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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This is a
continuation of our series
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"Living Victoriously"
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and this is part 5,
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in fact, it's chapter
5 of the Book of Daniel.
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I guess everybody
has read TIME Magazine.
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I want you to have
a look at the cover
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of the latest TIME Magazine.
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Some years ago TIME
asked the pertinent question,
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"Is God dead?"
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Is God dead?
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But this week TIME
asked this question
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thinking what's
going on in America.
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TIME asked the
question, "Is truth dead?"
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I wonder why?
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In over hear that fake news
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and it seems that
so many people today
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have no concept
of right or wrong.
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I want you to think about this.
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Somebody said that God
died in the 19th century
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because of the
German philosophers,
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God died in the 19th century,
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man died in the 20th century.
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And when man died
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and when God died
also, truth died also.
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It's very important for a person
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to have a source of truth.
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Jesus said,
"Your word is truth."
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But let me tell you this,
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we need to be
intelligently informed
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and we need to
read reliable magazines
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that endeavor to tell the truth
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that have a fact
checking department.
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Some magazines do.
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When you read
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you're never going to
agree with everything you read,
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and that's why you need to read
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critically and
widely from magazines
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that have a solid reputation.
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I was talking to a
very lovely lady this week
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who is a television
producer in Hollywood
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in a contrary to popular opinion
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there are lots and lots
of good people in Hollywood.
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I've met lots of really
good, fine people in Hollywood.
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But she told me,
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"The vast maturity of people
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who make the movies, and
sitcoms, and all the stuff,
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they have no valid
understanding of truth.
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They have no moral compass."
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It's no longer a case of saying,
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"This is right, this is wrong."
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Truth is whatever
you want it to be.
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I want you to think about this
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because what I'm
going to tell you
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will help you to understand
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what's going on
in America today.
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With the death of God,
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you must have as a
consequence the death of truth,
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because God stands
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for that which is
absolute and certain.
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We have a law and
it comes from God,
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we have a moral law.
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America was based
on the moral law of God
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and a belief in God.
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Now we meet people today
in Hollywood around the world
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and they say America has
got nothing to do with God
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because the founding fathers
of the United States of America
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did not believe in God.
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That my friend is one of the
biggest lies ever, ever told.
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But if you have a belief in God,
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you'll have a belief
in reality and in truth.
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And so TIME
Magazine started together,
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"Is God dead?
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Is truth dead?"
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And to many people the
answer is, "Yes, it is."
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Truth is whatever
you want it to be.
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The topic today is
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when your enemy
gives you the top job.
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I want to tell
you a personal story.
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It illustrates how God can
turn a negative into a positive.
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I'm going to
camouflage the story.
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In 1991, we went to Russia.
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We were the first
people from outside Russia
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to run a big
evangelistic campaign,
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a big public
evangelistic campaign
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in the city of Moscow.
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I haven't got time to
tell you what happened.
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It was a series
of amazing events.
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The Moscow networks
coming to the programs
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because they were
searching the truth.
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And after we ran those meetings
in the palace of culture,
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just down the
road from the Kremlin.
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In 1991, we went over
here and we booked the Kremlin.
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The whole of congresses
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and we paid the deposit
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and we thought
this is going to be
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the best thing
besides going to heaven
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to run a series of
evangelistic meetings
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right in the
very heart of atheism.
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And I can't tell
you how it happened,
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but the meetings
were stolen from us.
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Some other folks
moved in, kept our deposit,
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and took over the
whole of congresses.
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I could have got really mad,
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in fact, I'd gotten really mad,
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but you know what you got to do
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when things like
that happen to you?
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You got to forgive people.
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And when you forgive
people, it can turn a negative,
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a big negative
into a big positive.
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You can't walk around
carrying a burden of hate
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and revenge on your shoulders.
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And so we were sent to the place
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where they sent Sakharov
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and the rest of
the Russian dissidents.
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We were sent to the
city of Nizhny Novgorod.
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When I went there,
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the city had been locked
up for many, many, many years.
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Foreigners weren't
allowed to go to the city.
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Since the days of
Stalin, it was a forbidden city.
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And some other people
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took over the
meetings in the Kremlin
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and we were in this place,
the place of the dissidents,
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and God promoted us to glory.
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We saw the greatest crowds
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up to that time
attending evangelistic meetings.
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In the history
of the Soviet Union
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with the foreigner
doing the preaching
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and a Russian translator,
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we saw thousands
of people baptized
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in the Volga River.
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Who helped us?
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The Russian Army.
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The Russian Army
supplied their soldiers.
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The KGB sent their young men
and they acted as our ushers.
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You say, "Can't believe it."
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It's true.
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We saw the
tremendous power of God.
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3ABN came with us
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and when they got
involved in the campaign
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and helped to make the
campaign a possibility,
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they built this
wonderful evangelistic center.
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This wonderful
evangelistic center,
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I'm told the biggest
Protestant building in Russia.
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It could have been in Moscow,
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but it ended up in the
city of Nizhny Novgorod.
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God took something
that was a big negative
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and something that could have,
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if we had let it, it
could have destroyed us.
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But God turned it around
and we were promoted to glory.
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I want you to know this.
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God is in the business
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of turning
negatives into positives.
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Now almost all dramas
have two man characters,
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the goody and the baddy
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or as it said in one movie
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
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But today it's the good
person and the bad person.
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I want to give you some
clues about the bad person.
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He's a young king.
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He threw a big party.
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Invited thousands of guests,
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he supplied huge
quantities of alcohol.
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He committed a fateful blunder.
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He had a supernatural encounter.
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His knees shook.
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He met the prophet of God.
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He gave the old
man a big promotion.
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He promoted the
old man to glory.
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But he was murdered
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or some would
say he was executed.
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Of whom am I speaking?
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Belshazzar
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who is described
in Daniel 5:1 and 2.
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So please turn in the Bible
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to Daniel 5:1 and 2.
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And the text says this,
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"Belshazzar the
king made a great feast
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for a thousand of his lords,
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and drank wine in the
presence of the thousand.
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While he tasted the wine,
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Belshazzar gave the command
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to bring the gold
and silver vessels
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which his father Nebuchadnezzar
had taken from the temple
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which had been in Jerusalem,
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that the king and
his lords, his wives,
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and his concubines
might drink from them."
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In my work I've
met so many people
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in Russia, Ukraine,
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South Africa, Australia,
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and also here in
the United States
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who say the Bible
is an exploded book,
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it is simply a book of myths
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and for many years skeptic
said that Belshazzar was a myth,
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because in the chronicles
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the last
recorded king of Babylon
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was not
Belshazzar but Nabonidus.
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And so they said,
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"Here we've got it, a mistake in
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so called Holy Scripture,"
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but then this
inscription was found
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which is called
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the Nabonidus
Inscription in cuneiform.
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And in the inscription
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Nabonidus ends with the prayer
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to God for himself and
for his son Belshazzar.
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Now what had happened with
this that Nabonidus retired
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and he put his
own son Belshazzar
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on the throne of Babylon exactly
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as it is written
in the scriptures.
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I believe that the
Bible is a book of truth.
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Now if you can believe
what I'm going to tell you now
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it's going to help you lots,
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if you don't
believe in anything,
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you're going to be a lost soul.
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But the Bible
tells us, "Who I am?"
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It tells me, "Where I came from,
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why I am here and
where I am going?"
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And because we believe
it is more than a book,
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we believe it is
an inspired book,
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it is the very
bases for western culture.
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It made America what America is
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or what America was.
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This Chapter 5
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describes the last night
of the Babylonian Empire,
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the last night of Belshazzar.
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The king was there with his,
in a circle with his cabinet,
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with his women,
his wives, his lords
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and his concubines
and they were drunk.
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Belshazzar made a
very, very foolish decision
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under the influence of alcohol.
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The Bible says
that when he was drunk,
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he commanded to
bring the golden vessels
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from the temple
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which Nebuchadnezzar had gotten,
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out of the temple in Jerusalem.
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Nebuchadnezzar had
overthrown Jerusalem
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and he had taken from
the temple in Jerusalem
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these golden vessels
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from the sanctuary
dedicated to almighty God.
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Nebuchadnezzar...
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Belshazzar, when he is drunk,
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commands to
bring in these vessels.
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That was a stupid thing to do.
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Let me give you some facts
about the modern use of alcohol
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because it's pertinent.
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In the United States
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more than 15 million adults
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are engaged in the
heavy use of alcohol.
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They are the people we know.
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They're the people
who are passing you
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in the streets on the
freeways, 15 million of them.
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Around 90,000 people
die from alcoholic abuse
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every year in the USA, 90,000
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that's
equivalent to 270 jumbo jets
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crashing every year
in the United States,
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270 jumbo jets
killing every soul on board,
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that's 5 jumbo jets a week,
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Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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everyday through
the working week,
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a jumbo jet crashes
every person is killed
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because of alcohol.
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It is an insane industry.
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If we were to lose
one jumbo jet in LAX,
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it would be a national disaster,
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the 270 every year.
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Why?
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It's tolerated because
alcohol is an addictive drug
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that brings in
billions of dollars
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and makes a lot
of people wealthy.
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700,000 students
between 18 and 24
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were assaulted
by another student
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under the influence.
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97,000 students reported
sexual abuse or date rape
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at the hands of a
person who had been drinking.
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Alcohol impairs
the thinking processes,
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and that's why
so many people find
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it so difficult to think
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that may be one of
the problems in congress.
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It could be.
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The results of alcohol,
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broken homes, abused
wives, terrorized children.
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Many years ago,
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when I was a boy
going to college,
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a man came and gave us speech.
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He was from the United States.
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I think if my
memory is working today
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this is going back a few years.
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It was Dr.
Scharfenberg and he told
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how he visited a
young man on death row
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about to be put to death.
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You know why?
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He stabbed his mother to
death with a kitchen knife.
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And he said, "Son,
I want you to tell me,
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how did it happen,
how did it happen?"
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He said, "I came
home late one night."
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He said, "I had been
drinking, I was blind drunk.
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My mother was waiting up for me,
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it made me crazy
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and when she wanted
to know where I had been,
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I got so mad I said shut
up and she wouldn't shut up,
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so I went to the
drawer in the kitchen
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and I got out a knife
and I stabbed her to death."
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Now he said, "I am going
to die in the electric chair
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because I killed my mother."
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But he said, "I
didn't wanted to do it,
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I did it when I was drunk."
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And Dr. Scharfenberg said,
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"Son, just for the record.
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Who gave you your first drink?"
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He said, "My mother
gave me my first drink."
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Today in America
and around the world
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there are lots and lots
of preachers and ministers
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who defend the use of alcohol.
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Plenty here in
Southern California.
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I've got a word for them,
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they ought to resign
passing their credentials
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and go and get a
job may be at a brewery
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because of the curse of alcohol.
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Broken homes, abused
wives, terrorized children,
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people psychologically
damage for lives.
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A terrible, did you know a
terrible increase of disease
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including cancer.
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If you drink alcohol,
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you got a bigger
chance of getting cancer.
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To say nothing of
the hurtful decisions
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that are made by
politicians and other leaders
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because of the
demon in the bottle,
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the demon in the bottle.
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Look at Deuteronomy
32:32 and 33 in the Bible.
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Deuteronomy 32:33.
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It says, "For their
vine is of the vine of Sodom,
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and of the fields of Gomorrah,
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their grapes are grapes of gall,
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their clusters are bitter.
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Their wine is the
poison of serpents,
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and the cruel venom of cobras."
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Now that night Belshazzar,
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his ladies, his
wives, his concubines,
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and his lords were drunk.
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They would never have done
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what they did
had they been sober,
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but they were drunk.
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And if you notice
in Daniel 5:2 to 4,
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Daniel 5:2 to 4,
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"While he tasted the wine,
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Belshazzar gave the command
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to bring in the
gold and silver vessels
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which his father Nebuchadnezzar
had taken from the temple
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which had been in Jerusalem,
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that the king and
his lords, his wives,
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and his concubines
might drink from them.
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Then they
brought the gold vessels
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that had been taken
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from the temple
of the house of God
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which had been in Jerusalem,
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and the king and
his lords, his wives,
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and his
concubines drank from them.
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They drank wine,
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and praised the
gods of gold and silver,
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bronze and
iron, wood and stone."
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Do you think for one moment
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he would have done
that had he been sober,
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I don't think so.
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He acted as a complete fool.
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When under the
influence the golden vessels
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from the temple in Jerusalem,
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the temple of the great
God Yahweh Elohim were brought.
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This was an act
of daring blasphemy,
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dare I say, stupidity.
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I handed rebellion against God.
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And when he did this,
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Belshazzar crossed
the line in this act.
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Did you know this
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that there is a
line in the sand,
00:19:56.06\00:20:00.46
and if you and I
step over that line,
00:20:00.50\00:20:03.60
then we've gone too far.
00:20:03.63\00:20:08.20
It was like I can just carry
on and do whatever I want to do.
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No, it's not so.
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There's a line that is
crossed by rejecting the Lord,
00:20:13.41\00:20:19.21
where the call of
the spirit is lost.
00:20:19.25\00:20:22.25
As you travel along
with the pleasure-mad throng
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have you counted,
have you counted the cost?
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And he crossed over the line.
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I want you to
notice Daniel 5:5 and 6,
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Daniel 5:5 and 6,
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"In the same hour
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the fingers of a
man's hand appeared
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and wrote opposite the lampstand
00:20:52.45\00:20:54.42
on the plaster of the
wall of the king's palace."
00:20:54.45\00:20:59.45
This could have
been the candlestick
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out of the temple.
00:21:01.29\00:21:03.36
"And the king saw
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the part of the hand that wrote.
00:21:04.76\00:21:08.93
Then the king's
countenance changed,
00:21:08.96\00:21:12.03
and his thoughts troubled him,
00:21:12.07\00:21:13.67
so that the joints of
his hips were loosened,"
00:21:13.70\00:21:19.07
must have hurt,
00:21:19.11\00:21:21.54
"and his knees
knocked against each other."
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So this was judgment day.
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This is the most
unpopular truth in the Bible
00:21:32.95\00:21:37.13
that every person one day
is going to have a judgment day
00:21:37.16\00:21:43.47
because we came
from the hand of God.
00:21:43.50\00:21:47.14
And because God is alive
and because God is not dead,
00:21:47.17\00:21:52.14
every one of us
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is going to have a judgment day.
00:21:53.81\00:21:57.58
But we're told that
God is very, very patient.
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Would you look at 2 Peter 3:9,
00:22:03.85\00:22:07.69
2 Peter in the
New Testament 3:9,
00:22:07.72\00:22:13.33
Peter says,
00:22:13.36\00:22:14.73
"The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise,
00:22:14.76\00:22:17.07
as some count slackness,
00:22:17.10\00:22:18.93
but is longsuffering toward us,
00:22:18.97\00:22:22.44
not willing that
any should perish
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.21
but that all should
come to repentance."
00:22:24.24\00:22:26.74
So God is a God of
love, God is a God of mercy,
00:22:26.78\00:22:32.55
God is a God of patience.
00:22:32.58\00:22:36.55
The skeptic went
down to Hyde Park,
00:22:36.58\00:22:39.75
took off his watch,
held it up and he said,
00:22:39.79\00:22:43.76
"I'm going to
prove there's no God."
00:22:43.79\00:22:45.83
Held up his watch and he
said, "If there is a God,
00:22:45.86\00:22:51.30
I defy you to strike me
dead in the next 60 seconds."
00:22:51.33\00:22:56.77
He did like this and he looked
at his watch holding his watch.
00:22:56.81\00:23:03.41
When 60 seconds had ticked by,
he said, "Ladies and gentleman,
00:23:03.45\00:23:07.68
I have amply demonstrated
00:23:07.72\00:23:10.39
that the
existence of God is a myth,
00:23:10.42\00:23:13.69
there is no God."
00:23:13.72\00:23:16.69
And one old man down
the front stood up and said,
00:23:16.73\00:23:20.06
"The poor fool,
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he thinks he can
exhaust the patience of God
00:23:21.93\00:23:25.07
in 60 seconds.
00:23:25.10\00:23:27.84
He's got a lot to
learn, hasn't he?"
00:23:27.87\00:23:30.94
So, my friend, Belshazzar
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did not exhaust
the patience of God
00:23:33.84\00:23:36.44
in 60 seconds and
you and I won't either.
00:23:36.48\00:23:40.15
An atheist wrote to
a Christian newspaper
00:23:40.18\00:23:43.28
in North America.
00:23:43.32\00:23:44.65
He said, "Dear Editor,
00:23:44.69\00:23:46.45
please ask your
Christian readers
00:23:46.49\00:23:49.62
to explain this.
00:23:49.66\00:23:51.89
I play out on the Sabbath,
I planted on the Sabbath,
00:23:51.93\00:23:56.50
I worked on the Sabbath,
I harvested on the holy day,
00:23:56.53\00:24:01.37
and I got the best
crop of potatoes in May.
00:24:01.40\00:24:05.77
Please explain."
00:24:05.81\00:24:09.91
Somebody wrote this
letter to the editor,
00:24:09.94\00:24:13.08
"Dear Editor,
00:24:13.11\00:24:14.98
please tell your potato man,
00:24:15.02\00:24:20.46
God doesn't settle
all his accounts in May."
00:24:20.49\00:24:24.33
God does not settle
all his accounts in May.
00:24:27.43\00:24:30.00
I want you to know this,
00:24:30.03\00:24:32.47
but the truth is he
does settle all his accounts.
00:24:32.50\00:24:38.11
Now, would you please
notice Daniel 5:5 and 6,
00:24:38.14\00:24:44.91
Daniel 5:5 and 6, again,
00:24:44.95\00:24:48.08
"In the same hour the
fingers of a man's hand appeared
00:24:48.12\00:24:51.32
and wrote opposite the lampstand
00:24:51.35\00:24:52.92
on the plaster of the
wall of the king's palace,
00:24:52.95\00:24:56.09
and the king saw the
part of the hand that wrote.
00:24:56.12\00:24:58.49
Then the king's
countenance changed,
00:24:58.53\00:25:00.83
and his thoughts troubled him,
00:25:00.86\00:25:02.30
so that the joints of
his hips were loosened
00:25:02.33\00:25:07.40
and his knees
knocked against each other."
00:25:07.44\00:25:12.71
This indicates
that God is watching us.
00:25:16.01\00:25:21.58
And the king who is
so boastful and proud
00:25:21.62\00:25:27.52
and blasphemous
00:25:27.56\00:25:29.32
suddenly became very,
00:25:29.36\00:25:32.33
very sober.
00:25:32.36\00:25:37.07
Here's a quote from Jefferson,
00:25:37.10\00:25:38.63
"I love the founding fathers
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.10
of the United States of America.
00:25:40.14\00:25:41.84
What would they say today
00:25:41.87\00:25:45.37
as they consider
America, he said this,
00:25:45.41\00:25:49.11
"This is the Jefferson memorial,
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.15
indeed I tremble for my country
00:25:51.18\00:25:54.18
when I reflect that God is just
00:25:54.22\00:25:58.15
that His justice
00:25:58.19\00:25:59.65
cannot sleep forever."
00:25:59.69\00:26:04.96
What happened to the king?
00:26:04.99\00:26:07.83
We'll be back in a
moment with more amazing facts.
00:26:07.86\00:26:12.37
Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
00:26:24.05\00:26:26.55
By the grace of God,
I'm going back to Russia.
00:26:26.58\00:26:29.72
I've been to the lands of
the old Soviet Union 47 times,
00:26:29.75\00:26:35.12
that's in the last 25-26 years.
00:26:35.16\00:26:38.26
We are planning to go to
the city of Nizhny Novgorod
00:26:38.29\00:26:42.66
or the old Russian city of Gorky
00:26:42.70\00:26:45.67
made famous by the poet, Gorky.
00:26:45.70\00:26:49.10
We are going there
because 25 years ago
00:26:49.14\00:26:52.11
we ran a great
campaign in Nizhny Novgorod
00:26:52.14\00:26:56.01
and we saw 2,530 souls,
00:26:56.04\00:27:00.82
2,530 Russians,
communists, atheists,
00:27:00.85\00:27:05.12
all sorts of
unbelief baptized into Christ
00:27:05.15\00:27:08.66
in the Volga River.
00:27:08.69\00:27:10.93
We're going back
because the need is enormous
00:27:10.96\00:27:14.56
and because the
Russians are saying,
00:27:14.60\00:27:16.10
"Please come and help us."
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.77
Freedom is
disappearing in Putin's Russia.
00:27:18.80\00:27:23.57
It's almost impossible
now to hire an auditorium,
00:27:23.61\00:27:26.54
almost impossible
to preach the gospel.
00:27:26.57\00:27:29.71
And so, by the grace of God,
00:27:29.74\00:27:31.68
we are applying for
special missionary visas.
00:27:31.71\00:27:35.25
Are we going to get them?
00:27:35.28\00:27:36.62
We think so, by
the grace of God.
00:27:36.65\00:27:38.92
And we're going to advertise
00:27:38.95\00:27:40.39
by the grace of God on
television and on radio.
00:27:40.42\00:27:43.73
Please write to me.
00:27:43.76\00:27:45.09
I've got to raise $250,000 now.
00:27:45.13\00:27:50.97
Please write to me, John Carter,
00:27:51.00\00:27:52.73
PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks,
California 91358. In Australia,
00:27:52.77\00:27:58.97
write to the address
now appearing on the screen.
00:27:59.01\00:28:02.38
This could be
Russia's last opportunity.
00:28:02.41\00:28:06.18
Please write to me.
00:28:06.21\00:28:07.55
I ask you in the name of God
00:28:07.58\00:28:10.02
write to me today
and pray for Russia.
00:28:10.05\00:28:13.82
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