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 to Living
Victoriously, part six.
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Sometime ago, I was
in Africa on safari.
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We had been running
a series of meetings
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in Zimbabwe
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and when the program was over,
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we decided to
take a little break
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and go on safari.
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There aren't many
lions left in Africa,
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and so we were
looking desperately,
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we didn't want to go on
safari and not see some lions,
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and so we were
searching for lions.
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And as we were
driving down this dirt road,
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the guide stopped the vehicle
and said, "Look down there,
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there is a big paw mark.
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There're some
lions very close here.
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These lions came past
here only a few hours ago."
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And so we drove on
for another mile and so
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and then as we
came around a corner,
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we came upon these
magnificent creatures.
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They're not like the
ones you see in the zoo.
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They're big and then
they're not vegetarians.
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We stopped the
vehicle and something happened
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which was quite dramatic.
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Our little daughter jumped out.
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We couldn't do
anything about it.
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Judy jumped out and she
ran towards these lions.
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We started to cry
out to her, "Judy, stop.
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Come back."
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And so we got out
and we grabbed her
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and put her back in the vehicle.
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We told her there is
something you've got to learn.
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"You don't mess with lions
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because lions are very,
very dangerous creatures.
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Lions...
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wild lions eat people."
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Then something else
happened on the same trip.
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We were staying
in a secure camp,
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had a tremendous
wall around the camp
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to keep the wild animals out.
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And when I went
to bed that night,
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I just couldn't get to sleep
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and so I thought I'd go
for a little walk by myself.
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It would be perfectly safe,
so I went for a walk by myself.
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The sky was beautiful,
stars were shining bright.
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I walked down to the river.
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I heard the baboons, saw
the baboons in the trees,
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and then after walking around
for about an hour, I went back,
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got into bed
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and the next
morning at breakfast
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the guide said to us.
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You know, he
said, "I'm really glad
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all you folks were safe
in your beds last night."
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I said, "Why?"
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He said,
"Because there was a lion
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walking around our tents
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and around the
buildings last night."
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I said, "A real lion?"
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He said, "A
real lion was walking
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around here last night."
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There are some
truths that I learned.
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Let me share them with you.
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Number one...
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two lessons.
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You don't play with wild lions
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because wild lions have
a tendency to eat people
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because they
are not vegetarians,
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and number two, God is
merciful and takes care of us
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even when we do some
amazingly dumb things.
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It just as we'll, isn't it?
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I guess that's the
story of amazing grace.
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Now the topic today is:
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Surviving and
Thriving with Wild Lions.
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Living
Victoriously with Wild Lions.
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This is part 6.
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I want you to take
your Bibles please.
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Come with me to
the Book of Daniel.
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Daniel 6:1-3
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in this very, very old book.
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Daniel 6:1-3,
"It pleased Darius,
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he was the king,
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to set over the kingdom
one hundred and twenty satraps,
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to be over the whole
kingdom, and over these,
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three governors,
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of whom Daniel was one
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that the satraps
might give account to them,
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so the king would
suffer no loss in taxes.
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Then this Daniel
distinguished himself
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above the governors and satraps,
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because an
excellent spirit was in him
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and the king gave
thought to setting him
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over the whole realm."
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Now, chronologically, of course,
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this is after the overthrow
of the kingdom of Babylon.
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Babylon has been overthrown
by the Medes and the Persians,
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and now that the Persians
are ruling with the Medes,
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there is a new
king on the throne
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and his name is Darius,
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and he has got all of these
satraps or lesser officials,
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and then over these officials
there are three governors,
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and Daniel is
one of the governors.
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Daniel was a survivor.
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Seventy years of
intrigue and politics,
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worse than Washington DC.
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He is now an old man in his 80s,
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a Jew serving God
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in the greatest
empire of his day,
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empire of Medo-Persia.
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When others had
fallen, he had risen.
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He had been
promoted by Nebuchadnezzar,
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promoted by
Belshazzar, promoted by Darius.
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He is one of three governors
and because he is so good,
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because he is actually
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ten times better
than anybody else,
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the king is thinking,
I'm going to make this man
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the prime minister of
the whole of the country
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because Daniel has got
the spirit of God in him.
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It says, he
distinguished himself.
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I want you to hear this, I
want you to think about it.
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It's not who
you are that counts.
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It's not who you
are, but whose you are.
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Servant of the Most High God,
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Daniel did not
get any lucky breaks,
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he was highly favored by God.
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The Bible says there was
an excellent spirit in him,
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he was a child of the king.
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You can't keep God's
man or God's woman down.
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And when everybody
else had gone down,
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Daniel just kept
going higher and higher,
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a Jew in Medo-Persia.
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I want you to know this
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'cause we are taking
about Living Victoriously.
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God's man or God's woman
will always rise to the top.
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When tempted to
give up gets sour,
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complaint become depressed,
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we are to say, I am God's child.
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I will not allow
the excellent spirit
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to be taken from me.
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There are people who
will get under your skin
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and people who
will aggravate you,
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but you and I
should never allow people
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to take the
excellent of spirit of God
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from within our hearts.
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You will be
promoted at the right time.
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There is a great old
song I was told as a boy.
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Everybody here would know it.
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Doesn't matter what
happens, the song says,
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God will take care of you.
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This is the marvelous truth.
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We are not alone.
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We are not lost in the universe,
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but we believe in a God
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who has promised
to take care of us.
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I want you to notice some texts.
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I want you to come
with me to Jeremiah 17:7, 8.
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Jeremiah 17:7,
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8:
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"Blessed or happy is the
man who trusts in the Lord,
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and whose hope is the Lord,
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for he shall be like a
tree planted by the waters
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which spreads out
its roots by the river,
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and will not fear when he comes,
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but his leaf will be green,
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and will not be
anxious in the year of drought,
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nor will cease
from yielding fruit."
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People say, I can't
believe that, it's true.
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If a person is God's child
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and if he is
highly favored by God,
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the Bible says he is going to be
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like a great tree
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that's planted by
the river of life,
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always green,
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always
prosperous, always growing.
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You can be a victorious person.
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You can be like
the tree of life.
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Come over now to one
of my favorite passages,
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Psalm 91.
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This is one of the
great passages in the Bible.
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Psalm 91:14-16 says,
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"Because he has
set his love upon Me,
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therefore I will deliver
him, I will set him on high,
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because he has known My name.
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He shall call upon
Me, I will answer him,
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I will be with him in trouble,
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I will deliver
him and honor him,
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with long life I
will satisfy him,
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show him My salvation."
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This is true.
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Most people got no idea
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what God is
waiting to do for them.
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The Bible says, if we honor God,
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God is going to honor us.
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So he got Daniel, he is a
Jew, he is the wrong religion,
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he is a wrong nationality,
he is in the wrong place,
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but nothing can keep him down.
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It's like a tree,
like the tree of life.
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Now look at Psalm 92:12-15:
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"The righteous shall
flourish like a palm tree,
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He shall grow like
a cedar in Lebanon.
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Those who are planted
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in the house of
the Lord shall flourish
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in the courts of our God.
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They shall still
bear fruit in old age.
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They shall be
fresh and flourishing."
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The Bible says, "They are going
to be flourishing to declare
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that the Lord is upright.
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He is my rock.
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There is no
unrighteousness in Him."
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Now, I'm not an
arm chair theologian.
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I'm not just
making this stuff up.
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I know from my own
personal experience
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that burns in my soul,
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that God is taking care of me.
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God took care of Daniel.
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It doesn't matter who you are,
it depends on whose you are.
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Now, when I was just a boy
going to college in Australia,
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I had no money.
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I was studying a degree
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and you know
after I paid my fees,
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there was nothing left at all.
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I got an old
Harley-Davidson motorbike
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and I rode that old
Harley-Davidson motorbike
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through western New South Wales.
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I want to tell
everybody here today,
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there is nothing quite
like riding a Harley-Davidson,
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6 o'clock in the morning.
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And you don't have a helmet on
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because they didn't
have them in those days.
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And it's six in the morning
and the sun is just coming up,
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and the air is so crisp,
and you are riding the Harley,
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and it's thumping along,
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thump, thump, thump, thump.
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I sold books.
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I went from farm
to farm selling books.
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The farms were so far apart,
sometimes 20, 30 miles apart,
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sometimes I'd be
going along the main road
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and there'd be a letter
box in the side of the road
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with a person's name on it
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and I would ride the Harley
into the farm or the station
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or the ranch 20 or 30 miles.
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And when I got in...
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people out there,
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they were not
getting too many visits,
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so I always got a
tremendous welcome.
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I started out as a
skinny kid, I really did,
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I was skinny after
being at college for so log,
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I was skinny,
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didn't have enough food,
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but after riding my Harley
from farm to farm for months,
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I was getting fat.
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Now at 8 o'clock at night
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just as the sun
was about to go down,
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there were no motels, no hotels.
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You could see so far this
great rolling countryside,
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wheat and sheep country.
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And I, about 8 o'clock
at night I would say, God,
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I got nowhere to stay.
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When I would make my
last call for the night,
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invariably the
people at the station
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or at the farm or
at the ranch would say,
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"Where are you staying?"
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Well, I got no...
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There is no
motel here, is there?
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No, no, no.
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Well, you're staying here.
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So I was treated like a king.
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I stayed in the
servant's quarters
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but the servant's quarters
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were better than
what I was used to,
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and as soon as I was settled in,
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a young man or a young
woman would come across
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with a big silver
tray loaded with food.
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I'd get up in the
morning, knock on the door,
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a great breakfast,
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and I'd go out to
get on the motorbike,
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it would be
full of gas or petrol
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and the oil will be topped up.
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God took care of me.
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People say, "Those
things don't happen today."
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What do you know about it?
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What do you know about it?
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I know about it
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because I've
seen the hand of God.
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It doesn't matter who you are
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but whose you are.
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Now, this story, the
skeptics can't believe.
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One day I was
riding out on the Harley,
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I was 100 miles of nowhere
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and I stopped for lunch,
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went around to the saddlebags,
got to have some food.
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The ladies at every farm
used to send me on my way
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with heaps and heaps of food.
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So I stopped about 12:30,
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then I looked at the
back tire of the Harley.
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It had a nail this
long, right through it.
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What sort of tools did I have?
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I had no tools.
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How much experience did I
have to change the back wheel
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on the Harley-Davidson?
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For me like going to the moon.
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So I was stuck out in
bush with a nail this long,
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right pierced into the tire
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and those tires in
those days used to have tubes.
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I'll tell you what I did.
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In the dust, I
still remember it,
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I can still see the place.
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I got down on my
knees and I said,
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God I'll never change
this tire in a million years.
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The only tool I've
got, I've got some pliers,
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like dentists use
to pull out teeth.
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So I got on my knees,
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I said God, when
I pull the nail out,
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keep the tire up.
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You'd say, "What a dumb prayer?"
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Well, God takes
care of dumb people.
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Yeah.
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So I got the pair of
pliers and I pulled the...
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aargh...
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out expecting to hear...
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sssss.
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So I kicked the
bike, you know, started it,
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got on the bike,
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rode it thousands of miles,
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stopping, selling books,
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making money,
earning my fees, getting fat.
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The tire never went
down and there is a reason.
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The Bible tells us that
God will take care of us.
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I want you to know this.
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This is why we
can be successful.
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Now, look at Daniel 6:4 please.
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Going to get back to
Daniel into the story of Daniel.
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Daniel 6:4 says,
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"So the governors and satraps
sought to find some charge
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against Daniel
concerning the kingdom,
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but they could
find no change or fault,
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because he was faithful,
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nor was there any
error or fault found in him."
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Because he was so successful,
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he got lots of enemies
who tried to bring him down.
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His success made them insecure
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and unless you know
the God of the universe,
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you gonna be
insecure all the time
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and jealous all the time.
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So they said, we're gonna
get rid of this guy, remember,
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however your enemies
are not in charge, God is.
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They couldn't find
one fault in his work.
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He had a good,
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a marvelous
relationship with God.
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It showed.
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Somebody said, you don't
have to be good to be saved,
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but you do need to
be saved to be good,
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and he was saved by God.
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He had experienced salvation,
and he was a good man,
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and goodness is important.
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What the world needs are
a few good men and women.
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Look at verse 5,
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Daniel 6:5,
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"Then these men said,
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'We shall not find any
charge against this Daniel
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unless we find it against him
concerning the law of his God.'
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" Now listen carefully.
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Here you've got a little
case or religious persecution.
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Daniel is of different race.
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So you got a
bunch of racism here.
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Racism is a big sin,
whether it's white racism,
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brown racism, or black racism.
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And there is racism
right across the board.
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You know why?
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We're all the same inside
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and we need our hearts
renewed by the grace of God.
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God can take out the racism
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but here you've
got a case of racism
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and all of these nasty things.
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Different God,
different religion.
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Now you have
religious persecution.
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Now, United States
has religious liberty.
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There are some other countries
too like Great Britain,
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Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
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and a few others
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who understand
and respect freedom.
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We believe in
this part of the world
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unlike the people
back there in Medo-Persia,
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we believe in freedom of speech.
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I've the right to
say what I believe.
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Freedom of religion,
freedom of the press,
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these are the great freedoms.
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Of course, the people back
then didn't understand this.
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I've the right
to be a Christian,
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a Protestant,
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a Catholic, a Jew, a Muslim,
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a Hindu, a Buddhist, an atheist,
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an agnostic.
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I have the right to be right,
but I ask you this question,
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"Do I have the
right to be wrong?"
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I have the right to be right.
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And if I do not have
the right to be wrong,
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I'm in the wrong country,
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because religious
freedom is the right to be right
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and the right to be wrong,
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because your right I may
think is wrong and vice versa.
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So we believe that
people have the right to choose.
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This is a
relatively new concept.
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In the Dark Ages,
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and America
escaped the Dark Ages,
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this is why the
pilgrims came here.
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We had the bloody
Spanish inquisition
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when the
so-called question church,
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not the Christian Church,
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the so-called Christian Church,
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persecuted and murdered
millions of other Christians,
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and Jews, and Muslims.
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So religious liberty is
a relatively new concept.
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Most Muslim countries
today have no freedom of speech
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or freedom of religion.
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If you go to Saudi Arabia,
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who is one of our
great allies of America,
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there are no Jewish synagogues
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and no Christian churches,
and no Bible is allowed,
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because they have a theocracy.
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The union of church and
state, we would call it.
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In India, where we've worked,
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there is limited
religious liberty.
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Christians are
persecuted for their faith.
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And if you read
this Book of Daniel,
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you'll understand why.
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Because the concept of people
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having the
liberty to worship God
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or no God is relatively new
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and America has it.
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So in India,
limited religious liberty,
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Christians are persecuted.
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It's different in America.
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We defend freedom.
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I was born in Australia, I
was brought up in Australia,
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with the
fundamental rights of freedom.
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After all, we fought the Nazis
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and we beat 'em.
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And the Nazis had no
idea about freedom of speech
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or freedom of the press.
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On January 20, 1961,
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a great American who
was a Roman Catholic,
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said these words:
"Let every nation know,
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whether it
wishes us well or ill,
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that we will pay any
price, bear any burden,
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meet any hardship,
support any friend,
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oppose any foe,
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in order to assure the survival
and the success of liberty."
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So the truth of
the matter is this:
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The government has got no right
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to tell me about my religion,
00:25:36.00\00:25:42.87
but back there
these evil men said,
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"We won't find any
fault with this man
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unless we find it concerning
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his religion and his God."
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Now in a few moments,
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we are going to
talk about what happened,
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and how it's going to
happen again in the last days.
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We'll be back,
just a few moments.
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Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
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By the grace of God,
I'm going back to Russia.
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I've been to the lands of
the old Soviet Union 47 times,
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that's in the last 25-26 years.
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We are planning to go to
the city of Nizhny Novgorod
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or the old Russian city of Gorky
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made famous by the poet, Gorky.
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We are going there
because 25 years ago
00:26:48.17\00:26:51.04
we ran a great
campaign in Nizhny Novgorod
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and we saw 2,530 souls,
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2,530 Russians,
communists, atheists,
00:26:59.98\00:27:04.19
all sorts of
unbelief baptized into Christ
00:27:04.22\00:27:07.72
in the Volga River.
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We're going back
because the need is enormous
00:27:10.06\00:27:13.50
and because the
Russians are saying,
00:27:13.53\00:27:15.20
"Please come and help us."
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Freedom is
disappearing in Putin's Russia.
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It's almost impossible
now to hire an auditorium,
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almost impossible
to preach the gospel.
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And so, by the grace of God,
00:27:28.94\00:27:30.78
we are applying for
special missionary visas.
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Are we going to get them?
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We think so, by
the grace of God.
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And we're going to advertise
00:27:38.09\00:27:39.42
by the grace of
God on television
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and on radio.
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Please write to me.
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I've got to raise $250,000 now.
00:27:44.56\00:27:50.07
Please write to me,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia,
00:27:57.01\00:27:58.34
write to the address
now appearing on the screen.
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This could be
Russia's last opportunity.
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Please write to me.
00:28:05.25\00:28:06.58
I ask you in the name
of God write to me today
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and pray for Russia.
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