Rapid-Fire Questions: Round 1

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey everybody we are gonna be doing something right now that is all my fault if it fails it would be God's idea if it works and that is we're gonna be doing the shotgun episodes. You guys having sent us questions I've not seen the questions only our production team they've seen the questions it's unrehearsed it's raw and I've got 60 seconds to answer the question the best I can and then we'll be moving on I probably bit off more than what I could chew but I had this idea and again if it flops it's on me if it blesses you then it's on God. 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 so I don't know what's coming up I don't know what the questions are at least one of you know out there because these questions have come from you and so we're gonna do the as promised the one minute answer so ready three two one question what is your morning routine what is my morning routine my morning routine is about 4 a.m. 4 a.m. is the time when you get up and from 4 a.m. to about 6.30 the world is perfect quiet the ability to focus and pray is so crystal clear I have to tell you that after after that time period my day is just doing it's just doing from about seven o'clock on it's just doing from 4 to 6.30 is just God time I might read a book I might read a that is a book of the Bible I might sit in the dark and do nothing but think about him I might sing him a song I might pray but I I just spend that time and I know that when I do that then everything else for the rest of the day I don't worry about it no matter what happens I don't worry about it 4 a.m. you see jack 4 a.m. you're gonna go to bed early yep you're gonna wind up that that's just gonna happen oh man I got three seconds left so do it and see what happens do it for 30 days all right all right cremation cremation okay start the clock cremation cremation doesn't matter to God for this one reason number one there are many who have perished by way of fire tragically we're doing this right now just a few days after the horrific fires of Lahaina in Maui and believers burned to death said to say worse to say that unbelievers burned to death but cremation is something that when a believer is burned to death in a car are burned to death in a home what's the problem there is no problem to God ashes to ashes dust to dust listen what what burning or cremation does in about 33 minutes the earth does to us in a casket in about 35 years so it's not a factor however it is a factor based upon your your convictions it's personal it's personal so don't be bound by any religious mandate that that's what you have to do no matter what anybody says because believers get burnt next question next question why did God create the whole universe if he only used it for us why did God create the whole universe if he just used it for us I have no idea all he does is he tells us in the Bible to go outside and look at it and praise him and give him all the glory however I will add that God knew that in the 21st century we would have deep space technologies to take telescopes like the Hubble and I forget the name of the newest one that replaced the Hubble and look deeper the deeper we look into space we learn a lot about number one space is a lot younger than we thought scientifically it's younger than we thought and also it's much more beautiful than what we thought by looking out so science has led us to see God's creation and I think it's Psalm 19 where it announces to us that the heavens give glory to God and but by all means Christ died on this planet which means we are the ones that he's focused on and he loves you and he loves us next question are there still prophets today do you have any scriptures back there are not prophets today as there were in the Old Testament why the book of Hebrew says no way chapter one Jesus is the last voice that God has given when it comes to prophetic revelation prophetic revelation but you might say but Jack in the Bible New Testament there's the gift of prophets or prophecy that's correct the word means a heralder there are those who herald forth the word of God so for example under the office of prophet it could be a pastor teacher who operates in the prophetic sense there could be an evangelist like Billy Graham or Greg Laurie who operates in the prophetic sense but there are no prophets today that for tell the future there are prophets today in the New Testament church that forth tell the word of God so don't let anybody tell you God's called me to be a prophet I had this happen to me last night some prophet tried to tell me what I'm supposed to do next when God already told me in the Bible what I should do so don't let anybody be fool you if God is a God of love then how come people are sick dying and there's so much terrible destruction happening if God is a God of love why is there so much junk going on in this world because he's the God of love watch this number one because he's the God of love you know that what you see is wrong it's wrong to see a baby born to die it's wrong to see accidents murder mayhem violence evil sickness you know what's wrong don't you the reason why you know it's wrong is because you know what's good and the reason why you know what's good is because God has taught you in your heart he's written it upon your heart what is good so the evil that happens we need to start putting blame where blame is due this is Satan's realm right now everybody Satan is the prince of the power of the air remember that Jesus Christ in the second coming is coming back to take position of the earth so when something happens in your life you need to say Satan stinks and I know he hates me but God loves me and that's why we're suffering like we are right now because Satan is running around and it's going to get worse by the way he's got a long leash right now but listen Christ is going to come back and fix it I've heard a lot of children ask this question where are dinosaurs in the Bible and what happened to them read the book of Job dinosaurs in the Bible what happened to them we know that what happened to them probably was the flood the flood probably took care of the dinosaurs as we know them remember this that the structures of dinosaurs which are awesome bones of dinosaurs which are awesome I'm not sure right now to date if we have an actual full dinosaur intact so a lot of dinosaurs that you and I know and love are conjecture regarding what they look like however dinosaurs are real their bones are real but the flood when you examine the effects of the flood like in the Grand Canyon and in Pallaxi Texas and in other places Nevada Utah other parts of the world notice that we've got dinosaur bones intermingled with human bones that's fascinating why because they perished in the flood and so yes on dinosaurs read the book of Job he talks about the Bohemoth it swings his tail and knocks down the forest how do I respond to people who think their good works are gonna get them into heaven you're going to hell because if good works could get you to heaven then what in the world was Jesus doing on the cross the Bible says he died for the all the sins of the world that the book Galatians the book of Romans tells us that by the works of the flesh by the works of righteousness no flesh I'll be justified in the side of God don't fool yourself if you think you're good enough then you've got a really bizarre God who tortured himself on the cross well guess what a very very very good God came to die for a very very very bad person including you because you and I cannot save ourselves and that's why he came so don't think for a moment let me add this good works should follow those who believe but don't ever put good works in front of your belief that's works unacceptable to God and that's hell don't do it what is the age of accountability oh man there it is next question please what is the age of accountability we don't know now in the Jewish tradition bar mitzvah or bar mitzvah for the young boy or the young girl age of 13 that's when they become like a young adult so some people will equate that to accountability you can't do that accountability is based upon each individual's age of being able to process understand right and wrong the gospel conviction of sin and the need for salvation accountability is when your child is predominantly going through teen rebellion you know how your teenager drives you nuts the reason why they're starting to drive you nuts is because they're departing from your faith covering and they're going out now and they're they're testing authority they are resisting authority because why they're moving out from your faith and they're searching for their own so don't despise that pray for them but we can't set the date on exactly when will we all live in Jerusalem when we rule and reign with God or will some of us live in other countries read Revelation chapter 21 because Jerusalem is going to descend out of heaven and it is going to sit upon the new earth and it is a city not the one in Israel today the new Jerusalem comes down out of heaven and it's 1,400 miles squared that's just the city and the Bible says that we will go in and out of that city and where will we go we will go to Book of Revelation says nations there's going to be nations in the world in eternity and in fact the Bible says that the kings of the world will bring their wealth into the city it's going to be awesome by the way I think you should look at great paintings oil paintings that depict places like Yosemite Valley or Yellowstone the it's all going to be renewed think about the Garden of Eden on steroids it's going to be awesome and you're going to love it it's going to be amazing but Jerusalem is going to be new and it's 1,400 miles in square does the Holy Spirit habit us the moment we become believers or do we ask the Holy Spirit to come upon us daily yes number one the moment you accept Christ the Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside and you are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption that means when your body is resurrected or raptured so the moment you accept Christ the Holy Spirit moves inside okay the second thing is every believer from that moment on we don't ask the spirit to move inside of us from that moment on we're only saved once we ask the Holy Spirit to come upon us here's the difference in the words indwelling is the Greek word EN to induel the Holy Spirit coming upon you is the Greek word EPI EPI and the Holy Spirit we ask Lord come upon me today to live a life with your power to your glory to give you honor and praise and walk with me Lord with power he's in you already but you ask for the power from above that he might lead and guide you so you want to look at Ephesians chapter 1 on this wow John chapter 15 to John chapter 17 as well why did God create the earth in humans if he knew we would fail him all the time the answer is in Ephesians chapter 1 believe it or not he says there that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he will show forth his grace toward those who believe forever so this is the amazing thing don't ever think that God doesn't love you in light of that great question he knew because he can't learn anything he's God he knew that when Adam and Eve were given the choice to exercise free will he knew in advance that they would rebel against him and he went through with the deal anyway would you I wouldn't I would have just flushed the whole thing down the toilet but not God he is a God of restoration redemption and renewal and so he is going to display his love factor for you to you for us all for all eternity that's why he went through with it doesn't make sense to us now because we cannot relate to that depth of love next question did Jesus create the world for the Father God created the world Genesis 1 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth the word is Elohim L is God Eam I am is plural a singular plurality created all that there is however they did this in tandem the Bible says the Holy Spirit brewed it upon the waters of the deep right the Bible tells us a numerous places book of Hebrew is Colossians and other portions of scripture that Jesus Christ is in fact the creator of angels and the material universe which makes sense he's a carpenter right makes total sense to me so look at it this way the three of them worked in unison as the construction company of all that there is both spiritual and physical Jesus is the builder and maker he's the creator he was the contractor but all of it was in perfect unity with the Godhead the Trinity who were the sons of God in Genesis 6 2 Genesis 6 2 people are going to freak out but there's no way around it there's just no other argument I don't care when anybody says they're wasting their time and that is this the sons of God in the Old Testament are strictly referred to angelic creations and Genesis 6 talks about the sons of God saw that the daughters of man the daughters of mankind saw that they were beautiful and seized them captured them took them now against their wind against their will seemingly by the way and cohabitated with them these are fallen angels one third of the heavenly host Jude and Peter tell us that these these are especially held under chains of darkness because why they as angels win after strange flesh isn't that creepy and so it by the way it's going to happen again according to the Bible we're going to talk about that on the Sunday sermon coming up real soon but they are fallen angels that cohabitated with human females for those who die without accepting Jesus is there a chance that they may still go to heaven once God judges them according to their deeds absolutely not Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27 says it's appointed unto every man once the die and then comes their judgment the question I'm guessing is very rooted in Mormonism or Catholicism there's no such thing as purgatory that was made up by the Catholic Church and Mormons believe that they're going to be judged from Revelation chapter 20 but tragically Mormons are not reading their Bible chapter 20 carefully enough all those who are judged according to their works in Revelation 20 are condemned to hell read it carefully when the books are opened and you are judged by your works everyone after the judgment cast into hell the judgment for the unbelievers is to determine the level of punishment listen the believer is written in the lambs book of life we're not judged by your works we're rewarded for our faithfulness regarding our salvation and our love for Christ that's a very important thing to remember make sure you know the difference because there's an eternal destination at stake how does the Sabbath apply to us Christians the book of Colossians read the first three chapters to the Christian listen when I say Christian can I say Christ follower instead because that includes Jew if you are Jew if you're Muslim if you're a Hindu and you you decide to make a decision for Jesus you you accept Christ um the Sabbath the Bible says written in the 10 commandments was only a symbol or a shadow or or a type of that which was to come and Colossians says that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Sabbath so every day of my life is a Sabbath just because you take the day off and you don't press the elevator button because you can't do any work on the Sabbath doesn't mean you're holy uh it's ridiculous the Bible says that Jesus fulfilled the law you can't and by the way if you're gonna keep the Sabbath why don't you keep all other nine of them the answer is you can't that's what Jesus is for so I have a Sabbath every day because he's my eternal rest make sense I don't I don't rest one day of the week I rest whenever I get a chance in what do you think the beast in revelation is actually technology um remember there's Satan there is the beast which is the antichrist and then there's the image of the beast one's a machine the image of the beast one is a man the antichrist and the other one is Satan an unholy trinity okay I believe that AI okay I confess I'm gonna hurry I gotta add one answer this I hold this view myself so I'm to blame if it goes wrong I believe the image of the beast is mechanical the Bible says power is going to be given it that it can both speak and discern who's got the mark of the mark of the antichrist I believe that AI is going to be this image but I believe a demon is going to bring it bring that image consciousness it's gonna appear to be so human like even though you know it's not it's gonna be so convincing and it's gonna have powers because it'd be demonic consciousness possessing an AI machine what should we say to Christians that don't vote in elections that think we should stay out of politics thanks for messing everything Christians who don't do the right thing have just messed everything up that's how this nation got to where it is today sir Robert Burke no no sir something anyway sir Edmund Burke thank you and Parliament said it right all that evil needs to do to try and face for good people to do nothing all that America needs to do is to keep people like Biden and lunatics in office including a lot of Republicans is for Christians to say I'm not gonna vote I'm just gonna let evil continue because I guess my vote doesn't matter boy you're gonna get a shockeroni when God judges you in heaven as a believer for the opportunity he gave you to make a difference and you didn't take it you were faithful at nothing because you didn't get involved you you had a light and you hit it under your basket and that's not gonna go well for you I vote every time for a biblical worldview if I win or not I still win no matter the result of the election that's what happens next question five more when the rapture happens will the dead in Christ bust the ground open or will they be like Jesus after he rose he was walking through wall I have often imagined that so many times and I want to be at forest lawn doing a funeral when we put somebody in the ground and the trumpet blows and they pop out the good dirt goes everywhere no I don't think dirt goes anywhere why because exactly what we'll have the resurrected glorified bodies such as Christ we will come out of that casket or out of that sea or out of that mountainside or out of that river bed or wherever our dust is at and we won't disturb any rocks or trees or whatever because that doesn't make any sense we'll have a glorified body because the Bible tells us that when Jesus was resurrected we're gonna have a body just like him he walked through walls but he ate fish remember that on that morning after the resurrection he on the north shore of Galilee he had fish tacos for them for breakfast and he cooked himself and they came and they ate and Jesus was with him but the food didn't fall through and hit at the ground it's amazing you're gonna have a glorified body which is gonna be incredibly can a person spend eternity in heaven if they take their own life yes Jesus died for all manner of sin don't think for a moment listen Catholic friends you're being told by the Catholic church that somebody could be in fact Catholic church people you know this if Mother Teresa would have committed suicide two minutes before she died she would have gone to your purgatory which doesn't exist or hell guess what that's false I am not endorsing suicide that's that's wrong to do but Jesus died for all manner of sin so here's the thing when somebody is either suicidal because of depression hormone overwhelmed by issues whatever it might be grief and you can't judge them in that situation you know what that's like the blood of Christ has taken care of that he died for all sin there is no unforgivable sin except one and that is never receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior don't be lied to about this terrible manipulation that it's automatic hell for you it's not but by all means don't take your life that's not your business you don't have that authority since Jesus paid the price for our sins how does the law of reaping what you sow still play out because I can be completely born again right now as I am and I can decide to disobey God in one direction and I'm gonna for example I could backslide today get drunk drive down the freeway crash the car and wind up spending a year in the hospital what's wrong with that message nothing I'm reaping what I'm sewing I was stupid and I did stupid and so now I'm feeling the pain of stupid okay doesn't have anything with my salvation flipped that around as a born again Christian if I obey God today and do the right thing then I can count on God to wind up blessing my obedience to him because why because he says he blesses obedience uh Galatians 6 verse 7 be not deceived for God is not mocked for what's over a man so is that Shelley also reap so think about that do the right thing be blessed it's best way to live well we have memories of our loved ones after we are raptured well we know if they have ever existed it's believed by theologians I have to preface it that way I have my my conviction on this but um it is believed by theologians and throughout church history that in heaven there comes some point in time where you have no knowledge of those who are never born into the family so if you have a husband that's not born again you're not going to be walking around heaven saying oh my gosh I miss him so much he was never born you get that he was never born again into the family of God now at this moment in this time zone right now do people in heaven have an idea of what's going on here on earth the book of Revelation seems to suggest they do but remember they live in a state that is not like us they see things differently than you and I do now however there will be a time when that loved one or person that was never born again they'll never be remembered there'll be no remembrance of them because they were never born again into the family you've last question is water baptism required for salvation no but it's awesome for public display did you know that so what's equivalent to this kind of weird but what's equivalent to a Jew in circumcision circumcision is an outward display to a Jew that they've that they've been committed to Yahweh but the Jews trust in circumcision and God says from old to New Testament you made a big mistake in trusting an outward circumcision he says and Isaiah I want your heart circumcised he says it again in Romans we get water baptized after we've been born again when we've repented of our sins and given our lives to Jesus Christ and we confess Christ as Lord and Savior that the next thing is to publicly make that display remember what Jesus said if you acknowledge me before men I will acknowledge you before my father which is in heaven water baptism is a public display of an internal commitment that you've made that's how people know you're a Christ follower go get baptized because why because you were already saved oh yeah hey listen if this if this was fun if you want to let people know about this you can subscribe you can stay up to date of course 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