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JACK: Hey everybody, when I open my Bible in this 21st century
that you and I live in, it's easy to come to the conclusion
when you read it that the God of the Bible is a God that is
prophetic. Some will use the word prescient. It means that
God in his wisdom, there's nothing that he can learn
because he knows all. But all that is coming is for us to be
aware of, and that is called the prophetic scriptures of the
Bible, which by the way, 27 to 33% of the Bible is prophetic in
nature, and you think about that for a moment. It is the Bible
that talks about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the
Bible that tells us that the church should be ready for that
moment where he catches us up into his glory. What about the
rise of the antichrist? What about the radical embracing of a
cashless society? Things that you and I are seeing right now
or a one world government? My goodness, these things that
we're starting to see regarding the end time prophetic word of
God as a church in the 21st century, we're starting to see
indicators of the end time events, which means what? Which
means you and I need to know the truth and we need to be living
it. It's an exciting time because I believe every page of
the Bible has some element that causes us to understand and to
see Bible prophecy. In fact, the Bible is always in the now. It's
always anticipating the day. It's always before you think of
that when you wake up in the morning, the Bible greets you,
but when you look 50 days or 50 years or 100 years down the
road, the Bible has the answer. So friends, grab your Bible and
let's dive into a message right now that is titled "God is for
You!" And even that is a prophetic statement of God's
goodness and God's knowledge. Let's find out more.
JACK: Pretend you're not at church today. Let's pretend
we're in a really, really good theological course that you're
in a class today. One of the things that I would say in the
class is that what is absolutely certain beyond all of the things
that we can actually know about our immediate existence as human
beings is the fact what God has worked and what God has wrought
at the cross through Jesus and his resurrection from the dead.
Listen, Christ actually was crucified. You say, well, I
don't believe the Bible, so then read Roman, read Roman accounts
of it. Well, I don't like the Roman Empire. Well go to the
British Museum of History then and look at the artifacts that
are there. Why not read about some of the ancient volumes of
writings that are records of
the first and second century
regarding the crucifixion of Christ. It's not just the Bible
that announces that Jesus was crucified, but if you decide to
go with the Bible, which you ought to go with the Bible, it's
the same book that says he rose again from the dead. The cross
is where he paid for our sins and purchased our innocence.
Three days later, he rose again from the dead to be the very,
the Bible uses the word advocate, attorney. To be your
attorney and mine. To make sure that what he did is finished in
all eternity. Wow, innocence, what an awesome thing. The Bible
tells us, it goes on there in that verse, who shall bring a
charge against God's elected is God who justifies. We remembered
that in verse 33 the word justifies means that to show or
to display, it's God's desired church to take every one of his
children of whom I pray that you trust in Christ to exhibit
righteousness, to proclaim, to declare another righteous. It's
an imparted righteousness. This is the gospel. This is what the
Bible teaches is that God gives righteousness. I'm reminded
right now, last Thursday night I had the opportunity. I was asked
by the beautiful people at Prager U and also at the Israeli
Consulate, if I would've assemble pastors and go to Los
Angeles and have them see the October 7th massacre from Hamas
footage, and I just want all of you to know something. We sat
there, we watched it. All of you need to know something because
you know the narrative out there in the world is that was made
up, and here's the funny thing, if it's made up, if it's made up
and it didn't really happen, you know that's what they're saying.
Then why If I were to play portions of what we viewed last
Thursday night and streamed it to the world right now, why
would people be upset? Why would Newsweek and USA today have an
article about this church service tomorrow? They would be
absolutely furious. So what are you upset about? You guys said
it was fake. You see? Then why are you upset? When we pray to
our God atheists get upset, why do they get upset? They just
think we're a bunch of idiots, a bunch of fools. Why should they
be upset? If God doesn't exist, why be upset? If it never
happened and we viewed it to all of you today, why would the
world be upset? Because it happened and we saw it. We
watched it. When that viewing was over, we all sat silent and
the consulate general's office, he stood up and he said,
verbatim. I say, "thank you for coming tonight, you're all
dismissed" and he walks away and nobody moved. And I just had to
stand up, I walked down to the front and I said, excuse me, but
I know many of you in here are Jews. I brought a delegation of
Christian pastors with me tonight and I thanked Marissa,
CEO of Prager U, but you may not want to be hearing from a
gentile right now at such a moment, but can I remind all of
you that according to the Bible, if a Christian and a church does
not love and support a Jew and Israel, that they're not a New
Testament church. They're not New Testament Christians. And I
said, you're not going to like who I'm going to quote in a
moment, but he's the guy you have the biggest problem with. A
couple of guys chuckled. There were rabbis there. They knew
where I was going, and I said, it's the Apostle Paul. And they
laughed. They don't like Paul. Jesus, they said Jesus was
crazy. Paul, and I said, so I want to quote the renegade Paul
who said "the just shall live by faith." And I said, if any of
you're listening carefully, that's actually not Paul. That's
Paul quoting your prophet Habakkuk chapter 2:4. It's
Habakkuk 2:4 that says, "the just shall live by faith." Those
who are justified, how do they get justified? By faith in God,
not faith in ourselves, faith in him. And so they're watching.
There's listening. If you've ever spoken to a Jewish
audience, it is a thrill for those of us who are old. It's
called an E-Ticket ride. Ask somebody what we mean by that
because they love, they're beautiful. Man, they love to
argue. They know how to argue. They are taught how to argue.
It's very, very great. It's very good for your mind by the way,
very stimulating. They question everything and we should be like
that. And so I just said before we go any further, I happen to
be a gentile who's been grafted in to the family of the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, based upon what your prophet Isaiah
said to the gentile nations will come to Israel and will receive
the light of salvation through Messiah. And as soon as I said
that I was a gentile who's connected to Isaiah, they
started going, okay, I'm talking their language now. What was the
language? You could see the lights coming on in their minds
and said a few more words about love and about if you need
anything and what our church is doing to help families right now
in real time throughout Israel that are suffering. And what
happened was is when I said thank you and I started to walk,
people got up, they got up, they came over, they're hugging me. I
got a couple of kisses from men. It was not that kind of a thing.
It was a Middle Eastern thing. It's legit, it's not goofy, and
it was precious. You know why? It was a dark, sinister hour and
a half, but we were not, there's no way as a Christian I could
have walked out of that theater and leave the atmosphere the way
that it was. You can't do that. You can't do that. But how do we
do that? Because we know that we've been declared innocent by
the work of Christ. It's not us. Well, Jack, weren't you nervous
to get up there and stand? Nervous to the core. Did my
mouth go dry? It always does. No, I'm serious. So you don't
seem nervous when you're speaking. I'm lying to you. I
tremble before I come out here you just after 33, 34 years, 35
years, you get used to it. You just learn how to manage it.
It's all of God. But he did the work and we honor him when we
obey him because what he bought for you and I, is eternal life
by the blood of Christ, forgiveness of sins in a brand
new world. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, the Bible says, "for he
made him who knew no sin, wow for us that he might become or
that we might become the righteousness of God in him."
Jesus Christ took upon himself all of our sins, and this is the
result. I'm reading it backwards if you think about it. That's 2
Corinthians 5:21. But before that is 2 Corinthians 5:17. But
I read it backwards intentionally. This is how he
did it or this is the result I should say of what he did.
He who knew no sin. Jesus. I'm going to say it again
when I say he who knew no sin. Shout Jesus,
right? Just for fun. He who knew no sin.
CONGREGATION: Jesus.
JACK: God laid upon him. God imparted to him, God put all our
sins upon him and we received his righteousness. For what
reason? Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
Old things have passed away. Did you hear that? Old things have
passed away. What old things? All old things. Nobody can
control your life, including your old self. When you wake up
to this awesome biblical truth, old things have passed away.
Behold, isn't that beautiful? Open wide, your eyes, all things
have become new. Did you know you're all new? You know, you
love new things and I think God put that in us. You're to be a
new creation. You got to love it. I think we're going to walk
around heaven. I don't know how this is going to work. Of course
not. But I think every day we're going to have that sense of this
is all so new. Well, for how long? Forever. Can you imagine
exploring eternity? It's eternity for crying out loud. We
will forever be going on a hike somewhere. We're forever going
to be making some sort of an expedition or journey to see
what God has made. It's going to be absolutely awesome. The next
thing is this, everybody in verse 34 is that his death is
now my death. He said, Jack is that good news? Yeah. Listen,
what are you going to do about Bible prophecy? Because this is
a prophetic utterance. The Bible announced in advance that it
would be God who would die for our sins on the cross. It would
be that little baby born in Bethlehem, Micah, chapter 5:2 of
the Old Testament that would die on the cross for our sins. It
would be the very one who would be pierced in his hands and his
feet and hung in a cross in Psalm 22, he's the very one in
Isaiah chapter 53 that he would be there and he would suffer,
his beard would be plucked out. You ought read when's the last
time you read Isaiah 53? You ought to read it again. It's
Isaiah's prophetic utterance about the suffering of the
Messiah. His beard would be plucked out, his back would be
laid wide open. And the Bible tells us that all of that abuse
he took for us, that we might receive not only healing
spiritually, but also the Bible talks about physical healing as
well. Wow, his death. Now, if I was to leave Jesus' death right
there at that, Jesus died. Okay so here's ah people are just,
they're used to me saying something that they can twist
and make weird. So here's another one. Don't want to have
them run out of material. Do you know the difference between a
Christian crucifix and a Catholic crucifix? Anybody?
That's right. A Catholic crucifix has Jesus on it. A
Christian crucifix does not. That may be a revelation to some
of you, but Christians view that as anathema to be honest with
you, that Christ, he's not on the cross. He's not on the
cross. He was on the cross one Friday afternoon. That's it.
It's all it took. And when he rose again from the dead, never
to suffer again, never. The book of Hebrews we're studying on
Wednesday nights, says that he offered himself up once and
suffered and never again. He's not on the cross. He's enthroned
in heaven above. And the Bible makes it very, very clear that
his death, my friends, his death. You got to remember
something. When we talk about the death of Jesus Christ, we're
talking about the death of his physical body. His spirit didn't
die. His soul didn't die, his body died. If you were to die
today, your body would die. That's the only part of you.
Look, listen, you are three parts, body, soul, and spirit.
The Bible tells us, body, soul, and spirit. The Bible says that
apart from Christ, we're spiritually dead. So our spirit
is like in a state of coma and the Bible says it's the Holy
Spirit that awakens our spirit. And then the mind "Psyche" in
the Greek. Root word of psychology. Psyche is the
thinking. We're born spiritually dead, but we have a soul which
is our mind, and we have a body. Listen, without Jesus, we're
running on two thirds of what we are, did you know that? When
we're born again, that third part comes alive, the spirit is
made alive. And what's great is that as you feed, are you
listening? As you feed your spirit, the word of God, as you
feed more and more you attend Bible study, you grow, you
serve, you put the Bible into action, and you grow and you get
yourself. Honestly, I'm not saying this to invoke anybody,
signing up for anything, don't do that, but go somewhere, do
whatever. But when you begin to put into practice what you know,
when you go do Christianity, that's when the fireworks,
that's when things connect and the power of God shows up
because honestly, why would God give you power? If you study the
Bible and you're just going to sit down the rest of your life,
he's not going to give it. I don't see anything happening.
Look, speak for yourself. God wants to do stuff with you. When
you read it, tell him, Lord, I just read this today. I'm going
go, I'm gonna get up and go do that. Watch what happens. You'll
be trembling, you'll be dry mouth, you'll be scared and the
spirit of God shows up and then you walk away, freaked out,
galvanized and transformed. When he died, God says, okay, all
those who will trust in my son, it's as though they died also.
So think about this. The death of Christ is waiting for some of
you, you've never come to Jesus. You've never asked him to
forgive you of your sins. You've never asked him to take control
of your life. You've never once have you done that, but this is
what God's waiting for you to do, to do that very thing. Why?
Because when that happens, he announces to you. Now that
you're alive, do you see who you used to be? Yes, I do. My
goodness people, if you're here today and you've never
experienced that, it's like being lost in a fog. And then
when you get out of the fog and you look back at what you just
came from, you had no idea where you were until you got out of
it. The moment you realize that is the moment that the believer
revels not only the death of Jesus, but the fact that God has
listen, God has deposited upon my life, in your life the death
of Jesus, that our life died 2000 years ago. You say, how
could that be? And I'm not even a Christian today you might say.
He's waiting for you. It's all been bought.
JACK: Did you hear what I said in the closing a moment ago?
That Christ died on the cross for you. He died on the cross
for me. You say, Jack, how in the world could that possibly be
true? Well, it would be impossible if it was some
religious guru, some sage, some messiah prophet, and that's all
he would be. I get it. I agree with you. It's impossible, but
it's only possible because it was God who died in the cross
for our sins. This prophetic God, the God who died 2000 years
ago is the God who knew you back then. He's known you. He paid on
the cross the debt of all of our sin. The remarkable thing is
that you and I, because you and I have sinned against God, this
is an eternal revelation of God that you and I would have
committed these sins. Even though he was on the cross 2000
years ago, he knew this in advance and he knew that you and
I couldn't become good enough. He knew that you and I couldn't
be sweet enough, nice enough, moral enough, and so Jesus went
to the cross and it's all been purchased for you and I that you
and I could experience eternal life. Can I tell you this way,
you know we get all excited when Amazon or UPS or US Postal or
somebody pulls up and drops off the package at our door and we
open the door and we unwrap or we open up the box and we pull
out, pull out what? We pull out what we ordered. The order was
placed by us. We knew what we wanted, so we purchased it,
right? We placed the order, it arrives and we open it up and we
think some miracle has happened. Look, it popped up at my front
door. Well, the truth of the matter is you ordered it several
days ago, hours ago or weeks ago, you had knowledge. Well,
think about this on a grand scale, God had the knowledge and
he invited you to become his child. So can you do that right
now? Can you say, Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sins. Wash me
in the blood of the lamb. Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, I
sinned against you, God, and I want to accept you as my Lord,
and I want to walk with you as my savior and from this
moment on, I want to be a Christ follower. Friend if you've
prayed that prayer, let us know at JackHibbs.com
because we want to reach back out to you
and welcome you to the family of God.
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encouraging you to develop a meaningful and consistent Bible
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