The Host Of Heaven

Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Some of you have religion and you're so tired. You've been pushing your religion and you're just you you don't feel you don't feel love 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 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 jackhibbs. The word here in Romans 828 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 it's now for us in the past tense it means now we have seen have you now we have perceived you need to ask yourself that are you really a believer now we have experienced or now we have the knowledge of 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 yadah y a d a in your notes and it's found in Psalm 46 10 be still and yadah 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 and for us you know look life is life and then it gets tough sometimes bumpy okay fine oh oh no really difficult and then it's 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 we're 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 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 a wonderful plus he's dead so he can't change his mind I love that he never went woke so you're safe and reading him because he can't go woke he's already dead so this is good news we're safe here 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 I mean come on that is great news oh according to a predetermined and definite defined plan 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 right now that means God knows about it you don't hear me I don't know why I said y'all I haven't been in 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 a little feel like it he never asks this what we felt like I don't understand it you're not supposed to it's called faith 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 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 in this Bible looking back now after 60 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 can 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 for you you're they're 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 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 eat listen to this even the fall of Lucifer in eternity past stop right there for a second have you ever had someone tell you oh what about your God of love if God if your God is a God of love then how come he invented the devil he never invented the devil I thought you got invented everything now 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 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 the creator of Lucifer was Jesus Christ himself says the Bible well that means Jesus made a bad angel I didn't angels can worship God that means they have free moral agency 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 so did God create Lucifer 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 worship 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 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 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 O 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 send into heaven you are there if I make my bed and held 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 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 year 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 gotta 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 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 now wonder what you want to hang out with God with all that's been thrown at you in the world get close to God draw closer to there's no excuse we all need to make our way close 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's promise we must never forget this 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 what Jesus said I will not leave you orphans I will come to you the way that Christ comes to you is by the person of the Holy Spirit during worship this morning you were singing praises to God and what was happening is if you mint it the Holy Spirit was ministering through you to the very Son of God and to the Father Himself and you are caught in between 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 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 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 however when he can you circle the word he and your Bible this does not may the force be with you Luke this is not an it our our Jehovah witness friends that say the the spirit is an it it's not a person there is no Trinity well the Bible says there is a Trinity in 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 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 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 things 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 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 been 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 our mind therefore I said that he the Holy Spirit will take of mine and declare it to you God the Father God the Son and one person is 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 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 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 it put the little receiver oracle and your navel and then start to chant and you'll get the 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 knocking it's not you don't have to hurt his feelings doesn't have any feelings 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 is pushing it and I thought for a moment wow this is a great picture but but I was driving and I didn't want to endanger anybody but I just I just saw about there is a vehicle that is very fast when it has the power but when there is no power you got to push it and some of you have religion and you're so tired you've been pushing your religion and you're just you you don't feel you don't feel love 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 this Jack Kemp's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected