The Word Of God Is Prophetic

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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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Your salvation and my salvation was in His heart and mind and accomplished positionally in Christ before the world was ever created. Only God can do that. Is your God? That big the God of the Bible is?

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Is your God that big? The God of the Bible is 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.

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So, church, mark this down, if you would. It is this that the fact is that God will be our defense, and he does it in a way that is most unique. And mark it down, if you would. It's this is that his innocence is now our innocence. You might say well, jack, what in the world? How in the world does innocence have anything to do about me being protected by God? It has everything to do.

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The innocence of Jesus Christ listen to this. The innocence of Christ speaks about his purity. Jesus Christ is not weak. We think of innocence and we think of a cute little puppy or a kitty or some, maybe, figurine. The innocence of God is holy, it is pure and it is powerful.

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We don't often connect innocence and power together, but we don't often also put meekness and God together, do we? The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is meek, and yet the Bible tells us that from his face the heavens flee, from his presence. The Bible tells us that Christ, when he opens his mouth in the coming future, the earth will tremble. But the Bible says he's meek and he's innocent, pure. And in that purity, the Bible tells us that those of us who trust Christ, his innocence, his righteousness, his very nature of salvation has been imparted to us that when God looks at you as a believer right now, see, you and I are very mindful of our past, aren't we? It comes up too often, doesn't it? Did you know? Listen, when our minds pop up thinking about our past, we are to wrestle that thought down with scripture and we keep moving on. Why? Because you and I watch. Watch, you and I have been positionally in heaven, declared innocent by the blood of Christ. But the problem is you and I know, you and I and we are our problem. You know, regarding our salvation, listen, regarding our salvation, god is not worrying about it, he's not biting his nails, he's not wondering exactly how it's going to work out. Oh, my goodness, how's it going to go for Jack? He's not thinking about it. Did you know that? It's done To God? It is done. He not only did it at the cross, who you're going to see today? That your salvation and my salvation was in his heart and mind and accomplished positionally in Christ before the world was ever created. Only God can do that. Is your God, that big the God of the Bible is. But in the meantime, you and I are in route. This is called sanctification. It's kind of painful, and that is you, and I live with you and I and I am my biggest problem. I'm convinced of this from scripture.

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Michael the archangel he can deal with Satan. I can't. Satan's too strong for me. I have the name of Jesus and I've been purchased by the blood of Christ. Thus I am safe. Nothing can come to me unless it gets approved by the Father first. But as I am in this flesh, I can't take on Satan. He's an incredibly powerful, demonic, satanic entity. He's for real. I don't have to.

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All I have to do is do what every three-year-old knows what to do, and that is get behind their dad's kneecap. Have you ever seen a little kid? When they're scared, they just go right behind their parents' kneecap and then they peek out from time to time to see how it's all going and make sure everything's going right. They go right behind. We are his children. He didn't tell us. You know you got to get out there and fight your fight. Maybe you'll make it. No, we fight the fight because he's the one that's clothed us in the armor of God and he's the one that has already told us the victory has already been taken care of. Go out there and stand. I got you covered on this. You're on your own.

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Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. We're going to run through a few words right here, and it's the word who. Look at the word who. By the way, I'm probably pronouncing it wrong, but the Greek word is tss. Doesn't that sound like a who in a moment? The kind of who's we're talking about here is tss. What kind of who's are they? Any certain one kind of who? That's who, someone, who, anyone in a generic sense, which encompasses all, any one, or the many, a mob, a group translation, everybody, everybody, anybody. So watch this. Everybody, anybody, the mob is, shall bring a charge against me, against us, against God's elect. It's not going to work.

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Now you know this. People will attack you. Have you not caught on to this yet? People will attack you. People will say things about you. It doesn't have to be true. People will say things about you. Listen, just make sure that the things they say about you aren't true.

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I had one pastor in my life. I don't have a pastor anymore. My pastor died and people said what are you going to do? Pastor Chuck died. You need a new pastor? Not possible. I've got Jesus. I'm waiting. I'm going to go see Pastor Chuck later, but who's going to? Who's going to? He's the only pastor I've ever known who's going to. He's the only pastor I've ever known who's going to replace him.

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I learned so much from him. One of the things I learned from him was this Don't ever defend yourself. I was under attack one time, totally unjustified. There were some guys, so to speak, beating up on me and I asked him what do I do? And he said read the book of Nehemiah, have a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other, stay at the work, don't come down. But you're going to have to defend yourself with the word of God. And I said okay, how do I do that? And he goes just have the word of God, have it, it will defend you. He said the moment you go to defend yourself when people attack you, god will let you defend yourself and when that happens, you're going to lose. Now you know this is going to be true in your heart as soon as I put it this way If somebody says something and you know it's not true, well, guess what?

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God knows it's not true. But if you run around or you answer back, or you tweet, or you Facebook, or you jump into that thing and you respond. You've opened yourself up to Pandora's box and it's so destructive. Better to be silent and let God be your defense. I'm telling you right now that was some of the greatest advice I've ever been given in life, because the response emotionally is well, I better set that record straight. You'll never set it straight when you're trying to talk to lunatics. They can't be set straight. The truth is this whoever's attacking you, you just need to say this Father, what they're saying is not true. Can you deal with that, father, and zip your lip? No more talking about it. No matter what they're saying, let God be your defense, because the moment you step up, god will let you, and that's not a good day. He doesn't need you to step in to defend yourself, because we are his children. Has he given us the armament? Yes, to advance the gospel and to go into a dark world? Yes, but God is our defense.

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And then the word bring. The word bring means to bring infliction or to bring harassment. Who's going to bring this against us? Listen, these generic entities will bring harassment, will bring pronouncements against us. And then the word charge. The word charge, a banking term, meaning to call the loan. See, this is kind of a weird word, isn't it? It means to demand sudden payment for a debt. That's a powerful word. The world, are you guys listening? The world is out to intimidate us. When he says who shall bring a charge against God's elect? Notice it's them up against him, it's not them against us. They are the ones that are attacking God. How is that true? Because I'm God's kid and God is my father. He's my defender.

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So when this loan call comes up, what do you mean by that? Do you remember when you bought a car or a house or I don't know something, if you signed a contract and you borrowed money to do that you never took? You know the fine print that's like 17 pages that you assumed was okay and you signed it. Did you know what you signed? You signed a document there that said that you give the bank rights who loaned you the money. You have given the bank rights to call that loan anytime they want to See what I mean. It means you've got 30 days to come up with all the money you owe the bank for your home, or they can get you out If your home is not paid for. That's what you and I are in right now. Pretty scary, right?

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The world says this we're calling the loan on you, meaning we're calling you to account. Give an answer. This is the accusation. Come back, make your defense. We're giving you a few moments to do it. The world will pressure you. This is happening to students, it's happening to teachers. It few moments to do it, the world will pressure you. This is happening to students, it's happening to teachers, it's happening to police officers, it's happening to nurses and to doctors.

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And you fill in the blank you will do this in this world. Or Does this not happen to God's kids? Is it not happening now? And God says I know this, you hear them. God would say, jack, you hear them speaking, but I'm listening. The innocence of God is our very defense. And then that word elect simply means favored ones, chosen ones, the ones that God has selected. We studied this a few weeks ago, that God selects his children. Does that bother you, the sovereign God?

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Some people will say well, you know what. I'm a Calvinist or I'm a hyper Calvinist, or I'm a 4.3 or a 4.9 or a 3.7 Calvinist. Listen, all this, wait, wait, just calm down. Listen, here's the deal. God says I, based on my foreknowledge, predestine my children to be mine. Based on foreknowledge, you want to unpack that. You want to wrestle with it? Why would you want to wrestle with that? I love it If, today, you are saying to yourself I want to know Jesus, god's calling you, god's inviting you into his kingdom.

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If you're saying, today, I want to have a new conscience, I want to be free from guilt and shame and I want to know, I want to live with God and I want to know that when I die, I'm going to go see him in heaven. God is calling you and he calls those based on his foreknowledge. Because you know, god lives. Listen, he lives in eternity. Nothing's going to happen for God. Things are going to happen for us, but God lives in eternity. Isn't it amazing? He lives in what we would say is the eternal now. It's always now with God. There's no time where he is eternal with God. There's no time where he is eternal. But God knows, throughout all of human time and beyond of course, that in his foreknowledge he predestined us to be his children, and I revel in it.

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People want to argue about it. We want to debate you on this. What that some people are chosen and some are not. Why would I debate you on this? God says based on his foreknowledge, he selects his own. There's no problem there. If your God's really big, there's no problem. Do you have free moral agency of choice? You sure do. God gave that to you. But God also knew, before the universe was ever created, what kind of decision you would make. When the gospel is presented to you. He doesn't learn anything, but he sees all, he gets all the credit, he provides salvation. His presence is heaven and because of Satan and sin there's a hell, and hell is for a place that people do not want. God, they got to go somewhere in eternity. Those are the two options smoking or non-smoking. That's your choice.

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The elect of God. I want to read this to you the elect of God. This gets kind of fun. Get your pen out. This is kind of cool.

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The elect of God are all those, either Jew or Gentile, having come to Christ and whom God has predestined to salvation based upon his eternal foreknowledge. They are called the elect because the word denotes having been determined beforehand or ordained. That is God, listen, having knowledge from eternity, past or previously or ahead of the physical universe or time. The elect Watch everybody. You have to watch my hands. This is the only way I can do it. We'll go from right to left or left to right.

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I should say Old Testament. If God's children are his elect, remember God's doctrines never change. He never changes. So if God's doctrine of elect is unchangeable, then let's look at the old testament. Were the old testament believers called saints? The answer is yes. Were the old testament believers called the elect? The answer. Answer is yes. Noah, daniel, moses how about this? Two sets of brothers regarding God's elect. You ever heard of Cain and Abel? Didn't God tell Cain if you just do good, everything's going to be fine? Cain did wrong. Cain murdered his brother. Have you ever heard of Jacob and Esau? They're called saints.

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Book of Daniel, chapter 7 and chapter 9 talks about saints. Friends, I hate to burst your bubble for some of you, but saints are not made in Rome and they're not decided on by cardinals and popes. There's none of that in the Bible. Sorry, a man, a human, cannot do that. Only God makes sinners saints and he does it by the power of his spirit and by his atonement. Now watch, right now, today, our day of his spirit and by his atonement. Now watch Right now, today, our day and age. This is called the church age For the last 2,000 years, the church age or the bride of Christ. Are we not called saints? To the saints that are at Philippi, to the saints that are at Rome, to the saints that are at Corinth, we are called saints. Are we sinless? No, no, saints are. What makes someone a saint is the object to which they have placed their trust for redemption, that's Christ.

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Saints of the Old Testament, saints presently, you and I Are there. Saints in the tribulation period, absolutely Tribulation saints. Did you know that there? Saints in the tribulation period, absolutely Tribulation saints? Did you know that, in fact, the tribulation saints? The Bible tells us that Satan will exercise his power over the saints of God in that seven-year tribulation period of time and he will kill them. He will kill the saints of God, the Bible tells us, during the tribulation period. Here's what's amazing the Old Testament. Are you guys still tracking the Old Testament?

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Saints like David, for example, they're given in eternity white robes. Did you know David's going to wear a white robe in eternity? Did you know the tribulation saints? The Bible says they have to be faithful unto death and they will be those that are his. And upon their death they're given white robes. Did you know that there's a group of saints? There's only one group of saints that do not get robes? It's the bride of Christ, the church. She gets fine linen, clean and bright. It's a wedding gown Completely different. According to the Bible, you and I are engaged to Christ. Here's the beautiful thing about this God's election is based upon God's own nature. If you have an understanding a little bit of God's nature, you'll have no problem with having God do what he does, based on foreknowledge, because God is love. The Bible says he's love. The Bible doesn't say that God loves. Of course he loves, but his actual nature is defined. For example, god is holy, god is light and God is love. He loves, and God is love, he loves.

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