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 --> 00:00:10.480 truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Hey you guys, here's the deal. 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:18.780 We're gonna be discussing a post Christmas analysis of who's Jesus after his 4 00:00:18.780 --> 00:00:25.140 birth. What does that mean for him to become flesh and live among us? How long did he 5 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:32.180 live in those 33 and a quarter years of his life by achieving what? Who is he? Now 6 00:00:32.180 --> 00:00:36.180 that he's born into this world and we just celebrate a Christmas. What's up? 7 00:00:36.180 --> 00:00:39.700 We're gonna find out right now. 8 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:47.740 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:53.140 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:53.140 --> 00:00:57.940 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:57.940 --> 00:01:03.500 that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:09.740 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jackhibbs. 13 00:01:09.740 --> 00:01:15.500 Hey everybody, welcome to this edition of our podcast together, the Jackhibbs podcast. 14 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:19.540 If this is, if this, the greatest thing that you can do, in fact, I'm gonna ask you, 15 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:26.740 you did not get me a Christmas gift, I noticed. So you can still, you can still make it up. 16 00:01:27.940 --> 00:01:33.620 Here's how you could tell people about this podcast. You can copy the link and send it to other 17 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:40.420 people. The best thing that you could do for me and the team is to spread the word and get 18 00:01:40.420 --> 00:01:46.180 our efforts out there. That's the greatest compliment. That's the greatest blessing. 19 00:01:46.180 --> 00:01:50.980 Think about it. It makes everything that we're doing worthwhile because of reach. 20 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:56.900 Reach is somewhat of a modern term when it comes to ministry, but let me put it into 21 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:05.140 you this way. A reach matters. George Whitfield preached in Boston. And when he preached, 22 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:10.500 Ben Franklin said that Whitfield was able to speak without a microphone, mind you, 23 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:18.180 to over 30,000 people. That was his reach. And so we want to reach millions of people 24 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:26.340 on our podcast, but we need your help to do that. And it's, the content I trust is stimulating 25 00:02:27.220 --> 00:02:34.980 and applicable and relevant because it's biblical. Okay, very, very important. So today in 26 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:41.540 the New Year, happy New Year to you. Holy, I like that. I tell my friends and everybody, 27 00:02:41.540 --> 00:02:45.780 holy New Year to you. I don't really care about it being a happy New Year. 28 00:02:46.980 --> 00:02:51.540 I think God cares about it being a holy New Year. And so may you have a holy New Year, 29 00:02:51.540 --> 00:03:00.820 and I base that on Galatians. I base that, sure, Galatians. But I base that on Psalm 65 verse 11, 30 00:03:01.700 --> 00:03:08.820 where God says there to your New Year that he'll bless your New Year with his direction, 31 00:03:08.820 --> 00:03:16.660 with his path. And he will supply for you in abundance for you this year as you walk with him. 32 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:24.500 Psalm 65 11, it's a great, great New Year's blessing to people. So let's do this. We just came out 33 00:03:24.500 --> 00:03:30.260 of Christmas, right? And we did Christmas sermons. We did Christmas parties. We did Christmas family. 34 00:03:30.820 --> 00:03:38.500 We did Christmas. We did Christmas in, you know, radio or news interviews. Christmas, Christmas, 35 00:03:38.500 --> 00:03:45.220 Christmas, and it is awesome. But almost in every, if not all of those interviews and or sermons 36 00:03:45.220 --> 00:03:49.620 or statements, we made mention of the fact that Christmas is something that for the believer is 37 00:03:49.620 --> 00:03:55.860 every single day. And that's not some little cute thing that we're supposed to say. It's a 38 00:03:55.940 --> 00:04:03.380 theological reality. Why? Why is that a theological reality? What do we mean by his believers? You 39 00:04:03.380 --> 00:04:08.980 know, it's for us, it's we celebrate Christ every day. We celebrate his birth into the world. We 40 00:04:08.980 --> 00:04:15.700 celebrate his life. We celebrate his coming to the temple in Palm Sunday. We celebrate 41 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:23.860 good Friday. We celebrate resurrection Sunday. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Because every moment of 42 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:33.060 it all is a sense that it is Christmas daily, meaning the gift was given daily. That's how we take 43 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:43.540 that as believers. So coming out of Christmas, which was all about God being born in a, a manger 44 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:54.100 or laid in a manger, born in Bethlehem, laid in a manger. We, you know, we got the Christmas 45 00:04:54.100 --> 00:05:00.020 cards. We heard the sermons. We saw the verses. But what, what was the depth to what was really 46 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:04.900 going on? And today, I think we'll have some some time together on this one. So if you're a 47 00:05:04.900 --> 00:05:09.700 note-taker, I'm going to ask you to to write this down. In fact, I'm going to, I'm going to read 48 00:05:09.780 --> 00:05:14.340 and please forgive me. I'm having trouble with my eyes. I'm healthy. I'm fine. Don't thank you 49 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:20.660 for your concern. But here in Southern California, it's our winters are so dry that it's painful. 50 00:05:22.260 --> 00:05:30.020 And my eyes don't do well. My eyes were built for Hawaiian humidity or Florida. So when it's very 51 00:05:30.020 --> 00:05:36.420 dry, our humidity is nasty. It affects my eyes terribly. So I have to use these right now. 52 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:43.140 So pray for us that we might get rain, right? So listen to this. We're going to be talking about 53 00:05:44.580 --> 00:05:50.900 the Jesus after Christmas. How about that? Who was the, who was Jesus 54 00:05:52.260 --> 00:05:57.780 after he was born? What are we talking about? In fact, there's there even a separation 55 00:05:58.740 --> 00:06:07.460 between the Christ who was and then the Christ who was born and then the Christ who died and then 56 00:06:07.460 --> 00:06:11.940 the Christ who rose again from the dead. This is a pretty, pretty heavy topic, if you think about 57 00:06:11.940 --> 00:06:18.100 it. So this is no, no light weight journey through some theology. But I do understand what I'm 58 00:06:18.100 --> 00:06:24.740 going to talk about will be very controversial to some of you because you've never thought about 59 00:06:24.740 --> 00:06:28.740 some of the things that we're going to think about. And yet they are literally 60 00:06:29.860 --> 00:06:39.460 freshman year seminary issues and topics that every theologian, every pastor, I hope, has to get 61 00:06:39.460 --> 00:06:46.500 over before they go on into deeper things. For some of you, this might be radical stuff and it 62 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:53.940 shouldn't be. So let's dive into this. If you have a Bible, turn in your Bible to Luke chapter 2, 63 00:06:54.740 --> 00:07:00.580 and it's beginning at verse 42, Luke chapter 2, verse 42. And at the top of your notes, 64 00:07:00.580 --> 00:07:09.300 right down, Kenosis, K-E-N-O-S-I-S, Kenosis, the doctrine of Kenosis. You should, Pastor, 65 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:13.940 I've never heard of that. I understand that. Just write it down. It's, it's Bible. 66 00:07:14.020 --> 00:07:27.860 So the doctrine of Kenosis is Christ, physical, spiritual, existence on earth. 67 00:07:29.140 --> 00:07:35.300 Okay? So here we go. Luke chapter 2, verse 42. And when he was 12 years old, 68 00:07:36.260 --> 00:07:43.700 they went up to Jerusalem according to the customs of the feast. And when they had finished the 69 00:07:43.700 --> 00:07:49.540 days as they returned. So now they're heading from Jerusalem. They're going to be heading back 70 00:07:49.540 --> 00:08:00.580 up north into Nazareth. So when they had finished the days as they return, the boy Jesus, I love that, 71 00:08:00.580 --> 00:08:10.500 lingered behind in Jerusalem. And Joseph and his mother did not know it. That's not a shock 72 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:18.260 because they traveled in a family pack. They traveled in a big, big family congregation. 73 00:08:18.900 --> 00:08:24.660 So we were talking about many, many hundreds of people, if not more, leaving Jerusalem and 74 00:08:24.660 --> 00:08:29.940 heading back up to Northern Galilee, all the while thinking, Joseph and Mary are thinking. 75 00:08:30.820 --> 00:08:35.940 I haven't seen Jesus in a while. That's cool. We're just one big family. He's probably been 76 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:40.820 hanging out with his cousins. He's probably been hanging out with friends. And all as well, 77 00:08:41.540 --> 00:08:47.060 not a problem. They're not, they're not, you don't have to call CPA on Joseph and Mary. 78 00:08:48.420 --> 00:08:54.260 This is a family migration back home. And it is a huge family. It's a Middle Eastern family. 79 00:08:54.260 --> 00:09:01.700 It's loud. It's lively. And it's large. Hey, I just made that out. I made that up live, 80 00:09:02.420 --> 00:09:12.100 loud. What did I say? Large, loud, lively. Imagine being in that group. That's what's happening. 81 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:20.500 Put your, put your sandals on. That's where you're at. Verse 44. But supposing him to have been with 82 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:30.660 the company, they went a day's journey. Wow. And sought him among their relatives and acquaintances. 83 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:35.620 So when they did not find him, can you imagine the fear they lost God's son? 84 00:09:38.580 --> 00:09:45.860 They returned back to Jerusalem, seeking him. Now, so it was that after three days, isn't that 85 00:09:45.860 --> 00:09:52.340 something three days? They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, all of 86 00:09:52.340 --> 00:10:00.020 these were adults, and listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were 87 00:10:00.020 --> 00:10:07.940 astonished at his understanding and answers. I'll describe that more in a moment because many people 88 00:10:07.940 --> 00:10:16.820 at that come to the wrong conclusion. Many people think at that that he understood and he asked 89 00:10:16.820 --> 00:10:24.180 them questions that he was somehow some sort of savant or none other than perfect God in all of his 90 00:10:24.180 --> 00:10:32.500 knowledge at all times because he's God the son. I understand your assumption and you would most 91 00:10:32.500 --> 00:10:37.940 likely be right on. If not for the doctrine of Kenosis, I'll explain in this podcast. 92 00:10:39.060 --> 00:10:46.500 So when they saw him, they were amazed and his mother said to him, son, why have you done this to 93 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:56.740 us? Look, your father and I sought you anxiously and Jesus said to them, why did you seek me? Did 94 00:10:56.900 --> 00:11:03.620 you not know that I must be about my father's business? But they did not understand his statement, 95 00:11:03.620 --> 00:11:13.060 which he spoke to them. Then he went down and and then and sorry, then he went down with them and 96 00:11:13.060 --> 00:11:21.540 came to Nazareth and was subject to them. That's fascinating. But his mother kept all these things in 97 00:11:21.700 --> 00:11:31.940 her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and men. 98 00:11:33.380 --> 00:11:38.740 Kenosis, what is going on here? This is a great topic to kick off the New Year after celebrating 99 00:11:38.740 --> 00:11:47.380 Christmas. So the word Kenosis in in Greek speaking of Jesus is this that Kenosis is that Jesus Christ, 100 00:11:47.380 --> 00:11:54.500 the second person of the triune Godhead, you say, what do you get that from? Genesis 11, in the 101 00:11:54.500 --> 00:12:07.140 beginning God, Elohim. That's the introduction of the triunity of God. Genesis 11, God Elohim is God 102 00:12:07.140 --> 00:12:18.100 Elohim is a singular plurality. There's one God Israel, right? The Bible says here, 103 00:12:18.100 --> 00:12:27.540 here, oh Israel, there's the Lord is one. He's one. But Genesis 11 introduces us to the plurality 104 00:12:27.620 --> 00:12:37.140 of his singleness. There's one God that manifests himself in three individually sovereign individuals, 105 00:12:38.180 --> 00:12:49.060 all co-eternal, co-equal in perfect harmony that God is made up of the triunity. And if you take 106 00:12:49.060 --> 00:12:56.980 the Holy Spirit out of that triunity, he's still perfectly the Holy Spirit. He's perfectly holy, 107 00:12:56.980 --> 00:13:04.340 perfectly omniscient, perfectly all omnipotent, perfectly omnie in all areas. The Holy Spirit 108 00:13:04.340 --> 00:13:11.380 same as true about Jesus over here, same as true about the Father. One is not above the other. 109 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:19.380 Remember this. This is keep this is Bible doctrine. This is the divinity of the nature of God. 110 00:13:20.020 --> 00:13:27.140 God, the Father is not bigger and smarter and stronger than the Son. And the Son is not 111 00:13:27.140 --> 00:13:34.900 bigger and stronger than the Spirit. They are literally identical. You see, that's mysterious. 112 00:13:34.900 --> 00:13:42.420 Yes, it is, isn't it? Absolutely it is. And so check this out. What in the world is going on in 113 00:13:42.420 --> 00:13:50.420 Luke's gospel chapter 2? What and who is Jesus after he's born? Well, the Lord is the same 114 00:13:50.420 --> 00:13:56.100 yesterday today and forever. God never changes. So what are we talking about? And this is the 115 00:13:56.100 --> 00:14:05.940 crux of his incarnation. It's the crux of Christmas. It's the crux of the gospel. For you and I, 116 00:14:05.940 --> 00:14:15.780 it's the crux to everything and it's this. When God came into the world, he came. The Son of God 117 00:14:15.780 --> 00:14:25.140 came and he at the moment of conception, friends, listen, at the moment of conception. Now in Mary's 118 00:14:25.140 --> 00:14:31.140 situation, the Holy Spirit spoke logos, which is cool. Remember the angel Gabriel announced that 119 00:14:31.140 --> 00:14:41.140 the Holy Spirit will overshadow you. The Spirit of God would have spoken the, can I put it to 120 00:14:41.140 --> 00:14:50.900 you this way. The Holy Spirit would have spoken the logos, the teleonomic, the teleos. He would have 121 00:14:50.900 --> 00:14:57.700 spoken, can I use this term? You'll recognize it immediately. The Holy Spirit spoke the telemetry, 122 00:14:58.420 --> 00:15:10.020 information communicated into Mary and her womb. The Holy Spirit, God the Father, the logos of 123 00:15:10.020 --> 00:15:17.780 God, logos, the communicated wisdom and knowledge of God. Jesus is the logos. The word of God was 124 00:15:17.860 --> 00:15:28.260 communicated and in Mary, the conception took place where the word was spoken and the word literally 125 00:15:28.260 --> 00:15:43.460 ordained conception using the human existence of Mary and her egg was fertilized by the word spoken. 126 00:15:43.540 --> 00:15:57.620 This is so basic and yet it's so fascinating. It's deep. Of course, it's deep. Mary is now pregnant. 127 00:15:59.860 --> 00:16:07.700 That's why we argue as evangelical fundamentalists that a woman is pregnant at the moment of 128 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:12.500 conception. Thus the life is viable. The life is important. The life must not be extinguished. 129 00:16:13.060 --> 00:16:26.340 Did you know biologically both in chemistry, biology, both in physics, I'm talking about worldly 130 00:16:26.340 --> 00:16:35.460 knowledge, was Mary more pregnant at three months than she was at the second she was pregnant? 131 00:16:36.180 --> 00:16:43.460 Was Mary more pregnant at seven months of pregnancy or was Mary most pregnant at nine months? 132 00:16:44.420 --> 00:16:51.700 What's your scientific answer to that? That's right. You're only pregnant once and you're pregnant 133 00:16:51.700 --> 00:16:59.700 for nine months unless there's a miscarriage or an abortion. The moment conception takes place, 134 00:16:59.780 --> 00:17:06.740 Mary's pregnant and she doesn't get more pregnant. She just gets more bigger. Why? All the stuff that's 135 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:15.060 happening in her womb is just the exact same information that is communicated in the human genome 136 00:17:15.060 --> 00:17:22.260 and the DNA is that at the moment of conception, the engineered information, there's no more 137 00:17:22.260 --> 00:17:28.980 information added after pregnancy. Is that awesome? This is true both for Jesus and it was true for 138 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:33.940 you and it was true for me at the moment of our conception and it's true today if you're pregnant. 139 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:41.140 It's fascinating. In that nanosecond of moments where fertilization takes place, 140 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:50.020 all the information is there in an instant that is greater than the information that is provided 141 00:17:50.100 --> 00:17:58.980 by the Hubble telescope and the web telescope observing the entire interstellar 142 00:18:02.100 --> 00:18:10.500 multi-universes. There's more information in the human DNA than all of space observed 143 00:18:12.260 --> 00:18:16.660 and that's what happened with Jesus. That's what happened with you. Why? What's going on? God 144 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:28.020 is becoming flesh for us. He's taking on human nature. He's taking on human skin, human bone. 145 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:38.900 He's taking on human psyche. He's taking on human frailty. He's taking on human limitations. He's 146 00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:50.020 taking on all that you and I are as our Savior and our Redeemer. All of a sudden, 147 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:58.900 some of you need to hear this. Your life's drama in situation is not outside the feelings of Jesus 148 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:04.820 Christ. We can't explain this. We just know it's true. Bible says so. That at all points, 149 00:19:04.820 --> 00:19:13.300 Christ was tempted like us, yet he did not send. He felt when the temptation comes to you, 150 00:19:13.300 --> 00:19:20.740 the temptations came to him. He fought them though with the word of God and he fought them perfectly 151 00:19:21.700 --> 00:19:29.540 because even though he was 100% human, he did not have a fallen nature. He had the nature of 152 00:19:29.540 --> 00:19:39.860 God because he's God, but he had 100% human existence, yet without sin. Even to the point where 153 00:19:39.860 --> 00:19:46.020 temptation hit Jesus, just like it hits us, but what he would do is he would fight off the temptation 154 00:19:46.020 --> 00:19:51.300 using the word of God. Do you remember when Jesus meets up with Satan and the Judean wilderness? 155 00:19:51.300 --> 00:19:56.340 How did Jesus deal with Satan? I know what I would have done if I were him. I would have went, 156 00:19:56.660 --> 00:20:04.260 I would have went like this. This would have been the best. Just Satan, boom. Jesus didn't do that. 157 00:20:04.260 --> 00:20:11.860 What did Jesus do? He used the Bible, quoted the, quoted, deuteronomy every time at Satan. By 158 00:20:11.860 --> 00:20:16.500 the way, did you know Jesus quoted deuteronomy more than any other book of the Bible? Deuteronomy. 159 00:20:18.740 --> 00:20:22.660 Jesus fought evil with the word of God. That's what we're supposed to do now that we're born again. 160 00:20:23.620 --> 00:20:31.620 So we fight. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 10, bring every thought under the captivity of Christ 161 00:20:32.420 --> 00:20:37.620 under the subjection of God of Christ, right? That's what we're supposed to do. When we fail to do 162 00:20:37.620 --> 00:20:45.380 that, that's when we sin. To be tempted is not a sin. To entertain the temptation is now where 163 00:20:45.380 --> 00:20:50.820 we cross the line and we sin. And we do that because we have a sin nature. Jesus did not have a 164 00:20:50.820 --> 00:20:55.780 sin nature and that's part of the great kinosus. We see Jack, what is kinosus? Here we go. 165 00:20:55.780 --> 00:21:01.620 Kinosus is that the moment Christ was conceived, the moment Jesus, the son of David, 166 00:21:02.580 --> 00:21:12.500 in his genealogical DNA through Mary was conceived. Jesus, his mission was he laid aside 167 00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:20.500 his power. Watch me. He didn't stop becoming God. I was talking to a Muslim. He said, I can't 168 00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:26.980 believe that Jesus is God. That's so stupid. Because if Jesus is God, then when he died, God died 169 00:21:26.980 --> 00:21:33.060 and the whole world would have blown up. But see, that's Muslim doctrine. Muslim dude, Islam does not 170 00:21:33.060 --> 00:21:38.180 have Jesus dying on the cross. Did you know that? To Islam, Jesus never died. He was a great prophet. 171 00:21:39.140 --> 00:21:46.900 In fact, Islam teaches that the Jews and the Christians fought. Jesus had been crucified. 172 00:21:46.900 --> 00:21:52.260 There was a switcher rule. I'm not joking. If a Muslim is going to be honest with you, 173 00:21:52.260 --> 00:21:56.740 that's what they'll tell you. No, no, no. Christianity is Christ did die on the cross. 174 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:02.740 That God did die for us. That's how you get forgiveness of sins. Listen, Muslims, they don't 175 00:22:02.820 --> 00:22:09.220 have forgiveness of sins. Every Muslim that's listening to me right now, they are lost in their 176 00:22:09.220 --> 00:22:15.940 sins. They have no way of absolving their sins. By the way, the same is true today for Judaism, 177 00:22:15.940 --> 00:22:21.940 because they reject that Jesus is the Lamb of God. They, as Muslims, try to do away with their 178 00:22:21.940 --> 00:22:28.260 sins by working hard and doing good deeds, depends on what sect that you belong to is how that's 179 00:22:28.260 --> 00:22:34.820 worked off. That said, what are we talking about here? We've got Jesus, so listen, Jesus born as a 180 00:22:34.820 --> 00:22:43.620 baby. Did Jesus, did Jesus wear diapers? Some of you, I can hear your brakes slamming on right now. 181 00:22:46.020 --> 00:22:52.580 And you're going to be tempted right now to mess up. Did Jesus wear diapers? What are diapers for? 182 00:22:52.900 --> 00:23:05.060 Did Jesus wet his diaper? Did Jesus soil his diaper? Well, did you? The answer to that is yes. 183 00:23:06.100 --> 00:23:10.340 Some of you are saying, I can't think like that. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Listen, the real Jesus of 184 00:23:10.340 --> 00:23:16.900 the Bible doesn't break. In fact, this podcast might help you shatter a false view of God. 185 00:23:17.300 --> 00:23:25.780 But it may help you understand just how much He loves you and what He went through to save you from 186 00:23:25.780 --> 00:23:46.580 your sins. Did Jesus ever have a mood or an attitude? Yes. Did Jesus when He was playing games fall 187 00:23:46.580 --> 00:23:52.500 down and skin his knee? Did Jesus ever cut his fingers working in the carpenter shop? Yes. 188 00:23:55.140 --> 00:24:00.260 So how could you say that? Because I understand what the Bible teaches about Kenosis and I understand 189 00:24:00.260 --> 00:24:12.260 about what the Bible teaches about incarnation. Christ became one of us. Did Jesus burp? Yes. 190 00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:21.620 Did He get hungry? Yes, of course He did. Yeah. Did Jesus go to the bathroom? Yes. He had the 191 00:24:21.620 --> 00:24:30.340 exact same body that you and I have. Did Jesus feel cold and heat? Yes. Did Jesus get thirsty? 192 00:24:30.340 --> 00:24:34.980 We know the answer to that, don't we? Are you hearing me? See, we have a tendency when we 193 00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:51.220 religionize our Jesus and make him somebody who is so deified to the point where we've actually 194 00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:58.180 misappropriated and wrongly defined the word deify that Jesus actually when he walked on earth didn't 195 00:24:58.260 --> 00:25:09.620 touch the ground. That's false. That's false. His feet got dirty. His feet got cold. Jesus had dreams. 196 00:25:12.260 --> 00:25:23.940 Jesus was tempted, tempted to respond like we do to things but He only responded according 197 00:25:24.020 --> 00:25:30.340 to what pleased the Father because He had such a grip of the Word of God that He yielded to the 198 00:25:30.340 --> 00:25:34.260 power and the authority of the Word of God. That's why the Bible says He grew in grace and knowledge 199 00:25:34.260 --> 00:25:41.700 both with God and man. He had found favor and grew in stature. He grew in body. He grew up. 200 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:47.700 This is fun. Listen, I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, my mom, God bless her. 201 00:25:47.780 --> 00:25:54.980 My mom used to rub my knees when I was a little kid and my ankles because I had 202 00:25:54.980 --> 00:26:03.140 have severe leg aches. Do you guys remember anybody? Remember Ben gay? Ben gay? What's the word? 203 00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:13.060 Endistic bomb. How about Tiger bomb? Something like that. Voltron. You rub on your joints because 204 00:26:13.140 --> 00:26:17.540 they hurt so bad. Did Jesus have growing pains like we have? Yep. He had them. 205 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:25.940 Did Jesus get dust in his eyes? Yes. All of this Jesus lived and did without sin. In other words, 206 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:32.260 Jesus didn't get an eye dirt in the eye and cuss about it. Jesus got dirt in the eye and 207 00:26:32.260 --> 00:26:36.260 might have even thought, dog, gone it. This is the third time today somebody threw dirt in my eyes. 208 00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:45.140 Ouch. That was the end of it for him. The thought could have come out here on the porch as it 209 00:26:45.140 --> 00:26:51.060 were of the mind. Man, you had to go punch that guy, Jesus. Nope. That would be carnal. That 210 00:26:51.060 --> 00:26:57.700 would be not pleasing to my father. I'm not going to do that. He actually went through this 211 00:26:57.700 --> 00:27:03.380 stuff and some of you theologians who can't cope with Christ being so applicable or having 212 00:27:03.380 --> 00:27:10.180 our time with that right now. He was tempted in all points like us yet without sin. The scripture 213 00:27:10.180 --> 00:27:17.060 says. And so when the Bible tells us that Jesus grew up, 214 00:27:22.340 --> 00:27:28.660 he did so that you and I might relate to him and be able to cry out to him and say things 215 00:27:28.660 --> 00:27:36.180 like this if you're 15 years old. Jesus, I'm scared. I don't understand. This is what's happened 216 00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:43.860 in my life or this is what's going on. Do you even know what I'm talking about? Jesus will speak 217 00:27:43.860 --> 00:27:49.300 to you back and say, I know exactly what you're talking about to the fullness. I know exactly what 218 00:27:49.300 --> 00:27:56.980 you mean. Jesus, nobody wants to talk to me. People have cut me off. I'm the black sheep of the 219 00:27:56.980 --> 00:28:06.500 family or I'm the weirdo at school, the weirdo meaning I'm the nerd. Should I even be living? 220 00:28:07.780 --> 00:28:14.900 Jesus will say to you, I know exactly how you feel. It's very painful to be misunderstood and 221 00:28:14.900 --> 00:28:22.420 it's very painful to be ostracized. I know exactly what you're talking about. See, we think that 222 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:29.620 God is so God and Jesus is Jesus that this this setting is so removed from us that we believe in 223 00:28:29.620 --> 00:28:37.540 God, but he's so far away that he doesn't really know that's that's agnosticism 224 00:28:39.300 --> 00:28:43.780 that God created, but he cannot be known in nor does he really know much about us because he created 225 00:28:43.780 --> 00:28:51.860 it all and then he walked away. Where does the Bible teach that? nowhere. No, Bible teaches the 226 00:28:51.860 --> 00:29:02.100 opposite. So how much can we press this truth? We can press it pretty far without at any time 227 00:29:02.100 --> 00:29:12.580 going off of our center line. When Jesus said, for example, in the gospels, it records that 228 00:29:12.980 --> 00:29:21.620 Jesus does a miracle and the scribes and Pharisees are down the street grumbling about it 229 00:29:23.380 --> 00:29:30.100 and they decide to go approach him to confront him on it. The Bible will tell us that Jesus knowing 230 00:29:30.100 --> 00:29:38.260 their thoughts said to them, right? Or the woman caught in the act of adultery. Jesus knowing 231 00:29:38.580 --> 00:29:45.700 him said to them, he was he was without sin. Let him cast the first stone, right? Watch this. 232 00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:52.260 Jesus did not. Are you listening? This is going to get your attention. Wake up. Jesus did not 233 00:29:52.260 --> 00:30:01.460 walk around knowing everybody's thoughts when he was in human flesh. That's Kenosis. Could he? 234 00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:06.420 Yes, in an instant. He could have. He could have said, I want to know all of Jack's thoughts right 235 00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:18.500 now. Kenosis is this. I Jesus willfully lay aside. I said it right over here. All of my knowledge 236 00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:30.500 as God. I'm living my human life before my creation. So that, listen, so that they will be able to 237 00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:40.740 relate to me to know that I do know what it's like to obey my Father. I know what it's like to 238 00:30:40.740 --> 00:30:48.900 obey the Word of God. The very thing I'm asking them to do, I'm their forerunner. I'm their prototype. 239 00:30:49.540 --> 00:30:58.900 So when Jesus says, if you love me, keep my commandments. Well, I do love the Lord, so do you, 240 00:30:58.900 --> 00:31:03.940 but we find it hard to keep his commandments. We want to, but what gets in the way? Our sin 241 00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:11.700 nature, doesn't it? Jesus had a human nature, but he didn't have a sin nature. He was tempted 242 00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:23.460 yet without sin. So what is this? He's flesh. He's 100% human, but he's 100% God at the exact same 243 00:31:23.460 --> 00:31:28.660 time, the incarnation. It means that Jesus did not have a sin nature like you and I have. 244 00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:37.780 Jesus came to us from perfection and took on our humanity. You and I came from sin and grew up 245 00:31:38.740 --> 00:31:45.380 as human adults as we are today. How about this? David said, speaking on behalf of all of us, 246 00:31:46.100 --> 00:31:54.820 I was conceived in sin. Jesus was not conceived in sin. That's why God the Father is His Father, 247 00:31:54.820 --> 00:32:02.660 not Joseph of Joseph and Mary. Very important. You think that through. You think that through. 248 00:32:03.940 --> 00:32:12.740 You have to think that through. How about this, everybody? In 1 Timothy 2.5, for there is one 249 00:32:12.740 --> 00:32:26.340 mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. The man Christ Jesus is a dilemma right there 250 00:32:26.340 --> 00:32:36.820 for many people, not for the Christian. It's comfort because the man Christ, the Bible doesn't 251 00:32:36.820 --> 00:32:48.900 teach that Christ is man as you and I are. The Christ Christ is Messiah. The Messiah, according to 252 00:32:49.860 --> 00:32:59.380 Genesis 3.15, the Messiah promised is divinity, Genesis 3.15. Listen, my Jewish friends. Go read 253 00:32:59.380 --> 00:33:06.500 Moses. Genesis 3.15. Go read it. That's all you need to read. Genesis 3.15. 254 00:33:07.540 --> 00:33:13.700 And then contact me. Email me. Let me know. Genesis 3.15 says, 255 00:33:15.540 --> 00:33:25.940 a human female is going to bring into the world divinity that has always existed. He'll be a son 256 00:33:26.580 --> 00:33:36.980 and he will crush the works of Satan. That man cannot save ourselves. God will become a man 257 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:44.500 to save us. All of that is in 1 verse in the Bible. Genesis 3.15. If you're Hebrew and you can read 258 00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:50.740 Hebrew, you are going to, you should be happier than anybody else once you read it. So what are we 259 00:33:50.820 --> 00:33:57.460 talking about here? Hang on. Hang on here. Here we go. You know what? We're out of time. 260 00:33:59.700 --> 00:34:05.380 We're going to have to stop here. I can hear you screaming at me from, I can hear that. Look, 261 00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:09.940 you got to go. I got to go. We keep our podcast to about 30 minutes. We've been going for 33 262 00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:15.140 minutes. We have to stop. We're going to pick it up. I'm going to stay right here. I'm going to 263 00:34:15.140 --> 00:34:19.700 go to the bathroom. I'm going to come back. I'm going to have some tea and I'll be talking to you 264 00:34:19.700 --> 00:34:28.180 again in a few moments. So do I do my neurostick? Listen, we at Real Life and the Jacob's podcast, 265 00:34:28.180 --> 00:34:35.060 we believe it's time for you to live out what you believe. It's time for real life. Authenticity is 266 00:34:35.060 --> 00:34:42.020 is what's needed in the church today. True, sanctified, individuals, living their lives for God 267 00:34:42.020 --> 00:34:47.300 as imperfect as we are, but we are authentically following Jesus. That's called real life. 268 00:34:48.260 --> 00:34:50.100 So we'll pick this up in a few moments. 269 00:34:54.820 --> 00:35:00.740 This Jack Kibs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 270 00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:07.940 Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibs.com to learn more 271 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:10.020 and stay connected.