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 --> 00:00:10.640 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Don't you long to be like him? 3 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.920 Is that what you're living for? I don't want to be me anymore. I want to be him. 4 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:18.240 Lord, make me like you. Whatever my plans and thoughts are, just throw them in the 5 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:22.880 back. Bring yours forward. Have you lived or walked enough with Jesus where it's 6 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:28.800 like, Lord, whatever I'm talking about. If anything's goofy, just don't even hear it. 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.840 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 8 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:42.320 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 9 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:48.400 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or 10 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:54.320 yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's word 11 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:02.080 has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. John chapter 15, Jesus said, I am the true vine and my 12 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:07.200 father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. 13 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.400 So you want to ask yourself, am I a fruit bearing Christian? So what does that mean? 14 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:21.600 Are you watching seasons of your life go along that over time? You are beginning to exhibit more 15 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:26.880 and more of God in control of your life. Are you starting to see the fruit of the holy... 16 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:31.680 Are you more patient now than you were last year as a Christian? Do you know more? 17 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.960 And are you experiencing more of God in your life? If that happens, you're going to start 18 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:44.160 bearing fruits. Now, outside, I think there's still orange, maybe it's kind of past season, 19 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:50.160 but the orange trees, those orange trees, they produce oranges, they're orange trees. 20 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.560 Yes, what they do. Not going to get a cherry off of them. They're orange trees. 21 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.920 There's all of trees. You're going to get olives. You're not going to get an orange off the olive tree. 22 00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:05.440 They're bearing fruit. That's what they're supposed to do. A believer is supposed to bear the 23 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:11.280 fruit that God, the Holy Spirit, is producing within their lives. Every branch that bears fruit, 24 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.200 he prunes. We none of us sign up for this, but all of us experience it. When you and I are growing 25 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.760 in God's kingdom, he winds up, it's like, oh my goodness, this is amazing. And then we wind up getting 26 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:27.120 pruned. What is that? He cuts back. What is he? What did that happen? Why am I going through this 27 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.480 difficulty? Because out of this cut back, so much fruit was being produced this way, but when he 28 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:39.760 cuts this back, so much more, it branches out. Pruning's a great thing. It just hurts. 29 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:46.240 That I made bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I spoke to you. 30 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:53.120 Here it comes, abide in me. See the word abide. It means live with me. It means you and I, 31 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.440 Jesus is saying to you, let's live together, you and I. Stay with me. I'll stay with you. 32 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:08.400 Let's do this together, abide. Listen, he's saying abide in me and I and you as the branch cannot 33 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.360 bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine. Neither can you unless you abide in me. 34 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:19.680 I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in me and I and him bears much fruit 35 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:25.360 for without me, you can do nothing. How does this work with the sovereignty of God? It works 36 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:33.760 perfectly good. Because God knew, for example, that you, Susie, would come to Christ when you would 37 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:39.680 heard the gospel you'd respond. God knew that you would respond Susie before the universe was 38 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.920 ever created. Based on his foreign knowledge, guess what you're going to do, Susie? You're going 39 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:52.240 to wind up abiding in Christ. The Holy Spirit is going to be speaking to you and drawing you. 40 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:58.240 Listen, church, test yourself. Is the Spirit of God pulling you closer to Jesus in these rough days, 41 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:05.040 in these trying times? You are either now gravitating closer to Jesus or you're beginning to 42 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:12.400 emanate outward away from him right now. And Jesus says to you today, abide with me. That means 43 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.720 he's speaking to you and maybe in your life you're hearing God say you need to cut this off or you 44 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.840 need to make sure that this or the other. He's doing that because he loves you and he's speaking 45 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:29.200 to you about abiding and it's so beautiful. Look what he winds up saying. He says that if you abide 46 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:35.600 verse seven, in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done 47 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.480 for you. That's awesome because that means the word becomes so much in control that you're thinking 48 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:47.840 like Bible. By this, my father is glorified that you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples. 49 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:54.000 As the father loved me, Jesus said, I also have loved you. Church, good night. God bless. Let's go 50 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:59.760 home. Seriously, this is Jesus speaking. Jesus just said, you know how much the father loves me? 51 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:05.840 Think about how much does the father love Jesus? Jesus says, that's how much I love you. 52 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:12.160 That's how much my father loves you. Jesus is saying, my father loves me as much as he loves you. 53 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:21.040 What problem do you and I have that is bigger than that? This gives me security. This gives me comfort. 54 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:27.120 I also have loved you, abide in my love. Verse 10, if you keep my commandments, this is fun. Watch this. 55 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.520 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love. Just as I have kept my father's commandments and 56 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:35.520 abide in his love, this is not like, okay, you keep these five rules and you're going to make it. 57 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:40.640 Just come on. You're almost there. Try a little harder next time. That's not what it is. It's getting 58 00:05:40.640 --> 00:05:45.760 back to that relationship. Lord, I love you so much because you love me so much. I want to be your 59 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:51.600 child. You say the word and I'll be like a slave. I'll do whatever you want because I know whatever 60 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.320 you want is good for me. So in Jesus' keep my commandments. It's like, oh, I knew there was a catch. 61 00:05:59.760 --> 00:06:08.080 That's not what it is. It's like, yes. Can I put it this way? If you listen to what I've told you 62 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:16.000 to do so that you might have an incredibly bountiful, fruitful life, abide in my love. 63 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.680 Just as kept my father's commandments and abide in his love, absolutely spectacular. You did not 64 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:31.600 choose me, but I chose you. And appointed you. See, I'm a big fan. I look, you may take 65 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:36.400 issue with this. That's okay. Don't tell me that you disagree because I love it. I'm enjoying 66 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:42.640 this all my life. You did not choose me, but I chose you. Okay. And appointed you. 67 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:51.120 You see the word appointed? I live off this verse or off that word. I live my life based on 68 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:56.960 appointed because you know what? If Jesus says I've appointed, then you know what? It doesn't matter 69 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:00.960 what happens tomorrow. Tomorrow's Monday. You know that? Supposed to be my day off. We'll see how that 70 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:08.720 goes. What are you doing tomorrow? As a believer, guess what? Appointed. Oh, no, this happened to me 71 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:18.720 on Thursday. Appointed. You can't beat this love and you can't beat this plan. Appointed you 72 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:23.920 that you should go and bear fruit. Where's that to the world? And that world, by the way, is this 73 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:29.600 beyond my nose to the world that you might go and bear fruit and look at this. And that your fruit 74 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:35.920 might remain whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. These things I command 75 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:43.040 you that you love one another, verse 18, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me before 76 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:48.160 it hated you. This is Jesus fucking. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. 77 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.600 If you were of the world, the world would go, oh, you're amazing. You're just like us lost on 78 00:07:53.680 --> 00:08:00.000 fire and going to hell. You're just, you're just the best. 79 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.960 And Jesus says, yet because you are not of the world, I chose you out of the world. Therefore, 80 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:12.880 the world hates you. Have you ever prayed this prayer? Jesus, make me like you. Are you sure you 81 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:17.920 want to pray that prayer? But listen inside of you, don't you long to be like him? Is that what you're 82 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:23.120 living for? I don't want to be me anymore. I want to be him. Lord, make me like you. Whatever my 83 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:29.840 plans and thoughts are, just throw them in the back. Bring yours forward. Have you lived or 84 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:34.160 walked enough with Jesus where it's like, Lord, whatever I'm talking about, if anything's goofy, 85 00:08:34.160 --> 00:08:40.880 just don't even hear it. And if this prayer was bogus, just flush it. Because you know, 86 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:51.200 it's awesome. But when Jesus says this, don't be surprised. Don't be surprised if the world 87 00:08:51.280 --> 00:08:58.640 hates you because it hated me first. So I don't know if I like that part. It comes with the 88 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:05.760 relationship. I walk around with my wife and people think I'm walking around with my daughter. 89 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:11.360 Makes me feel great. And if you ever doubt if there's a God in heaven, then you should 90 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.920 see my wife as her and I are walking along. You say, Jack, how did you get a woman like this? 91 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:28.480 Truly, there's a God in heaven. Okay. So here's the thing. I'm blessed by association. 92 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:39.040 Well, when you walk in this world with Jesus, you're blessed by association. 93 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:48.400 When the world picks up a rock to throw it at Jesus and they miss, they hit you. 94 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:56.560 That's an honor. Did you know that? It says it right here, and well, it was on the screen, is 95 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:04.560 they hated me, Jesus says before they hated you. So don't be surprised if the world hates you. 96 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.040 Can you, friends, can you live with that in this social media world? 97 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.800 I mean, social media, my, I'm sorry, it stinks. It created a bunch of whims. 98 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:19.680 This guy doesn't like me. Who is he? Tell me who he is. 99 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:27.920 Well, that's the thing. I don't know who he is. Then who cares? It cracks me up. 100 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:36.880 It just blows my mind. But if you do something that, if you're walking with Jesus and somebody, 101 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:43.520 you know, man, I just hate Jesus and they throw a rock and it hits you. Jesus, hold your hand, 102 00:10:43.520 --> 00:10:50.720 he's going to say, I told you, just rub it off, shake it off. You'll be fine. You see, Jack, 103 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:56.160 I don't know if I like that. That's just the way that it is. This thing, by the way, I'm in so much 104 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:00.080 trouble. It's not going away. It's getting, it's getting more trouble. But wait, I'm going to show 105 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.080 you something. Here's the thing. I went up the store the other day and a woman came up to me and 106 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:12.400 she started crying. And I said, and I thought, she has cancer. I'm, what is it? What is it? 107 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.960 I'm so sorry you're having to go through all this stuff you're going through. 108 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:22.880 And then I thought to myself, oh my gosh, I didn't read the newspaper today. I didn't, 109 00:11:22.880 --> 00:11:29.360 I didn't check, you know, CNN or Fox app. What's up? And I'm thinking, what happened? 110 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:35.200 Then you know, I start thinking, gosh, I hope I left the house with my pants on. 111 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:45.040 What's wrong? All this attack about your prayer in Washington and it's not going away. I was on 112 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:52.400 four or five news programs just this last week. And I, what happened? What happened? I 113 00:11:52.400 --> 00:12:02.160 prayed a biblical prayer. I prayed a Bible prayer. And in watching church, I thought it would be 114 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:07.920 over. Wait, wait, I'm running out of time. I'm running out of time. I prayed a Bible prayer. 115 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:14.160 And I didn't pray it to Congress. I prayed it to God. It was to God. But listen, 116 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:22.480 pastor who prayed before Congress reacts as dozens of Dems, 26 of them, call him ill-qualified 117 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:31.520 hate preacher. Oh, wow. Jesus said, I told you. Right? So put your helmet on. 118 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:38.000 Pull your pants up. Put your mouth piece in. And in this world, if they're going to throw rocks, 119 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:44.480 just no. They're trying to hit me, Jack. Now you'll remember that. You can't engineer this. 120 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:51.680 But the fact of the matter is, church family, when we abide with him and walk with him, 121 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:57.840 awesome things are going to happen. You can expect him to move. We also know this in verse seven. 122 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:03.920 It says, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. This is an amazing 123 00:13:03.920 --> 00:13:11.600 statement regarding Israel. Listen, Israel is a nation chosen by God nationally. Everybody 124 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:18.960 listen, nationally Israel has been chosen by God. The future of Israel as a nation will be forever 125 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:25.360 says God. That's why they became a nation a second time. The future is all about. Read your 126 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:32.720 Bible. It's all about the millennial kingdom and God sitting on this throne in Jerusalem. 127 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.840 Jesus Christ will sit there. It's in the Bible. It's all going to happen. The point is this, 128 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:46.400 the nation of Israel throughout its history has gone from one bad disobedient act upon God 129 00:13:46.400 --> 00:13:54.720 to the other. Read the Old Testament. It's one big mistake, one big sin, one big act of rebellion 130 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.960 against God one after now. How many times do you read about the bad kings of Israel, 131 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:06.160 sitting up all of these horrific pagan sites to worship and offending the God of heaven, 132 00:14:06.160 --> 00:14:14.720 the God of the Bible? So many times. Nationally God speaks to Israel and says, your wayward, 133 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:22.560 but there'll be a day when I will bring you back. But individually, as individuals, did you know 134 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:31.680 that God is saving individual Jews today? Some say, like never before, the words we're getting 135 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:37.520 out of Israel and not just Israel, but all around the world Jews are coming to faith in Jesus, 136 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:43.840 all over the world right now. And so what are we talking about? Nationally at this moment, 137 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:50.080 the nation's lost. It's in unbelief. It's in their home land. They're back in the land. But the 138 00:14:50.160 --> 00:14:56.400 Bible says moving forward, the nation is going to be brought in and established, but there'll be 139 00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:03.200 some Jews who will believe, not all. That's why he says not all of those who are 140 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:12.400 Israel or of Israel. It's an amazing statement. And so when it says here in the scripture in verse 141 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:16.720 seven, he makes this announcement and we'll develop it more next time together, but it says now, 142 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:22.160 nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. This is remarkable. 143 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:28.560 The DNA, the descendants of Abraham. Well, we're the descendants of Abraham. We automatically go to 144 00:15:28.560 --> 00:15:32.880 heaven. I'm going to give you this passage and you know, hang on to your seats. Because I know 145 00:15:32.880 --> 00:15:37.200 that we have this concept of Jesus, meek and mild, and you know, looking like you's walking down 146 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:43.520 the beach and Newport, kind of a Jesus. Perfect hair flowing in the breeze. Awesome. Seagulls in the 147 00:15:43.520 --> 00:15:56.240 back, robes, sandals, beach day. Listen to him. Look at, look at John 8. Wow. Jesus says, 148 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:03.200 I am one who bears witness of myself and the father who sent me bears witness of me. That's 149 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:11.440 two. Then they said to him, where is your father? These are the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus answered, 150 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:18.480 you know neither me nor my father. You're going to fight here. If you had known me, you would have 151 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:28.720 known my father also. Wow. Verse 37, I know that you are Abraham's descendants. I know you've 152 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:36.480 got Abraham's DNA and you're blood, but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you. 153 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:43.680 I speak what I have seen with my father and you do what you have seen with your father. 154 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:50.800 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, 155 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:59.280 if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham, the works of Abraham. Jesus said, 156 00:16:59.280 --> 00:17:04.800 if you were of my father, you would do the works of Abraham. And I thought about this. Now, 157 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.960 maybe you already, your light years ahead of me, but all these years it dawned on me yesterday. 158 00:17:10.320 --> 00:17:15.680 I'm going to make a list of the works of Abraham because it's such a big deal that Jesus says, 159 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.840 if you're my father, you would do the works of Abraham. All right, here we go. 160 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:33.600 Write him down. There's only one. It's faith. 161 00:17:36.560 --> 00:17:41.440 It's faith. Try to write him down. What are the, what are the grand works of Abraham? 162 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.680 Every step along the way it's faith with him and God personally. 163 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:53.120 But now you seek to kill me, Jesus says to the Pharisees, a man who has told you the truth, 164 00:17:53.120 --> 00:18:00.240 which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father. 165 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:06.480 Then they said to him, we were not born a fornication. We have no father but God. 166 00:18:06.800 --> 00:18:12.640 Do you get the drift of this? We know what your mother was. 167 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:16.160 We know what you are. 168 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:24.480 And then they claim to be of God. Verse 42, Jesus said to them, 169 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:30.080 if God were your father, you would love me. For I proceeded forth and came from God, 170 00:18:30.080 --> 00:18:34.880 nor have I come of myself, but he sent me, why do you not understand my speech? 171 00:18:35.840 --> 00:18:39.680 Because you're not able to listen to my word. Oh my goodness friend, 172 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:48.160 are you not able to listen to his word? I hope not. I hope you can. You are of your father, 173 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:56.400 the devil. Jesus said that. God's word, the logos goes out. It doesn't matter, listen. 174 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.840 It doesn't matter if you're Jew or Gentile. When the word of God goes out, what do you do with it? 175 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:05.360 Do you lean back on your religion and your man made requirements or do you embrace the word of God 176 00:19:05.360 --> 00:19:10.000 for what it says? It's very black and white. It's very simple. 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