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.
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Our program today is
entitled "Living Victoriously,"
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and this is part 5.
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This is a pick-up
from the earlier session
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and we're going
to turn in the Bible
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to the Book of Daniel 5:7-10.
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We're talking
about the drunken feast,
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Daniel 5:7-10, the Bible says,
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"The king cried aloud to
bring in the astrologers,
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the Chaldeans, the soothsayers."
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They were the brains trust.
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"The king spoke, saying
to the wise men of Babylon,
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'Whoever reads the writing,
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this writing tells
me its interpretation,
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shall be clothed with purple
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and have a gold
chain around his neck.
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And he should be the third ruler
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in the kingdom.'
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Now all the
king's wise men came,
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but they could
not read the writing,
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or make known to the
king its interpretation.
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Then King Belshazzar
was greatly troubled,
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his countenance was changed,
and his lords were astonished.
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The queen, because of the
words of the king and his lords,
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came to the banquet hall.
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The queen spoke,
saying, 'O king, live forever!
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Do not let your
thoughts trouble you,
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nor let your
countenance change.'"
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So here comes the queen.
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This is not his queen.
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This is most likely
Nebuchadnezzar's queen,
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and some say
Nebuchadnezzar's daughter.
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So doesn't really
matter as long as we know
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that she was
associated with Nebuchadnezzar
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because she had
seen the hand of God
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in the life of the
King Nebuchadnezzar.
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She had seen or heard about
the great statue of Daniel 2,
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the three Hebrews in
the burning fiery furnace.
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Of course, she knew about
her husband who went crazy.
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She knew how he went
crazy for seven years
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and then he was restored
when he looked up to God,
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and so this woman who had
seen the hand of God comes in
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and she talks to the scoundrel.
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And verses 11 and 12
tell us this, she says,
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"There is a man in your kingdom
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in whom is the
Spirit of the Holy God.
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And in the days of
your father, or ancestor,
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light and
understanding and wisdom,
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like the wisdom of the
gods, were found in him,
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and King
Nebuchadnezzar your father,
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your father the
king, your ancestor,
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made him chief of the
magicians, astrologers,
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Chaldeans, and soothsayers.
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Inasmuch as an
excellent spirit, knowledge,
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understanding,
interpreting dreams,
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solving riddles,
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and explaining enigmas
were found in this Daniel,
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whom the king
named Belteshazzar,
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now let Daniel be called,
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and he will give
the interpretation.'"
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Just want to point this
out, when the Bible says a son,
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it means a descendent,
and when it says a father,
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it means an ancestor,
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so this is quite
lightly Nebuchadnezzar's wife.
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She comes in and she
says, "I've ever seen it all.
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You better call this man
because he is a man of God."
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Let Daniel be
called. Call the man of God.
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When the chips are
down, you know what you do?
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You call for the man of God.
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Daniel was God's man, in
God's place, at God's time,
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doing God's work,
preaching God's message.
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What the world needs
more than anything else today,
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what America needs is
the voice of the man of God,
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the voice of the prophet.
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There was a wonderful
remarkable American lady,
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her name was Ellen
White and she said this,
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just want you to
think of this, she said,
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"The greatest want of the
world is the want of men,"
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all it needs a few
good men is a want of men,
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"men who will not
be bought or sold,
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men who in their inmost
souls are true and honest,
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men who do not fear to
call sin by its right name,
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men whose
conscience is as true to duty
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as the needle to the pole,
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men who will stand for the right
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though the heavens fall."
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And I want to say this to you,
when the chips are really down,
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when the writing is on the wall,
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nobody is gonna be
calling for a politician.
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I'm telling you the truth
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unless he happens
to be a man of God.
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But in our darkness,
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we need a man of God
who is going to come to us
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and bring us the light of truth,
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the light of God.
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Bring us the man of God.
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And notice
Daniel 5:13-16 please,
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he who has the great meeting,
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"Then Daniel was
bought in before the king.
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The king spoke,
and said to Daniel,
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'Are you that Daniel who is
one of the captives from Judah,
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whom my father the
king brought from Judah?
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I have heard of you,
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that the Spirit
of God is in you,
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and that light and understanding
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and excellent
wisdom are found in you.
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Now the wise
men, the astrologers,
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have been brought in before me,
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that they should
read this writing
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and make known to
me its interpretation,
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but they could not give
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the interpretation of the thing.
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And I've heard of you,
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that you can
give interpretations
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and explain enigmas.
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Now if you can read the writing
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and make known to
me its interpretation,
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you shall be clothed with purple
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and have a chain of
gold around your neck,
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and you shall be the third ruler
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in the kingdom.'"
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So this writing
had come upon the wall.
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And this writing
was from God himself,
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writing MENE,
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
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It was the
message from almighty God
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and they needed the man of God.
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You've got an
amazing meeting here.
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Think of the contrast,
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it's like Christ
meeting Caiaphas,
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two great men,
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one great in
righteousness, one great in sin.
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Daniel is now an
old man in his 80s.
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He's a prince of God.
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Belshazzar is a young man
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and he is an absolute propagate.
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And so they're talking together
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and it's interesting
when you read the passages,
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it's obvious that
Daniel is not overawed
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in the presence of the king.
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Somebody said this
about John the Baptist.
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He could stand direct
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in the presence
of earth demonics
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because he had bowed low
before the King of kings.
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So here comes this
old man well into his 80s.
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Here is this young king
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who is the very essence
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of evil and sin.
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The writing is on the
wall and the king says,
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"Can you tell me?
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Can you please
tell me what is it?"
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Look at verses
17 to 22, 17 to 22,
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"Then Daniel answered,
and said before the king,
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'Let your gifts be for yourself,
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and give your
rewards to another,"
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I don't want them,
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"Yet I will read
the writing to the king,
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and make known to
him the interpretation,'"
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but I don't want to junk.
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"O king, the Most High God
gave Nebuchadnezzar your father,
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your ancestor, a kingdom
and majesty, glory and honor.
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And because of the majesty
that he gave him, all peoples,
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nations, and languages
trembled and feared before him.
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Whomever he wished, he executed,
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whomever he
wished, he kept alive,
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whomever he wished, he set up,
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and whomever he
wished, he put down.
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But when his
heart was lifted up,
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and his spirit
was hardened in pride,
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he was deposed
from his kingly throne,
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and they took
his glory from him.
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Then he was driven
from the sons of men,
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his heart was
made like the beasts,
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and his dwelling was
with the wild donkeys.
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They fed him
with grass like oxen,
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his body was wet
with the dew of heaven,
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till he knew that
the Most High God rules
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in the kingdom of men,
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and appoints over
it whomever he chooses.
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But you his son, Belshazzar,
have not humbled your heart,'"
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notice the words,
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"Although you knew
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all this."
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He was a young guy
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who had
tremendous opportunities.
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He knew the story of his
father or his grandfather,
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his ancestor, Nebuchadnezzar,
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that even though he knew at
all didn't get inside his soul.
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I want you to know this,
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great truth brings
right responsibility.
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Great light brings
great consequences.
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You know, the
great American song
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God shed His light on you.
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God shed His light upon America,
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but remember this, there
is no blackness so black,
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there is no night so
black, as light rejected,
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better never to know the truth
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than to know the truth
and just burn the truth.
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You said, you've
known all this things.
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Great truth brings
great responsibility.
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Great light brings
great consequences.
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You've known all these things,
he said to the young guy.
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Belshazzar like so many today,
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maybe some of us had spurned
his spiritual opportunities.
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And look at verse
22 and 23, 22 and 23,
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"But you his son, Belshazzar,
have not humbled your heart,
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although you knew all this.
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And you have lifted yourself
up against the Lord of heaven.
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They have brought the
vessels of His house before you,
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and you and your lords,
your wives and your concubines,
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have drunk wine from them.
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And you have praised
the Gods of silver and gold,
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bronze and iron, wood and stone,
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which do not
see or hear or know,
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and the God who holds
your breath in His hand
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and owns all your ways,
you have not glorified."
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I want you to
realize this, my friend,
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we are this far from
death, every one of us.
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Thickness of the
wall of an artery.
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This life that is in our souls,
this hearts that beats does so
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because of the grace of God,
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but this young guy didn't care.
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I would say this and
I say it thoughtfully,
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what is the sin of our age?
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What is the sin of America?
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What is the sin of
Australia and Great Britain?
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Is it not the worship of
silver, gold, bronze, iron,
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wood, and stone?
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Has not the world become crazy?
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It is luster for the things
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of material value.
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But the God in whose
hands your breath is,
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you have not
glorified things instead of God.
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Daniel 5:23, Daniel 5:23,
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I want you to
notice this passage,
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"And you have lifted yourself
up against the Lord of heaven.
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They have brought the
vessels of His house before you,
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you and your lords, your
wives and your concubines,
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have drunk wine from them,
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and you have praised the gods
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of silver and gold,
bronze and iron, wood and stone,
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which do not
see or hear or know,
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and the God who
holds your breath
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in His hand
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and owns all your ways,
you have not glorified."
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I say this thoughtfully,
not to revoke any of you,
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but today we see in America
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and in the so
called Christian countries,
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especially, the
desecration of holy things.
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Now, I'm going to say
this and I know it is truth.
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God raised up America.
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God raised up America, to stand
as the fortress for the truth
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as a haven for
and oppress people.
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Give me your
tired, your huddled masses
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yearning to be free.
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Why do you think the
pilgrim fathers came here?
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To make a buck?
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They came to the
United States of America
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because they wanted to
breathe fresh and free air,
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where they could worship
God with the clear conscience,
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and this nation was raised
up by people who believed in God
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and who believed
in Holy Scripture.
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In spite of what
people tell us today,
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who would distort the truth
about the origins of America.
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But I think the words
that was spoken back there
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in the days of
Babylon are appropriate
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for America today
and the rest of us.
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The desecration of holy
things, the Holy Sabbath,
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the holy marriage institution
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which is now being
trampled under foot in America,
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it is the truth.
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And when you talk
to people about this,
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they say, "That is
simply your opinion."
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That's nonsense.
It is not my opinion.
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It is the Word of God.
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In the beginning, He
made them male and female.
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And so we see today
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the desecration
of sacred things,
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but remember the
writing is on the wall.
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The desecration of the Sabbath,
the marriage institution,
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and the Holy
Bible which is jeered up
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by millions of millions
and the Ten Commandants.
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Now Karl Barth was considered
to be the greatest theologian
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of the 20th century,
the great German theologian.
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In one of his books
you have this statement.
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I want you to think about it.
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"When the holy day
becomes the day of man,
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society and humanity wither away
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and the demons rule."
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The demons are ruling today.
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Why is it that problems come
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problem after
problem after problem,
00:16:49.60\00:16:51.71
and nobody seems to be able
to get a handle on the problem?
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Karl Barth out of his book,
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when the holy day
becomes the day of man,
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society and humanity wither away
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and the demons rule.
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Today we have the
worship of counterfeit gods
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that all gods
are of equal worth.
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That is not true.
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There is only one God,
the casting down of God,
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the truth, the
mocking of holy men,
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and holy things.
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And so what happened
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in the days of
Babylon with Belshazzar.
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Belshazzar like us today
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had received light from God.
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America has
received light from God
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more than any other nation.
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Go, read your constitution.
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We're endowed by our creator
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with certain unalienable rights.
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Where do we get it from?
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We get it from the White House?
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No.
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The government
doesn't give us our rights,
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God gives us our rights.
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In a communist country,
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the government gives
the people their rights,
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but not in America.
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The government has the wisdom
to recognize the part of God
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that God gives us our right.
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But then judgment was announced.
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Look at Daniel 5:24-28.
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Daniel 5:24-28,
"Then the fingers,"
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this is the old
prophet speaking,
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"then the fingers of
the hand were sent from him,
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and this writing was written.
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This is the
inscription that was written
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MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
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This is the
interpretation of each word.
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MENE: God has numbered
your kingdom and finished it.
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TEKEL: You have been
weighed in the balances
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and found wanting.
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PERES: Your
kingdom has been divided,
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and given to the
Medes and the Persians."
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So there is a
judgment, isn't there?
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He was weighed in the balances.
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Every person here
one day sooner or later
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is going to be
weighed in the balances.
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When they weighed Belshazzar,
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even with all the
alcohol in his belly,
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he was still a lightweight.
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The Bible teaches that
all will be finally raised
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to meet the judge, all of us.
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People say, I
can do what I like.
00:20:05.90\00:20:08.30
I want to say to
you as I look at you
00:20:08.34\00:20:10.41
and as you watch
the television program,
00:20:10.44\00:20:13.88
you have a God
that you must deal with.
00:20:13.91\00:20:17.71
You can laugh at
Him, you can curse Him,
00:20:17.75\00:20:20.52
you can blaspheme His
name, you can die and be buried,
00:20:20.55\00:20:25.19
but you're
coming back to meet Him.
00:20:25.22\00:20:28.72
It says in
Revelation 20, these words.
00:20:28.76\00:20:31.99
Revelation 20:11-13,
00:20:32.03\00:20:36.53
"Then I saw a great white throne
00:20:36.56\00:20:40.04
and Him who sat on it,
00:20:40.07\00:20:43.77
from whose face the
earth and the heaven fled away.
00:20:43.81\00:20:47.54
And there was
found no place for them.
00:20:47.58\00:20:50.85
And I saw the
dead, small and great,
00:20:50.88\00:20:53.55
standing before God,
and books were opened,
00:20:53.58\00:20:57.49
and another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life.
00:20:57.52\00:21:00.56
And the dead were judged
according to their works,
00:21:00.59\00:21:05.79
by the things
00:21:05.83\00:21:07.16
which were written in the books.
00:21:07.20\00:21:10.67
The sea gave up the
dead who were in it,
00:21:10.70\00:21:14.84
and Death and Hades
delivered up the dead
00:21:14.87\00:21:18.04
who were in them.
00:21:18.07\00:21:21.58
And they were judged,
each according to his works."
00:21:21.61\00:21:27.62
So the Bible teaches
00:21:27.65\00:21:29.58
as Belshazzar
met God in judgment,
00:21:29.62\00:21:33.36
so must we.
00:21:33.39\00:21:37.23
Now, look at verse
29, verse 29, Daniel 5:29,
00:21:37.26\00:21:43.93
"Then Belshazzar
gave the command,
00:21:43.97\00:21:47.27
and they clothed
Daniel with purple
00:21:47.30\00:21:50.21
and put a chain of
gold around his neck,
00:21:50.24\00:21:53.04
and made a
proclamation concerning him
00:21:53.07\00:21:55.74
that he should
be the third ruler
00:21:55.78\00:21:58.95
in the kingdom."
00:21:58.98\00:22:01.32
Therefore, it is obvious
00:22:01.35\00:22:03.99
he was promoted by his enemy.
00:22:04.02\00:22:10.49
Did you know that God
has promotion for you?
00:22:10.53\00:22:14.23
He can turn a
negative into a positive.
00:22:14.26\00:22:17.60
He will frustrate
the plans of your enemies
00:22:17.63\00:22:20.47
who are jealous of you.
00:22:20.50\00:22:22.80
If you honor God,
God will honor you.
00:22:22.84\00:22:28.68
And you will be promoted.
00:22:28.71\00:22:33.92
Daniel 5:30 and
31 says, Daniel 5,
00:22:33.95\00:22:39.25
"That very night Belshazzar,
00:22:39.29\00:22:41.66
king of the
Chaldeans, was slain."
00:22:41.69\00:22:44.19
Quick, wasn't it?
00:22:44.23\00:22:46.33
"And Darius the Mede
received the kingdom,
00:22:46.36\00:22:49.66
being about 62 years old."
00:22:49.70\00:22:55.54
So the judgment was
pronounced, it was carried out.
00:22:55.57\00:23:00.58
The Persians were at the gates.
00:23:00.61\00:23:04.48
That night, the
blood of the king
00:23:04.51\00:23:07.15
mingled with a wine.
00:23:07.18\00:23:12.79
A great scholar by the
name of W.G. Heslop said this,
00:23:12.82\00:23:17.36
"There was a last night
in the history of Belshazzar.
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There is a last night
00:23:21.30\00:23:22.80
to everything and
everyone on earth.
00:23:22.83\00:23:25.77
A last feast, a last fight,
00:23:25.80\00:23:29.20
a last dance, a last movie,
00:23:29.24\00:23:33.38
a last cigar, a last drink,
00:23:33.41\00:23:36.68
a last cigarette, a last oath,
00:23:36.71\00:23:40.65
a last supper, a last night.
00:23:40.68\00:23:45.95
The Belshazzars of today
may make their great feasts,
00:23:45.99\00:23:50.83
drink their expensive
wines, profane holy things,
00:23:50.86\00:23:56.87
and mock holy men,
00:23:56.90\00:24:00.67
but there is a last
night for them all."
00:24:00.70\00:24:05.31
My message to you is this,
00:24:05.34\00:24:07.94
listen carefully, look carefully
00:24:07.98\00:24:12.21
because the
writing is on the wall.
00:24:12.25\00:24:15.42
Every one of us, the
writing is on the wall.
00:24:15.45\00:24:21.62
America is drunk,
00:24:21.66\00:24:25.86
Australia is drunk,
00:24:25.89\00:24:30.30
world is drunk.
00:24:30.33\00:24:32.03
God's holy things
are defiled, who cares?
00:24:32.07\00:24:37.27
God's mercy lingers
00:24:37.31\00:24:39.24
because God is
first and foremost
00:24:39.27\00:24:41.68
a God of love and mercy.
00:24:41.71\00:24:45.25
But there is a
line that has crossed
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.65
and Belshazzar
crossed over the line.
00:24:47.68\00:24:50.22
And nations have a
line in the sand also.
00:24:53.82\00:24:58.89
There's a line that is
crossed, there is a judgment.
00:24:58.93\00:25:03.40
And God's Daniels
will be promoted to glory.
00:25:03.43\00:25:10.21
The Bible teaches that
the day is going to come
00:25:10.24\00:25:14.74
when the people
who have honored God
00:25:14.78\00:25:19.38
by their faith and by
the way they have lived.
00:25:19.41\00:25:23.45
Those people are going to
be lifted out of this world
00:25:23.49\00:25:28.32
and they are going
to be promoted to glory.
00:25:28.36\00:25:33.70
It is written.
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.64
This is the Word of the Lord.
00:25:40.67\00:25:44.17
The writing is on the wall.
00:25:47.21\00:25:52.71
Look at it.
00:25:52.75\00:25:54.08
And you and I
00:25:56.75\00:25:59.85
had better believe it.
00:25:59.89\00:26:04.39
Let us pray, our Father,
we thank You for sending us
00:26:04.43\00:26:09.40
a revelation of truth.
00:26:09.43\00:26:11.90
May this word of God
sink into our hearts this day,
00:26:11.93\00:26:16.34
in Jesus' name,
00:26:16.37\00:26:18.64
amen, amen, and amen.
00:26:18.67\00:26:24.78
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