#S090 - I'm A DEI Hire (Part 2)
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Welcome to The Breath of Life
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Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode,
Pastor Snell will preach part
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two of the powerful
message “ I'm A DEI Hire”
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now let's go deeper
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into the Word of God.
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So look of me, if
you don't mind, Daniel.
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Chapter three and verse eight.
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I need to unpack this
thing a little further,
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the Bible says, therefore, at
that time the child's came for
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and accused the Jews,
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and they spoke
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and said to King Nebuchadnezzar,
O King Live forever
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your king have made
a decree to everyone
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that hears the
sound of the horn,
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the flute, the
harp, the lion's, torture
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and symphony with
all kinds of music
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shall fall down and
worship the golden image.
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Whoever does not fall down
and worship the image shall be
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cast into the mist of
the fiery burning furnace.
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There are certain Jews whom
you have sent over the affairs
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of the province of Babylon,
said Mystic and Abednego.
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These men of King have
not paid due regard to you,
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nor do they serve.
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Your gods are worship the
image which you have set up.
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The second thing this teaches
is that progress is going
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to always be met by a pushback.
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Now you're born Nebuchadnezzar.
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He's exclusively interested in
the national growth of Babylon,
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and he actually doesn't care
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who actually helps
facilitate that aim.
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And there's a place now
because God has set favor
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and the hearts of those that
don't look like the Babylonians,
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Nebuchadnezzar
has simply decided
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that I'm going to
rule with them, yet
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his ego gets him too
hastily enact an unjust law
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that will affect those
that he actually put in power.
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And notice how
those of Chaldean descent
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seize upon this opportunity.
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Not that they don't
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even identify them by
their religious convictions.
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They I identify them by
their ethnicity and their race.
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They say, look, king,
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those
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Jews, you put in
charge of everything,
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though, don't
vote, though those people
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have not paid due
regard to your laws.
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Those that you put in that deed
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program
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are threatening
our national interests
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and see, understand
what is undergirding
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the insecurity of
the majority in Babylon.
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You realize what's happening
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because Babylon doesn't
look like it used to look.
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And Babylon don't
sound like he used to sand
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and Babylon doesn't
feel like it used to feel.
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And there are some in
Babylon that consider themselves
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Tel and patriots.
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They are
Babylonian conservatives
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who got to let the king know.
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We've let this thing go too far.
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We've got to get
things back like it was there.
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Overwhelmed by
nostalgia for the good old days,
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there is a part of them
that feels like we've got to
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get things under control,
that we've got to keep these
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foreigners from taking over,
that we've got to take control
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of our country back.
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In fact, they run on the mantra,
We've got to make Babylon
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great again.
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I told you,
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if you're brittle, you
might as well go home, go off
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and notice what they do.
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They weaponize religion
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for political processes.
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Did you know this means
that they don't really care
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nothing about Nebuchadnezzar?
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This religion,
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all they want to do
is weaponize religion
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as a political tool to dictate
the conscience of the masses.
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And I need you to understand
that any weaponized religion,
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it is not Christianity,
it is Babylon masked
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as Christianity.
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Now, understand friends
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that if Shadrach,
Michigan had been to go,
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he's just
working in the kitchen,
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they wouldn't have
no problem with their
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if they were
standing and they were
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just working out in the field,
we wouldn't have no situation
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if Shadrach Michigan had
been the go ahead just stayed
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in their place.
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We wouldn't have
this predicament.
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But it is this fragile
instability and insecurity
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that says we've got to
take back what is ours.
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That is the root
of these unjust laws.
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And to be clear,
friends of mine, you should know
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that this is a
very old playbook.
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And if we
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are to draw
strength from the future,
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we've got to be able to
look back and see how God
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was able to thwart the plans
of the wicked in times past.
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In other words, friends,
do you remember in Egypt
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where because of Joseph,
the nation had begin to prosper
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and God has blessed Joseph
and his descendants to the point
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that they had lived
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in the best land in
Goshen, in the land of Egypt.
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And because now the
Israelites had begin to grow,
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do you realize that
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because of their progress,
as soon as Joseph dies,
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there arises a pharaoh
that does not know Joseph.
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And his immediate
reaction to their progress
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was to create 400
years of slavery and toil
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because there's always
a push back to progress.
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We see friends
that Daniel and his boys
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are in the
middle of a leap year.
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They get
promoted in chapter one,
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they get
promoted in chapter two.
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But now folks are
tired of their ascension.
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And now they've got to
put a halt on their progress
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because there's going to always
be a push back to progress.
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Even in Daniel Chapter six,
the Jews enjoy vessel favor and
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protection because of Daniel,
but now they create a law
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that is against
Daniel to be in conflict
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with the law of the
people and the law of His God.
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Because there's always a push
back whenever there is progress.
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You remember
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at the end of the Civil War,
when we received our freedom,
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they began to enact
what they call black codes
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to limit our
participation in society. Why?
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Because there's going to always
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be a push back
whenever there is progress.
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And even after the
rights to vote were given,
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they enacted
voter suppression laws
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and they used
things like poll taxes
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and literary text
and grandfather clauses
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because there's always a push
back whenever there is progress.
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And even as federal protections,
expanded hate groups
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like the KKK began to
emerge to inflict terror
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in the hearts of people
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because there's always a push
back whenever there is progress.
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Do you realize that even
after the civil rights laws
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were expanded, Jim
Crow and redlining emerged?
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Because there's always a push
back whenever there is progress.
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And even after the election
of Barack Hussein Obama,
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the eight years
after that, we got
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because there's
always a push back
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whenever there's progress,
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because when an
establishment feels threatened
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and a system faces
it's disequilibrium,
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it is easily stoked
by fear and to a hatred
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that is illogical to
white people that mean them
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no harm are no threats.
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And can I preach beyond
this pulpit for a moment
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to my brothers and sisters
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of Goodwill, of other
races and nationalities,
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to my clergy,
brothers and sisters
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who stand behind
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some of the
things and the rhetoric
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that is being
spouted in our time.
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Whenever that rhetoric
is promoted, that suggests
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that we've got to get it back
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and we've
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got to get it under control
and we've got to get things back
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in their rightful place.
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The question I have for them
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is when did black people
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ever subscribe to a hostile
takeover of this country?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Y'all, y'all brand new today?
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Y'all brand new today?
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When did we
ever set it as a goal
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to supplant the
dominant, ah, majority culture?
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Do you realize we loved America
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when America did not love us?
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That we went overseas
and fought wars for liberties
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that we couldn't even access
when our men got back home?
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When did we ever launch a
government coup for our weapons?
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Were nonviolent
demonstrations and we conquered
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not with munitions, our
bomb, but with the Christ
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like
unconditional love of the cross.
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When did black people ever storm
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into a government building
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with guns and weapons
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and no sense for
senators and congressmen
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who are enacting
laws that we did not like?
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Oh, we never
wanted was to be included.
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All we ever wanted was equality.
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All we ever
wanted was our dignity.
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All we ever
wanted was our humanity.
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All we ever wanted was
access to those self-proclaimed
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inalienable rights
of life and liberty.
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And the pursuit of
happiness is all we have.
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A loaded.
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We are not insurrectionists.
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We are not trying
to topple a government.
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We just want to be alone
and my question for America
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is this is this too much
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to ask?
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Is it too much to ask
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that we not be
spied upon and surveyed
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when we shop in
a department store?
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Is it too much to ask
that our boys and girls
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not get gunned down by police
on a routine traffic stop?
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Is it too much to
ask that the same age
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you send overseas
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to repair countries you destroy,
and that a fraction of it
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be sent to urban communities
to build up the poor,
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the least the loss
and the life of the.
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Is it too much to ask
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that we get equal
pay for equal work?
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Is it too much to ask that
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we simply be given
humanity and dignity?
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Is it too much to ask that
we stop sending money to Mars
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and start sending money
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to education and
child care and scholarships
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and building up
underprivileged communities?
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Is it too much to ask
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and see friends of mine?
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This is why you've got to
be able to see the hand of God
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in all of our life's journey.
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Five Reminded of the statement
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that White makes, he
says, We have nothing to fear
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for the future.
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Oh God.
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Lest we forget the way in which
God has left us in the past.
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And see, the problem is
you cannot look at the progress
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we've made as a nation,
as simply a social movement.
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I see a spiritual revival
where God has fought on behalf
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of the oppressed
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and marginalized in every
season, in every generation.
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I hear me today. CHURCH
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So do I
recognize that it was God
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that broke the bow of Pharaoh
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and put an end to 400
years of Hebrew slavery,
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that it was God
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that fought on behalf of
the Jews in Babylonian captivity
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and put an end to the 17
years of prophesied captivity
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that it was God that stepped
in during Hitler's regime
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and made sure that the
Allies were able to win,
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that it was God that stayed
the advances of Joseph Stalin
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so that he could not be all that
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he one day hope and dream to be.
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You had to recognize that
it was God in the Civil War
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that gave favor
to the Union soldiers
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so that the
Confederacy could not
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reach any further than it did.
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But it was God that
awakened conscious white men
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and Jewish men to see the
evils that had taken place
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and to march with
us and stand with us
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and to help us get the liberties
we now have, that it was God
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that exposed the wickedness
of John Wallace and Bull Connor
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on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
so that progress can take place.
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I need you to
know that it was God
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that brought us
every step of the way.
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And I've come to
remind you of the words
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of the old Negro spiritual.
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We've come this far by faith
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leading, and the
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Lord trusting in His Holy Word.
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And He's never failed us yet.
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And can I say, like they
used to say, nobody told me
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that the road would be easy.
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But I don't believe he's
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brought me this far to lead me.
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So to my saying,
Pastor, I hear you,
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but I'm tired of always
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being pulled back on my how
to always being pushed back.
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But have you ever
noticed in the Book of Psalms
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that God is pictured
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as being a master archer?
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Okay, let me press you on
the side that God is depicted
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as an expert with bow and arrow.
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See, somebody hadn't figured out
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why you have to be pushed back.
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Because when an
archer wants the bow
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to go far, the further
he wants it to go forward,
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the further he
has to pull it back.
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So the next time you
get pulled back on your job
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and pulled back in traffic
and pull back in the courthouse,
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it's not God punishing you.
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It's God preparing you to propel
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you further than
you are supposed to go.
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Thank God for the push back.
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Boy, it's a push forward.
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Sometimes the knock down
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is a set up for a comeback kid.
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Somebody giving grace.
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So watch this.
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Oh, it's going
to get good to me,
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whether it's good to you.
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I'm enjoying this
all by myself today.
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So? So the day
of the commencement
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of the image has finally come.
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And, friends, y'all
got to see this thing
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where this thing
is got like an alumni
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weekend homecoming vibe to it.
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Where Babylon alum
from all over the world
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have come back to the land
for the dedication of the image.
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And, Julian, you
got to see this thing
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the outside, the gates
there is tailgating going on
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where they are serving
libations and they're serving up
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hot dogs.
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There are they are image t
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shirts and image
hoodies and image programs
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as folks have come to see
the dedication of the image.
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But the third thing this teaches
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is that some things you
don't want to be included in.
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Okay, so you got
to see this thing.
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So Nebuchadnezzar says that
man, that's folks come all over.
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There's confetti
streaming through the air.
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There is this
sense of coronation
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that Babylon is
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going to take its rightful
place and that Nebuchadnezzar
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is going to be immortalized
among the ancestors,
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so that when the music
plays, everybody will bow down
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and complete homage
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to Nebuchadnezzar and
the image that he has set up.
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And notice how
the Bible lays it out,
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he says, When you hear the
sound of the horn, the loop,
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the harp and
the lyre in symphony
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with all kinds of other music,
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then you about down and worship.
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But notice this
collection of instruments
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the heart, the flute,
the I look at the life.
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When you read that it
sounds like you're reading
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one of the divisions
of the book of sounds.
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Okay in other
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words, this group of instruments
comprised what they saw
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as the Israelites
sound our way of worship.
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And so what
Nebuchadnezzar was trying to
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do was to create a
hybrid of Israelite worship
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in conjunction with the
worship of the Egyptian God,
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the Amiright gods,
the Philistine Gods,
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in fact, church.
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It was like the first
episode of the Betty Awards
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where you got Snoop the
weekend are Kendrick Lamar
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and Kirk
Franklin on the same stage
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and you ain't got no
conflict taking place.
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And I love how
these boys answer the king
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and they say, King,
we really got a whole lot
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to tell you about this thing.
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He says, Our God whom we serve
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is able to deliver us
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through.
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I have seven folk
that still know we think
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our God is able to deliver us.
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But even if not,
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we will not bow
down and serve your gods
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and worship your image.
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So I love this
church where the Bible says
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that is face and counter
the spell that you're part
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Nebuchadnezzar got
big man what they say.
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So he said, okay, play
the music one more time.
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Let me give you one more
chance to change your mind.
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And so all of a
sudden in the plane of Doura,
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you've got to see a mass
of humanity as they stand
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before the golden image,
which Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
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So all of a sudden now
you get those of Anglo descent
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and they begin to
play the bagpipes.
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And once the bad guys play,
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all those of Anglo
descent fall to the ground.
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And then after a while,
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our brothers and
sisters of Latino descent,
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somebody plays some maracas
and they shake them with force,
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and everybody of Hispanic
descent hits the ground.
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And then somebody prays a
lot, which is a Chinese guitar
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and those of Asian descent,
their bodies hit the ground
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and then they begin
to get some Kongo drums
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and then some of us chuckling
folk men like to dance.
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Then their
bodies hit the ground,
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and then they play the horn,
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the flute, the
lyre and the heartbreak.
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And then all of those of
Hebrew descent hit the ground.
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And when all these
bodies hit the ground,
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there is a cloud of dust that
begins to rise from the earth.
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But as the dust begins to settle
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and the
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rays of light
begin to cut through
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and one cannot stand, said Rick.
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And another
corner stands Me Shack.
00:21:46.90\00:21:49.34
And on the other
side is a bad Negro.
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You see,
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we always saw them
standing as a band of brothers,
00:22:00.12\00:22:03.52
but the Bible says they
worked in different provinces,
00:22:04.69\00:22:07.79
so they are united
in their conviction.
00:22:07.82\00:22:10.79
But they've made it up in
their mind that if Abednego
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doesn't stay and Shadrach
doesn't stay, if nobody else
00:22:14.63\00:22:19.33
stands, I'm going to still stand
00:22:19.37\00:22:21.67
and see.
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Sometimes friends, you
got to be willing to stay,
00:22:26.14\00:22:28.08
even if you got to
stand all by yourself.
00:22:28.11\00:22:30.85
See, the problem is we
too need too much agreement
00:22:30.88\00:22:33.35
for principle.
00:22:33.38\00:22:34.55
We need somebody
to second the emotion.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.65
But when you got
conviction, it doesn't matter.
00:22:37.69\00:22:38.92
If nobody else stands with you,
00:22:38.95\00:22:41.36
you're going to stand
if you all by yourself.
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Y'all hear me?
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So the king
says, That's all right.
00:22:45.66\00:22:47.10
They play me.
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.90
I got to do
something about this.
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I listen.
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They're going to
front me all my big day.
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I got to make
an example of them.
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So not only does Nebuchadnezzar
say heat up the fiery
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furnace, LEWIS
He made one mistake.
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You know what that mistake was?
00:23:12.59\00:23:15.06
He told them to heat it
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seven times hotter.
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He probably would have been good
00:23:23.77\00:23:26.30
if he said heat
it five times hotter.
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He probably would
have been straight.
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If you said he did six times
hotter, he might have been okay
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if he said he did
eight times hotter.
00:23:36.41\00:23:38.55
But when he said heat
it seven times hotter,
00:23:38.58\00:23:41.18
Jehovah stood up on his throne
00:23:42.22\00:23:44.22
because when he
called the number seven,
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he called the number
00:23:49.32\00:23:51.29
of God's perfect deliverance.
00:23:51.33\00:23:56.87
Did you know
that the number seven
00:23:56.90\00:23:59.10
is the number where
God gives his people less?
00:24:00.14\00:24:02.87
So he told, naming
the dip in the water.
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And when he did six
times he had no deliverance.
00:24:06.98\00:24:09.51
But when he dipped the
seventh time he got his help.
00:24:10.65\00:24:12.41
They marched
around Jericho six days.
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But the war didn't
tumble till the seventh day.
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He worked on six days,
00:24:20.12\00:24:22.22
but God's people found
rest on the seventh day.
00:24:23.26\00:24:25.76
And when he said seven,
00:24:26.59\00:24:28.86
he actually prayed
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.27
and intercessory prayer.
00:24:32.30\00:24:37.21
See, God is so good that when
your enemies made the castle
00:24:37.24\00:24:41.51
you got to turn around
00:24:41.54\00:24:45.41
and make them
bless you, your heart
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.65
and soul lost in smoke.
00:24:50.25\00:24:52.12
So God says I was going to
let them be the first martyrs,
00:24:52.15\00:24:55.12
but now I got to go
see about my children
00:24:56.09\00:24:57.93
so I can see the father now
00:24:58.89\00:25:01.13
looking for an angel to go
and see about his children.
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.47
So he looks at one of those two
winged angels and says, Angel,
00:25:05.70\00:25:09.27
how long will it take
00:25:09.97\00:25:10.97
you to get there and
see about my children?
00:25:11.01\00:25:13.58
That to wing angel says, Father,
I'll get there in a jiffy.
00:25:13.61\00:25:16.78
It'll take me about 5 minutes
00:25:17.48\00:25:19.68
and I'll be in
that fiery furnace.
00:25:19.71\00:25:22.05
But God says 5
minutes is too long.
00:25:22.08\00:25:25.22
Let me find one
of those four wings
00:25:25.25\00:25:27.36
following Angel.
00:25:28.52\00:25:29.99
How long will it take
00:25:30.03\00:25:31.06
you to get there and
see about my children?
00:25:31.09\00:25:33.43
For Angel says
Mass, I can get down there
00:25:33.46\00:25:35.93
in about three
and a half minutes
00:25:36.73\00:25:37.97
and I'll be there right on time.
00:25:38.00\00:25:39.33
God said, No,
that's still too long.
00:25:39.37\00:25:41.70
Then he looks one of those
six meanings with two wings.
00:25:41.74\00:25:45.11
They cover their eyes and
two wings they cover their feet.
00:25:45.14\00:25:48.71
And with two
wings they cover that.
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They fly. And
he says, Six wings.
00:25:50.75\00:25:53.25
How long will it take
you to get down there? Six
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wing angel says, I can be
there in about an 85 seconds.
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God says, it's still too long.
00:26:00.26\00:26:01.56
Gabriel Come over here.
00:26:01.59\00:26:02.96
Gabriel
00:26:04.53\00:26:05.83
How long will it take you to
get there and see him outside?
00:26:05.86\00:26:08.30
Rick Gabriel says
I'll break my own record.
00:26:08.33\00:26:11.37
I'll fly faster
than the speed of light.
00:26:12.23\00:26:14.34
I'll get there
in under 60 seconds.
00:26:15.17\00:26:17.54
God says that's still too long.
00:26:18.24\00:26:20.54
And so God looks
to his right hand
00:26:20.58\00:26:22.78
and says, Jesus,
00:26:23.81\00:26:28.85
Jesus,
00:26:28.88\00:26:32.22
Jesus,
00:26:32.25\00:26:35.99
Jesus,
00:26:36.02\00:26:41.90
Jesus,
00:26:41.93\00:26:46.27
Jesus,
00:26:46.30\00:26:51.34
Jesus, Jesus,
00:26:51.37\00:26:55.21
where you at?
00:26:56.54\00:26:58.58
And he hears a voice from heaven
00:26:59.28\00:27:01.88
and Jesus says, Daddy,
00:27:01.92\00:27:04.32
I'm already there.
00:27:04.35\00:27:09.32
Hey, can I just
preach to somebody
00:27:09.36\00:27:15.13
that your help ain't on the way?
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.57
But he's
promised to be a present.
00:27:19.73\00:27:21.87
Help in the time of trouble.
00:27:21.90\00:27:24.57
God ain't on the way.
00:27:25.47\00:27:27.81
God is already at work
00:27:27.84\00:27:30.41
You just got to open your eyes
00:27:30.45\00:27:32.85
and see the salvation of
00:27:36.08\00:27:37.99
the Lord.
00:27:38.02\00:27:40.86