Why Why Why

real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth equip the saints and impact our culture have we not been coming through storms of seeking God and trying to find out the answer to why and then God answers this is the answer now I've been doing a work in you that's what's going on all the way through I've been doing a work he's promised to never abandon his work but don't stop asking the question until you get the answer from him you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Hibbs.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 we're looking at the question why and it is this number one why why the question why is something that I firmly believe and I hope you do too that God has placed within you as one who has been created in the image of God we ask the question why and I want you to think about where that comes from why it demands an answer the question why when someone asks why we need to start by the way when we hear someone's claim we need to ask them why can I say this carefully I mean nothing other than love by it we need to stop being so polite when we are sharing with others about Jesus what I mean by that is this with respect yes with proper tone of course kindness absolutely but when somebody says oh I believe in God I'm good you don't have to talk to me about Jesus we need to get to that place to say well wait a minute before I move on why can I can I ask you this why do you say why do you say that you're right with Jesus let them explain themselves because it is so important that you and I see people including ourselves think again to think again the question why makes you think when Moses was standing at the edge of the red sea and the Egyptian forces and Pharaoh were in route to destroy the children of Israel having just been delivered out of Egypt by God they get right to the edge of the red sea and it's it's it's the Egyptian army or it's they're gonna drown and Moses must have it doesn't say that he had doubts at that moment it doesn't say that he grew weak and faith or doubted at that moment it doesn't say it but it kind of implies that that's what's happening they get right to the water and Moses gets up and he starts shouting to the people that God has brought us out here and we've come this far and Pharaoh's coming and and and and and and and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord I wonder what he sounded like when he did it he's like he's looking at the people he's got the ocean behind him and he can probably see a cloud of dust coming and and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord and God said Moses why stand ye here talking to me go it's great it's God he got they're going you can see God watching them on GPS he's got in it's like they're they're going look at that little blue dot move look at all of them all right watch this Gabriel Michael watch they're getting so close to the red sea it's watch this and they stop I think God's intent was I want to see Moses in the in the whole group of kids just keep going right out on the water I'm wondering I don't know I'm just wondering if Moses wouldn't have stopped would they have ran across the red sea I don't know it would have been that would have been great now both are great he parts the Red Sea that's fantastic but it would have been awesome too because you know there's there's precedent for this our God walks on water that they would have just walked across the Red Sea and then when Pharaoh got there all that dust would just turn to mud they would just go under like a submarine and of course they got that anyway but God said stand he said stand till and God said why go now move many times you and I were asking the question why when God's already given the answer why it's great to ask the question why keep asking God why God why this I don't think listen I had a man tell me yesterday he said Pastor Joe I God hurt my feelings years ago and I walked out on God it's been 20 years 17 years 17 years he said I walked out on God and he said I came to the men's conference on Saturday and he said God crushed me he crushed me because he said God spoke to my heart and he said why are you been treating me this way what have I done to you when you're the one that made the decision to do what you did 17 years ago you did what you did to you God said I didn't do that to you why and it crushed them but a powerful truth you can ask the question why that's fine do what God expects I think he put that in you but when God gives the answer respond that's your faith comes in many times you say why that's okay God can take it but when you calm down let him answer you this is terrible before we move on to the second thing don't tell anybody my mom was 4 11 maybe 5 feet pure Portuguese born and raised in the wine islands never were shoes even moved to San Diego she didn't wear shoes but my brother and I would provoke her to no end that's what sons do and she would come it was great now I say it's great now she when she get mad at us you can hear the kitchen drawer open up and you can hear the silverware rattling and she would grab a knife and she would come chasing us in the house it was a great home oh it's fantastic look it's fine it didn't damage me in any way and I could you not ask Lisa if you doubt me but my window my window in my bedroom had no screen on it because we could go my brother could go out of his room and I could go out of my room when my mom was after us but if she if she couldn't get a knife we would hold she would come after us and we would hold her forehead and she would be swinging at us and it just made her all the more and we we knew all of those Portuguese and Hawaiian words that you're not allowed to repeat and it just drove her it just drove her crazy but I remember when my mom when my mom had finally succumbed to cancer and she was on her deathbed she told my aunt Betty she asked my aunt Betty making a statement she said where's Jesus what's taking him so long listen why why is he taking so long to come get me that was her last words why she had the question he answered God is gonna answer your questions even if it takes 17 years or my mom my mom's case in her 60s but don't stop asking the question until you get the answer from him that's very important Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 30 says when you are distressed we when you are in distress and all things come upon you in the latter days when you turn to the Lord your God obey his voice you got that everybody all right number two is this why why not why now in life that's another thing why and then why now have you noticed friends that would never you and I are going through a time of testing stretching difficulty it's never the right time like we can order it like to make an appointment next Tuesday for learn some patience it's never gonna happen you can count on it but you don't know when it's gonna happen why now we ask Job chapter 23 verse 10 the Bible there tells us but he knows the way that I take when he has tested me I shall come forth as gold everyone's been tested you've been hearing that for almost a year now what's interesting is not not everyone's made it through but what's interesting is that those who have made it through are shining like gold beam purified shines and that has led others who were no who were never walking with Jesus to get on board the Jesus train have you watched that happen I watched that happen in almost every area of my life that I can put my finger the shaking hit life was challenged and people ask the question why God gave the answer and they didn't like it and you come now to this issue of testing in my life it's now upon me it's now happening or it's gonna happen and the Bible tells us God is telling us don't worry about it this is how gold is purified gold is made shiny by fire you gotta heat it up weird thing about gold is that when you heat it up it it's so fluid and it's kind of mesmerizing when you see it it's moving around it's liquid and and then up through the gold will pop up some something black and you'll see the artisan scrape that draw us off the top of the gold and when it's heated at just the right temperature it goes remember if you've seen gold in museums and stuff it's not shiny it's just gold but when it's heated up it becomes brilliant you know why you're wetting ring or you're you're ring your classroom whatever it is or whatever if it's gold for real if it's real gold it's gonna it's gonna reflect it's gonna be very very shiny and the interesting about gold is that it's very soft it can be imprinted upon is that not us have we not been been coming through storms of seeking God and trying to find out the answer to why and then God answers this is the answer now I've been doing a work in you that's what's been going on all the way through I've been doing a work he's promised to never abandon his work I think it's Psalm 138 somewhere around verses six seven or eight I'm going by memory now which is dangerous at my age but he says somewhere there that I will not forsake the work of my hands I will perfect that which I have started in you it's the Old Testament answer to Philippians 1 6 that says there that I will finish that which I'd begun in you I will finish that good work and complete it into the day of Christ so when you might be in a in the time of crushing and difficulty we don't understand why but we know this that the now of it is in the hands of sovereign Almighty God and the proof is it's never the right time for us to go through something that stretches our faith to God's perspective it's it's perfectly appointed it's ordered by God well I think we might have made a mistake now did you pray did you seek his face did you consult him yes and from the best data possible that God gave you did you step out yeah well then here's the answer to where you're at right now is don't mismanage the direction God has given you because if you mismanage it and second guess it then you have a tendency to pull back and recoil and begin to have second thoughts about it then you begin to second guess God that's a bad path right now friend in your life and that issue let him be God okay now number three why know not N O K N O W no why no because we have to know this and growing up there used to be this crazy Nucleid Hollywood magazine the the inquire and it said inquiring minds have to know well you know what they didn't invent that there's something within us about knowing we have to know in fact we get this thing sometimes wanting to know so out of out ahead of us that we wind up getting in trouble because again we try to fabricate something I need to know this I need to know this friends listen we need to take a deep breath and relax and understand something we don't need to know everything and I'm not too sure how good we're doing with Wikipedia Google or whatever else you might use I just have to know some of the stuff maybe most of it who knows is it true we don't know you do know right I mentioned this a couple weeks ago because they're in the headlines fact finder you can take your fact finder app or or dot common and throw it away because those guys were found out to be frauds are you kidding me that's right and all the information that explains the decisions you've been making no listen if you and I can let's be on it control freaks have to know I'm just not gonna stop until I know well then keep going right look because here's the thing God says to all of us at some moment in time quite often I think for most of us is I want you to do this and I'm not gonna tell you why I want you to do your step of faith in this God is good you know when you hear God is good why do we say that well because you're supposed to you're you're Christian now that would be wrong to say God is good and mean it is because he's come through and he's proven himself good our God is not some weird a fickled deity he's not some capricious God in the universe playing marbles with universes he's good and he reveals his goodness to us in this thing called faith and so God will bring you so far and then he'll tell you he won't abuse you he'll tell you the next steps by faith the next step you gotta go well can't you show me more I'm not gonna show you more speak to me already have show me a sign not gonna do that God if I just had a word I gave you a gazillion of them just step but what if I fall silence no have you noticed silence from heaven what if I fail and hear crickets did you know when you're following God and you're pursuing him by the way he's so cool if you fail at what you're doing you know he does he picks you up and he says and you did that with all of your heart there's a lot of passion you poured into that and you sincerely thought you're following me but that was that's not what I said I said this oh no no that's very valuable because now you know number one he's very merciful and now you know how to hear his voice in the noise and now you know to never do that again right he's amazing he never he never looks he says what why are you here that's it I'm done talking to you remember Elijah's whining oh there's no more prophets they're all gone I'm the only one left and God goes why are you here I've got seven thousand other prophets just like you stand up Joshua falls on his face crying because they lost the battle at AI and you can sense it that Joshua was about to say God what's up with you and John he's crying he's flat on his face and God says to Joshua stop crying and stand up like a man can you imagine God seeing that he took a job like that a lot a man in the crucible man listen you don't need to know that's where faith comes in God will take you to the point you have to have it you're gonna have to step out in faith it's not blind it's not silly he'll give you enough intel on it and then you got to step and you got to put it out there and and you know many times we'll say I don't know I don't know if God's working in my life listen walk with him like that and you'll see him move and then you'll have really your doubts this spell they'll the vibrate we need to be reckless more for God listen we don't take risk in our faith anymore right we are so terrified that we don't take risk with our faith we should in life we used to I don't know if we'll ever do it again because of all the fear factor but we used to be a people who said things like let's storm that beach we can liberate Europe apparently now all Europe if listen if it was all over again all Hitler would have to do is put up a big balloon that looks like COVID on the beach and we never would have liberated Europe would we have liberated Europe if there was a chance of getting a virus no did I'll be speaking German tonight not true those guys to liberate people took a chance in the face of death and did something radical Christians tip till around afraid we're gonna offend somebody Jesus died for the sins of the world because the world is lost in its sin and it's on its way to hell it's like it it's going down can you imagine the plane is going down and people are serving dinner watch it a movie in the planes like that and somebody jumped up and says we're gonna hit unless we do something repent and turn this plane around right but we don't want to do that because we can make something to feel uncomfortable trust God this Jack Hibbs podcast as well as all the broadcast out reach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibbs.com to learn more and stay connected