Are You Vived

100:00:00.470 --> 00:00:03.750Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with200:00:03.750 --> 00:00:07.130intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the300:00:07.130 --> 00:00:09.030saints, and impact our culture.400:00:09.390 --> 00:00:10.370Push the envelope.500:00:10.510 --> 00:00:11.250See, what do you mean by that?600:00:11.630 --> 00:00:13.830If you're not sure if you should glorify700:00:13.830 --> 00:00:16.650Jesus in that moment, do it anyway.800:00:17.670 --> 00:00:20.150I'd rather get an applause from God in900:00:20.150 --> 00:00:23.290heaven for goofing it up rather than sitting1000:00:23.290 --> 00:00:23.870it out.1100:00:24.490 --> 00:00:27.170There is no such thing as spectator Christianity.1200:00:27.910 --> 00:00:28.790It doesn't exist.1300:00:32.050 --> 00:00:34.730You can get the outlines of this podcast1400:00:34.730 --> 00:00:38.710by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast.1500:00:39.170 --> 00:00:42.010Today, if this podcast lifts you up and1600:00:42.010 --> 00:00:44.250encourages you to live a more fulfilled life1700:00:44.250 --> 00:00:46.350in Christ, then make sure you leave us1800:00:46.350 --> 00:00:47.970one of those five-star ratings.1900:00:48.550 --> 00:00:51.610To us, that's like saying amen or yes.2000:00:51.810 --> 00:00:54.310Then that rating will encourage others to listen.2100:00:54.810 --> 00:00:57.070Now open your hearts to what God's word2200:00:57.070 --> 00:00:58.050has to say to you.2300:00:58.410 --> 00:00:59.950Here is Jack Hibbs.2400:01:00.510 --> 00:01:02.430I need all of your attention because I'm2500:01:02.430 --> 00:01:03.569going to, it's not in my notes, but2600:01:03.569 --> 00:01:04.710I'm going to run through this quickly.2700:01:05.590 --> 00:01:07.110Technically, there are two judgments.2800:01:07.950 --> 00:01:10.910Watch my hands because I'm Portuguese and I2900:01:10.910 --> 00:01:13.150cannot speak with my word, with my mouth3000:01:13.150 --> 00:01:13.610properly.3100:01:14.090 --> 00:01:15.130It's the hands.3200:01:15.310 --> 00:01:15.950Watch the hands.3300:01:17.470 --> 00:01:20.210There's the judgment seat of Christ.3400:01:20.410 --> 00:01:21.050It's in the Bible.3500:01:21.050 --> 00:01:23.870It's known as the Bema, B-E-M3600:01:23.870 --> 00:01:25.670-A, the Bema seat of Christ.3700:01:26.370 --> 00:01:27.570Christ is the judge.3800:01:28.270 --> 00:01:28.670Watch.3900:01:29.290 --> 00:01:31.450And who he judges are his people.4000:01:32.590 --> 00:01:34.470This is the judgment he's speaking about right4100:01:34.470 --> 00:01:37.130here that Paul is speaking of, the judgment4200:01:37.130 --> 00:01:38.330seat of Jesus Christ.4300:01:39.690 --> 00:01:41.150I'm going to be sarcastic now.4400:01:41.990 --> 00:01:44.490You've got to know Jesus Christ and he's4500:01:44.490 --> 00:01:46.990got to know you to appear at that4600:01:46.990 --> 00:01:47.370judgment.4700:01:47.490 --> 00:01:48.250You say, wait a minute.4800:01:48.670 --> 00:01:50.070I thought he died for my sins at4900:01:50.070 --> 00:01:50.470the cross.5000:01:50.570 --> 00:01:52.990I thought I passed from judgment to life.5100:01:53.110 --> 00:01:53.690You did.5200:01:54.130 --> 00:01:56.170Well, then what are you talking about judgment?5300:01:56.230 --> 00:01:57.630I thought I escaped all that.5400:01:58.190 --> 00:02:00.910We're talking about the judgment seat of Christ5500:02:00.910 --> 00:02:05.130where you and I will appear and we5600:02:05.130 --> 00:02:07.430will be before him and we will answer5700:02:07.430 --> 00:02:11.430to him regarding our faithfulness to what he5800:02:11.430 --> 00:02:12.870has asked us to do.5900:02:12.950 --> 00:02:13.670He's the master.6000:02:13.990 --> 00:02:15.990We are the slave, right?6100:02:16.790 --> 00:02:18.970And he, in this life, in the here6200:02:18.970 --> 00:02:20.890and now, he has given us and he6300:02:20.890 --> 00:02:23.770has opened up doors of opportunity for us6400:02:23.770 --> 00:02:25.290to advance Christ.6500:02:29.450 --> 00:02:31.430And God has his people, as I said,6600:02:31.470 --> 00:02:31.910everywhere.6700:02:32.950 --> 00:02:34.470You and I are going to be standing6800:02:34.470 --> 00:02:36.070before Jesus Christ and we're not going to6900:02:36.070 --> 00:02:37.510be judged on our sins.7000:02:38.550 --> 00:02:39.470Isn't this good news?7100:02:39.570 --> 00:02:41.570You should like, okay, now you're talking.7200:02:41.970 --> 00:02:43.310You and I are going to be judged7300:02:43.310 --> 00:02:44.950for our faithfulness.7400:02:46.190 --> 00:02:47.490Have we been faithful?7500:02:47.730 --> 00:02:47.910No.7600:02:49.070 --> 00:02:50.490This is going to sting, though.7700:02:50.850 --> 00:02:54.090As a believer, I should ask you, what7800:02:54.090 --> 00:02:58.370is it that you're being faithful to do7900:02:58.370 --> 00:02:59.730that he's asked you to do?8000:03:00.410 --> 00:03:03.150It implies you know what you're supposed to8100:03:03.150 --> 00:03:04.050be doing for him.8200:03:06.190 --> 00:03:08.670Don't be a Christian and if I or8300:03:08.670 --> 00:03:10.850someone were to ask you, so if we're8400:03:10.850 --> 00:03:12.310all going to stand before the judgment seat8500:03:12.310 --> 00:03:14.110of Christ and be faithful to what he's8600:03:14.110 --> 00:03:18.230called us to do, what did he call8700:03:18.230 --> 00:03:19.130you to do?8800:03:20.450 --> 00:03:20.590What?8900:03:21.130 --> 00:03:23.350You see, you're not saved by what you9000:03:23.350 --> 00:03:26.330do, but because you are saved, God says,9100:03:26.530 --> 00:03:27.330I can use you.9200:03:27.830 --> 00:03:29.010I use all my kids.9300:03:32.900 --> 00:03:35.460I meet with people who are being faithful9400:03:35.460 --> 00:03:39.330in their cancer treatment.9500:03:41.130 --> 00:03:42.970I'm convinced now, by the way, that this9600:03:42.970 --> 00:03:46.190is a huge area of missionary work.9700:03:48.830 --> 00:03:49.990I talk to people all the time.9800:03:50.050 --> 00:03:50.950Pastor prayed for me.9900:03:51.010 --> 00:03:51.750I got cancer.10000:03:52.090 --> 00:03:55.430I've been going through treatment at UCLA and10100:03:55.430 --> 00:03:58.710I came to the realization I got to10200:03:58.710 --> 00:03:59.490get right with God.10300:03:59.630 --> 00:04:00.850I mean, I love God, but I wasn't10400:04:00.850 --> 00:04:02.710walking with God and now I'm just telling10500:04:02.710 --> 00:04:04.390everybody, you know why they're doing this?10600:04:04.430 --> 00:04:05.290They'll tell you why.10700:04:05.370 --> 00:04:06.150You might be here today.10800:04:06.570 --> 00:04:07.810They got a death sentence.10900:04:10.880 --> 00:04:11.980They could be dying.11000:04:12.100 --> 00:04:14.080The doctors are telling them it's stage four.11100:04:14.160 --> 00:04:15.120It doesn't look good.11200:04:15.279 --> 00:04:16.079What do they do?11300:04:16.700 --> 00:04:18.940They realize they have a come to Jesus11400:04:18.940 --> 00:04:24.240moment and they realize, wow, well, here we11500:04:24.240 --> 00:04:24.580go.11600:04:26.100 --> 00:04:28.620The oncologist is getting witness to, the nurses11700:04:28.620 --> 00:04:30.980are getting witness to, the technicians are getting11800:04:30.980 --> 00:04:33.960witness to, they're singing songs, they put on11900:04:33.960 --> 00:04:39.660praise albums in their hospital bed and what12000:04:39.660 --> 00:04:40.180are they going to do?12100:04:40.700 --> 00:04:41.880Well, I don't want to, you know, it's12200:04:41.880 --> 00:04:42.340loud.12300:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.360Turn it up.12400:04:43.660 --> 00:04:44.540What are they going to do?12500:04:44.620 --> 00:04:45.280What are they going to do?12600:04:45.540 --> 00:04:47.560You're, for crying out loud, according to them,12700:04:47.620 --> 00:04:47.980you're dying.12800:04:48.080 --> 00:04:49.960Maybe you are dying, but the thing is12900:04:49.960 --> 00:04:53.420this, you've woken up to the realization, eternity13000:04:53.420 --> 00:04:53.900is real.13100:04:54.020 --> 00:04:55.000This life is fleeting.13200:04:55.140 --> 00:04:56.060Jesus is alive.13300:04:56.380 --> 00:04:57.120He's on the throne.13400:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.140He forgives sins.13500:04:58.280 --> 00:04:59.320I'm going to let it rip.13600:04:59.660 --> 00:05:01.060I'm going to announce to the world.13700:05:02.460 --> 00:05:04.360In your moment, when God gives you the13800:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.980opportunity to share Christ, be faithful to that13900:05:08.980 --> 00:05:09.360call.14000:05:10.400 --> 00:05:11.540And by the way, push it.14100:05:11.960 --> 00:05:12.980Push the envelopes.14200:05:13.020 --> 00:05:13.740What do you mean by that?14300:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.320If you're not sure if you should glorify14400:05:16.320 --> 00:05:19.240Jesus in that moment, do it anyway.14500:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.660I'd rather get an applause from God in14600:05:22.660 --> 00:05:25.800heaven for goofing it up rather than sitting14700:05:25.800 --> 00:05:26.360it out.14800:05:26.860 --> 00:05:29.720There is no such thing as spectator Christianity.14900:05:30.000 --> 00:05:31.280It doesn't exist.15000:05:33.500 --> 00:05:35.860So ask yourself over and over again, what15100:05:35.860 --> 00:05:37.120am I being faithful to?15200:05:40.170 --> 00:05:41.370And you and I will give an answer15300:05:41.370 --> 00:05:42.790to Christ on the day of judgment.15400:05:43.230 --> 00:05:44.250That's for the believers.15500:05:44.830 --> 00:05:47.070And then there's the great white throne judgment15600:05:47.070 --> 00:05:49.970found in Revelation chapter 20 verse 11.15700:05:50.130 --> 00:05:51.210You do not want to be there.15800:05:51.650 --> 00:05:52.770That's for unbelievers.15900:05:54.170 --> 00:05:56.610And they're judged for all the evil that16000:05:56.610 --> 00:05:57.450they've done in their lives.16100:05:57.550 --> 00:05:59.410They're judged for their sins.16200:06:00.270 --> 00:06:01.990The Bible tells us that they are then16300:06:01.990 --> 00:06:04.090cast into hell and hell.16400:06:04.250 --> 00:06:07.750They will suffer equal to the magnitude of16500:06:07.750 --> 00:06:08.670their sins.16600:06:09.350 --> 00:06:11.350So imagine, for example, Adolf Hitler.16700:06:14.950 --> 00:06:16.870Think about the sins of whatever.16800:06:19.200 --> 00:06:20.800That's why Jesus said you must be born16900:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.260again to enter the kingdom of heaven.17000:06:23.020 --> 00:06:25.120But I just, this is not, you know,17100:06:25.240 --> 00:06:26.380look at the verse 10.17200:06:26.440 --> 00:06:28.740It says for we shall all stand.17300:06:30.260 --> 00:06:30.700Stand.17400:06:31.080 --> 00:06:32.060What's that word stand?17500:06:32.420 --> 00:06:36.060It means this, to be placed, look, to17600:06:36.060 --> 00:06:37.220be placed beside.17700:06:37.580 --> 00:06:38.540I like that, beside.17800:06:38.880 --> 00:06:40.100I like to look at it this way,17900:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.540to be placed beside Jesus.18000:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.080To present or to present yourself, to make18100:06:45.080 --> 00:06:47.120a presentation, to stand in the presence of18200:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.480God, to come before.18300:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.700Imagine walking into the court, as it were,18400:06:52.760 --> 00:06:53.380and standing.18500:06:54.480 --> 00:06:55.800We will stand before Jesus.18600:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.540The world, when it's judged for its sins,18700:07:00.860 --> 00:07:03.160they won't have a leg to stand on.18800:07:03.900 --> 00:07:05.460They won't be able to stand.18900:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.240The Bible tells us Christ is able to19000:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.020make us stand.19100:07:09.380 --> 00:07:11.100And on top of it, the Bible says19200:07:11.100 --> 00:07:12.600that Christ is our advocate.19300:07:13.660 --> 00:07:14.780You need an attorney?19400:07:15.520 --> 00:07:16.420Boy, do I ever.19500:07:17.400 --> 00:07:19.640Jesus, on that day, when you and I19600:07:19.640 --> 00:07:22.340are judged for our faithfulness, Christ will be19700:07:22.340 --> 00:07:22.840our attorney.19800:07:23.820 --> 00:07:25.920He's going to represent our case before Christ,19900:07:26.200 --> 00:07:27.180before God the Father.20000:07:27.700 --> 00:07:28.860Our Christ will do that.20100:07:29.040 --> 00:07:30.160The Messiah will do that.20200:07:30.580 --> 00:07:33.840The world, on the other hand, has no20300:07:33.840 --> 00:07:34.140hope.20400:07:34.280 --> 00:07:35.020There's no advocate.20500:07:35.400 --> 00:07:38.380You stand naked and alone before Almighty God.20600:07:38.500 --> 00:07:41.060There's no mediator for you, and you face20700:07:41.060 --> 00:07:41.640the judgment.20800:07:42.980 --> 00:07:44.780And here's the tragedy of it all.20900:07:46.140 --> 00:07:49.480God came and revealed Himself in the world,21000:07:49.700 --> 00:07:53.160to the world, as His Word proclaimed He21100:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.960would, and as His Word proclaimed He did,21200:07:56.420 --> 00:07:58.840so that you wouldn't have to go to21300:07:58.840 --> 00:08:01.520that great white throne judgment referred to in21400:08:01.520 --> 00:08:01.760Scripture.21500:08:01.900 --> 00:08:02.840Why would you go there?21600:08:06.090 --> 00:08:07.410It's just amazing to me.21700:08:07.690 --> 00:08:08.050No, no.21800:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.720He's not only going to stand for us21900:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.800as believers, He's going to make us available,22000:08:15.100 --> 00:08:17.240or I should say enable us to stand.22100:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.640Verse 11 says, For it is written, As22200:08:19.640 --> 00:08:22.140I live, says the Lord, every knee should22300:08:22.140 --> 00:08:24.560bow to me, and every tongue shall confess22400:08:24.560 --> 00:08:25.100to God.22500:08:25.760 --> 00:08:28.000That's just an absolute blanket fact.22600:08:28.100 --> 00:08:28.800He is sovereign.22700:08:28.980 --> 00:08:29.420We're not.22800:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.980All believers and all non-believers are going22900:08:32.980 --> 00:08:33.960to bow their knee to Him.23000:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.559Here's the key to all of this.23100:08:36.080 --> 00:08:37.580Bow your knee while you're alive here on23200:08:37.580 --> 00:08:42.100earth, to Him, because you will bow your23300:08:42.100 --> 00:08:42.320knee.23400:08:44.220 --> 00:08:46.800Who's the famous atheist, the brilliant man, a23500:08:46.800 --> 00:08:51.940neurologist, he's a physicist, neurologist, I think it's23600:08:51.940 --> 00:08:59.740Sam Harris, an unbelieving Jew, Sam Harris.23700:08:59.820 --> 00:09:02.100He says he's a Jew, but God does23800:09:02.100 --> 00:09:02.640not exist.23900:09:04.140 --> 00:09:09.440That's the first indicator of idiocy, is you're24000:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.560Jewish, but God doesn't exist.24100:09:14.880 --> 00:09:16.760He's brilliant, and he's like one of the24200:09:16.760 --> 00:09:20.700great leaders of the new atheist movement.24300:09:22.140 --> 00:09:24.580And the new atheist movement, they just retitle24400:09:24.580 --> 00:09:24.720it.24500:09:24.780 --> 00:09:26.760It's the same argument of the old atheists.24600:09:27.740 --> 00:09:29.220They don't prove anything.24700:09:29.400 --> 00:09:31.520They just get all mad, and they argue24800:09:31.520 --> 00:09:33.480about God the way that, I don't approve24900:09:33.480 --> 00:09:35.380the way God's running the country, or God's25000:09:35.380 --> 00:09:36.040running the world.25100:09:36.800 --> 00:09:38.140So I thought you didn't believe in God.25200:09:42.540 --> 00:09:45.300Richard Dawkins at Oxford University said that he25300:09:45.300 --> 00:09:48.140is a megalomaniac, God is a megalomaniac, a25400:09:48.140 --> 00:09:54.120maniacal, paranoid, and he's going off describing his25500:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.620view of the God of the Bible.25600:09:56.340 --> 00:09:59.080And then Dr. John Lennox, the professor of25700:09:59.080 --> 00:10:03.040mathematics at Oxford University, said to him, he25800:10:03.040 --> 00:10:05.920looks at him and says, what are you25900:10:05.920 --> 00:10:06.440doing?26000:10:07.540 --> 00:10:09.440Why are you upset with somebody who doesn't26100:10:09.440 --> 00:10:09.960exist?26200:10:11.320 --> 00:10:12.280Isn't that great?26300:10:13.340 --> 00:10:14.860What are you getting all uptight about?26400:10:14.980 --> 00:10:16.560His veins start popping out.26500:10:16.780 --> 00:10:19.700He's a maniacal, he's cruel, and he's like,26600:10:20.000 --> 00:10:21.700how can you be upset when you don't26700:10:21.700 --> 00:10:22.280believe in him?26800:10:23.500 --> 00:10:24.800Isn't that a great argument?26900:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.320Ask your friends who don't believe in God,27000:10:28.420 --> 00:10:29.040why not?27100:10:30.460 --> 00:10:32.600Well, because this in the universe, and that,27200:10:32.800 --> 00:10:35.500and babies born sick, and all this stuff.27300:10:38.040 --> 00:10:41.160That's not refuting the existence of God.27400:10:42.200 --> 00:10:43.640That's you saying, I don't like the way27500:10:43.640 --> 00:10:44.220things are going.27600:10:44.500 --> 00:10:44.920What does it mean?27700:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.760Technically, I'd like to play with them this27800:10:47.760 --> 00:10:48.040way.27900:10:48.220 --> 00:10:49.840You're an atheist, but you're upset the way28000:10:49.840 --> 00:10:50.380things are going.28100:10:50.660 --> 00:10:51.760We agree on this.28200:10:51.780 --> 00:10:53.020This world stinks, man.28300:10:53.420 --> 00:10:55.140There's a lot of pain and sorrow, and28400:10:55.140 --> 00:10:56.480it's grievous, and it's ugly.28500:10:56.840 --> 00:10:57.440We agree.28600:10:58.580 --> 00:11:00.880But the funny thing is, I'm at peace28700:11:00.880 --> 00:11:02.340with God on this, because I've read his28800:11:02.340 --> 00:11:02.880Bible.28900:11:03.220 --> 00:11:05.100He said he didn't want this to happen,29000:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.620but this is what we've done to ourselves29100:11:06.620 --> 00:11:07.600by disobedience.29200:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.460You, on the other hand, you're about ready29300:11:10.460 --> 00:11:12.240to have a heart attack about somebody you29400:11:12.240 --> 00:11:13.300don't even believe exists.29500:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.480Your whole logic is short-circuiting.29600:11:17.080 --> 00:11:18.820You're not even thinking straight.29700:11:22.530 --> 00:11:24.830Just because you don't believe in God doesn't29800:11:24.830 --> 00:11:27.060mean this stuff in the Bible's not going29900:11:27.060 --> 00:11:27.480to happen.30000:11:31.380 --> 00:11:32.520I have to tell you this.30100:11:32.580 --> 00:11:36.700I taught this yesterday in Arizona at a30200:11:36.700 --> 00:11:37.220conference.30300:11:38.160 --> 00:11:40.200I was talking about deception, and this one30400:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.960word that Jesus used for deception is a30500:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.480word that is the root to some words30600:11:47.480 --> 00:11:48.200that you and I know.30700:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.560The word ignoramus is from the Greek.30800:11:55.720 --> 00:11:56.160Ignoramus.30900:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.300You know what an ignoramus is?31000:11:57.520 --> 00:11:58.100You ever heard the word?31100:11:58.300 --> 00:11:59.640Nobody even uses the word anymore.31200:12:00.820 --> 00:12:02.320You're not supposed to say that word, I31300:12:02.320 --> 00:12:02.840guess.31400:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.480Ignoramus is the same meaning to the word31500:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.520agnostic.31600:12:10.360 --> 00:12:10.840Agnos.31700:12:13.140 --> 00:12:13.860An agnostic.31800:12:13.980 --> 00:12:14.800What is an agnostic?31900:12:15.140 --> 00:12:18.020An agnostic says, well, there may possibly be32000:12:18.020 --> 00:12:19.580a God out there, but I don't want32100:12:19.580 --> 00:12:20.700to find out.32200:12:22.700 --> 00:12:24.300That's the word to be an agnostic.32300:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.880The word ignoramus means, I believe there's things32400:12:28.880 --> 00:12:31.060to know, but I refuse not to know32500:12:31.060 --> 00:12:31.220them.32600:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.360That's why the Bible, Jesus said, they were32700:12:36.360 --> 00:12:37.480willfully ignorant.32800:12:38.340 --> 00:12:39.780They chose not to know.32900:12:41.680 --> 00:12:43.440And you and I experienced this in life.33000:12:45.830 --> 00:12:48.310You have family and friends.33100:12:48.550 --> 00:12:50.110They know you're a Christian, and they don't33200:12:50.110 --> 00:12:51.350want you to say a word about it.33300:12:52.550 --> 00:12:54.450Come to Thanksgiving, but don't talk about God.33400:12:55.670 --> 00:12:57.010We're going to invite you guys over for33500:12:57.010 --> 00:12:57.290Christmas.33600:12:57.550 --> 00:12:58.430Don't bring a Bible.33700:13:00.670 --> 00:13:01.790Why, you ignoramus?33800:13:01.790 --> 00:13:02.590What's it?33900:13:02.930 --> 00:13:03.370Right?34000:13:03.910 --> 00:13:04.350Why?34100:13:04.450 --> 00:13:05.010What's the matter?34200:13:05.250 --> 00:13:06.290What's happening here?34300:13:07.370 --> 00:13:10.810And it's strange because, listen, if they only34400:13:10.810 --> 00:13:12.490knew the love of God, I'm convinced of34500:13:12.490 --> 00:13:12.670this.34600:13:12.870 --> 00:13:14.710The church has done a lot of damage34700:13:14.710 --> 00:13:16.970to the unbelievers because we've put a bad34800:13:16.970 --> 00:13:17.770witness out there.34900:13:18.310 --> 00:13:20.590But it's our, listen, it's our calling to35000:13:20.590 --> 00:13:22.610love on them in such a way to35100:13:22.610 --> 00:13:25.190speak to them and say, listen, this is35200:13:25.190 --> 00:13:26.010the God of the Bible.35300:13:26.130 --> 00:13:27.390This is what Christmas is about.35400:13:27.670 --> 00:13:29.150This is what Thanksgiving is about.35500:13:29.450 --> 00:13:30.950This is what life is about.35600:13:31.970 --> 00:13:34.510And let them see the alternative to the35700:13:34.510 --> 00:13:37.810world in which they live in, that they35800:13:37.810 --> 00:13:39.030can live in a world of meaning.35900:13:40.050 --> 00:13:42.030But the Bible tells us, Isaiah 45, verse36000:13:42.030 --> 00:13:46.15023, Old Testament, I have sworn by myself,36100:13:46.730 --> 00:13:48.630the word has gone out of my mouth36200:13:48.630 --> 00:13:51.110in righteousness and shall not return.36300:13:52.230 --> 00:13:54.190That to me, every knee shall bow and36400:13:54.190 --> 00:13:56.410every tongue shall take an oath or make36500:13:56.410 --> 00:13:56.930confession.36600:13:58.250 --> 00:14:00.070What an incredible, awesome statement.36700:14:00.310 --> 00:14:02.710Philippians, we read this last week, Philippians 2,36800:14:02.830 --> 00:14:04.790verses 10 and 11, that in the name36900:14:04.790 --> 00:14:07.350of Jesus, every knee should bow of those37000:14:07.350 --> 00:14:09.150in heaven and those of earth and those37100:14:09.150 --> 00:14:11.050under the earth, and that every tongue should37200:14:11.050 --> 00:14:13.690confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the37300:14:13.690 --> 00:14:14.790glory of God the Father.37400:14:14.970 --> 00:14:16.030See the consistency here?37500:14:16.950 --> 00:14:19.670You bow your knee and confess to God37600:14:19.670 --> 00:14:22.310and the God of the Old Testament, the37700:14:22.310 --> 00:14:23.050book of Isaiah.37800:14:23.970 --> 00:14:25.750Paul, the apostle, knew that.37900:14:26.070 --> 00:14:27.670The Holy Spirit knew that.38000:14:27.770 --> 00:14:30.490And so in Philippians, the answer is, it's38100:14:30.490 --> 00:14:32.450Jesus Christ that you're going to be bowing38200:14:32.450 --> 00:14:32.650to.38300:14:32.750 --> 00:14:34.490He's God revealed to us.38400:14:34.930 --> 00:14:36.110If you want to know what God is38500:14:36.110 --> 00:14:37.630like, take a look at Jesus in the38600:14:37.630 --> 00:14:37.970Bible.38700:14:39.110 --> 00:14:40.770Acts chapter 4, verse 11.38800:14:41.750 --> 00:14:43.810This is the stone which the builders rejected,38900:14:43.950 --> 00:14:46.670which has become the chief cornerstone.39000:14:46.670 --> 00:14:49.830Nor is there salvation in any other, for39100:14:49.830 --> 00:14:53.030there is no other name under heaven given39200:14:53.030 --> 00:14:55.430among men by which we must be saved.39300:14:55.670 --> 00:14:57.690Jesus, Jesus.39400:14:58.170 --> 00:14:59.970Verse 12, and we'll end with this.39500:15:00.630 --> 00:15:03.090So then each of us shall give an39600:15:03.090 --> 00:15:05.510account of himself to God.39700:15:06.250 --> 00:15:08.690And that word account means, it's that Greek39800:15:08.690 --> 00:15:13.810word logos, the word, the reason, the answer.39900:15:13.910 --> 00:15:15.230Each of us will give the answer, the40000:15:15.230 --> 00:15:18.870word, the reason, to the question asked.40100:15:20.410 --> 00:15:22.050It means to the question asked.40200:15:22.150 --> 00:15:24.510It means very specific and we'll end with40300:15:24.510 --> 00:15:24.870this.40400:15:25.770 --> 00:15:26.850That doesn't mean you leave yet.40500:15:26.950 --> 00:15:28.570People love, when I say that, they start40600:15:28.570 --> 00:15:28.850leaving.40700:15:31.530 --> 00:15:33.070I'm not going to say this is the40800:15:33.070 --> 00:15:33.510end anymore.40900:15:33.770 --> 00:15:34.710I'm just going to keep going.41000:15:42.100 --> 00:15:44.680If we're to give an account, and we41100:15:44.680 --> 00:15:45.560shall give an account.41200:15:48.260 --> 00:15:51.680That confession, the Bible is very clear about.41300:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.420And we have a precursor to what is41400:15:56.420 --> 00:15:57.880to be the future.41500:15:58.920 --> 00:16:01.640When it happened with Peter, and I can41600:16:01.640 --> 00:16:03.680tell you again, another plug for Israel.41700:16:04.340 --> 00:16:06.600There's some sites in Israel that we think41800:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.220this was the area, archaeologists will tell us.41900:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.080There's some places that the archaeologists will tell42000:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.160us, this is what it was in the42100:16:14.160 --> 00:16:16.060area, like this area.42200:16:16.300 --> 00:16:17.520It wasn't here, but it was like this.42300:16:17.620 --> 00:16:19.140And then there's the area where we get42400:16:19.140 --> 00:16:21.760so excited because the archaeologists will tell us42500:16:21.760 --> 00:16:22.960this is the exact spot.42600:16:24.300 --> 00:16:26.540And in Matthew chapter 16, we go to42700:16:26.540 --> 00:16:27.560the exact spot.42800:16:27.620 --> 00:16:28.340It's still there today.42900:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.980It's still standing after 2,600 years.43000:16:32.340 --> 00:16:33.160Here it is.43100:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.540Jesus has taken the disciples up to Caesarea43200:16:36.540 --> 00:16:38.480Philippi to take a break.43300:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.880They've been ministering very hard, 24-7, non43400:16:44.880 --> 00:16:45.580-stop ministry.43500:16:46.180 --> 00:16:49.000And Jesus announces to them, let's come away.43600:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.060It's time to shut down, catch our breath.43700:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.260So he takes them to Caesarea Philippi, which43800:16:54.260 --> 00:16:55.840you would want to live there.43900:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.260It's absolutely stunningly gorgeous.44000:17:00.220 --> 00:17:01.620It's the headwaters, by the way, of the44100:17:01.620 --> 00:17:03.300Jordan River comes out of the ground at44200:17:03.300 --> 00:17:04.440that point right there.44300:17:05.520 --> 00:17:07.240But there's a lot of ancient temples that44400:17:07.240 --> 00:17:07.619are there.44500:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.720And so he takes them to a place.44600:17:12.800 --> 00:17:14.000I don't know if you'd want to take44700:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.720a vacation like he took them on, but44800:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.560he took them to this place that the44900:17:18.560 --> 00:17:19.839Jews would avoid that region.45000:17:19.920 --> 00:17:20.740It was totally pagan.45100:17:21.560 --> 00:17:22.960And Jesus takes them on a field trip45200:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.079to this spot, Caesarea Philippi.45300:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.240And they got the Temple of Diana there.45400:17:28.320 --> 00:17:29.640The Temple of Zeus is there.45500:17:29.740 --> 00:17:31.500They got the Temple of the Nymphs that45600:17:31.500 --> 00:17:31.780are there.45700:17:32.040 --> 00:17:33.860They got all these Bacchus is there.45800:17:33.980 --> 00:17:36.460So when you're worshiping God in this section,45900:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.940you're Bacchus, you're drinking all the intoxicating drink.46000:17:40.180 --> 00:17:43.000And then you have sex with their prostitutes,46100:17:43.180 --> 00:17:44.560male or female, didn't matter.46200:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.260It's what you picked.46300:17:46.400 --> 00:17:47.940And then you went over here to Athena.46400:17:48.280 --> 00:17:49.060They were all there.46500:17:49.360 --> 00:17:50.800And then you went to the nymphs, and46600:17:50.800 --> 00:17:51.940you can figure out what that was all46700:17:51.940 --> 00:17:52.220about.46800:17:52.520 --> 00:17:54.860And then they and this was all there.46900:17:57.420 --> 00:17:59.920And when you appear before that temple, you47000:17:59.920 --> 00:18:04.260say, Great is Diana or great is Athena.47100:18:05.320 --> 00:18:07.560And Jesus takes his disciples on a field47200:18:07.560 --> 00:18:09.240trip to that.47300:18:10.320 --> 00:18:12.020You see the background in your head?47400:18:12.720 --> 00:18:13.940Look at verse 15.47500:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.200And Jesus said to them, but who do47600:18:18.200 --> 00:18:19.080you say that I am?47700:18:20.580 --> 00:18:21.200Do you like that?47800:18:21.240 --> 00:18:21.740Do you see that?47900:18:24.080 --> 00:18:26.380All these Gods names are being shouted out.48000:18:26.760 --> 00:18:28.660Jesus turns to them and says, Well, who48100:18:28.660 --> 00:18:29.380do you say I am?48200:18:32.520 --> 00:18:34.860Simon, Peter, God bless Peter, he's always great48300:18:34.860 --> 00:18:35.960to step up.48400:18:37.220 --> 00:18:38.760He said, You are the Christ, the son48500:18:38.760 --> 00:18:39.660of the living God.48600:18:40.120 --> 00:18:41.820And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed48700:18:41.820 --> 00:18:44.420are you Simon bar Jonah, for flesh and48800:18:44.420 --> 00:18:45.780blood has not revealed this to you, but48900:18:45.780 --> 00:18:46.940my father who is in heaven.49000:18:47.860 --> 00:18:49.660And I also say to you that you49100:18:49.660 --> 00:18:52.060are Peter and on this rock, I will49200:18:52.060 --> 00:18:53.840build my church and the gates of hell49300:18:53.840 --> 00:18:56.100will not prevail against it.49400:18:56.660 --> 00:18:59.360And Peter said, You are the Christ, you49500:18:59.360 --> 00:19:00.420are the son of God.49600:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.120Jesus said, Peter, that fact that truth that49700:19:05.120 --> 00:19:07.400you just proclaimed is what my church will49800:19:07.400 --> 00:19:08.040be built on.49900:19:09.500 --> 00:19:12.340And the gates of hell will not prevail50000:19:12.340 --> 00:19:13.360against it.50100:19:17.570 --> 00:19:20.290This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all50200:19:20.290 --> 00:19:23.350the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported.50300:19:23.850 --> 00:19:26.190Will you consider partnering with us through a50400:19:26.190 --> 00:19:26.870special gift?50500:19:26.870 --> 00:19:31.310Go to Jackhibbs.com to learn more and50600:19:31.310 --> 00:19:32.170stay connected.