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JACK: Listen, friends, if you're a skeptic in the house today,
listen up. When the gospel is preached in a crowd, even of
some ruffians, and then somebody comes along under the power of
the Holy Spirit, and he proclaims the truth from the
Word of God. And those people woke up to the love of God. And
that kind of love that you realize that God loves you with,
causes you to turn right around and love God back.
ANNOUNCER: We all hunger for affirmation, attention, and
love. Everyone Craves Love. That's the title of today's
message as Jack Hibbs shares God's unfailing, enduring, and
everlasting love. Get ready. Real Life starts now.
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JACK: Friends listen, everyone craves love. It doesn't matter
what kind of image you're projecting. Maybe you're some
strong man and you don't need love. And you've got yourself.
And you've got your strength. That is a lie. Every human being
has been programed to be loved and to give love. You know
what's interesting about love itself; is that when
psychologists and sociologists do research on what is the
greatest need of man. Listen, love is right in the top five
things, from food and air and all of that. It is love, and
that shouldn't surprise us. But also listen, love is probably,
in my opinion, at the top of the list. Because when we know the
love of God, everything changes. And so that's what we want you
to know about today. Some people, like me, have a hard
time receiving love. It's a way, though, that we must raise our
children knowing that we love them unconditionally. But, you
know, sometimes we struggle. And so the fact of the matter is
that you and I need to get very familiar with the love of God
for us. He loves us and he never changes. This world will let you
down. He will never let you down. So grab your Bibles. Let's
dive into our study, "Everyone Craves Love."
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JACK: In the Bible, when you open it up, it tells you right
there that God is love. Romans chapter 5, verse 8 tells us,
"That God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we
were still sinners, Christ died for us." That's an amazing
statement. Look at that verse. The scriptures are demonstrating
to us, because that's God's will for you to know, that even while
you were yet sinners, Christ died for us on the cross. That
speaks about the infinite, awesome power of God to know you
before you were ever born, because He's God. And we'll talk
about that in a moment. But when Jesus died on the cross for your
sins and mine, He actually knew you by name, though you had not
been born yet. This is God's awesome and tremendous ministry
of atonement. In 1 John chapter 4, verse 16. 1 John 4:16 says,
"And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God
in him." Can someone say Amen? That is good news. Our God loves
us. And we need to respond to that love. But listen, I'm going
to warn you right up front, if you really believe that God
loves you, then it is going to be what's, the word, incumbent
upon you to show love. Not only to God, but to one another. And
I've said this before, I'll say it again. Every time I say I
love God, I feel like I'm a fool because it seems so hollow. But
God's love is amazing. Here's a fun verse. 1 Corinthians 13:13
says, "And now abides faith, hope, and love these three. But
the greatest of these is love." And the world doesn't know love
today. The world is looking after all of these pursuits to
try to find some sort of fulfillment. And they miss love
altogether because they think it's the love of sex, or the
love of things, or the love of power. And it doesn't work. No,
it's just the love of God. The love of God is the only thing
that can satisfy your life. And I love that passage in 1
Corinthians 13, because it says that the three, the Trinity of
God's goodness is faith, hope, and love that He makes available
to us. But did you know something? When we go to Heaven,
will there be faith in Heaven? Will you need to have faith in
Heaven? You won't. You will have no need of having faith in
Heaven. What do you have faith for in Heaven? You're walking
around. You're living it. He's there. You have no need of
faith. Faith is going to be done with. Faith gone. Mission
complete. What about hope? If you're talking to Jesus in
Heaven, are you going to need hope? You're not going to need
hope. Hope. Listen, hope is now. Hope takes you all the way to
the end of your life. And then listen when He shows up, what
are you hoping for? All hope has been fulfilled. Isn't it? Isn't
it awesome, though, that the Bible says, "But the greatest of
these is love, and love will never fail." Love is the only
thing that you and I can experience in this life with
God. That is only going to intensify in Heaven forever with
Him. And none of us can even begin to imagine what that's
going to be like. The love of God flowing in and out of us
like the waves of the sea. Remarkable. So, church, mark
this down if you would. So give God your love. And it starts
with this. Seeing Him for who He is. Seeing Him for who He is.
And I got to tell you, with the time that I have left this
morning, it's a disgrace because we could spend months talking
about His attributes from the Bible. And so there's words and
I'm going to blow these off. You can look at them later. I don't
want to take the time when He says things like this. Read in
your Bible with me. For he says, "I say, through the grace given
to me." So Paul, circle the word me. Paul is saying, "God has
given me grace." And he's speaking to the believers in
Rome, to you, to everyone who is among you, I love this. "Through
grace that has been given," grace is a gift from God. Look
what he says, "The grace that has been given to me."
Christian. Paul does not walk away with it and say, "I'm so
glad God gave me that grace and I'm just going to hang on to
it." Nope. When God moves in your life, it can't work that
way. It's extremely volatile in a beautiful way. It's not only
given to me, he says, "To everyone who is among you." So
here's what Paul is saying in a modern day tongue, he would be
saying this to us. "God has given me grace, and I want all
of you to have the same grace. And I want you to have that same
grace." Watch how he does this. When he says, "To me, to
everyone, to those among us," he says, "To you." It's absolutely
universal to the application. Understand this church. He's
saying God has extended grace and this is where we begin. He
would be announcing and understanding the very person of
God. The God of the Bible, amongst so many attributes is a
God of grace. And grace is that word that means God bestows upon
you that which you cannot earn. And we don't really appreciate
that much until we need it. But mark this if you would. The fact
that God is all sufficient. Can you write that down? He's the
all sufficient God. The God of the Bible. You'll find this in
no other references of deities throughout human history, except
the God of the Bible. He's all sufficient. You say, "What does
that mean?" That means He has all that He has. He is all that
He is and needs nothing. There is a discipline in theology.
It's rarely ever mentioned, but it is the doctrine of aseity.
Aseity simply means this, that the God that you worship today,
I trust you do. I trust you to know the Lord Jesus Christ. That
the God that you worship today, the doctrine of aseity means
this, that He needs nothing from you, at all. I like that. If I
worship a God that needs something from you to keep Him
going, I need a new God. Are you hearing me? If someone
propagates to you, evangelizes to you, introduces you to some
sort of deity that needs your help. That's the wrong God. Can
I say? I'm going to say it. I'm not even going to ask. I'm just
going to say this. I don't I don't watch Christian TV unless
it's on the Real Life Network. Did you get that? That was a
little plug. Forget it. Moving on. You want to know why? This
is what I hear on too much of what is called Christian
programing. "If you don't send the $100 now, if you don't send
in the money, we're going to go, the station's going to go out of
business. We're going to shut down. We won't be able to preach
the gospel to you anymore. You need to send in the money!"
Really? Or how about the one that says the one that's praying
and he's praying, "Jesus, we need to get all the people to
give money, to send in the money and all the..." And they're
talking about money and the money. And every time I don't
know about you, every time I hear that, I just reach for my
wallet and make sure it's safe. Because, you know, like an AI
arm could come out from the screen and grab your wallets. If
you're worshiping a God that you've got to say to people, if
you don't give money, we're going to go off the air. I shout
back to the screen, "You probably should go off the air!"
Because, listen, you're announcing to people that God is
broke. He needs your help. He is all sufficient. My God, your
God. I trust the God of the Bible. He doesn't need us for
anything. You say, "Yeah, but didn't He create us?" Of course
He created us. There's a big reason for this. But it's not
because He needed us. What do you think He created us for like
what a basketball? He needed somebody to play with? He's not.
Listen, He made humans. He's not human. I love saying that
because it kind of makes the hair on their neck go up. The
Bible says He's Spirit. And God had dwelt as Spirit until Christ
was born into the world. The second person of the Trinity,
God the Son, took on human skin. To not only relate to us, but
most importantly for us to be able to relate to Him. None of
us in this room can say, "God doesn't know how I feel." He
knows exactly how you feel, and He knows exactly how to fix you
from feeling that way. He knows all about it. The Bible teaches
us that this God that we should love and honor, and obey. People
get all wiggy love, honor and obey. Since you're doing a a
wedding service. Yes, that's right. And you know what's so
cute about it? The audience at a wedding has no problem, do you?
Do you pledge today to love, honor and obey? The audience
goes like this. "Oh my goodness. What?" Both of them are looking
at each other like this. You could. I could have said. "And
do you both pledge to jump off the bridge together?" They'd go,
"As long as we're together." Listen when love is the driving
force of your life, there's none of this stuff that has to be
brought up because it is coming out of you. It happens.
Remembering this that our God is the uncreated God. He's not
created. God was not created. There's always those people you
and I bump into. They think they're so smart. They say
things like this. "So did God create everything?" "Yeah."
"Well, who created God?" And it's so funny because they think
they're so smart. "Yeah. So God created everything, right?"
"Yeah." "So who created God?" It's like, "Oh, no, you stumped
me." He's the uncreated God. For something to be created, it's
got to have a beginning. And because it's created, it will
have an end. He's the uncreated God who dwells outside all that
you and I know and have been exposed to in our physical,
earthbound life. And so we think we can question God. Question
God about this. Question God about that. Somebody questioned
me last service about the fires. "Where was God in all this?"
Excuse me? Where was God in all this? He was right there. "Why
didn't He do something about it?" I said He is doing
something about it. And He did do something about it. It may
not meet up to your estimation, but what God is doing, He does
for the eternal purpose. Yes, the fires were horrible, but
read your Bible carefully. The Bible makes it very clear that
Satan does a lot of things in this world. I find it awesome
that when Jesus was woken up by the disciples in the midst of a
storm on the Galilee, and they were all going to drown, and
they said, "Wake up, don't you care if we perish?" Jesus stood
up, and He rebuked the waves and the wind, and the same word He
used is the word He used to rebuke devils and demons. You
want to put blame where blame is due and somebody says, "Where's
God in all this?" You need to first of all say, "This is
exactly the kind of world that Satan wants you to suffer
through. Is is a world without hope." Knowing this, Jesus said,
"I've come to give you life and that more abundantly." But Satan
has come to rob you, to kill you and destroy you. Remember that
everybody. The Bible has the answers, but know this, He's the
uncreated creator. Colossians chapter 1, verse 16. Am I
yelling at you? I feel like I am. I'm sorry. I'm excited. I
just. No, it's...I I just. Colossians chapter 1, verse 16.
"All things were created through Him and for Him." Okay, here it
comes. Colossians chapter 1, verses 16 through 18 says, "All
things were created through Him." Mark this down, follow
this. "All things were created through Him and for Him. And He
is before all things." He existed before all things
physical ever appeared. "And in Him all things consist." The
atomic glue. All things are held together by Him. "And He is the
head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead," that is listen, "That in all things
he may have the preeminence." Christ Jesus rose again from the
grave. And listen, on the day of Pentecost, God's Holy Spirit
gave birth to what is called the church. The church is the
family, the body of believers of, I love this listen, of every
color on every continent of every... If you name the name of
Christ based and understood by the Bible, that He died for your
sins and rose again from the dead. He's your Savior! That He
died for you. And putting faith in Him is your salvation. He is
it. He says, "Believe in me." And you say, "I do. I recognize,
Lord, I am a sinner. You died for me, and you rose again from
the dead. I believe you, I give you my life." Listen, when that
happens, you have come home. You don't even realize that you have
come home to the God that has made you. And that verse is
powerful because it screams the preeminence of Jesus Christ. The
Bible says all things were made by Him. Revelation chapter 4,
verse 11. The Bible says, there John witnesses this. "You are
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power; for you
created all things, and by your will they exist and were
created." I love that Exodus chapter 3, verse 14. "And God
said to Moses, 'I am who I am." Now the context is this; Moses
was just commissioned by God to go back down the mountain to
tell the children of Israel who sent him. So Moses rightly says,
"Who do I say sent me? What do I tell them? I know these people.
They ask so many questions." And God says, "When you go down
there, tell them I am, that I am sent you." The... The I am, that
I am is the eternal, existing, self-contained, self-sufficient
God. "Moses, you go down and tell them that the one who sent
you is the God who needs nothing to sustain Himself and no one."
This should cause us friends to be a very humble people. You
should never see an arrogant, proud Christian. Now we do see
them. Just know this. When you see a proud, arrogant Christian,
I just want you to know this. Can you keep this between us?
Because I don't want to go to a pastor's conference somewhere in
the world and get in trouble. This is our thing, if you see a
Christian who's proud, they may be a Christian, but they're far
from God. They may be a child of God. They're going to Heaven.
But they've wandered away from the awe, of who God is, and
humility has evaporated from them. Do you hear what I'm
talking about? Christians should never be arrogant. The more we
view the incredible magnitude of our great God and get to know
more of Him, which is only one way, by reading His love letter
to you called the Bible. The more you realize who He is, the
littler you become. But that's a good thing. But listen. But when
we are Christians and we start to get puffed up in our head or
in our chest, so to speak, we've lost sight of God and His
grandeur and His greatness. You need to be re-exposed to the
great things of God. Moses could have come down the mountain like
this. "Hey everybody stay away! God and I were up there talking.
We're talking about you guys." He could have. He didn't. He
came down, "The great I am." Wow, what an exclusive name. Of
course, there's no other name. The self-sufficient one.
Interesting. John, chapter 8, verse 58. "Jesus said to them,
'Most assuredly, I say to you, you, before Abraham was..."
What's the word? "I am." It's the same word. If somebody ever
tells you Jesus never claimed to be God, they don't know what
they're talking about. In fact, Jesus said that right there, and
they they got ready to kill Him for saying that. Because if He
committed blasphemy, if He wasn't God, the cool thing is,
He was God! And we are to be in great awe, in honor. Church, we
need to. I'm not saying this is our problem, but it might be
your problem or it might be someone's problem. We need to be
very careful that we don't just treat God like a big buddy, a
big pal. "Well, didn't he say that we could call him Abba?"
Yeah, that's a great term of endearment. But the Abba in
Hebrew means that the kids really respect dad. Abba. You
don't call your dad if your dad's name is Mike. You didn't
go, "Hey, Mike!" I mean, that's pretty sick.
We're to be in awe of Him more than ever.
JACK: Well leave it up to the Bible to announce to you that
love never fails. In fact, when you think about love never
fails, you can say the Holy Spirit will never fail you. God
the Father will never fail you. Jesus Christ will never fail
you. The Bible says, that love is the only thing that will not
only never fail us, but the Bible says it will be in Heaven
forever. Because love is that very attribute of God. The
number one, very thing of God. The very nature of God is love.
The love of God flowing in and out of us is the desire of God
for you and I in this world right now. And the Lord knows,
and you know, that God's love is needed in this sorry world today
that you and I live in. So to see God for who He is is a great
eye opener, but it also opens up your heart. He is the great God,
the great I am. The self-contained, eternal existing
one, ego eimi, is the word. He is the eternal God. And this
should cause you and I to live very, very humbly before him. In
fact, let's be honest, there should be no arrogant
Christians. If you see a proud Christian, I can tell you this
right now. You're looking at somebody who may be a Christian,
but they're not close to God. The closer you get to God, the
more humble you're going to be, because the more grand you see
Him, the greater you see Him. So pride is the great sin of all.
What is the very opposite thing of pride? That would be the love
of God. God loves you. And God in His awesome love, loved you
and I even when we were unlovable. So, friends, listen,
let's remember that as we live our lives, let's remember that
God's love is for us. And so we should turn around and love Him
back. Listen, we want to keep you in the Word of God. We want
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until next time, may God richly bless you.
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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.
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