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JACK: When you're in trouble, if you don't confess it to God,
you'll try to hide from God. How will you do that? You'll try to
act like it's normal. You'll go to church on Sunday. If you're
really guilty, you'll show up on Wednesday and God sees right
through your leaves and they're hiding it. Religion does that by
the way. Religion without Christ will hide the issue.
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in divine navigation. Though we may not see God, let's trust in
His providence, knowing He orchestrates all things for
those who seek Him and put their faith and hope in Him. Get ready
for the message. "God Sees Everything."
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means to live a cross-centered life. This short yet powerful
book is a classic for every Christian's library, reminding
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to experience the freedom and purpose found in a life centered
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(Music)
JACK: Listen. God sees everything according to the
Bible, which is 100% truth. God announces that He sees
everything. That's the kind of God He is. The God of the Bible,
from Genesis to Revelation is God's great grand reveal that
He's the God that sees all. In fact, listen, I want to
introduce you to a study that we're doing in Romans chapter
12, verse 1. But listen up carefully. I want to read it to
you a little bit different, because the Bible opens up in
Romans 12 by saying, "I beseech you therefore, brethren." In
other words, I'm begging to you therefore, brethren, well, I
would I would put it this way. This is the Pastor Jack version
for our ears today. I would say, therefore, it's the therefore
that has this strength to it. "Therefore, I beseech you,
brethren," it's a strong word. Therefore means everything that
we've learned previously comes into play now for the brethren.
So, yes, of course, "I beseech you therefore, brethren," Paul
is saying, "I plead with you, I beg with you," while I'm saying,
consider the therefore. And so let's dive into the Word of God.
Be asking the questions why throughout the Scripture, why
the calling? Why the, why the radical invitation for us to
live a life for Jesus, such as we see in Scripture today? So
let's grab our Bibles. Let's dive into our message.
God sees everything. All right, let's go.
(Music)
JACK: We give God our attention because of what has been done
for you. Done for us, He says, "I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God," I love this by the mercies
of God. The word by means on account of. It's a simple
accounting term, by the way. Afterward, the conclusion or the
charge or the application. The application of the mercies of
God. Galatians chapter 4, verse 4 tells us that, "when the
fullness of time had come, God sent forth His son, born of a
woman, born under the law," Why? "To redeem those who were under
the law," that's all mankind, "that we might receive the
adoption as sons." Okay. At just the right time, God moved. The
reason why Christ was born 2000 years ago is because it was
foreordained by God that He would come into the world 2000
years ago. Now, I don't know about you, but that excites me
to no end. When you look at creation, when you look at Adam
and Eve, when you look at the account of the Old Testament era
and Israel and nation and nations, and you come out to
this moment of time now, it's a great warning to all of us, or a
great encouragement to all of us that time is running out. We've
never been this far down the timeline before than we are
today. And I, for one, get excited about that. "Yeah, but
Jesus hasn't come back yet." Not yet. But we're one day closer.
He's going to come back someday. But listen. See the word
mercies? This is cool. The word mercies, to have in your
possession, to feel, to experience, to have compassion
for or pity upon. We will discover that this God emotion
will provide the justification needed for mankind to be saved.
More on that in a moment. Jesus Christ would come to take away
our sins. Watch this. The God of the Bible is merciful, meaning
that He alone owns, governs, and provides mercy. What is mercy?
Mercy is not getting what you deserve. How many of you have
kids? Raise your hands. You know a little bit about mercy. Your
kid hasn't grown up enough yet to know. Boy, were my parents
merciful to me. But we're like that. As adults, we don't
realize we don't appreciate mercy until we come to Christ.
And mercy is not getting what you deserve. It's amazing. And,
it's very expensive. Mercy is expensive. Adam and Eve, when
they sinned. I want to ask you this question. Why didn't God
when He saw that Adam and Eve had sinned, just walk over to
the grand cosmic toilet bowl handle and flush the entire
catastrophe down the hole? Why didn't He just say, "I'm going
to start over?" I know what we would do. Let's- come on let's
be honest. If you and I were God, we'd walk over to the
cosmic handle and just go (Flush sound) after Adam, and Eve would
have done that to us. And don't, don't look at me so pious. You
do that to people now, don't we? If somebody crosses you, if
somebody attacks you, if somebody, whatever they do to
you, you just think like this, "well, I'm not inviting them
next year." Don't you? You start thinking, I'm not going to walk
down this street again. Are you hearing me? Gods- listen, all
that's done to God in hyper levels, and God says, "I'm going
to extend you mercy," and mankind threw it back at Him.
Remarkable. God calls you and I to extend mercy to others. I
can, I conclude that I cannot without God. I need God to give
that to me. Now prove it to you here. Genesis chapter 3, you
kind of knew I was going to go here anyway before I read this
here. This is a- beware. There's on your internet, on your
YouTube or whatever you're on. There'll be a thumbnail that
pops up and you can sign up for a course on Genesis. Don't do
it. First of all, it's not taught by a theologian. It's
taught by somebody who is an English teacher. But I guess a
million or so people have taken it. And the class teaches
Genesis as literature and poetic. It's not factual. And in
the commercial, The professor mocks the ridiculous statement
made in the Bible that the that the serpent would have to crawl
on its belly from this time forward. When the person says,
"how ridiculous is that? When serpents, that's all they can do
is crawl on their belly." See, if you don't read the Bible and
believe the Bible, you're going to think that's how it is.
You're going to see in a moment that the serpent in Genesis
didn't crawl on its belly. It was judged, and then it had to
crawl on its belly. But this course mocks God, and then it
mocks the fact that Eve talked to a serpent. You say, "well,
that's kind of weird." It is weird in our world, but you have
no idea what it was like in the Garden of Eden. We know it was
perfect. That's all we know. Now, the serpent was more
cunning, remarkable. Something Very great in God's creation.
Something very wise, very probably beautiful. Probably
stood upright and in some capacity. That kind of freak you
out for a moment, isn't it? I don't like snakes, period. If
they're standing up or laying down, I just hate them. I hate
worms because they remind me of snakes. Now, the serpent was
more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. And he, the serpent, said to the woman. Okay, there you
go. That's weird. So if this is weird to her, Eve, don't you
think she'd say, "this is weird. This is weird." We think it's
weird. She didn't think it was weird. Which do, did animals
talk back then? Let me rephrase that. Do you talk to animals?
You know what I'm talking about? We all do. "Hello, Kitty. Hi,
kitty." And we turn into, like, we look like idiots. "Oh, look
at my little boo boo boo." You know our dogs, "aren't you a
pretty boy?" I wonder what the dog's thinking. He's like, "man,
have some dignity, will you?" You got to wonder. Look for Eve.
It's like. What? You know, it's normal here. And he said to the
woman, "has God indeed said, you shall neat- that you shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?" Excuse me. What does
the Bible say? "Do not add to the Word of God." There's no
doubt Satan has possessed this animal. He's speaking through
it. Anytime someone says, "has God said," look, I don't mean to
upset anybody. In fact, maybe to save someone's life. Has God
said there's only two genders? Oh, you laugh, but this is
costing people their lives. Who's taking their lives? Jesus
said, "I've come to give you life. Satan has come to take
your life." When somebody says, "oh, you can be, you can be
whatever you want. You can be a furry. You can tell your mom and
dad to get you a potty," a cat, what do you call that thing? A
cat box? No. I'm serious. I'm not joking. Whose logic is that?
It's not human. It's Satan. "Has God said, you shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent,
we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden. God has
said, you shall not eat, nor shall you touch it, lest you
die. Then the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely
die." Okay. Now God's a liar. You see? Eve, He's holding out
on you. "You shall not surely die. For God knows that the day
you eat of it, your eyes will be opened," oh, now he's a
philosopher, "and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil." Any religion, any snake that talks to you and says, "you
can become a God. Follow us." It worked in the garden. It works
still today, you can be good enough to get into the kingdom
of God. Yes, Jesus died for your sins, but we carry it now
forward. Watch out everybody! That's deception. And, "so when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food," mmmm tempting.
It's good for it. This tastes great. Oh, it tastes so good.
You should have some. Tastes so good. Mmm that it was pleasant
to the eyes. Look at that. I'm convinced. By the way,
commercials and catalogs are built off of this watch.
Seriously. "Tastes great. So beautiful. And look, it's
desirable to make you wise." Wow. What does that mean? It
means God made me deficient. It means He didn't give me
everything that I should have had coming to me. This serpent
is telling me some pretty enlightening things. Even though
there's a lisppp every time he says something, "Sssso, Eve" and
this. You know. And this gets really sad real fast. And then,
"she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her her
husband," by the way, that it appears that either no one knows
the answer to this, it's assumed that Adam was nowhere around.
It's probably the case. Or is he would have stepped in. We don't
know if she took the fruit to him or he showed up. But this
one thing we know the moment they partook, or the moment she
partook of the fruit, you'll see her light went out. When it says
that they were naked and not ashamed. I love what the ancient
rabbis teach, that they were not naked like we know nakedness.
They were naked of clothing, but covered in light. Adam and Eve.
Why? Because God is light and He walks in the light. And they
walked with Him in the garden. But whatever it is, without
clothing, without fabric, she eats and he eats and they know
they're naked instantly. What happened? Their light went out.
Their Light went out. And so, "then the eyes of both of them
were opened. And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed
fig leaves together and made themselves coverings." Church.
Remember all the little cartoons? Eve's got little, fig
leaves here and she's got a fig leaf there. And then Adam has a
fig leaf here. That's not how it was, I think you know, just by
reading it. They were covered in leaves. They covered themselves
in leaves like the Jolly Green Giant had leaves on the can. And
maybe if there was anything they had, their eyes were open to see
something, and maybe they had leaves on their eyelashes, I
don't know, but they were covered. Why? We're hiding. Can
you imagine? What are you doing? We're hiding. From who? God. Who
sees everything. And He knows everything. Why are you hiding?
Naked. Well, you don't look naked to me, you're full, you're
covered in leaves. Our light went out. "And they heard the
sound," verse 8, "and they heard the sound of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord," isn't
that sad? "Among the trees of the garden," by the way, when we
sin against God, do we not hide? When we sin against God? Listen,
when your kids, when you know, listen when when you're home and
you've got kids and the house goes quiet. That's parents go,
"wait. Something's wrong. Why it's so quiet." What does that
mean? That means they're doing stuff they ought not to be
doing, why? They're hiding. And then you come down the hallway
and they cover themselves. Because here comes Mom and Dad.
This is an evidence of our fallen Adamic nature. When
you're in trouble, if you don't confess it to God, you'll try to
hide from God. How will you do that? You'll try to act like
it's normal. You'll go to church on Sunday. If you're really
guilty, you'll show up on Wednesday. I'm not, you know
what I mean? If you go on Sundays and Wednesdays, that's
what you do. But when you start all of a sudden going after the
event you're trying to cover, you're trying to, "hey, God,
look, see? I'm here. It's all good." And God sees right
through your leaves. And they're hiding it. Religion does that.
By the way. Religion without Christ will hide the issue. And
so He said, so God says, "where are you?" So he said, watch
everybody, "I heard your voice," Adam speaking, "in the garden.
And I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself." Number
one everybody church participate. Did God, did God
have to ask, "where are you?" Did he know where they were? He
knew where they were at. Watch. Hope you're sitting down. This
will blow your mind. The reason why God said, "where are you?"
Is because He was trying to invoke a confession. Do you
know? We know this 100% from biblical doctrine of the Bible,
which never changes. If Adam and Eve would have said, "time out,
we blew it. We sinned against you God, please forgive us." Do
you know what He would have done? He either would have
forgiven them on the spot, or He would have shed the innocent
blood of an animal and applied it to them on the spot.
Everything would have been fine. We wouldn't have the traffic
that we have today. So watch what happens. He was trying to
get them to confess things that we won't do if we're proud. And
so, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid I was a
naked." Verse 11, "and he said, who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you,
that you should not eat?" Did God not know this? Confession.
He sees dialing down, "Adam, gonna- getting another chance.
Just say you're sorry." Verse 12, "then the man said, the
woman whom you gave to me to be with me, she gave me of the tree
and I ate. It's your fault. God, you gave me that faulty woman."
And the Lord said, "and the Lord God said to the woman, what is
this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived
me, and I ate." You see, it's everybody's fault. Look, Adam
didn't have a leg to stand on. Eve didn't have a leg to stand
on. And then when God got done with the snake, he didn't have a
leg to stand on either. Notice God's the one. Are you hearing
this? God's the one that's in trouble. You did it all wrong.
Do you not hear people saying that today? Nothing's changed
unless we are born again and made brand new by the Spirit of
God, the Parakletos. We will think and act and live just like
this. These are our parents apart from Christ and we have
their DNA. S-I-N positive we have it. We gravitate to it. And
then listen. This is in the new New Living Translation, verse
21. It's great. "And the Lord God made clothing from animal
skins for Adam and his wife." Okay, they're not going to
repent. They're not going to repent. So what does God do? He
covers their nakedness, an innocent animal that had nothing
to do with this entire event had to die. The first death in the
Bible is an animal being sacrificed to cover the sins of
Adam and Eve. I find that incredibly significant because
listen, in a way, in a way, the last animal offered was for the
forgiveness of all mankind. But of course, I mean that with
affection. The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the
world, Jesus. But notice it is God who commits the first
offering, not man. It's God. He loves you so much that He's
telling you this announcement that, "I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God." God is merciful to anyone
who will say, "Lord, I've sinned against you. Forgive me." And
He'll wash you. He'll cleanse you and
put you right where you need to be.
JACK: Knowing God's perfect will for your life, as we just heard
in Scripture, listen is not only possible, it is absolutely
actual if you have the Word of God dwelling in you. Notice that
our programing is built upon one thing and one thing only.
There's nothing else and that is the Word of God. If you have the
Word of God in you, you are going to know God's will for
your life, and that is all important. Knowing God's perfect
will for our lives is what keeps us on track to know our sins
have been forgiven by Jesus alone. Wow. What about to know
that you and I can never be good enough, but Jesus always is.
What about that, God has a plan for our lives. Way better than
our plans. What about God and being so available to us that He
can even turn horrific pain and suffering into great glory and
great growth spiritually. You're going to get maybe a little bit
upset and derailed or sad or frustrated in life. That's going
to happen to all of us. But listen, trust God. And that's
just not some easy christianese I'm speaking. God is
trustworthy, my friends. He will make good of every or any
situation you're in, no matter how bad it is. And I promise you
that because I've got my story that I've never shared publicly.
But God can take the bad and make it good, and you can wind
up thanking Him for it later. Truly. God works in all
situations, everything for the good to those who are called by
God, to those who love the Lord and are called by the Lord. And
so I pray that you trust Jesus. So as we get into this, please
Lord, in Jesus name, bless my brothers and sisters, even those
who think they might have faith. And yet maybe they really don't
have saving faith in you. Lord God, open their eyes. Open our
eyes to a greater walk with you. In Jesus name, Amen. Friends,
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ANNOUNCER: The cross, for many, it's become little more than a
symbol we wear around our necks, display in our homes, or hang
from our rear view mirrors. But what if instead of being a
decoration or accessory, the cross motivated and shaped the
way we lived every single day? What if it wasn't about hiding
or minimizing our sin, but actually crucifying it in order
to move forward in the freedom Christ offers in, "Born
Crucified" by L.E. Maxwell. You'll discover what it truly
means to live a cross centered life. This short yet powerful
book is a classic for every Christian's library, reminding
us that the cross isn't just a symbol, it's the key to victory
over sin and the power to serve God effectively. If you're ready
to experience the freedom and purpose found in a life centered
on the cross, this book is for you. "Born crucified," is our
thank you gift. For a donation of any size to Real
Life, visit JackHibbs.com or call
877-777-2346 to request your copy. Order now.
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