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JACK: God is saying to you, yeah, you need me. Why? Because
I've loved you with an everlasting love. You- friend,
listen, you run out on that, you're running out on the
greatest lover of your soul that you'll ever know.
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JACK: Well listen, if you haven't figured it out by now,
this world is not our home. It's certainly true for the
Christian, but maybe you're watching this program right now
and you're not a Christ follower. Have you been noticing
that the things of this world are absolutely convoluted and
strange and even seemingly falling apart? Well, biblically
speaking, everything's falling together, but the fact of the
matter is everything in this world is temporary. The Bible
says so. In fact, listen, you don't have to believe the Bible
to know that that's true. The second law of thermal dynamics,
entropy is the fact that all things are going from an ordered
state to a chaotic state. In other words, the brand new car
you just bought, it's already fallen apart. The nut you just
screwed down onto the bolt, it's automatically starting to loose
itself. Well, friends, listen, so many metaphors in the Bible
speak about life in its brevity like this. It's like a vapor of
smoke. It's like time running fast. It's as though a wisp of
time or smoke and it's all over. And the Bible tells us if you
live to be 70 years of age, that's amazing, but if you were
to hit 80, then your life is filled with pain, suffering, and
sorrow. Thank God this is not our home. This world is
swallowed up by sin, but friends listen compared to eternity,
this life is extremely brief and also this earth is so brief that
this is not our full-time residency here. Listen, we won't
be here long, in the meantime do you know Christ? Well, let's
grab our Bibles and let's get to know Him more as we look at a
message. This World is Not Our Home.
JACK: The Bible says in Ephesians 1 verse 3 says,
blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
the world. Okay, this is getting deep. This is beyond time. This
is before time ever existed that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love having predestined us to adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to Himself. In other words, Jesus is the
agent. He is the mediator for that to happen according to the
good pleasure of His will. God has a purpose. He has a
redemptive purpose and He has a plan. And when was that plan?
Before time ever began. Listen to me, God didn't make up a
redemption plan after Adam and Eve fumbled at the one yard
line. He already had the plan before there was ever a
creation. Listen to this. Maybe we've got this quote. I love
this. This is from Dr. Donald Gray Barnhouse. "Our lives are
not the haphazard results of the moving of blind chance nor the
throwing down of cosmic dice. All that comes to pass in our
lives is according to the perfect eternal plan of the all
wise, all powerful, all loving Father. The fact that a man has
been chosen according to God's eternal purpose immediately
surrounds him with the protection or the protective
care of the Holy Spirit. Nothing can touch the man unless it has
passed through the approved process of the will of God. No
situation that comes to you can overpower you in Christ." You
ought to take a picture of that that is awesome and very true.
God's purpose for your life will not be twisted. It will not be
thwarted Christian. Can we say it this way? Before you were
ever born, before Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury ever existed,
God had his plan for your life. We have now just been arriving
at it. Some of you are arriving at this eternal truth today.
Right now, God's got a plan for your life and He's had it
forever. How long? How long's forever? I can't even say the
word forever, right. Longer than forever. Because we're so puny,
we can only think like this, like that on a line. God is
eternal. You cannot explain that to me. All we know is that
there's no time there. So when did God think this up? He always
had you in His thought. Well, listen, do you understand
something? We're arriving at things, we're arriving. He
already knew. Oh my goodness. Listen, if you're not a
Christian, become one today. Seriously, God knows exactly the
future. He knows exactly what's going to you. Don't you think
you do, especially if you're young, you really think you do.
You don't. That's part of being deceived as a young person. But
as you move forward, why not become a follower of Jesus
knowing this, that whatever he is got for me, it's good and
it's for a purpose. And so when I arrive at it, when I come to
that moment, I can have great peace knowing this is all
according to the plan of God. Come and follow me or His words.
Isaiah chapter 54, verse 17 says, no weapon formed against
you shall prosper. Think of that for a moment. No weapon formed
against me will prosper. You know where my mind goes
immediately with that? I warned you guys a couple of weeks ago
that there's all kinds of 6 to 10, 6 to 10 false social media
sites regarding me, created every week fake. We have a
company now that works to try to destroy this stuff. It's so bad
now that we just listen. We just got done writing a book and it
took a year and a half to write because it's written by writing.
And what did we just find out? We just found out that AI wrote
the book in a couple of days and they are imposters out there
being sold right now with my name on it and my face on it
from me, and it's not me and it's AI. And now we've
discovered that there are messages where I am speaking to
you and it's not me. I'm not saying what is. I mean, it's
saying something that I never said. Listen, this is how the
enemy works. It's so bad that my thoughts are we're going to pull
the social media plug completely. That's what I would
do, but then there'd be millions of people who are saying, Hey,
we're not. Hey, what happened to the messages we're watching from
Tokyo? What's the deal? So we're torn. Think about it. Listen, I
am going to say it public. I'm going to say it again. I say it
all the time. It says it on my social media. I will never ask
to meet with you. That was not me inviting you to meet you in
Glendale at Starbucks. That was probably a murderer, a stalker,
and I will never ask you for money. And people say, I can't
believe Jack's doing this. You don't know Jack. I will never
ask. So just be careful. We live in these very deceptive days. No
weapon formed against you shall prosper, every tongue which
rises up against you in judgment, you shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their
righteousness is from me, says, God, isn't that awesome? It's
not of us. We're just following Him. You ever seen a little kid,
like a little kid walking behind his dad? He feels all really big
and protected. He's walking behind his dad and his little
kid's walking along. He couldn't protect himself if he had to,
but he can't see that. All he can see is his dad. That's us.
We're looking at our dad and we're protected under His
shadow. It's incredible. He's awesome. The second thing is
this church is heaven is increasing in us. It's
increasing. Every day that you wake up and live as a believer,
heaven is increasing inside of you. Didn't Jesus say? You say
Jack, that's really weird to say. Excuse me, Jesus said it.
He said, the kingdom of heaven is inside of you. If you're a
follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, where's the Holy Spirit?
But inside of you, I always have to control myself when I think
about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Who would've thought of
such a thing? For thousands of years, no pagans ever thought
that they could offer up a God or Gods that would say, hey,
guess what? We'll live inside of you. Jesus comes along and says,
I'm going to leave you. I'm leaving. Don't worry. I'm going
to send the Holy Spirit and He's going to live inside of every
believer inside of you. He's going to set up camp inside of
you, and if He does that, you'll know it because He'll begin to
work from the inside out and He'll do His amazing work in the
kingdom increasing within you. You think more of the kingdom
you want to do for the kingdom, you want to serve the kingdom,
Lord, what is it that you'd have me to do? So here we go. This is
awesome. This is how it increases. How do I grow? What
should I expect? What's happening? Is God really going
to finish His work with me? Oh yeah. He has to, not because He
has to, He has to because He wanted to. Watch this, verse 29
for whom He foreknew. Wow. Circle the word foreknew. You're
going to want to remember this. He also predestined circle the
word predestined to be conformed to the image of a son. This is
the result, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren
because Jesus Christ is the first one resurrected from the
dead to live forever. The son of God, His power is able to
conform us into His resurrected image and how can we be sure of
that? Because God's foreknowledge based upon
predestination is what starts the whole ball rolling. Watch
this, you have to watch, never, ever in the Bible is there ever
the term predestination applied to the damned or to the
condemned or to those in hell not once. There'll be those who
will tell you that it does. It does not. All predestination is
based on foreknowledge and it's all in the positive. Are you
hearing me? It doesn't speak to the predestination of those who
are inheriting hell. It doesn't say. I'm not saying people don't
go to hell, they go to hell. But it's not by the basis of God
saying, eeny, meeny, miny, moe, you get to go to heaven and you
don't go. Nope. The foreknowledge of God is not
stuff that He learned a long time ago and thereby predestined
people. Are you hearing me? This is deep stuff. Hang on. I'm not
even sure I can articulate it right, because God is eternal
and there is no time, and because He is God, He cannot
learn anything. He knows everything. In fact, in deep
theology, the nature of God is known as the decree of God. It's
a functionality of God's person decree with a C, decree, and it
means that God knows all things that do happen and He knows the
results of things that never did happen. Does that fry your brain
a little bit? So watch this. When you think, oh, God picked
me because I'm good, wrong. Oh God is just throwing cosmic
dice. Too bad you don't get to go with us, wrong. God who
cannot learn, whose eternal His foreknowledge is, He knows the
exact decision that you would make if you heard the gospel,
yes or no to it before time ever began in this physical world.
Listen, He's known it as long as He has been God and how long has
that been?
CONGREGATION: Forever.
JACK: And we can hardly define forever, can we? So watch this.
Here you are in the 21st century and in all of eternity past
God's foreknowledge knew that when the gospel was presented to
you, you would say yes, He knew that, He didn't learn it, He
knew it. Based on that, watch this follow based on that God
gave you the ability to say yes or to see the truth. Who gets
the praise? Who gets the adoration? Who gets the glory?
God. Who provided the way of salvation? God did. But if the
gospel message comes to you and you reject it because God made
you a free moral agency, you can choose. He built that into you.
You choose. I'll give you choice, you choose. If you
reject it, then who's responsible for rejecting it?
You are. So in heaven we're all going to be going like this.
Thank you God for getting us here. And people who are in hell
are hating themselves for never listening, for never accepting.
God doesn't learn anything. He knows how it's going to be in
advance. He doesn't bend your arm. He knows. And right now for
us, we're arriving at God's plans based on foreknowledge.
Never mention the word predestination without first
mentioning foreknowledge. You got that? It's very important
because there'll be those who will seek the bamboozle you and
to get that turned around, don't fall for it. Seriously. Jeremiah
31, Jeremiah 31:3. This might make more sense. We read this
verse a lot, but now it makes more sense perhaps. The Lord
has appeared of old to me saying,
yes, I have loved you with a what?
CONGREGATION: Everlasting love.
JACK: How long is that?
CONGREGATION: Forever.
JACK: Therefore, with loving kindness, I've drawn you, God is
saying to you, yeah, you need me. You don't need a church. You
don't need an organization. You don't need a membership card.
God is saying, I am drawing you. I'm drawing you to me. I want
you to come to me. Why? Because I've loved you with an
everlasting love. You friend, listen, you run out on that.
You're running out on the greatest lover of your soul that
you'll ever know, and God is saying, you come to me and you
would say, nope, that's on you. That's terrible. Why would you
do that? You shouldn't do that. John, chapter 1, I love this,
John chapter one, verse 43, this is going to get me fired up. I
asked for your forgiveness in advance. The following day,
Jesus, Yeshua, wanted to go to Galilee and He found Philip and
said to him, follow me. Now, Philip was from Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter, Philip found Nathaniel. Don't you love
Philip? He's just all over the place. And said to him, excuse
me, listen, we have found him whom Moses in the law and also
the prophets wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Stop right there. First century Jews who knew their Old
Testament better than Jews today, that when they met Jesus,
what was their response? This is the guy Moses talked about. He's
the one, the prophet spoke about translation. This is the guy the
Old Testament's all about. He's the one. And Nathaniel said to
him, can anything good come out of Calif- Nazareth? Sorry.
Philip said to him, come and see. Jesus saw, watch this.
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him and said of him, this
is Jesus speaking. Behold in Israelites, indeed, in whom
there is no deceits. Really? That's awesome. Nathaniel said
to Him, watch, how do you know me? Jesus answered and said to
him, before Philip called you, when you were under the fig
tree, I saw you. This gets to be really, I think incredibly
romantic for the soul. Nathaniel answered and said to Him, rabbi,
you are the son of God. You are the king of Israel. And Jesus
answered and said to him, because I said to you, I saw you
under the fig tree? Do you believe you will see greater
things than these? Watch this. And He said to him, most
assuredly I say to you, hereafter, you shall see heaven
open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of man. Why? What in the world is going on here? Jesus
quotes an Old Testament event where Jacob lays down to take a
rest and he has a vision and Jacob sees a ladder that extends
into heaven and from heaven angels are ascending and
descending regarding the ministry of the Messiah.
Translation, Nathaniel, welcome aboard. I love that. Heaven is
calling to us. Heaven's calling all the time. Moreover, whom He
predestined, these He also called. Is God calling you? Is
God inviting you into His family? Listen, have you ever
listen, listen, we're almost done. Have you ever thought for
a moment that you would love to have your sins forgiven? Have
you ever thought for a moment you'd like to start life all
over again? What if all that can be washed away now today without
it being put in the headlines or called out in any other way
where God says, give it to me now and I'll rescue you from it
before it pulls you down? You have sinned against me, the
Almighty God. I'm eternal. I'm God, and I'm pure and perfect,
but listen, between you and I, there's sin and I went to the
cross to remove that sin factor from your life. And here's the
thing, if you hear me calling out to you, you are receiving
from me my invitation. Accept it, receive it, and to whom who
are called these, He also justified, justified. Great
meaning of a word, it means to reveal, to show righteousness,
to declare righteous, to announce someone's acquittal or
being vindicated. But the best way to remember justified means
just if I'd never sinned. That's what it means. God looks at you
and says, I look at you now, just as if you have never
sinned, He does this. One man born of a virgin, lives His life
sent from God, dies on the cross according to the scriptures,
resurrected from the dead. Turns out to be the eternal God made,
incarnate, made in flesh, the Bible says, for you and
I to inherit heaven in eternity.
JACK: Well listen, it's obvious this world is not our home, but
if we've read our Bibles, we are so glad to hear that. Listen,
think about the magnitude of what Christ Jesus has done for
you, done for me, done for us. It's amazing. God came from His
world into our world that He might buy us a ticket by his own
blood so that we might be able to enter heaven. Listen, you and
I, no matter who, you can be an atheist right now watching this
show, and I hope you are. There's one thing you and I have
to agree with. We know that there's right and that there's
wrong. The reason why we know that because the Bible says He's
written eternity in our hearts. Only God is the reason why we
can define right from wrong and God is right and we are wrong.
God is good and we are not. God saves we, us who are lost. So
listen, we want to live with Him in heaven forever. Heaven. Why
would this world show indications of some of the most
beautiful sunsets or the most wonderful settings or scenery to
the human eye, beautifully wild? Because there's a heaven to
come. Those are little samples of what's to come, but will you
be there with me? Will you be there with many of us? Will you
be there? I want you to have the opportunity right now, no matter
where you're at, to make a decision right now for Jesus
Christ. He died on the cross for you, my friend, and rose again
from the dead, and you would simply pray, Lord Jesus, forgive
me for my sins. I repent. I turn from my sins and I put my faith
in you, Lord. Thank you for dying for me on the cross and
being resurrected from the dead exactly as the Bible said you
would be. I give my life to you. Thank you Lord Jesus. I pray.
And if you've prayed that prayer, let us know. Come visit
us at JackHibbs.com. Let us know more and more. We have materials
more and more every day. We've got more to have you grow in the
grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ because what's in
store for us as believers is more, a lot
more. Until next time, God bless you.
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turmoil with threats from secular agendas, widespread
moral corruption, and rampant violence everywhere.
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You Need to Know About the Rapture" theologian, Charles
Ryrie explains the biblical prophecy of the rapture in
simple terms, clearing up myths and giving clear scriptural
insights about the next event on the prophetic calendar. Dr.
Ryrie makes it easy to understand how these prophecies
relate to current events and America's role in them. Get your
questions answered about this highly anticipated event with
Charles Ryrie's insightful explanations. "What You Need to
Know About the Rapture" will be sent to you with our thanks when
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