It’s Time to Change Your Course

100:00:00.490 --> 00:00:03.730Real life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with200:00:03.730 --> 00:00:07.109intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the300:00:07.109 --> 00:00:09.050saints and impact our culture.400:00:09.410 --> 00:00:11.270Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at500:00:11.270 --> 00:00:11.710hand.600:00:12.070 --> 00:00:13.010Jesus said that.700:00:13.230 --> 00:00:15.010People get all nervous about the word repent.800:00:15.129 --> 00:00:16.770Repent for what?900:00:17.150 --> 00:00:18.690They get all uppity about it.1000:00:18.810 --> 00:00:19.570Oh, just stop.1100:00:19.810 --> 00:00:21.030It's an old English word.1200:00:21.150 --> 00:00:22.310It means turn around.1300:00:23.110 --> 00:00:23.810Isn't that great?1400:00:24.870 --> 00:00:26.510You could say it this way.1500:00:27.050 --> 00:00:29.390You're going in one direction, do 180 degree1600:00:29.390 --> 00:00:29.810turn.1700:00:30.790 --> 00:00:32.950You're going that way, stop.1800:00:33.130 --> 00:00:34.730When you hear this message, the kingdom of1900:00:34.730 --> 00:00:35.470God's at hand.2000:00:36.490 --> 00:00:37.790Salvation is available to you.2100:00:38.130 --> 00:00:39.610God wants to forgive you of your sins.2200:00:40.070 --> 00:00:41.370The next question should be from you.2300:00:41.470 --> 00:00:42.170What do I do?2400:00:42.450 --> 00:00:43.190Answer, repent.2500:00:47.330 --> 00:00:49.650You can get the outlines of this podcast2600:00:49.650 --> 00:00:53.630by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast.2700:00:54.170 --> 00:00:56.890Today, if this podcast lifts you up and2800:00:56.890 --> 00:00:59.190encourages you to live a more fulfilled life2900:00:59.190 --> 00:01:01.270in Christ, then make sure you leave us3000:01:01.270 --> 00:01:02.870one of those five star ratings.3100:01:03.430 --> 00:01:06.510To us, that's like saying amen or yes.3200:01:06.870 --> 00:01:09.230Then that rating will encourage others to listen.3300:01:09.850 --> 00:01:11.990Now open your hearts to what God's word3400:01:11.990 --> 00:01:12.970has to say to you.3500:01:13.430 --> 00:01:14.870Here is Jack Hibbs.3600:01:15.830 --> 00:01:18.810Romans 14, Romans 15, Romans 16.3700:01:19.690 --> 00:01:21.610A great section of the scripture that is3800:01:21.610 --> 00:01:24.850speaking directly to the believer about their walk3900:01:24.850 --> 00:01:29.310with God, making it real because everything about4000:01:29.310 --> 00:01:30.350Jesus is real.4100:01:31.870 --> 00:01:34.430And in that, the reality, and I think4200:01:34.430 --> 00:01:37.530the authentic faith of a true believer cannot4300:01:37.530 --> 00:01:38.190be denied.4400:01:39.070 --> 00:01:40.650When I say things like that, I think4500:01:40.650 --> 00:01:41.570of the man, Stephen.4600:01:41.710 --> 00:01:43.110Remember Stephen in the book of Acts?4700:01:43.790 --> 00:01:45.110Stephen was a man that was full of4800:01:45.110 --> 00:01:45.830the Holy Spirit.4900:01:45.990 --> 00:01:48.070You really don't know much about Stephen, but5000:01:48.070 --> 00:01:52.570his great moment of the hall of faith,5100:01:52.570 --> 00:01:55.150I would say, of course, is when he5200:01:55.150 --> 00:02:00.310was a guilty of loving Jesus, guilty of5300:02:00.310 --> 00:02:01.430proclaiming Christ.5400:02:01.970 --> 00:02:04.050It's interesting to note that where Stephen was5500:02:04.050 --> 00:02:06.370stoned to death for his witness of Christ,5600:02:06.750 --> 00:02:08.949being full of the Holy Spirit, what did5700:02:08.949 --> 00:02:09.310he do?5800:02:09.690 --> 00:02:12.950He proclaimed the gospel, and one of the5900:02:12.950 --> 00:02:15.550eyewitnesses to that, and he was actually the6000:02:15.550 --> 00:02:18.150man orchestrating the stoning and the killing, he's6100:02:18.150 --> 00:02:20.690the man responsible, was a guy by the6200:02:20.690 --> 00:02:26.490name of Saul, a Pharisee from Tarsus, a6300:02:26.490 --> 00:02:30.970Jew, who no doubt, Stephen's stoning to death,6400:02:31.330 --> 00:02:36.390Stephen's last words is, "'I see the Lord6500:02:36.390 --> 00:02:40.030standing at the right hand "'of God the6600:02:40.030 --> 00:02:44.750Father.'" And Stephen uttered those words just as6700:02:44.750 --> 00:02:45.070Jesus.6800:02:45.070 --> 00:02:48.110Father, do not hold this against them.6900:02:48.330 --> 00:02:48.870Forgive them.7000:02:49.350 --> 00:02:49.890Isn't that amazing?7100:02:50.390 --> 00:02:51.610That's big grace, people.7200:02:52.050 --> 00:02:54.470You can't do that with human power.7300:02:55.750 --> 00:02:59.030And Paul saw that, and I'm convinced that7400:02:59.030 --> 00:03:01.810that led to Paul's great conversion on the7500:03:01.810 --> 00:03:02.810road to Damascus.7600:03:02.810 --> 00:03:05.130That had to be haunting him and preparing7700:03:05.130 --> 00:03:07.790him all along the way, a great witness.7800:03:08.650 --> 00:03:10.470So church, getting real with God and man7900:03:10.470 --> 00:03:12.330requires us to know who we are, and8000:03:12.330 --> 00:03:15.630it means that we must together love first.8100:03:16.770 --> 00:03:18.430And he starts out when he tells us8200:03:18.430 --> 00:03:21.370in verse seven, "'For none of us lives8300:03:21.370 --> 00:03:23.630to himself "'and no one dies to himself.8400:03:23.870 --> 00:03:25.810"'For if we live, we live to the8500:03:25.810 --> 00:03:28.570Lord, "'and if we die, we die to8600:03:28.570 --> 00:03:28.930the Lord.8700:03:29.030 --> 00:03:31.250"'Therefore, whether we live or die, we are8800:03:31.250 --> 00:03:33.650the Lord's.'" He's speaking to the fact that8900:03:33.650 --> 00:03:35.930the believer, if we're living or if we9000:03:35.930 --> 00:03:37.230die, we are the Lord's.9100:03:37.470 --> 00:03:38.130Isn't that amazing?9200:03:38.650 --> 00:03:40.310When we hear the word die, for the9300:03:40.310 --> 00:03:41.890believer, we must be clear on this.9400:03:42.530 --> 00:03:45.450When we die as believers, we don't die.9500:03:45.650 --> 00:03:47.850Jesus said, if you believe in me, though9600:03:47.850 --> 00:03:49.270you die, you're not dead.9700:03:50.470 --> 00:03:51.830That kind of freaks some of us out.9800:03:51.870 --> 00:03:53.010You say, wait a minute, he's laying right9900:03:53.010 --> 00:03:53.230there.10000:03:53.290 --> 00:03:54.050The guy is dead.10100:03:54.170 --> 00:03:55.270No, the guy is gone.10200:03:56.850 --> 00:03:58.570The Bible tells us to be absent from10300:03:58.570 --> 00:04:00.110this body is to be present with the10400:04:00.110 --> 00:04:00.450Lord.10500:04:01.330 --> 00:04:04.170And Jesus is the Lord over the living,10600:04:04.390 --> 00:04:07.130that's all of us here right now, and10700:04:07.130 --> 00:04:08.430those who died in faith.10800:04:10.940 --> 00:04:13.400Imagine, as you sit here this morning, those10900:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.279who have died in faith are standing before11000:04:15.279 --> 00:04:18.660him in eternity based on the blood of11100:04:18.660 --> 00:04:19.899the everlasting covenant.11200:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.380And based on that fact that, as Paul11300:04:23.380 --> 00:04:24.920has been teaching us, who are we to11400:04:24.920 --> 00:04:26.260judge another man's servant?11500:04:26.580 --> 00:04:28.700And who are we to say this or11600:04:28.700 --> 00:04:31.380that about the celebration of any particular day11700:04:31.380 --> 00:04:33.400that you might hold sacred to God versus11800:04:33.400 --> 00:04:35.440someone else holding some other day?11900:04:35.500 --> 00:04:36.920We're not to judge people on that.12000:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.640The bottom line was, whatever you do, if12100:04:39.640 --> 00:04:42.100you eat or if you do not eat,12200:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.500if you drink or do not drink, if12300:04:44.500 --> 00:04:47.600you pick this day or that day, bottom12400:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.860line, do it unto the Lord, give God12500:04:49.860 --> 00:04:51.500the glory, honor his name.12600:04:52.640 --> 00:04:55.120And I love the grace that's involved in12700:04:55.120 --> 00:04:55.340that.12800:04:55.540 --> 00:04:58.180Grace to be victorious in Christ.12900:04:59.420 --> 00:05:01.380What a great liberating truth.13000:05:02.120 --> 00:05:03.640And the fact is that I am not,13100:05:03.820 --> 00:05:06.100I cannot live my life to myself.13200:05:07.280 --> 00:05:08.260Watch this, everybody.13300:05:08.840 --> 00:05:11.000We don't, listen, we're not far from Hollywood.13400:05:12.060 --> 00:05:13.900It's all about self.13500:05:15.180 --> 00:05:16.820Everything is about stardom.13600:05:17.860 --> 00:05:22.440Everything is about the idol worshiping of the13700:05:22.440 --> 00:05:24.240performer, so to speak, right?13800:05:25.960 --> 00:05:27.980And if that's such a great thing, why13900:05:27.980 --> 00:05:31.000are not those people fulfilled and content and14000:05:31.000 --> 00:05:31.500happy?14100:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.040Instead with, so to speak, owning the world,14200:05:37.140 --> 00:05:40.040they're drugged out, they're drunked out.14300:05:42.200 --> 00:05:44.500They often end their lives in suicide.14400:05:45.540 --> 00:05:47.640The Bible makes it very clear right here14500:05:47.640 --> 00:05:48.900that for you and I to love one14600:05:48.900 --> 00:05:51.440another and even love our enemies is the14700:05:51.440 --> 00:05:53.160fact that you and I must realize that14800:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.840none of us live to ourself and we14900:05:55.840 --> 00:05:57.100do not die to ourself.15000:06:01.590 --> 00:06:03.250You're not an island, no matter what Paul15100:06:03.250 --> 00:06:04.090Simon says.15200:06:04.990 --> 00:06:05.990You're not an island.15300:06:06.710 --> 00:06:08.010No, I'm just gonna live my life to15400:06:08.010 --> 00:06:08.470myself.15500:06:08.870 --> 00:06:09.690You can't do that.15600:06:11.350 --> 00:06:13.010Listen, there's a big craze going on in15700:06:13.010 --> 00:06:13.850our new world.15800:06:14.790 --> 00:06:16.690I was speaking to an expert on this15900:06:16.690 --> 00:06:21.170last night in Arizona and this stuff of16000:06:21.170 --> 00:06:25.190AI and now a shocking poll.16100:06:25.370 --> 00:06:26.690I don't know who did the poll.16200:06:26.790 --> 00:06:28.950You can Google it later, but there's a16300:06:28.950 --> 00:06:31.370poll that's out and young people today are16400:06:31.370 --> 00:06:31.810choosing.16500:06:32.130 --> 00:06:35.290They want to have a synthetic relationship with16600:06:35.290 --> 00:06:38.490AI friends rather than actual humans.16700:06:38.610 --> 00:06:39.650And their argument is this.16800:06:39.650 --> 00:06:42.350It's too complex to have a relationship with16900:06:42.350 --> 00:06:43.030another human.17000:06:43.350 --> 00:06:44.130Too much drama.17100:06:44.770 --> 00:06:47.130And you can literally go and you can17200:06:47.130 --> 00:06:48.350engineer through AI.17300:06:48.730 --> 00:06:50.490You can make your friends.17400:06:51.630 --> 00:06:53.010You can create your friends.17500:06:53.170 --> 00:06:55.810Listen, this is freakish, this is sick and17600:06:55.810 --> 00:06:57.530it goes in a thousand different directions.17700:06:58.170 --> 00:07:01.710But listen, today with AI, your kids are17800:07:01.710 --> 00:07:04.450creating friends in their own image.17900:07:06.790 --> 00:07:07.810And it's not a joke.18000:07:08.490 --> 00:07:10.570You can't tell that these things are not18100:07:10.570 --> 00:07:12.830real on the screen.18200:07:12.910 --> 00:07:13.910They look exactly real.18300:07:15.130 --> 00:07:16.550And by the way, sad to say it,18400:07:16.770 --> 00:07:18.590but it's not just friends that you communicate18500:07:18.590 --> 00:07:18.870with.18600:07:18.930 --> 00:07:21.150They actually carry on conversations and dialogues.18700:07:21.650 --> 00:07:22.710I don't know if you've seen this stuff18800:07:22.710 --> 00:07:24.630going on, but you can ask AI all18900:07:24.630 --> 00:07:25.310kinds of stuff.19000:07:25.530 --> 00:07:28.030And if you ask in a rude manner,19100:07:28.170 --> 00:07:29.890tone of voice, I don't know about you,19200:07:29.970 --> 00:07:32.330but you can say a nice word with19300:07:32.330 --> 00:07:33.090a wrong tone.19400:07:33.630 --> 00:07:34.250Didn't sound good.19500:07:34.650 --> 00:07:35.890Did you know AI knows this?19600:07:36.210 --> 00:07:37.210It has tone.19700:07:39.070 --> 00:07:40.410It's very convincing.19800:07:40.790 --> 00:07:42.030Problem is it's not real.19900:07:42.310 --> 00:07:43.990It's not real or is it the new20000:07:43.990 --> 00:07:47.850real whereby I think demonic powers are gonna20100:07:47.850 --> 00:07:49.190seize upon such things.20200:07:49.930 --> 00:07:53.830Hey, why pray when you can ask AI20300:07:53.830 --> 00:07:54.650for the answer?20400:07:55.990 --> 00:07:57.930Hey, what should I do about this or20500:07:57.930 --> 00:07:58.250that?20600:07:59.510 --> 00:08:00.170Think about that.20700:08:00.250 --> 00:08:03.570The discipline of prayer is hard, but you're20800:08:03.570 --> 00:08:04.790gonna get your answer from God.20900:08:05.170 --> 00:08:06.450People don't wanna deal with that.21000:08:06.450 --> 00:08:08.130No, I want an answer in the next21100:08:08.130 --> 00:08:09.4903.5 seconds.21200:08:11.850 --> 00:08:13.850And it's been said today that kids don't21300:08:13.850 --> 00:08:15.130even know how to learn now.21400:08:15.370 --> 00:08:18.350All they know is how to search for21500:08:18.350 --> 00:08:18.870the answer.21600:08:20.050 --> 00:08:22.670But you can now create a world around21700:08:22.670 --> 00:08:24.570you that's synthetic and it's not even real.21800:08:24.770 --> 00:08:28.550And people are choosing that, but there's no21900:08:28.550 --> 00:08:29.030love.22000:08:29.670 --> 00:08:30.450It's fake.22100:08:30.550 --> 00:08:31.110It's false.22200:08:31.470 --> 00:08:32.549Oh, but it's convenient.22300:08:33.030 --> 00:08:34.390Look, you're in church right now.22400:08:34.929 --> 00:08:36.409And I know I'm gonna get mail on22500:08:36.409 --> 00:08:36.590this.22600:08:36.770 --> 00:08:37.289I always do.22700:08:37.289 --> 00:08:39.770If you ever since COVID have gotten into22800:08:39.770 --> 00:08:42.870the habit of not getting together with believers,22900:08:42.890 --> 00:08:43.790because it's what?23000:08:43.970 --> 00:08:44.210It's what?23100:08:44.270 --> 00:08:44.910It's convenient.23200:08:45.770 --> 00:08:47.230It's convenient to stay home.23300:08:47.330 --> 00:08:48.970And we do church in our jammies.23400:08:49.170 --> 00:08:50.390You're not doing church.23500:08:51.030 --> 00:08:53.010You may be listening to a Bible study,23600:08:54.590 --> 00:08:56.050but you're not doing church.23700:08:56.710 --> 00:08:58.270Church is where you have to fight over23800:08:58.270 --> 00:09:02.070seats and dive in for the parking spot.23900:09:02.510 --> 00:09:04.330Be nice to let people out of the24000:09:04.330 --> 00:09:05.110parking spot.24100:09:06.430 --> 00:09:08.270Church is having to bump into people.24200:09:08.430 --> 00:09:09.990Church is having to deal with stuff.24300:09:11.270 --> 00:09:11.790We want it.24400:09:11.870 --> 00:09:13.690Oh no, we want a synthetic world.24500:09:13.750 --> 00:09:15.410And you'll never be able to love other24600:09:15.410 --> 00:09:16.930people in a synthetic world.24700:09:20.920 --> 00:09:22.860Maybe I see it differently or maybe more24800:09:22.860 --> 00:09:24.660vividly, or maybe I've thought about this a24900:09:24.660 --> 00:09:28.060long time, but my God did not send25000:09:28.060 --> 00:09:30.420an angel to reveal who he is.25100:09:30.620 --> 00:09:31.980He came himself.25200:09:32.940 --> 00:09:34.880He didn't even lean on an angel.25300:09:34.880 --> 00:09:35.000No.25400:09:36.520 --> 00:09:40.400He came in human skin to reveal himself25500:09:40.400 --> 00:09:40.880to you.25600:09:41.100 --> 00:09:44.180Real love that can be experienced.25700:09:44.660 --> 00:09:46.140And the scripture says, if we live, we25800:09:46.140 --> 00:09:46.840live to the Lord.25900:09:46.920 --> 00:09:48.280And if we die, we die to the26000:09:48.280 --> 00:09:48.460Lord.26100:09:48.620 --> 00:09:50.620Therefore, whether we live or die, we are26200:09:50.620 --> 00:09:51.140the Lord's.26300:09:51.200 --> 00:09:52.460We are to be his example.26400:09:52.900 --> 00:09:56.360First Corinthians three, verse 13 says, then each26500:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.300one's work will become clear for the day26600:09:59.300 --> 00:10:00.380will declare it.26700:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.020Because listen, it will be revealed by fire.26800:10:04.020 --> 00:10:06.020This is the judgment of Christ, the judgment26900:10:06.020 --> 00:10:06.400of God.27000:10:06.520 --> 00:10:09.120And the fire will test each one's work27100:10:09.120 --> 00:10:10.620of what sort it is.27200:10:10.980 --> 00:10:13.300If anyone's work, which he has built on27300:10:13.300 --> 00:10:15.340endures, I'll come back to this in a27400:10:15.340 --> 00:10:17.240moment, he will receive a reward.27500:10:17.800 --> 00:10:20.120If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer27600:10:20.120 --> 00:10:23.540loss, but he himself will be saved, yet27700:10:23.540 --> 00:10:24.700so through fire.27800:10:25.160 --> 00:10:27.420Listen, talking about loving one another, you and27900:10:27.420 --> 00:10:28.760I could perform miracles.28000:10:28.900 --> 00:10:29.680That doesn't matter.28100:10:29.840 --> 00:10:30.240You hear me?28200:10:31.340 --> 00:10:31.880Listen up.28300:10:32.300 --> 00:10:34.260People are gonna, Jesus said it over and28400:10:34.260 --> 00:10:34.720over again.28500:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.340The disciples, the apostles said it.28600:10:37.600 --> 00:10:38.960In the last days, there's gonna be times28700:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.240of great deception done by miracles.28800:10:45.300 --> 00:10:47.100So that's not the defining point.28900:10:47.640 --> 00:10:50.460The defining point is true love.29000:10:51.760 --> 00:10:54.680Actual love that God puts within your heart29100:10:54.680 --> 00:10:56.320to minister to other people.29200:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.800Because let's be honest, miracles are fantastic if29300:10:59.800 --> 00:11:00.680they're done by God.29400:11:00.940 --> 00:11:01.880You say, what do you mean if they're29500:11:01.880 --> 00:11:02.520done by God?29600:11:02.520 --> 00:11:04.920Because the Bible makes it clear that when29700:11:04.920 --> 00:11:09.420Pharaoh encountered Moses, Moses, remember the serpent?29800:11:09.820 --> 00:11:14.660Pharaoh's magicians had their staff, their rods, and29900:11:14.660 --> 00:11:18.000that they turned them, Satan turned them into30000:11:18.000 --> 00:11:18.620snakes.30100:11:19.200 --> 00:11:21.060And then Moses, it's so awesome.30200:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.160Moses all by himself, he's standing there, old30300:11:23.160 --> 00:11:23.460man.30400:11:24.820 --> 00:11:26.880You gotta see all these young punks.30500:11:27.020 --> 00:11:29.900They got their, they're the counselors, they're the30600:11:29.900 --> 00:11:32.060priests of all these various Egyptian Gods.30700:11:32.480 --> 00:11:34.700And they put down their staffs that are30800:11:34.700 --> 00:11:35.240snakes.30900:11:36.560 --> 00:11:38.800And you just gotta see Moses standing all31000:11:38.800 --> 00:11:39.160alone.31100:11:39.340 --> 00:11:40.280It's just like, yeah.31200:11:41.780 --> 00:11:45.460I bet everybody else is going, snake, that's31300:11:45.460 --> 00:11:45.860amazing.31400:11:48.180 --> 00:11:52.000And Moses throws down his staff and his31500:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.820staff turns into a snake and eats up31600:11:54.820 --> 00:11:55.820all the other snakes.31700:11:56.640 --> 00:12:03.500It's just like, listen, miracles, miracles are tied31800:12:03.500 --> 00:12:04.360to a message.31900:12:07.340 --> 00:12:09.220And there'll be miracles being performed in the32000:12:09.220 --> 00:12:12.640last days by religious people who are not32100:12:12.640 --> 00:12:14.260preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.32200:12:14.660 --> 00:12:16.740They will deny the fact that Jesus died32300:12:16.740 --> 00:12:19.040on the cross for their sins and rose32400:12:19.040 --> 00:12:19.900again from the dead.32500:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.540They'll be inspired and empowered by satanic influences.32600:12:23.680 --> 00:12:24.860And you gotta watch out for that.32700:12:25.960 --> 00:12:27.640We live in that kind of an age.32800:12:27.920 --> 00:12:29.680But the Bible tells us that we as32900:12:29.680 --> 00:12:32.940believers, whatever we do, 1 Corinthians 13 tells33000:12:32.940 --> 00:12:34.280us it's gotta be done by love.33100:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.460If you have all the gifts of the33200:12:36.460 --> 00:12:38.320Holy Spirit and you operate them, the bottom33300:12:38.320 --> 00:12:41.600line is they're junk without them being operated33400:12:41.600 --> 00:12:42.560by the love of God.33500:12:43.820 --> 00:12:45.000Think of that for a moment.33600:12:47.070 --> 00:12:48.550The simplicity of God.33700:12:49.050 --> 00:12:52.370And yet it's impossible for us to obtain33800:12:52.370 --> 00:12:55.450without his miraculous touch upon our lives.33900:12:56.890 --> 00:12:58.330And so we move on to this.34000:12:58.470 --> 00:13:00.750We continue on in verse nine, it says,34100:13:00.750 --> 00:13:04.410to this end, Christ died and rose and34200:13:04.410 --> 00:13:08.770lived again, that he might be Lord of34300:13:08.770 --> 00:13:10.690both the dead and the living.34400:13:11.490 --> 00:13:13.150This is the Jesus of the Bible.34500:13:14.230 --> 00:13:17.030People often argue, how is it that you34600:13:17.030 --> 00:13:17.630worship God?34700:13:17.690 --> 00:13:18.710You say Jesus is God.34800:13:19.030 --> 00:13:22.470Father, Son, Holy Spirit, one God manifested in34900:13:22.470 --> 00:13:23.110three persons.35000:13:23.330 --> 00:13:23.870Explain that.35100:13:24.090 --> 00:13:25.130I really can't.35200:13:26.250 --> 00:13:28.030And don't talk to me about ice and35300:13:28.030 --> 00:13:31.010vapor and the egg and the shell and35400:13:31.010 --> 00:13:34.750the yolk and the, it's beyond us.35500:13:35.610 --> 00:13:37.910But that very truth is found in the35600:13:37.910 --> 00:13:39.670very first verse of the Bible.35700:13:39.830 --> 00:13:42.070In the beginning, God created the heavens and35800:13:42.070 --> 00:13:43.690the earth, and that word is Elohim.35900:13:46.130 --> 00:13:54.570Singular, El, Elohim, singular, one God in multiple.36000:13:56.430 --> 00:13:59.570And the Bible tells us that Christ was36100:13:59.570 --> 00:14:05.270the architect builder if you want to put36200:14:05.270 --> 00:14:06.870it that way in Colossians and in the36300:14:06.870 --> 00:14:07.890book of Hebrews as well.36400:14:08.610 --> 00:14:10.070But doesn't the Bible tell us that it36500:14:10.070 --> 00:14:12.270was the spirit of God that hovered over36600:14:12.270 --> 00:14:14.210the waters at creation?36700:14:14.770 --> 00:14:16.370Just in the very first book of the36800:14:16.370 --> 00:14:17.750Bible, the Trinity is there.36900:14:19.070 --> 00:14:21.370But Jesus Christ died and rose again.37000:14:21.750 --> 00:14:22.730That is the message.37100:14:24.170 --> 00:14:27.070Whatever religious pursuit you may be flirting with,37200:14:28.110 --> 00:14:30.550if you don't know Christ Jesus, you don't37300:14:30.550 --> 00:14:31.430have what we have.37400:14:31.610 --> 00:14:32.450What do you have?37500:14:32.790 --> 00:14:34.730We have a risen Savior.37600:14:36.230 --> 00:14:39.210His resurrection proves everything the Bible says.37700:14:39.370 --> 00:14:40.710And on top of it, the Bible said37800:14:40.710 --> 00:14:42.710in advance that this is what he would37900:14:42.710 --> 00:14:46.010accomplish for us, that he would in fact38000:14:46.010 --> 00:14:47.570be resurrected from the dead.38100:14:50.610 --> 00:14:53.070Matthew chapter three, verse two says, repent, this38200:14:53.070 --> 00:14:53.690is the gospel.38300:14:54.210 --> 00:14:56.030Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at38400:14:56.030 --> 00:14:56.490hand.38500:14:56.910 --> 00:14:57.830Jesus said that.38600:14:58.550 --> 00:14:59.690Repent, change your mind.38700:15:00.530 --> 00:15:03.590We all get weird, I mean, we shouldn't,38800:15:03.650 --> 00:15:05.230but people get all nervous about the word38900:15:05.230 --> 00:15:05.570repent.39000:15:05.810 --> 00:15:07.350Repent, well, what?39100:15:07.710 --> 00:15:09.270They get all uppity about it.39200:15:09.390 --> 00:15:10.150Oh, just stop.39300:15:10.310 --> 00:15:11.610It's an old English word.39400:15:11.730 --> 00:15:12.890It means turn around.39500:15:13.590 --> 00:15:14.390Isn't that great?39600:15:15.450 --> 00:15:17.110You could say it this way.39700:15:17.570 --> 00:15:19.970You're going in one direction, do 180 degree39800:15:19.970 --> 00:15:20.370turn.39900:15:21.350 --> 00:15:23.570You're going that way, stop.40000:15:23.750 --> 00:15:25.330When you hear this message, the kingdom of40100:15:25.330 --> 00:15:26.070God's at hand.40200:15:27.070 --> 00:15:28.370Salvation is available to you.40300:15:28.690 --> 00:15:30.190God wants to forgive you of your sins.40400:15:30.630 --> 00:15:31.930The next question should be from you.40500:15:32.050 --> 00:15:32.770What do I do?40600:15:33.030 --> 00:15:33.810Answer, repent.40700:15:34.710 --> 00:15:35.550What does that mean?40800:15:36.470 --> 00:15:37.430Turn around.40900:15:38.930 --> 00:15:41.210Stop thinking about Jesus the way that you41000:15:41.210 --> 00:15:42.790have been and think differently.41100:15:44.890 --> 00:15:47.010Stop running from him, run to him.41200:15:47.910 --> 00:15:50.550And please, please think about it.41300:15:50.610 --> 00:15:52.450Oh, I can't run to him.41400:15:52.530 --> 00:15:53.350I'm such a sinner.41500:15:53.530 --> 00:15:54.450No, you don't understand.41600:15:55.030 --> 00:15:56.730If you are such a sinner, you're the41700:15:56.730 --> 00:15:59.550one that can bring him greater glory.41800:16:01.590 --> 00:16:05.970God loves sinners, but don't stay that way.41900:16:07.530 --> 00:16:08.690God loves us enough.42000:16:08.850 --> 00:16:10.850Listen, people will say, I love you just42100:16:10.850 --> 00:16:11.610the way you are.42200:16:11.890 --> 00:16:12.510Well, of course.42300:16:12.610 --> 00:16:13.390Okay, that's nice.42400:16:13.850 --> 00:16:15.490God loves us just the way we are,42500:16:15.490 --> 00:16:17.430but God loves us so much, he won't42600:16:17.430 --> 00:16:18.570leave us the way we are.42700:16:18.890 --> 00:16:20.990He changes us by his power.42800:16:21.290 --> 00:16:23.330And all that requires of us is to42900:16:23.330 --> 00:16:26.870repent, that is turn around, realizing, knowing that43000:16:26.870 --> 00:16:28.610the direction I'm going is the wrong way.43100:16:28.690 --> 00:16:29.410You know that inside.43200:16:29.530 --> 00:16:30.750Every human knows that inside.43300:16:31.030 --> 00:16:32.730They're convicted by the Holy Spirit.43400:16:33.170 --> 00:16:36.430Believer or not, Jesus said so, that the43500:16:36.430 --> 00:16:39.290Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin.43600:16:39.890 --> 00:16:40.690Why does he do that?43700:16:40.730 --> 00:16:41.290To be mean?43800:16:41.890 --> 00:16:44.970No, to get you to change your course43900:16:44.970 --> 00:16:47.210and to come to him.44000:16:49.650 --> 00:16:52.430The scripture goes on, Mark 1 15.44100:16:53.070 --> 00:16:54.130The time is fulfilled.44200:16:54.270 --> 00:16:55.530The kingdom of God is at hand.44300:16:55.830 --> 00:16:57.990Repent and believe in the gospel.44400:16:59.170 --> 00:17:01.410The gospel that Christ died for you.44500:17:01.750 --> 00:17:03.010And he rose again from the dead.44600:17:03.230 --> 00:17:05.530And by putting your faith in him, he44700:17:05.530 --> 00:17:07.290issues to you the free gift of eternal44800:17:07.290 --> 00:17:07.710life.44900:17:09.710 --> 00:17:12.410And you may be here today, or you're45000:17:12.410 --> 00:17:14.650watching right now, and you're thinking, yeah, I45100:17:14.650 --> 00:17:15.510don't know, I doubt it.45200:17:17.150 --> 00:17:17.829You know what?45300:17:17.930 --> 00:17:20.010You're just going to stay in that condition45400:17:20.010 --> 00:17:22.089unless you taste and see that the Lord45500:17:22.089 --> 00:17:22.990is good, folks.45600:17:23.770 --> 00:17:25.069Can you imagine this?45700:17:25.109 --> 00:17:28.550You've become so accustomed to living in some45800:17:28.550 --> 00:17:30.850form of mitigating your shame.45900:17:33.100 --> 00:17:35.460You think maybe no one's gonna find out46000:17:35.460 --> 00:17:37.400about it, or you've covered all your tracks,46100:17:37.880 --> 00:17:40.140and maybe you have, but down deep inside,46200:17:40.280 --> 00:17:44.000you know, there's this nagging presence that God46300:17:44.000 --> 00:17:44.540knows.46400:17:46.240 --> 00:17:47.100And do you know what he wants to46500:17:47.100 --> 00:17:47.300do?46600:17:47.620 --> 00:17:49.100He wants to go to the heart of46700:17:49.100 --> 00:17:49.440the matter.46800:17:49.800 --> 00:17:50.900He wants to go to the core of46900:17:50.900 --> 00:17:51.280it all.47000:17:52.120 --> 00:17:53.740And he wants to touch you right there47100:17:55.310 --> 00:17:57.070and expose you.47200:17:57.390 --> 00:17:59.730Not expose you to the world, expose you47300:17:59.730 --> 00:18:00.470to yourself.47400:18:00.650 --> 00:18:01.890He already knows everything about you.47500:18:02.610 --> 00:18:04.950But what we do as humans, look, we47600:18:04.950 --> 00:18:06.730learned this from Adam and Eve, mom and47700:18:06.730 --> 00:18:06.950dad.47800:18:07.030 --> 00:18:08.090They taught us this.47900:18:09.190 --> 00:18:11.670Hide, sow fig leaves, do whatever it takes.48000:18:11.670 --> 00:18:12.590Cover it up.48100:18:14.840 --> 00:18:16.800And you could see Jesus come along and48200:18:16.800 --> 00:18:18.340just pull one little thread.48300:18:20.020 --> 00:18:21.120Hey, what is that?48400:18:21.260 --> 00:18:23.060He pulls on the thread and the whole48500:18:23.060 --> 00:18:26.300garden falls off of you.48600:18:27.580 --> 00:18:28.720And you're exposed.48700:18:29.180 --> 00:18:30.740And you say, Jack, that's terrifying.48800:18:30.940 --> 00:18:33.380It is terrifying, but that's not all.48900:18:34.760 --> 00:18:38.720You're exposed before him who is mighty to49000:18:38.720 --> 00:18:39.140save.49100:18:39.780 --> 00:18:42.120And he says to you, you are now49200:18:42.120 --> 00:18:43.620naked and open before me.49300:18:43.900 --> 00:18:46.760I know everything about you before you were49400:18:46.760 --> 00:18:47.460ever born.49500:18:47.740 --> 00:18:49.160And I've seen it all.49600:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.420And I'm speaking to you and I'm asking49700:18:52.420 --> 00:18:54.080you, you come to me, you bring me49800:18:54.080 --> 00:18:57.100your shame, your guilt, your sin.49900:18:57.920 --> 00:18:59.200I'll take it away from you.50000:19:00.600 --> 00:19:03.980If you've never experienced Christ, you are still50100:19:03.980 --> 00:19:06.500living under a cloud of shame and you50200:19:06.500 --> 00:19:07.880need not live like that anymore.50300:19:08.540 --> 00:19:10.200Let Jesus take it away.50400:19:11.580 --> 00:19:12.920Let him remove it.50500:19:13.520 --> 00:19:16.960One of the great, beautiful, liberating strengths about50600:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.320being a follower of Jesus Christ is the50700:19:19.320 --> 00:19:22.980stuff that in my memory, my mind, I'm50800:19:22.980 --> 00:19:25.400embarrassed of and I'm ashamed of.50900:19:26.260 --> 00:19:29.660And some of those things, nobody knew about51000:19:29.660 --> 00:19:29.980them.51100:19:33.080 --> 00:19:35.300And then Jesus knocks on your heart and51200:19:35.300 --> 00:19:36.400it's like, oh my goodness.51300:19:38.040 --> 00:19:39.920And instead of him saying, sit down while51400:19:39.920 --> 00:19:43.880I beat you up, he says, stand up51500:19:43.880 --> 00:19:45.540and I'll make you whole.51600:19:47.180 --> 00:19:48.200He does this.51700:19:48.500 --> 00:19:49.640Let him do that to you.51800:19:54.280 --> 00:19:56.960This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all51900:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.020the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported.52000:20:00.300 --> 00:20:02.860Will you consider partnering with us through a52100:20:02.860 --> 00:20:03.540special 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