Revealing Truth From The Inside Out

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. He said, I want to be like God. I want to have my throne above his. I want the Angelic host to worship. This is what Lucifer said for his sin of pride he was cast out. He fell. Do you know what that is? 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. Mark Twain said that a lie goes around the world twice before the truth ever gets its shoes on, but don't worry. Don't worry for truth. Truth will always prevail in the end. Everybody needs to know this. Here's a fact for you. Lies will always always be exposed. If not in this life, in the day of judgment and the life to come, lies will fail. A life of deception and mirrors and smoke as it were to deceive or to trick or to portray something else will always fail. Truth is revealing. God's truth gets at you. The Bible says in Romans chapter 7, verse 7, I would not have known sin except through the law for I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said you shall not covet. That's what got Paul. That's what got him. It's absolutely remarkable. What's he referring to? Exodus chapter 20, verse 17, mark it down. Exodus 20, verse 17. Here's what God said. This is on the stone tablets, right? This is number 10, by the way. This is interesting. So there's a reason why Paul didn't mention the second commandment or the seventh. Paul, but got Paul, listen, because what gets you might be different. God's law got Paul at number 10. There's suggestions, we can't prove it, but Paul's religious activity may have led him to believe this, deceived, but led him to believe this. Number one, first commandment, I got that. I love God with all my heart. Second commandment, third commandment, fourth commandment, fifth, I got those. He's good. Something happened that imagined. Yeah, eight, nine. Can you imagine just getting right to the edge? You're like half an inch from scoring and then number 10 is revealed. What did you say? Number 10. What is it? The shall not covet. And you can hear his self-righteous brakes slam and skid marks happening. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. Something we know about Paul. This was his problem. This is what got him. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife or husband. Nor his male servant. Nor his female servant. Nor his ox. That would be pickup truck. F-150. Something, I don't know. Nor his donkey. That would be his sports car. Nor anything that is your neighbors. Looking over the fence. Oh, honey, did you know that they got it in a lot more? How old is our lawnmower? Have you noticed our world is set for this? Number 10, if number one doesn't get you and you should be, we should all be busted at number one. It's going to come back and get you again at number 10. These two bookends of the law, the 10 commandments. They just squeeze you into confession. And what's the confession? I can't do it. That's what the commandments are for. They're perfect. And I got a problem. Because on the outside, you can't tell if I'm coveting. Look right now. Look at me right now. I'm standing here. You can't tell if I'm coveting or not. Can you? But God knows. All of a sudden, that just blows up. The religious performance of an individual is, what are you saying? I'm saying, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside. God knows what you're thinking on the inside. You know, the, somebody used this term anymore, keeping up with the Joneses. Joneses are here. We're going to keep up with the Joneses. For a part of this crowd, that means, oh, he got a new car. We're going to get a new car. They got a new house. We're going to get a new house. It's called keeping up with the Joneses. For the young people, I don't know what it would be today. He got the iPhone 13. He got the iPhone 14. It's like, wait, what is that? You were doing fine until you saw something different that someone else had and you went, that is so dangerous that it's number 10. And the number 10 is very close to the number one because it just comes back around. And to fail at number 10 is to fail at all of them because to fail at 10 is to fail at one. And you shall have no other God before me. And when you sit back and you go, I want one of those really bad. Have you noticed how rotten, stinking worthless your car is now? And all the TV commercials? All of our cars are worthless. I don't care what you just buy. According to Lexus, your car stinks. You have to get a Lexus if you're going to be somebody. And those clothes you've been wearing, how much wrong with you? You don't have any trees, but you'll buy a chainsaw because it's being pitched. And you'll see, wait a minute, we need to get one of those, but honey, we have no trees. What is going on? Truth reveals us from the inside out. And what happens when it goes out, it strikes us. And Paul's failure realized, because we've all failed all the 10 commandments. Every single one of them. Because God sees your mind. He sees your desires. He sees what you're pondering and what imagining. And we're guilty. And for Paul, it was this one of covetousness. And he was left as it were spiritually bleeding in a sense. Galatians chapter 3 verse 21, Galatians 3 21 says, is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been, listen, a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. Stop right there, everybody. This is amazing. Verse 21, if you could get the heaven by keeping rules and regulations and being a super person, then Jesus wasted his time at the cross. If you could get there by keeping verse 21, the law here in Galatians 3 21, then God made a big mistake. All of his prophets are wrong and his apostles died in vain. But most importantly, Jesus wasted his time on the cross if you can keep the law. And this is very offensive to some friends of ours because they think they're keeping the law right now. Verse 22, but the scripture has confined all under sin that the promise by faith, here it is, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ or faith in Messiah might be given to those who believe. That's it. The law is out here. To those who believe is when God takes it and writes it on the inside of your heart. You don't look at the rules to see what you keep. God puts the rules in your heart and says, I'm going to do this through you. You don't have the power to do this, Jack, but my spirit inside of you as a believer, he'll take over from here. I'm going to make a statement. It's going to sound crazy. It's 100 percent true. You can be the most religious line item keeping, religion is known to man. But the born again believer, follower of Jesus Christ is more right with God than you'll ever be. Why? Because if you're going by the rules, God's on the outside. If your life has put faith in Christ, then God's doing it all from the inside. That's all the difference in time and eternity. Listen, mark this down if you would. Just when you thought it was over, reality strikes you at the heart and it does so when reality awakens you to yourself. That's what reality does, friends. Listen, the Bible says in verse 8, but sin taking opportunity, listen to this, it almost like it personifies sin. Think about it like a thief, but the thief taking an opportunity, now watch, by the commandment, produce in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the loss, sin was dead. Leave this on the screen for a second. You guys still with me? I need you to, okay, watch this. Again, remember Paul was being accused of teaching people wrong doctrine because the Judaizers said that he taught this faith thing in Jesus and the merits of Jesus and it didn't do anything. We have our critics today. Oh, you believe, or somebody told me recently, I suppose you want everybody to believe in your religion. In my answer to the guy was, nope. No, I don't. This, be honest, first of all, it's not going to work. Number two, God didn't say that's how it's going to turn out, but the most important thing is we're not talking about religion. You can't join. But sin, you circle the word sin and it means to miss the mark of perfection. If you're shooting arrows, it's to miss the bulls eye. The strange thing about this word sin is that great scholars throughout millennia have tried to get a definition. We can define the word, it means to miss the mark, but the origins of sin are cloudy and shrouded. What's cool about that truth is that it wasn't supposed to be this way. That's why it's hard for us to grasp. See, what do you mean? Well, the first thing that we know about sin is that it was in the heart of Satan. Read later, Isaiah chapter 14 in an Ezekiel 28. It will blow your mind about Satan. Lucifer, he was called back then. It was in him. Now, you might want to mark this down. Humans and angels, according to the Bible, have been given a will, a will. The ability to choose and to decide willfully to built in. God built that into us. So the Bible tells us that Lucifer said in the day that pride was found in his heart, pride is sin, probably the greatest of all sin, if you could rate sin. He said, I want to be like God. I want to have my throne above his. I want the angelic host to worship me. This is what Lucifer said. Read those chapters I told you a moment ago. The Bible says, for his sin of pride, he was cast out. He fell. Do you know what that is? Covet justice. He couldn't have wanted a throne greater than God's throne unless he had seen God's throne and realized I want that. Do you see that? He looked over the fence and said, I want angels to worship me. And the Bible says, we don't know the number, but the Bible says he deceived one third of the angelic host. We don't have any of what that number is. It's just one third. Covet justice. How about this? This is Covet justice. You know, you're talking a lot about sin and you're going to be talking more about that verse here in the minute and all that stuff. I agree with you, Peshire Jack. There's a whole lot of sinners in here. So I'll just tune out and come back next week at the Christmas message. You know what? That's the sin of Satan. It doesn't matter apparently if you're a human or an angel, when you take your will and you supersede that of God with your will, that is coveting a state or a position that is not intended to be us, yours. When somebody thinks there's something, it's sickening. Isn't it sickening to see someone? All puffed up with pride? And yet that is a gross manifestation of Satan's heart. Remarkable. So back to that verse 8, look at on the screen, verse 8, but sin taking opportunity by the commandment. So watch how this, let's unpack this, but sin. There it is. Or originates in Satan. He takes it and reproduces it because he knows it worked against him. He reproduces it in the Garden of Eden to Eve. Eve, just peek over the fence and see, God's holding out on you. You can have a throne too. You can be like God. Isn't that what he said? But sin taking opportunity. So notice sin takes the opportunity. How does it do that? How does sin have power to take advantage of us? The commandment. Oh, then the commandment's wrong. No, the commandment's perfect. Here is the point. God's commandment is perfect, but God's commandment doesn't tolerate sin, but sin exists. So God's commandment does this. Look what I'm doing to you. I know it's not polite, but you'll forgive me in advance. See what I'm doing? Don't point. Yes, I'm pointing at you and you I'm pointing. That's what, listen, the commandment points and says, this is wrong. Sin takes advantage of that. When the commandment is like this saying, thou shalt not, sin takes advantage of that upon our human lives. And look, we realize it produces in us all manner of evil desire. You and I wouldn't have known evil desire unless the commandment would have been given. No, shalt not cover it. Anything, really? I thought I was doing pretty good. Yeah, well that's a sin for thinking like that. But you know how you've been looking at that over there? Yeah, so I'm just looking at touching. Sin. Well, I don't know my kids to think we grew up poor or something. So we did this or we did that. Notice the motive to cover it. Apart from the law, sin was dead. That's amazing. What me sin was dead. The word actually means dormant, not dead dead. Sin was dormant. Sin was held in check because there is no law that stirred up within me the conviction of desire. So for example, if I say whatever you guys do, don't think about pink bananas. As soon as they said that, you had you saw a pink banana right about here in your head. If I say now it's stormy outside and the last thing you'd want to do is take a drive down to the beach today and go down coast highway and see the incredible crashing waves and all of that turbulent water, beautiful sound and all, you know, don't do it. You already said, honey, that's a great idea. I don't want to sit inside all day. Let's do what he just said. It's that old thing that I mentioned last week. Don't step on the grass. Which grass, this grass right here? That is in us. That's our sin nature. And to say it doesn't exist is to deceive yourself. That God's commitment is given so that I become obvious. When it becomes obvious then we realize, whoa, and Paul woke up and he found out that he was very, very much awakened to himself that he needed God. This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibb's.com to learn more and stay connected.