The Reality Of Heaven

real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth equip the saints and impact our culture you and I were designed by God to be with him in worship and in fellowship and it's called heaven and he's gonna come back and he's gonna he's gonna undo this world you can cheer up it's not gonna stay this way he's gonna fix it it's gonna get real bad before it gets good though he's gonna let man run out the clock and then he's gonna come and fix it 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. The number one thing about the reality of heaven and making sure that you're going there is waking up to some truths that we need to consider number one write it down if you would it's this that there is a natural witness of creation God has not asked any of you to make a blind leap of faith now believe in me close your eyes put a blindfold on and weep out into darkness the God of the Bible doesn't do that. Psalm chapter 8 verse 3 regarding the natural witness of creation should cause you and I to want to go to heaven and the reality of heaven can be argued the psalmist is when I consider your heavens and the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained you got a circle of word ordained what is man that you're mindful of him. So awesome the word ordained here is epic the starry sky God says I've ordained it teleonomic I've said a course for them to travel on it's so certain you can do math later on in the 20 and 21st centuries and you'll be able to figure out when to launch a rocket from Florida or from California you can figure out by my mechanics of the heavens just right where the space station could meet up with the incoming capsule did you know you cannot do that JPL could never figure that out except or unless God is dependable think about that I don't believe in God why not he screams at us and says you think this is something I've got a heaven coming your eyes can't even handle it your ears can't even receive it and I've given you a physical or natural witness the second thing is that there's a personal witness that all of us can agree with and that is all of us have a conscience there's a consciousness that God has given you so you can say today I don't believe in God or believe in heaven it's funny you don't believe in heaven but you want to live in a beautiful place and beautiful manicured lawns and gardens and you want to live in a if you could you live in a palace and I believe that you're searching for heaven you don't know it and you want to have stability and protection and safety and you don't want you don't want your kids to be unstable like you were so you give them everything and why because you want them to experience something better why would you deprive that from God wanting you to experience something better in heaven thus our conscience amazing thing conscience do you realize right now you're your your physical body listen we've done we've been doing this for thousands of years if we cut you open like a Christmas turkey and took out all your parts and we searched for your conscience think about it where is it could it be here let's let's open that up what's that thing what's that little thing behind the liver right there what's that that's not it where's your conscience so you got to move up you're the head it's in the head oh we open up your head look around there's not much up there by the way do you know that your brain is highly composed of cholesterol and other types of things it's it's there it's about seven and a half eight pounds crack that thing open put it out there look around you know the brain today is still more advanced than any of the observable universes we've seen the brain listen and people look at it what is the brain what do we do with it we're not exactly sure it's beyond us but where's the conscience nowhere how to get there isn't that amazing and first Timothy chapter four verse one first Timothy four one a familiar verse because it's so important for our age and will become more important every day but first Timothy four once is not the hook now the Holy Spirit expressly says that in the latter time is the last days as we approach the end of time some will depart from the faith some will give up for whatever reasons Jesus gives you those reasons in Matthew 13 in the parable of the soul and the seed here's what they're gonna do they're gonna give heed give attention watch people it means that they're going to give themselves fully over attention completely yielded to deceiving spirit stop right there to to be so captivated by something and you're watching it and you're listening you can't even hear anybody else Susie Susie Susie Susie and they're like this you've seen this happen and then you have to touch them excuse me I'm talking to you what what is it what I'm been speaking to you what is it where have you been I'm just I'm just watching this are looking at this game or what what's up the Bible says that there's gonna be people who depart from the faith I'm done with this Christian stuff I'm learning some really cool stuff over here it's captivating it's amazing that when you're gonna read the Bible you have to work at it I mean I'm confess I didn't ask you about this I'm confessing it's I assume it's the same is it hard for you to read the Bible come on yes me too the moment I read my Bible I'm gonna read it it's awesome nobody's awake it's a great morning I'm gonna read my Bible and it's almost like hell goes no you're not and the door bell goes off or the fire alarm or I don't know what are you with me somebody calls wrong number I'm sorry like Satan call call that number call you have to you have to work at it the moment though the moment something of a demonic power comes along like a deceiving spirit to teach you know you're captivated you can barely go to work you're captivated the Bible says watch out there's gonna be days right at the end that things are gonna captivate you to pull you into a another world it's not even real it's a world of demonic influences and then the second thing is look what he says here that what's before us also is doctrines of demons demons telling people things I had a dream yeah what joke the Bible says this would characterize the last days this sounds like a Jerry Springer program or that kind of stuff or Oprah show I died a nice saw I went and it was amazing and Jesus is really no big deal he was just all with this and you can you can believe anything you want you got to happen that's right out of the pit out that's exactly what Satan wants you to believe but listen in first Timothy 41 it says speaking lies in hypocrisy I'm sorry staring doors where your mask and you can't go down your wrist Bronx sorry listen this is the punchline having their conscience seared with a hot iron we'll end here listen this with this means they they started listening to things that caused them to pull away from the faith they gave themselves over to its full attention they invested in it little did they know it was the workings of demon spirits invisible and it never got a hold of their attention they never figured that part out and why would the why would the spiritual dark world tell you about their plans anyway if they're really smart and they are not gonna tell you hey we're gonna take you next week Jesus said if somebody knew that they would not allow their home to be broken into right so look at this they speak lies in hypocrisy what does that mean they dress up in white while they tell you darkness we're here to help watch out having their own conscience seared the word seared is where we get the word carterize catarids though to carterize something to heat up a piece of metal glowing hot to take an open wound that is hemorrhaging you can take that hot iron and you can put it right on the wound and melt it shut and save someone's life when listen depending upon what kind of surgery you're having the doctor can cut with the blade and right connected to the blade is a little item that trails the blade and it lasers the skin melts the skin right back together when it's cut brilliant it's brilliant with the right application but if you've ever had a scar and then you open up that scar again you ever ripped open a scar and if that keeps happening you keep bumping it tearing it ripping it you know it happens you wind up getting skin that loses its ability to feel the skin becomes dead and you can rub your hand across and you'll feel the dead area and then you'll pick up on the feeling again the sensation's gone where it has been traumatized beyond feeling when that happens you can't feel anymore these people what's happened to them is that they dabbled into something and they got burns just burns but then they went back to it they got burned again and they went back again to it a little bit they got burned but it wasn't that bad of a burn then they went again and then they couldn't even feel the burn after a while then they could just pick it up and hold it can you do this you've seen those guys it walk you know and Hawaii they have the fire walkers which is like nuts it's like you and I don't know you know I go there for the food I don't go there for the show but the guy goes hey what's this you thrown the stuff and he walks bare feet on hot and burning coals and it's just like yeah I'm not impressed you don't want to do that I mean what's the point I can do it I would freak out I don't feel anything yeah that's the problem when the LAPD brings a man in for having committed multiple murders in the apartment and they ask him how did you do it with a knife how long did it take a couple hours what were you thinking I don't know wondering what they felt maybe what did you feel nothing conscience seared with a hot iron having committed something so often listen listen you've committed it so often that you don't even feel it anymore the dangers you can go you can go to church stuck in tradition but living that kind of a life you've been hurt so many times for example if you don't keep your heart tender and safe in the arms of Jesus you can be hurt so many times that you even think you're protecting yourself and shielding yourself from that and you'll only get involved in a situation so far then you'll pull back and something really good comes along but you've conditioned yourself to pull back you know why because for some reason hurt pain sorrow disappointment you somehow concluded not only will I never have a house like blind him palace or cat in the great but I don't care I don't care about your heaven I don't care about your Bible I don't care about any of that stuff because you have allowed your heart to become so seared that it can't feel anymore and that when when the Bible tells you God loves you you say not me not for me this is danger you see the way you get to heaven is by the fact that Jesus Christ died for your sins but if you've become so callous to your own activity that you don't see yourself a sinner you are an epic eternal danger and if everything you do is followed up by a justification sentence out of your mouth you're even further and when you when you do something and you get caught and then you say yeah but you know what it's because callous callous hardened hardened no feeling you know who's in heaven a bunch of sinners are in heaven how do you know ask them you can ask them you can read the their statements in the book Isaiah saw heaven you and he said Isaiah well as me I'm undone my lips are filthy I'm wicked and I live in a I live in an entire nation that's wicked you know God said him God said I have taken a cold from off the altar in place on your tongue and you are purged your nicotine has been removed from you Isaiah is in heaven today and he still thinks he's a sinner when you and I get to heaven you know what we're gonna walk like this we're gonna be like a bunch of people walking in to captain the great palace so what what what are we doing here just shut up just come on you you're like you're like you're supposed to be here not your head it's like we're here think about it are we here or we're here how long we're staying forever think about it because listen when you when you walk through it's gonna say something like imagine the gate imagine the gate called before the foundations of the world right and you walk through you walk in and you look back in the backside of the gate and it says something to the effect all have send a come short of the glory of God and you're standing there all and let me tell you friend it's gonna cause everything in this world that man can build to get him and look like a joke glory be to God that heaven is not made with human hands what awaits us is absolutely awesome that it takes sanctified imagination to begin to wonder how in the world will it trees be used trees and there'll be water in a straight main street heaven down the main street the street is transparent gold and coal and the nations will come and bring their glory to it nations and the kings will honor the Lord from year to year it says think about it the Bible you ever thought about that that's not metaphorical man that's gonna happen this jack hips podcast as well as 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