male announcer: This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of The
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Did you know
it's against the law to doze off
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under a hairdryer in Florida,
to play hopscotch on Sunday in
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Missouri, to hunt camels in
Arizona, to insert a penny in
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your ear in Hawaii, to tie a
giraffe to a telephone pole in
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Atlanta, to catch mice without
a license in Cleveland, to put
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a skunk in your boss's desk in
Michigan, to detonate a nuclear
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weapon within Chico California
city limits, which carries a
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punishment of $500, to
bathe less than once a year in
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Kentucky, to pawn
your dentures in Las Vegas?
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Yes, there are about two million
laws in the US and if a person
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could review them at a rate
of about two a day, you'd be
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qualified to act as a
law-abiding citizen in about
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6,000 years.
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Yet the Lord was able to
summarize the entire duty of man
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to God in just ten
simple precepts that contain
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about 325 words.
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Jesus said, God's law boils down
to two crucial principles, love
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for God, and love
for our fellow man.
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Join me now, friends, as
we consider the relevance of
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God's law in our lives today.
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Doug: We're just so excited
about this subject tonight
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because we're going to be
dealing with some very practical
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things from the Bible
that are often neglected.
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Now, the title for our
presentation tonight is
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The Commands Of The King.
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And as our custom, we're
going to begin with a story
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in the Bible.
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It's one of the famous stories
that you find in your Bible in
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the Book of Daniel chapter 6.
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I'll give you a
little background.
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You remember we talked, when we
talked about the empires, that
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Babylon fell to
the Mido-Persians.
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And when Babylon themselves in
the Mido-Persians, the Persians,
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they wiped out all of the former
administrators that had served
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the Babylonian king, with
the exception of Daniel because
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Daniel was an honest man.
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He was a very
capable administrator.
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They knew that he had
really worshiped Jehovah and his
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allegiance wasn't
to any Babylonian king.
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They not only preserved him, but
the Bible tells us in chapter 6
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that the king, Darius, was
so impressed with Daniel, he
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thought to set him
over the whole kingdom.
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He had him as one of his
chief administrators, and he was
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thinking of making
him the prime minister.
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Well, that really bothered
the other politicians in
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the kingdom.
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They said, "Oh, that's
Daniel. He's from Judah.
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He's a captive.
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And how are we going to
be, you know, extorting money?
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And how are we going to
be getting our kickbacks?
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And if he's watching the books
all the time, he's too honest.
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We're not going
to get anywhere."
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And they really began to resent
how much the king trusted in
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Daniel and that relationship.
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And they said, "We got
to get him out of the way."
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They hired spies to
follow Daniel around.
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The Bible record is that he
was Spirit-filled and he was
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faithful in everything he did.
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They put, you know, cameras
everywhere to try and catch him.
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They checked his file box to
see if he was paying his taxes.
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And in every detail of
his life, Daniel was faithful.
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You wonder what would
happen if people followed us
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around and spied?
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Do we have integrity?
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Are we the same people in
private that we are in public?
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Well, Daniel was.
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Finally, they
came up with a scheme.
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They said, "We know
how to get rid of him.
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We're not going to find anything
against him concerning, you
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know, the kingdom or
doing anything unlawful.
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But maybe on religious grounds,
we can get rid of him because
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he's a very religious man, and
he doesn't worship our gods."
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So, they went and they
assembled before the king.
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And they said,
"King, we got an idea.
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Since we've now just conquered
all these new nations and Persia
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has grown, we think that it'll
help solidify the kingdom if we
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make a law that nobody is to
pray to anybody but King Darius
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for 30 days, not
forever, just for 30 days."
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And you might think, "Well,
that's pretty arrogant law
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to make."
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But it was common in ancient
history that when a king wanted
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to unite people, if he couldn't
do it through their language or
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their culture or their
race, they could do it through
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common religion.
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How is the devil going
to try to unite the world in
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the last days?
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He compels them all to
worship, common worship.
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It wasn't an accident
that Julius Caesar and Augustus
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Caesar and Alexander the Great
declared themselves to be deity.
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They knew they weren't gods.
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I mean, they got tired
and hungry and sore like
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everybody else.
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But they thought if the people
think this, it'll help preserve
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the integrity of the kingdom.
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So, they talked
the king into it.
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And he said, "Okay, yeah,
we can do that for 30 days."
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And he said, "Of course, there's
a penalty if they break it, they
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go to the lions' den."
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
of course, there's a penalty."
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And they talk King Darius into
signing this law, according to
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the law of the Medes and the
Persians, which does not change.
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And then the Bible makes an
incredible statement in Daniel
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chapter 6, and verse 10.
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We read, "Now when Daniel knew
that the writing was signed,"
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this law.
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He knows that he's going to
go to the lions' den if he's
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caught praying.
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"He went home.
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And in his upper
room, with his windows open
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towards Jerusalem--"
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Why were his windows
open towards Jerusalem?
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Because Solomon said, "If
you are carried away captive to
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another land, if they pray
towards this place, then hear in
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heaven and answer their prayer."
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It says he knelt down on his
knees in his upper room where
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everybody could see him.
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And he opened his windows there
in the courtyard where everyone
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could see.
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And he prayed out loud
where everybody could hear.
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He did absolutely
nothing to show that he was
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worshiping Darius.
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He wanted everyone to know, "My
custom is not going to change."
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You know, the Bible tells us
that this was his custom from
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his youth.
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He prayed three
times a day, why?
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Daniel read in Psalm 55,
verse 17 where King David said,
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"Morning, evening, and at
noon will I pray and lift up
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my voice."
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And Daniel, not only read the
Bible, you can read in the Book
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of Daniel where
Daniel says, "I was reading
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the Book of Jeremiah."
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Daniel was a Bible student.
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He read the Bible, and
he lived out the Bible.
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So, when the king makes this
law that says you can't pray to
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anybody but the king
for 30 days, Daniel's got to
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make a choice.
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"Do I obey the law of the
government or the law of God?
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Do I worship the way the
government is telling me to
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worship or the way God
is telling me to worship?"
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One of the Ten Commandment
says, "You shall not have
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other gods," right?
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And so, Daniel said,
"I'm not going to disobey.
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I've spent my whole
life serving Jehovah.
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He's taken good care of me.
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Whatever the consequences, if
I go to the lions' den, I go to
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the lions' den."
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And it's amazing
to me his courage.
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It would have been so easy for
him to just leave his windows
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closed for 30 days but he said,
"These people all know that I'm
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like a cuckoo clock, three times
a day, I come out and I pray.
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And if they see me close my
windows, they're going to think
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I'm compromising my love for
God, and I'm not going to let
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them see that."
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So, he opens his window.
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He could have opened his windows
and looked like he was just
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sniffing the flowers and prayed
in his heart, but he got on his
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knees so in his posture,
they'd see he was praying.
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Then he prayed out
loud, and they could hear
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what he was praying.
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Well, sure enough, the
men assembled, and they saw
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what Daniel was doing.
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Here's the rest of that verse.
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"He knelt down on his
knees three times that day,
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and he prayed."
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And the other amazing
thing is it says he prayed,
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and he gave thanks.
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Now, if you were about to become
cat food, would you thank God?
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He was thankful in everything.
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Give thanks, the Bible says.
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He prayed and gave things before
his God, as was his custom
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since early days.
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Now, this is a very important
study because we're going to be
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dealing with the law of God
and how it relates to prophecy
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in the last days.
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Well, when the king realized
these men who had trapped
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Daniel, they went in before the
king and said, "Didn't us sign a
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law that said if anyone prays
to any god or man for 30 days,
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he's going to lions' den?"
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The king said, "Yeah, yeah."
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"Well, that Daniel from the
captivity of Judah, he prays
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and makes his
petition three times a day."
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And the king went,
"Oh, it was a trap.
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I see what you guys were doing."
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The king tried to change
his law, but he could not.
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It says three or four
times in that chapter, chapter 6
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of Daniel, "The law of
the Medes and the Persians,
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which does not change."
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It does not
change, cannot be altered.
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And the king got his
lawyers together and he said,
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"Is there any loophole?
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Any way that we
can save Daniel?"
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They said, "Your
Highness, there's none.
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The law cannot be changed.
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He's got to go to the lions'
den, at least for 24 hours."
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"So, the king gave the command,
and they brought Daniel," this
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is verse 16, "and they
cast him into the den of lions."
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But the king spoke, and he
said to Daniel, "You're God,
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who you serve
from time to time--"
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How often?
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"Your God who you
serve continually,
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He will deliver you."
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Is that still true today?
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If you have a life of serving
God, He will deliver you.
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And if you stand up for
what's right, He will honor you
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if you honor Him.
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Well, Daniel went to the lions's
den, but when the king came
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the next morning, the lions did
not bother Daniel, you know why?
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He had too much backbone.
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He knew how to stand.
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Matter of fact, he probably--he
was about 80, 85 years old
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at this point in his life.
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He got tired, he
leaned up against the lion.
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He pulled his tail.
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It hummed and
purred, and he went to sleep.
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Wasn't afraid at all.
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And the Bible tells us in
Hebrews chapter 11, through
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faith, people have
stopped the mouths of lions.
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Next morning, the king brought
Daniel out of the lions's den.
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And the Bible says that
there was no harm on him
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because he believed in God.
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Now, we are saved
by believing in God.
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That's called faith.
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Daniel was saved by faith,
but how did he show his faith?
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He chose to obey the commands
of God instead of the commands
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of the government.
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We're going to be faced with the
same issues in the last days.
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You might be thinking, "Pastor
Doug, in a prophecy seminar like
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this, why are we
talking about the law of God?"
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Let me give you three quotes
from the Book of Revelation,
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book of prophecy in the
Bible, last book in the Bible.
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Revelation, chapter 12, verse
17, "The dragon was wroth with
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the woman, and he went to
make war with a remnant of his
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seed--her seed that
keeps the commandments of God."
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Who does the
devil make war with?
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The ones who keep
the commandments of God.
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You look in Revelation
chapter 14, verse 12, "Here is
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the patience of the saints.
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Here are those who keep the
commandments of God and have
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the faith of Jesus."
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Go to the last
chapter in the Bible.
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It's real easy to find,
last chapter in Revelation.
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And said, "Blessed are those
that keep His commandments, that
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they might have a right to
the tree of life and enter in
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through the gates of the city."
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So, here's three times in
Revelation it says that the
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people who are going to be
successful and survive are the
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ones who are obedient.
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Indeed, when you look at the
messages of Jesus to the seven
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churches in chapters 2 and 3 of
Revelation, it says, "To him who
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overcomes, to him who
overcomes, to him who overcomes"
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seven times.
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God wants His people
to be an obedient people.
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Now, I believe, in case there's
any question I don't want you to
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doubt this at all, we are
saved by grace through faith.
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We are saved by faith.
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But I believe when you are
saved by faith, you will obey.
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Obedience is not legalism.
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Some pastors are making it sound
today like if you believe in or
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talk about obedience, you
are automatically a legalist.
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The Bible does not teach that.
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Let me give you a few things
to think about in our study this
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evening that are very important.
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First question, we're going
to go through some of these
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important questions.
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Can God's moral law--now, when I
say moral law, the central topic
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we're talking about now
is the Ten Commandments.
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You've got what they sometimes
called the Decalogue because you
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got the ten words
that God spoke there.
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There are a number
of laws in the Bible.
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You got some health laws and
civil laws and ceremonial laws,
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and we're not
talking about that.
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We're talking about
the basic moral law of
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the Ten Commandments.
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And there's a lot of people on
the street, a lot of people in
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the churches, and if you
interview them and say, "Can you
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name all Ten Commandments?"
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I'll bet you 80% can't.
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It's really amazing.
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And yet, the Bible tells us that
this is the time when God spoke
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to the whole nation.
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He wrote with his own finger,
and it was a big priority.
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So, can God's moral
law, the Ten Commandments,
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be amended or repealed?
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What does the Bible say?
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Luke 16:17 Jesus said, "It's
easier for heaven and earth to
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pass away than for one
tittle of the law to fail."
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A tittle is like what
you and I use to cross a T.
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It's one of the
smallest characters in Hebrew.
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It says, "Nothing
will pass from the law."
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The law is
eternal in its nature.
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Again, he tells us in Psalm 89,
verse 34, "My covenant I will
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not alter, I will not break, or
alter the words that have gone
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out of My lips."
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By the way, the Ten Commandments
are called a covenant.
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And you're going to say,
"Well, that's the Old Covenant."
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That's right.
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We're going to find out
more about that tonight too.
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And you can also read there in
Psalm 111, verse 7 and 8, "All
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of His precepts are sure.
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They stand forever and ever."
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They stand fast
forever and ever.
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And then finally in Malachi
chapter 3, verse 6, God says,
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"I am the Lord,
I do not change."
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Now, if I'm going to write
something that is going to be
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erased, I use a pencil.
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If I'm going to be--you know,
sometimes I'm marking my Bible,
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and I just use a pencil because
I thought I might change that
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note later, and I
want it to be erasable.
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If I write something in
stone, you usually want it
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to last, right?
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And so, when God wrote the Ten
Commandments in stone, this is
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something that is of an
internal--eternal nature.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a few moments,
we'll return and complete
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this presentation.
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You know, one of the big debates
in the Christian world today has
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to do with, how does a Christian
relate to the law of God?
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Now, clearly, some things
were nailed to the cross, and
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a Christian does not
need to keep the Old Covenant.
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But what about
the Ten Commandments?
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After all, they're not
called the ten recommendations
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or the ten suggestions
or God's ten good ideas.
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We have a special lesson we'd
like to share with you and it's
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called "Written In Stone."
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Even in the title, you can
understand Ten Commandments were
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written by the finger of
God in stone so obviously,
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this is important.
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Let's get back to today's
presentation and learn some more
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amazing facts
about the Word of God.
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Doug: One reason this truth
is so very important is for
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those who are trying to say
we don't need the law, they're
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really trying to get rid of
God because the law of God is
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the perfect expression and
reflection of the character
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of God.
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Look at these verses.
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The Bible defines God, it
says for one thing, God is good.
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Well, it says the law is
good, Romans 7, verse 12.
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You read in Isaiah
5:16, "God is holy."
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Romans 7:12 says,
"The law is holy."
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God is described as just.
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The Bible says the law is just.
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It tells us in
Matthew 5, "God is perfect."
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It says, "His law is perfect."
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God is love.
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The Bible says,
"The law is love."
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It says, "God is righteous.
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God is truth.
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God is pure, spiritual,
unchangeable, eternal."
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And it uses the same
definitions for the law.
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So, whenever people start
saying, "Well, we're saved by
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grace, we're not
under the law anymore.
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We don't need the law anymore."
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You be very careful about
that because you're like pushing
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God aside.
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Let me explain why the law is
so important is this is how you
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lift up Jesus and
our need for Jesus.
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Sin is the
transgression of the law.
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We're going to get to that.
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Jesus came to
save us from our sin.
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If you don't have
law, you don't have sin.
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If you don't have sin,
you don't need a Savior.
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The devil hates the law.
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He is attacking them,
read in Revelation chapter 14.
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The devil, in Revelation chapter
12, verse 17, he is attacking
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the ones who keep the
commandments of God because they
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recognize their need
of the Savior, and they're
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exalting that.
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And in the last days, we know
that the beast power is going to
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make a law that everybody
needs to worship a certain way
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or they cannot buy or sell.
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That's assuming there's still
things in the store to buy and
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sell, amen.
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And then ultimately,
there's a death decree.
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You look in Daniel chapter
3, those who do not worship the
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image, government makes a law
says, "You've got to worship the
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way we say or you'll be killed,
you go to the fiery furnace."
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Daniel chapter 6, you got
to break the first commandment,
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or you go to the fiery furnace.
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And you can read in the Book of
Esther, unless they bowed down
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and worshiped Haman, he
can wipe out the whole nation.
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And the governments were
making laws that conflicted with
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the law of God.
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We are going to be faced with
the same issue in the last days,
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there's no ifs,
ands, or buts about it.
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So, Christians who are
interested in Bible prophecy,
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you need to know you're
not saved by just knowing
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Bible prophecy.
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Jesus wants to
save you from your sin.
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He wants to transform your life.
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You know, there's something I
sometimes do when I cover this
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subject that helps
make it clear for people.
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We seem to learn
better by visuals.
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Make sure I don't turn
over the prophecy code.
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All right now, let's get
right on with our lesson here.
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Would it distract you
if I continued like this?
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Do any of you see
anything wrong right now?
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You see anything?
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I mean, if I walked out the door
like this, would you stop me as
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a friend and say, "Hey,
you got a wardrobe malfunction.
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You got to do
something about this."
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I would hope you'd
say, "Doug, come here.
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Let me help you a little bit."
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Have you ever walked up to
somebody and it's like, you
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know, you help fix
their attire because they're
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having a problem?
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Quick story.
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I was going through an airport
and rushing to get a flight.
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you know, you've got
to go through security.
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I'm thinking most of you
have been through security
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at some point.
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And there this
business guy ahead of me.
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And you got to take off
all your clothes and your shoes
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and your belt and everything.
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And you got to reassemble
yourself, and you're rushing
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for your plane.
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And I saw this
one guy ahead of me.
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And sometimes a guy, when he
puts on sport coat, if you're
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not paying attention, you get
your collar all, you know, wonky
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like this and it
lowers your perceived IQ.
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Isn't that right, if
someone walks around like this?
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And so, I saw this guy.
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I said, "Here, let me help you,"
and I grabbed his jacket and I
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straightened it out.
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And he gave me
the strangest look.
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I thought, I was
just trying to be helpful.
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He looked at me like that.
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Then I went into the men's
room and I looked, and my collar
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was like this.
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And here I was,
I was helping him.
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So, you'd stop me before I went
out the door like this, right?
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You'd say, "Doug, you
got something on your face."
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And I'd say, "I don't
have anything on my face.
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I don't see
anything wrong with my face."
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You'd say, "No, Doug, you
got something on your face."
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I'd say, "Prove it."
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What do I have to do? A mirror.
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I heard it just in unison.
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Well, it just so happens that
the lovely Vanna Batchelor is
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going to--I felt fine
until I looked in the mirror.
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So, since the mirror showed me
the problem, it stands to reason
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that the mirror should
take care of the problem.
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Is this going to
take care of my problem?
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No.
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Well, I felt fine until I looked
in the mirror, so ignorance
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is bliss.
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If I throw the mirror away
and just pretend it's not there,
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does that take
care of my problem?
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I heard about a man years ago in
China that they shipped one of
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these newfangled
microscopes to the country.
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And he was fascinating
with looking at all these things
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under the microscope
and just all the life and
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the detail he saw.
00:20:32.63\00:20:34.46
And he got the idea to put
his rice under the microscope.
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And on his rice, he saw
all these microscopic things
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crawling around.
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So, he destroyed the microscope
because he really liked
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his rice.
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And some people
don't like the law.
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You know what the problem is?
00:20:51.91\00:20:53.52
There's nothing
wrong with the law.
00:20:53.55\00:20:54.92
The law is just and holy and
good, but it shows us our sins.
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We want to get rid of it.
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That's the bottom line, friends.
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Is the function of the
law to take away the sin.
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So, what do I do? It
shows me the problem.
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It's not fair it would
show me and not help me.
00:21:09.46\00:21:10.90
What do I need?
00:21:10.93\00:21:13.40
Well, if it's a mark on my
face--I used to do this with
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marker, and one time I
accidentally used a permanent
00:21:15.37\00:21:17.97
marker and rubbing it off my
head, went from black to red.
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But so, I need a cloth.
00:21:25.41\00:21:27.55
I need the blood of Jesus.
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.12
And so, here she is
again, conveniently.
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So, what does this represent?
00:21:33.92\00:21:37.86
What does this?
00:21:37.89\00:21:39.63
What does this?
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The blood of Christ.
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This shows me the problem,
this takes care of the problem.
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Let me see if this
make it look like it works.
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So, we are saved by the blood.
00:21:50.57\00:21:52.74
Now, if you get rid of this,
you don't see this and you don't
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know that there's a problem.
00:21:56.41\00:21:58.35
And you go through life with sin
and all the consequences of sin.
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All right, I'm going to
sit this back over here.
00:22:02.85\00:22:05.89
So, that just helps us sometimes
to understand and realize what
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the function of the law is.
00:22:09.49\00:22:11.03
We're not teaching that
we are saved by the law.
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We are saved by grace.
00:22:13.06\00:22:14.73
According to the
Bible, what is sin?
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The Bible says
sin is lawlessness.
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.27
And if you got the King James
there, it tells us sin is the
00:22:21.30\00:22:23.81
transgression of the law.
00:22:23.84\00:22:26.31
Jesus came to save
us from our lawlessness.
00:22:26.34\00:22:29.94
And the Bible tells us that
God is holy, and he's calling
00:22:29.98\00:22:32.45
us to holiness.
00:22:32.48\00:22:34.22
Again, you can read in Romans
chapter 3, verse 20, "For by the
00:22:34.25\00:22:37.85
law is the knowledge of sin."
00:22:37.89\00:22:40.62
The law shows us our sin,
but it's not supposed to save us
00:22:40.66\00:22:43.53
from our sin.
00:22:43.56\00:22:45.13
But we need it because
it then drives us to Jesus.
00:22:45.16\00:22:47.60
It shows us where we are.
00:22:47.66\00:22:49.60
The Bible says that we should
examine ourselves according to
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God's law.
00:22:53.37\00:22:55.14
You read in the Book of James,
it says, "So do and so live as
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those that will be
judged by the law of liberty."
00:22:59.74\00:23:02.71
And if you look in Psalm 119,
verse 44 and 45, it says, "So
00:23:02.74\00:23:08.55
I'll keep your commandments
forever and ever, and I will
00:23:08.58\00:23:10.65
walk at liberty
because I seek your law."
00:23:10.69\00:23:14.19
We're free because of the law.
00:23:14.22\00:23:16.99
The law does not
bind us. The law frees us.
00:23:17.03\00:23:20.26
There are people who are in jail
here in the Sacramento County or
00:23:20.30\00:23:22.86
Placer County because
they've broken the law.
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I am free because I didn't.
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See what I'm saying?
00:23:29.07\00:23:30.41
And so, the law
actually protects your freedom.
00:23:30.44\00:23:32.81
People always think of
stoplights as stoplights but,
00:23:32.84\00:23:35.01
you know, they're not just
stoplights, they're go lights.
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If you make all the stoplights
stop working, you'll see how
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important those stoplights are.
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They're really go lights.
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To what law does John,
1 John 3, verse 4 refer?
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Well, you can read in Romans
7:7, it's pretty clear he's
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talking about
the Ten Commandments.
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"I would have not known
sin except through the law.
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For I would not have known
covetousness unless the law had
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said, 'You shall not covet.'"
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And so, it's the law
that helps us to recognize
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our need of Christ.
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And here he's
specifically mentioning one of
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the Ten Commandments.
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He says
breaking that law is sin.
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Jesus died to
save us from our sin.
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He died to save us
from our lawlessness.
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Now, do you know
what those laws are?
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And you go through
the Ten Commandments,
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"Do not worship other gods."
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I'll just do a
brief summary right now.
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"You shall not have
other gods before me.
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Don't make an image of
those gods and bow down to them.
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Do not take the
name of the Lord in vain.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Honor your father and mother.
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You shall not kill. You
shall not commit adultery.
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You shall not
bear false witness.
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And you shall not covet."
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If people in our society were
keeping those laws today, if we
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were teaching them,
you'd have a lot less crime.
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Crime has kind of
gone through the roof.
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The average 18 year old has
witnessed 200,000 violent acts,
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including 400,000 murders on
television by the time they're
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18, they've witnessed.
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Now, this is
actually an older statistic.
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Today, with all the screens that
people have before them, they've
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got their TV screen, their
iPad, they've got their computer
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screen, their phone screen,
and people are watching YouTubes
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and stuff all the time.
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The violence, the adultery,
using God's name in vain that
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people are hearing and watching
almost without interruption,
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it's having an
impact on our culture.
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I'll tell you that.
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When I was a kid in public
school in California down in
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Burbank, California, we had
the Ten Commandments on the wall
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in our public school.
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Does anyone else remember that?
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Yeah, it's and now
it's against the law.
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They can't even have
it in the courthouse.
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It's amazing.
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Do you know that every
year, $13 billion are stolen
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in North America from retailers?
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.92
There are 27 million
shoplifters in our nation.
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That's 10% of all people.
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And this is from the Department
of Consumer Affairs, 47% of
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high school students
have shoplifted, nearly half.
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According to the US Chamber of
Commerce, 75% of employees steal
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from their
employers at least once.
00:26:15.67\00:26:17.97
Now granted, sometimes they just
stole a stapler, sometimes they
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embezzled thousands
or millions of dollars.
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But stealing is stealing.
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Do you know you can go
to hell for stealing a pen?
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It's the spirit of
stealing if it's in your heart.
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Across the US, there were 25%
more murders recorded in 2020
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than the previous year.
00:26:36.06\00:26:37.89
You have heard
crime is going up.
00:26:37.93\00:26:40.36
And I can't help but wonder
if it's not something that
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politics--I don't think
politicians are going to be able
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to solve this by putting a
BAND-AID on a bullet wound.
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I think what's happened is the
culture has taken the law of God
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out of our society.
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