Sermon #B629 - Get
Ready for the Shutdown
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PB: The word of God says. Daniel
chapter 2, verse 31: You happen
to mean, you say Amen.
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The word says "Thou, o
king sawest and behold the great
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what, everybody? Come  on talk
to me great what, everybody?
[Congregation: Image]
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This great image who's
brightness was excellent stood
before thee and the phone
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thereof was what, everybody? Now
terrible means awesome. Terrible
means what, everybody?
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[Congregation: Awesome] Now look
at verse 32, the images had was
a fine what? [Congregation:Gold]
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His breast and his arms were of
what, everybody? [Congregation:
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Sliver] His belly and his thighs
were of what? Go to verse 33.
His legs were of iron.
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His teeth part iron and part
of what? [Congregation: Lead]
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Verse 34: "Thou sawest till that
a stone was cut out without
hands which smoked the image
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upon his feet that were of iron
and clay and break them to
pieces. Then was the iron, that
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dot play, the brass, the silver
and the gold broken to pieces to
get then became like the chaff
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of the summer threshing floors.
And the wind carried them away
that no place was found for
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them. And the stone that smote
the image became a great
mountain and filled the whole
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earth". Today I will challenge
you on a subject. Get ready for
the shutdown. Get ready for the
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shutdown. I wish I had a witness
in this place. Get ready for the
shutdown. God right now in this
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place come by here. Somebody
needs us so come by here. Lord
you've used Central State
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University choir and God we are
overwhelmed that your love
allowing Sister Washington to be
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here but somebody needs a word
from you. Disappoint us not.
Fill us with your spirit, anoint
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us with your grace. Lord when we
leave here today we'll be able
to buy you a word, to be able to
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say it was good we came on this
Sabbath day. In the name of
Jesus that all those who believe
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and love him say Amen.
[Congregation: Amen]And Amen.
Get ready for the shutdown.
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For the past couple of months,
the political landscape of the
United States has been
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distressed, disordered and
disturbed. Democrats are
fighting Republicans.
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Republicans are fighting
Democrats. The legislative
branch won't appropriate funding
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for the executive branch. The
White House is at war with the
House of Representatives. Trips
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are being canceled. Speeches are
being postponed. Lawmakers won't
talk to each other. There's just
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a war of word on Twitter.
Lawmakers won't talk. Lawmakers
won't reason. Lawmakers won't
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compromise and what do we have?
The government of the most
powerful nation in the world is
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shutdown. For the past 29 days,
how many days everybody?
[Congregation: 29] Come on how
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many days everybody? 29 days,
for nearly one  month 800,000
workers have not received their
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paychecks and they don't know if
they are ever going to receive
their paychecks for some of
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them, including non-exempt
employees and contract workers
not ever going to receive their
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paychecks. Yes, border
protection and immigration. Air
traffic control and the
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Transportation Security
Administration better to know to
us as TSA remain open. But the
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IRS, NASA, the Food and Drug
Administration, Environmental
Protection Agency, the EPA,
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National Institute of Health,
the Smithsonian, Departments of
Commerce, Education, Energy,
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Labor and Interior which
includes all of our national
parks are shutdown.
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[Congregation: Yes] Shutdown
began on December 21. This is
the longest in United States
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history is still going on  and
there is no end in sight. What's
the issue? A 5.7 billion dollars
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to build a border wall along the
US-Mexican border to stop
illegal immigration. And because
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the monies have not been
appropriated to build the wall,
president has threatened to
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declare a national emergency if
Congress doesn't approve the 5.7
billion. Now if he declares a
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national emergency for some
because you don't even know what
that means, he can re-purpose
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military spending to build the
wall without even having
congressional approval. Not only
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that, the administration is also
exploring whether or not it
could re-purpose funds for the
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Army Corps of Engineers
designated for hurricane
disaster relief. So if we then
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have a hurricane, where are the
hurricane relief funds go come
from. I wish somebody knew what
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I was talking about. But in the
midst of all this madness, the
government is shutdown. People
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aren't receiving pay. Now you
can sit there like you know what
I am talking about. But I don't
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know about you but I can't
afford to miss a check. Do I
have a witness in this place?
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People can't feed their
families. Farmers can't get
loans processed. Companies can't
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verify workers' immigration
status. Retail assistance for
the elderly and the disabled is
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delayed. National parks are
closed. Federal civil cases and
immigration court cases are
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delayed. Food stamps could be
out by March and TSA workers are
calling in sick because they got
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to get jobs somewhere else in
order to make ends meet which is
causing havoc at some airports.
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We're in a government shutdown.
But I came to tell somebody.
It's not time to fear all of
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what's going on is just a
reminder that there's a bigger
shutdown coming. In the name of
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Jesus, God is going to shut this
thing  down. God is going to
shut this mess down. So you
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better tell somebody to get
ready for the shutdown. Tell him
get ready for the shutdown. Tell
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them get ready for the shutdown.
[Congregation: Get ready] this
government shutdown is described
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in Daniel chapter 2, where
Nebuchadnezzar has had a dream.
Nebuchadnezzar does not
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understand the dream.
Nebuchadnezzar does not
comprehend the dream but God has
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always somebody in the right
place at the right time to
accomplish his purposes. I wish
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I had a church in his place. The
old people used to say, grandma
used to say "He may not come
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when you want him, but he's
always right on time." So what's
going on? Nebuchadnezzar has a
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dream and he doesn't know what
this dream is all about. So he
calls all the astrologers, all 
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of the magicians, all of the
soothsayers and he says "Listen,
I've had a dream, tell me what
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this dream is all about." Well
they don't know what it's all
about. they don't know what to
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do. They then said "Well king
tell us". He says "Look, you're
just stalling, you're just
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stalling because you don't want
to tell me. But I need to know
what this dream that has given
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me nightmares. This dream that
does not allow me to sleep. What
is this dream all about?" He
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says "If you can't tell me, I'm
a kill you. I'm a cut you in
some pieces. All you all will be
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gone. I'm a get rid of you if
you can't tell me what this
dream is. But on the other hand
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if you can tell me what this
dream is I'm gonna elevate you.
Are you hearing what I'm
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saying?" All the astrologers
they get concerned. The
astrologers, the magicians, the
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soothsayers, they get all
concerned. They say "Somebody
call the man of God. Somebody
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call the prophet of God.
Somebody call brother Daniel".
And we believe that Daniel can
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come and tell us what this is
all about. They go get Daniel
and Daniel says, We've got to
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figure out what this dream is
all about because I don;t want
to die either." Are you hearing
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what I'm saying? But just in
time Daniel goes to sleep. God
reveals to Daniel what is
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transpiring in Daniel chapter 2.
Go to verse number 31 one more
time. Daniel sees and dream and
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God shows Daniel what's going
on. Daniel says "Thou o king
sawest, and behold a great"
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what, everybody? [Congregation:
Image] This great image's who's
brightness was excellent, stood
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before thee and the form thereof
was what, everybody? It was
what, everybody? [Congregation:
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Image.] This image's head was
one of fine gold. His breast,
his arms is silver. His belly,
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his thighs are brass. His legs
are iron. His feet were part
iron and part clay. So we have
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this image. We h