ANNOUNCER: The following program is sponsored by generous
friends and partners of Real Life.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Real Life with Jack Hibbs.
JACK: You and I live in a world that's a battle of the will. God
is inviting you and Satan is pulling you. God has got His
arms open saying, "I love you" and Satan has got his arms
open. And he's saying, "Let me lie to
you." And that's the world we live in.
ANNOUNCER: God wants you to live your life to the fullest. In
today's message, Full Throttle, Jack Hibbs challenges us to run
our race on Earth at top speed, which leads to eternal victory
with Christ. Start your engines. Real Life starts now.
ANNOUNCER: What do you do when you've been treated unfairly?
When someone wrongs you, abuses their power, or betrays your
trust? When God seems silent in your pain? In "A Tale of Three
Kings," Gene Edwards weaves the biblical stories of Saul, David
and Absalom into a powerful narrative about surrender,
trust, and finding peace in the midst of suffering. This
timeless book speaks to anyone who has experienced hurt,
disappointment or conflict, whether in relationships, the
workplace, or even the church. Through these pages, you'll
discover the true strength isn't found in retaliation, but in
surrendering to God's will. If you're wrestling with
unfairness, brokenness, or heartbreak, this book will offer
wisdom, healing, and a new perspective. "A Tale of Three
Kings" is our thank you gift for your donation of any size
to Real Life. Visit jackhibbs.com or call
877-777-2346 to request your copy. Order now.
(MUSIC)
JACK: Well, listen, friends, putting your pedal to the metal
is an old term about going very fast. It's about giving
everything you can to go as strong and as fast as you can.
And I believe that's no more true than in the Christian life.
If we were to, so to speak, put the pedal to the metal, it would
mean that we are putting our faith into absolute action. And
so I want you to be considering that as we get into our study
today, and I want you to be challenged in your life with
Jesus to go full speed ahead. And I mean that sincerely, that
following Jesus Christ should be thrilling. It should be
exciting. And you know what? In a life like today, in the world
around us, like today, people need to see others like us
living for Christ all the way. So the Bible tells us, finishing
and finishing well, and I would add, finishing at full speed. So
let's grab our Bibles and let's get into this study as we look
to the Word of God together, Full Throttle. And that's how
the Christian ought to be living. So again,
let's grab our Bibles and get into this study,
into the book of Romans. Let's go.
(MUSIC)
JACK: According to the Bible, God made you and I a 3
dimensional creature. We have a body, we have a spirit, and we
have a soul. Or we would say mind, interchangeable. And in
that there's like an umbrella that is over us and that is our
will. So, for example, for you to do your will, it takes all of
you to do that. I think you know that. Do you remember when Jesus
was telling the disciples, "We're going to go to Jerusalem.
I'm going to be betrayed, and I'll be arrested. I'll be beaten
and I'll be crucified. And on the third day I'll rise from the
dead." And you got to remember, Jesus Christ was the literal,
eternal God who visited this world in human skin to bring
about our salvation. And He goes to the Garden of Gethsemane,
which Gethsemane means the crushing. That's where you crush
the olive. Olive. What is an olive? Is it a what is a fruit?
Is it a fruit? Yeah. Olive. Is it a vegetable? Oh, no. Sorry.
Who cares? Gethsemane means where you crush the olives. And
Jesus is in that garden where you can go to today. It's still
there. And He prayed. Listen. He prayed, "Father, if there's any
other way for this cup to pass from me, let it be." And there
was silence. The Father didn't answer Him. What was Jesus
praying? "Father, if there's any other way for mankind to be
saved apart from me going to this cross, let's do it." And
there was no answer. Why? Because He was the answer. And
then Jesus said those words. "Not my will, but thy will be
done." And Jesus got up from that moment and lived out His
life to the point of death, doing the will of the Father.
But how did He do that? His spirit, His soul, and His body
acted in harmony. As a believer, you and I are to walk in this
unison of God's will for our lives. Look, apart from Jesus,
there's an unholy trinity that makes up you and I, me, myself
and I, and we all scheme and plot together to try to pull off
what's best for me. And you look at me so pious. It's you too.
You did that too. In fact, that's what we fight with today
in our walks with Jesus. Is that our will, our will is challenged
by sometimes the appetites of the flesh. And we've got to turn
to our flesh and school, our flesh. We got to remind our
flesh about the Bible and that the flesh is no longer in
charge. And so that all incorporates our will. And the
Bible says in verse 2, "And do not be conformed." Please mark
down that word conformed. "Do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
may prove what is the good and accepted and perfect will of
God." Well, we have our own will. The Bible tells us that we
are, we were created in the image of God, and you have a
will, and what you do with your will matters. Your decision that
you make has to do with your will. The life that you live,
listen. The lifestyle that you live has to do with your will.
Someone has said that, "The will is very powerful, but that also
there's this desire to not will that is even more powerful and
that comes from God." When our body says this, or our minds say
this, or whatever's going on, we we resist. We fight because we
are believers. What about your will? And of course, I'm talking
about the very essence of who we are as human beings. I'm going
to give you some verses. We're going to go kind of quick on
this. Are you guys okay today? Okay. I'm going to need you to
to I'm tired today. I'm just telling you straight up. I'm
fine. By the way. I'm not sick or anything. It's just sleep's
been a rarity this week. And so I'm going to need you guys. You
can be Pentecostal during this service today. How's that? Okay.
That's enough. Isaiah 66. Isaiah 66. Listen to this. "Thus says
the Lord,'Heaven is my throne. Earth is my footstool. Where is
the house that you will build me? And where is the place of my
rest? For all those things my hand has made, and all those
things exist as the Lord. But on this one will I look on him who
is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my
word?" Let me clarify something for you in this modern age. God
is not saying that just because you're poor, you have a special
place in my heart. That's not what it means. He's talking
about that very thing, you know, in the sermon on the Mount.
"Blessed are the poor in spirits." He's talking about
those who don't see themselves as much in light of the grandeur
of God. When it says they have a contrite spirit, it means
they're quick to repent of the wrong that they do. God says, "I
love that person." Are you hearing me? God is not saying,
"I love the person that never sins. I love the person that
never makes a mistake." Does does such a person exist? Nope.
God says, "I love the person that looks upon themselves and
understands the fact that in them they need me. In them. They
know that they cannot save themselves. The Bible goes on to
say that, "In them, in us dwells no good thing," and that turns
us into those of a contrite spirit. That's the key, by the
way, to walking before the Lord in humility, realizing how
wretched we are of ourselves, causes us to be of a contrite
spirit, which means we need Him and God thank you for giving me
my very breath at this moment. That life lived causes us to
tremble at His Word. This is not a terrible trembling, nor is it
a tremble like we might tremble today in a cold, wintry day,
like it is here. To tremble is not to tremble because you're
cold. It's to tremble at the grandeur of the Word of God, the
Bible. Incredible, awesome. And when life is at its end, the
greatest joy is the Word of God, the very Bible. That's why you
see our dear brothers and sisters wanting nothing more.
When all comes to the end, they want nothing more than to, "Read
me the Bible," they say. They want to hear the Bible on audio.
Just play the Bible. "I want to pass into His arms. I want to
hear the Bible." Lisa's dad was dying at USC and he said, "Just
sing hymns, will you?" I remember he moved his mask and
says, "Sing hymns." And he wanted to go into glory singing
hymns. And that's all that matters. Why? Because listen,
your will, when it's brought under the control of Christ, is
a glorious thing. But notice in that verse God says, "I don't
need a place to live." And this actually has to do with your
will. Look at the next verse in John's gospel, John 15, verse 4
and John 14, verse 18. Jesus said, "Abide in me, live in me.
Take up your residence in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine,
neither can you, unless you abide in me." Chapter 14, verse
18, "I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you."
Jesus said that just before He went back up into heaven. He
said, "I'm going to go to heaven, but I'm going to send to
you my Holy Spirit. And by the Holy Spirit I will live in you."
That's a, that's a sermon for another day, but that screams
the doctrine of the Trinity. "I'm leaving, but I'm going to
come back and be in you. I won't leave you orphaned. I'm going to
send the Holy Spirit to be with you forever." What an awesome
truth that is. In other words, God says, "You can build me a
building. That's not what I want. You can feel better, if
you feel better, David. Solomon, build me a temple. I don't need
it." I love that. Does God need this building? Absolutely not.
But Jesus says, "True relationship is when you allow
your will to invite God into your life." How many of you are
single? Anybody single in here? Raise your hand. Go ahead. It's
okay. That's it. Well, listen, if you're interested in
somebody, the first thought that you have being single is you
hope they're interested in you. But how are you going to know?
By the way, take notes on this. Gee whiz, I have guys all the
time, "Pastor," and they're, like, sweating. They're like,
freaking out. I think they're going to say, "God's called me
to the dark jungles of the Amazon," and I'm waiting to hear
that. And I go, what's troubling you? "I think I like a girl."
You think you like a girl, you think or you know, which one is
it? I Have you talked to her? "No." You know why you're in
doubt. "Why?" Because you don't know. Because you haven't talked
to her yet. "I can't stand rejection." Get used to it. It's
just the way it is. Who cares? There's no. It's not a crime.
You walk up to her and you say, "Would you like to go out for a
cup of coffee?" If she says no, ask her ten more times. Ladies,
is that not true? Pursue her. She might think you're as ugly
as sin, but you know what? As you pursue her, She might say
he's starting to look a little attractive to me. But, guys, you
got to go for it, man. And listen, that whole dynamic of
relationship. I thank God that He has pursued me in my life.
And before I was a Christian, He was pursuing me then, and He
pursues me now and listen every day God has invited me to get
alone with Him. That's the God we have. He's a relational God,
and that's a matter of your will. Jesus said, "I don't want
to live anywhere else but in you." And God said in the Old
Testament, "I don't want to live in a house, a temple." I've been
to some tremendous temples in Europe. Cathedrals. Great ones,
famous ones. They have coffee shops in them now. Some of them
are in mosques. Dead. Great building. 800 years old. Dead.
And then if they do have a service, no Bible. And you
wonder why it's dead. I don't wonder why it's dead. I know why
it's dead. The autopsy is obvious. It's printed on the
wall. Today, five steps on how to be happy. No Bible. Listen,
I'll give you one step. How to be happy. Read your Bible and
God will take care of the rest on that. And then 1 Corinthians
chapter 6, 1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 18 tells us,
"Flee sexual immorality." We're still talking about your body
being presented as a living sacrifice. Isn't that amazing?
Watch this. You say what? What does that mean? It means see the
word flee. It's where we get the English word fugitive. Become a
fugitive to sexual immorality. Sexual? You mean like sexual
sex? Sexual. Like, like get together? Yeah. You mean flee
that? Yep. It's immoral. You know it? And now, if you're a
husband and a wife, that's a whole different thing. If you're
not married and you're having sexual immorality, which is what
you're having, you think, "Well, really? I mean, can I be as
sexually immoral Christian?" God says, "It'll destroy you. It'll
kill you. It will destroy you." You want to know why? It's an
idol. There's a place for it. God created it. He loves that,
there's confines. There's a place. You don't drive your
Ferrari around the dump if you have one. And you don't take
your dump truck on the Indianapolis race course,
either. Your body belongs to God. To take it outside the
realm of unsanctioned sexual relationship is to violate God's
design for your body. Think about that. And all of a sudden,
we're talking about being conformed to the image of this
world, aren't we? This world says, "Go out there and do it,
and do it as much as you can with as many as you can." And
God says, "It's death that leads to death. Flee sexual
immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body."
Notice how the Bible here is saying, "There are sins that are
outside the body, and those are things that repent of. But
there's a sin that a person can commit and watch what happens,
that he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own
body." Some of your Bibles render this, "Commit sins
against their own soul," because sexual immorality messes up the
way you think, and it messes up your ability to present your
body as a living sacrifice because you are now all jumbled
up and confused. And we're living in an age that is
confused and jumbled up. And God's Word tells us, "Or do you
not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who
is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own."
Watch. "For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in
your body and in your spirit, which are God's." Isn't that
amazing? I talked about younger people earlier and there are
nice young bodies and that's fantastic. But listen, you think
you can do what you want with your body? Where'd you get your
body from? God gave you your body and even this body of mine.
I'm patching it up and sewing it together and all that. It's
still. Listen, apparently, to the moment you're laying on your
death bed, if you know the Lord Jesus Christ, you can tell your
doctor. "Doctor, you need Jesus. I know exactly where I'm going
when I breathe my last breath. Do you?" And then you see,
doctors get all nervous. Why? Because they don't know the
answer apart from Christ. Jesus loves you. He came and he made
the way for you. And so we give God our will. And so when you
begin to think about how intricate all of this is, the
the detail of the human body. Think about it. What is our
human body for? What is our human mind for the mind? The
body is easy. It's. It's the. I mean, the body is amazing.
Scientifically it's amazing. But the mind. What are we talking
about here? The mind. You know, this is one of the great
arguments. Of course, you know this against evolution is
evolutionist to this moment cannot give you a definition of
human consciousness. They don't know where it comes from. And
frankly, you and I wouldn't know where it comes from either,
unless God says so. God says, "I've created you. The human in
my own image." That's where your consciousness comes from. Your
self-awareness, your thoughts, deep thoughts, whatever they may
be. God says, "I did that." And you think about that for a
moment. Here's, it's either God or evolution or God or atheism.
There are People in the world around us that we want them to
think a certain thing about us. Then there's the person that we
think about us really being, and then there's the person that God
knows, and God is all about you being not a contradiction, but a
unified trichotomy body, soul and spirit. And it's amazing to
think, because there's also the human will, as we've been
talking about, and all of that comes together. The body simply
becomes obedient to the command. What's coming down from the
central processing unit. And the mind is thinking and the mind
will make a decision. But all of that is based on the will, your
will. What will you decide to do with your life? What do you will
to achieve in this world? Or what do you will to think about?
What do you will to do with your opportunity or your time. This
is true for all of us. He says, "Do not be conformed to the
image of this world," and write this down if you would, and
meditate on this. It almost sounds insane, but you got to
look at it and it's this your mind controls your body and your
will controls your mind. What's the answer to this? It's
circular. Yes it is, but in the middle you can put a axle. You
can put a centerpiece. And that centerpiece is. Does Jesus
Christ truly live inside your life? Is are you a real follower
of Christ? I want to avoid the title, Christian. I'm fed up
with Christian. Everybody's a Christian. This is a Christian.
That's a Christian. There's I went to a place out of state. I
won't say just some state. They had Christian donuts. What is
that, Christian donuts? And I thought, that's weird, Christian
donuts. And wouldn't think it was so weird. But then I walked
down the street and there was a Christian coffee shop. It was.
Everything was about. It was Christian. They had a Christian
theater. And I'm just like, what makes a theater Christian? Can
there be an actual Christian donut? And then the answer came
to me, and the Greek is the language, Krispy Kreme. So of
course there is. Yes, there are certain donuts that are saved
and going to heaven, but but we have to be careful. Why do I
bring this up? That we're careful, that we don't
Christianize everything? Because you and I live in a world that's
a battle of the will. God is inviting you and Satan is
pulling you. God is speaking. Satan is yelling. God has got
His arms open saying, "I love you" and Satan has got
his arms open and he's saying, "Let me lie to
you." And that's the world we live in.
JACK: Well, friends, listen, that is powerful stuff from the
Word of God transforming, Full Throttle. Listen, it's about our
will and our will being submissive to the very will of
God. When our will is in control all of our fleshly appetites,
they are just raging. In fact, let's be honest, when our will
is not under the will of God, then our appetites are going
full throttle themselves and we want to reverse that in our walk
with Jesus Christ. So listen, remember the Bible tells us, "Do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of our minds." That is God's will for your life. And
the Bible tells us that if we do that, "We will be able to prove
what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God." So
it's important for you and I to turn to God and not to our
flesh. It's our flesh that seeks to be in charge. We must put it
in the back seat, so to speak. So remember, what you do with
your will matters. It absolutely matters. So, friends, listen,
let's pray right now. Let's get our will under the will of God.
Father, we pray right now in Jesus name that we surrender
ourselves to you completely. We ask you, Lord, that even if
we're not willing to let our will be governed by you, we pray
that you would make us willing. We want to submit. We want to
surrender. We want Jesus to be the one who's not only driving
our lives, but God that we would be going full throttle for the
things of God and Lord, that we would see the things of this
world disappear in the rear view mirror of our lives, that we
would see the addictions, we would see the habits, that we
would see the sin fall away as we speed on in our walk and our
race and our life with Jesus Christ. So Lord, thank you. We
pray in Jesus name. I hope that encourages you and friends, we
do want to encourage you more at jackhibbs.com, where there's
more teaching and more information and content
available for you there. jackhibbs.com. God bless you my
friends. We'll see you next time.
ANNOUNCER: You are watching Real Life with Jack Hibbs.
ANNOUNCER: What do you do when you've been
treated unfairly? When someone
wrongs you, abuses their power, or betrays your trust? When God
seems silent in your pain. In "A Tale of Three Kings," Gene
Edwards weaves the biblical stories of Saul, David and
Absalom into a powerful narrative about surrender,
trust, and finding peace in the midst of suffering. This
timeless book speaks to anyone who has experienced hurt,
disappointment, or conflict, whether in relationships, the
workplace, or even the church. Through these pages, you'll
discover the true strength isn't found in retaliation, but in
surrendering to God's will. If you're wrestling with
unfairness, brokenness, or heartbreak, this book will offer
wisdom, healing, and a new perspective. "A Tale of Three
Kings" is our thank you gift for your donation of any size
to Real Life, visit jackhibbs.com or call
877-777-2346 to request your copy. Order now.
JACK: Well friends listen up. We are living in remarkable
moments, remarkable times, and you literally need the Real Life
Network to be able to be available to you in an instant.
In fact, we have just been meeting on how we can reach you
live 24/7, 365, in the event of an emergency, in the event of a
crisis, in the event of war in the Middle East or in the United
States. How can you connect with us and get biblically based,
honest news in light of what's going on in the world around
you? Reallifenetwork.com, we cannot be canceled. And for this
reason, now we see the clarity of why God brought us to do this
channel in the first place. Reallifenetwork.com. Sign up.
Subscribe. Get ready because we will come to you even if we're
in our pajamas in the middle of the night, we will literally
be broadcasting the truth to you.
ANNOUNCER: Jack Hibbs truly believes we are living in some
of the most exciting days in history, which brings some great
opportunities to share with the world a powerful, no nonsense
presentation of the gospel to this generation who are
searching for answers and truth. Will you stand with us in
sharing this message in real and practical ways? We ask that you
commit to support Real Life and the teachings of Jack Hibbs with
a gift of your choosing. Simply go to jackhibbs.com and there
you can simply follow the instructions of how to give a
one time gift or a recurring gift. If you would prefer to
call, our toll free number is 877-777-2346. Again, that's
877-777-2346. And of course you can write us. Our address is
Real Life with Jack Hibbs Box 1273, Chino Hills, California
91709. Your gift will be faithfully put to work
because it's our desire that through
Jesus Christ you will know Real Life.
ANNOUNCER: The preceding program was sponsored by generous
friends and partners of Real Life.