The Carter report
presents "Living Victoriously,"
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secrets of success
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from Prime Minister
Daniel of Babylon city
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with your host John Carter.
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Welcome back to
living victoriously,
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topic is "Saved from
Death and The Big Promotion".
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In the first segment
we were talking about
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these three young men
down in the land of Babylon,
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they were talking
to Nebuchadnezzar,
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he said, "You
got to do so and so."
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You got to bow down
and worship this image.
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And they came
back with these words,
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"We will not,"
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that's courage,
that's conviction.
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We put this up on the screen
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looking at some
great characters in history
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who said, "We will not."
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I told you the
story of Mikhail Kulakov
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in the program
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that we just did
a few moments ago.
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When I was in
China not that long ago,
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I met a Chinese pastor,
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very much like
make Mikhail Kulakov.
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When the communists came,
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because
communism doesn't believe
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in freedom of speech.
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You got very little freedom
of speech in China today,
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but it's better
than what it used to be.
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When the communists
came, this man had a church,
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preaching in the church.
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They told him,
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you've got to stop
and you've got to stop now
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and he said, "We will not."
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We are not gonna do it.
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He told me the
story with his own mouth.
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They put him in
prison for ten years.
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He was beaten every
day by the atheists.
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Every night he
slept not on a bed
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but he slept on concrete.
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He was given rotten food to eat.
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After ten years of
beatings they let him out
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and then they put
him in another prison
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to rehabilitate him,
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and to make him
into a good communist
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but he kept saying
the words, "We will not.
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We're not gonna do this.
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We're not gonna
worship your gods.
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We're not gonna worship
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the great images
that you've set up."
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Then there was Martin Luther.
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You all know
about Martin Luther.
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Martin Luther,
the Diet of Worms.
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They said to him, Martin Luther,
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you just got to bow down,
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you got to do what the
great church tells you to do.
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You've got to do
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what the Church of
Rome tells you to do.
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Martin Luther said, "I will not
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unless I'm
convinced by the Word of God.
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I will not."
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And then there was another
man, you'll know this man,
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Martin Luther King,
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who was named after the
great Protestant reformer.
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When they told
Martin Luther King,
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you've got to stop the marches,
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you've got to stop all of this
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what you're doing,
all this agitating.
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He and his
followers said, "We will not."
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Now there's a time
when you need to conform
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and there's a time
I'm telling you today,
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when you've got to
say, "We will not."
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And then there are
some other words they said,
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and even if he does
not, God can deliver us
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but even if he doesn't,
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we still will not
worship your gods.
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Deliverance does not
always come in this lifetime,
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but I want you to know
this, it is going to come.
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God is going to
deliver His people.
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Now come with me to Daniel 3:19.
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Daniel 3:19,
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"Then Nebuchadnezzar
was full of fury..."
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He was a little pot soon hot.
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"Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury
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and the expression on his face
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changed towards Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego.
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He spoke and commanded
that they heat the furnace
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seven times more than
it was usually heated."
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And then if you
come now to verse,
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we're going to
read that verse again
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because I want it to
sink down into your minds.
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"Then Nebuchadnezzar
was full of fury..."
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Fury lives in
the heart of fools.
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"And the expression on his face
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changed towards
Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego.
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He spoke and commanded
that they heat the furnace
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seven times more
than was usual heated.
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And he commanded
certain mighty men of valor
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who were in the army
to bind Shadrach, Meshach,
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and Abed-Nego
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and cast them into
the burning fiery furnace.
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Then these men were bound
in their coats, their trousers,
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their turbans, and
their other garments,
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and were cast into the midst
of the burning fiery furnace.
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Therefore, because the
king's command was urgent,
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and the furnace exceedingly hot,
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the flames of the
fire killed those men
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who took up Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego.
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And these three men, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego,
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fell down bound
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into the midst of the
burning fiery furnace."
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Do you understand
where this is taking place?
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This is in
Iraq. This is Babylon.
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When I was
visiting Iraq some time ago,
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I got out of the car,
I walked off the road,
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and as I went
walked off the road,
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I was wearing big
boots, all of a sudden I felt,
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I was sinking
down into something.
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I look down, you know,
what I was sinking into?
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Oil.
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Just oozing up
out of the ground,
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this furnace was fueled by oil.
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So they take
these three young men
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does this wicked
king and they fling them
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into the midst of
this burning fiery furnace,
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and the Bible says,
listen to this, it says,
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"They fell down."
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But the good news is
they didn't stay down
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because God wasn't
finished with them.
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When you're down,
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we just need to realize
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when we're down it's not over
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because
deliverance is then at hand."
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Now read verses
24 and 25 please.
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"Then King
Nebuchadnezzar was astonished,
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and he rose in haste and
spoke, saying to his counselors,
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'Did we not cast three men bound
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into the midst of the fire?'
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They answered and said to
the king, 'True, O king.'"
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They were yes men, weren't they?
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Yes, yes.
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'Look!' he answered,
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'I see four men loose,
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walking in the
midst of the fire,
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and they are not hurt,
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and the form of the fourth
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is like the Son of God.'"
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Bless your heart,
it's just amazing.
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Five young men, Nebuchadnezzar.
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Just a young man,
very poor character,
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full of pride, and
arrogance, he's a dictator.
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He's a demagogue,
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everybody worships him
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and so they
take these young guys
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and they fling them into this
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burning fiery furnace, it's hot.
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It's not a fake fire.
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Because the men who
threw them into the fire,
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they are killed by the heat
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that is coming out of
the mouth of that fire
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and so they fall down,
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but they don't stay down.
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Because the king knocks
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and there is another person
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and he has a form
like the Son of God.
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That person is
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Lord Jesus
Christ came down from glory
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and he got there
into that fiery furnace
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and when the Lord
Jesus Christ was with them,
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they could not stay down.
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They were standing up.
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I want you to know this.
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We are never, never
alone in spite of appearances.
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There's a text
I want you to read
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in 2 Kings 6:16-17
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that is about
the Prophet Elisha.
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2 Kings 6:16-17,
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"So he answered, 'Do not fear,
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for those who are with us
are more than those with them.'
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And Elisha prayed,
and said, 'Lord I pray,
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open his eyes that he may see.'
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Then the Lord opened
the eyes of the young man,
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and he saw.
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And behold, the
mountain was full of horses
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and chariots of
fire all around Elisha."
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I just wondered if
you can sort of grasp
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that with your faith today,
we are never, never alone.
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You and I may seem
sometimes to be standing alone
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and the forces of
the world are against us,
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but the Bible
teaches, we are never alone.
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We are never forsaken,
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we are never defeated.
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I want to say this to
you, look at who is with you,
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the Son of God,
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the creator of the
universe, the Almighty God.
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You don't need to be
afraid of the lawsuit.
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Have I had lawsuit? Yes, sure.
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I've had people
try to close me down.
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You don't know about this.
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I've had lawsuits
packed by some other,
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backed by some big
attorneys in Los Angeles.
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Based on lies and greed,
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we're gonna close you down
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and we're gonna get
everything you've got.
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It's where Satan seed is.
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We didn't need to be
afraid and we weren't afraid
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because God completely
defeated those people.
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We do not need to fear people.
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We need to fear God. Amen.
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We need to trust in God.
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We don't need to be
afraid of the lawsuit,
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the crooked
attorney, the dishonest person,
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the slanderer.
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And let me tell you
what happened back in Harare,
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Zimbabwe.
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Sun is going
down, it's getting dark.
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I'm supposed to be
getting to the meeting.
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There are thousands of
people waiting in the Harare
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International Conference Center
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and I'm being
marched down the road
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and this guy in charge
of the television station
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is driving in a
Peugeot car, still seeing,
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his face out of
the window cursing me.
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Blaspheming the
name of God, cursing me,
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calling down curses upon me.
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And then when I was in
the thick of the jungle,
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he turned it around
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and drove back
to the TV station.
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The soldiers continued to
march on both sides of me.
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When he was out of sight,
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they put down their
guns and they hugged me.
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They said, Pastor Carter,
we come to your meetings.
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They said, "We've been
coming to all your meetings.
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We're calling. We're
getting a curfew now.
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We're going to get
you there on time."
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Now, there was somebody else
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who was marching with
us beside these soldiers,
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the angels of God, my friend.
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We are never alone,
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we should have a holy bonus.
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Yeah.
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When you are in the
fire, deliverance is coming,
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Jesus is coming.
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I want you to
notice Hebrews 13:5-6.
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Hebrews 13:5-6,
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"Let your conduct be
without covetousness,
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be content with
such things as you have."
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Don't get involved in lawsuits.
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"For He himself has said,
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'I will never leave
you nor forsake you.'
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So we may boldly say,
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'The Lord is my
helper, I will not fear.
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What can man do to me?'"
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Don't you know this?
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We need never be afraid.
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On one occasion in Russia,
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Beverley was up
to front speaking.
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A man came in, he
was coming after me,
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and he came up on the
stage with a loaded gun.
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And we had some bodyguards,
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they tackled him
and got him down.
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He was one of
their security forces.
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Heard about the
meetings, got so angry,
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got himself drunk,
and came down to kill me.
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I can't tell
you the whole story,
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I don't have time.
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Russia's top security
people met with me the next day
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and they said, "We're
sorry, he'd come to kill you."
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Then they said, "We're
going to lock him up in prison
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and throw away the key."
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I knew that would be his death
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because the prisons are so bad.
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I said, "Why don't
we just forgive him?"
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They said, "What do
you mean?" Forgiveness.
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I said, "Why don't
we just forgive him?"
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They said,
"Would you forgive him?"
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I said, "I'll forgive him
and I want you to forgive him."
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Well, they said, "We've
never heard anything like this,
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but if you forgive him
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then we'll do so too."
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The young man came to
the meeting the next night.
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When I made an appeal,
he gave his life to Christ.
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He came and stood beside me
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to protect me in
all the meetings.
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You don't have to
be afraid of people,
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what you've got to
be afraid of is sin,
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and compromise, and lying,
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and cheating, and fake news,
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and all this phoniness.
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You better be afraid of that.
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But you don't need to
be afraid of the devil,
00:14:36.97\00:14:39.64
because Jesus
licked him at the cross.
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Jesus licked him at the cross.
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Now look at Daniel 3:25
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and onwards.
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Gonna read this
again, Daniel 3:25.
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"'Look!' He answered,
'I see four men loose,
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walking in the
midst of the fire,
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they're not hurt,
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and the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God.'
00:15:01.70\00:15:07.07
Then Nebuchadnezzar
went near the mouth
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of the burning fiery
furnace and spoke, saying,
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'Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego,
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servants of the Most High
God, come out, and come here.'
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Then Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego
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came from the midst of the fire.
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And the satraps,
administrators, governors,
00:15:23.39\00:15:26.55
and the king's
counselors gathered together,
00:15:26.59\00:15:29.16
and they saw these
men on whose bodies
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the fire had no power,
00:15:31.43\00:15:34.40
the hair of their
head was not singed
00:15:34.43\00:15:37.23
not were their
garments affected,
00:15:37.27\00:15:40.24
and the smell of
fire was not on them."
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It's bit amazing, isn't it?
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I want you to know this.
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I want this to go
down into your head today,
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into your soul, I
wanted to get down
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into the molecules of your mind.
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One of our greatest problems
is that we don't have faith.
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It's one of our
greatest problems.
00:16:05.73\00:16:07.86
We need to do so. Oh,
no, we couldn't do it.
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Can't be done.
00:16:10.10\00:16:12.03
Hear people say,
no, it can't be done.
00:16:12.07\00:16:15.30
As you know we're
planning to go back to Russia
00:16:15.34\00:16:17.71
in a few months.
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That is dangerous.
00:16:20.41\00:16:22.58
Because of
relations now in the world,
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we just don't know
what's going to happen.
00:16:27.58\00:16:31.82
I could tell you stories,
but I can't say on television.
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I can tell you stuff,
00:16:36.49\00:16:37.83
I just can't tell you.
00:16:37.86\00:16:43.93
But listen, I'm
not at all afraid
00:16:43.97\00:16:48.14
when I go to Russia
and I walk out on a stage
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and often it's in the dark,
00:16:52.17\00:16:54.31
and we don't have people
checking at the doors to see
00:16:54.34\00:16:57.81
if people have got guns.
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We don't need to
because we have God.
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You see.
00:17:05.75\00:17:12.13
And the God who
lived in Daniel's time
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is just the same today.
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These young men, you know,
they wrote to him about it,
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they wouldn't bow.
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They wouldn't
budge, they wouldn't bend,
00:17:24.97\00:17:28.54
and hallelujah they
wouldn't burn, you see.
00:17:28.58\00:17:32.81
They were real
men, they were just boys
00:17:32.85\00:17:36.02
but they were men.
00:17:36.05\00:17:37.39
They were not home
sobbing and crying.
00:17:37.42\00:17:41.62
They were not having breakdowns.
00:17:41.66\00:17:44.26
They weren't saying,
"Can't do it, it's awful."
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No.
00:17:48.83\00:17:50.47
They looked the enemy
in the eye and they said,
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"We will not. Our God is able."
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God always delivers His
people but sometimes He delays.
00:18:04.45\00:18:08.82
I have a sermon that's
called "The Delays of God".
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Some of my friends in Australia
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were Michael and
Lindy Chamberlain,
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have you heard of them?
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There was a movie
made about the Meryl Streep
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played the part of Lindy.
00:18:22.36\00:18:25.80
Evil Angels it's
called or A Cry in the Dark.
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We changed a little bit here.
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This is Lindy,
beautiful young woman,
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a minister's wife.
00:18:35.98\00:18:37.31
We knew them in
North Queensland.
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They went out to Ayers Rock
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because they'd love
the greater outback.
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Australia is a huge
country, as big as the,
00:18:44.85\00:18:48.46
as the United States of America
with only 24 million people.
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They went into the
outback at Ayers Rock
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and they were camping there.
00:18:55.76\00:18:59.97
And Lindy came out of
the tent for a few minutes
00:19:00.00\00:19:02.94
to go to the camp fire
00:19:02.97\00:19:06.07
and she ran back and she cried,
"A dingo has got my baby."
00:19:06.11\00:19:12.48
But Lindy and Michael were
tried firstly in the court,
00:19:12.51\00:19:17.32
a popular opinion with a
lot of religious bigotry.
00:19:17.35\00:19:24.29
They were found guilty of murder
00:19:24.33\00:19:27.43
and Lindy was put in prison
in the Northern Territory,
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the last frontier.
00:19:31.37\00:19:37.17
And then after years
of being in that hellhole,
00:19:37.21\00:19:41.71
they found some
evidence that suggested
00:19:41.74\00:19:43.58
that she was telling the
truth, so they let her out.
00:19:43.61\00:19:48.18
But they would not
declare that she was innocent
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.99
and it took years, 32 years.
00:19:51.02\00:19:57.23
Until there was
a Royal Commission
00:19:57.26\00:19:59.39
which is a highest commission
you could have in Australia
00:19:59.43\00:20:01.90
and they declared
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.26
that the Chamberlains
were innocent, totally innocent
00:20:03.30\00:20:07.97
but there were 32 years of hell.
00:20:08.00\00:20:13.71
Sometimes God keeps you
in the fire for a long time,
00:20:13.74\00:20:17.88
but He goes
with you in the fire.
00:20:17.91\00:20:20.45
Deliverance comes but
not always in a hurry.
00:20:20.48\00:20:26.62
Look at verse 27.
00:20:26.65\00:20:29.39
Verse 27, "And the satraps,
administrators, governors,
00:20:29.42\00:20:33.60
and the king's
counselors gathered together,
00:20:33.63\00:20:36.50
and they saw these
men on whose bodies
00:20:36.53\00:20:39.00
the fire had no power,
00:20:39.03\00:20:42.47
the hair of their
head was not singed
00:20:42.50\00:20:43.97
nor where their
garments affected,
00:20:44.01\00:20:46.07
and the smell of
fire was not on them."
00:20:46.11\00:20:49.44
You know, what the fire did?
00:20:49.48\00:20:52.71
The fire
consumed only their ropes.
00:20:52.75\00:20:56.79
That's what the fire did.
00:20:56.82\00:20:59.09
The fire consumed
their bonds, nothing else,
00:20:59.12\00:21:03.56
that's what fire is for.
00:21:03.59\00:21:05.46
That's why God
lets you have trouble.
00:21:05.49\00:21:07.30
That's why God
lets me have trouble
00:21:07.33\00:21:09.10
to get rid of the bonds.
00:21:09.13\00:21:11.60
Our trials will only
destroy that which hinders us.
00:21:11.63\00:21:18.34
And if you have a
great work to do for God,
00:21:18.37\00:21:21.64
you are going to have
burning fiery furnaces.
00:21:21.68\00:21:25.15
But God delivers
these people, always.
00:21:29.08\00:21:34.66
Our trials will only
destroy that which hinders us.
00:21:34.69\00:21:37.83
They fell down but
they didn't stay down.
00:21:37.86\00:21:41.20
Now the Bible teaches,
we don't have time for this,
00:21:41.23\00:21:43.70
but this scene
on the plain of Dura
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is to be repeated
on a worldwide scale.
00:21:47.64\00:21:54.58
When somebody will stand up
00:21:54.61\00:21:56.34
and with the spell of an orator.
00:21:56.38\00:22:02.98
He will sway the masses.
How easily they are swayed.
00:22:03.02\00:22:08.72
How easy they will
give up their beliefs.
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.63
How easily they'll give
up that which is important
00:22:11.66\00:22:15.93
and they'll say, yes, yes, yes.
00:22:15.96\00:22:22.24
But God will
always have His people.
00:22:22.27\00:22:26.34
Look at verse 28 and 29,
"Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying,
00:22:26.37\00:22:30.28
'Blessed be the God
of Shadrach, Meshach,
00:22:30.31\00:22:32.08
and Abed-Nego,
00:22:32.11\00:22:33.65
who sent His angel
and delivered His servants
00:22:33.68\00:22:35.98
who trusted in Him,
00:22:36.02\00:22:37.55
and they have
frustrated the king's word,
00:22:37.59\00:22:39.49
and yielded their bodies,
00:22:39.52\00:22:40.86
that they should not
serve nor worship any god
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.59
except their own God!
00:22:43.63\00:22:45.96
Therefore I make a
decree that any people, nation,
00:22:45.99\00:22:49.20
or language which speaks
anything amiss against the God
00:22:49.23\00:22:52.17
of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego..."
00:22:52.20\00:22:54.67
He knows nothing about
religious freedom, this guy.
00:22:54.70\00:22:57.01
"Shall be cut in pieces,
00:22:57.04\00:22:58.84
and their houses
shall be made an ash heap,
00:22:58.87\00:23:01.68
because there is no other
God who can deliver like this."
00:23:01.71\00:23:07.32
No other God.
00:23:07.35\00:23:10.45
I want you to notice
some key phrases here.
00:23:10.49\00:23:12.69
Let them sink
down into the molecules
00:23:12.72\00:23:14.69
of your mind.
00:23:14.72\00:23:16.06
May God shake us out of
our destiny complacency.
00:23:16.09\00:23:20.26
God send His angel.
00:23:20.30\00:23:24.33
They trusted in Him.
00:23:24.37\00:23:27.24
They defied the King's command.
00:23:27.27\00:23:31.51
They were willing
to give up their lives.
00:23:31.54\00:23:35.34
And no other god
can save like this God.
00:23:35.38\00:23:40.38
These great truths
00:23:40.42\00:23:41.75
should be the heart and soul
00:23:41.78\00:23:46.82
of our faith.
00:23:46.86\00:23:50.73
Today, the world and the
church together are building
00:23:50.76\00:23:56.73
and breeding
mediocre conformists...
00:23:56.77\00:24:01.10
Party animals,
00:24:04.21\00:24:06.81
people who are
swayed by popular opinion
00:24:06.84\00:24:10.65
but God is going to have
a people in the last days,
00:24:10.68\00:24:14.12
who'll be true to duty
as a needle is to the pole.
00:24:14.15\00:24:18.39
Now look at verse 30.
00:24:18.42\00:24:21.09
"Then the king promoted
00:24:21.12\00:24:22.49
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego
00:24:22.52\00:24:24.89
in the province of Babylon."
00:24:24.93\00:24:26.26
This is the theme
of these chapters,
00:24:26.29\00:24:28.90
great promotion.
00:24:28.93\00:24:31.70
Listen, God's people
can expect promotion now.
00:24:31.73\00:24:38.67
God will look after you now.
00:24:38.71\00:24:43.38
It's true.
00:24:43.41\00:24:45.55
I'm a living witness to the fact
00:24:45.58\00:24:46.95
that God looks after people.
00:24:46.98\00:24:49.38
And number two, God is
going to promote His people
00:24:49.42\00:24:54.12
and make them
princes and princesses
00:24:54.16\00:24:58.33
in the Kingdom of
God when Jesus comes.
00:24:58.36\00:25:02.86
"Promotion comes to those
who faithfully serve God."
00:25:02.90\00:25:09.30
And when our Lord
Jesus Christ returns.
00:25:09.34\00:25:15.44
After the fiery furnace
experience God's people,
00:25:15.48\00:25:21.38
hallelujah, those
who are tried and through
00:25:21.42\00:25:25.62
and who are courageous
00:25:25.65\00:25:28.96
and they have the
spiritual capacity to say,
00:25:28.99\00:25:32.53
"We will not.
00:25:32.56\00:25:34.96
We will serve
God and only Christ."
00:25:35.00\00:25:39.83
Those people will
be promoted to glory.
00:25:39.87\00:25:46.04
Amen.
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.74
So when you know this,
00:25:48.78\00:25:52.71
you can start
living victoriously.
00:25:52.75\00:25:56.69
You can walk with
a bounce in your step
00:25:56.72\00:26:00.86
because there is no god
who delivers like our God.
00:26:00.89\00:26:06.66
Amen and amen.
00:26:06.70\00:26:11.83
Hi there, I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba,
00:26:17.04\00:26:19.94
at this communist fortress.
00:26:19.97\00:26:22.18
We're here to preach the
gospel of Christ to the public,
00:26:22.21\00:26:25.58
but more than this,
00:26:25.61\00:26:26.98
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:26:27.02\00:26:29.58
and biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors,
00:26:29.62\00:26:33.96
140 pastors coming from right
across this wonderful island,
00:26:33.99\00:26:39.96
and they're
coming to join with us
00:26:40.00\00:26:41.70
to study how best
we can meet the needs
00:26:41.73\00:26:45.50
of the Cuban people.
00:26:45.53\00:26:47.70
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:26:47.74\00:26:50.77
they're warm, friendly,
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.81
and I'm amazed that in
the meetings every night
00:26:52.84\00:26:55.04
that we are taking
00:26:55.08\00:26:56.61
that I think most
of the people there
00:26:56.64\00:26:59.41
are young people.
00:26:59.45\00:27:01.05
Now, of course,
when I say young people,
00:27:01.08\00:27:02.68
I mean people up to
say 35 years of age.
00:27:02.72\00:27:06.86
They're young to
me, but they're so warm
00:27:06.89\00:27:10.03
and they're so receptive,
00:27:10.06\00:27:11.89
and when they come
forward night by night
00:27:11.93\00:27:14.00
to accept Jesus, they
come with tremendous sincerity.
00:27:14.03\00:27:18.33
So what a privilege it is
to be here in the land of Cuba.
00:27:18.37\00:27:22.84
But remember to
pray for the pastors.
00:27:22.87\00:27:26.37
One hundred and forty pastors
are coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:26.41\00:27:31.08
and other places right
across this island nation.
00:27:31.11\00:27:34.78
They're coming to
join forces with us.
00:27:34.82\00:27:36.75
Think of this, they're
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:36.79\00:27:40.52
and everywhere.
00:27:40.56\00:27:41.92
We're going to meet
with them, study with them,
00:27:41.96\00:27:44.09
pray with them,
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.46
to devise the best
means of reaching this nation
00:27:45.49\00:27:50.13
for the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:27:50.17\00:27:52.23
and thank you for
being my special partner.
00:27:52.27\00:27:55.37
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00:28:18.89\00:28:20.90
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00:28:20.93\00:28:24.60
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