't trust living people that could change their mind tomorrow, but dead people. 121 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.520 They don't change their mind. 122 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:03.480 In fact, it's done in on me that almost every book I read written about a bunch of dead 123 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.000 old people. 124 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:10.160 I feel safe in that. 125 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.000 But McGee talks about this guy whose dad died in Texas, West Texas, but his dad was born 126 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:24.280 in Southern California, and the old man died in cowboy. 127 00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:27.760 And so his son rented a Cadillac. 128 00:06:27.760 --> 00:06:30.120 His dad always wanted to ride in a Cadillac convertible. 129 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:35.040 His son rented a Cadillac convertible, put his cowboy hat down, put his dead dad in the 130 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:40.120 passenger seat of the car, put a cowboy hat on him, and drove him from Texas. 131 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:45.520 To Southern California to be buried here somewhere. 132 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:56.080 And the guy was pulled over by a patrolman, and he thought it'd be good to just slip the 133 00:06:56.080 --> 00:07:00.120 cowboy hat a little lower on his dad's head. 134 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.000 And the guy was talking to the, you're going a little too fast. 135 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:07.440 I know you're in a convertible, then it's hot, so I'm going to give you a warning this 136 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:08.440 time. 137 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.120 I hope you guys are comfortable, talk to you later, see a good bye, and the guy drives 138 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.120 away. 139 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.720 The whole point was, whenever that guy stopped for gas, whenever the guy stopped for ice 140 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:25.200 cream, whenever he stopped for a coffee, his dad didn't have anything. 141 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:29.560 And in fact, his dad never said, I could sure go for a lemonade right about now. 142 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.640 Do you want to know why? 143 00:07:31.640 --> 00:07:36.000 Dead people don't demand anything. 144 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.840 Dead people listen, they're only along for the ride. 145 00:07:39.840 --> 00:07:42.640 Jesus is driving. 146 00:07:42.640 --> 00:07:46.960 We're the ones who are dead to our demands now. 147 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:52.760 And the truth of the matter is that dead people listen, when someone's dead, you do not, 148 00:07:52.760 --> 00:07:59.760 you can pass in and out, double, double animal style in front of them. 149 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:00.760 They don't do anything. 150 00:08:00.760 --> 00:08:04.920 You can pass in front of them a number two fish tacos, black beans, white rice. 151 00:08:05.320 --> 00:08:08.600 They don't do anything, they don't even move. 152 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.800 Banana split, not a budge. 153 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.480 You can't tempt a dead man. 154 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:22.240 And the Bible says, I've been crucified with Christ. 155 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:31.080 But it's no longer me who lives, somebody's living put on this truth, it's time I live. 156 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:36.760 It's time that you and I live, Galatians 2.20 goes on and says, but Christ lives in me. 157 00:08:36.760 --> 00:08:38.160 I didn't know how to say this. 158 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:43.880 On my notes, the word but is in red and it's underlined and in my notes and I'm preaching 159 00:08:43.880 --> 00:08:51.520 this in my head, I need to say, but it doesn't sound right, but this but here is very significant. 160 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:55.080 This is a very big here. 161 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:59.800 This is a very powerful. 162 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:04.440 This but is all important. 163 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.760 It is a qualifying declaration. 164 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:13.880 But Christ, it's a firework show at the end of the day. 165 00:09:13.880 --> 00:09:17.720 But Christ, it's the answer to everything. 166 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:24.520 Your life's issue, but Christ, the doctor said, but Christ, my husband said, but Christ, 167 00:09:24.520 --> 00:09:28.320 my wife, my kids, my work, but Christ. 168 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.200 Christ lives in the believer. 169 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.040 This is the fact of Almighty God. 170 00:09:34.040 --> 00:09:36.600 And don't think for a moment, if that's true, you're going to have goose bumps, you're 171 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.080 going to feel really full all the time. 172 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:42.200 That's somehow there's no room in you because Christ lives in you. 173 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.160 No, listen, it's spirit. 174 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:55.600 It's a spiritual truth, which I'm grateful about because spiritual truths outlast physical. 175 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.240 I believe, though, I think it's the old King James version that puts it this way. 176 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:05.040 Some of you can check, I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live yet not I. 177 00:10:05.040 --> 00:10:06.040 I like that. 178 00:10:06.040 --> 00:10:07.040 Yet not I. 179 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:08.200 That's a great t-shirt. 180 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.920 Yet not I. 181 00:10:11.920 --> 00:10:12.920 Yet not I. 182 00:10:12.920 --> 00:10:13.920 Wow. 183 00:10:13.920 --> 00:10:19.160 Paul had such a clear cut understanding that in his life, when he was living, that when 184 00:10:19.160 --> 00:10:23.400 he sinned, he would declare, wait a minute. 185 00:10:23.400 --> 00:10:24.400 That's not me. 186 00:10:24.400 --> 00:10:26.800 Read Romans 7 and 8 later. 187 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:27.800 That's your homework. 188 00:10:27.800 --> 00:10:29.600 Wait a minute, Paul would say. 189 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:35.720 Can you imagine Paul's walking along, he was walking, and he was a bad thought. 190 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.080 That's not me. 191 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.480 I've been crucified with Christ. 192 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.080 Nevertheless, I live. 193 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.720 Yet it's not I, but Christ lives in me. 194 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:53.160 I am reckoning now that thought that I would never have normally ever in my past life grabbed 195 00:10:53.160 --> 00:10:55.520 ahold of and hated like I do now. 196 00:10:55.520 --> 00:10:56.800 I hate it now. 197 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:00.240 And because I hate it now, it's proof that the Spirit of God lives in me. 198 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:04.720 And so what I'm doing right now is I'm grabbing that thought and I'm throwing it to the back 199 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:11.000 and I'm saying right now that thoughts under the captivity of Christ because Paul died 200 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:16.680 years ago, the new Paul lives and thank you, Jesus, for taking care of that. 201 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:18.000 I'll talk to you. 202 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:19.000 So. 203 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:20.000 And he'd walk. 204 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.000 And that's what you do. 205 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.800 That's what a believer does. 206 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:28.240 Because it's no longer you. 207 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.440 It's Christ living in you. 208 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.600 But a glorious truth. 209 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:40.520 And so yet not I, in Romans 8, verse 11, the Bible says, if the Spirit of Him who raised 210 00:11:40.520 --> 00:11:46.000 Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give 211 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:51.840 life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 212 00:11:51.840 --> 00:12:01.560 Again, Philippians 310, this is awesome, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection. 213 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:02.840 Stop right there at the comma. 214 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.040 Raise your hand if you want to know the power of His resurrection. 215 00:12:06.040 --> 00:12:07.040 Yeah. 216 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:08.600 Let's keep reading. 217 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.160 And the fellowship of His sufferings. 218 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:12.160 Raise your hand again. 219 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:17.160 No, if we really knew, if we really knew the benefits of suffering in Christ with Christ, 220 00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:24.480 we'd all say, you know what, yes to that, yes because let me die. 221 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.840 Let me diminish that he might increase. 222 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:28.840 Why? 223 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.880 Because you'll be conformed to his death, conformed to his death, meaning this that again, 224 00:12:32.880 --> 00:12:36.080 the dead man is not tempted by this world. 225 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:41.000 He said, free, put on this truth, it's the beginning of me. 226 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:45.000 It's not only time to live, it's the beginning of me. 227 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:49.360 And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God. 228 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:50.360 What a statement. 229 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.920 Hey, what are you doing over there, Paul? 230 00:12:52.920 --> 00:12:56.760 I'm living by faith in the Son of God. 231 00:12:56.760 --> 00:13:00.360 It's the new life that I'm living. 232 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.040 People who are dead, they don't understand that. 233 00:13:03.040 --> 00:13:04.040 Christians walk around. 234 00:13:04.560 --> 00:13:05.880 Praise the Lord. 235 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:06.880 God is awesome. 236 00:13:09.800 --> 00:13:12.600 Issues happen in life, the Christian goes, God's got this. 237 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:16.080 I don't understand it, he's got it, I get it, he's got it. 238 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:21.760 Well, come on, and all your unbelieving friends and family say, come on, freak out with us. 239 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:24.880 Worry about it, will you choose some mail? 240 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:29.240 Get some gut pain, get sick, you should worry like the rest of us. 241 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.120 Nope, not gonna go there. 242 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.200 God's got this, I can't explain it, but the Lord's in control. 243 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:39.520 Listen, friends, I can't go anywhere, I'm a believer, I can't go anywhere without him being with me. 244 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:46.240 I don't understand what's happening, that accident, that incident, I don't get it, but I know this, I'm here, that means he's here. 245 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.200 And somehow in a way, it's gonna take some time, maybe? 246 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.160 The answer's gonna come. 247 00:13:51.160 --> 00:13:52.280 Your friends can't handle that. 248 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:54.160 Why? Because listen, they're dead. 249 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:56.560 They're dead because they're spiritually dead. 250 00:13:56.560 --> 00:13:59.920 You are alive because you're physically dead. 251 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:02.360 Think of it. 252 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:12.520 When your hand says, I want some of that, in Jesus' name, that has been crucified with Christ. 253 00:14:12.520 --> 00:14:15.640 Your friends, you're unbelieving friends, they can't do that. 254 00:14:15.640 --> 00:14:17.720 They're just walking around like this, you're just going to lose. 255 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:21.200 I'm not gonna mean to insult your friends that are here right now, but this is the kind of how it is. 256 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:27.360 They just go like this, and the hand goes like this, and they just go. 257 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:29.800 And then go like this. 258 00:14:31.800 --> 00:14:35.320 Whatever the body's demanding, they're slave to it. 259 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.320 They're not free. 260 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.560 Now it's the beginning of you when you come to the end of yourself. 261 00:14:41.560 --> 00:14:47.160 Colossians 1.26 says that the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, 262 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:56.800 but now has been revealed to his saints, to them God willed, to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, 263 00:14:56.800 --> 00:15:01.160 which is this, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 264 00:15:01.160 --> 00:15:02.960 Good news. 265 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:04.760 I love that. 266 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:09.360 One more verse before we get to the closing argument is in Romans 13, 14. 267 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:17.280 Romans 13, 14 says, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lust. 268 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:20.800 See, you're gonna be surrounded by the lust of this world. 269 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:22.720 How do you combat it? 270 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.200 Please listen, put on Jesus, put on the Lord Jesus. 271 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.200 Put him on. 272 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.880 So if you've got to do this, do this. 273 00:15:30.880 --> 00:15:37.920 If you've got to get your mind conditioned by acting it out tomorrow morning, do it. 274 00:15:37.920 --> 00:15:42.080 I know many of us, many, huge majority of us have been to Israel. 275 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:48.360 And one of the things I encourage people to do is get a beautiful authentic, they're not cheap. 276 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:53.840 Hebrew, prayer shawl, they're fantastic, but units cool about it in the morning. 277 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:54.840 No one's looking. 278 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:55.840 Who cares? 279 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.760 Only God's with you. 280 00:15:57.760 --> 00:15:59.720 In the morning it's dark, it's early. 281 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:02.240 Wrap yourself up in that thing. 282 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.720 Get on your knees if you want to or go stand out in the backyard with that thing all over you. 283 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.760 And say, Lord, I'm here to be with you. 284 00:16:08.760 --> 00:16:10.600 Do it. 285 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:11.600 What's what happens? 286 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.440 Listen, another thing, I don't want to be, you know, sound like some legalistic monk or something, 287 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:20.480 but, and I'm not, but I've got to tell you, if you ever pray, right? 288 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:26.600 If you ever pray in your focus wanders away, you know, there's a cure for that. 289 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.600 Get on your knees and pray. 290 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:36.360 And when I'm talking, I'm talking like this, it is very uncomfortable to this. 291 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:37.360 This is very uncomfortable. 292 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.240 It's okay right now. 293 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:47.200 But 10 minutes from now, 30 minutes from now, your prayer life will become much more efficient 294 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.280 because I don't know what it is about this, but you will not wander. 295 00:16:51.280 --> 00:16:54.880 When is Disneyland going to open up? 296 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:57.560 That won't happen. 297 00:16:57.560 --> 00:17:04.640 The pain that starts to happen in your thighs and your hamstrings and your, your rear end, 298 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.040 it's intense, your lower back sometimes will begin to spasm. 299 00:17:08.040 --> 00:17:09.440 He says, are you insane? 300 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:13.960 No, what I'm doing is I'm telling my flesh, you're dead. 301 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:14.960 I don't listen to you. 302 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.200 In fact, I'm going to use you to connect with God. 303 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.240 You are going to obey this moment. 304 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.440 We're going to talk to God and you are going to comply. 305 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.760 And if you don't, I'll make you stay here another 30 minutes. 306 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:30.320 Begin to think and exercise the separation. 307 00:17:30.320 --> 00:17:31.920 This is just a tool you and I have. 308 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:32.840 We dress it all up. 309 00:17:32.840 --> 00:17:36.320 I put extra cologne on this morning because I'm older. 310 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:37.600 You stink as you get older. 311 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:38.960 You just start to stink. 312 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:40.400 I'm discovering this. 313 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:41.120 More cologne. 314 00:17:41.120 --> 00:17:43.480 Why? I'm dying. 315 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.880 You've got to cover up the stench. 316 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:57.320 They should have formaldehyde that you start, it's very important. 317 00:17:57.320 --> 00:18:01.560 But that word to put on Jesus, the word means to be enveloped or to actually sink into. 318 00:18:01.560 --> 00:18:04.240 The word means sink, listen to this. 319 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:11.480 The Greek word means to sink into Jesus. 320 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:17.040 And then finally put on this truth, it's about time. 321 00:18:17.040 --> 00:18:21.240 It's He who loved me and gave Himself for me. 322 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.120 It's the very essence in the spirit of sacrifice. 323 00:18:24.120 --> 00:18:25.440 Did you know that love? 324 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.800 There's no such thing as a sacrifice of that love. 325 00:18:28.800 --> 00:18:35.480 If you're, listen, if you're making a sacrifice without love, it's called religion. 326 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:37.640 God's not in it. 327 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:45.240 If your sacrifice is because of love, God's in it, He's blessed. 328 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:52.680 We can learn a lot if we sanctify things that we see in this world. 329 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:58.600 When you love someone, remember, it starts out in phases and it develops into a deep, 330 00:18:58.600 --> 00:19:01.200 powerful river. 331 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:05.080 Starts out like a splash. 332 00:19:05.080 --> 00:19:06.080 Love starts. 333 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:14.000 Maybe it's attraction emotionally or physically, you're all giddy, crazy, do all these stupid 334 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.520 things. 335 00:19:16.520 --> 00:19:19.120 Why love? 336 00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:23.520 The person doesn't matter what they smell like, doesn't matter their hair, doesn't matter, 337 00:19:23.520 --> 00:19:29.640 doesn't matter that they snort when they laugh, it doesn't matter. 338 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.480 Everybody around, everybody is annoyed in the entire room, but because you love that 339 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:37.200 person, they're just perfect. 340 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:42.280 These slopping when they eat their food and people are cringy and you're going, isn't 341 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:49.560 she amazing? 342 00:19:49.560 --> 00:19:55.680 Then it grows on, gets deeper, and it gets deeper, and it gets deeper. 343 00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:06.160 Some things change, and the maturing of the love never stops sacrificing. 344 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:11.240 Starts out with sacrifice in a maturist and a sacrifice that maturist is a sacrifice 345 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:16.120 that is well pleasing to the Lord. 346 00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:17.760 It's about time that we put on this truth. 347 00:20:17.760 --> 00:20:19.760 Why do we make this so hard? 348 00:20:19.840 --> 00:20:27.840 Is that he loves you, and he gave himself to you? 349 00:20:27.840 --> 00:20:32.000 This Jack Kibb's podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are 350 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.720 listener supported. 351 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.320 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 352 00:20:37.320 --> 00:20:44.760 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.