Who Do You Think You Are

real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth equip the saints and impact our culture. There are preachers, there are they're goers and they're senders and because you and I are living in the last days you don't have to get a passport and fly to some foreign country and hack through the jungles to preach the gospel of the sun. We are such in the last days that all you need to do is to shout as it were from the rooftop. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibs.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 Hibs. The Christian today would say I know exactly who I am and I I lift this by the way because I don't I I lack the authority I think of convincing you so I'm going to borrow from a heavy lifter. I'm going to borrow from Dr. H. A. Ironside. Dr. Ironside said regarding who we are when we get to heaven we're going to stand there and there's going to be this big beautiful gate and entryway and we're going to look over the top and it's going to say all ye who will enter in come and we're going to walk through there and we're high five in each other go man this is amazing and then we get in it's a huge table where we're going to sit down with Abraham and all of those with faith and we're going to maybe sit down and Ironside says then we're going to look back to the doorway that we pass through and on the backside it's going to say sinners saved by the grace of God. That's who's going to be at the table. Who do you think you are? I know exactly who I am. I am a sinner saved by the grace of God. Who what about Romans chapter one? I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God but now we're in Romans chapter two and Paul I'm telling you he's going to dig down because he now looks into the religiosity of religion and if you can handle it I mean look I preached my guts out the last four weeks trying to empty out this church. No but I was honest. I was honest I gave you the truth I gave you exactly what the Bible said I'll let the Bible stand on its own and it didn't work. I met someone yesterday that came up to me and said I came the first day before you started Romans I came that first Sunday and I loved it and then I came back the second week and I hated you I'm not kidding I hated you I said I would never go to that church again and I found myself coming back the next week and then the next week and then then you know why that happens? Truth. Jesus said my sheep know my voice and they follow me it's his truth and so it's quite amazing and it should be no surprise to us that when we as a clean-up people by the blood of Jesus I pray and trust or we could be a people that we think we are cleaned up by our own self-righteous deeds and if you can stay for the next few weeks it's possible that for some of you who view yourselves acceptable to God but you have a qualifier I'm acceptable to God because my dad was a pastor my mom played the trumpet in the band and my brother's a missionary what does that matter oh I'm a Christian and I'm gonna go go to heaven because I because you what we have a tendency to look at two extremes you know there's those that are horribly condemned and and then you can see the fumes as it were of their sin rising and then there's those over there that glow in the dark in righteousness but the problem is they it's just a bunch of flesh lights it's not any righteousness they just they're so impressed with themselves their legends in their own mind and so listen a little bit of background of course in fact this is very powerful stuff this background that we need to know and you ought to write in your note-taking that first of all remembering that the book of Romans and you're gonna see why in chapter two and through the book of Romans is the Magna Carta of the Bible it's the declaration it's the Charter of Freedom it's remember this everybody as we get into this we need to put our our armament on Habakkuk chapter two verse four remember says behold the proud his soul is not upright within him but the just shall live by what is a church that was horrible let me ask you again the just shall live by by faith and from that the Jew Paul the Apostle converted to Christ now born again echoes that in Romans 117 when it says for in the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith for it is written and he quotes Habakkuk the just shall live by faith faith Romans chapter 10 verse 14 Romans 10 14 background to this how then shall they call on him whom they have not believed how do people hear the good news how does this sinner become a saint how does the lost become found someone's got to reach them someone's got to go to them and how shall they believe in him whom they've not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and I'm gonna say all of us don't point your finger at me I'm pointing back at you we're all in this together church right we are the preachers okay verse 15 how shall they preach unless they are sent and as it is written how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace who bring glad tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah says Lord who has believed our report verse 17 so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God let me interrupt myself on this this is precious to me and it should be to you I believe Jesus Christ is coming back soon and the tempo or the nearness of his coming has stepped up it's stepping up faster and faster and faster and one of those things is this that we together are making an impact by fulfilling the scripture that you may well I was gonna say you may or may not be aware of I'm not even aware of because I'm shocked with the things that I'm hearing but together so I preach and teach the word but through your support of getting this stuff out onto programs all around the world now be it either internet or television or radio people are given their hearts to Christ and that's awesome don't get me wrong I love it but the biggest impact that this church is having around the world is making disciples there are people who were saying I thought I was saved but I didn't even know this before or I've been saved I've been saved for 50 years but I've had like one year experience just repeated every 50 years but since I've been hearing the word of God the Bible is exploded in my life you know it happens listen there are preachers there are there are goers and their senders and because you and I are living in the last days you don't have to get a passport and fly to some foreign country and hack through the jungles to preach the gospel to somebody we are such in the last days that all you need to do is to shout as it were from the rooftop the gospel is coming out of radios and rental cars the gospel is being dropped into enemy occupied territory so to speak in Korea and China North Korea where the where the gospel is forbidden there's the way now through the internet and through other ways to drop the teaching of God's word every single one of us now the hour is so late every one of us are missionaries to some degree now I can take my dollar bill and send it to a part of the world where I can't go how do you do that by supporting for example J. Vernon McGee or this ministry or Dr. David Jeremiah you got to be careful pray about I mean those guys are great but there's a lot of goofballs out there a little side note anybody who says if you don't send it if you don't send in your money if you don't send in your money people are going to go to hell because they didn't hear the gospel they just all because you didn't support let me tell listen don't send them a penny if they're pressuring you like that forget it if God's broke we got the wrong God okay we've got to be willing to go we got to be willing to send but how shall they hear unless the word goes out we have to remember that question how did you hear the word of God when you got saved how did you hear it where were you think about that for a moment what's not God pursuing you and you didn't even know it and then when that veil was lifted from your face you realized oh my goodness now things make sense if you've never heard of the Romans road I'm going to give it to you right now it's you got to memorize it when I was younger I had it memorized as I as I age I barely can make it home sometimes but if you're going to get a tattoo get a tattoo of the Roman road and here's here it comes in fact that's pretty good actually if you have a problem with your memory go ahead and get a tattooed on your arm and you can just never mind number one Romans road check it out listen up everybody Romans road number one Romans 3 verse 10 as it is written there is none righteous no not one can somebody say man so listen if you are that hooker from Hollywood and Vine or if you are the incredibly well groomed businessman whose office is in the corner and everybody thinks you're just perfect the Roman road to salvation begins by saying there is none righteous no not one and we in our human thinking think like this and I don't know if it's from the school we went to or if it's just flat out our human condition but we have a tendency to grade on a curve right man I hope everybody gets a D in this class if everybody gets a D then everybody passes well life's not like that God's not like that well pastor I'm the guy I brought here today is my neighbor he I mean I brought him today he is a major loser my neighbor is such a sinner Jack you don't know excuse me if if you brought that neighbor that neighbor I'd turn to you right now and say to Romans 3 10 there is none righteous no not one now you may be sitting there today you may watch right now and you're thinking I don't like you you just said I'm not righteous that's right join the club none of us are righteous the word righteous here is the righteousness that God must accept it's the righteousness that only God could accept it's the righteousness listen that only Jesus can provide there's no man made righteousness that's acceptable think about it my friend the moment we wake up to even the gospel Jesus died for me what what do I need to do do you need to follow in your face before him and say God I can't do anything nuts it's not do it's I'm done because the moment you try to be good enough to get into heaven the moment you try to establish your little holiness group you have forgotten that we've all sinned and we're tainted with that sin and so Paul is speaking to the religionist but he's speaking to the believers at Rome just remember this there's none righteous no not one here's number two Romans Road chapter 3 verse 23 for all have sinned and falls short of the glory of God see there's no escaping this see Jack is this good news I came here this morning for some good news this is the best news this is the best news if you like this if you want to go from here to where do you want to go from here Norway not Texas Texas okay Texas depends on the weather so if we're going to go to Texas hypothetically so we're going to head to Dallas we're going to drive if there's if there are numerous highways that we can start out from here hello we're in southern California we have more freeway numbers mean to calculate it to figure out the freeways around this place and which one which one do I go with you listen there's so many but eventually one will get you to Dallas are you with me you can start where there is just a spaghetti noodle bundle of decisions to make but eventually there's only one that gets you there and that one that gets you there is a route it's a road that starts out with sane there's none righteous instead of been offended by that you should say okay that's okay really I thought all you Christians were like super holy rotors no we're not you got that from the religious person the Christian who knows Jesus knows exactly who they are and they know what they are and listen when we know who we are and what we are we have a tendency to walk closer to Jesus than others why because we know who we are and we know what we are okay another words Jesus hang on to me and if I try to wiggle out don't you let me go you just glue me to you number three Romans 6 23 says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord but you know that's true right so I don't believe that well you know what the Bible says the wages of sin is death sin is to miss the mark that's what the word sin means miss the mark it's it's an it's an archery term it means that the archer takes out his arrow the judges are there watching and he releases and instead of hitting red he hits yellow and I'm not joking in ancient days the judges would look back at the archer because it's so far away but just to confirm and the judges would say sinner I missed let me try again sinner I think I can shoot everything and he misses the mark every time and with every time the judge shouts back sinner he doesn't get offended he doesn't cause attorney he's not whole woke out he's oh man no he's I gotta really work on my target and the whole point is this according to God before we wake up to the fact that we even have it bow in an arrow in our hands and that there's a target God says you've sinned so you haven't even shot yet to you you haven't shot yet but you remember when you were 13 and remember when you're 17 and I'll remember when you're 21 out there behind you miss the mark and you went hmm yes I guess I did but that shouldn't bum you out it should cause you to understand something wait a minute God's available to everyone his love grace and forgiveness is available to all and yes it is this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supporting will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected