Jack Hibbs > Quotes

“We see it repeatedly throughout the Bible in examples such as Nehemiah, Josiah, and Hezekiah. First, these men personally renewed themselves in the Lord, and then they set out to influence their culture and their nation for what was right. It started with just one individual unabashedly willing to turn back to God, and soon an entire generation of God’s people did the same. Only after these leaders began to seek the ways of the Lord was there a profound cultural shift. It happened as well in America’s great awakenings. In each case, there was a ripple effect. A radical awakening, a change, repentance, that took place in God’s people, bringing about a dramatic shift to the culture at large. The result was a witness to the lost, which brought salvation to many.”
― Jack Hibbs, Turnaround at Home: Giving a Stronger Spiritual Legacy Than You Received

“Bible prophecy is not given to us to scare us but to prepare us. It is not given to us to frighten us but to invite us.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Passing on a spiritual heritage to your children takes more than simply teaching God’s Word; it takes living out God’s Word. Fathers and mothers must become a picture of Jesus to their children.”
― Jack Hibbs, Turnaround at Home: Giving a Stronger Spiritual Legacy Than You Received

“Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“The devil’s doctrines lure us into the proverbial weeds, leaving us to wonder, Where am I?”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“We can amicably agree to disagree—this is true tolerance.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Social media has done more to usher in a crippling dependence upon the approval of others than anything else in human history to date.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“The Lord never strives to be relevant to the culture.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule For this great nation under God Finds mention of Him very odd. If Scripture now the class recites, It violates the Bill of Rights. And anytime my head I bow Becomes a federal matter now. Our hair can be purple, orange, or green, That’s no offense; it’s a freedom scene. The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice. For praying in a public hall Might offend someone with no faith at all. In silence alone we must meditate, God’s name is prohibited by the state. We’re allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, And pierce our noses, tongues, and cheeks. They’ve outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable. We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, And the unwed daddy, our Senior King. It’s “inappropriate” to teach right from wrong, We’re taught that such “judgments” do not belong. We can get our condoms and birth controls, Study witchcraft, vampires, and totem poles. But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, No Word of God must reach this crowd. It’s scary here I must confess, When chaos reigns the school’s a mess. So, Lord, this silent plea I make: Should I be shot; my soul please take! Amen”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“You can use the last days’ events as a catalyst to introduce yourself to neighbors you haven’t met yet. Knock on their door and say, “Listen, you may think I’m a lunatic, but I want you to know that I’m a Christ-follower. And with all that is going on right now, I am praying for the neighbors on our street. Do you have any prayer requests?” It is doubtful they will throw you off their porch and slam the door in your face.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“You can use the last days’ events as a catalyst to introduce yourself to neighbors you haven’t met yet. Knock on their door and say, “Listen, you may think I’m a lunatic, but I want you to know that I’m a Christ-follower. And with all that is going on right now, I am praying for the neighbors on our street. Do you have any prayer requests?”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“When a church adopts secular verbiage and ideas and incorporates them into its teachings, it has departed from complete dependence upon God’s Word and its authority.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Satan is smart. He wants to get people to deviate just enough in their thinking to get them off course, and if there isn’t a course correction, the result will be catastrophic.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Satan’s purpose for spreading falsehoods is not just for the sake of being evil. Nor is it to momentarily deceive or mislead. Satan’s eye is on a bigger trophy—the souls of the unsaved.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Christians should aim to live peaceably with everyone—believers and unbelievers alike—but not at the expense of the integrity of biblical doctrine. We must exercise extreme caution because some calls for unity will tug at our emotions yet have no biblical basis.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“your job is to investigate and make sure that you’re speaking the same spiritual language.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“make every effort to educate yourself and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth (see John 16:13)—it is His pleasure to do so.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“After 30-plus years of public ministry, I have concluded there are primarily two secular viewpoints on life. One is that it is meaningless and lacking purpose. The other is that, by all accounts, life is an accident.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“The Bible is to interpret the Bible. It’s up to us to agree with it.”
― Jack Hibbs

“Author Hal Lindsey has been widely quoted as the originator of a memorable acronym that I pray puts grace into perspective for you: G.R.A.C.E. = God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Becomes a federal matter now. Our hair can be purple, orange, or green, That’s no offense; it’s a freedom scene. The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice. For praying in a public hall Might offend someone with no faith at all. In silence alone we must meditate, God’s name is prohibited by the state. We’re allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, And pierce our noses, tongues, and cheeks.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“This can be seen in how it has engulfed our children. Kids, especially teens, are conditioned to care about and respond to how absolute strangers view their media posts.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Like physical strength training, growing spiritually strong does not happen overnight. It comes in degrees, and it takes discipline. Your strength builds up every time you intentionally choose to submit to God’s revealed will rather than conform to the dictates of society.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“God made it clear that if a prophet delivered a false message, his punishment would be death.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“I firmly believe that the last bastion of truth is and will be the remnant of God’s people who remain curious and dedicated truth seekers.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“What Satan cannot destroy, he seeks to distort or replace. There is a key component of deception within the church today that is often overlooked or ignored entirely: the idea that the church has replaced Israel.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“John 7:24: “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“The end result of the newly defined tolerance is that it weakens and dilutes the church’s strength, morphs it into society, and removes its uniqueness in the world.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Unbelief is Satan’s attempt to get people believing in anything other than the God of the Bible.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies

“Ask for the Spirit’s empowerment. Because He dwells in you, He makes the vast resources of heaven available for your aid.”
― Jack Hibbs, Living in the Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies