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real life presents the jack kibbs
podcast with intention and boldness to
proclaim truth equip the saints and
impact our culture have we not been
coming through storms of seeking god and
trying to find out
the answer to why
and then god answers this is the answer
now
i've been doing the work in you that's
what's been going on
all the way through i've been known to
work he's promised to never abandon his
work
but don't stop asking the question until
you get the answer from him
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has to say to you here is jack hibbs
we're looking at the question why and it
is this number one why
why
the question why is something that i
firmly believe and i hope you do too
that god has placed within you
as one who has been created in the image
of god we ask the question why and i
want you to think about where that comes
from
why it demands an answer the question
why
when someone asks why we need to start
by the way when we hear someone's claim
we need to ask them why
can i say this carefully i mean nothing
other than love by it we need to stop
being so polite when we are sharing with
others about jesus what i mean by that
is this
with respect yes with proper tone of
course kindness absolutely but when
somebody says oh i believe in god i'm
good you don't have to talk to me about
jesus we need to get to that place to
say well wait a minute before i move on
why
can can i ask you this why do you say
why do you say that you're right with
jesus let them explain themselves
because it is so important that you and
i see
people including ourselves think again
to think again
the question why
makes you think
when moses was standing at the edge of
the red sea
and the egyptian forces and pharaoh were
in route to destroy the children of
israel having just been delivered out of
egypt by god they get right to the edge
of the red sea and it's it's
it's the egyptian army or it's they're
going to drown
and moses must have it doesn't say that
he had doubts at that moment it doesn't
say
that he grew weak in faith or doubted at
the moment it doesn't say it but it's it
kind of implies that that's what's
happening
they get right to the water and moses
gets up and he starts shouting to the
people that god has brought us out here
and we've come this far
and pharaoh's coming
and and uh
and
and and stand still
and see the salvation of the lord i
wonder what he sounded like when he did
it he's like he's he's looking at the
people
he's got the ocean behind them and he
can probably see a cloud of dust coming
and
stand still
and see the salvation of the lord
and god said moses why
stand ye here
talking to me
go
it's great
it's god they're going you can see god
watching them on on gps he's got you
know it's like they're they're going
look at that little blue dot move
look at all of them all right watch this
gabriel michael watch they're getting so
close to the red sea it's watch this and
they stop i think god's intent was
i want to see moses and the whole group
of kids just keep going right out on the
water
i'm wondering i don't know i'm just
wondering if moses wouldn't have stopped
would they have ran across the red sea
i don't know it would have been that
would have been a great now both are
great he parts the red sea that's
fantastic
but it would have been awesome too
because you know there's there's
precedent for this uh god walks on water
that they would have just walked across
the red sea
just go on
and then when pharaoh got there all that
dust would just turn to mud they would
just go under like a submarine
and of course they got that anyway
but god said stan he said stand still
and god said why
go now move
many times you and i are asking the
question why when god's already given
the answer
why
it's great to ask the question why keep
asking god why god why this i don't
think listen i had a man tell me
yesterday he said pastor jack
i god hurt my feelings years ago
and i walked out on god it's been 20
years 17 years 17 years he said i walked
out on god
and he said i came to the men's
conference on saturday
and he said god crushed me
he crushed me because he said god spoke
to my heart and he said
why are you been treating me this way
what have i done to you
when you're the one that made the
decision to do what you did 17 years ago
you did what you did to you
god said i didn't do that to you
why
and it crushed them
what a powerful truth you can ask the
question why that's fine do it god
expects i think he put that in you but
when god gives the answer
respond that's where faith comes in
many times you say why
that's okay god can take it but when you
calm down
let him answer you
this is terrible before we move on to
the second thing don't tell anybody my
mom was four eleven maybe five feet
pure portuguese born and raised in
hawaiian islands never wore shoes even
when moved to san diego she didn't wear
shoes
but my brother and i would provoke her
to no end
that's what sons do
and she would come it was great
now i say it's great now she
when she get mad at us you could hear
the kitchen drawer open up and you could
hear the silverware rattling and she
would grab a knife
and she would come chasing us in the
house it was a great home oh it's
fantastic look it's fine it didn't
damage me in any way
and
i kid you not ask lisa if you doubt me
but my
window my window in my bedroom had no
screen on it
because we could go my brother could go
out of his room and i could go out of my
room when my mom was after us
but if if she couldn't get a knife
we would hold she would come after us
and we would hold her forehead
and she would be swinging at us
and it just made her all the more and we
we knew all of those portuguese and
hawaiian words that you're not allowed
to repeat
and it just drove her it just drove her
crazy but i remember when my mom
when my mom had finally
succumbed to cancer
and she was on her deathbed she told my
aunt betty she asked my aunt betty um
making a statement she said
where's jesus
what's taken him so long listen
why
why is he taking so long to come get me
that was her last words
why
she had the question he answered
god is going to answer your questions
even if it takes 17 years or my mom my
mom's case in her 60s
but don't stop asking the question until
you get the answer from him
that's very important deuteronomy
chapter 4 verse 30 says when you are
distressed when you are in distress and
all things come upon you in the latter
days
when you turn to the lord your god obey
his voice
you got that everybody yeah yeah all
right number two is this
why
why not why now in life that's another
thing why and then why now
have you noticed friends that whenever
you and i are going through a time of
testing stretching difficulty it's never
the right time
like we can order it
it's like to make an appointment next
tuesday force learn some patience
it's never going to happen
you can count on it
but you don't know when it's going to
happen
why now we ask in job chapter 23 verse
10
the bible there tells us
but he knows the way that i take
when he has tested me
i shall come forth as gold
everyone's been tested you've been
hearing that for almost a year now
what's interesting is not not everyone's
made it
through
but what's interesting is that those who
have made it through are shining
like gold being purified shines
and that has led others who were no who
were never walking with jesus to get on
board the jesus train
have you watched that happen
i've watched that happen in almost every
area of my life that i can point my
finger
the shaking hit
life was challenged
and
people asked the question why god gave
the answer and they didn't like it
and you come now to this
issue of
testing in my life it's now upon me it's
now happening
or it's going to happen
and the bible tells us god is telling us
don't worry about it
this is how gold is purified
gold is made shiny by fire
you got to heat it up
weird thing about gold is that when you
heat it up
it it it's so fluid
and it's kind of mesmerizing when you
see it it's moving around it's liquid
and and then up through the gold will
pop up some something black
and you'll see the artisan scrape that
dross off the top of the
gold
and when it's heated at just the right
temperature it goes remember if you've
seen gold in museums and stuff
it's not shiny
it's just gold
but when it's heated up it becomes
brilliant you know why your wedding ring
or your your ring your class ring
whatever it is or whatever if it's gold
for real
if it's real gold
uh
it's gonna it's gonna reflect it's gonna
be very very
shiny and the interesting thing about
gold is that it's very soft it can be
imprinted upon is that not us
have we not be been coming through
storms of seeking god and trying to find
out
the answer to why
and then god answers this is the answer
now
i've been doing a work in you that's
what's been going on
all the way through i've been known to
work he's promised to never abandon his
work
i think it's psalm 138
somewhere around verses 6 7 or 8 i'm
going by memory now which is dangerous
at my age
but
he says somewhere there that
i will not forsake the work of my hands
i will perfect that which
i have started in you it's the old
testament answer to philippians 1 6
that says there that i will finish that
which i've begun in you i will finish
that good work and complete it until the
day of christ
so when you might be in a in the time of
crushing and difficulty
we don't understand
why
but we know this
that the now of it is in the hands of
sovereign almighty god
and the proof is it's never the right
time for us
to go through something that stretches
our faith
to god's perspective it's
it's perfectly appointed
it's ordered by god amen well i think we
might have made a mistake
no
did you pray did you seek his face did
you
consult him yes
and from the best data possible that god
gave you did you step out yeah
well then here's the answer to where
you're at right now
is
don't mismanage the direction god has
given you
because if you mismanage it and second
guess it then you have a tendency to
pull back and recoil and begin to have
second
thoughts about it
then you begin to
second guess god
that's a bad path
right now friend in your life in that
issue let him be god okay
now
number three
why no
not n-o
k-n-o-w
no
why no
because we have to know listen growing
up there used to be this crazy
knucklehead hollywood magazine the the
inquirer
and it said inquiring minds
have to know
well you know what they didn't invent
that
there's something within us about
knowing
we have to know
in fact we get this thing sometimes
wanting to know so out of
out ahead of us that we wind up getting
in trouble
because again we try to fabricate
something i need to know this i need to
know this friends listen we need to take
a deep breath and relax and understand
something we don't need to know
everything
and i'm not too sure how good we're
doing with wikipedia or google or
whatever else you might use
i just have to know
some of the stuff maybe most of it who
knows is it true we don't know
you do know right i mentioned this a
couple weeks ago because they're in the
headlines fact finder you can take your
fact finder app
or dot com and throw it away
because those guys were found out to be
frauds
are you kidding me that's where i've
been getting all my information
that explains the decisions you've been
making
no listen
if you and i let's be honest control
freaks have to know
i'm just not going to stop until i know
well
then keep going
right look because here's the thing
god says
to all of us at some moment in time
quite often i think for most of us
is i want you to do this i'm not going
to tell you why
i want you to do
your step of faith in this
god is good
you know when you hear god is good why
do we say that well because you're
supposed to you're you're a christian
no that would be wrong
to say god is good and mean it is
because he's come through and he's
proven himself good
our god is not some weird
uh
fickled deity
he's not some capricious
god in the universe playing marbles with
universes
he's good and he reveals his goodness to
us
in this thing called faith
and so god will bring you so far
and then he'll tell you he won't abuse
you he'll tell you
the next steps by faith the next step
you got to go well can't you show me
more i'm not going to show you more
speak to me i already have
show me a sign not going to do that
god if i just had a word i gave you a
gazillion of them
just step but what if i fall
silence no have you noticed silence from
heaven
what if i fail
i hear crickets
did you know when you're following god
and you're pursuing him
by the way he's so cool if you fail at
what you're doing you know he does
he picks you up and he says man you did
that with all of your heart that's a lot
of passion you poured into that and you
sincerely thought you were following me
but that was that's not what i said i
said this
oh no no that's very valuable because
now you know number one he's very
merciful
and now you know how to hear his voice
and the noise and now you know to never
do that again
right
he's amazing he never he never looks
jesus why are you here that's it i'm
done talking to you
remember elijah's whining oh there's no
more prophets they're all gone i'm the
only one left
and god goes why are you here
i've got 7 000 other prophets just like
you
stand up
right joshua falls on his face crying
because they lost the battle at ai
and joe you can sense it that joshua was
about to say god what's up with you
and john he's crying he's flat on his
face
and god says to joshua
stop crying and stand up like a man can
you imagine god saying that
he talked to job like that a lot a man
in the crucible
man
listen you don't need to know
that's where faith comes in
god will take you to the point you have
to have it you're going to have to step
out in faith
it's not blind it's not
silly he'll give you enough intel on it
and then you got to step
and you got to put it out there
and you know many times we'll say i
don't know i don't know if god's working
in my life listen
walk with him like that and you'll see
him move and then you'll have
really your doubts
dispelled they'll evaporate
we need to be reckless more for god
listen we don't take risk in our faith
anymore right
we are so terrified
that we don't take risk with our faith
we should
in life we used to i don't know if we'll
ever do it again because of all the fear
factor but we used to be a people
who said things like let's storm that
beach we could liberate europe
apparently now all europe if listen
if it was all over again all hitler
would have to do is put up a big balloon
that looks like covet on the beach
and we never would have liberated europe
would we have liberated europe if there
was a chance of getting a virus
no they'd all be speaking german tonight
no it's true
those guys
to liberate people
took a chance
in the face of death and did something
radical
christians tiptoe around
afraid we're going to offend somebody
jesus died for the sins of the world
because the world is lost in its sin
and it's on its way to hell it's like a
it's going down
can you imagine the plane is going down
and people are serving dinner
watching a movie in the planes like that
and somebody jumps up and says we're
gonna hit
unless we do something repent and turn
this plane around
right
but we don't do that because we couldn't
make someone feel uncomfortable
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