Real Life with Jack Hibbs - Podcasts

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, we are born again by His Spirit. God gives us a new life. We no longer live for ourselves, or worry about ourselves. Instead, we live for God, and through His love, have a sincere love for others.

Christian love can permeate a dark world. The Gospel message of salvation lights up the darkness, and will never be defeated. It’s only through Jesus Christ, the world can experience true love, and be saved.

Obedience to Christ is to be under His influence, and to obey Him is to be empowered by His love. Human love is flawed, but Christ’s love doesn’t leave you where you’re at. Instead, He picks you up and puts you in a place of renewed fellowship with Him.

If we seek after material things to gain status or identity, we have an idol in our life. The Christian life is not only identified by our love for Christ, but that we live according to God’s Word, through the power of the Holy Spirit. To advance at the expense of others, or allow sin to run our lives is something we no longer consider.

The Christian life is not only a life of love, but a life that wants to obey the Lord. The Holy Spirit’s power is inside of us, and we have the awesome assurance that we’re going to Heaven. Our unbelieving world would call this insane. But, we know the truth, and the truth has set us free from our disobedient culture.

No one can take us out of the Lord’s hand. We are one with the Father, and He is one with us. We can now experience His love on a personal level. And, it’s through God’s love that we can love others with service and devotion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There is only one God and one Mediator between God and man, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus was God in the flesh, who offered Himself freely to die on the cross in our place. Jesus counted the cost, and lovingly decided that we were worth saving.

The past is all about faith. The kind of faith where we don’t walk around aimlessly, like we did before, but have direction, and purpose. A faith not based on ignorance, but understanding the high cost Jesus paid to save us from our sins.

Our future is bound in hope, but the past is all about our faith. It takes faith to believe that our past that had once ensnared us, has been washed away through Jesus Christ. Only He can forgive and forget, but we’re to take the memories of our mistakes, lay them at the cross, and by faith leave them there.

God doesn’t have favorites. God judges not by status or merit, but with perfect knowledge, and according to one’s faithfulness. We have a specific purpose and calling, and we’re to seek the Lord about what we’re supposed to do during our time here on earth.