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JACK: In our culture today. I know I say this often, but I'm
going to keep saying it often. We've got to figure out how to
get alone. We're too busy, we're too distracted. When was the
last time you just unplugged and said, God, speak to
me? How are we doing, Lord? Together you
and I, let Him speak to you. He's personal.
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JACK: Friends, it is a fact God cannot fail you. He cannot.
Listen. I know how emotionally everyone has this thing with
God, where He let me down. God broke His Word to me. He didn't
come through. That's never the case. It's impossible. He can't
do that. The fact of the matter is God cannot fail. He never
fails. You and I misread things. You and I do not understand
things, but listen, everybody, check this out. This is going to
be a deep dive, and we're starting in Romans chapter 9.
Here's what God gave us in Romans chapter 9, Romans chapter
10 and 11. It's looking into The Word of God. Paul pauses in the
book of Romans and he addresses Israel's relationship with God
in the past. Romans 9, in Romans 10, it's Israel's relationship
with God now, in this era. And then Romans 11 is about God's
dealing with Israel's future. Oh, yes, Israel's got a
tremendous future with God. But listen, many commentators and
sad to say, many pastors, in churches today will never even
teach on Romans 9, 10 or 11. They avoid it because they say
it's too controversial, it's too hard to understand. It deals
with Israel and God's election and salvation and Gentile, and
we'd rather not talk about it. Listen, fear not my friend.
We're going to go through it and we're going to get into it. Why?
Because God gave us the Bible to study and the answers are there.
Not to scare us, but to prepare us for the future. And so by
using our Bibles, even using our Bibles alone without any help
from anything else, the Holy Spirit will speak to you. He's
going to lead us and guide us and we don't need human
intervention. God is well able to speak from Genesis to
Revelation. It's all about Jesus Christ the Messiah. Yeshua
Hamashiach, the Bible teaches us, that He is in fact the
savior of the world. Sound radical, sound tremendous.
Let's see what the Bible says. So let's grab our Bibles
and dive into the study, God Cannot Fail You.
JACK: The security of the sovereign Word when God speaks,
God who is not a man, the Bible says cannot lie when God speaks,
He speaks the truth. And the Bible tells us in verse 6, right
here in the opening part of verse 6, it says, but it is not
that The Word of God has taken no effect. When He speaks about,
the Jews not believing, that not all who say they're Israel are
of Israel. What does this mean? What's the result? Those that
say there are Jews, but not all of them are Jews. Is it that
lack of God's Word being powerful? Has God's words
failed? Will God's Word ever fail? You never fail you. God's
word cannot fail. The only reason why you and I would say
this is not working, it's because of us, not Him. And they
refuse to believe Jesus had to contend with it. They had taken
the revelation of God and they had made it into man-made
religion. And they set up all of these orders and all of these
do's and don'ts. And all God desire and desires is a personal
relationship. And you come to know that by his awesome
sovereign word. When God speaks to you, He says, listen, does
this attract you? God says, I have loved you with an
everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness, do I draw you?
The word draw means He pulls you in, but He doesn't... He doesn't
make you love Him. That would not be a relationship. That
would be tyranny. His love for us is clearly revealed in
scripture, but this is pretty, I think powerful for us. When you
look at verse 6 in the opening words of it, but it is not that
The Word of God, mark it down in your notes. That's the logos of
God. The logos, that beautiful word logos, and this is the
meaning of it. Logos. The logos is the embodiment of thought.
Think about that. When The Word Jesus became flesh and dwelt
among us. Right everybody, are you guys awake? Okay. So the
logos is the embodiment of a thought. This is fun, Jesus.
What does this mean? That means that Jesus is the manifestation
of the will of God. You could actually see the will of God
when you're watching and listening to Jesus minister 2000
years ago. Could you imagine? You're watching the will of God
be lived out on earth. An idea, an expression, it is the
embodiment, a statement, an answer in utterance and
appearance. It is the divine revelation of the divine
thought. And is the communication of the most
perfect thought information or intelligence to another. In
other words, it's communicated the logos by being the very
logos Jesus Christ is to be spoken of, is to be announced. I
love this. Jesus Christ, the name of Jesus. The word of God
itself was never to be contained in a box or hidden. It is to be
announced to the world, that for God's soul of the world that he
gave His only begotten son, that whosoever would believe in Him
would not perish but have everlasting life. That Christ
died on the cross for our sins. He rose again from the grave for
our justification. That's to be preached among the world, never
contained. God's sovereign word, when it goes out, people have to
decide on it. Let's be honest. I know you're ringing your hands,
you're frustrated. You see your son or your daughter or your mom
or your dad, they're just not responding to the gospel. Just
pray. But just know this, ask God to intervene. Ask God, Lord,
wake them up, Lord cause your mercy to fall upon them. You
pray and you battle like that in prayer, but know this, God's
word goes out and His children will respond to His Word and he
knows this. He's always known this, and God has never existed
without knowing this. It's called foreknowledge. We read it
a moment ago, and that's a strong foundation for where
we're going. Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 is a beautiful
picture of this logos being revealed. It says the revelation
of Jesus Christ. The book of Revelation is the apocalyptic or
the revealing or the pulling of the drape, so to speak. Imagine
you have a statue and you're going to reveal the statue. You
pull off the covering and that is the apocalypses, the
revealing of the statue. Okay, you with me? The book of
Revelation is pulling off the veil of who Jesus Christ is and
it's awesome. Read always the book of Revelation. You should
read it all the time. The Bible, the book of Revelation says you
should read it all the time because number one, it says, God
says, I'll bless those who read it. And I'll bless those who
hear it being read. You want to bless your family? Read the book
of Revelation to them. Say, you got to be kidding me. I'm not
kidding you, but I will tell you this. The book of Revelation has
a presupposition to it. It supposes you've already read the
Old Testament. You will never understand the book of
Revelation unless you read the Old Testament. It's impossible.
What's mentioned in the old is fulfilled in the Book of
Revelation. That book will unlock things to you, not make
you more confused, unlock things to you. But God's Word is
effective even if people don't believe it. This is what Paul is
saying in the front end of verse 6 is God's word never fails. In
fact, The Word listen when it says that it's not that it has
not taken any effect, the word effect means to drop off or to
diminish. God's word does not drop off in strength. So, the
Bible it's so old, I can't believe you get up in the
morning, you guys go to that church and where you just gather
around an old book. It's not an old book. This thing is alive.
And listen, there's stuff that hasn't even happened yet that's
written in this book and we're waiting for it to happen. This
thing's alive, okay? It's not the newspaper. To drop off or to
diminish, to fade away. The Bible doesn't fade away. It
doesn't lose power. Wow. It doesn't fail. It's not going to
fail. Church, family, the effectiveness of The Word of
God, it doesn't need to be charged, doesn't need to be
pumped up. I dunno if this is good or bad, but the other day,
last night actually over by PF Chang, there's a whole lineup of
Teslas getting charged up. Some people are sitting in their car
reading books. Seriously. I said what are they doing in there?
They're reading a book. Why are they reading the book? Because
they're charging their batteries. And this one guy,
I've never seen this happen before. You got to handle this
guy, some guy pulled up in a big Ford pickup truck and just
parked right in one of those Tesla parks. I mean, he turned
off his, he got his diesel going, I'm going to turn that
thing off. He got off and he just walked into PF Chang's and
I'm thinking, that's awesome. He didn't plug it in. He couldn't
find a parking spot, so he parked where the electric car is
supposed to park. Ate his dinner, got back in his truck.
The people are still sitting there reading their book. God's
Word is not like that. In fact, tonight, if the conditions are
right and everything goes off at about 7:13 this evening, look to
the west and watch Elon Musk launch a rocket and you'll see
it go out and listen, that thing not only picks up speed, but
once it gets into space, it keeps going and you're going to
watch it. You'll lose sight of it just south of Hawaii. By the
time it's just a little speck what's going on? It's
accelerating and then it gets into an atmosphere that it
doesn't diminish. It just keeps going. Think about that regard
in the Bible. God launched the Bible through His prophets. He
launched the Bible through Abraham. He launched the Bible
through Moses, through Deborah, you name the great men and women
of the Bible. And that truth of His never diminishes. It keeps
going. It doesn't run out. Well, that was then today's now. The
Bible doesn't lose any power. What we need to do is align
ourselves with the strength of God's Word. I want to God move.
So do I. Let's find out where He's moving or what He wants to
do to move. His Word is alive, and God says in Isaiah 55:11,
I'm going to send it out to accomplish whatever I've
intended it to do and it will not return unto me void. The
power of God's Word is absolutely awesome, and you know
something about this and how beautiful this is, that God
would personify His Word in John chapter 1, very familiar to all
of us as Christians. John 1 verse 1 that is in the beginning
that was of physical universe in the beginning of the physical
universe was, that is was already, the logos. The Word and
the logos. The word was with God, and The Word was God. Let
that sink in. He, the logos was in the beginning with God. So
when physical universe is being created, He was already there.
Jesus was never created. The cults create Jesus. That's why
they're a cult. Jesus has never been created. Jesus is the
eternal son of God, savior, the second person of the Holy
Trinity as revealed in the Bible. Thus the Elohim of the
Bible. God in singular plurality, God the Father, God
the Son, God, the Holy Spirit, awesome. All things were made
through Him and without Him, nothing was made, that was made.
Verse 14 and The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory. John says, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father full of grace and truth, is that awesome? That is
absolutely incredible. The logos of God never diminishes the
security of God. Sovereign Word is that work in your life? Are
you a follower of Christ today? Guess what? He is committed to
Himself to get you into heaven. What do I need to do? Stay out
of the way. Let Him get it done. He'll do it. Follow Him. Jesus
never said, now, here we go, you lead. No, Jesus said, here we
go. You follow? Isn't that great? Don't you like to follow?
I like to follow. I've always struggled with God personally.
Don't tell anybody about this. I'm really good at following.
I'm really good it, I think growing up in the Marine Corps
home had a lot to do with that. But it made a lot of sense to me
becoming a Christian, and if I were to ever be in the ministry,
I would've picked being an assistant pastor because just
what do you need done? I'll do it. Because I have no problem
doing what I'm doing to God. It doesn't matter who the guy is.
I'm going to do it. I'm doing it for God. And I love that stuff,
and there's liberty. I dunno if you know this or not, but
there's a lot of liberty and obedience. God calls us His
children. He doesn't call us His slaves, but did you know The
Word servant in the Bible is The Word slave? You say, well, which
one is it? It's both. The more you get to know God, the more
you fall in love with who He is as a person. That when you come
to Him in a relationship, you want to be His biblical slave.
Say, what is a biblical slave? Alos or dolo? A doulos. So what
is that? That means, listen, in the Roman world, if I owed
somebody money and I couldn't pay them, then I had to go into
servitude to their world and I had to mow their lawn, trim
their tree, milk their cow, whatever it was until I've had
my debt paid off. You with me? But during that time, if I met,
maybe I met this woman and she's also in servitude and we get
married. This happened all the time in the Roman world, and
then we had kids. We still work for the same boss. He's the guy
that we couldn't pay back, so we're working off our debt, but
I worked off my debt before my wife works off her debt and I've
got the kids and I realized, you know what? Excuse me, sir, but
you're a good master. I have flourished under this time of
servitude to you. I don't want to go. Well, your wife's got
three more years to pay off her debt. Well, listen, you're so
good to me, good to us. I want to give you my life. So the
master would say, that's awesome. I want to keep you. I
love you, I love you. Then let's settle it. They go out to the
porch. The guy puts his ear on a piece of wood right there, and
the owner takes a nail and puts, it's called an awl, puts an
earring in there. All the guys are going, what? And all the
girls are going, is it gold? Is it diamond? Little cross? It's
an announcement. I have a good master. I've chosen to give him
the rest of my life, to serve him, and that relationship is
very descriptive of the Christian relationship with God
The Father. Listen, He says, call me Father, you are my
children, and then out of that love, we turn around and say,
whatever you want done, whatever you're going to do, Lord, send
me. It's that sweet. It is that beautiful because the logos has
communicated to us that He has been and has provided for us
salvation. Philippians chapter 2, verse 12 says, therefore my
beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling or reverential awe.
Look at verse 13. For it is God who works in you. You say, well,
wait a minute. You just work out your own salvation. Then it
says, for God, it is God who works in you both to will and do
of His good pleasure. What's the answer? Yes, that's true. The
answer is yes. Present yourself, and God The Spirit will do your
work of life in your, you're just to yield. Does that make
sense people? And this is going to be important because Abraham
is going to be commended In a moment, the works of Abraham
will be commended. I'm going to ask you in advance be thinking,
what are the works of Abraham? In Luke chapter 24 verse 44,
Luke 24:44, we're still talking about the security of His
sovereign Word. It says there that Jesus said to them, this is
the latter evening now of resurrection Sunday. These are
The Words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that
all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of
Moses. Everybody, Jesus is the issue. Christ is the issue of
the entire Bible. Jesus is speaking here in Luke 24:44.
Listen, everything that's been written from Moses and the
prophets and the Psalms concerning who? Me. Jesus is
speaking and He says, the whole book is written about my life,
about me, about my person. We don't believe in Jesus because,
because it's Jesus. Well, I'm born in the western world.
Christianity was the dominant religion, and I guess I'm a
Christian. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's Jesus because the Bible
from Genesis 3:15 to the book of Revelation chapter 22, it's all
about Jesus. Ad Jesus says so right there. By the way, if
anybody ever tells you, remember, oh, you Jesus never
said he was God. This is a verse right here that Jesus is
announcing. The entire Bible was written about me. I mean, that's
pretty wild. Think about it. Well, I believe Jesus was a
great prophet. I don't. That's crazy. Well, I believe he's a
very good person, the best person ever. I don't. That's
crazy. Well, why do you say that? Because if you're saying
he's the best person ever, but he's not God, then how do you
explain this? Jesus said, if you die believing in me, you'll live
forever. Jesus says, you come to me, your sins will be forgiven.
Either that's crazy, or He's God. Oh, He is a good prophet.
No, no, no, no. You can't be a good prophet and pull that off.
And you can't be a good person and say such things without
being God. And yet everything He did, He said that he was going
to do it in advance. It's called the Bible. Absolutely awesome.
Verse 45, and He, that is the logos opened their understanding
that they might comprehend the scriptures, that they might, in
a sense behold Him absolutely remarkable security. Listen,
Christian, don't say anything out loud right now where you're
at. Do you understand that you cannot save yourself? None of us
can. That's why Jesus went to the cross. You can't do it.
JACK: So listen, are you getting it? God cannot fail you. But
listen, poof. Right? A mind blowing moment for most who
believe that God grades on a scale, maybe I'm better than my
neighbor. Maybe I'm not as good as the guy up the street, but
I'm better than most of my neighbors, so I guess when I
die, I'll go into heaven. No, or I'm a very moral individual or
I'm a very religious individual and I guess I'm okay with God.
No, you're not. You better not make that an assumption that
could be eternally fatal. When you and I wake up to the
realization that you and I are sinners, the Bible says, I'm not
saying that to insult you. I'm saying that to rescue you. I'm a
sinner. Jack is a sinner. I was born a sinner like you. I sin
like you, and I still sin like you. The difference is I'm now a
follower of Jesus and I don't want to sin. Listen, before I
was a Christian, I planned on sinning. I called people up and
I asked them if they wanted to sin. I made sure that we made an
appointment next Tuesday. Hey, let's sin. Now, as a believer, I
cannot do that. And the truth is this, listen, you cannot reform
yourself, but you can give yourself over to Jesus Christ.
You can't save you. If you could save you, then why did Jesus go
to the cross? If you can save you, why did God give us the
Bible telling us that we've all sinned and come showed of the
glory of God and that we need Christ? You and I must give up
our lives now, to gain our lives. We do that by following
Christ now. We say, Lord, here I am. I surrender to you. It's not
about moral works. It's about repentance of sin. Recognizing
that Christ died on the cross for you, and He's the only one
that can forgive you. And you need to pray. You need to ask
Him, Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sins. God, cleanse me. Make
me new. I don't want religion. I want relationship with their
living God. Friends, if you've prayed that prayer, if that's
what you want, you can get ahold of us at jackhibbs.com and we'll
reach out to you with content and material.
We won't bother you. We just want to point you
to Jesus. Give us that opportunity. Until next time,
God bless you. Get in The Word. Stay there.
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