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Jack Hibbs: Jesus Christ died on the cross to elevate mankind out of death, and out of decay into life. That's good news. He's declared to us our worth. God thinks that we're all together something, even though you don't think much of yourself or of anybody else.

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On today's edition of Real Life Radio, Pastor Jack continues now in his series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ, and his message titled, Christ, the Word Made Flesh. Now, this is a series about who Jesus really is, not the Jesus of popular opinion, but the Jesus of the Bible, God Himself who stepped into our world.

The Gospel of John tells us that Jesus Christ took on human flesh and walked amongst us as a man. So that brings up the question a lot of us have asked and wondered, why did Jesus have to become a man? You see, the greatest miracle of all is that God would leave heaven and clothe Himself in human skin. He got tired and got hungry, his feet got dirty, just like you and me. He came down to where we live, so we'd know He understands exactly how we feel.

So today, Pastor Jack teaches us that Jesus took our place in judgment by meeting the demands of biblical law that we could never meet. Everything Christ said and did, even His death and resurrection, had a purpose. And that was to bring salvation to everyone who comes to Him. Now with His message called Christ, the Word Made Flesh, here's pastor and Bible teacher, Jack Hibbs.

Jack Hibbs: Chapter 2, it says, and you, being dead in your trespasses and sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made us alive together with Him, for we have been forgiven of our trespasses and sins. And He has wiped out the handwriting of requirements that were against us, which were contrary to us. And He has taken them out of the way, having nailed them to the cross.

Do you remember if you were here Wednesday night, we saw a moment, a projection, remember of Jesus on the cross and that sign over His head. You remember what that sign said? That sign says, Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews. And by the way, that's why He was killed. He was killed because He was Jesus Christ, King of the Jews. It's just that they didn't believe Him. The statement was true, but they didn't believe Him. So they put the accusation over His head, nailed it to His cross and they killed Him.

And when that man on that cross, if he was a bank robber or a thief or a mugger, it was put over his head. Once that man died, they took down that accusation and they burned it. Why? The man was dead. What does it mean? That thief who died on the cross paid the societal debt that he owed to the world. When Jesus died on the cross, He died for no sin of His own. He died for all of our sins, having taken our sins and nailed it to His cross, Jesus in our place died for us. And that accusation of us, of our sinfulness, so to speak, God took down after Jesus had died and burned it in His judgment. And we were freed.

This is the Gospel. It's incredible that someone would die in our place. It shouldn't be that incredible for us. If we have a child or a loved one, where there's this natural, instinctive response when you love someone. You don't even have to discuss it. You leap in front of that train or that car, or in front of whatever it is to save a life. Jesus leaped in front of mankind, between heaven and hell, and died for us. It's incredible. That's a fantastic thing. Our God is so loving and so awesome for us to do this. He died for us. He was subject to the law that loomed to consume every human.

Yesterday, we're at the beach and this huge, we're just walking along. This huge Great Dane comes up over this fence and he just. You know, he's just and he's right there on the boardwalk. And he's just hanging there, his big head and his ears are flopping and his paws are and he's barking and barking and barking.

That's how the law is. The law hangs over us to intimidate, to show us the perfection of God, and that this is what you must do to get to heaven. You've got to be perfect, you've got to keep everything and if you miss one point, you're guilty of it all. You fractured it and you're going to go to hell, and the law stands there and condemns us and Jesus comes into the world and He keeps the law. He performs it perfectly because it had to be a man. Yet because it was God's standard, it had to be the God-man, Jesus. Jesus had to come in the flesh. He had to come.

Another thing that we see this morning is this. By becoming the perfect sacrifice, Jesus became the perfect sacrifice for us. The fourth thing that we see this morning is by His humanity, He destroyed the work of Satan. I like this. I want to hear more and more about this.

By His humanity, He destroyed the works of Satan. The scripture says in John chapter 12, verse 31, now is the judgment of this world and now the ruler of this world has been cast out, said Jesus. When the Gospel, when the Kingdom of God came to men among earth, Jesus says, now the Prince of this world is judged. The Prince of this world is Satan. And men, knowingly or unknowingly, love to have Him in control. Because He caters to the flesh. He caters to the world. He caters to sin. He's the one that tempts you, entices you.

In Colossians 2:15, the scripture says Jesus Christ disarmed principalities and powers, and He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross. Jesus thwarted the plan of the angelic or fallen angelic realm. In Hebrews 2:14, the scripture says, inasmuch then as the children have been partakers of flesh and blood, He Himself, Jesus Christ, likewise that through death He might destroy him who had power over death, that is, the devil. Isn't that great?

Do you appreciate Jesus? Let me put it this way. Are you afraid to die, or do you ever think about death, or the pain of death? Well, you can say, hallelujah, Jesus came to take away the sting and its power to all those who trust in Jesus Christ. I have to confess, I'm not afraid to die. I don't believe I'm going to miss a thing down here on earth. This place, I've determined, it's taken me 41 years, but I have concluded, it all stinks at best.

And the more I read my Bible, the more I get excited about where I'm going. So, you know, come on, Lord, let's go. I will confess what I don't want to go through is the death process. Just let me get to the death part. I don't want to go through the process. I don't want to be plugged into a machine. You know, I don't want to wither away, you know. But that's God's business. He's determined how we will go. I just don't want to be in pain.

Thursday I found out I had to have an emergency root canal. And I, this is the fourth or fifth visit to a dentist in my entire life. I've never had a cavity. I don't know what it's like to go to a dentist. And it was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to die.

Jack Hibbs: And I went to this guy and I had to go to this specialist because of the problem with the way the tooth broke like this and the guy said, I want this to be a pleasurable experience. And I'm thinking, and I go like this, that's, I said to him, great. And I'm thinking, you liar.

Jack Hibbs: And I laid down there and the guy, he just swabs my mouth with a little cotton swab, you know. And I didn't know it, it smells like bubblegum. This is nice. And I had my eyes closed because I, it's really close to your face. I don't want to look at this guy, you know, you're like right there in the guy's face. And he starts to wiggle my jaw, he grabs my face, he's wiggling my face. And I never felt a thing. And then he's and I didn't feel a thing. Nothing. And it was all done. 48 minutes later and 640 bucks later, he goes, you can go now. And I couldn't believe he was done. All the pain had been taken away. It was nothing there.

Jesus came and took the pain away. He took the curse away. He took the power of death away. That's love. That's care. That's a doctor you want to have. Jesus. Very, very exciting. By His humanity, He destroyed the work of Satan. He destroyed the power of the flesh. Christian, don't raise your hand, but if you're a Christian here tonight or today, this morning, if you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit in you. The power has been given to you and I to overcome the demands of our flesh. The Bible says in Romans chapter 6 that we are not under the law, but now under grace, and so that sin shall not have dominion over us.

If you keep doing a certain sin, it's because you want to. You want to. Don't tell me you don't want to. Well, I'm really caught up in this, you know, I just can't stop having a vodka tonic. And I know it's bad. Stop. Stop. Oh, I'm trying to stop, man. I just can't stop. What's that battle all about? It's the flesh saying, hey, take your Christianity and put it in the backseat for a minute. And this battle goes on in your mind if this applies to you, and you come to a conclusion, and you're going to go get, because you're thirsty, a 7 Up. But you walk into a bar to get a 7 Up. That's nuts. You don't go to a bar to get a 7 Up. If drinking's your problem, steer clear of anything and everything that tempts you. Be wise. Be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. Be violent against sin.

If you're tempted physically, with maybe images or pornography or stuff, don't go down the ten freeway with all those pathetic billboards. Don't go online and get tempted to go onto the internet. If you do, it's because you wanted to. That's a fact. If you're doing a certain sin, it's because you are willing to do that thing. And you can be a Christian and be caught up in this very thing I'm talking about. Just know this. Jesus Christ died to set you free and you don't have to sin. We do it because we want to. We let down our guard or we allow ourselves to be weakened. Sin shall not have dominion over us. The power of the flesh. It allures us away and it's so, so powerful. But greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.

The next thing that we see here is that He destroyed the power of the world. That is specifically the spirit of Antichrist, which first John tells us is in the entire world, everywhere. The spirit of Antichrist. I'm not talking about the Antichrist. I'm talking about the spirit of Antichrist. The world. Have you caught on yet the world's going to kill you? Oh, it may dress up sweet and it may smell real good, but it'll kill you. Be very careful. Also this, He destroyed the power of sin. We've talked on that. We've discussed that.

David J: Thank God for God.

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Jack Hibbs: The fifth thing we see is that by His humanity He has become our high priest. You don't need me. You don't need any other pastors. You don't need the Pope. You don't need Billy Graham. You know who you and I need? The one whom the Bible says that there's one mediator between man and God and that is the man Christ Jesus. That's what we need. We need Him. He is our high priest. Jesus Christ could never have been our high priest if He wouldn't have come to earth. Could He have redeemed us from heaven? I guess He could have done anything He wanted. But He came to earth to tell all of us by His life and by His message that we can relate to Him and He can relate to us. That's what a priest is all about. There is no priest if you can't relate to Him.

Jesus took our clothes on, so to speak. He took on our skin. And a priest not only relates to the people, but He relates to the authority. That's God the Father. The priest is the go-between. Jesus is our priest. My friend, you don't need to confess your sin to anybody anymore but God alone. Read Hebrews chapter 9 and chapter 10 this afternoon. The scripture says there are people who go and offer their confessions before men. Priests, it says in the scriptures, who can never take away sins. But this Man, after He once purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of God the Father and is seated in glory on high. You confess to Jesus Christ who died for you, says the Bible.

Of course, you know the scripture, if you confess your sins to Him, He's faithful and just to cleanse you from your sins. He's our high priest. He knows our weaknesses. He knows our weaknesses. The high priest is a is very conscious and very aware. If we were to tell Him, Jesus, thus and so. He knows this. Jesus, I can't bear up under this pressure financially, physically, emotionally. The school, the kids, the job, my spouse, the world. I'm dying. And Jesus says, I know exactly how you feel.

And the Bible says, I'm going to intercede. I'm going to pray to my Father for you. The priest, Jesus, does this. Isn't that something? He prays for us. And you can't lose because the Bible also says the Holy Spirit's praying for us. And I like that wherever two or more are gathered, there He is in the midst. Jesus is praying. The Father is or the Holy Spirit is praying to whom? The Father. We got to win. We do win. I know it seems tough. I know it feels like we're going under. But we're not going under. He'll see us through. He's a priest. He's dedicated to getting us in. To getting us through.

Also, He's very, very faithful at dealing with all of our fears. Do you have any fears? We all have fears. We hate them. We should hate them. But we have fears that plague us. They often keep us shrouded from doing anything. Many Christians, I think, I think most Christians than not, most Christians, maybe, and maybe it's true for half or more than half of this sanctuary even here right now this morning. Most Christians don't do anything for God because they're afraid of failing, which is a trick from Satan because what they wind up really doing is stepping right into Satan's trick. They don't do anything for God for fear of failing. So what happens in the end? They wind up having lived a life that never had any influence for God whatsoever.

Rather than trusting God to live His Word out in their lives, they're cowardice and they just hide and they bury as Jesus says, their talent in the ground because the enemy will whisper. We have fears. We're afraid that we're not going to be accepted. One of the strong personal things that we deal with in our psychology as humans is if we go into a room or into a gathering, into a place, will we be accepted?

And the Bible tells us that in Christ Jesus, He has made us acceptable in the beloved. Ephesians 1:6 tells us. He has made us acceptable in the beloved. We're acceptable to God. By His humanity as our high priest, becoming our high priest, He has made us acceptable. He's taken away our fears. He's taken away our weaknesses. He has taken away our fears. As high priest, He is for us and will be there for us for all time. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is forever a high priest for us.

One of the great books of the Bible that you can read right now to stay current on what God is doing in your life is to read the book of Hebrews. It talks about your priest, Jesus. The sixth thing we see this morning is by His humanity, He has enabled God's prayers, or God's promises, I'm sorry, God's promises. By Jesus coming to earth, He has enabled or enacted or put into power the promises of God. God's promises in this book, get a load of this, this is something. The Bible says that Jesus is the Word of God, right? I mean, He says He is the Word of God, He is the Word. And He has always been. But then it says, as we saw in John chapter 1, verse 14, that that Word became flesh.

Well, isn't it amazing that we could argue that right here in your lap is the nature and the personality, the will, the power, the knowledge, the revelation of God in this book on your lap. And the wonderful thing about that is that this book is pregnant with promises. How do we get them? By Jesus Christ becoming a man. He has bridged us between God and His promises in a lost and lonely world. Jesus has brought us together to meet. The Bible says that we were once alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel as Gentiles, but through Jesus Christ, He has manifested to us the promises. God has made us promises and He's going to answer and fulfill those promises. He's enabled our relationship to God. Jesus, as we said earlier, is the way, the truth and the life, and no one goes to the Father but through Him.

Now, did you hear that? But through Him and Him only. Well, Jack, I'm a really good person. That doesn't count. Unacceptable. Well, I've been a church member all my life. Unacceptable. I've read my Bible, 10 chapters a day all my life. Unacceptable. I've tied a million dollars. Unacceptable. What is acceptable? That we come to Jesus Christ, recognizing that He's the only way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Him.

The second thing is that He's enabled our communion with God. Not only does God want us and He brings us through Jesus, but God wants us in a very intimate way. I love, I love this consideration here. Yes, God loves us, but He likes us. He likes us. You know, it's something when somebody says, well, I love you. You know, there's almost like this thing where you got to love people. There's people that live in your house. You got to love them. You got to. But do you like them? If you like them, you like to hang out with them. If you like them, you want to be with them. Jesus likes us. Isn't that a trip?

Well, Jack, you're blowing my mind now with that one. Friday, Friday day and Friday night, I was teaching up at a youth camp. And I told the kids about the book of Zephaniah chapter 3, where it says in there that the Lord will spin around in heaven when we get there. You remember we've taught on this before, that the Lord is going to spin around with singing those who love Him. And normally when you state that verse in Ecclesiastes 3:14 through 17, it's kind of a wild thing because normally adults just go, I really don't think that literally. I don't think God is going to really spin around or anything. And it says that He will sing. In fact, in the Hebrew it's sing loudly. I don't think He's going to sing loudly. That would be really something.

Well, you know what, when you say that verse to 400 junior highers, you know what they said? They all go, boom. Boom. That means something really great, I guess. When I told them that God was going to spin around them and sing with joy when they get to heaven, those kids got it. All right. You know, it's us old fogies. God, will you come down please? God, act your age. No.

Communion. He's nuts about us. He loves us. Also this, by His humanity, He has enabled God's promises by enabling us to be adopted. He's adopted us into the family. How could that have ever happened unless Jesus Christ come to earth in human flesh? There's no other way. He had to come. And finally this. Go with me here. The seventh one is this. By His humanity, we can be elevated. This is what you're looking for. This is what you really want anyway. You and I, we want to be appreciated. We want to be known. We want to have identity. We want to come from this fallen state that we're in.

All of us can tell a story about this. Either some of us have come through it because God brought us through and now we're in the family, being born again is the ultimate elevation for the human. That means that we've been delivered from our fallen state, from our fallen condition. Maybe you're in here this morning and you're doing drugs and stuff, or you're just trying to maybe exercise or put enough makeup or body stretch, I don't know, to just live forever, but it's not working. It's not supposed to work. It's not supposed to work. We're fallen. We're dying. But the inside of us will live forever. The emotion, the thought, who you are, your imagination. The person that you are will live forever. Jesus Christ died on the cross to elevate mankind out of death, and out of decay into life.

David J: Pastor and Bible teacher, Jack Hibbs, here on Real Life Radio and his message called Christ, the Word Made Flesh. Thanks for spending some time with us today. You know, this message is part of Pastor Jack's series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ. It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything. And we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio.

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