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 --> 00:00:15.320 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.480 God is just being so absolutely honest with us. 4 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:22.360 He announces to us that all that's in and in all short of the glory of God, does that 5 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:23.360 look personal? 6 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:28.360 If that offends you, I...if that offends you, that's a good thing because that means 7 00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:29.360 it struck your heart. 8 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:30.360 Good for you! 9 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:31.360 This is a good thing! 10 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:33.360 That means God is getting your attention. 11 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:38.360 All have sinned! 12 00:00:38.360 --> 00:00:44.800 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.com slash podcast. 13 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:50.800 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 14 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:54.040 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 15 00:00:54.040 --> 00:01:00.640 To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 16 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.160 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 17 00:01:04.160 --> 00:01:07.040 Here is Jack Kibs. 18 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:12.000 The big problem is, how does a holy righteous God who cannot have sin in His presence 19 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.920 get you and I into His presence for all time and eternity? 20 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.040 There has to be a mediator. 21 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.520 There's got to be blood. 22 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:23.800 There's got to be a lamb. 23 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:29.320 No animal blood and no animal could ever do such a thing and I think everybody, I think 24 00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:33.400 if you would have stopped the Jew going to the temple back in those days and said, you 25 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:39.080 know, like, man on the spot reported, do you, for a moment, do you really believe that 26 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:44.160 the blood of this animal will take away your sins? 27 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:49.680 And that Jew would have probably said, no, it doesn't really take away my sins but God 28 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.760 has required it. 29 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.240 Again, a can enable. 30 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:01.480 One brought an offering of blood and the other one brought an offering of no blood and one 31 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.400 offering was accepted and the other was rejected. 32 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:05.400 Why? 33 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:12.040 Because wherever there is sin and wherever there is wrong, there must be innocence that pays 34 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:13.040 the price. 35 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:14.560 I don't like that. 36 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.080 I don't either but it's tough. 37 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:17.400 That's the way that it is. 38 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.920 If anyone has ever sinned against you, is it interesting that the person that sins against 39 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:26.560 you is the one that winds up asking you to forgive them? 40 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:29.960 And the one, listen, are you with me? 41 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.840 The one that is sinned against always has to pay the price for the sinner. 42 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:41.520 There's nothing fair about it. 43 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.560 Did somebody hurt you? 44 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:45.000 Did somebody come against you? 45 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.000 Did somebody defame you and slander you? 46 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.440 Then they get caught and then they come to you and they say, I'm so sorry will you forgive 47 00:02:53.440 --> 00:02:54.440 me? 48 00:02:54.440 --> 00:02:58.200 And you know what our human response is, which is a trap, by the way, boy, lie off my 49 00:02:58.200 --> 00:02:59.200 notes. 50 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:01.800 We'll never finish, will we? 51 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:03.400 The human trap is this. 52 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:09.400 I will never give you the opportunity and the satisfaction of hearing me say I forgive 53 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:10.880 you. 54 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:12.760 Don't do that, friend. 55 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:15.400 That's the way the world teaches you about forgiveness. 56 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:16.760 That's not like that. 57 00:03:16.760 --> 00:03:22.400 And he didn't give you an eye the ability, listen, he didn't give forgiveness to, in your 58 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.200 mind, grant to somebody for their benefit. 59 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:32.600 God gave you an eye the ability to forgive people, to set us free from the bitterness that 60 00:03:32.600 --> 00:03:36.800 chokes us because of what they did to us. 61 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:41.800 You flipped around 180 degrees from what you've been thinking. 62 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:47.400 God gives you the ability to set yourself free by forgiving that individual. 63 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:48.400 Why? 64 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:49.400 How? 65 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:56.400 Oh, read the fine print because God in Christ forgave you the same way. 66 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:58.200 He was the one sinned against. 67 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:00.080 He was the one that was offended. 68 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.200 He's the one that paid the price. 69 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:03.200 Remarkable. 70 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:08.600 Romans chapter 15 verse 4, Paul writes, for whatever things were written beforehand, remember 71 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:12.520 that's the Old Testament he's referring to, we're written for our learning that we through 72 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:17.320 the patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. 73 00:04:17.320 --> 00:04:18.520 That's Genesis to Malachi. 74 00:04:18.520 --> 00:04:24.560 I'd love to get you to write something down as we go through this study today and it 75 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:29.400 is the word an old English word impute or imputed. 76 00:04:29.400 --> 00:04:30.920 We don't use that word anymore. 77 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.360 If you look up in any modern dictionary, they always give you the negative definition of 78 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.200 it. 79 00:04:38.200 --> 00:04:44.200 The Bible says in a very powerful way that God not only imputes to us the righteousness 80 00:04:44.200 --> 00:04:52.880 of God in Christ Jesus because of that sacrifice that he is to us, but God also stops taking 81 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:58.400 record of our sins once we come to Christ, once we come to Messiah, makes perfect sense. 82 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:04.520 If you think about it, the Old English meaning is assigned, designated or to point. 83 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:11.320 The Greek word is Allegra meaning charge to one's account, to impute, imputed, to take 84 00:05:11.320 --> 00:05:20.160 away, watch this, to take away, but not diminish and to place upon another with full effect 85 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.160 or value. 86 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:27.160 In other words watch, God imparts to your righteousness without taking a part of his righteousness and 87 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:28.960 being a little less righteous. 88 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:30.560 Are you with me? 89 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:37.160 Did God give ten people by faith like Abraham, his righteousness, did God's righteousness 90 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:39.160 go down ten points? 91 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:40.660 No. 92 00:05:40.660 --> 00:05:45.760 God imputes and he is the only one who is able to do that. 93 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:47.720 You need to remember that. 94 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.520 Here is a back up to this, 2 Corinthians 5-18. 95 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:58.140 All things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, think of 96 00:05:58.140 --> 00:05:59.860 through the sacrifice. 97 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:06.100 How would lost man be reconciled from being alienated from God through the sacrifice? 98 00:06:06.100 --> 00:06:11.740 The New Testament teaches that we are reconciled to God through the ultimate sacrifice, Jesus 99 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:18.980 Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, verse 19, that is that God was in Christ 100 00:06:18.980 --> 00:06:25.820 reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trust passes to them and has committed 101 00:06:25.820 --> 00:06:28.660 to us the word of reconciliation. 102 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:30.860 That's the believer's life. 103 00:06:30.860 --> 00:06:36.020 What an amazing, ongoing ministry life that you and I have, that we don't count any longer 104 00:06:36.020 --> 00:06:37.260 people's offenses. 105 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:45.460 We go about pointing them to how their offenses can be remedied and removed. 106 00:06:45.460 --> 00:06:50.300 First thing is this, that you should be hearing freedom right now. 107 00:06:50.300 --> 00:06:55.500 Today's your day, my friend, if you are hearing God's word to you about freedom. 108 00:06:55.500 --> 00:07:04.300 Here it is, I told you last week, two words, but now, but now puts chapter 1 to rest, 109 00:07:04.300 --> 00:07:13.380 but now chapter 2, but now much of chapter 3, but now the righteousness of God apart from 110 00:07:13.380 --> 00:07:22.540 the law, so outside the law, bypassing the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law 111 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:23.540 and the prophets. 112 00:07:23.540 --> 00:07:25.060 That's an awesome statement. 113 00:07:25.060 --> 00:07:30.020 Listen, if you know your Old Testament scriptures, the declaration is this, the law, meaning 114 00:07:30.020 --> 00:07:37.300 Moses, we can personalize, personify the law in the man, Moses. 115 00:07:37.300 --> 00:07:45.420 Moses and the prophets, according to Paul, the Jew, is saying, Moses and the prophets spoke 116 00:07:45.420 --> 00:07:49.100 about the very thing I'm having you here right now. 117 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:53.260 Having you listen to right now is what the apostle is saying. 118 00:07:53.260 --> 00:07:58.940 This should begin to stir your heart for freedom, but now, remarkable statement. 119 00:07:58.940 --> 00:08:06.940 These two little words are more powerful than you can possibly imagine, but now. 120 00:08:06.940 --> 00:08:12.260 Whatever's going on, but now, if you read Romans 1, 2, and 3 and you're just so lost and 121 00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:17.820 you are so sick, you're stomach about how alienated you are from God, then read at Romans 122 00:08:17.820 --> 00:08:20.180 3, 21, but now. 123 00:08:21.180 --> 00:08:27.900 It's like a door swings open, and fresh air, and light, and grace, and mercy comes. 124 00:08:27.900 --> 00:08:31.260 But now, answers all of these indictments. 125 00:08:31.260 --> 00:08:35.820 But in that verse 21, but now, the righteousness of God, apart from the law, is revealed. 126 00:08:35.820 --> 00:08:45.220 This is such an incredible radical declaration, if you think about what God is saying here. 127 00:08:45.220 --> 00:08:51.900 The righteousness of God can be imparted to you, apart from the law. 128 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:59.140 And again, please listen, this predates Abraham. 129 00:08:59.140 --> 00:09:00.500 God's truth never changes. 130 00:09:00.500 --> 00:09:01.500 He's eternal. 131 00:09:01.500 --> 00:09:04.380 He can't change his mind. 132 00:09:04.380 --> 00:09:11.360 Before it ever wound up on parchment or spoken, even to Abraham himself, it was eternal 133 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.060 truth. 134 00:09:15.060 --> 00:09:19.420 The law and the prophets announced what would come. 135 00:09:19.420 --> 00:09:23.740 That's why I know this church, many of you have come during COVID from other churches, 136 00:09:23.740 --> 00:09:28.100 and you've told me, many of you have told me that the church you came from never opened 137 00:09:28.100 --> 00:09:33.220 up the Old Testament, which I found interesting, because I asked you immediately, didn't I? 138 00:09:33.220 --> 00:09:35.700 I asked you immediately this. 139 00:09:35.700 --> 00:09:40.660 If you didn't open up the Old Testament, tell me, what's your view on marriage? 140 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:45.020 If you never opened up the Old Testament, tell me, what's your view on abortion? 141 00:09:45.020 --> 00:09:47.500 Micah chapter 6. 142 00:09:47.500 --> 00:09:50.980 And if you've never opened up the Old Testament, the church that you were going to, tell 143 00:09:50.980 --> 00:09:54.140 me, what's your view on the nation of Israel and God's promises? 144 00:09:54.140 --> 00:09:59.940 Because I got news for you, friend, if God doesn't keep his promises to Israel, us Gentiles 145 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:10.500 ain't got nothing, and ain't is a Hebrew word, by the way, you should know that, how it is. 146 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:12.620 Faithful. 147 00:10:12.620 --> 00:10:16.660 He said he will keep his promises to Israel, the only time that he will ever break his 148 00:10:16.660 --> 00:10:22.940 promises to Israel is when the heavens cease to exist. 149 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:27.660 He'll never break it, and he's never going to break his promise to you. 150 00:10:27.660 --> 00:10:32.260 The second thing we see here is that do you hear the heart of God? 151 00:10:32.260 --> 00:10:36.900 God wants you to experience freedom, there is a righteousness that's apart from the law, 152 00:10:36.900 --> 00:10:38.460 and do you hear the God's heart? 153 00:10:38.460 --> 00:10:45.820 He says that through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all, what's the qualifier? 154 00:10:45.820 --> 00:10:47.340 Who believe? 155 00:10:47.340 --> 00:10:53.020 For there is no difference, no difference. 156 00:10:53.020 --> 00:10:59.100 I have found in my own personal life that the more Jesus Christ takes hold of my life, 157 00:10:59.100 --> 00:11:03.500 the less difference I see myself with others. 158 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:07.540 Now don't get me wrong, if somebody is a flame-throwing Satanist, there's a big difference 159 00:11:07.540 --> 00:11:09.140 between us. 160 00:11:09.140 --> 00:11:13.140 If someone is an atheist, there's a bit difference between us. 161 00:11:13.140 --> 00:11:19.300 But if someone is poor, middle class, or rich, who loves Jesus, there's no difference. 162 00:11:19.300 --> 00:11:25.300 If someone is black or white or some color in between, there's no difference. 163 00:11:25.300 --> 00:11:31.540 The gospel of God is the greatest cure for the nation and for our state right now. 164 00:11:31.540 --> 00:11:36.420 And for your heart, by the way, think about that. 165 00:11:36.420 --> 00:11:40.740 Listen to the heart of God that he's announcing that there's no difference so that all could 166 00:11:40.740 --> 00:11:44.740 come to him through faith in Jesus Christ. 167 00:11:44.740 --> 00:11:49.140 I read this, I wrote it as a note to myself, but I'll share this with you personally. 168 00:11:49.140 --> 00:11:54.780 It means something to you, it's on the notes that are online. 169 00:11:54.780 --> 00:12:01.660 Online faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all who believe. 170 00:12:01.660 --> 00:12:04.780 How can this possibly be true? 171 00:12:04.780 --> 00:12:09.300 That with God there is no caste system? 172 00:12:09.300 --> 00:12:13.940 What does he mean when he says there is no difference? 173 00:12:13.940 --> 00:12:22.300 No caste system, like in India, where you can buy people today still. 174 00:12:22.300 --> 00:12:25.300 They're living in the 21st century, ladies and gentlemen. 175 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:32.260 And we can go to India and buy people in cages, young girls, young boys. 176 00:12:32.260 --> 00:12:34.540 We don't want to hear about that stuff. 177 00:12:34.540 --> 00:12:36.860 We'd rather have pretend that it's not real. 178 00:12:36.860 --> 00:12:40.940 I convinced human trafficking, today's slavery, today's probably more alive and better 179 00:12:40.940 --> 00:12:42.460 than it ever has been. 180 00:12:42.460 --> 00:12:46.860 It's just cloaked and wrapped. 181 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:50.260 No, God says there's no difference. 182 00:12:50.260 --> 00:12:53.580 No matter where you're at in the world, you can escape the world that you're in. 183 00:12:53.580 --> 00:12:59.140 Even if you're in a cage, God can set your spirit free. 184 00:12:59.140 --> 00:13:03.020 That's what Jesus Christ does. 185 00:13:03.020 --> 00:13:08.620 In Isaiah 53, verses 6 and 10, Isaiah says, all we like sheep have gone astray. 186 00:13:08.620 --> 00:13:12.180 We have turned everyone to his own way. 187 00:13:12.180 --> 00:13:14.060 And the Lord has laid on him. 188 00:13:14.060 --> 00:13:15.300 Look at it all you want. 189 00:13:15.300 --> 00:13:17.860 It's not an it, it's a hymn. 190 00:13:17.860 --> 00:13:20.420 It's a person. 191 00:13:20.420 --> 00:13:21.780 Some will say it's the nation is real. 192 00:13:21.780 --> 00:13:23.380 No, it's impossible. 193 00:13:23.380 --> 00:13:26.340 Israel didn't die for the sins of the world. 194 00:13:26.340 --> 00:13:30.620 All we like sheep have gone astray, question, do you go astray? 195 00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:36.260 Prone to wander, prone to roam, the hymn sings. 196 00:13:36.260 --> 00:13:39.300 And the Lord, look at it, capital L-O-R-D. 197 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:47.260 That's that holy name that the Jewish community will not pronounce because of reverence. 198 00:13:47.260 --> 00:13:48.660 I appreciate that. 199 00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:52.220 But the truth of the matter is L-O-R-D is Yah. 200 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:53.420 That's the name of God. 201 00:13:53.420 --> 00:13:54.420 You know this. 202 00:13:54.420 --> 00:13:55.420 You all know this, right? 203 00:13:55.420 --> 00:13:58.700 You've been coming here for a while, you know this? 204 00:13:58.700 --> 00:14:05.140 Yah has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 205 00:14:05.140 --> 00:14:09.780 Verse 10, yet it pleased Yah to bruise him. 206 00:14:09.780 --> 00:14:15.620 He has put him to grief when you make his soul an offering for sin. 207 00:14:15.620 --> 00:14:18.540 He shall see his seed. 208 00:14:18.540 --> 00:14:21.300 Do you hear the dialogue, church? 209 00:14:21.300 --> 00:14:26.260 He shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 210 00:14:26.260 --> 00:14:27.980 Read that entire chapter later. 211 00:14:27.980 --> 00:14:30.220 It'll bring it to your knees. 212 00:14:30.220 --> 00:14:33.740 In gratitude and thanks to God. 213 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:36.380 God's heart is for you. 214 00:14:36.380 --> 00:14:41.100 By the way, this reality is better caught than taught as some of the old Puritans used to 215 00:14:41.100 --> 00:14:42.100 say. 216 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:46.260 On chapter 6, verse 27, starting there, there's a whole narrative going on. 217 00:14:46.260 --> 00:14:47.260 You can read it later. 218 00:14:47.260 --> 00:14:56.220 But in John chapter 6, verse 27, Jesus said, do not labor for the food which perishes, 219 00:14:56.220 --> 00:15:02.940 but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. 220 00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:10.300 Because God the Father has sent his seal on him, verse 28, then they said to him, what 221 00:15:10.300 --> 00:15:12.500 isn't this just human? 222 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:16.180 What shall we do that we may work the works of God? 223 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:17.540 Oh Jesus, this is great news. 224 00:15:17.540 --> 00:15:21.380 Eternal life, tell us how to work it. 225 00:15:21.380 --> 00:15:24.180 Tell us how to get it. 226 00:15:24.180 --> 00:15:29.060 And Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God that you believe in him whom 227 00:15:29.060 --> 00:15:30.940 he sent. 228 00:15:30.940 --> 00:15:34.100 That's just dovetails to Isaiah 53. 229 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:35.100 Beautifully. 230 00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:39.340 And then thirdly, in verse 23, is do you hear the honesty of God? 231 00:15:39.340 --> 00:15:44.780 His honesty all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 232 00:15:44.780 --> 00:15:50.060 He's quoting the prophet Isaiah, by the way, that's right out of the book of Isaiah. 233 00:15:50.060 --> 00:15:52.500 Paul is quoting him. 234 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:55.020 So you say, well, wait, what does that mean? 235 00:15:55.020 --> 00:15:56.020 Really? 236 00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:57.020 What? 237 00:15:57.020 --> 00:15:58.580 God is just being so absolutely honest with us. 238 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:03.060 He announces to us that all have sinned and then Paul's short of the glory of God. 239 00:16:03.060 --> 00:16:09.020 Does that look, first of all, if that offends you, if that offends you, that's a good thing 240 00:16:09.020 --> 00:16:10.940 because that means it struck your heart. 241 00:16:10.940 --> 00:16:12.100 Good for you. 242 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:13.100 This is a good thing. 243 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:14.900 That means God is getting your attention. 244 00:16:14.900 --> 00:16:18.340 All have sinned. 245 00:16:18.340 --> 00:16:20.340 Don't say anything on that. 246 00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:22.380 All have sinned. 247 00:16:22.380 --> 00:16:24.140 If you ask the question, is that include you? 248 00:16:24.140 --> 00:16:27.060 You should say, yes, it does. 249 00:16:27.060 --> 00:16:33.500 And Paul's short of the glory of God, all fall short to God's standard. 250 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:36.180 What is God's standard? 251 00:16:36.180 --> 00:16:37.180 Perfection. 252 00:16:37.180 --> 00:16:44.700 J. Vernon McGee tells a great little story and I'm going to steal it. 253 00:16:44.700 --> 00:16:49.020 I guess it's not stealing if I studied it in his book and then I give him the credit 254 00:16:49.020 --> 00:16:50.900 for it, right? 255 00:16:50.900 --> 00:16:54.660 It's research. 256 00:16:54.660 --> 00:17:03.420 Dr. McGee used to say that this verse is a great verse to say, let's all go down to 257 00:17:03.420 --> 00:17:09.220 Santa Monica Pier or we would go to Huntington Beach Pier. 258 00:17:09.220 --> 00:17:20.700 And he said, run down the pier and jump off the end of the pier straight towards Catalina. 259 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:28.540 And whoever gets to Catalina wins. 260 00:17:28.540 --> 00:17:32.780 So there might be some young people here today and you say, man, I got that. 261 00:17:32.780 --> 00:17:37.140 I can probably leap, I can go, I can probably go 50 feet off the end of that 262 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:38.140 pier. 263 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:40.260 You're still going to get wet. 264 00:17:40.260 --> 00:17:43.100 I can't go five feet off the end of that pier. 265 00:17:43.100 --> 00:17:47.580 I'll just probably just slither off the end of the pier. 266 00:17:47.580 --> 00:17:51.100 Do you understand that for the person who's a legalist who's sent, I'm keeping all 267 00:17:51.100 --> 00:17:54.300 of the rules and I'm doing all this right, I'm doing this and I do this and I do the 268 00:17:54.300 --> 00:17:55.300 other and I do this and the other. 269 00:17:55.300 --> 00:17:56.300 Do you understand? 270 00:17:56.300 --> 00:18:00.180 No, you're coming up on perfection. 271 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:01.180 See one? 272 00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:03.220 No, no, it's perfect. 273 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:06.740 But God only accepts perfect. 274 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:08.420 This is God's big problem. 275 00:18:08.420 --> 00:18:15.540 I mean, it's yours too, but God's problem is He loves you, He's perfect. 276 00:18:15.540 --> 00:18:22.500 You can't be in His presence unless you're perfect. 277 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:27.080 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener 278 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:28.380 supporting. 279 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:31.940 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 280 00:18:31.940 --> 00:18:36.420 Go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected.