The Best Is Yet To Come

00:00 - Speaker 1 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 00:09 - Speaker 2 I can't stand when people say the best is still to come. The best is yet to come. In what America listen? America its greatest days are ahead. Have you read your Bible? We kick God in the teeth, we throw him out in the street, we replace him with other gods, and then we have the audacity to say the best is yet to come. 00:35 - Speaker 1 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbscom 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. 01:03 - Speaker 2 John said, I heard, and as it were, the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and the sound of mighty thunderings saying hallelujah for the Lord, god omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage of the Lamb. Who's the Lamb? Jesus has come and his wife. Who's his wife? The church. His wife has made herself ready and to her it was granted to be arrayed in, mark it down, fine linen, clean and bright. Listen, old Testament saints. They get a white robe. 01:46 The Bible tells us the tribulation saints. During the seven-year tribulation period that's yet coming, they get white robes. There's only one group of God's saints who get fine linen, clean and bright. It's the church, the bride of Christ, the wife of the Lamb. That's pretty fun stuff. That's pretty cool. Watch this. She's made herself ready Verse 8. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints Verse 9. Then he said to me Right, blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. These are going to be the Old Testament saints. These are going to be the Old Testament saints. These are going to be the tribulation saints. 02:37 Right now the Bible says Jesus is preparing for us a house for his bride. It's been 2,000 years and he's a carpenter. It's going to be amazing. The Bible here says and he said to me these are the faithful, these are the true sayings of God. Next verse and I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me see that you do not do that. I am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. This is a guy that's been. We don't know who he is, but he's been redeemed with us as well. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 03:10 John says now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse, and he who sat on him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. Ooh, you mean, like the fierceness of the wrath, the rope that is stained. Oh, watch, verse 12,. His eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God and the armies. Remember you read the word Sabaoth in here in Romans 9? That's what the word means Sabaoth, not Sabbath. Sabaoth is the Lord of heaven's armies. Wow, clothed in fine linen, there you go again. There she is, white and clean. Followed him on white horses. Now, out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations. He himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and what Wrath of almighty God. And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written King of Kings. And what Lord of Lords. Who is that? It's Jesus. Here's what's fun. Please write this down. It's not in the notes. This should blow your mind. 04:42 The second coming you look at Isaiah 63, revelation, chapter 19,. And the marriage supper of the lamb and all of that stuff. Jesus is splattered in blood, but he's also at his wedding. What's going on here? Isaiah 26, verses 19 to 21. Write it down. It's not on the screen. Isaiah 26, 19 to 21. 05:01 The Bible tells us that God will say the Bible tells us that God will say come up here, come to me and hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment. Enter into the chambers of marriage, the chambers, the honeymoon suites, and close the doors behind you, for I will come out of my place to punish all the inhabitants of the earth for their sins. Where were your sins punished? On the cross. Notice the timing of that. Come up here, hide yourself just a little bit. It's like this Come up here, go freshen up in the wedding chamber, you who wear fine linen, clean and bright. I'll be right back and Jesus, the Bible says, will go. Listen, he will go and fight for Israel during that seven year tribulation period. He will go and fight for them as God fought in the day of battle. That is awesome. Think of that. What a powerful, all-consuming, amazing God that we know. 06:13 Also this his salvation is exclusive regarding his awesome glory. In verse 24, the Bible says even us, who he called not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles, just exclusively this. What does this mean? It doesn't sound exclusive. You just said Jews and Gentiles. Oh, no, no, no. It's exclusive because Christ is the salvation, he is the Messiah. Notice this. I love this. It says here in verse 24, that what's exclusive is that the salvation belongs to those who believe. You want to ride a horse with Jesus coming out of heaven with fine white linen, in an army, that's wild Warrior princess for sure. And he strikes the earth with his judgment. Well, the Bible here says, in verse 24, he will save both Jew and Gentile. 07:12 In this room, right here, just last service, I met some Jews who have come to Messiah Jesus, yeshua, as Savior. By the way, that's happening more and more. Since October 7th. More and more Jews are coming to Christ, at least in California. But I've heard all over the world why God's getting ready to start to fulfill his word with his people. 07:33 Anybody who teaches replacement theology should be marked as a heretic. Get out of there, get away from them. Oh no, no, there is no Israel. The church is Israel. Run for your spiritual life. God's kept his promises to Israel and he will. 07:48 And now the globe is churning with anti-Semitic belief. Why? It's demonic. It's exactly how it's supposed to go according to God's plan. The world will turn its back on Israel. Did you not know that in the last days, anti-semitism will rise, hatred? Jesus warned both the church and the Jew who believes in him. There'll be those who will seek to kill you and they think they're doing God a service. We're living in times like that. The hatred of Christianity is rising rapidly in our world. 08:23 All this stuff was prophesied in scripture. Don't panic, just know this man. This word's true. I'm going to get behind this word, I'm going to get into this word. And this word is the word of God himself. Remarkable. 08:39 The Bible tells us in Galatians, chapter 3, verse 26. Galatians 3 26 the Bible says for you are all sons of God. Well, that appears in Romans 9. Through faith in Christ Jesus, for as many of you as were baptized into Christ, that is, you entered into him, not water into him, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male nor female. There is neither or there for all are one in Christ Jesus One. Isn't that amazing? The Jew and the Gentile in Christ are one. That's exclusive. Number five we're going to go quick. 09:20 Verses 26 to 27 is the evidence that has gone out about God's good, good sovereignty. And the first thing is, as we mentioned earlier, look at this Evidence of his invitation, verse 25. And he says also in Hosea, the prophet, hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. What does this mean? Let me tell you and then we'll move on. It's beautiful. 09:49 God is speaking through the prophet Hosea to the Jewish people and he's saying you're my people. And then, when they rebelled, he said you're not my people. And then, when they repented, he said you're my people, listen, logic, not my people. And then, when they repented, he said you're my people, listen logic. Course 101. If he says to them initially you are my people, and then says to them later you're not my people, and then to the same people, he said you're not, you are my people, then we wind up learning something about the full counsel of God. We wind up learning something about the full counsel of God. 10:23 God chose Israel and the Jews to be his people and he says to them I have these everlasting promises that I've given, but when you don't walk with me, you're not my people. My people walk this way. When you rebel and go the other way, just want you to know you're not my people. They are his people, because he's going to have them experience a return. But he's basically saying what you say in a family Listen, you're acting. You're not even acting like you belong to this family. What's wrong with you Now? Does the kid belong to the family? Yes, is he acting like he belongs to the family. No, this is a promise of God. He's not changing his mind. He's basically saying this when you walk with me, I'll bless you. When you walk away from me, I'm not going to bless you. 11:17 And that's true, by the way, for the Jewish believer and the Gentile believer, nonetheless true. And then this goes on Verses 25 to 26, the evidence of his generosity. I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them you are not my people there. They shall be called the sons of the living God. Look at that, quoting Hosea and book of Romans, speaking about both areas or both peoples to be saved the Gentile world and the Jewish world. The epicenter is Christ. I'll save the Jew, he says, and I'll save the Gentile Jew. Turn around, walk with me in obedience to my word, believe on me. Gentile, you never had a God, you've never worshiped me, and I'm calling you to come and be my people. Also and it's beautiful he says I'll call you sons of God, children of God. What an amazing God we have, tremendous. Here. We end with this. 12:31 Number six is verses 27 to 28. And that is his gathering, a gathering of a people for himself. Verse 27 says this that he has been gathering. This, to me, is kind of fun. Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel. Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. A small amount of them will turn to me. It's going to happen. It's not a lot, but me it's going to happen. It's not a lot, but God says it's going to happen. 13:05 Gathering to himself a people. He always has been gathering himself a people. Instead of what I said earlier, adam and Eve being thrown in the trash heap, did he not start to gather people by redeeming them, by offering up an animal he did? The second thing is this Is he not gathering? Now? God's gathering people. Now he's extending the offer of salvation today. He always has been. 13:36 He is today, when the Bible says in verse 28, this is a remarkable verse, for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. What does that mean? That means he's going to finish it in righteousness, but it's going to be a short work. Something's going to happen that it's going to bring it to its rapid conclusion, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth. I know it sounds crazy, but you and I have been here 2,000 years after the cross, several thousand years before the cross, and we've been here for a long time, for thousands of years, since Adam and Eve has fallen. And God says I'm going to do a short work on the earth. Friends, cheer up. What does the Bible say? A thousand years with God is as though it's one day. Right now you and I are like oh man, come on, this drives me crazy. Put that up against eternity. Friends, where you and I are going in christ, jesus, the bible says this life span will be but a vapor that dissipates like that aren't you glad about? I'll think about that. What a beautiful wake-up call that is. This is not it. This is not all there is. The Bible says in Matthew 28, verse 19,. 15:00 We're all familiar with this. This might come as a shock to you. I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings exactly, but do we teach evangelism courses here? Absolutely, and you should attend. They're fantastic. Do you know why we teach evangelism courses? Well, let me rephrase Do you know why I, as pastor, see to it that we offer evangelism courses? Anybody know. You're quiet. Okay, that's good. 15:36 Yes, you might be shocked to find out that my job is not. My job as a pastor teacher is not to evangelize. My job is to teach you the word of God so that you go and evangelize. Well, don't we hire people to evangelize. No, this is how it works. Ready, go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. Teach them how to be a Christ follower, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I command you. And, lo or behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. 16:23 Jesus said Listen, we go through the Bible to get the Bible in you, so that the Bible because it's pretty amazing, the Bible gets inside of you. And then stand back. Somebody get a fire extinguisher, because that person's going to start blowing up with the Bible. They're just going to start percolating, it's just going to start happening and they're going to tell people If we make disciples, evangelism will happen, and I'm not knocking it. 16:50 You can host crusades all day long, but you got to make disciples out of those who get saved. They've got to get into the doctrines. Why? Because they go out and they'll eventually reach more people than any crusade could ever, making disciples knowing how to follow Jesus. To this we end, he will be gathering people, verse 29. And as Isaiah said before, unless the Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord of heaven's armies, had left us a seed, a little fragment of believers, we would have become likened to Sodom and we would have been likened unto Gomorrah, meaning we would have been toast by the wrath of God. But God left a remnant, friends, he will be gathering. Imagine, when it comes to salvation, and what this world is gonna experience. I can honestly say almost sounds like a political what do you call it? Slogan. I can't stand when people say the best is still to come, the best is yet to come. And what America? 18:02 - Speaker 1 listen, america its greatest days are ahead. 18:05 - Speaker 2 Have you read your Bible, we kick God in the teeth, we throw him out in the street, we replace him with other gods and then we have the audacity to say the best is yet to come. Really, I don't think so. You can't do that to him. He's actually real, no, but I can tell you the church no, but I can tell you the church, the best is yet to come. Where you and I are going forever and ever and ever and ever and ever is so amazing and so beautiful that you look at a day like this stormy, rainy skies, clouds, part sun comes out, snow on the mountains, hills are green, flowers in bloom, birds singing, yes, but when will the message be over? Right now, right now. God is so good, he's's so beautiful, he's so wonderful. You need to know him. 19:24 - Speaker 1 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, are listener supported. 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