Dispatched From Heaven

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. Pray biblically. Pray that you're the prayer that you're offering is in line with the will of God, which is the Word of God. Once you say amen, get up and blow the world away. 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 Jack Hibbs. And this is eternal life, that they may know you. They only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. Is it interesting that Jesus is praying in John 17 to the father in the third person? Did you catch that? He's praying. He's praying to the father, but then at the end it says the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you've sent. Remarkable. John 16, verse 12, John 16, 12, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. This is before he leaves back to heaven. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority. But whatever he hears, he will speak. This is the Holy Spirit who dwells in you. John 16, verse 5, but now I go away to him who sent me and none of you asked me, where are you going? But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But if I depart, did he depart? Remember the book of Acts tells us that as they were talking to him, he just began to lift off from the earth and was ascended into the heavens and received up in the glory of God. He says, if I depart from you, I will send him to you. One of the overwhelming facts, truths, undeniable realities that I know Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. I mean, think about it. I know he was crucified. Yes, the Bible says so. I believe he rose again from the dead. I know this. Yes, the Bible says so. But how do I know that? I wasn't there. Somebody who was there dwells within me. The Bible says in verse 27, now he who searches the hearts, I love this. He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is. I want everybody to look at that for a moment. I'm sorry, I'm kind of pumped up excited about this. Can I just read this? You look at the screens or look at your Bible. Now, he that's God who searches the hearts, whose hearts are hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is. What an unusual statement to make. Do you get the connection? Translation, leave it on the screen. Let me put it this way. God looks down from heaven, right past your skin and bone. And he looks inside your mind and he looks inside your soul. And he knows exactly. He knows exactly what the spirit is saying about the one that he possesses you. The born again believer, sealed into the day of redemption. Isn't that glorious? Marked by God. Because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. My goodness, you know, it's amazing about this. It brings you so much comfort. You think about sitting back in a recliner, but then as soon as you realize that, it's like, wait a minute. If this is true, God, what do you want me to do about this? And you say, live the life. Speak the word. Tell them about me. Get out there. Live. Do it. And we don't have to sweat about it. He does it. It's wonderful. Heaven is answering when we pray. Listen, church family, listen, when you pray and your prayer is in alignment with the will of God, say, how do I know that? Remember, we talked last week. Pray biblically. Pray that you're the prayer that you're offering is in line with the will of God, which is the word of God. Once you say, amen, get up and blow the world away. When you know I was at the store the other day and I saw this Satanist and he looked kind of sad. I thought about telling him about Jesus, but then I thought, maybe it's not God's will. Translation. God was telling you, there's a Satanist. Go get him. Tell him about my love for him. But you know what, it didn't happen because your will was done. And so the Lord had to send somebody else and sometimes I wonder if we'll be in heaven and it's like, hey, have that Satanist get up here. That's the guy I was going to talk to that day, but I went out. And then somebody's going to come along and say, don't worry about it. God called me to do it. And I did it. There he is and praise the Lord. It's like, oh, me. I missed that one. Somebody has once said, maybe it was Chuck Mr. Years ago said that he thinks that in the day of judgment for us as believers before Christ, the wipe in a way of every tear has nothing to do with anything except that. The wipe in a way of the tears when it is revealed to us the opportunities that we missed. See, we're not going to be judged by our sins. We're going to weep in heaven on the day of Christ's judgment, the beam of seat, but then he wipes those away and I do agree with that because if our sin was washed away, the Bible is clear, that's not going to be the issue. So then why are we crying? Oh, my dad didn't make it. You won't have any memory of your dad. Oh, my son didn't make it. You won't have knowledge of him. He's not in the family. Then why are we crying in heaven? I think God is going to say, Jack, I wanted you to use you in this way, that way here, there, but you said, no, or whatever it might be. Don't be like that. How about this, everybody? And we'll press on is I'd rather get an A for trying, right? What if I think it's God and I'm not sure, but I step out and do it anyway. I'd rather get an A trying, right? Then an F for just sit in there. We need to be a little reckless, people. Here's a quote, if it blesses you or not, here's a quote, there's a great liberty and surrendering to the will of God. We have also been left a great example of what it is like to surrender to the will of God in the most impossible situations. Jesus gave us the ultimate example. We do not need to figure the issue out on our own, rather Jesus himself gives us the greatest prayer that could ever have been offered up. It is simply this. Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. We always associate that prayer with the end of life. And I get it. That's one of Jesus's, if not his last words. Into your hands, I commit my spirit. And Jesus yielded up the spirit. But how about now in life? How about now us adopting that prayer every day of our Christian life starting this moment for Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. So what does that mean? That means whatever happens today, that's God's business. Tomorrow morning, when you get up, Father, before your feet hit the ground, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit and then put your feet on planet Earth. Think about it, because you've been laying in the bed. You've haven't been on Earth. You've been in your Mike Lindell, my mattress, my pillow. And you just, you go from that into my slippers. And you say, you say, Lord, into your hands, I commit my spirit. And then after that, whatever goes on, goes on. Who cares? It's in the hands of God. It's in the hands of God. He's answering. He's always answering. The Holy Spirit's work, verse 27, now he searches the hearts, knows what the mind of this spirit is. It's not this Holy Spirit's mind. It's your mind. So very quickly, Psalm 139, verse 17. How precious are your thoughts toward me, O God? How great is the sum of them? If I should count them, they would be more than the number than the sand. When I awake, I'm still with you. Oh, man, how about this? Very popular verse, Jeremiah 29, 11 to 13. For I know the thoughts, this is God speaking, friend. Listen, if you're down to the dumps right now, if you're fighting depression, here I have an injection for you. Let's put this IV drip in. Okay, and it's free. God says to you, I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace. And not of evil. To give you a future and a hope, then you will call upon me and go and pray to me and I will listen to you and you will seek me and find me when you've searched for me with all of your hearts. His word says that he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Psalm 139, verses 1 through 6 is O Lord, you have searched me. Hey, that sounds like Romans. You've searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought of far off. You comprehend my path and my line down and are acquainted with all of my ways. Doesn't this sound like Romans? For there is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You have hedged me. I love that. You've hedged me behind and before. It's squished by God. You know, I gotcha. And laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain to it. Psalm 103, verse 10. He has not dwelt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our equities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is this mercy towards those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far by removed our sins from us as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. The word fear don't panic. It means to be an awe of him. It doesn't mean to be scared. For he knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. So good. Isaiah 53, 12. Therefore, I will divide him a portion, speaking about Messiah with the great. And Messiah shall divide the spoil with the strong because Messiah poured out his soul unto death. And Messiah was numbered with the transgressors and Messiah bore the sin of many and made, oh, there's our word. Intercession for the transgressors. Hebrews, I'm almost done. Hebrews 5, verse 7. Who in the days of his flesh? He, Messiah, had offered up prayers and supplications with the him and it cries and tears to whom he was able to save him from death and was heard because of his godly fear or awe. Though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. You know how you're learning about God, friend, by the things that you suffer. And having been perfected or made complete, this is Christ in the flesh. He became the author of eternal salvation to those who obey him. He's not awesome. I want to give you a quote by John Locke. I'm a fan of John Locke. He's amazing. But look at this quote, John Locke. The people who have no other remedy in this as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth but to appeal to heaven. John Locke was talking about when everything breaks down in government of this earth. Remember this, the believer can always appeal to heaven. In fact, I want we want to show you the flag. See that flag? Appeal to heaven. It depends on the time of the year I have that flag hanging on my house. Depends on what's happening. That's an awesome thing. By the way, real quick, side note. I don't know. I know you have nowhere else to go today. So George Washington, as general, those guys had all grown up reading John Locke. And George Washington, when he examined the fact that we were about to go up against the greatest military of power in the face of the earth, England, George Washington remembered this. It's in his own writings. And he says, I want a flag struck to be flown everywhere. Take the liberty tree that Sam Adams started in Boston. That's a cool idea. Take the liberty tree and slap it on the flag and put this what John Locke said in appeal to heaven. That's the only way we can win is if we appeal to heaven. And Washington had that struck and put up everywhere. Did you know that? You should have known that. If you go to school here, you'd know that. And that awesome. Listen, church, you can always appeal to heaven at all times. I don't think we appeal to heaven enough. We need to appeal to heaven more and more. And that'll just leave you with this. And next to this chapter 3 verse 13, Moses said to God, indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you and they say to me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, listen, before I say anything more, didn't we just go through this a few weeks ago about his name? I made a comment in that sermon of a few weeks ago that and you know all the, all the Sunday messages are all the, we teach from the same book, but the sermons are all different depending on first, second, and third. And I don't know which one I said this in, but I gave, I gave challenge to the fact that if you're a Muslim, you can't, you can't tell me the name of your God. And you, I asked you, what is the name of the God of Islam? And you said, Allah, and I said, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. What is the name of the God of Islam? What is his name? And you said, Allah, and I asked you a third time if you were in that particular service, clearly by the looks of your face, it wasn't this service. And I said, no, I'm asking you as a Muslim, what is the name of your God? Stop telling me God. What's his name? Because you see an Arabic, Allah is the word for God. There are a lot of gods. It's true. Whoever your God is is your predominant thought. Whoever your God is is your predominant appetite. It's your prevailing desire. Is it money? Is it surfing? Is it golfing? Is it whatever? What is it that? Oh boy, I can't wait. Fill in the blank. That's a God. Could be tidalists. Could be Ferrari. Could be rocking chair. I don't know. Could be in and out. You know, at least that one's got Bible verses on it. Anyway. God says, Moses, you tell them, I am that I sent you to my people. And the tetragammatron is this. The name of God is not only the root Yah to salvation. That word, but the tetragammatron, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D is also the meaning of the becoming one. So today, for my life personally, I need direction. I pray to Yah, who is my L, who is my God. Yah is His name. Okay, you're tracking? And I'm seeking Him for guidance. And I pray in His name. This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, our listeners supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? 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