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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part 4,
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we're talking about the
great dream of Daniel 4.
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We talked about
that in the last segment.
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Here is this terrific tree
with the birds and all of this.
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And the tree we discovered
was a representative of who?
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Nebuchadnezzar.
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So the Bible says that God
gave this dream to the king.
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But I want to point this out
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so that we don't get
this sort of mixed up.
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Almost all dreams
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are the result of
the subconscious mind.
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God does not usually communicate
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with you and me with dreams.
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No, He doesn't.
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But this was a
warning from God to the King.
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How does God warn people today?
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Well, maybe the
words of a friend,
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you got a really good friend,
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and the friend
says, "Don't do this."
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Well, maybe you shouldn't do it.
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Especially the
words of the Bible,
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you're reading the Bible,
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and the Spirit of God
talks to you deep down inside.
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God also leads us
through the voice of conscience.
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Martin Luther said,
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"It's not safe to
go against conscience."
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So if your conscience says,
don't do it, then don't it.
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The Holy Spirit speaking
to the heart and that is...
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You got to be
little carefully there
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because some people get
the Holy Spirit mixed up
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with what they
just want to do anyhow.
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He sometimes works
through a Christian therapist
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not an unbelieving,
not an atheistic therapist,
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but a Christian therapist.
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He works through circumstances,
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He opens doors, He closes doors,
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He says, you can
go through this door.
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And sometimes you're
trying to get through it,
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and the door keeps closing,
then don't go through it.
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You know, we got
this building here
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by the providence of God.
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We wondered what
we were going to do.
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We wondered where
we were going to go.
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And we came out here,
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David and I,
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by the grace of God
we found this building.
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And as we were
looking at the building,
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we came to the front door,
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and a lady came
out and she said,
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"Don't you come in here,
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you don't want
to buy this place."
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You know, why?
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Her boss was planning to buy it.
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They were planning to buy.
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But then we made an
appointment with the bank,
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the bank on this place,
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and when we told the bank
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what we wanted to
do with this building,
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you know, what the man said?
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He said, "Even though your offer
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is lower than the opposition,
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the bank is going
to give this to you
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at a tremendous
discount because they like you."
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The bank? The bank likes you?
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And there was
another reason too.
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They said, "We know,
you're going to pay for it."
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So God opens
doors, God closes doors.
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And you can see
how God leads us,
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and how God blesses us.
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But God gave
Nebuchadnezzar a dream,
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that was a rare occurrence.
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And we're going
to look at verse 17
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again on this chapter.
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Daniel 4:17,
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it's sort of the
heart of that text, it says,
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"The most high rules
in the kingdom of men."
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Don't forget that.
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God is still in
charge of Washington,
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and the White House, and
the Kremlin, and the world.
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You don't need to be
scared of any person, my friend,
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you don't need to be scared
of that miserable attorney,
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who is trying to
get your house off you,
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or that government official,
who is giving you a hard time,
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or that employer of yours,
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who's
threatening you with firing,
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you don't need to
be afraid of the person
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who wants your job.
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God is in charge of
your future, not people.
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The Bible says,
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"God is in
charge of your future."
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Because the Lord God
rules in the kingdom of men.
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Some years ago I was in Baghdad,
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I was there, this
was quite a while ago
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when Saddam Hussein was there.
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I did something,
which was quite innocuous,
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I put a movie camera up
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on the 20th
floor of this building,
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and we were taking video tape,
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and all of a sudden the
room was filled with soldiers.
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I was placed under arrest.
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And they said, "You
can't leave the country,
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until you pass over
everything you've got,
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your cameras, and
everything, and your video.
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I said, "Not gonna
do it, not gonna do it.
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No."
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So one night came
12 o'clock at night
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one on the
morning, knock on the door,
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we weren't allowed
out of the building,
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out of the room.
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We were taken out,
hustled into a car,
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and driven through the
back streets of Baghdad.
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Taken to government
officers, not beat up,
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treated quite
well, but interrogated.
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In the end, these
people came to the place
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where they respected
us and believed in us.
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And we were
delivered by the grace of God.
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I want you to know,
God is greater than man,
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God is greater than any person,
you don't need to be afraid.
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Then there was
that powerful leader
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of the state church in Ukraine.
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I've told you,
little bit of the story.
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This man who said,
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"You're not going
to come into the city,
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you will come here..."
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He said, "Over my dead body."
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You can go to Kiev
and outside the cathedral.
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You can see this
tomb on the sidewalk.
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It's a huge,
it's an amazing story.
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But we decided
by the grace of God
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we will go
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because Christ is on His throne.
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And just before we
got to the city of Kiev,
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this man who said,
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"You will come
here over my dead body,"
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dropped dead.
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There was
fighting on the streets,
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there was
bloodshed on the streets,
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the meetings opened
to the glory of God,
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and we saw 3,500
precious souls baptized.
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Glory, glory, glory, be to God.
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So I want you to know,
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you don't need to
be afraid of people.
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Romans 8:31 says,
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Romans 8:31.
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"What then shall we
say to these things?
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If God is for us,
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who can be are against us?"
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We were in Irkutsk in Siberia.
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Beverley was
speaking to the people.
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Beverley is a very good speaker.
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So Beverley is talking
to this big crowd of people
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and I was going to
come on after Beverley
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for the evangelistic series.
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Beverley is talking to the women
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of Russia there.
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Man comes on the
stage with a loaded gun.
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He came to get me.
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He came down one night,
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he didn't like
what we were doing,
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he belonged to
their secret service.
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Some of the most
intelligent people
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on the face of the earth,
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who know how to use guns.
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And so all of a sudden
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the stage was
covered by our team,
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and there was a
little bit of scuffling,
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and they took the gun off him.
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The next day the leader
of their security forces
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came to see me,
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he said, "Pastor Carter,
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we're going to
throw this man in jail
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and we're going to
throw away the key."
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I knew this would
be his death sentence.
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So I said to the leader
of the Russian security,
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may I make a suggestion?
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He said, "Sure,
you're the person
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that he tried to kill."
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I said, "Why don't we
just decide to forgive him."
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"Forgive him?"
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I said, "We
believe in a God of grace."
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So I said,
"Please, accept from us,
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we forgive this young man,
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and we're going to
ask the Russian government
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to forgive him too."
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They said, "We've
never heard the like."
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They forgave him,
they sent this young man,
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and he came back,
he became my bodyguard.
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And when I made an appeal
for people to come to Christ
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in Siberia
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he was, glory be to
God, the first on his feet.
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Can't you hear
what I'm saying today,
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if God is for you,
who can be against you?
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So remember, man without
God is simply animated mud
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on the way to dust,
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so should we fear animated mud?
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Now look at Daniel 4:19-27.
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Daniel 4.
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"Then Daniel, whose
name was Belteshazzar,
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was astonished for a time,
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and his thoughts troubled him.
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So the king spoke, and said,
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'Belteshazzar,
do not let the dream
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or its
interpretation trouble you.'
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Belteshazzar answered and said,
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'My lord, may the
dream concern those
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who hate you,
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and its interpretation
concern your enemies!
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The tree that you saw,
which grew and became strong,
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whose height
reached to the heavens
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and which could be
seen by all the earth,
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whose leaves were
lovely and its fruit abundant,
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in which was food for all,
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under which the
beasts of the field dwelt,
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and in whose branches
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the birds of the
heaven had their home,
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it is you, O king,
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who have grown
and become strong,
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for your greatness has grown
and reaches to the heavens,
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and your dominion to
the end of the earth.
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And inasmuch as
the king saw a watcher,
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a holy one,
coming down from heaven
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and saying, Chop
down the tree, destroy it,
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but leave its stump
and roots in the earth,
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bound with a band
of iron and bronze
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in the tender
grass of the field,
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let it be wet
with the dew of heaven,
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and let him graze with
the beasts of the field,
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till seven times pass over him,
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this is the
interpretation, O king,
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and this is the
decree of the Most High,
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which has come
upon my lord the king:
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They shall drive you from men,
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your dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field,
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and they shall make
you eat grass like oxen.
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They shall wet you
with the dew of heaven,
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and seven times
shall pass over you,
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till you know that
the Most High rules
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in the kingdom of men,
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and gives it to
whomever He chooses.
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And inasmuch as
they gave the command
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to leave the stump
and roots of the tree,
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your kingdom
shall be assured to you,
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after you come to
know that Heaven rules.
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Therefore...
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O king, let my
advice be acceptable to you,
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break off your
sins by being righteous,
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and your iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor.
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Perhaps there may be
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a lengthening of your prosperity
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or tranquility."
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As it says in the
King James Version.
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I want you to
notice, God was watching.
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God is watching you.
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God is watching me.
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He slumbers not nor sleeps.
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There was an awful
judgment pronounced.
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But because of the grace of God,
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it was not set in stone.
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Look at verse 26 and 27.
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"And inasmuch as
they gave the command
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to leave the stump
and roots of the tree,
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your kingdom
shall be assured to you,
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after you come to
know that Heaven rules.
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Therefore...
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O king, let my
advice be acceptable to you,
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break off your
sins by being righteous,
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and your iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor.
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Perhaps there
may be a lengthening
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of your prosperity."
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So it wasn't predestined,
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it wasn't set in
stone, it was conditional.
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Therefore...
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it is not too
late for any one of us.
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Even though God
says, "Judgment is coming",
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it's not set in stone
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because God is a
God of grace and mercy.
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Now, we're going to look
again to the Bible, verse 28-30,
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28-30.
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"All this came upon
King Nebuchadnezzar.
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At the end of the 12 months
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he was walking about
the royal palace of Babylon.
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The king spoke, saying,
'Is not this great Babylon,
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that I have built
for a royal dwelling
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by my mighty power
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and for the
honor of my majesty?'"
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You know what the
greatest of sin is?
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The greatest of sins?
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It is pride, it is called,
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'The
never-failing vice of fools.'
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Pride.
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Nebuchadnezzar was a boaster,
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a bragger, and a blasphemer.
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And God was watching.
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We should never forget.
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God is watching us.
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It's not what
people know about me,
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it is what does
God know about me.
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God is watching.
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The great purpose of
Nebuchadnezzar's life
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was not to glorify God,
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but to make
Babylon the greatest,
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the richest, the most powerful.
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And the Bible says,
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"He forgot all about the poor."
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There was no
thought of repentance
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or helping the poor.
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Nebuchadnezzar said,
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"I never repent
or confess my sins
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because I don't need to."
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He was the chief of fools.
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We all need to
repent of our sins.
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Never thought of
repentance or helping the poor.
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We saw it recently
something was missing
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in the Carter Report ministry.
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Running great
campaigns so important,
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the primary work
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that's what God
has called us to do.
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It's a most important work.
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People say, "No, it's only
just one part of the church."
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No, that's why
the church exists.
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And where the
church doesn't do it,
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the church dies
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a long slow miserable death.
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The church dies
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because people
say, "It can't be done."
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Because they
serve not the most high
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but a little god,
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some little god.
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But we serve the Most High,
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but we thought
something was missing.
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God put it into our
hearts to help the poor,
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so now we have a work in India
that David is in charge of.
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And we're sending some
untouchable little girls
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to school,
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to save them
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from most terrible,
damnable cast system.
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And we've just started
sending 37 little boys and girls
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to school in El Salvador.
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Then we saw pictures
of these little children,
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could break your heart.
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Their parents were too
poor to send their children
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to our own Adventist school,
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so we got 37 of
these cute little kids
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from El Salvador.
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And then they sent us pictures
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of these little
kids going to school,
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and they've got new shoes,
and they got school uniforms.
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And we were
talking about and we said,
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"How did they get those?"
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Well, they said,
"The parents were told,
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unless they get shoes
and uniforms, they can't go."
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That would have
cost them a month's wage.
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So we decided we would
send the cost of the shoes
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and the clothes
to their parents.
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And we felt
good, helping the poor.
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Look at Proverbs 14:34,
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there's no greatness
without moral excellence.
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Proverbs 14:34 says,
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"Righteousness
exalts a nation..."
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Everybody listen to me,
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especially my
great American audience
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whom I love.
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There is a lot of talk about
making America great again,
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that's great.
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But there's no
greatness without goodness.
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There is no greatness
without moral excellence,
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don't you believe this?
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People say, "Oh, no,
we're just gonna be great."
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No, you're not.
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No, you're not,
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you might have
some more atom bombs
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to blow yourselves up with,
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but righteousness
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exalts a nation.
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George Washington said this,
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"I revere the founding fathers
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of the United
States of America."
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Washington said,
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"It is impossible to
rightly govern a nation
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without God and the Bible."
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You won't hear
that on television.
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"It's impossible to
rightly govern a nation
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without God and the Bible."
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If you want to make
America great again,
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you must make
America righteous again
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with God and the Bible.
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Today America is
walking in the footsteps
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of the Roman Empire,
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immorality, love of
wealth, the sins of Sodom,
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and indifference to
the poor in our midst.
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Look at Daniel 4:31-33.
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Remember, God is watching us.
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Daniel 4:31-33.
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"While the word was
still in the king's mouth."
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You know, I'm a
great millionaire,
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look at me.
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"A voice fell from heaven:
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'King Nebuchadnezzar,
to you it is spoken,
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the kingdom has
departed from you.
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And they shall
drive you from men,
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and your dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field.
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They shall make you
eat grass like oxen,
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and seven times
shall pass over you,
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until you know
that the Most High rules
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in the kingdom of men,
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and gives it to
whomever He chooses.'
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That very hour
the word was fulfilled
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concerning Nebuchadnezzar,
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he was driven from men
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and ate grass like oxen,
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his body was wet
with the dew of heaven
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till his hair had
grown like eagles' feathers
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and his nails
like birds' claws."
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He went insane
because sin is insanity.
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Some insanity is, of
course, my chemical imbalances.
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And for those people,
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there needs to be
special therapies.
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We should have
great sympathy for people
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who have chemical imbalances,
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but many
insanities are caused by sin.
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The world is going mad
and is often ruled by madmen,
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who are
controlled by terrible sins,
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and the worst sin is pride.
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Sin is insanity.
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We should cry out.
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Make America righteous again.
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Daniel 4:33 please,
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Daniel 4:33.
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"That very hour
the word was fulfilled
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concerning Nebuchadnezzar,
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he was driven from men
and ate grass like oxen,
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his body was wet
with the dew of heaven
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till his hair had
grown like eagles' feathers
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and his nails
like birds' claws."
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Seven years, total humiliation,
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total humiliation.
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He became the laughingstock
of the Babylonians.
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Look at mighty
Nebuchadnezzar now...
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the crazy man.
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But God is merciful,
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just as well for us.
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Look at verse 34,
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verse 34,
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"At the end of the time
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I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted my eyes to heaven,
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my understanding returned to me,
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and I blessed the Most
High and praised and honored Him
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who lives forever:
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For His dominion is
an everlasting dominion,
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and His kingdom is from
generation to generation."
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Sanity returned
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when he lifted
his eyes to heaven.
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In today's
language we would say,
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Nebuchadnezzar turned to Christ,
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he repented of his sins,
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he gave up his
alcohol, his booze,
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his drugs, his porn,
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he read his Bible,
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and he went to church.
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Jesus said, "You
must be born again."
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And he was.
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Look at versus 34-36.
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34-36 "At the end of the time
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I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted my eyes to heaven,
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my understanding returned to me,
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and I blessed the Most
High and praised and honored Him
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who lives forever and ever:
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For His dominion is
an everlasting dominion,
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and His kingdom is from
generation to generation.
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All the inhabitants of the earth
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are reputed as nothing,
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He does according to His will
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in the army of heaven,
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and among the
inhabitants of the earth,
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no one can restrain His hand
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or say to Him,
'What have You done?'
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At the same time my
reason returned to me,
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and for the glory of my kingdom,
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my honor and
splendor returned to me.
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My counselors and
nobles resorted to me,
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I was restored to my kingdom,
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and excellent
majesty was to me."
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God restored him
from humiliation,
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insanity, and financial disaster
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because He's the
God of the first chance,
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the second
chance, the third chance,
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and the fourth chance,
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He's the God of grace.
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And if you gonna hear his voice,
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my friend, it's
not too late for you.
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Here is a clear case
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of grace revealed,
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where sin did abound,
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grace did much more abound.
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And look at verse 37,
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"Now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
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praise and extol and
honor the King of heaven,
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all of whose works are truth,
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and His ways justice.
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And those who walk in pride
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He is able to put down."
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Isn't that the truth?
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Is this the most
amazing verse in the Bible?
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This man who is an enemy of God,
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praises the God of heaven,
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he gives glory to God.
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He is born again.
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Isn't this the most
amazing verse in the Bible,
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because it
indicates that one day
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when he is promoted to glory,
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when you and I
are promoted to glory,
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you'll see walking
down the streets of gold
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two young men,
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Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar
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saved by grace.
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If God can do it
for Nebuchadnezzar,
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He can do it for anybody,
00:25:58.79\00:26:01.62
because where sin did abound,
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grace did much more abound.
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Amen.
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And all the people say it, amen
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and amen.
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Hope for everyone.
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Today, we are starting
the Washington DC Project.
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We are going by the grace of God
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to buy time on
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for our people
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There is a reason
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And Time Magazine
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Notice this Time Magazine,
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it says, "Is truth dead?"
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Apparently many people
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"Yes, truth is dead."
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That's why we
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today in Washington.
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