The Host Of Heaven

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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Some of you have religion and you're so tired You've been pushing your religion and you don't feel loved, you don't feel defended, you don't feel accepted because it's all on you Not being a believer in Christ. It's not. He's done it all and he gives the Holy Spirit to get you and I through this world and this wonderful thing of sanctification where we are living life Bumps and all pains and all we have a purpose.

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The word here in Romans 8, 28 is the Greek word edu and it means this and listen as we read this. It's not future, it's already. It's already happened, happened. It's now for us In the past tense. It means now we have seen. Have you, now we have perceived?

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You need to ask yourself that Are you really a believer Now we have experienced, or now we have the knowledge of? Do you know what it is? Can you define to somebody what it is to be a Christian, to be a witness to? Can you bear testimony of the fact To be able to testify, like you are in court, for example, of having come to know something? Of course, this something is someone Having come to the discovery, and you circle the word discovery. That is very important because we launched from the word discovery, because the word discovery in Hebrew is the Hebrew word yada, y-a-d-a in your notes and it's found in Psalm 46, 10, be still and yada. Discover that in the circumstances of your life as a believer, wherever you're at as a believer, no matter what's going on, as a believer, god says be still and know, discover that I'm right there in the midst of everything taking place. You say, pastor. That cannot be true, my friends, I'm telling you thank God. It is true, he is a God that is with us at all times, the worst of times that we could be having. And for us, you know, look, life is life. And then it gets tough, sometimes bumpy, okay, fine, uh-oh, no, really difficult, and then at some way shape or form. Either. If we get raptured, then awesome. If not, it's going to get very painful. And guess what? Our God shows up in the pain. It's the God of the Bible who has told us in advance that when everything is coming to what you think is an absolute end, that's when all things come together and work for good. To those who love God, to those who are called according to his purposes. God's got a plan and you're going to see that plan today, but you've got to apply it to your own life. Heaven is working for us. We're not alone. God's doing something.

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The great scholar, the great pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, england, in 1929, dr D Martin Lloyd-Jones. If you can buy any book by Dr Martin Lloyd-Jones, buy it. He's wonderful, plus, he's dead, so he can't change his mind. I love that. He never went woke, so you're safe in reading him, because he can't go woke. He's already dead. So this is good news. We're safe here.

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Look what he says about this. He said it is to be noted that our text begins with a conjunction. This means that the truth of this section is linked with what has already been set forth. As we have seen, the Holy Spirit dwells within the believer and makes intercession prayers for him, according to the will of God. Thus, god's Holy Spirit is directing each believer. Say amen to that. Amen, I mean, come on, that is great news According to a predetermined and definite, defined plan.

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Lloyd-jones says he's right, god's got the blueprint for your life. God knows what's next. God knows exactly in this fallen world, even though it's fallen, god knows exactly what needs to happen in your life next. Somebody might say I'm having a moment. Well, from this moment on, when you're having a moment, you need to stop as a believer and understand wait a minute. If I'm having a moment. Well, from this moment on, when you're having a moment, you need to stop as a believer and understand wait a minute. If I'm having a moment right now, that means God knows about it.

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You all hear me. I don't know why. I said y'all. I haven't been to Texas in a couple months. But did you all hear me say that God knows about it in advance? He knows Things are not falling apart, they're falling together, but it doesn't feel like it. He never asked us what we felt like. I don't understand it, you're not supposed to. It's called faith.

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God says I know what I'm doing. He says follow me. Yeah, but it hurts. Yeah, let's go Eventually. It's not going to hurt, we're going somewhere. Listen, you have a choice today to stay where you're at hurting or to pick up your hurt and follow him. I highly recommend you pick up your hurt and follow him.

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None of us need to spend time telling you how valuable and how powerful he is with what he does with our hurt. All I can tell you and I'm telling you now, before God, angels, you and this Bible looking back now, after almost 66 years of my life, I would not change one thing in my life now that it's been placed in the hands of God. None of this stuff, none of the things that I came to learn about my life, what I could not be, what I was, what this, how come I can't, why this, how come you don't? And all the things that only I know and God knows. And then that day when God says I know there's a moment in your life where you're either going to go run and hide with Adam or you're going to say Lord, I surrender, don't run anymore from the one that loves you the most. His Bible is communicating to you his great love for you.

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Dr Gray Barnhouse, the great theologian, he too is safely read, as he is dead as well. He's in heaven rejoicing with Lloyd-Jones. All things work together for the good. Listen to this. Even the fall of Lucifer in eternity passed. Stop right there for a second. Have you ever had someone tell you oh, what about your God of love? If your God is a God of love, then how come he invented the devil? He never invented the devil. I thought your God invented everything. Nope, there's some stuff on us and there's some stuff on the devil. Watch this. It's brilliant. Actually, I wish I would have thought about it. But he thought about it. Even the fall of Lucifer in eternity past was for the greater purposes of God to establish good. That's a deep sentence.

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A great question does arise here did god create lucifer or did god create satan? I'm going to pause for effect, because this is pretty cataclysmic. If you have the wrong answer. The bible says jesus christ himself created all angels. Did you know that? That the creator of Lucifer was Jesus Christ himself, says the Bible. Well, that means Jesus made a bad angel? No, he didn't.

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Angels can worship God. That means they have free moral agency, just like you and I do. Now we're not angels, just like you and I do Now. We're not angels. Right now we are subversion of what we will be in eternity. Right now, angels are greater than us, but the Bible tells us that when you and I enter heaven, we will be greater than the angels. Wow.

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So did God create Lucifer or did God create Satan? The answer is according to Dr Barnhouse, and I agree with him. God create Lucifer or did God create Satan? The answer is according to Dr Barnhouse, and I agree with him. God created Lucifer. It was Lucifer who chose to become Satan by the choice he made. Is that not what Isaiah tells us? That it was Lucifer who said I want to be like God, I want to be worshipped, I want all the attention, I want everything to be about me. And the Bible tells us in Ezekiel, chapter 28, that evil sin was found in his heart and in that day he fell from heaven Remarkable, according to Psalm 139,.

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Listen to this. I want all of you to just really enjoy this. Let this wash over you. This is the psalmist writing Lord, you have searched me and known me, number one. As a believer, I'm refreshed by this. If you're not a believer, that makes you nervous. God knows what you did last night. Now, what you do with what you did last night is between you and God. Are you hearing me? God searches me and he knows me.

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Verse two you know my sitting down, you know my rising up, you understand my thought of far off, you comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways, for there is not a word on my tongue. But behold, oh Lord, you know it all together. Verse five I love this one. This is the God squeeze. You have hedged me behind and before Just. I love it and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. Even there, your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. Listen to this.

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Anybody fighting depression in life, listen to this. If I say, that's us. If you say, if I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me? Have you ever been depressed? It feels like darkness is choking you. You can hardly catch your breath. It's like somebody has punched you right in the middle of the gut and you've lost all your air. Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? People, you know, there's brothers and sisters in Christ and there's people of the world predominantly, maybe most of them that feel like the wind has gotten knocked out of their lungs. And when you get the wind knocked out of your lungs, you feel like you're dying, I guess, because when it happens, you can't feel your lungs up and you just, you just got to wait. You think you're dying, but you're not. Well, emotionally, you think you're dying, but God is saying you're not. So if you say to yourself, surely the darkness shall fall on me, listen to what God says about that. Even the night shall be light about me. Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you.

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No wonder why you want to hang out with God With all that's being thrown at you in the world. Get close to God, draw closer to him. There's no excuse. We all need to make our way closer to him. Yeah, but you don't know, pastor, I don't want to know. I can't do a thing about it. Besides, you don't know, I don't know, but we know him. Press into God and he'll never let you down. Heaven is working Church for us and God is bringing all things together for us. We remember this. Regarding Jesus' promise, we must never forget this.

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The Bible says in John 14, verse 16, and I will pray the Father. So it's not only the Holy Spirit that prays for us. The Bible says Jesus is praying for us and he says I will give you another helper, that is, the Holy Spirit, that he may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive Because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. Listen to what Jesus said I will not leave you orphans. Listen to what Jesus said that's the best place to be Caught in between of the intercourse of God. He's the savior of your soul and he loves you, but he requires that you come, that you run out of the burning home, the burning house, and you run to him. Salvation is waiting, as it were, at the curb, but you got to go to him. He will not make you, he will not force you.

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John 16, verse 12 tells us, and still Jesus says I have many things to say to you. Imagine talking to Jesus personally and he says that to you. I have a lot of things that I need to say to you. Don't you think you would say to him okay, tell me all of it, tell me what you want to say. He knows how frail we are. He says but you cannot bear them now, you can't handle it. Verse 13,.

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However, when he can you circle the word he in your Bible? When he can you circle the word he in your Bible? This is not. May the force be with you, luke. This is not an it. Our Jehovah Witness friends that say the spirit is an it, it's not a person, there is no trinity. Well, the Bible says there is a trinity and the Bible says the Holy Spirit is a person. Jesus calls him a he. 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 and he will tell you things to come.

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You want to know what's up next. You don't need to read the paper. Talk to God, ask the spirit of God. What do I need to know next for my family? What do I need to know next? About my home or about the world, or about my state or about my kids? About my husband or my family? What do I need to know next? About my home or about the world, or about my state or about my kids? About my husband or my wife? What do I need to know God? He will tell you things to come. What do I need to know about the future? What's going on with the world in the Middle East right now? How is this going to play out? Now? God's not going to answer you like you know, some ticker tape thing spitting out the information. That way, he's going to give you discernment, to unpack the times and you won't be caught off guard, you won't get sucked up in the lunacy of the world. Let him speak to you.

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Jesus went on to say that verse 14, he will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Notice, we've got several persons involved here. We've got Jesus speaking. That's God, the son. We've got the Holy Spirit who's being promised to be the minister to us, and then we're talking about here in a moment, the father. He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. Verse 15, all things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said that he, the Holy Spirit, will take of mine and declare it to you. God, the Father, god the Son, in one person is the Holy Trinity of God.

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Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 30 says and do not grieve the Holy Trinity of God. Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 30, says and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. There's a lot there in that verse. Number one again, my friends, the Spirit of God is not an? It. How do you upset an it? Can you upset an it? May the force be with you. No, no, no. Maybe you, not me. I don't want the force. May the force be with you. No, no, no, maybe you, not me. I don't want the force, I want God, the Holy Spirit, in my life. Think about that for a moment. The power. May the power be. What is this power? You know what, if you sit right here and you move in this direction and you put this crystal in your navel, don't laugh, you'll offend somebody who's watching from Sedona, arizona or Laguna Beach. Oh, is that too close, sorry, but you know. Wait, face in this direction, put your hands up, put the little receiver oracle in your navel and then start to chant and you'll get the power. Really, really, no, listen to grieve the Holy Spirit is to upset. Hurt the Holy Spirit. You can't hurt an it. You can go yell at the fire hydrant outside all you want. It's not going to hurt his feelings. He doesn't have any feelings.

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I saw a guy this true story last night. He was pushing his Tesla and the battery was so low there was not even emergency blinkers on. It was just gone. And the poor guy's pushing it and I thought for a moment wow, this is a great picture. But I was driving and I didn't want to endanger anybody. But I just thought about. There's a vehicle that is very fast when it has the power. But when there is no power, you got to push it.

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And some of you have religion and you're so tired. You've been pushing your religion and you're just. You don't feel. You don't feel loved, you don't feel defended, you don't feel accepted because it's all on you Not being a believer in Christ. It's not. He's done it all and he gives the Holy Spirit to get you and I through this world and this wonderful thing of sanctification where we are living life Bumps and all pains and all. We have a purpose. We know what's coming and we don't have to worry about how this ends. We know how it ends. We read the back of the book. It's awesome.

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