Ask Me Anything: Episode 01

Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey crazy podcast today I think you're gonna like it maybe not super practical kind of personal but we're gonna reach into the mail bag many of you responded with some questions to us and we're gonna try to answer a few of those from the Bible yes and some of answers from the Bible plus. Well, stay tuned you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jackhibbs. We're everybody welcome to Jackhibbs podcast and we're gonna have some fun today we are going to grab from our mail bag responses from people questions from people so we're gonna dive right in we're gonna try to get as many as we can within about a 25-minute period of time and allowing me if you would with your generosity to be honest with my answers when I say honest with my answers I may or may not be correct but I'll be honest with my answer of course I believe I'm correct but I will absolutely be correct when I happen to either hit science on the nail head or on target right and I will definitely absolutely be correct if I am citing scripture so we'll do our best to bring you everything accurately and right as is possible and then ultimately you be the judge as long as you understand the word of God judges us and so listen we're gonna go to the mail bag I think that's a popular term to use we should use that we're gonna go to the mail bag and these mail bag questions have come to us obviously by listeners that have reached out to us and have emailed us or have written to us so mail bag question number one from our producers behind this microphone and screens is what's explain what it means to be absent from the by present with the Lord and how that works with the dead explain what does it mean to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord and how does that correlate with those who are dead in Christ perfect Bible answer here it is the scriptures say of the believer the Christ follower this is the Christian the real one that to be absent from the body is a reference to the moment we die our body is vacated by the spirit of who you and I are our minds are spirit leave the body please start thinking about your body as a biomedical bio engineering bio device a bio designed apparatus to be a tool whereby it's animated by the mind and by the spirit of who we are okay that's very important to be absent from the bodies to be present with Christ the believer immediately dies in this world and is immediately with Christ in his presence instantaneously there's no such thing as soul sleep there's no such thing as purgatory there is no such thing as the the believer floating around in some sea of souls awaiting some form of intervention no if I have a heart attack right now and drop dead I will immediately be with be with the Lord Jesus Christ the Bible tells us that in this life while we're at home in the body Paul said to the Corinthians if we're at home in our bodies we are obviously absent from Christ but for the reverse to take place death sets the believer free we need to remember that Jesus has made death the great escape for the believer see Jack did you get that right yeah yeah yeah he took away the power and the sting of death turned it right around and made it for us the believer a door that we walk through into the presence of God so the believer said free by death we're not terrorized by death the Bible says to the believers who come to Christ they're no longer held captive by the fear of death so remember that I think I miss it did I answer that or miss something else um oh the dead in Christ who rise first at the moment of the rapture first Thessalonians chapter four verses 13 through 18 the Bible says that those who have died in Christ will rise first we're talking about the body their bodies are dead either cremated burned alive buried at in a graveyard eaten by a shark and eliminated doesn't matter the molecular structure the molecules of who you are exist if you've been cremated or not okay that's very important to remember that must be resurrected but remember now follow this if the believer dies right now we bury your body at forest lawn over here or Rose Hills you're with the Lord we're hosting your service you're not there you're in heaven the dead those who have died in Christ when Christ returns in John chapter 14 verses one two and three and again first Thessalonians 4th 13th through 18 when Christ returns in the atmosphere he doesn't he doesn't physically arrive he appears in the atmosphere the trumpet blast is bone the shout is given the voice of the archangel the trumpet of God the dead in Christ shall rise first what does that mean it says that their bodies will rise up he brings with them those who once inhabited those bodies they're in heaven my mom for example if Christ were to come today for the church he would come and he would bring my mom with him in the atmosphere her body would come up out of the ground in resurrection and it says that they will be united she will be united with her glorified body I you will immediately be metamorphosed we will be changed in an instant in a twinkling of an eye our bodies will go from this body that is subject to sin our bodies will be reconstituted in the twinkling of an eye and we will go up to meet them in the air again read first Thessalonians 4th 13th through 18 carefully when a believer dies their body goes to the ground their spirit goes to the presence of the Lord when Christ comes back he raises their new body and they receive that new body and they have that resurrected body you see what kind of body are they wearing right now scholars call it the intermediate body our moms our dads our friends our children the aborted babies they are wearing something but it's not their resurrected bodies the ultimate fulfillment and goal of course and God's redemption will be the day that you obtain your resurrected body I hope that helps next one from our producers it is what explain the biblical point of view of decision-making people say my heart says one thing God says another so explain the biblical worldview the biblical way of making decisions in light of the fact that my I want one thing my emotions want this thing this is what I feel to be right I would really like to do this but the Bible says this in other words I think the way the question was put is that I feel I should go left but the Bible says I should go right you do understand right correctly do you do you do you do understand that to be a disciple this is what this is definition of a disciple a disciple does what the master what the the journeyman right if those of you in construction there's the journeyman and there's the apprentice we go with what the Bible says absolutely against what our feelings say you know our thoughts that we have we have them all the time what do we do with them we wash our thoughts through the filter of the word of God this is what's called a disciple a lot of people I have to be sorry to be blunt with you but you know Jesus said a lot of people are gonna go into hell and miss heaven altogether a few there be that find the path to eternal life and there's very few people on that straight and narrow path you know why one of the reasons is is that there are a lot of people who say they believe in God but they do what they want to do and their life proves that they don't believe in God they just say they do but they don't they believe a God exists but they don't know who he is and you can say oh it's Jesus so what who's he if you can't define who he is in charge of your life what Jesus are you talking about so you to be a disciple is to follow what God's words says not what you feel and therein is the modern day 21st century dividing line there's a lot of people that are gonna wind up in hell shocked Matthew chapter seven begin in at verse 20 go ahead and read it start there Matthew 7 verse 20 there's gonna be so many people shocked because they were really religious they went to church services but they did what they wanted to do Jesus said they never did what he said to do they were never disciples that's very important I hope that helps but I really hope that helps because if you were doing what you want to do then you shouldn't call yourself a Christian because the word Christian means Christ follower which means you're a Christ Obeyer now you want to be a disciple disciples follow the master it's the apprentice doing what the journeyman instructs him to do next question how do you respond to Christian couples in church living great they are in the same house but they say they're not so what's the how do I respond to couples that are living to get Christian couples living together they're not married but they're living in the same house and they might even claim that they're not having any sexual relationship whatsoever number one we have an immediate answer for this this is the absolute fail safe response abstain from all appearances of evil you can be living in the same house you could actually be keeping yourself pure on opposite ends of the the house like Bill Clinton lived on that side of the White House and Hillary lived on that side of the house that that was a fact by the way I know people who work the White House during their administration they lived in the same house but they didn't have any physical relationship that's true but it but listen for you and I for you who ask in this question even if you don't it looks like you do two neighbors who live across the street they've heard that you're a Christian but you guys you're living in the same house not married to them it looks sinful to them it's wrong in the Bible says stay away from things that even look wrong you say yeah but yeah but yeah but you what you don't understand the moment you go into the defense mode of this approves your wrong we can't do that if you're living like that you're not married and you're living like that what we're trying to save money no you're not obeying God and you don't trust God obey God he'll take care of the money obey God trust him well he's not going to listen to anyone of any of your excuses and I've heard them all approaching almost 40 years of ministry I've heard them all I heard it all it doesn't fly look if you love each other then go back and stay at mom and dad's house or a friend's house you guys break up split up that way physically and do it the right way abstain from all appearances of evil keep yourself pure get married and build a life okay but just know this it's for financial reasons my if my if she doesn't stay in our home that she's going to be homeless don't you have some friends where she can stay though it doesn't have any Christian girlfriends are there any people listen have you gone to the pastors at your church and said look we don't want to live like this we know that the appearance is wrong so can is there a elderly couple that they have a room for her so we can get married we're gonna get married soon listen if you love her if you guys want to be married get married well I'm waiting to get my degree in astrophysics stop it get married love deferred makes the heart grow sick oh no my parents said we have to wait till we're 45 that's insane get married do you love each other get married get married stop waiting for all the alignments of the universe to come together and it's all perfect and we got the money happening and we got all these things in line and we've got enough to do this and the other it will never happen it will never happen if you love her if you love him get married start your life and go for it God will bless you next question with men under attack in modern society what does it mean to have biblical masculinity and how do they leave their households important yeah masculinity the question is with masculinity being under attack what's the man to do to be to be a biblical man and living out masculinity number one God created masculinity stop apologizing for it okay there's a woke world out there that wants you to grovel and bow down and apologize to everybody because you're a man okay that is called idiocy and it's a sickness and our cultures full of it it should be taken out with the trash God made men God made women he didn't make a third option that said is that a man needs to learn how to be a man boys need to learn how to be boys from the beginning when little junior comes popping out you've got to train that little guy and how to be a guy we have to imprint that upon them were the ones as parents to import to them or export to them our understanding of what history medicine physiology biology makes of a man in other words a little boy who's three years old doesn't understand he just thinks it's really cool that moms high heels make this clickety-clack sound on the tile down the hallway when you see your three-year-old boy wearing mom's high heels you say this hey junior take those things off they look goofy on you they look better on your sister put these on instead put on dad's boots let's be dudes and then let them do it that's how you do it when when a when a five-year-old boy wants to have a tea party with with the girls in the neighborhood it's really good for you to actually talk them out of it you need to tell them you know what let the girls do that I'm gonna take today off from work buddy you know we're gonna do we're gonna go fishing or we're gonna go to the Bass Pro Shop and we're gonna look at some really cool things let's let's go get some slingshots we'll buy some slingshots there maybe even a BB gun or a pellet gun and we'll get some targets and we'll go to the park or we'll go to the wherever and and we'll just do some target practice okay buddy believe me you offer your boy the option he's gonna take a trip to the Bass Pro Shop over T this quick if he doesn't you're a little too late you need to get back on you need to get you need to get on it you need to listen here's the Bible train up a child in the way that they should go and when they're old they will not read they will return to it or in the or depart they will not depart from it train up a child in the way that they should go are you raising a female cause or to embrace femininity show her that is it assumes you know what that means it jevison raise him in the way of masculinity roll him around in the dirt do do guy crazy things thank god boys need to become men and part of man we're wired you know we're wired to do things that are not always healthy we shouldn't jump off of roofs but we're so tempted to jump off of roofs I remember growing up jumping off of roofs I just for I wanted to fly so bad that that was my that was my thing we was so stupid we we went down to at the time we went down to what was called the Long Beach Army Navy surplus store and we bought a bunch of parachutes and we strapped them on and we jumped off the highest point of our house it didn't go over so well because by the time the parachute opened up we hit the ground it was like a suicide run but we that's what boys do and by the way the neighborhood girls they watched us because they're smart that's how life is parents don't suppress that don't suppress that manage it but masculinity we've got the greatest example he's called Jesus Jesus confronted evil Jesus prayed Jesus walked with a bunch of other guys and taught them how to be guys Jesus was gracious and forgiving toward women that were caught in very terrible situations Jesus saw people that were tired and weary and he fed them biblical masculinity is exactly what the prescription is by God for the world to see right now and I hope we've grown up now because this experiment has come and gone it's pretty much dead and that is the incredible dumbness of woke ism whoever's woke still they are woke nuts come on let's be honest oh I believe that everybody should pay for me while I sit around and focus on my navel and worry about climate change you want to change the climate why don't you get a job and contribute to fixing things but come on step up we need a culture to step up and if you think I'm being harsh 17 and 18 year olds stormed the beaches of Omaha Utah Normandy to liberate France from Adolf Hitler 17 and 18 year olds what are 17 and 18 year olds doing today they can't even storm their bedroom we need to stop woke and we need to get real and biblical masculinity is what the world needs right now next question no listen I need to almost repeat this verbatim poor poor parent by the way I wrote a book not too long ago called living in the days of deception and this poor parent is entertaining deception the parent said what what do we say to our God to our adult God fearing son who now says he's a gay Christian I don't know where to begin on this this is wrong this is wrong in so many fronts you cannot be a God fearing Christian and be gay you can be a God fearing Christian and struggle with same such sex attraction okay you can be a God fearing Christian and struggle with heterosexual attraction that's called temptation kill it bring every thought under the captivity of Christ Satan's out there throwing every kind of dart at us as possible but listen the moment you go from claiming to be a God fearing Christian to the practice of homosexuality or the practice of adultery or the practice of fornication you're no longer God fearing if you were God fearing it wouldn't have happened okay God the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom wisdom and the fear of God keeps you from doing dumb things that the world tries to talk you into doing no the truth is your son made a decision to depart from the will of God and he knew it the Holy Spirit was there telling him to do what he wanted to do there are other reasons as to why he confirmed this decision in his life could be that somebody heard him most often I always get mail on this one are you ready and yet yet to be proven wrong over 90% well over 90% of people who opt for the homosexual experience were molested as a young child and or exposed to heavy pornography it messed them up confuse them terribly they saw things that they were not supposed to see at that age they were not hormonally and mentally able to process it it caused profound confusion and thereby they wonder if this relationship that is not working out right between myself and my girlfriend or myself and my wife is is not working it must be because I'm gay the origin of that is in the early days of life nobody is nobody straight with a normal upbringing says you know I think I'm gay now and I can say this with a whole lot of authority and listen to the LBGTYQ is not going to be happy when they hear this it's pure fact I've been pastoring for over 35 years I've watched what's happening the circle is coming out to full circle I've had people say Pastor Jack I'm 17 years old I'm gay and now they've come back around high pastor Jack I'm 27 remember me maybe I do maybe I don't I told you right here in the church for you that I was gay turns out I wasn't boy did I go down to stupid road and make bad decisions I want to be a dad or I want to be a wife I want to have a normal relationship and I want a girlfriend or I want a boyfriend I want to have a family and I want to have kids and then they wake up so now here's my answer to people who say I'm gay now I always say to them I never take them seriously they can Pastor Jack you know I just want you know I'm gay now no you're not I don't believe you what no I don't think you are I don't think you're gay and that's founded upon science by the way God doesn't make gay man makes gay God made us to make babies so if you can't make a baby then what's going on here well first of all you can thank God that God exists right now I need to repent and get your life straight with him right with him but you know you say well that's so brutal that's so brutal no you want to hear brutal I'll tell I'll tell you honestly because they're not going to tell you you know for example Richard Dawkins is any an evolutionist I think he's the most famous evolutionist walking around right now or is it um who's the other guy is um Harris no Hitchens is Hitchens tragically's in hell I hope I wish I hope he's in heaven but Hitchens is gone he's a Jewish guy he's the neurologist you guys know I'm talking about I hear us anyway he's an evolutionist have you noticed evolutionist never Sam Harris thank you thank you have you noticed that evolutionist never talk about homosexuality they should be the ones talking about it first because you know what they believe that homosexuality was eradicated by evolutionary processes in in place that washed away homosexuality 10,000 years ago a million years ago evolution does not allow for homosexuality it's impossible evolution to say we would thank God if we believed in God but we're going to thank evolution because a homosexual only lasts for one generation and he's dead evolution washes out that anomaly that's evolution I didn't say it that's evolution it washes away the anomaly I'm saying to you that God can heal brokenness he loves doing that please please consider Jesus next question last question last question with such a noisy world how does one oh oh wow this is personal whoof how does somebody quiet their mind in such a noisy world wow this is personal because I'm going to give you two answers maybe three not sure but two for sure and I'm sure people are going to be upset with me when I say this I don't care this is what works for me I've always found my comfort because the Bible says to find comfort in the scriptures the Bible says that we need to renew our minds in the Bible number one question how much Bible are you just letting sit seep drip marinate meditate into your life I'm not talking about your daily Bible reading which is about 20 minutes long boom boom boom boom boom get in the car let's go that's not it that will do you nothing I'm talking about sitting there with a verse or a couple of verses and you're actually letting it marinate inside of you that begins to calm you down it begins to steal the heart in fact you'll even see your heart rate slow down your mind will start to be renewed as the Bible says that's how you renew your mind is with the word of God those of you who don't like to hear this or those of you who are saying that doesn't work you're actually admitting that you do not meditate on the scriptures I'm telling you right now the Bible story you meditate on scriptures it affects you I am mr. ADD okay and I have two problems going on I'm not only ADD but I'm certain that I have some form of chemical disorder and you may have the same for this reason I know that I have a very hyperactive liver because that's been diagnosed so for example if you take a sleeping pill and you fall over and go to sleep and I take the same pill you take I'm going to watch you sleep it has no effect on my body if you were to take two sleeping pills you would sleep eight hours I would take two and I would watch you sleep for eight hours it doesn't affect my body and that is a very very bad thing I'm one of those guys that if I go into surgery I've gone through procedures and I'm the guy that wakes up or I'm the guy that feels stuff and I can't move you until the doctor about it it's horrible so I'm being very personal with you right now but I got to tell you right now my mind always listen my mind always oh by the way write this down how to handle your emotions by June hunt it's a book how to handle your emotions by June hunt hunt it the book but back to my problem I'm going to I'm going to do this this is until recently I didn't know any better in my head this is what you would hear in my head this is what I would hear hear that static that's been in my head for 65 years 66 years lay down walk read talk hear that static and somebody told me to start taking niacin now I'm not a doctor don't pretend to be a doctor do not try this at home niacin for me I started taking heavy dosages of niacin very expensive not trash that you buy it some dumpy you know store this is very very high in niacin and I take a volume of it daily and I've been doing this for a little over a month and listen to this stopped I don't know I don't know if I was nice and deficient I don't know if niacin goes to war and fixes it I don't know but this I know there is a spiritual problem that is dealt with by immersion and meditation in the Bible and God fixes it in my life there's a combo issue where I found out that I have this noise this white noise in my head and for whatever reasons niacin took it away so you may have a chemical problem a hormonal problem of blood disorder something but this I know for sure renewing my mind in the scriptures calm us me down see when we freak we have a tendency to run right past the Bible with our hair on fire when we should stick our head in a bucket of water put out the fire sit down and read for example the Psalms or the book of Philippians where their God promises you to give you a sound mind okay try it look into that so listen I know this is crazy crazy podcast strange you may not want to share this with anybody else but if you do you can go to jack hips.com you can hit share you can hit subscribe you can hit like but look we're just keeping it real we believe that it's time for us you know our word right is we believe that it's time for us to live out what we believe in it's time for real life and this is part of it and so I want to just do that and be happy about it because the the awesome thing is I'm at a time you can hear the alarm we got to go God bless you guys jack hips.com we'll see you next time this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhids.com to learn more and stay connected