WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.320 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.280 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:21.280 If you're living in a certain sin and you have come, listen, in your righteousness you 4 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:27.640 have so mitigated it and you've so taken sandpaper and taken up your rough edges that people 5 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:35.960 who do that are terrible people, but yours is different. 6 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:42.440 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com slash podcast. 7 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:48.400 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 8 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:51.640 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 9 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:58.240 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 10 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:04.680 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you, here is Jack Kibs. 11 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:09.120 In John chapter 8, begin in verse 2, you'll recognize it quickly in a moment. 12 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:16.720 The Bible says there that now early in the morning he that's Jesus came into the temple. 13 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:20.600 That's the temple precinct, the temple compound. 14 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.200 And all the people came to him, isn't that beautiful? 15 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.660 Listen everybody, if Jesus was so spooky scary and God is mean and ugly, then why did all 16 00:01:28.660 --> 00:01:31.800 the people come to him? 17 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:36.160 I got a feeling wherever Jesus went, I mean this reverently, I do. 18 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:43.080 Wherever Jesus went, I think dogs ran up to him because have you noticed dogs, no stuff? 19 00:01:43.080 --> 00:01:44.080 Have you? 20 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:48.200 If your dog doesn't go to someone, you need to, there's something wrong with that person. 21 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:55.560 Have you noticed little kids, little kids and dogs go to someone, that person's okay. 22 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.680 If a little kid pulls away from somebody and the dog goes and puts its tail between his 23 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:04.400 legs and gets away from the person, you better watch out. 24 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:06.400 Something's up. 25 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.600 Jesus shows up and everybody comes to him. 26 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:14.160 And he sat down and he taught them, verse 3, and then the scribes and Pharisees, boy here 27 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:16.520 comes the party poopers. 28 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:22.240 They brought to him a woman caught in adultery, okay. 29 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:29.280 Number one, watch this, Jesus is in the temple compound area in Jerusalem, the temple mount. 30 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:36.240 It's in the morning, everybody's there, big crowd. 31 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:44.680 The religionist drag a woman caught in adultery. 32 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:51.280 And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Jesus, teacher, this woman who was 33 00:02:51.280 --> 00:03:01.880 caught in adultery in the very act, which I told you before, it must mean they were watching. 34 00:03:01.880 --> 00:03:10.080 Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what do you say? 35 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.800 This they said, testing Jesus, that they might have something of which to accuse him. 36 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:22.640 But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 37 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:29.840 And the last time that happened, God was writing with his finger on 10 commandments. 38 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.080 As though he did not hear. 39 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:40.040 So when they continued asking him, by the way, the word in the Greek is they answer us. 40 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:43.720 Moses said, she's to be stoned, answer us. 41 00:03:43.720 --> 00:03:49.120 Answer us, Moses said, she's to be stoned, you know, you know, and I'm wondering if the mind of God, 42 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:57.720 he just hears this, no wonder why Jesus acted like he didn't hear them. 43 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:02.160 He probably just tuned them out. 44 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:05.760 He raised himself up, Jesus didn't said to them. 45 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:13.480 He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first. 46 00:04:13.480 --> 00:04:18.600 Verse 8, and again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 47 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.880 Then those who heard it, okay, that's weird. 48 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:28.080 He was writing, but they heard it. 49 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:30.280 Are you watching this? 50 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:39.480 Being convicted by their conscience, oh now we know, he's writing in the dirt, but they hear it in their head. 51 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:44.520 They went out one by one, beginning with the oldest, this is so Jewish. 52 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:48.720 The oldest, even to the last of the youngest, the oldest left first, why? 53 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.560 Because the person who lives longer has greater sin, more sin. 54 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:00.000 In other words, their account is more overdue than the other than the young guy. 55 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:05.960 The young guy hasn't lived long enough to rack up that too big of a bill, but the older guy has, 56 00:05:05.960 --> 00:05:11.200 and the older guy is going, yikes. 57 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:16.120 And so, and the woman standing in the midst, and when Jesus had raised himself up, 58 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:21.600 he saw no one but the woman, and he said to her, woman, where are your accusers of yours? 59 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.720 Has no one condemned you? 60 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.640 No, that's a funny thing, isn't it? 61 00:05:25.640 --> 00:05:27.040 They're all condemning her. 62 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:33.720 And she said, and I wonder what this sounded like, no one, Lord? 63 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.320 And Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more. 64 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:41.400 That word is, do not practice sin any longer. 65 00:05:41.400 --> 00:05:43.400 Don't let it rule over you anymore. 66 00:05:43.400 --> 00:05:47.720 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. 67 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:54.000 He who believes in me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. 68 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:55.480 Do you want to know why this is amazing? 69 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:00.880 They brought the woman to Jesus against the law of Moses. 70 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:07.280 They bring the woman to Jesus without the man, okay? 71 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:15.920 Their intention was not to enforce righteousness like some rulekeepers. 72 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:18.680 They were looking to set Jesus up, right? 73 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.640 To pit him against Moses. 74 00:06:21.640 --> 00:06:22.640 Why do they do that? 75 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:26.080 Because Moses was the stalwart of the law. 76 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:28.720 He was the representative of the Ten Commandments. 77 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:33.560 He was the one who issued from Mount Sinai the rules. 78 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:37.160 And when you don't know God, you're all about rules. 79 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.680 And they had the rules on their side. 80 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.120 And they were going to nail Jesus, but they needed someone. 81 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.920 And I think personally I'm making this part up now. 82 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:47.680 Why didn't they bring the man? 83 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.560 Because the man was probably hired to entice that woman into sin. 84 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:57.120 Because according to the law, there's supposed to be her and him. 85 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:02.800 And according to the law, they're both to be tried and stoned to death together. 86 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:05.040 But this is not what's going on. 87 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.160 In fact, how quickly the table's turned, it's beautiful. 88 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.840 But not only that, listen, according to the oral law of the Jews, 89 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:18.280 the priest was to go down into the ground and write, watch this, 90 00:07:18.280 --> 00:07:26.080 write the person's name and the accusation against them in the dirt. 91 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:27.120 Watch. 92 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.360 And when the sentence comes, are you listening? 93 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.280 When the sentence comes, guilty. 94 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:42.360 The priest takes his hand or his foot and he wipes out from the earth your name. 95 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:44.360 You're removed. 96 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.760 Think about it. 97 00:07:46.760 --> 00:07:47.760 That's your name. 98 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:52.840 The Bible says all those whose names were not found written in the Lamb's book of life, 99 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:54.280 but had been blotted out. 100 00:07:54.280 --> 00:07:55.280 It's that picture. 101 00:07:55.280 --> 00:08:00.560 The name is removed and you're condemned. 102 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.280 That's what the priest was supposed to do. 103 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:11.960 They should have stooped down in written her name, her sin, his name, his sin. 104 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:15.280 And issue the condemnation, but something's wrong. 105 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.600 It's interesting about this church, is that this issue takes place at the temple regarding 106 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:29.440 this woman, the stooping down in the writing in the earth. 107 00:08:29.440 --> 00:08:34.440 The oldest to the youngest of the legalists is condemned in their conscience. 108 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:38.800 They hear what he writes. 109 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:44.360 When we read what God writes, we should hear in our hearts and our minds. 110 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:54.800 It should convict us or encourage us, bless us, strengthen us, guide us, admonish us 111 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:00.320 when we read it, we should hear it. 112 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:05.400 But then Jesus follows up and says, on the light of the world, he says that, by the way, 113 00:09:05.400 --> 00:09:13.760 on the last, listen, all night long, the grand menorahs during the festival of lights 114 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:15.880 at the temple had been burning. 115 00:09:15.880 --> 00:09:19.760 By the way, they're huge and they just lit up the temple mount. 116 00:09:19.760 --> 00:09:22.880 We're talking huge. 117 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:25.840 Candolabras as it were. 118 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:29.760 And they had just extinguish them. 119 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:35.880 And then Jesus, no doubt he waited till they put out the lights. 120 00:09:35.880 --> 00:09:44.000 And Jesus says, I wish, I want to see this, Jesus must have motion toward those Candolabras 121 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.000 at the temple mount. 122 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:52.960 He must have pointed to them and said, I am the light of the world. 123 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:57.520 Every Jew would have went, oh, they. 124 00:09:57.520 --> 00:10:03.840 The light went out, but he is something more than the light that just went out. 125 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.840 This is the one who writes. 126 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:05.840 Now, listen to this. 127 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:06.840 What was going on? 128 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:11.600 Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 13, remember the woman caught in the act of adultery, remember 129 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:19.360 what the scribes and Pharisees are doing, writing in the dirt, they should have. 130 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.800 Jesus assumes the role of being the priest that he is. 131 00:10:22.800 --> 00:10:28.280 He's the one who writes in the dirt, but he doesn't write anything about the woman. 132 00:10:28.280 --> 00:10:38.600 He writes about them, the religionist, the self-righteous, I'm better than you, individual, 133 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:43.000 who thinks they're great with God and all is well. 134 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.920 Jeremiah 17, 13 says, O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be ashamed. 135 00:10:48.920 --> 00:10:52.400 The word is also translated embarrassed. 136 00:10:52.400 --> 00:10:58.360 Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the 137 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.600 Lord, the fountain of living waters. 138 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:08.320 Did not Jesus also pronounce that he was the fountain of living waters? 139 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.400 Do you see what's going on here when God sees? 140 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:13.880 He sees all. 141 00:11:13.880 --> 00:11:24.000 He sees the lost lonely, person consumed and sinned, and he sees the man who is deceived 142 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:30.480 and wrapped in his self-righteousness, and God sees them equally lost. 143 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.280 And we need Christ. 144 00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:36.920 And so we're looking at the fact that the Old Testament reveals the righteousness of God. 145 00:11:36.920 --> 00:11:39.120 That's what the Ten Commandments does. 146 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:47.840 That's why, by the way, nobody wants to post the Ten Commandments in our nation's facilities 147 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:51.360 or in our state facilities or schools. 148 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:56.520 Listen, the reason why it's not a political issue, it's a spiritual issue, that's just 149 00:11:56.520 --> 00:12:01.320 that the politicians say, you can't put the Ten Commandments in the classroom. 150 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:08.040 Even though it is probably the single most greatest and most famous bit of human history, 151 00:12:08.040 --> 00:12:09.560 you can't put it in there. 152 00:12:09.560 --> 00:12:10.560 Why? 153 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:11.560 Because it makes us uncomfortable. 154 00:12:11.560 --> 00:12:17.640 Well, it would only make you uncomfortable if you're guilty of things on the list. 155 00:12:17.640 --> 00:12:20.640 And that's exactly what it was given for. 156 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:22.480 But we can't have that. 157 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.560 But it doesn't negate God's law. 158 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:27.760 Verse 1 says, therefore, you are inexcusable. 159 00:12:27.760 --> 00:12:32.040 There's no excuse, oh man, whoever you are who judge. 160 00:12:32.040 --> 00:12:33.040 This is interesting. 161 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:34.040 Watch this. 162 00:12:34.040 --> 00:12:37.920 For in what you judge another, you condemn yourself. 163 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:40.520 For you who judge, practice the same things. 164 00:12:40.520 --> 00:12:44.480 I want you to make a note, write this, everybody, don't confuse this. 165 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:52.200 According to the scripture, we are commanded, even by Jesus himself, to judge. 166 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:53.200 Did you know that? 167 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.960 Now listen, it's true. 168 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.520 You say, ugh, but we're not supposed to judge. 169 00:12:59.520 --> 00:13:02.840 We are victims of the English language, okay? 170 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:12.240 Our words don't have the technic color as the Greek or Hebrew or Arabic has. 171 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:19.400 When the Bible here says that when you look to somebody and you say, oh my goodness, you 172 00:13:19.400 --> 00:13:22.520 should never cheat on your income debts. 173 00:13:22.520 --> 00:13:30.360 And then you cheat on yours, okay? 174 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.520 That's wrong. 175 00:13:32.520 --> 00:13:36.040 This is what the Bible is talking about. 176 00:13:36.040 --> 00:13:41.880 If you're living in a certain sin and you have come, well, listen, in your righteousness 177 00:13:41.880 --> 00:13:47.440 you have so mitigated it and you've so taken sandpaper and taken up the rough edges 178 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.720 that people who do that are terrible people. 179 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:55.640 But yours is different. 180 00:13:55.640 --> 00:13:57.640 You are not to do that. 181 00:13:57.640 --> 00:14:01.360 This is the judgment that you are not to do. 182 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:06.240 But when I say that we are commanded to judge, listen, didn't Paul the Apostle in Romans 183 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:12.200 chapter 1 judge all those who are living abhorrent lifestyles? 184 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.920 The answer is yes. 185 00:14:13.920 --> 00:14:17.840 Didn't Jesus say by their fruits? 186 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:18.840 You'll know them. 187 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.880 What was he saying? 188 00:14:20.880 --> 00:14:22.200 Watch someone's life. 189 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.200 Okay, listen up. 190 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.520 Usher's locked the doors. 191 00:14:26.520 --> 00:14:30.880 This is what Jesus is saying and James said the same thing. 192 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:41.320 You can really, really know who or what a person really is, not by what they say they 193 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.040 are, but watch them. 194 00:14:46.040 --> 00:14:54.120 And then you can conclude by judgments, you come to a decision, there's nothing about 195 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.120 their life that's Christian. 196 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.920 Do you see? 197 00:14:59.920 --> 00:15:02.760 This is very important. 198 00:15:02.760 --> 00:15:07.800 If we go no further today, this is what the Bible is teaching. 199 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:15.160 Nobody is a follower of Jesus Christ by word only, by declaration only. 200 00:15:15.160 --> 00:15:17.440 I'm a Christian. 201 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:24.280 I've told you before when somebody says, I am a highly full blown atheist. 202 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:25.600 I don't believe in God. 203 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:26.600 I have to tell you. 204 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:31.080 When I talk to such people, I'm relaxed. 205 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:32.320 You want to know why? 206 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:38.480 If they say, I just robbed a bank, I just did this or that. 207 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.560 I'm okay with them. 208 00:15:40.560 --> 00:15:42.880 I don't expect anything else from them. 209 00:15:42.880 --> 00:15:47.440 Now don't write me a letter and say, I pastor, you're so mean, I'm an atheist and I've never 210 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:48.600 robbed a bank. 211 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.440 Oh, listen, no kidding. 212 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:52.640 But you get the point. 213 00:15:52.640 --> 00:15:54.880 If you're an atheist, you have no standard. 214 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:56.520 There's no bar to live up to. 215 00:15:56.760 --> 00:15:58.520 There's no God to answer to. 216 00:15:58.520 --> 00:16:00.080 You can do whatever you want. 217 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:04.080 It's the survival of the fittest. 218 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:05.080 So you're cool. 219 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:06.080 I'm cool with you. 220 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.240 I'm not going to be surprised by anything you do. 221 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.640 But the moment somebody comes along and says, I'm a Christian. 222 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:14.480 Oh boy. 223 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.800 Here we go. 224 00:16:16.800 --> 00:16:18.200 Do you see where I'm going with this? 225 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.000 Now I got to watch you. 226 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.760 If I say the same thing to you, look, if I meet you somewhere and you ask me a question 227 00:16:24.760 --> 00:16:28.240 or say, I'm a Christian, you should say, oh boy. 228 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.120 Now I got to watch you to see if it's true. 229 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.000 You made a huge claim. 230 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.520 Big claim there. 231 00:16:35.520 --> 00:16:39.560 You declared to be a follower of Jesus, obedient to the Lord Jesus. 232 00:16:39.560 --> 00:16:42.360 He's your Lord. 233 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:47.120 So now I got to watch you for the next 30 days. 234 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.440 That's what James, that's what the book of James is all about. 235 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:53.120 James, the book of James basically says to the believer, I'm going to move into your 236 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:54.120 house. 237 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:58.720 I'm going to watch you for 30 days and listen to you, see how you treat your husband, 238 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:03.280 see how you treat your wife, your kids, see how you conduct yourself in your singleness. 239 00:17:03.280 --> 00:17:09.560 At the end of 30 days, I, me, James, will tell you if you're a Christian or not. 240 00:17:09.560 --> 00:17:11.400 Powerful, right? 241 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.600 It's the world around us that can tell us if our Christians are not. 242 00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:21.720 If people hate us and people hate us, do they hate us because we're mean, rude and ugly? 243 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:25.600 Or do they hate us because of what we stand for because what we stand for glorifies 244 00:17:25.600 --> 00:17:27.600 God? 245 00:17:27.600 --> 00:17:28.600 Big difference. 246 00:17:28.600 --> 00:17:32.160 None of us should be ugly or rude. 247 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:38.080 But when we say this is what I stand for because God's Word says this, it's all together 248 00:17:38.080 --> 00:17:43.800 different. 249 00:17:43.800 --> 00:17:47.880 This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcasts out reach opportunities are 250 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:49.640 listener supported. 251 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.240 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 252 00:17:53.240 --> 00:18:00.840 Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.