Your Prophetic Future

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. And how does Bible prophecy apply to your life? It is equipping you to embrace the promises of God. Listen, promises are prophetic. When God says, I promise, that means he's going to fulfill something in your future, the prophetic nature of our God. 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. We will see the opposition. Look at verse 31 says, if God is for us, who can be against us? The first time I ever read that in the Bible, this is how I heard it, church. If God is for us, who can be against us? I can tell you. That's exactly how I took it. Today in our Western world, we read it like this in the church. If God is for us, I guess nobody can be against me. That's not true. That's what he's saying. Well, if God is for us, and I'm a Christian, everyone's going to love me. You got that wrong. It's upside down. Flip it around. If God is for us, it means the world is against you. You understand that? Well, can there be a Christian, my own business, and just be quiet about it and be undercover and then wind up just waking up in heaven someday? I'm not sure. I don't know about that. I'd have to speculate because I know this, the spirit of God, who's inside the believer, is stirring the believer up. Christian, listen, I need you to be strengthened understanding where you and I live out in this world, understanding that I have a biblical worldview, that you have a biblical worldview about all things. Joshua chapter 1, Joshua chapter 1 verse 5 says, no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Who did, listen, who did God say this to? Excuse me, who? Joshua. So my question to you is this, if God said this to Joshua, did he say it to anybody else? Well, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. Okay, now we've got God saying it to who? Moses and Joshua. If God can say it to Moses and Joshua, then that means God can say it to me. Do you see that? Can you grab the Bible and make it your own when he says, I will not leave you or forsake you? I believe that friends. He will never leave me or forsake me. And if I think he's left me and forsake me because I'm in the deep dark of despair, he hasn't, you can remind me if that time comes into my life, you can play this message over in my ears. But if you ever sunk down so low that you can't even get air into your lungs so to speak, your chest is being so crushed by the pressure and drama, the finances, the health, issues, the demands that you can't even breathe. And God says, wait a minute, I will never leave you or forsake you. But an awesome God, be strong and of good courage. For to this people, you shall divide as an inheritance, the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Verse 7, only be strong and very courageous, God says. Look at verse 9, have I not commanded you? Be strong of good courage. Do not be afraid nor be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. And all God's people said, absolutely. Do you believe that? I believe that. I live by this. I have to. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 19, the prophetic word of God found right here in the book of Romans, chapter 8, Jeremiah 119, they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you. Says the Lord to deliver you. Song of Solomon, beautiful. Song of Solomon, Jews are not allowed to read. Song of Solomon till they're 30 years of age because it's too sensual. It's about married life. Did you know that? Now all of you are going to go home today and read it. Song of Solomon, you have set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death. God's love for you is not only as strong as death, the word means final. Death is final. God's love for you is final. No. Death is final in this world. God's love is final forever. For you. He loves you. You know, when you get married, by the way, when you get married, you don't say, okay, we're going to get married. So you're going to make me the happiest guy in the world, right? Have you ever heard this stuff? You've seen this in movies? Watch out when somebody says, I just can't live without you. Really? That's a lot of pressure. God brings you together as a couple to make you an incredible, holy instrument in His hands. Well, I thought it was about happiness. Where did you get that idea from? Listen, you want to hear about happiness? That's not the Bible study right now. We're now wearing the dangerous territory. You want to be happy in the marriage in any relationship. You want to be happy because God invented relationships. Here's the key to being happy. Serve the other one. You were designed. You and I were designed. We get greatest joy that I've been doing. That's why God gave you hands. To do stuff. The greatest joy in the world comes from serving your husband or your wife. When that happens, God makes you more like Him in service. Didn't Jesus say that? But we don't want to hear it. Think of it. You want to be happy? Yes, I do. There'd be a super blessing to your wife or to your husband. And blessed is the marriage when both of the people are committed to Christ where they both embark upon the same pursuit. To obey God and to bless God. I'll be blessing my spouse. Oh, pastor, ordain me or send me or pay the way to some place in South America where I can preach the gospel where no man has ever been before. Give me a hatchet, machete and a Bible and a canteen and I'm going to preach Christ. If you pay for it, what's your wife think about this? She doesn't know yet. God's not calling you if she doesn't know. Every man knows this and all the women remind us. God didn't tell me that. Listen, when you're married, God's going to speak to both of you. But what if he's not? You're just going to wait because you can't out-weight God. You're just going to wait until you're both on the same page. That's free. The second King's chapter six, second King's chapter six, verse 16. So he answered, do not fear. For those who are with us are more than those who are with them. God shows in the invisible realm the powers that are at your disposal and your defense as a Christian. Don't raise your hand. But are you a follower of Christ? Have you been born again by the Spirit of God? If you say yes, then know this. There's an invisible army that cannot be numbered that is at the dispatch of God for your protection. No matter who is surrounding you, no matter what's going on in your life. Psalm 118, verse 6. Psalm 118, verse 6 tells us, the Lord is on my side. I will not fear. What can man do to me? You let that sink in for a moment. And then third and final point is this, verse 32. We will know his favor. The prophetic truth of God's glorification of our lives is this. We're going to know his favor. Verse 32 says, and this is a tough one, by the way. You guys want to follow me with this? This is very, very, very important stuff. Watch this. It's broken up in sections. He who did not spare his own son. That's one part. But Frilly delivered him up for us all. That's the second part. Third part is, how shall he not with him freely give us all things? Let me read it again. Keep your eyes on the screen. God the Father who did not spare his son, God the Son, but delivered up God the Son for us all. How shall God the Father not with God the Son notice unified? Also, we will freely give us all things. So what does that mean? Some people have taken this. There's modern day, quote, theologians who are an absolute train wreck, but they write books. Do you know what they use this verse? This is what they say about this verse. That verse proves that God abused his son. He who spared not his own son. Listen, his son, listen, if his son was to be spared, you and I would be lost in hell forever. Jesus and the Father were in full agreement regarding his atonement at the cross. It's not a surprise. The Bible says in the book of Ephesians, it was an eternal plan of God. Jesus was one hundred percent God and one hundred percent man in the flesh. When that baby was born and Bethlehem, he was God and yet his flesh, imagine his flesh, everything that he, that you and I experienced, he had to experience, to be our mediator. The plan of God, watch this. The Bible announces to us that God delivered him up for us all. Did you know that the Bible teaches that Jesus took his flesh and brought it under subjection to the will of his Father? You say, wait a minute, I thought he was God. The whole act, you're thinking, the whole act, right? The beating, the crucifying, the spitting upon. I mean, that's just like, he just, it was like a movie, right? It was, it was makeup because he's the, he's the son of God. It was just kind of baked into the cake. It was easy for him because he's God, opposite. Because he's God, he's absolutely pure and feels everything. Because he's God, he thinks and feels everything that you and I feel and things that you and I are spared from feeling. He didn't, he wasn't spared from anything. Watch. Jesus takes the disciples into the garden of Gethsemane and he says, stay right here. I'm going to go and pray over here. You guys pray, I'll be right back. And he goes to pray. The Bible tells us that he prayed and he sweat as it were great drops of blood. He went back. How many times did he go back to see how they were doing? Three times. But before that last time came, do you remember in the gospels, Jesus is praying, he's praying. And what does he pray? Father, if it's possible, remove this cup from me. Who was crying out on that moment? 100%. His humanity was crying out. Father, I see what's ahead. How do you see what's ahead? I'm God. I know what's coming. I'm the Word. I know what's up next. And my flesh is screaming. I want out of this. Imagine this moment. Father, if there's any other way this cup can pass from me, the cup of salvation, the cup of suffering for humanity. Listen, my friend, if you think you're going to go to heaven by being some legalistic nincompoop or some super saint or some oh, aren't you wonderful? You are a disgrace and an embarrassment to the efforts of Jesus Christ himself because he's the one that said, if there's any other way for a man to get to heaven, let's see it. And heaven was silent. You know what? You don't know my son. You know, father never answered him because the father had already given him the answer 30 years ago when he came into this world. Jesus knew the scriptures and heaven was silent. An angel was dispatched to strengthen him. At this moment, I love, listen, I personally believe our salvation was not decided at the cross. I don't believe it. I believe our salvation was purchased at the cross. I believe our salvation was decided in the Garden of Cassemony. When Jesus then stood up, woke the disciples up and he said, come on, let's go. And he walked right in to what humans thought were a trap. Jesus walked right into it. And what did he do? He surrendered himself up. And he was in control the entire time, wasn't he? After the Garden, nothing but boldness and strength, his spirit was in command of his flesh and he laid down his life that you and I might have his favor. He who did not spare his own son but delivered and up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all thanks? How much does it cost? Freely. And so I leave you with this thought. Romans 8, 28, you remember it. All things worked together for good to those who are called. Was Jesus's life called? All things worked together for good to those who love God. Did Jesus love God? All things worked together for good to those who have purpose. Did Jesus have purpose? Then the eternal truth that was revealed by Paul the Apostle in the book of Romans, chapter 8, verse 28 and forward, of course, all of it, but 28 onward, it's God's eternal truth. You understand that? Don't you think for a moment that that eternal truth is exactly what Jesus depended upon when he was in the flesh like you and I are now? Don't you think that Jesus concluded what you and I are taught to believe and that is all things worked together? Can you imagine the Father saying to Jesus, all things son, all things are going to work together for good because you love me. You're called according to my purpose. And Jesus goes to the cross. As victorious as Christ was so you will be. It's his work. Jesus gives us a warning in Luke 12 and he says, you know, you got to watch out in life. You can, as you get older in life and as you experience more of life, you also learn from that. You learn what not to do and you learn what to do. And in life, by nature, it's a God, it's a rule of God. You'll start to acquire things. You just do. I'm not talking about hoarding. I'm talking about you're smarter this time. So you don't make that mistake again. You make sure you do it right. Listen, wisdom God blesses and obedience God blesses. So the Bible, Jesus warns that there's a man who was blessed by God and he had all of these goods. And the man said, you know what? I've got so much stuff. I'm so rich. I got to tear down the barn that I've got all my stuff in and I got to build a bigger barn. Maybe a couple of them. I'll get some hangers down at the airport to put all my stuff in. And Jesus said, you know, that man's a fool. He had no idea that while he was considering and carrying out these plans that his soul would be required of him that night. And of course, Jesus announces lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, right? So I want to ask you this question, how rich are you? What do you mean, Pastor, on paper, or what do you mean? Like now or when I die? Stocks are bonds, real estate or commodities. What? What? Be more specific. Oh yeah? Well, here's what I'm talking about. How wealthy are you? How rich are you? This is what I mean. How rich are you in forgiveness? How much grace is in your account today? How much mercy have you deposited in the bank lately? How are you building? What about love? How rich are you in the area of love? Are you wealthy as a lover of God, as a lover of other people? We go to great lengths in this world to make sure that the portfolio is well balanced and this and that avoid this, the other thing. And people miss the life of the Spirit, not knowing that there's an eternal dividend paid to those who put their treasures in heaven. If you have treasures on earth, God bless you. That's from God. Use them to His glory. But if you have no physical wealth at all or all the physical wealth you can imagine, it's irrelevant compared to where we're going when it comes to this. How rich and wealthy are you in the area of mercy and grace and love and forgiveness and patience? Compassion and truth. This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 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