What This World Can Not Say

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Listen, we're not of the rainbow alphabet soup world of confusion. We actually love people and we love them honestly and we love them fully and we want all people to be with us in heaven forever with Christ, forgiven of their sins like he has forgiven us and for us to experience that eternal life that Christ purchased but the world is against that. The world wants people to be blinded and the world wants people to be lost and that's why you see today the battle for the microphones so to speak because whoever has it is going to speak you their truth or they're going to speak air and we are called to speak truth. 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. You and I are living in a hostile age so we better be nice to one another. We better love one another all the more. If we could actually see God's assessment and God's call upon your life in mind as to how much we should be loving one another I think it might shock us because things could change in a second whereby your life and my life become incredibly dependent upon your life and my life. And we have this sense of being individuals in America and I get it and independence in America early on was never independence from God it was independence regarding our personal responsibility to God but as a nation we were a nation that proclaimed that our dependence was upon God which allowed for us to be individually dependent or independent as we were dependent upon God we were able to stand on our own two feet so to speak. The church today more than ever needs to heed the call to stand upon the truth of God and to speak the word of God and to live out like never before our Christianity folks we don't have much time. You say why what's coming I don't know what's coming but you're getting older by the minute and how do I know because I resemble that remark we're running out of time and while we're able we want to live for Christ and so the title of this series right now is this what this world cannot say can you write that down it's we're gonna be talking about the things that this world cannot say the world can tell you a lot boy the world is very proud of all of the social media stuff that it puts out the world is just publishing everything but you know what the world can only repeat like a one-string guitar its own philosophy its own views what the world cannot say are the eternal things of God and you've got them you've got them in your heart I trust you've got them in your hand right here the Bible and you've got them in this Bible study today number one we look at it it's in verses one to three and it is this what this world cannot say we see it here and that is when this world speaks ill of you can you write that down and I want you to write that down to put a little smiley face off to the side of this first point the world and what it cannot say it cannot understand your Christian life and it cannot give you the the do that that this world should give you and I folks we cannot expect the world to pat us on the back because they are of the world and you are not of this world you are of the kingdom of heaven and you think God thought the world does not think those kind of thoughts so how does the world respond and by the way these points were made up Friday and early Saturday before I ever got a phone call regarding the persecution in South Korea so maybe God is trying to say something to us that the world of unbelief will speak ill of you they will view you and I as the enemy they will view you and I because we don't listen we're not of the rainbow alphabet soup world of confusion we actually love people and we love them honestly and we love them fully and we want all people to be with us in heaven forever with Christ forgiven of their sins like he has forgiven us and for us to experience that eternal life that Christ purchased but the world is against that the world wants people to be blinded and the world wants people to be lost and that's why you see today the battle for the microphones so to speak because whoever has it is going to speak either truth or they're going to speak air and we are called to speak truth but just know this the world is going to speak evil of you young people today can you just get that into your bloodstream please right now if you think that you're going to be looking at social media and you make a post about aren't aren't those lovely butterflies someone's going to write on your post I hate butterflies which wrong with you butterflies are evil don't you know it's a conspiracy and then your feelings are going to get hurt and they're going to want to go commit suicide because somebody that you don't even know criticized you about your post on butterflies I'm being facetious but not really the world has gone mad and as the world goes mad you and I need to be more anchored and truth than ever and so when the world speaks ill of you and I we shouldn't be surprised number one we see here it displays by the way when it does it displays our values this is in verse one when they who are strong we then who are strong ought to bear the scruples are the weaknesses of the weak and not to please ourselves this is a conclusion of the previous chapter of chapter 14 he's talking about brothers and sisters bearing one another's weaknesses that we love one another to put up with the fact that we're we might be different from one another and we might be in different development areas of our spirituality and none of us are to congregate as the super holy over here the kind of medium holy here and those guys don't even know what they're doing over here and we divide up not at all the churches are supposed to be the opposite of that I don't know if you realize this or not but and I don't know how it is but many years ago 20 I don't know 20 years ago 25 years ago I spoke quite a few times in schools in Germany and I was really impressed with some of their structure regarding education because their whole thing was this in those days they said a really high standard and kids they were eventually brought up to those standards in other words they didn't have kids in a class and then dumbed them down and kept them there they put the kids in the class they set the bar high and the kids eventually some sooner quicker than others made it to the high bar are you with me and I think of the gospels like that the word of God is like that the word of God speaks the truth to all people and he calls us up he calls us number one to love one another and to bear up with one another's weaknesses if we do that then all criticism and all clits will begin to go away your spiritual welfare will become the most important thing to me and mine to you and so to speak we will hold each other's hand as we grow along but this word bear in the Greek language is this and it's a beautiful word to bear up it means to take up to carry alongside I love the picture that that paints in my mind alongside I see somebody walking along my life carrying the burdens that I'm experiencing in this life of course who is that someone is Jesus himself but when he says when the scripture says that you and I are to bear one another's burdens we'll read that verse in a moment we are to take up whatever is burdening you to carry alongside to lift up and off from another this is the Christian life this is what we live for to take a burden off another and to have it placed upon you we would say something like this how can I help you how what can I do to alleviate we just this last week heard that a man at this church a doctor cycling on his way home died was killed leaving behind his two children here and this church now is mobilizing on what to do and how to do it his family involved as you can imagine but to hear such a thing you don't you don't say oh wow that's unfortunate hey you know what what's for lunch you can't do that notice that in your life as a believer when you hear about something the responses how can I get involved what can we do to help a vitally important truth regarding us as believers Galatians chapter six verse two is a good verse to apply here it says bear same exact word bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ let's carry one another's loads it's remarkable so I often now since I got this thing I've been using it as illustrations but you guys know that I have this this old beat-up pickup truck and I I had it here on Thursday and a woman who was here for some services she said that's the truck and I said yes she said well when you said it was old and beat up I didn't think it was that old and that beat up and and Matt and I were looking at her Matt and I I'm two guys looking at her the woman she's looking at this truck which is absolutely perfect and Matt and I are going and she says oh why don't you pain it what she doesn't know is that it's a four-wheel drive and when you put it in four-wheel drive low and put it into first gear and you let the clutch out you could fall asleep why it will just go it a drive-through fences over hills over cars through buildings and you'll whatever direction it's pointing it will get there no matter what's in the way and it's it goes about this fast when it's in first gear and two-wheel drive and you can't stop it it's just along and you know what that it reminds me now when you see me driving around town and that truck you got to remember this illustration that's like the Christian life you can put tons of stuff in the back of that thing and put it in low gear and it just you can't stop it you're not gonna get there fast it ain't shiny it's not cute but it's beautiful why because it it is carrying a load that most vehicles cannot carry and it's going to make it all the way to the end that's your life in my life hey listen we may not cute we may not be cute but we're beautiful in the eyes of the Lord carrying one another's burdens finding out what is it that you need what is it in your life how can we help it's simpler than what you think if each of us armen had you turn and greet one another a moment ago do you realize if before you leave this service today you you were to say hey can I get your cell number if I'm not being too forward please can I get your cell number and if you ever have need of anything let me know and here's my number what's let's exchange numbers and let's be brothers and sisters in Christ if you need me call me imagine what would happen just this service alone because it may it may be just like this hey I'm just calling you I don't need anything from you I need everything from you I need you to pray for me think of that just pray for me somebody might call you that's bearing one another's a burden and this world knows nothing about that and it can't don't expect the world to do good things for you you are not of this world but those of us who are of the kingdom of heaven we need to love on each other like we have never loved on each other before because the hour is late Christ is coming and we may not always have these freedoms and we might look I hope not I don't ever want to look back and say oh I wish I would have taken advantage of that opportunity when we had the freedom to or the health I was healthy enough to do it or I had an extra ten dollars in my pocket and I didn't do it yeah are you hearing me anybody so very important the Bible tells us regarding what Christ set for us as an example that if we carry one another's burdens we so fulfill the law of Christ the law of Christ is love and I see love displayed this way this may surprise you but this is in my opinion God's love on display it's an ancient prophecy Isaiah chapter 53 it's nearly three thousand years old the prophet said who has believed our report that's God speaking to the prophet to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant speaking of the Messiah folks if you're Jewish today you know this this is the Messiah this is one of those forbidden scriptures that the Jews are not allowed to read of course not because if they read it they'll find out who their Messiah is and as a root out of the dry ground he has no form or comeliness and when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him that might come to a shock but according to the prophet Isaiah God is speaking that if you saw Jesus walking the shores of Galilee you couldn't distinguish him from any common individual did you know that because in our minds you know if we're looking at a Rembrandt or some sort of oil painting Jesus is kind of glowing as he walks along the shores of Galilee there's a little gold halo over his head not so according to the Bible I appreciate this I don't know about you but Jesus wasn't born in some ivory palace he was born in a stable and he was laid in a manger do you know what a manger look like listen if we ever get a chance to take you to Bethlehem right now Bethlehem is not a safe place to go but if we went to Bethlehem like we have in the past if I showed you a manger you would be a pulled a manger was a slumber crusted stinky trough that you fed cattle and sheep or goats with they must have lined that and put Jesus right in that manger if you were God would you bring your son to the world like that God did why do associate with us and if you were God wouldn't you have Jesus looking perfect like I don't know who perfect is these days what is perfect these days but who are you this person the most handsome man in the world who says who says this stuff she's the most beautiful woman in the world how do you know but these are magazine covers Jesus would never make the magazine folks he looked just like you and I common but this is God's love on display do you view him like this verse three goes on in Isaiah 53 he has despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows acquainted with grief wow the Messiah came into the world and that's what he felt that's what he went through yep and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we did not esteem him surely he has here it is born our griefs and carried our sorrows can you say man yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions this is the Messiah he was bruised for our equities and the chest ismen of our peace was upon him and by his stripes by his beatings the lashes upon his back and his face being hidden we are healed why would God do this verse six all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the Messiah the iniquity of us all this is Jesus the ultimate example is Jesus carrying the sins of the world to the cross that means you and I can carry one another's cares and concerns in the burdens that you have Christ carried our sins and he watched them away he did that and if you understand that then you get to experience freedom from guilt and shame because you're the one that become keenly aware of the fact that there used to be a different you and now there's a new you and he died for you because he loved you this Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected