1 00:00:00.470 --> 00:00:03.750 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with 2 00:00:03.750 --> 00:00:07.130 intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the 3 00:00:07.130 --> 00:00:09.030 saints, and impact our culture. 4 00:00:09.390 --> 00:00:10.370 Push the envelope. 5 00:00:10.510 --> 00:00:11.250 See, what do you mean by that? 6 00:00:11.630 --> 00:00:13.830 If you're not sure if you should glorify 7 00:00:13.830 --> 00:00:16.650 Jesus in that moment, do it anyway. 8 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:20.150 I'd rather get an applause from God in 9 00:00:20.150 --> 00:00:23.290 heaven for goofing it up rather than sitting 10 00:00:23.290 --> 00:00:23.870 it out. 11 00:00:24.490 --> 00:00:27.170 There is no such thing as spectator Christianity. 12 00:00:27.910 --> 00:00:28.790 It doesn't exist. 13 00:00:32.050 --> 00:00:34.730 You can get the outlines of this podcast 14 00:00:34.730 --> 00:00:38.710 by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 15 00:00:39.170 --> 00:00:42.010 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and 16 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:44.250 encourages you to live a more fulfilled life 17 00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:46.350 in Christ, then make sure you leave us 18 00:00:46.350 --> 00:00:47.970 one of those five-star ratings. 19 00:00:48.550 --> 00:00:51.610 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 20 00:00:51.810 --> 00:00:54.310 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 21 00:00:54.810 --> 00:00:57.070 Now open your hearts to what God's word 22 00:00:57.070 --> 00:00:58.050 has to say to you. 23 00:00:58.410 --> 00:00:59.950 Here is Jack Hibbs. 24 00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:02.430 I need all of your attention because I'm 25 00:01:02.430 --> 00:01:03.569 going to, it's not in my notes, but 26 00:01:03.569 --> 00:01:04.710 I'm going to run through this quickly. 27 00:01:05.590 --> 00:01:07.110 Technically, there are two judgments. 28 00:01:07.950 --> 00:01:10.910 Watch my hands because I'm Portuguese and I 29 00:01:10.910 --> 00:01:13.150 cannot speak with my word, with my mouth 30 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:13.610 properly. 31 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:15.130 It's the hands. 32 00:01:15.310 --> 00:01:15.950 Watch the hands. 33 00:01:17.470 --> 00:01:20.210 There's the judgment seat of Christ. 34 00:01:20.410 --> 00:01:21.050 It's in the Bible. 35 00:01:21.050 --> 00:01:23.870 It's known as the Bema, B-E-M 36 00:01:23.870 --> 00:01:25.670 -A, the Bema seat of Christ. 37 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:27.570 Christ is the judge. 38 00:01:28.270 --> 00:01:28.670 Watch. 39 00:01:29.290 --> 00:01:31.450 And who he judges are his people. 40 00:01:32.590 --> 00:01:34.470 This is the judgment he's speaking about right 41 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:37.130 here that Paul is speaking of, the judgment 42 00:01:37.130 --> 00:01:38.330 seat of Jesus Christ. 43 00:01:39.690 --> 00:01:41.150 I'm going to be sarcastic now. 44 00:01:41.990 --> 00:01:44.490 You've got to know Jesus Christ and he's 45 00:01:44.490 --> 00:01:46.990 got to know you to appear at that 46 00:01:46.990 --> 00:01:47.370 judgment. 47 00:01:47.490 --> 00:01:48.250 You say, wait a minute. 48 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:50.070 I thought he died for my sins at 49 00:01:50.070 --> 00:01:50.470 the cross. 50 00:01:50.570 --> 00:01:52.990 I thought I passed from judgment to life. 51 00:01:53.110 --> 00:01:53.690 You did. 52 00:01:54.130 --> 00:01:56.170 Well, then what are you talking about judgment? 53 00:01:56.230 --> 00:01:57.630 I thought I escaped all that. 54 00:01:58.190 --> 00:02:00.910 We're talking about the judgment seat of Christ 55 00:02:00.910 --> 00:02:05.130 where you and I will appear and we 56 00:02:05.130 --> 00:02:07.430 will be before him and we will answer 57 00:02:07.430 --> 00:02:11.430 to him regarding our faithfulness to what he 58 00:02:11.430 --> 00:02:12.870 has asked us to do. 59 00:02:12.950 --> 00:02:13.670 He's the master. 60 00:02:13.990 --> 00:02:15.990 We are the slave, right? 61 00:02:16.790 --> 00:02:18.970 And he, in this life, in the here 62 00:02:18.970 --> 00:02:20.890 and now, he has given us and he 63 00:02:20.890 --> 00:02:23.770 has opened up doors of opportunity for us 64 00:02:23.770 --> 00:02:25.290 to advance Christ. 65 00:02:29.450 --> 00:02:31.430 And God has his people, as I said, 66 00:02:31.470 --> 00:02:31.910 everywhere. 67 00:02:32.950 --> 00:02:34.470 You and I are going to be standing 68 00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:36.070 before Jesus Christ and we're not going to 69 00:02:36.070 --> 00:02:37.510 be judged on our sins. 70 00:02:38.550 --> 00:02:39.470 Isn't this good news? 71 00:02:39.570 --> 00:02:41.570 You should like, okay, now you're talking. 72 00:02:41.970 --> 00:02:43.310 You and I are going to be judged 73 00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:44.950 for our faithfulness. 74 00:02:46.190 --> 00:02:47.490 Have we been faithful? 75 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:47.910 No. 76 00:02:49.070 --> 00:02:50.490 This is going to sting, though. 77 00:02:50.850 --> 00:02:54.090 As a believer, I should ask you, what 78 00:02:54.090 --> 00:02:58.370 is it that you're being faithful to do 79 00:02:58.370 --> 00:02:59.730 that he's asked you to do? 80 00:03:00.410 --> 00:03:03.150 It implies you know what you're supposed to 81 00:03:03.150 --> 00:03:04.050 be doing for him. 82 00:03:06.190 --> 00:03:08.670 Don't be a Christian and if I or 83 00:03:08.670 --> 00:03:10.850 someone were to ask you, so if we're 84 00:03:10.850 --> 00:03:12.310 all going to stand before the judgment seat 85 00:03:12.310 --> 00:03:14.110 of Christ and be faithful to what he's 86 00:03:14.110 --> 00:03:18.230 called us to do, what did he call 87 00:03:18.230 --> 00:03:19.130 you to do? 88 00:03:20.450 --> 00:03:20.590 What? 89 00:03:21.130 --> 00:03:23.350 You see, you're not saved by what you 90 00:03:23.350 --> 00:03:26.330 do, but because you are saved, God says, 91 00:03:26.530 --> 00:03:27.330 I can use you. 92 00:03:27.830 --> 00:03:29.010 I use all my kids. 93 00:03:32.900 --> 00:03:35.460 I meet with people who are being faithful 94 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:39.330 in their cancer treatment. 95 00:03:41.130 --> 00:03:42.970 I'm convinced now, by the way, that this 96 00:03:42.970 --> 00:03:46.190 is a huge area of missionary work. 97 00:03:48.830 --> 00:03:49.990 I talk to people all the time. 98 00:03:50.050 --> 00:03:50.950 Pastor prayed for me. 99 00:03:51.010 --> 00:03:51.750 I got cancer. 100 00:03:52.090 --> 00:03:55.430 I've been going through treatment at UCLA and 101 00:03:55.430 --> 00:03:58.710 I came to the realization I got to 102 00:03:58.710 --> 00:03:59.490 get right with God. 103 00:03:59.630 --> 00:04:00.850 I mean, I love God, but I wasn't 104 00:04:00.850 --> 00:04:02.710 walking with God and now I'm just telling 105 00:04:02.710 --> 00:04:04.390 everybody, you know why they're doing this? 106 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:05.290 They'll tell you why. 107 00:04:05.370 --> 00:04:06.150 You might be here today. 108 00:04:06.570 --> 00:04:07.810 They got a death sentence. 109 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:11.980 They could be dying. 110 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:14.080 The doctors are telling them it's stage four. 111 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:15.120 It doesn't look good. 112 00:04:15.279 --> 00:04:16.079 What do they do? 113 00:04:16.700 --> 00:04:18.940 They realize they have a come to Jesus 114 00:04:18.940 --> 00:04:24.240 moment and they realize, wow, well, here we 115 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:24.580 go. 116 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:28.620 The oncologist is getting witness to, the nurses 117 00:04:28.620 --> 00:04:30.980 are getting witness to, the technicians are getting 118 00:04:30.980 --> 00:04:33.960 witness to, they're singing songs, they put on 119 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:39.660 praise albums in their hospital bed and what 120 00:04:39.660 --> 00:04:40.180 are they going to do? 121 00:04:40.700 --> 00:04:41.880 Well, I don't want to, you know, it's 122 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:42.340 loud. 123 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.360 Turn it up. 124 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:44.540 What are they going to do? 125 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:45.280 What are they going to do? 126 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:47.560 You're, for crying out loud, according to them, 127 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:47.980 you're dying. 128 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:49.960 Maybe you are dying, but the thing is 129 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:53.420 this, you've woken up to the realization, eternity 130 00:04:53.420 --> 00:04:53.900 is real. 131 00:04:54.020 --> 00:04:55.000 This life is fleeting. 132 00:04:55.140 --> 00:04:56.060 Jesus is alive. 133 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:57.120 He's on the throne. 134 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.140 He forgives sins. 135 00:04:58.280 --> 00:04:59.320 I'm going to let it rip. 136 00:04:59.660 --> 00:05:01.060 I'm going to announce to the world. 137 00:05:02.460 --> 00:05:04.360 In your moment, when God gives you the 138 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.980 opportunity to share Christ, be faithful to that 139 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:09.360 call. 140 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:11.540 And by the way, push it. 141 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:12.980 Push the envelopes. 142 00:05:13.020 --> 00:05:13.740 What do you mean by that? 143 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.320 If you're not sure if you should glorify 144 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:19.240 Jesus in that moment, do it anyway. 145 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.660 I'd rather get an applause from God in 146 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:25.800 heaven for goofing it up rather than sitting 147 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:26.360 it out. 148 00:05:26.860 --> 00:05:29.720 There is no such thing as spectator Christianity. 149 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:31.280 It doesn't exist. 150 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:35.860 So ask yourself over and over again, what 151 00:05:35.860 --> 00:05:37.120 am I being faithful to? 152 00:05:40.170 --> 00:05:41.370 And you and I will give an answer 153 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:42.790 to Christ on the day of judgment. 154 00:05:43.230 --> 00:05:44.250 That's for the believers. 155 00:05:44.830 --> 00:05:47.070 And then there's the great white throne judgment 156 00:05:47.070 --> 00:05:49.970 found in Revelation chapter 20 verse 11. 157 00:05:50.130 --> 00:05:51.210 You do not want to be there. 158 00:05:51.650 --> 00:05:52.770 That's for unbelievers. 159 00:05:54.170 --> 00:05:56.610 And they're judged for all the evil that 160 00:05:56.610 --> 00:05:57.450 they've done in their lives. 161 00:05:57.550 --> 00:05:59.410 They're judged for their sins. 162 00:06:00.270 --> 00:06:01.990 The Bible tells us that they are then 163 00:06:01.990 --> 00:06:04.090 cast into hell and hell. 164 00:06:04.250 --> 00:06:07.750 They will suffer equal to the magnitude of 165 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:08.670 their sins. 166 00:06:09.350 --> 00:06:11.350 So imagine, for example, Adolf Hitler. 167 00:06:14.950 --> 00:06:16.870 Think about the sins of whatever. 168 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:20.800 That's why Jesus said you must be born 169 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.260 again to enter the kingdom of heaven. 170 00:06:23.020 --> 00:06:25.120 But I just, this is not, you know, 171 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:26.380 look at the verse 10. 172 00:06:26.440 --> 00:06:28.740 It says for we shall all stand. 173 00:06:30.260 --> 00:06:30.700 Stand. 174 00:06:31.080 --> 00:06:32.060 What's that word stand? 175 00:06:32.420 --> 00:06:36.060 It means this, to be placed, look, to 176 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:37.220 be placed beside. 177 00:06:37.580 --> 00:06:38.540 I like that, beside. 178 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:40.100 I like to look at it this way, 179 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.540 to be placed beside Jesus. 180 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.080 To present or to present yourself, to make 181 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:47.120 a presentation, to stand in the presence of 182 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.480 God, to come before. 183 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.700 Imagine walking into the court, as it were, 184 00:06:52.760 --> 00:06:53.380 and standing. 185 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:55.800 We will stand before Jesus. 186 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.540 The world, when it's judged for its sins, 187 00:07:00.860 --> 00:07:03.160 they won't have a leg to stand on. 188 00:07:03.900 --> 00:07:05.460 They won't be able to stand. 189 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.240 The Bible tells us Christ is able to 190 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.020 make us stand. 191 00:07:09.380 --> 00:07:11.100 And on top of it, the Bible says 192 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:12.600 that Christ is our advocate. 193 00:07:13.660 --> 00:07:14.780 You need an attorney? 194 00:07:15.520 --> 00:07:16.420 Boy, do I ever. 195 00:07:17.400 --> 00:07:19.640 Jesus, on that day, when you and I 196 00:07:19.640 --> 00:07:22.340 are judged for our faithfulness, Christ will be 197 00:07:22.340 --> 00:07:22.840 our attorney. 198 00:07:23.820 --> 00:07:25.920 He's going to represent our case before Christ, 199 00:07:26.200 --> 00:07:27.180 before God the Father. 200 00:07:27.700 --> 00:07:28.860 Our Christ will do that. 201 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:30.160 The Messiah will do that. 202 00:07:30.580 --> 00:07:33.840 The world, on the other hand, has no 203 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:34.140 hope. 204 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:35.020 There's no advocate. 205 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:38.380 You stand naked and alone before Almighty God. 206 00:07:38.500 --> 00:07:41.060 There's no mediator for you, and you face 207 00:07:41.060 --> 00:07:41.640 the judgment. 208 00:07:42.980 --> 00:07:44.780 And here's the tragedy of it all. 209 00:07:46.140 --> 00:07:49.480 God came and revealed Himself in the world, 210 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:53.160 to the world, as His Word proclaimed He 211 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.960 would, and as His Word proclaimed He did, 212 00:07:56.420 --> 00:07:58.840 so that you wouldn't have to go to 213 00:07:58.840 --> 00:08:01.520 that great white throne judgment referred to in 214 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:01.760 Scripture. 215 00:08:01.900 --> 00:08:02.840 Why would you go there? 216 00:08:06.090 --> 00:08:07.410 It's just amazing to me. 217 00:08:07.690 --> 00:08:08.050 No, no. 218 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:12.720 He's not only going to stand for us 219 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.800 as believers, He's going to make us available, 220 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:17.240 or I should say enable us to stand. 221 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.640 Verse 11 says, For it is written, As 222 00:08:19.640 --> 00:08:22.140 I live, says the Lord, every knee should 223 00:08:22.140 --> 00:08:24.560 bow to me, and every tongue shall confess 224 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:25.100 to God. 225 00:08:25.760 --> 00:08:28.000 That's just an absolute blanket fact. 226 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:28.800 He is sovereign. 227 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:29.420 We're not. 228 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.980 All believers and all non-believers are going 229 00:08:32.980 --> 00:08:33.960 to bow their knee to Him. 230 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.559 Here's the key to all of this. 231 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:37.580 Bow your knee while you're alive here on 232 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:42.100 earth, to Him, because you will bow your 233 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:42.320 knee. 234 00:08:44.220 --> 00:08:46.800 Who's the famous atheist, the brilliant man, a 235 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:51.940 neurologist, he's a physicist, neurologist, I think it's 236 00:08:51.940 --> 00:08:59.740 Sam Harris, an unbelieving Jew, Sam Harris. 237 00:08:59.820 --> 00:09:02.100 He says he's a Jew, but God does 238 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:02.640 not exist. 239 00:09:04.140 --> 00:09:09.440 That's the first indicator of idiocy, is you're 240 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.560 Jewish, but God doesn't exist. 241 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:16.760 He's brilliant, and he's like one of the 242 00:09:16.760 --> 00:09:20.700 great leaders of the new atheist movement. 243 00:09:22.140 --> 00:09:24.580 And the new atheist movement, they just retitle 244 00:09:24.580 --> 00:09:24.720 it. 245 00:09:24.780 --> 00:09:26.760 It's the same argument of the old atheists. 246 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:29.220 They don't prove anything. 247 00:09:29.400 --> 00:09:31.520 They just get all mad, and they argue 248 00:09:31.520 --> 00:09:33.480 about God the way that, I don't approve 249 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:35.380 the way God's running the country, or God's 250 00:09:35.380 --> 00:09:36.040 running the world. 251 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:38.140 So I thought you didn't believe in God. 252 00:09:42.540 --> 00:09:45.300 Richard Dawkins at Oxford University said that he 253 00:09:45.300 --> 00:09:48.140 is a megalomaniac, God is a megalomaniac, a 254 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:54.120 maniacal, paranoid, and he's going off describing his 255 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.620 view of the God of the Bible. 256 00:09:56.340 --> 00:09:59.080 And then Dr. John Lennox, the professor of 257 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:03.040 mathematics at Oxford University, said to him, he 258 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:05.920 looks at him and says, what are you 259 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:06.440 doing? 260 00:10:07.540 --> 00:10:09.440 Why are you upset with somebody who doesn't 261 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:09.960 exist? 262 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:12.280 Isn't that great? 263 00:10:13.340 --> 00:10:14.860 What are you getting all uptight about? 264 00:10:14.980 --> 00:10:16.560 His veins start popping out. 265 00:10:16.780 --> 00:10:19.700 He's a maniacal, he's cruel, and he's like, 266 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:21.700 how can you be upset when you don't 267 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:22.280 believe in him? 268 00:10:23.500 --> 00:10:24.800 Isn't that a great argument? 269 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.320 Ask your friends who don't believe in God, 270 00:10:28.420 --> 00:10:29.040 why not? 271 00:10:30.460 --> 00:10:32.600 Well, because this in the universe, and that, 272 00:10:32.800 --> 00:10:35.500 and babies born sick, and all this stuff. 273 00:10:38.040 --> 00:10:41.160 That's not refuting the existence of God. 274 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:43.640 That's you saying, I don't like the way 275 00:10:43.640 --> 00:10:44.220 things are going. 276 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:44.920 What does it mean? 277 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.760 Technically, I'd like to play with them this 278 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:48.040 way. 279 00:10:48.220 --> 00:10:49.840 You're an atheist, but you're upset the way 280 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:50.380 things are going. 281 00:10:50.660 --> 00:10:51.760 We agree on this. 282 00:10:51.780 --> 00:10:53.020 This world stinks, man. 283 00:10:53.420 --> 00:10:55.140 There's a lot of pain and sorrow, and 284 00:10:55.140 --> 00:10:56.480 it's grievous, and it's ugly. 285 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:57.440 We agree. 286 00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:00.880 But the funny thing is, I'm at peace 287 00:11:00.880 --> 00:11:02.340 with God on this, because I've read his 288 00:11:02.340 --> 00:11:02.880 Bible. 289 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:05.100 He said he didn't want this to happen, 290 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.620 but this is what we've done to ourselves 291 00:11:06.620 --> 00:11:07.600 by disobedience. 292 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.460 You, on the other hand, you're about ready 293 00:11:10.460 --> 00:11:12.240 to have a heart attack about somebody you 294 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:13.300 don't even believe exists. 295 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.480 Your whole logic is short-circuiting. 296 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:18.820 You're not even thinking straight. 297 00:11:22.530 --> 00:11:24.830 Just because you don't believe in God doesn't 298 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:27.060 mean this stuff in the Bible's not going 299 00:11:27.060 --> 00:11:27.480 to happen. 300 00:11:31.380 --> 00:11:32.520 I have to tell you this. 301 00:11:32.580 --> 00:11:36.700 I taught this yesterday in Arizona at a 302 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:37.220 conference. 303 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:40.200 I was talking about deception, and this one 304 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:43.960 word that Jesus used for deception is a 305 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.480 word that is the root to some words 306 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:48.200 that you and I know. 307 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.560 The word ignoramus is from the Greek. 308 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:56.160 Ignoramus. 309 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.300 You know what an ignoramus is? 310 00:11:57.520 --> 00:11:58.100 You ever heard the word? 311 00:11:58.300 --> 00:11:59.640 Nobody even uses the word anymore. 312 00:12:00.820 --> 00:12:02.320 You're not supposed to say that word, I 313 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:02.840 guess. 314 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.480 Ignoramus is the same meaning to the word 315 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.520 agnostic. 316 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:10.840 Agnos. 317 00:12:13.140 --> 00:12:13.860 An agnostic. 318 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:14.800 What is an agnostic? 319 00:12:15.140 --> 00:12:18.020 An agnostic says, well, there may possibly be 320 00:12:18.020 --> 00:12:19.580 a God out there, but I don't want 321 00:12:19.580 --> 00:12:20.700 to find out. 322 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:24.300 That's the word to be an agnostic. 323 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.880 The word ignoramus means, I believe there's things 324 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:31.060 to know, but I refuse not to know 325 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:31.220 them. 326 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.360 That's why the Bible, Jesus said, they were 327 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:37.480 willfully ignorant. 328 00:12:38.340 --> 00:12:39.780 They chose not to know. 329 00:12:41.680 --> 00:12:43.440 And you and I experienced this in life. 330 00:12:45.830 --> 00:12:48.310 You have family and friends. 331 00:12:48.550 --> 00:12:50.110 They know you're a Christian, and they don't 332 00:12:50.110 --> 00:12:51.350 want you to say a word about it. 333 00:12:52.550 --> 00:12:54.450 Come to Thanksgiving, but don't talk about God. 334 00:12:55.670 --> 00:12:57.010 We're going to invite you guys over for 335 00:12:57.010 --> 00:12:57.290 Christmas. 336 00:12:57.550 --> 00:12:58.430 Don't bring a Bible. 337 00:13:00.670 --> 00:13:01.790 Why, you ignoramus? 338 00:13:01.790 --> 00:13:02.590 What's it? 339 00:13:02.930 --> 00:13:03.370 Right? 340 00:13:03.910 --> 00:13:04.350 Why? 341 00:13:04.450 --> 00:13:05.010 What's the matter? 342 00:13:05.250 --> 00:13:06.290 What's happening here? 343 00:13:07.370 --> 00:13:10.810 And it's strange because, listen, if they only 344 00:13:10.810 --> 00:13:12.490 knew the love of God, I'm convinced of 345 00:13:12.490 --> 00:13:12.670 this. 346 00:13:12.870 --> 00:13:14.710 The church has done a lot of damage 347 00:13:14.710 --> 00:13:16.970 to the unbelievers because we've put a bad 348 00:13:16.970 --> 00:13:17.770 witness out there. 349 00:13:18.310 --> 00:13:20.590 But it's our, listen, it's our calling to 350 00:13:20.590 --> 00:13:22.610 love on them in such a way to 351 00:13:22.610 --> 00:13:25.190 speak to them and say, listen, this is 352 00:13:25.190 --> 00:13:26.010 the God of the Bible. 353 00:13:26.130 --> 00:13:27.390 This is what Christmas is about. 354 00:13:27.670 --> 00:13:29.150 This is what Thanksgiving is about. 355 00:13:29.450 --> 00:13:30.950 This is what life is about. 356 00:13:31.970 --> 00:13:34.510 And let them see the alternative to the 357 00:13:34.510 --> 00:13:37.810 world in which they live in, that they 358 00:13:37.810 --> 00:13:39.030 can live in a world of meaning. 359 00:13:40.050 --> 00:13:42.030 But the Bible tells us, Isaiah 45, verse 360 00:13:42.030 --> 00:13:46.150 23, Old Testament, I have sworn by myself, 361 00:13:46.730 --> 00:13:48.630 the word has gone out of my mouth 362 00:13:48.630 --> 00:13:51.110 in righteousness and shall not return. 363 00:13:52.230 --> 00:13:54.190 That to me, every knee shall bow and 364 00:13:54.190 --> 00:13:56.410 every tongue shall take an oath or make 365 00:13:56.410 --> 00:13:56.930 confession. 366 00:13:58.250 --> 00:14:00.070 What an incredible, awesome statement. 367 00:14:00.310 --> 00:14:02.710 Philippians, we read this last week, Philippians 2, 368 00:14:02.830 --> 00:14:04.790 verses 10 and 11, that in the name 369 00:14:04.790 --> 00:14:07.350 of Jesus, every knee should bow of those 370 00:14:07.350 --> 00:14:09.150 in heaven and those of earth and those 371 00:14:09.150 --> 00:14:11.050 under the earth, and that every tongue should 372 00:14:11.050 --> 00:14:13.690 confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the 373 00:14:13.690 --> 00:14:14.790 glory of God the Father. 374 00:14:14.970 --> 00:14:16.030 See the consistency here? 375 00:14:16.950 --> 00:14:19.670 You bow your knee and confess to God 376 00:14:19.670 --> 00:14:22.310 and the God of the Old Testament, the 377 00:14:22.310 --> 00:14:23.050 book of Isaiah. 378 00:14:23.970 --> 00:14:25.750 Paul, the apostle, knew that. 379 00:14:26.070 --> 00:14:27.670 The Holy Spirit knew that. 380 00:14:27.770 --> 00:14:30.490 And so in Philippians, the answer is, it's 381 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:32.450 Jesus Christ that you're going to be bowing 382 00:14:32.450 --> 00:14:32.650 to. 383 00:14:32.750 --> 00:14:34.490 He's God revealed to us. 384 00:14:34.930 --> 00:14:36.110 If you want to know what God is 385 00:14:36.110 --> 00:14:37.630 like, take a look at Jesus in the 386 00:14:37.630 --> 00:14:37.970 Bible. 387 00:14:39.110 --> 00:14:40.770 Acts chapter 4, verse 11. 388 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:43.810 This is the stone which the builders rejected, 389 00:14:43.950 --> 00:14:46.670 which has become the chief cornerstone. 390 00:14:46.670 --> 00:14:49.830 Nor is there salvation in any other, for 391 00:14:49.830 --> 00:14:53.030 there is no other name under heaven given 392 00:14:53.030 --> 00:14:55.430 among men by which we must be saved. 393 00:14:55.670 --> 00:14:57.690 Jesus, Jesus. 394 00:14:58.170 --> 00:14:59.970 Verse 12, and we'll end with this. 395 00:15:00.630 --> 00:15:03.090 So then each of us shall give an 396 00:15:03.090 --> 00:15:05.510 account of himself to God. 397 00:15:06.250 --> 00:15:08.690 And that word account means, it's that Greek 398 00:15:08.690 --> 00:15:13.810 word logos, the word, the reason, the answer. 399 00:15:13.910 --> 00:15:15.230 Each of us will give the answer, the 400 00:15:15.230 --> 00:15:18.870 word, the reason, to the question asked. 401 00:15:20.410 --> 00:15:22.050 It means to the question asked. 402 00:15:22.150 --> 00:15:24.510 It means very specific and we'll end with 403 00:15:24.510 --> 00:15:24.870 this. 404 00:15:25.770 --> 00:15:26.850 That doesn't mean you leave yet. 405 00:15:26.950 --> 00:15:28.570 People love, when I say that, they start 406 00:15:28.570 --> 00:15:28.850 leaving. 407 00:15:31.530 --> 00:15:33.070 I'm not going to say this is the 408 00:15:33.070 --> 00:15:33.510 end anymore. 409 00:15:33.770 --> 00:15:34.710 I'm just going to keep going. 410 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:44.680 If we're to give an account, and we 411 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:45.560 shall give an account. 412 00:15:48.260 --> 00:15:51.680 That confession, the Bible is very clear about. 413 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.420 And we have a precursor to what is 414 00:15:56.420 --> 00:15:57.880 to be the future. 415 00:15:58.920 --> 00:16:01.640 When it happened with Peter, and I can 416 00:16:01.640 --> 00:16:03.680 tell you again, another plug for Israel. 417 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:06.600 There's some sites in Israel that we think 418 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.220 this was the area, archaeologists will tell us. 419 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.080 There's some places that the archaeologists will tell 420 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:14.160 us, this is what it was in the 421 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:16.060 area, like this area. 422 00:16:16.300 --> 00:16:17.520 It wasn't here, but it was like this. 423 00:16:17.620 --> 00:16:19.140 And then there's the area where we get 424 00:16:19.140 --> 00:16:21.760 so excited because the archaeologists will tell us 425 00:16:21.760 --> 00:16:22.960 this is the exact spot. 426 00:16:24.300 --> 00:16:26.540 And in Matthew chapter 16, we go to 427 00:16:26.540 --> 00:16:27.560 the exact spot. 428 00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:28.340 It's still there today. 429 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.980 It's still standing after 2,600 years. 430 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:33.160 Here it is. 431 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.540 Jesus has taken the disciples up to Caesarea 432 00:16:36.540 --> 00:16:38.480 Philippi to take a break. 433 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.880 They've been ministering very hard, 24-7, non 434 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:45.580 -stop ministry. 435 00:16:46.180 --> 00:16:49.000 And Jesus announces to them, let's come away. 436 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.060 It's time to shut down, catch our breath. 437 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.260 So he takes them to Caesarea Philippi, which 438 00:16:54.260 --> 00:16:55.840 you would want to live there. 439 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.260 It's absolutely stunningly gorgeous. 440 00:17:00.220 --> 00:17:01.620 It's the headwaters, by the way, of the 441 00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:03.300 Jordan River comes out of the ground at 442 00:17:03.300 --> 00:17:04.440 that point right there. 443 00:17:05.520 --> 00:17:07.240 But there's a lot of ancient temples that 444 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:07.619 are there. 445 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.720 And so he takes them to a place. 446 00:17:12.800 --> 00:17:14.000 I don't know if you'd want to take 447 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.720 a vacation like he took them on, but 448 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.560 he took them to this place that the 449 00:17:18.560 --> 00:17:19.839 Jews would avoid that region. 450 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:20.740 It was totally pagan. 451 00:17:21.560 --> 00:17:22.960 And Jesus takes them on a field trip 452 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.079 to this spot, Caesarea Philippi. 453 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.240 And they got the Temple of Diana there. 454 00:17:28.320 --> 00:17:29.640 The Temple of Zeus is there. 455 00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:31.500 They got the Temple of the Nymphs that 456 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:31.780 are there. 457 00:17:32.040 --> 00:17:33.860 They got all these Bacchus is there. 458 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:36.460 So when you're worshiping God in this section, 459 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.940 you're Bacchus, you're drinking all the intoxicating drink. 460 00:17:40.180 --> 00:17:43.000 And then you have sex with their prostitutes, 461 00:17:43.180 --> 00:17:44.560 male or female, didn't matter. 462 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.260 It's what you picked. 463 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:47.940 And then you went over here to Athena. 464 00:17:48.280 --> 00:17:49.060 They were all there. 465 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:50.800 And then you went to the nymphs, and 466 00:17:50.800 --> 00:17:51.940 you can figure out what that was all 467 00:17:51.940 --> 00:17:52.220 about. 468 00:17:52.520 --> 00:17:54.860 And then they and this was all there. 469 00:17:57.420 --> 00:17:59.920 And when you appear before that temple, you 470 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:04.260 say, Great is Diana or great is Athena. 471 00:18:05.320 --> 00:18:07.560 And Jesus takes his disciples on a field 472 00:18:07.560 --> 00:18:09.240 trip to that. 473 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:12.020 You see the background in your head? 474 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:13.940 Look at verse 15. 475 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.200 And Jesus said to them, but who do 476 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:19.080 you say that I am? 477 00:18:20.580 --> 00:18:21.200 Do you like that? 478 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:21.740 Do you see that? 479 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:26.380 All these Gods names are being shouted out. 480 00:18:26.760 --> 00:18:28.660 Jesus turns to them and says, Well, who 481 00:18:28.660 --> 00:18:29.380 do you say I am? 482 00:18:32.520 --> 00:18:34.860 Simon, Peter, God bless Peter, he's always great 483 00:18:34.860 --> 00:18:35.960 to step up. 484 00:18:37.220 --> 00:18:38.760 He said, You are the Christ, the son 485 00:18:38.760 --> 00:18:39.660 of the living God. 486 00:18:40.120 --> 00:18:41.820 And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed 487 00:18:41.820 --> 00:18:44.420 are you Simon bar Jonah, for flesh and 488 00:18:44.420 --> 00:18:45.780 blood has not revealed this to you, but 489 00:18:45.780 --> 00:18:46.940 my father who is in heaven. 490 00:18:47.860 --> 00:18:49.660 And I also say to you that you 491 00:18:49.660 --> 00:18:52.060 are Peter and on this rock, I will 492 00:18:52.060 --> 00:18:53.840 build my church and the gates of hell 493 00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:56.100 will not prevail against it. 494 00:18:56.660 --> 00:18:59.360 And Peter said, You are the Christ, you 495 00:18:59.360 --> 00:19:00.420 are the son of God. 496 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.120 Jesus said, Peter, that fact that truth that 497 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:07.400 you just proclaimed is what my church will 498 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:08.040 be built on. 499 00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:12.340 And the gates of hell will not prevail 500 00:19:12.340 --> 00:19:13.360 against it. 501 00:19:17.570 --> 00:19:20.290 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all 502 00:19:20.290 --> 00:19:23.350 the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. 503 00:19:23.850 --> 00:19:26.190 Will you consider partnering with us through a 504 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