Assurance Of Heaven

real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth equip the saints and impact our culture here's a big test you ever want to try this do it at home don't do it here if you don't think you belong to God if you'd think God doesn't want you try denouncing him take your Bible when you go home today go get a trash can and try to burn it just burn it just throw your Bible across the street you say I never pick it up again I did that you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.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 Jack Kibs yes because you believe in Jesus Christ you're gonna be going to heaven because listen he's begun to work in you oh for those of you listen that maybe think that you've gone too far maybe God has given up on you and you're thinking thoughts of condemnation you need to remember again Romans chapter 8 verse one that there's now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus you remember that you're gonna go to heaven friend because listen did God not create a work in you didn't he begin to work in you can you look back and maybe you're listening right now and you just think it's all over for you and just out of curiosity you stepped in here today or you've tuned in today and you think it's all over for me I want to ask you this question did God ever begin to work in your life I do believe that if this question is answered there will not be enough churches in America to house the prodigal sons and daughters that can make their way back home today you think the church is big in America you think this church is big this is a ridiculous I believe there are more condemned brothers and sisters who are walking around with a scarlet letter as they were on their forehead thinking that they could never go back to church because Satan has lied to them they're not happy in the world listen is this you you're not happy in the world because you know better but you feel as though Jesus doesn't want you back and you're a no man's land that is Satan's language can you ask yourself if God has done a work in you and second Timothy chapter two verse 19 the Bible tells us never the less the solid foundation of God stands having this seal this is also the Lord knows those who are his the word in Greek is ganosco it's a great word I love this word because the word listen the Lord experiences those who are his that's what the word ganosco means it means it means you see this watch watch listen Bible turn the pages and I'm doing I'm ganoscoing this Bible I'm familiar with it I feel it I am in direct connection with it God's word says I know those that are mine I'm in direct connection with them I feel them I can touch them I know them I cannot be any more intimate with them than what I am with my own do you believe in Lord Jesus Christ that's your reality you need to spiritually stop tiptoeing around and be confident in Christ here's a big test you want to try this do it at home don't do it here if you don't think you belong to God if you think God doesn't want you try denouncing him take your Bible when you go home today go get a trash can and try to burn it just burn it just throw your Bible across the street you say I never pick it up again I did that once you're looking at a guy that struggled for three years with such condemnation because I couldn't get over my past I remember being so angry because I couldn't fathom the love of God for me how could he what was funny is that I could see God's love for all of you and the friends around me at that time but I couldn't see it for me and it's powerful because that's a date it's powerful because it's dangerous because Jesus is a personal savior he's not a group savior you need to hear this if I were to ask you do you believe in Jesus yes I do and I asked you the diagnostic questions you believe he died for you in the cross yes but do you leave but then you believe you're going to heaven right I don't know I'm just such I don't know I keep remembering about my past and it's just I don't know listen you understand something he died for you personally that's why it had to be God that did it no man could have done it for us personally do you understand that yes so hey I found a really great guy he's down the street as far as I can tell he could almost walk on water maybe he'll die for me hey even if you found such a person I'm gonna work God had to die for us and when you come to realize that that if Adam and Eve had a baby somebody give me your name just give me a name Jennifer if Adam and Eve had a baby and Jennifer was the only one born and then Eve trips over an apple over there it had to be an apple the way apple computer apple it had to be an apple if Adam and Eve would have sent and plunged the three of them by their action into condemnation Jesus Christ still would have died if Jennifer would have been the only kid born into this entire world did you know that that's not a very big salvation purchase for all that suffering you're looking at it religiously God looked at it purely based on his nature of who he is God didn't convince himself that he's the redeemer because he is redeemer it's not that it was one or 100 billion people over the course of human history it's irrelevant to him he doesn't love based on numbers he loves one at a time and that love he has for you is blind to your sins and faults because you believe in Jesus Christ you know why that you know why you see red when you see something red because your brain your eye is processing every color except one color you know why the sky is blue because it's not blue you know why you see red because that thing's not red John you have a red sweatshirt on I think it's red okay you forgot that he was shocked I do I do so here's it's wild my eyes in the in the spectrum of light my eyes are processing all of the color colors here but you know it's what's being rejected his what he's wearing the reason why it's that color to me is because every color of the spectrum is being absorbed except one color what color is it red red is bouncing back and hitting my eye thus I say it's red it may not be red the sky is not blue the sky absorbs every color except blue it spits blue back at you because it's not absorbing blue are you hearing me when God looks at the Christian the Bible says we've been washed in the blood of the God sees everything he would have you see as a as a non-Christian God sees all of my sin but the moment I'm washed in the blood of the lamb imagine you being because of belief you're dipped in a tub of blood you see patch that so gross it should be gross it costs God his life and you stand up I see listen if I were God and I'm looking at you I only see red that's why the Bible says he will not he'll never remember your sins and as far as the east is from the west he will remove your sins from you why cuz he only sees red who made that up God did stop trying to convince him of other things just zip it we are thank him for it when you trust Christ God sees you red washed in the blood of the lamb that's his deal listen he did that enter into that you have nothing to do with it but to believe him so get into it stop overthinking it did you do wrong did you sin against God was that evil yes then run to him run to him and get red plunge as the old him goes and under the fountain of the manuals veins remarkable here's the reality Ephesians 1 verse 3 listen bless it be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ just as he chose us in him that's Jesus before the foundation of the world that means God knew you before you were ever hatched he knew who you were that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestined us he did that based on his four knowledge this should encourage you believer who's going to heaven to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise and of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in notice capital B the beloved that's Jesus verse 7 in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom prudence having made known to us here comes the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself here all these this legal talk it's as though God is making a declaration an executive order from God that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven which are on earth in him verse 11 says in him also we have obtained an inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the council of his will is this genius or what verse 12 that we should first that we who first there it is trusted in Christ should be to the praise of his glory wow you meditate on that's deep that's beyond deep that's letting you into to the secret or the mystery of salvation that was in the heart and mind of God before time ever was Philippians 1 verse 6 Philippians 1 6 tells us B technically the Greek is B being we say being confident of this very thing the word in the Greek means B being confident all way never never never do you not have to be confident it's a it's a command B being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ somebody say man that means God does his work are you going to heaven mom mature that you believe Jesus Christ that in the cross for you sins yes I just don't feel safe stop it and believe go back to what you know what got you originally to raise your hand or to get up or come forward or to fall on your face or to say Jesus come into my life and save me from myself wash me clean of my sins and cause me to walk with you and if you prayed that 10 20 30 years ago and you've been like a pinball machine ever since by God's grace and mercy you're hearing this message today and you can stop being like that game that toy and receive this message from the Lord today that he wants you and he will make up for all the time that has been wasted and then finally this is the final poich is going to take me a few minutes to give you this final thing but yes you're gonna go to heaven because he has spoken life to you this is the absolute come on let's be honest man this is Lizzy why we love God he speaks to us the things that we need to hear when a wife wants to hear her husband say I love you more than anything in the whole world that's she wants to hear that if she says honey do you love me and he says I paid the bills don't I that's that that's sad that's sad that's that amazing they were God has done God did it all and then we ask him do you love me and he says yes and whenever you doubt it Jack just look back at what I've done for you in the past go back to the cross you know what if you doubt it read the gospels again and and you'll see what I did because I'm crazy about you Jack you should just get handle the love of God well listen he's begun a good working you know you little stubborn I get it just start here then God likes you that's a good place to start I can't handle the love of God well then you know what he likes you start there she what does that mean that means he wants to hang out with you today that's good news most people don't he does right think of it I'm glad he loves me second Corinthians chapter four verse three says but even if our gospel is veiled it is veiled to those who are perishing who's the minds the God of this age Satan is blinded who do not believe see that lest the light of the gospel the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine upon them last verse it's a wopper it's a Matthew chapter 13 beginning at verse one in the same day that Jesus went out of the house and set by the sea a great multitude or multitudes were gathered together to him so that he got into a boat and sat in the whole multitude stood in the shore and then he spoke many things to them in parables parables parabalos para alongside parabalos to cast truth alongside every head every heart of every listener he just threw out the truth and it landed like a like a bobber on a fishing line right alongside each person's head parabalos to cast truth alongside their head notice he didn't force it into their heart he didn't shove it down their throat he casted alongside them he's casted alongside us this is what he said be hold a sore one up to so and as he sewed some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them some fell on stony places where they did not have much earth and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth but when the sun was up they were scorched and because they had no root they were there to weigh and some that is seed some fell among thorns and the thorns spring up and choke them but others fell on good ground and yielded a crop some a hundredfold some sixty some thirty he who has ears to hear let him hear and the disciples came to him and said to him they're going to be asking in this why do you speak to the people them in parables and he answered instead of them because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it has not been given stop right there verse 12 listen he's not withholding the truth from them Satan blinds the eyes of those who do not believe Jesus throws out in preaching he throws out the truth to all but not all except that's how you know who is in the family and who's not oh I wish pastors across America would get this down they don't need to apologize for the Bible and avoid portions of the Bible if they're really pastors they're supposed to give the Bible and let Jesus do his work you don't make you don't make a church happen you just you're supposed to do one thing pastor you're supposed to give them the truth faithfully and God does the rest if you try to build a church you'll never build a church you'll build a clubhouse but you won't build a church let him build it and he uses his word to do it you just give the word and he takes care of the rest this Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected