Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000182A
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>WE NEED MEN, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S 01:14 NO MORAL VALUES ANYMORE, THAT'LL SAY, 'THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD. 01:18 I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY, 'I BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD IN A 01:20 VERY SECULAR CULTURE AND I PLAN ON FOLLOWING THE WORD OF GOD. 01:23 YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT, BUT I'M TAKING A STAND.' 01:27 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:30 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:33 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:37 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:39 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 01:49 >>YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, AS A SPRINGBOARD TO OUR DISCUSSION 01:51 ABOUT STANDING WITH COURAGE, I WANT TO TAKE YOU IN YOUR BIBLES 01:54 BACK TO A BOOK IN THE BEGINNING: JOSHUA. 02:00 AND JOSHUA WAS THE ATTENDANT WHO WAS WITH MOSES ALL THE WAY FROM 02:05 EGYPT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. AND HE HAD SPENT SO MUCH TIME 02:10 STUDYING FROM THE GREAT LEADER, MOSES, THAT, WHEN THE TIME CAME 02:14 FOR MOSES TO GO TO SLEEP AND TO DIE, THAT HE WAS INSTRUCTED BY 02:19 THE LORD THAT JOSHUA WAS TO BE YOUR REPLACEMENT. 02:23 IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF JOSHUA, VERSE 5, THIS CHALLENGE IS GIVEN 02:29 BY GOD TO JOSHUA. AND HE MAKES A PROMISE TO HIM. 02:34 YOU'RE GETTING READY, NOW, TO LEAD THE PEOPLE INTO THE 02:36 PROMISED LAND. JOSHUA WAS ON THE BORDERS 02:38 OF THE PROMISED LAND. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT IT 02:41 KIND OF FEELS, TO ME, LIKE WE'RE ON THE BORDERS OF THE 02:43 PROMISED LAND AGAIN. >>AMEN. 02:45 >>AND WE NEED MORE MEN WHO HAVE THAT COURAGE OF JOSHUA. 02:49 AND THE CHALLENGE THAT GOD GIVES JOSHUA IS NOT JUST MEANT FOR 02:53 THAT LEADER, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S A CHALLENGE THAT APPLIES TO 02:56 EVERY MAN. HE SAYS, FIRST OF ALL, "NO MAN 03:00 SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND BEFORE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE;" 03:05 - THAT MEANT THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE VICTORIOUS IN YOUR BATTLE 03:10 - WITH ALL OF THE CANAANITES THEY NEEDED TO FIGHT WITH TO 03:13 TAKE POSSESSION OF THE PROMISED LAND, THEY WOULD NOT 03:15 BE ABLE TO STAND. IN A BATTLE, IT'S LIKE A BOXING 03:19 MATCH - SOMEONE'S LEFT STANDING AND IT'S USUALLY THE WINNER. 03:23 AND, IN THE BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL, YOU WANT TO BE LEFT 03:26 STANDING. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE LEARN 03:28 HOW TO TAKE A STAND AND REMAIN STANDING. 03:31 THERE ARE BATTLES IN LIFE. GOD PROMISED NO MAN WILL BE ABLE 03:35 TO STAND BEFORE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. 03:38 "AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH YOU. 03:43 BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE." - NOW I'VE GOT TO STOP HERE 03:47 AND JUST DRAW ATTENTION TO A LITTLE TWO-LETTER WORD IN THERE 03:51 - IT'S 'BE'. WHENEVER GOD TELLS US TO BE 03:54 SOMETHING, THERE IS CREATIVE POWER IN THAT WORD. 03:58 WHEN GOD BROUGHT THE WORLD INTO EXISTENCE, HE SAID, 'LET THERE 04:00 BE LIGHT.' A LEPER CAME TO JESUS ONE DAY AND SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU 04:04 WANT TO, YOU CAN CLEANSE ME.' AND JESUS SAID, 'I WANT TO. 04:07 BE CLEAN.' AND HE WAS CLEANSED FROM HIS LEPROSY. 04:11 AND SO, WHEN GOD SAYS 'BE STRONG', IN THE WORD OF GOD IS 04:17 EMPOWERMENT TO BE WHAT HE'S ASKING YOU TO BE. 04:21 SO GOD WILL NEVER ASK YOU TO BE SOMETHING YOU CAN'T BE. 04:23 >>AMEN. >>ISN'T THAT ENCOURAGING? 04:25 >>YES. >>AND IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, 04:27 ESPECIALLY TODAY, IF YOU'RE GOING TO STAND AND IF YOU'RE 04:30 GOING TO STAND WITH COURAGE, YOU NEED TO BE STRONG. BECAUSE THE 04:34 DEVIL HAS BEEN SHARPENING HIS SKILLS FOR 6,000 YEARS. 04:37 "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE," - HE SAYS - "FOR TO THIS PEOPLE 04:43 YOU SHALL DIVIDE AS AN INHERITANCE THE LAND WHICH I 04:46 SWORE TO THEIR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM. 04:48 ONLY BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS," - NOW, WHEN GOD 04:54 EMPHASIZES SOMETHING TWICE, THAT MUST BE IMPORTANT. 04:57 HE'S SAYING, 'IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THE PROMISED LAND, IF YOU 04:59 WANT TO BE VICTORIOUS, YOU'VE GOT TO BE STRONG. 05:02 YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY STRONG, VERY COURAGEOUS.' WHEN GOD SAYS 05:07 'VERY' THAT MEANS 'VERY' - "...BE VERY COURAGEOUS, THAT YOU 05:11 MAY OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW WHICH MOSES MY 05:15 SERVANT COMMANDED YOU; DO NOT TURN FROM IT TO THE RIGHT HAND 05:20 OR TO THE LEFT, THAT YOU MAY PROSPER WHEREVER YOU GO." 05:24 NOW, PROSPER MEANS 'BE SUCCESSFUL'. 05:26 HOW MANY MEN WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL? 05:29 DO YOU NOTICE THE CONNECTION HE'S MAKING HERE? 05:31 STANDING, COURAGE, STRONG, SUCCESSFUL, LAW. 05:39 THE KEY TO SUCCESS AND COURAGE IS OBEDIENCE. 05:45 HE GIVES YOU COURAGE TO OBEY. I MEAN, HOW OFTEN DID GOD TELL 05:49 HIS SOLDIERS TO GO OFF INTO BATTLES THAT LOOKED LIKE THEY 05:53 WERE HOPELESS, BUT HE SAID, 'I'M WITH YOU SO BE COURAGEOUS' AND 05:58 THEY WERE VICTORIOUS BECAUSE THEY WENT INTO BATTLE WITH GOD? 06:03 NOW, YOU REALIZE, AS WE TALK ABOUT COURAGE AND WE TALK ABOUT 06:05 BATTLES TONIGHT, AND WE TALK ABOUT BEING MEN, WE'RE USING THE 06:08 METAPHORS OF WAR IN THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW, I REALLY LOVE THE WAY 06:12 THAT OUR PRODUCERS SURROUNDED THE STAGE HERE. THAT'S A VERY 06:14 INTERESTING PIECE BACK THERE - THE ARMOR OF GOD - AND THAT 06:17 SWORD HERE - IF ANYONE TRIES TO RUSH THE STAGE, THAT'S - I'M 06:19 READY - THIS IS REAL. (LAUGHTER) AND SO, THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, 06:24 SOME OF THE SYMBOLS WE THINK OF WAR AND IT'S BECAUSE THERE IS A 06:31 WAR. THERE ARE BATTLES IN LIFE. >>RIGHT. 06:34 >>AND WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO WIN THOSE BATTLES. 06:37 >>AMEN. >>BE STRONG. 06:39 THERE'S A COMMAND HERE TO BE STRONG. 06:42 THIS IS - NOW, YOU NOTICE THIS? BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE. 06:44 SO THERE YOU'VE GOT IT THREE TIMES. 06:46 'BE STRONG OF GOOD COURAGE.' 'BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS.' 'BE 06:51 STRONG OF GOOD COURAGE AND YOU WILL HAVE GREAT SUCCESS.' YOU 06:55 KNOW, GOD IS PROMISING THAT TO YOU AND I AND, BECAUSE THE VERY 06:58 FACT HE'S SAYING 'BE THAT' MEANS YOU CAN BE THAT. 07:01 NOW, THAT OUGHT TO ENCOURAGE YOU, AMEN? SO WHAT IS COURAGE? 07:05 GOD'S TELLING US TO BE SOMETHING; WHAT IS IT? 07:08 COURAGE IS 'THE STATE OR QUALITY OF MIND OR SPIRIT THAT ENABLES 07:12 ONE TO FACE DANGER, FEAR, OR VICISSITUDES WITH 07:16 SELF-POSSESSION, CONFIDENCE, AND RESOLUTION; BRAVERY.' YOU NEED 07:22 ALL THAT, NOT ONLY TO FIGHT BATTLES ON A BATTLEFIELD, YOU 07:25 NEED ALL OF THAT TO FIGHT SPIRITUAL BATTLES WITH THE 07:28 ENEMY. WE NEED COURAGE. 07:31 NOW, THIS SERIES IS TITLED MIGHTY MEN OF GOD AND THAT, OF 07:36 COURSE, COMES FROM A TITLE - A PHRASE - THAT WAS GIVEN TO THIS 07:41 INTERESTING GROUP OF SPECIAL FORCES THAT BELONGED TO KING 07:46 DAVID. DAVID AND HIS MIGHTY MEN. 07:49 MATTER OF FACT, THE PHRASE MIGHTY MEN IS FOUND 71 TIMES IN 07:52 THE BIBLE AND DAVID HAD 37 MIGHTY MEN. 07:57 YOU CAN READ THE LIST OF THEM IN SAMUEL - 2 SAMUEL - AND IN 08:02 CHRONICLES. YOU'LL FIND IT IN 2 SAMUEL AND 1 08:04 CHRONICLES 11, AND YOU LOOK AT THE EXPLOITS AND YOU THINK, 08:08 'THIS CAN'T BE TRUE. THIS IS LIKE SUPER HEROES - THE 08:12 THINGS THAT THESE GUYS DID.' ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IT TALKED 08:15 ABOUT ONE OR ANOTHER OF DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN THAT IT SAYS 'KILLED 08:19 300 ENEMY IN A BATTLE.' HOW DO YOU DO THAT? 08:22 I MEAN, THAT'S LIKE SAMSON WHO SAYS, 'WITH A THOUSAND - WITH A 08:24 JAWBONE OF A DONKEY HE SLEW A THOUSAND MEN.' AND I CHALLENGE 08:29 YOU TO FIND ONE TIME - DO YOU KNOW, THE NAME DAVID IS 08:32 MENTIONED OVER A THOUSAND TIMES IN THE BIBLE - MORE THAN THE 08:34 NAME JESUS. YOU CAN'T FIND ONE TIME WHEN 08:38 DAVID'S SOLDIERS LOST A BATTLE. WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE PART 08:43 OF THAT GROUP OF MIGHTY MEN? >>AMEN. 08:46 >>NOW, ONE OF THEM, IN PARTICULAR, IS KIND OF A REAL 08:48 INTERESTING SUBJECT FOR ME. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ 08:50 THROUGH ALL 37 OF DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN. 08:52 I WILL JUST TELL YOU THAT ONE OF THEM WAS NAMED URIAH THE 08:56 HITTITE. WE'LL TALK ABOUT HIM 08:58 IN A LATER MEETING. BUT THERE'S THIS OTHER 09:01 CHARACTER, AND YOU CAN FIND THE STORY OF THIS ONE PARTICULAR 09:04 BATTLE THAT REALLY WENT DOWN IN HEBREW HISTORY. 09:07 2 SAMUEL 23:9 - YOU'LL ALSO FIND IT IN 1 CHRONICLES 11. 09:11 I'M GOING TO READ, FIRST, 2 SAMUEL 23:9, "AND AFTER HIM WAS 09:15 ELEAZAR THE SON OF DODO, THE AHOHITE, ONE OF THE THREE MIGHTY 09:19 MEN WITH DAVID" - AND NOT ONLY DID DAVID HAVE 37 MIGHTY MEN, HE 09:22 HAD LIKE THE TOP THREE AMONG THE 37 AND ELEAZAR WAS IN THAT 09:26 GROUP. AND IT SAYS, "WHEN THEY DEFIED 09:28 THE PHILISTINES WHO WERE GATHERED THERE FOR BATTLE, 09:32 THE MEN OF ISRAEL HAD RETREATED." 09:35 - THERE, ON THE BATTLEFIELD, SOME OF THEM GOT DISCOURAGED. 09:37 THEY WERE OUTNUMBERED, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ONLY FOUR HUNDRED OF 09:39 THEM, AND MAYBE THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF PHILISTINES AND 09:42 THEY ALL BEGAN TO FALL BACK AND RETREAT. 09:44 BUT IT SAYS, "HE AROSE" - ELEAZER - "AND ATTACKED THE 09:49 PHILISTINES UNTIL HIS HAND WAS WEARY, AND HIS HAND STUCK TO THE 09:54 SWORD." THAT MEANS HE HELD THE SWORD - 09:59 I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL WITH THIS - THIS IS A REAL SWORD HERE, 10:00 BUT I THINK THERE'S DUCT TAPE HOLDING IT UP. 10:03 IF YOU'RE A MAN, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING WITH DUCT TAPE, RIGHT? 10:06 >>AMEN. >>A - 10:08 >>MEN! (LAUGHTER) >>HE HELD ONTO IT SO 10:11 LONG IN FIGHTING THAT, WHEN THE BATTLE WAS OVER, HE 10:13 COULDN'T UNDO HIS HAND. NOW, THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS. 10:16 HAVE YOU EVER RIDDEN - I SEE WAYNE HERE - YOU EVER RIDDEN A 10:18 MOTORCYCLE ON A COLD DAY, FOR SO LONG, THAT WHEN YOU GET TO YOUR 10:21 DESTINATION YOU CAN'T OPEN YOUR HAND? 10:23 (LAUGHTER) I SEE YOU'RE ALL NODDING, RECOGNIZING - HE GOT IN 10:27 THIS BATTLE AND HE WAS CUTTING AND SLASHING AND FIGHTING - LET 10:30 ME READ IT TO YOU HERE IN CHRONICLES - 1 CHRONICLES 10:33 11:12-14, "AFTER HIM WAS ELEAZAR THE SON OF DODO, THE AHOHITE, 10:38 WHO WAS ONE OF THE THREE MIGHTY MEN. 10:40 HE WAS WITH DAVID" - AND THIS HAD SOMETHING ELSE - THEY ALL 10:42 RETREATED EXCEPT HE AND WHO? HE AND DAVID - ELEAZAR AND DAVID 10:47 STAYED WHEN EVERYONE ELSE RAN - "HE WAS WITH DAVID AT PASDAMMIM. 10:52 NOW THERE THE PHILISTINES WERE GATHERED FOR BATTLE, AND THERE 10:54 WAS A PIECE OF GROUND FULL OF BARLEY. SO THE PEOPLE FLED" - 10:58 THE ISRAELITES FLED - "FROM THE PHILISTINES. 11:00 BUT THEY" - DAVID AND ELEAZAR - STATIONED THEMSELVES - YOU KNOW 11:05 WHAT THAT MEANS? THEY TOOK A STAND. 11:08 EVERYONE ELSE WAS RUNNING, THEY SAID, 'WE'RE NOT RUNNING. 11:10 WE'RE STAYING RIGHT WHERE WE'RE AT. 11:12 IT KIND OF REMEMBERS - REMINDS ME OF THAT TIME IN AMERICAN 11:15 HISTORY WHEN THE ENGLISH WERE ATTACKING THE AMERICAN NAVY AND 11:19 I THINK THE NAVY CONSISTED OF ONE BOAT BACK THEN - THEY CALLED 11:23 IT OUR NAVY - AND WHAT WAS HIS NAME? JOHN PAUL JONES? 11:29 AND THEY SAID - I THINK THEY WERE ON A SHIP CALLED THE 11:31 BONHOMME RICHARD AND THEY SAID THE SHIP WAS ON FIRE AND IT 11:35 LOOKED LIKE IT WAS - HAD BEEN SHOT UP BY CANNON AND THE 11:38 BRITISH OFFICER SAID TO CAPTAIN JONES, HE SAID, 'DO YOU 11:43 SURRENDER?' YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID? 'SURRENDER?! WE HAVEN'T 11:45 EVEN BEGUN TO FIGHT!' (LAUGHTER) AND, AT THAT POINT, 11:49 ONE OF HIS MEN THREW A GRENADE IN A PORTHOLE OF THE BRITISH 11:51 SHIP AND IT BLEW UP AND THEY ENDED UP WINNING THE BATTLE. 11:55 AND, YOU KNOW, DAVID SAID, 'RETREAT?! 11:58 I'M NOT RETREATING!' HIS WHOLE ARMY LEFT HIM BUT HE 12:01 STAYED AND HE AND ELEAZAR FOUGHT BACK TO BACK AND THEY WERE GOING 12:07 AROUND - THEY MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE IN A BIG SWORD - JUST GOING 12:10 AROUND LIKE A WEEDEATER THROUGH THE PHILISTINES (LAUGHTER) AND 12:15 JUST MOWING THEM DOWN WITH THEIR SWORDS - THEY TOOK THEIR STAND. 12:23 YOU KNOW, WE NEED MORE MEN TO TAKE A STAND TODAY. 12:25 >>AMEN! >>WE'RE NOT DEFENDING BARLEY 12:27 FIELDS. WHAT DOES GRAIN REPRESENT IN BIBLE SYMBOLS? 12:34 MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT EVERY WORD. 12:37 >>AMEN. >>THEY TOOK A STAND 12:38 IN THE FIELD OF GRAIN. >>AMEN. 12:40 >>AND THEY WERE GOING TO LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR IT. 12:42 AND WE NEED MEN, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S 12:45 NO MORAL VALUES ANYMORE THAT'LL SAY, 'THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD. 12:49 I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY, 'I BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD, IN A 12:52 VERY SECULAR CULTURE, AND I PLAN ON FOLLOWING THE WORD OF GOD. 12:55 YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT, BUT I'M TAKING A STAND.'' 12:56 >>THAT'S RIGHT. >>AMEN. 12:58 >>THAT'S HOW YOU BECOME A MIGHTY MAN OF GOD. 13:00 AND, YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAYS? 'YOU DO THAT AND YOU 13:02 WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU. 13:05 I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU.' AND THERE THEY WERE - DAVID AND 13:08 ELEAZAR, BACK TO BACK, FIGHTING. AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS IS 13:12 CALLED THE SON OF DAVID. AND IF YOU GO INTO BATTLE 13:15 WITH CHRIST, YOU DON'T LOSE. >>AMEN. 13:19 >>AND JESUS HAS SAID, 'I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU. 13:23 AMEN? >>THAT'S RIGHT. 13:25 >>AMEN. >>HE IS THE SON OF DAVID. 13:28 AND IT SAYS, "SO THE LORD" - THEY DEFENDED AND THEY KILLED 13:32 THE PHILISTINES, AND SO THE LORD "BROUGHT ABOUT A GREAT VICTORY." 13:36 - AN EXTRAORDINARY VICTORY THAT DAY BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T RUN. 13:40 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S - IT'S HELPFUL WHEN YOU TAKE A STAND. 13:44 SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO DO IT ALONE. 13:45 IT'S REALLY HELPFUL IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS THAT WILL HELP YOU 13:49 TAKE A STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT. 13:51 YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO BE A SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIAN MIGHTY MAN 13:54 IN THIS DAY AND AGE, IT'S REALLY VALUABLE FOR YOU TO HAVE SOME 13:59 MEN FRIENDS THAT YOU CAN BE OPEN WITH, THAT YOU CAN TRUST, THAT 14:05 YOU CAN BE HONEST WITH, THAT YOU KNOW THAT WHAT YOU TALK TO THEM 14:08 ABOUT AND WHEN YOU PRAY WITH THEM, IT STAYS BETWEEN YOU - AND 14:12 YOU CAN HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE. 14:15 WHEN JESUS SENT OUT THE APOSTLES, YOU NOTICE HE DIDN'T 14:16 SEND THEM ONE BY ONE. HE SENT THEM OUT TWO BY TWO. 14:20 AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'AND A THREE-BRAIDED ROPE IS NOT EASILY 14:24 BROKEN.' IF YOU'VE GOT TWO OR THREE, YOU'RE EVEN STRONGER. 14:28 WHEN THE MISSIONARIES WENT OUT, IT WAS PAUL AND BARNABAS AND 14:30 MARK OR PAUL AND SILAS, OR AQUILA AND PRISCILLA AND PAUL. 14:35 AND THEN THEY WOULD STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER AS THEY WENT OUT. 14:38 DO YOU HAVE SOME FRIENDS? 14:39 A LOT OF MEN ARE EASILY OVERCOME AND THEY GET DISCOURAGED BECAUSE 14:44 THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHRISTIAN FRIEND THEY CAN 14:46 DISCIPLE WITH AND THEY CAN BE OPEN TO. 14:49 AND IT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR THOSE WHO, MAYBE, ARE A LITTLE MORE 14:52 MATURE IN THEIR WALK TO MAYBE TAKE A SLIGHTLY YOUNGER MAN AND 14:55 MENTOR THEM AND BE LIKE A BIG BROTHER AND ENCOURAGE THEM IN 14:59 THE LORD. THIS WAS A PLAN THAT 15:01 THEY HAD IN THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW, PETER WAS A LITTLE 15:03 OLDER THAN JOHN, BUT THEY WERE A TEAM. 15:06 YOU NOTICE, THEY ALWAYS WENT OUT TWO BY TWO DOING THINGS. 15:09 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THREE FRIENDS THAT HAD BECOME SO CLOSE 15:14 THAT THEY WERE READY TO DIE TOGETHER. YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF 15:17 DANIEL CHAPTER 3 AND YOU'VE GOT - YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES: 15:21 SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO. SOUNDS LIKE THE NAMES YOU'D FIND 15:26 ON SOME LAW FIRM OR SOMETHING. (LAUGHTER) NOW THEY HAD OTHER 15:30 NAMES: HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH, BUT SHADRACH, MESHACH, 15:34 AND ABEDNEGO IS MORE FUN TO SAY, DON'T YOU THINK? (LAUGHTER) 15:37 THOSE ARE THEIR BABYLONIAN NAMES. 15:39 BUT THE KING OF BABYLON, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, HE MAKES A LAW, 15:43 AND THE LAW BASICALLY SAYS THAT EVERYBODY, WHEN THEY HEAR THE 15:47 SIGNAL MUSIC, THE ORCHESTRA PLAYS, THEY'RE ALL SUPPOSED TO 15:50 BOW DOWN - GET DOWN ON THEIR KNEES, WORSHIP THIS MAN-MADE 15:54 IMAGE. I MEAN, NEBUCHADNEZZAR 15:56 SAID, 'I MADE A GOD. I WANT YOU TO WORSHIP IT.' 15:58 BUT SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO HAD A PROBLEM. 16:02 GOD'S WORD - THE LAW THAT GOD TALKED TO JOSHUA ABOUT, IT SAID, 16:06 'YOU WILL NOT MAKE GRAVEN IMAGES AND BOW DOWN AND PRAY TO THEM.' 16:10 THEY HAD TO MAKE A DECISION. 16:13 THEY WERE BROUGHT TO THIS EVENT - MAYBE THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 16:14 WAS GOING ON AT FIRST AND THERE'S THOUSANDS GATHERED ON 16:17 THE PLAIN OF DURA AND IT WAS PROBABLY IMPRESSIVE, YOU KNOW? 16:20 THEY HAD SOME SPECIAL GUESTS THAT WERE THERE AND THEY HAD ALL 16:25 THE LEADERS FROM AROUND THE REALM AND PEOPLE ARE WEARING 16:27 THEIR UNIFORMS AND THEIR ROYAL ROBES AND SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND 16:31 ABEDNEGO ARE THINKING, 'BOY, JUST A LITTLE WHILE BACK WE WERE 16:33 SLAVES COMING FROM JUDEA AND HERE WE ARE WITH THE WHO'S WHO 16:38 OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S KINGDOM AND IT'S KIND OF NICE TO BE IN THIS 16:41 CROWD.' AND THEN THEY HEAR WHAT THE PARTY'S ALL ABOUT. 16:45 THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BOW AND WORSHIP AN IMAGE. 16:47 AND THEY READ THE PROGRAM AND THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND 16:50 THEY SAID, 'WE CAN'T DO THAT.' BUT IT SAYS HERE, 'IF YOU DON'T' 16:56 - FINE PRINT - 'BY THE WAY, THOSE THAT DON'T, YOU'RE GOING 16:59 TO BE THROWN IN A FURNACE NOT FAR AWAY' - WHERE THEY SMELTED 17:02 THE GOLD. AND I'LL BET THEY HAD SOME 17:06 DISCUSSION AMONG THEMSELVES AND SAID, 'BROTHER, YOU KNOW, GOD'S 17:09 TAKEN CARE OF US THIS FAR. HE BROUGHT US TO THESE 17:11 POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE. PERHAPS THIS IS A TIME FOR US TO 17:15 USE OUR INFLUENCE TO DIE FOR HIS NAME. PERHAPS HE'LL DELIVER US. 17:19 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S GOT PLANNED, BUT ALL WE DO KNOW IS 17:21 GOD SAID, 'DO NOT BOW DOWN TO IMAGES. 17:24 WE CAN'T DO IT.' >>YES. 17:26 >>SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO SAW EVERYONE ELSE 17:29 BOWING DOWN; THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND THEY FOLDED THEIR ARMS 17:32 AND THEY STOOD. THEY HAD THE COURAGE TO STAND 17:37 WHEN EVERYONE ELSE BOWED DOWN. IT MAKES IT A LITTLE EASIER WHEN 17:40 YOU'RE STANDING WITH SOMEONE ELSE, RIGHT? 17:43 AND YOU KNOW THE STORY: FINALLY, WHEN WORD REACHED THE KING, HE 17:47 SAID, 'LOOK, I LIKE YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW? AND YOU'VE BEEN GOOD 17:52 IN THE COURT AND I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED AND I TESTED YOU ONCE 17:54 AND YOU WERE TEN TIMES WISER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE. 17:56 I'D RATHER NOT KILL YOU, BUT MAYBE YOU DIDN'T HEAR CLEARLY 18:00 BECAUSE YOU, YOU KNOW, ORIGINALLY COME FROM ANOTHER 18:01 LANGUAGE AND BABYLONIAN/CHALDEAN IS YOUR SECOND TONGUE' AND 'LET 18:06 ME MAKE THIS CLEAR: I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE CHANCE. 18:08 THE DEVIL WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE YOU COMPROMISE. 18:11 YOU HEAR THE MUSIC - AND THEY COULD HAVE SAID, 'WELL, MAYBE WE 18:15 SHOULD THINK THIS THROUGH, YOU KNOW?' 18:16 'KING, IS IT OKAY IF, WHEN YOU PLAY THE MUSIC, WE JUST TIE OUR 18:20 SANDALS? WE WON'T BOW TO THE IMAGE, WE'LL 18:22 JUST TIE OUR SANDALS SO WE'LL LOOK LIKE WE'RE GOING ALONG. 18:26 WE DON'T WANT TO RUIN YOUR PARTY.' AND COULDN'T THEY HAVE 18:28 DONE THAT? THEY WOULDN'T EVEN COMPROMISE. 18:33 THEY SAID, 'NO, WE'RE GOING TO STAND. 18:34 WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO LOOK LIKE WE'RE DOING WHAT EVERYONE 18:37 ELSE IS DOING.' >>AMEN. 18:38 >>AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE MOCKED AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE RIDICULED 18:41 AND YOUR JOB MIGHT BE THREATENED AND YOUR STATUS MIGHT BE 18:45 THREATENED AND PROMOTIONS MIGHT BE THREATENED - FOR THEM, THEIR 18:48 LIVES WERE GOING TO BE THREATENED, BUT THEY DECIDED TO 18:51 STAND. AND THE KING SAID, 'WE'RE GOING 18:56 TO THROW YOU IN THE FURNACE.' AND ONE OF THEM SAID, 'WE DON'T 18:59 WANT TO BE CAREFUL IN ANSWERING YOU ON THIS MATTER. 19:02 YOU DON'T HAVE TO PLAY THE MUSIC AGAIN. 19:04 WE'RE NOT GOING TO BOW DOWN. AND, IF OUR GOD WANTS TO, 19:08 HE'S ABLE TO DELIVER US.' IF HE WANTS TO - DO YOU KNOW 19:09 WHAT THAT MEANS? IF HE DOESN'T, HE DOESN'T. 19:13 I REMEMBER VISITING WITH A VERY DEDICATED CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN 19:17 WHO HAD SERIOUS ADVANCED CANCER AND HE SAID, 'DOUG, I HAVE 19:24 PEACE.' HE SAYS, 'I KNOW GOD CAN HEAL ME AND I APPRECIATE YOUR 19:26 PRAYERS, BUT IF HE DOESN'T, LIKE SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO, 19:30 IF HE DOES, GREAT, I KNOW HE CAN. 19:33 IF HE DOESN'T, I ACCEPT THAT TOO.' MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO 19:38 OBEY GOD. MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE FAITHFUL. 19:41 YOU KNOW, ALL OF US, IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL TO GOD, YOU ARE GOING 19:45 TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAND. 19:48 IT MIGHT BE WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE 19:51 UNSAVORY AROUND A CUBICLE IN AN OFFICE AND YOU DON'T LAUGH AT 19:55 THE JOKE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T WHAT THE LORD WANTS. 20:00 BUT WHEN YOU STAND, OTHERS, THEY'LL LOOK AT YOU - AND SOME 20:03 MIGHT JEER AND SOME MIGHT SCOFF, BUT FOR GOD'S MIGHTY MEN, IT'S 20:08 MORE IMPORTANT WHAT GOD THINKS OF YOU THAN WHAT THE WORLD 20:10 THINKS OF YOU. >>AMEN. 20:12 >>YOU KNOW, SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS PASTORING A LITTLE CHURCH 20:16 AND ONE OF MY DEACONS ELBOWED ME AND HE SAID, 20:21 'YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS?' AND I SAID, 'NO.' AND HE POINTED 20:24 TO AN OLD COUPLE THAT WAS MAKING THEIR WAY UP TO THE 20:26 FRONT OF THE CHURCH. HE SAID, 'THAT'S DESMOND DOSS.' 20:30 YOU KNOW, THE WAR HERO? GOT THE CONGRESSIONAL 20:34 MEDAL OF HONOR. AND I WAS REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE 20:37 OUR FAMILY HAD JUST READ THE BOOK TOGETHER. 20:39 IT ENDED UP HIS WIFE, FRANCES, HAD FAMILY THAT WERE MEMBERS OF 20:46 OUR CHURCH AND SO WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER. 20:48 AND HE'D COME TO SACRAMENTO - I SAW HIM DIFFERENT PLACES WHEN I 20:51 PREACHED BACK IN TENNESSEE - JUST AN INCREDIBLE MAN. 20:55 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD THE STORY, BUT A DEDICATED 20:58 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN WHO ACTUALLY VOLUNTEERED DURING 21:03 WORLD WAR II IN 1942 AS A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. 21:07 HE SAID, 'I WANT TO HELP. I WANT TO DO MY PART. 21:09 I'M THANKFUL FOR OUR FREEDOMS, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE UP A 21:12 GUN AND HURT ANYBODY, I'LL BE A MEDIC.' AND, YOU KNOW, THE 21:15 RECRUITERS, THEY'LL SAY, 'SURE, SURE, NO PROBLEM. 21:17 WHATEVER YOU WANT.' I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU'VE BEEN IN THE 21:18 SERVICE, BUT RECRUITERS WILL PROMISE YOU THE MOON. 21:21 AND YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW, YEAH, I WANT TO FLY A' - 21:23 'SURE, NO PROBLEM!' (LAUGHTER) 21:25 AND YOU END UP CLEANING THE LATRINE. 21:27 (LAUGHTER) AND THEY SAY, 'YEAH, NO GUN, YEAH, NO PROBLEM.' SO HE 21:31 SIGNED UP AND FINALLY, WHEN HIS OFFICERS - EVEN THE MEDICS HAD 21:36 TO CARRY A WEAPON - AND WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT, FIRST OF 21:39 ALL HE SAID, 'I WON'T DO ANY UNNECESSARY WORK ON SABBATH.' 21:43 AND THE RECRUITER SAID, 'UH, YEAH, NO PROBLEM.' AND THEY 21:46 SAID, 'YEAH, THAT IS A PROBLEM' WHEN HE FINALLY JOINED. 21:48 HE SAYS, 'WELL, I CAN'T DO IT.' AND THEY THREATENED HIM AND THEY 21:51 PUT HIM IN THE BRIG AND THEY MADE HIM PEEL POTATOES AND CLEAN 21:54 THE LATRINE AND THEY - AND HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO CARRY A 21:56 GUN.' CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? AND THE OTHER SOLDIERS SAID, 22:01 'YOU MEAN YOU WON'T DEFEND ME WHEN I'M ON THE BATTLEFIELD? 22:03 I CAN'T COUNT ON YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO 22:07 DEFEND ME.' AND HE WAS OSTRACIZED AND HE WAS RIDICULED 22:11 AND THEY GAVE HIM A VERY HARD TIME, BUT HE STOOD FOR HIS 22:15 CONVICTIONS. YOU KNOW, TO BE A CHRISTIAN MAN 22:18 DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE GOT BIG MUSCLES. 22:21 TO BE A MIGHTY MAN OF GOD - IT NEVER SAYS THE GUYS WHO WERE 22:24 DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN WERE MUSCULAR, BUT THEY HAD 22:28 CONVICTION AND THEY HAD FOLLOWED DAVID. 22:30 THE BIBLE SAYS DAVID WAS HANDSOME. 22:33 IT NEVER SAID HE WAS BUFF. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 22:39 SO DOSS STOOD FOR HIS CONVICTIONS. 22:41 FINALLY THEY GOT ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND THEY FOUND OUT 22:43 WHAT HE WAS REALLY MADE OF. HE HAD AN INNER STRENGTH. 22:47 AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE BIG MOUTHS ON THE BATTLEFIELD 22:50 RAN WHEN THE BULLETS STARTED TO FLY, BUT NOT DOSS. 22:53 AND I WANT TO JUST READ YOU THE CITATION THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM. 22:58 AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY - THIS WAS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT BACK 23:00 WHEN HE RECEIVED HIS MEDAL. IT SAYS HE WAS IN A COMPANY - 23:04 "HE WAS A COMPANY AID MAN" - A MEDIC - "WHEN THE FIRST 23:07 BATTALION ASSAULTED A JAGGED ESCARPMENT" - THEY JUST MADE A 23:10 MOVIE ABOUT THIS CALLED HACKSAW RIDGE - "400 FEET HIGH. 23:15 AS TROOPS GAINED THE SUMMIT, A HEAVY CONCENTRATION OF 23:18 ARTILLERY, MORTAR, AND MACHINE-GUN FIRE CRASHED IN 23:22 AFFLICTING APPROXIMATELY 75 CASUALTIES AND DRIVING OTHERS 23:25 BACK. PFC" - PRIVATE FIRST CLASS - "DOSS" - THEY WOULD NEVER 23:29 PROMOTE HIM - "REFUSED TO SEEK COVER AND REMAINED IN A FIRE 23:34 SWEPT AREA" - THAT MEANS SWEPT BY ENEMY FIRE - A BLIZZARD OF 23:38 BULLETS - AND HE REFUSED TO SEEK COVER "WITH THE STRICKEN, 23:43 CARRYING ALL SEVENTY-FIVE CASUALTIES, ONE BY ONE, TO THE 23:47 EDGE OF THE ESCARPMENT AND LOWERING THEM, ON A ROPE- 23:50 SUPPORTED LITTER, DOWN THE FACE OF A CLIFF TO FRIENDLY HANDS. 23:54 ON MAY 2, HE EXPOSED HIMSELF TO HEAVY RIFLE AND MORTAR FIRE IN 23:57 RESCUING THE WOUNDED MEN 200 YARDS FORWARD OF THE ENEMY LINE. 24:03 ON THE SAME ESCARPMENT TWO DAYS LATER, HE TREATED FOUR MEN WHO 24:06 HAD BEEN CUT DOWN WHILE ASSAULTING A STRONGLY-DEFENDED 24:09 CAVE, ADVANCING THROUGH A SHOWER OF GRENADES TO WITHIN EIGHT 24:14 YARDS OF ENEMY FORCES IN A CAVE'S MOUTH, WHERE HE DRESSED 24:17 HIS COMRADES WOUNDS BEFORE MAKING FOUR SEPARATE TRIPS, 24:20 UNDER CONSTANT FIRE, TO EVACUATE THEM TO SAFETY. 24:24 ON MAY 5," - THOSE WHO REPORTED LATER, WHEN HE GOT HIS MEDAL 24:29 SAID THIS WAS SUPERNATURAL. HE HAD SOMETHING TAKING CARE OF 24:34 HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS A WITHERING 24:36 BLIZZARD OF BULLETS GOING ALL AROUND HIM AND THEY DIDN'T HIT 24:39 HIM. YOU STAND UP FOR GOD AND 24:42 HE'LL STAND UP FOR YOU. >>AMEN. 24:44 >>"ON MAY 5, HE UNHESITATINGLY BRAVED ENEMY SHELLING AND SMALL 24:47 ARMS TO ASSIST AN ARTILLERY OFFICER. HE APPLIED BANDAGES AND 24:51 MOVED HIS PATIENT TO A SPOT THAT OFFERED PROTECTION FROM SMALL 24:55 ARMS FIRE, WHILE ARTILLERY AND MORTAR SHELLS FELL CLOSE BY, 24:58 PAINSTAKINGLY ADMINISTERING PLASMA. LATER THAT DAY, WHEN AN 25:03 AMERICAN WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED BY FIRE FROM A CAVE, PFC DOSS 25:07 CRAWLED TO HIM WHERE HE HAD FALLEN - 25 FEET FROM THE ENEMY 25:10 POSITION, RENDERED HIM AID, CARRIED HIM A HUNDRED YARDS" - 25:13 THAT'S A FOOTBALL FIELD - "TO SAFETY" - HE WAS MY SIZE - 25:17 "WHILE CONSTANTLY EXPOSED TO ENEMY FIRE. ON MAY 21, IN A 25:23 NIGHT ATTACK ON HIGH GROUND NEAR SURREY, HE REMAINED IN EXPOSED 25:27 TERRITORY WHILE THE REST OF THE COMPANY TOOK COVER, FEARLESSLY 25:30 RISKING THE CHANCE THAT HE WOULD BE MISTAKEN FOR AN ENEMY." 25:35 INCREDIBLE COURAGE. NOW, DO YOU THINK ANY OF THE 25:38 OTHER SOLDIERS TEASED HIM AFTER THAT? 25:40 THEY GAVE HIM THE HIGHEST MEDAL THAT CAN BE AWARDED AN AMERICAN 25:43 FOR BRAVERY BECAUSE HE STOOD FOR HIS CONVICTIONS. 25:48 IN OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS WEEKEND, WHEN WE'RE TALKING 25:51 ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO STAND WITH COURAGE, WE'RE NOT TALKING 25:53 ABOUT MILITARY BATTLES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STANDING IN A 25:56 CULTURE WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER ATTACK. 25:59 AND I JUST WONDER, AS WE CLOSE, HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO SAY, 'BY 26:02 GOD'S GRACE, I WANT TO BE ONE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN THAT WILL STAND 26:05 FOR THE RIGHT, THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL. 26:08 >>HELLO FRIENDS, I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT AN EXTRAORDINARY 26:10 OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO SHARE YOUR FAITH. 26:13 I EXPECT THAT YOU'VE HEARD, BY NOW, THAT HOLLYWOOD HAS JUST 26:15 RELEASED A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE CALLED HACKSAW RIDGE . 26:19 IT'S ABOUT A WORLD WAR II HERO NAMED DESMOND DOSS WHO WAS A 26:22 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN. HE WAS TERRIBLY PERSECUTED 26:26 BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO CARRY A GUN. 26:28 HE SAID, 'I'M ENTERING THE WAR TO SAVE LIFE.' AND EVEN THOUGH 26:32 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A COWARD, DURING THE BATTLE OF 26:35 OKINAWA, HE SINGLE-HANDEDLY RESCUED 75 MEN THAT WERE TRAPPED 26:40 UP ON THIS BLUFF CALLED HACKSAW RIDGE. 26:43 HE WAS GIVEN THE HIGHEST HONOR THAT AMERICA CAN OFFER: THE 26:46 MEDAL OF HONOR. AND THE VERY FACT THAT WORLD 26:48 IS GOING TO BE FOCUSING THEIR ATTENTION ON A SEVENTH-DAY 26:52 ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN AND HIS CONVICTIONS, IS A TREMENDOUS 26:55 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO WITNESS ABOUT OUR FAITH. 26:58 BECAUSE OF THAT, AMAZING FACTS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH REMNANT 27:01 PUBLICATIONS, HAS JUST PRODUCED A NEW BOOK CALLED THE HERO OF 27:05 HACKSAW RIDGE . IT IS THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY 27:08 OF DESMOND DOSS, EXCEPT THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL. 27:11 IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK WE HAVE A SECTION WRITTEN ABOUT THE 27:14 FAITH OF THE MAN. WHAT DID DESMOND DOSS BELIEVE? 27:18 SO FRIENDS, NOW, WHILE THE MOVIE IS IN THE HEADLINES AND PEOPLE 27:21 ARE TALKING ABOUT WHO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS ARE, 27:24 PLEASE ORDER THESE BOOKS RIGHT AWAY, SHARE THEM WITH YOUR 27:26 FRIENDS, AND YOU CAN CHANGE LIVES FOR ETERNITY. 27:30 >>TO GET YOUR FREE COPY TODAY, PLEASE CALL THE NUMBER ON THE 27:32 SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #821. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 27:39 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 27:43 NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT 27:46 THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 27:51 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 27:56 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 28:01 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 28:04 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS 28:10 EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. 28:14 WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE 28:18 CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 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