The Synthetic Effect

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey what's going on in the world around us? I'm gonna try to offer up a little bit of an insight. What are we doing? Who are we raising? How are we going to ensure the next generation to think right and to not be infiltrated by the unslots of an agenda? Let's see what God's word has to say to these things. 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. Hey everybody, welcome to the Jack Hibbs podcast. Jack Hibbs show. Thanks for being with us and very, very important times, obviously, in which we live in remarkable times, times that are forcing all people, everyone around the world, to consider their life, their lifestyle, their life's end, what's valuable, what's important, and the lines are being drawn. And I don't mean the proverbial statement, the lines are being drawn, the lines are actually being drawn. And the world is being exposed. We don't have the time today to discuss things that are forthcoming. I'm going to be putting together some podcasts here pretty soon, where I'll be reacting to some of these things that are going on and we'll look at what God's word says to these things, what does wisdom and logic say to these things. But for today, for now, I would like you to consider a few things that I want to put out before you. And it goes to what I said a moment ago. What's going on in the world? You have to stop and admit for a moment, almost by itemizing some things. Is the world getting safer or not? Is there an intensity among nations and their leaders for good or for war? The general population, and let's just pick on America where this podcast is originating from. The general population, the atmosphere, or the optics of what's going on in the United States of America. Is it good or is it bad? Think about that. Is it is it trending toward hope or despair? Is America getting safer to walk around or not? Is what is called the church in America? Is it is it effective and powerful or ineffective and irrelevant? You and I could go on almost all day long bringing up topics that deal with our daily realities and you would have to really stop and pause to consider what a friend of mine just told me the other day. And he said, you know, in light of what's going on in America, when the context of our conversation was, how can an American president be kept out of an American city when the American city has become the most dangerous place by death rate in all of the industrialized nations combined? What am I talking about? The danger of walking down a street in Chicago. Trump's trying to put an end to that stuff, but because the government of Chicago will not in the state of Illinois will not do anything about protecting their citizens. Trump has gone into DC and it's been great. Trump is going into, you know, I mean by Trump, right? I mean Trump, I don't mean Trump is, but the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security or the National Guard, because the police officers are not being given permission by the Democrat governors or mayors. And so these cities have become death traps. By the way, everything a Democrat touches, just name it. Go down the list. Everything a Democrat touches turns to death in one way or another. I know it's a harsh statement. Tough. It's true. They touch it, they kill it. They touch freedom, they kill it. They touch the economy, they kill it. They touch parental rights, they kill it. They touch infrastructure and they kill it. It's remarkable. How incredibly competent they are at destroying things, the party of death. And by the way, don't think I'm a Republican. Half of those guys are not jobs also. So there's enough to go around. But what I want you to consider, in Matthew chapter 24 verse 12, Jesus is speaking, friends, listen, theologically, Matthew chapter 24 deals with Israel in the last days of the Tribulation period. Israel of the last days in the Tribulation period, Matthew chapter 24. There is nothing in Matthew chapter 24 that has to deal with the church. Zero. Nothing at all. That said, in Matthew 24, 12, Jesus says, because lawlessness will abound. There's going to be come into time when lawlessness, the rule of law will evaporate and people will do lawless deeds and lawless things so much abounding because lawlessness will abound. The love of many will grow cold. And the word means the populace, the people, the masses will have callous hearts that will no longer care or love for fellow man. Ask yourself, do we live in that time? We're not even in the Tribulation period yet. And we're starting to see the opening throws of a culture. Now, you might say in the country that you're in, oh, man, you don't know. It's been like that in Sudan forever. I understand that. And you can name your country. But when you look at the bastion of global, right, the global bastion of Christianity, it would be America. But, man, you can't say that anymore. The effect of Christianity, biblical Christianity, I'm not talking about who raw raw. I'm talking about real Christians living the real Christian life in America. There's very, very few people. And the proof is you're starting to see a culture and a nation come apart at the seams. I can hear you say to me right now, but don't you know Trump's president? Don't you know that Cash Patel's FBI? Don't you know that Pete Hegsith is Department of War and Mark Rubio is is secretary. I know all that stuff. I know all that stuff. But listen, as much as they're trying to stop the evil, it's too late. By all means, keep fighting evil. We have to fight evil period. But this has been long time coming because the powers that be have been at work a long time corrupt in this culture, silencing the church, telling the believers to shut up and letting evil happen, open borders, undocumented people who turn out to be connected with terrorist gangs around the world and or Islamist who have come to commit jihad not too long ago in San Diego. A colonel in the Iranian army was arrested with three with six women in his apartment, his Heram. And he was here for nefarious reasons against the United States government. These kinds of things that are going on. I'm going to be bringing something to you in more detail later on. But just breaking news a day or two ago was a guy who at an employee at a hotel had an argument with his manager and wound up cutting his head off and kicking his head around the parking lot. Where did that happen in Gaza? No. In the United States. What's going on? What's going on? Here's what I think is what's going on. We live in a culture right now that has been detached from reality because we have sown to the wind as Isaiah said and now it's time to reap the whirlwind. This is what's going on. Evil is advancing. People's hearts have grown cold. And I think one of the forensic announcements of this being a fact is what I'm calling right now for arguments the synthetic effect. The synthetic effect is when I view the world around me through the lens of my camera and how I can be in the moment I can be actually witnessing the event around me but not. What do I mean? Now I'm going to date myself and that's okay. I'm fine with it. Go way back when the VHS cameras were invented. They're like this big. And then they got smaller and they had the mini cam and then they had the the handy cam and they got smaller and smaller until eventually they made it cell phones with cameras and you've got what you got today but it doesn't matter. The effect the synthetic effect is still the same and that is you can be on vacation and if you're taking a video of your vacation you know what I'm going to you know already about to say there is a mental disconnect where you spend two weeks. If you are two weeks in Fiji or in the Alps or in Maui and you record your vacation through the camera and then listen you get home and even though you can review the camera and you watch it you actually did not experience vacation. There's a detachment. It's something about the mind, the brain and how it works. You could be in paradise or you could be standing in front of the the world trade center on September 11th or Charlie Kirk's assassination. If you're viewing things through the synthetic effect of your lens of your camera there is a detachment there that you can never fix. It doesn't matter how many times you view the video even though you were there you viewed it through some process of your mind, your eyes, your brain and there's this disconnect where it's real but it doesn't feel very real. I know I was there but I only know it through the lens of this synthetic effect and the greatest manifestation of men's hearts growing cold because of lawlessness is what we're seeing right now where people even with the Charlie Kirk assassination but even a day or two before that the Ukrainian woman who is horribly stabbed to death in the neck. There were people on their phones in that public transportation vehicle who never got involved, didn't get involved, turned away from the murder, they just turned away. They had an impossible coping mechanism failure. They couldn't deal with it. Now if they would have brought their camera fully around they probably could have watched that woman be murdered if they looked at it through the lens of their phone in this case they just turned away. There's a great danger with our children today for example who we see them all. Do we not all see this and it is it is a scourge, it's a ticking time bomb and when it goes off we ain't seen nothing yet and it is this. How many times do we see now parents going to a restaurant in McDonald's even and they get the kid a happy meal and they set the happy meal down in front of the kid and then they pick up their iPad or their laptop or their tablet device and they put on some cartoon and the kid is eating fixated on the synthetic screen and this kid is not engaging, he's not learning to be a human. There's no interaction but the parent doesn't care because there's some sort of pseudo piece quiet the kid is preoccupied, he's eating his happy meal, hey I just need a break, this is better than nothing, oh no no let's say we're going to pay the big price for this in the future because this kid is beginning to be trained if he's not already trained already to think that this is where you view life, you view life through this lens and so what's interesting is we have this culture today that we want to see it. I want to see that, where did you see that? Is it an Instagram or is it an X? Where did you get, is it TikTok or where did you see that? I want to see it and then we see it and it actually it actually fuels the hardening of the heart. So in recent days we've seen all over the United States, as far as I know it's not going on anywhere else in the world, could be but I don't see it, where college university children, yes I said that correctly, college university, I'm not going to degrade the word adult, I'm not going to call them adults, they're college university children who are now on campus imitating Charlie Kirk getting shot, they're acting like they got shot and they're falling over off their chair, people are laughing, carrying on, how is that possible? Because I believe that they have so viewed and prepared their heart and soul in advance by viewing games or violence or AI type stuff to the point where when reality does happen to them is it is as serious or the lack thereof of watching a game on their synthetic screen. And so what happens is that they become so dull that they even turn around to mark. Folks listen, I say this with great seriousness and great sadness. People who cannot differentiate between reality and non-reality, please hear me out. When they begin to not only they're unable to have their emotions engage or disengage appropriately, what they view which is a reality event, they view it and process it as a non-reality event, they want to see it but they refuse to get involved in whatever it is. They want to see it but they won't get involved. We are watching right now the unfolding of a psychological psychology lab in our culture whereby we can study what's happening. Young people today cannot tell their emotions cannot tell what is reality and what is non-reality. Hear me out, there's going to sound crazy. Check this out though. They have gotten so calloused that A, it's either nothing is a reality. There is no reality or they've gotten so calloused that all things are the reality, meaning their reality is of like a dual nature. It is a multi-reality. It's a reality that they've been convinced is a reality but in reality they've checked out. It's the, I want to see the video footage but I refuse to do anything about it. I won't even speak against it. In fact, I'm going to make fun of it and when you live like that you actually create a reality that is false. It is your reality but it's because you've gone insane. You've gone nuts. You have so detached that you can video somebody being stabbed to death and you're okay with it. That friend from a theological point is what is called reprobate. The Bible says that in the last days there will be those who will be murders of mothers, murders of fathers debased ungodly, unloving, uncarrying, unforgiving, violent, brutal, traders. It says in the last days you want to talk about relevant. The Bible is still relevant. The Bible is waiting for tomorrow's headlines because the Bible already knows this and reveals this. That America right now isn't a very critical, critical condition and I'll prove it to you right now. Imagine if I went on right now with this microphone and I was on you name the network and I said it's very violent out there. Everybody would go yep sure is something needs to be done. Uh huh, something needs to be done. That's right. Something needs to be done. We need to take action. Yeah, take action. We need to do this. We know culturally that whenever Jesus Christ is preached to the masses, historically it results in what's called revivals and awakenings. People begin to think again. People's hearts begin to get soft again. People begin to reconsider. You know if I said that right now, people would who previously were agreeing with me until I got to the fifth point and the fifth point is let's take the next 30 days to preach Jesus Christ, the gospel of God. Let's post to 10 commandments up all over America. Give us 30 days to preach Christ. Watch what happens. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. No, no, no, wrong. No, no, no, and people will foam at the mouth. They'll go crazy because I mentioned Jesus because I mentioned the word of God because I mentioned the 10 commandments. What does that tell you? It tells you exactly what I'm talking about. There is a detachment from reality that when truth is interjected, their reality that they've created is so false synthetic that they cannot even begin to allow to entertain the cure because they have now been taken over by a debased mine, which means frankly, biblically, that Satan is governing their minds now. They're reprobate, they're debased, they're lost. The Bible says they are the sons of disobedience and Peter says they are like brute beast that need to be hunted down and taken away. Peter said that. Wow. And so here we are. We're living at a time right now that is so dead pan serious. How's it going to play out? And this is what I do not know. I don't know how it's going to play out because you look at AI deception now. Artificial intelligence deception is so perfectly advanced that it's become a lot of people's reality. And you say that's not true. Yes, it is true. In a recent poll that I'm going to have to show you the numbers on this. In a recent poll done by Quinnipi or whoever it was, I don't remember who it was. There was a recent poll that showed where more people between 15 and 25 would prefer to have an AI relationship with the device personally. Then the hassle of having a human friendship because it's just too hard to have. AI deception becomes a reality in altered universe. Today people are walking around in our world certainly in America with an altered universe going on in their head. Maybe you look at people and you can't believe what I'm saying is true because you still look at people and you see that person in need or that person needs help or that maybe he's hungry or maybe you're going to get them a hotel motel stay for the night. You know, shower because you care still you still care versus people who can't even see such things because in their reality either AI and or their heart being so hardened by viewing everything through the synthetic lens that that effect has taken them over. And they see something that is horrible and they cannot even have empathy or sympathy. And then I want to wrap this up by saying this. It is so demonic right now that I don't want you to waste any moment in discerning the age and the times in which we're in right now because in our world today Satan is a foot and the things of Satan are being promoted so much so that if if Islamists and Hamas take captive 100 hostages, Jewish hostages so what's the big deal? Who cares? What's the thing? Oh, well, whatever. You see why don't if anyone ever said that. They may not have said it. They didn't say anything. You went on about your work. You just did your thing and well, you know, that's what that's what they do. They take they take Jews hostage. And then Israel cares enough to go and attack Hamas to get their people out. And notice the whole rhetoric is Israel is slaughtering people and it's a genocide. They got to be stopped, sanction them, United Nations. You need to condemn their actions. You see what's going on? The book of Isaiah tells us, I do believe it's chapter 5 of the book of Isaiah. I may be wrong. But the book of Isaiah God says in the last days, men will call good evil and evil good. They will say light for darkness, darkness for light. We're living in those days right now. The only hope for America you should know this by now is not going to come from the White House. It's impossible. It's not going to come from your state capital. It's impossible. You say, Jack, are you going to give up on getting people to register to vote and to vote biblical worldview values? No, never. I'm not saying a bend to that. We have to shine the light. We have to be witnesses and we have to be engaged in our republic, of course. But don't expect morality, healing and salvation to come from political powers. Our politicians today are trying to deal with problems that politics cannot heal, that politics cannot cure. Because America has ejected God from our schools, from our government, from the halls of power, from the civic square, we are now reaping the results of a godless age. The scriptures tell us in Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23, guard your heart with all diligence for out of its spring-sforth the issues of life. That's the cure. But if we don't guard our hearts, these are the beginning of sorrows in our nation. And I pray that with all that's taking place, at least God's people will wake up. But that presupposes God's pastors waking up and proclaiming truth from the pulpits. The answer is in the church, the answer is in the word of God. We've got to get back to him if there's hope for this country. Heavy podcast, I know. All true. Be careful, protect your children from social media, protect your children from screen time, protect your children from devices, and protect yourself. Be an example by all means. Until next time, God bless.