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.
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Today, we are talking about
religious freedom under threat.
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Gonna turn to a
text in the Bible,
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Daniel 6:6 and onwards.
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Now, this is a pick up
from the previous program
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on the same subject.
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Daniel 6:6 and onwards.
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Have you, folks, got out there?
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"So these governors and satraps
thronged before the king,
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and said thus to him:
'King Darius, live forever!
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All the
governors of the kingdom,
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the administrators and satraps,
the counselors and advisors,
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have consulted together
to establish a royal statue
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and to make a firm decree,
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that whoever petitions any
god or man for thirty days,
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except you, O king,
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shall be cast
into the den of lions.
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Now, O king,
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establish the decree
and sign the writing,
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so that it cannot be changed,
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according to the law
of the Medes and Persians,
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which does not alter.'
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Therefore King Darius
signed the written decree."
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Now here, we've
got a religious law.
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Religious laws are not new.
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Not new in America either.
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America once had lots of
oppressive religious laws,
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no longer we believe today.
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But here is the law that says,
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"Unless you do so
and so, and so and so
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and conform and
follow our religious laws,
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you are going to
be put to death."
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Now there is a
statement I want to make here.
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I want you to
listen to it carefully.
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We need
officially, people tell me
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"We need to
officially declare Us,
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The United States of
America a Christian nation
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and we need to
enforce the laws of Christ."
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In fact what we
really need to do
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is to declare that Christ
is the head of our country.
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And if we follow
the teachings of Christ,
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we are going to be
tremendously blessed.
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In other words, we
need to put the cross
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up on the capital.
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Listen to this statement
here, from the US Constitution.
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"Congress," I
wonder why they said this.
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"Congress shall make no law
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respecting an
establishment of religion."
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Congress has got nothing to
do with setting up religion.
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"Or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof,
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or abridging the
freedom of speech,
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or of the press,
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or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble,
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and to petition the government
for a redress of grievances."
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This was First
Amendment in 1791.
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And if you go back
to the days of Daniel,
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it appears that this was a
new government administration,
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and therefore they didn't want
any problems and so they said,
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we're not going to have...
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We're not going to
have any disagreement,
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we're going to
have one religion.
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Therefore almost one, all
must pray to one god, the king.
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They were asking
for total conformity,
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one religion,
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like the Church of
Rome in the Dark Ages,
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or in Saudi Arabia today.
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Total conformity, a
union of church and state.
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Some people would say,
would be a marvelous thing,
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because they don't
understand the Bible,
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and they don't
understand history.
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Wants you to turn in your Bibles
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to Revelation 17:1 and onwards.
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"One of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls
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came and talked
with me, saying to me,
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'Come, I will show you
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the judgment of
the great harlot,
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the great church,
who sits on many waters,
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with whom the kings of the earth
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committed fornication,
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and the inhabitants of the earth
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were made drunk with the
wine of her fornication."
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This is a symbol of
the great apostate church.
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"So he carried me
away in the Spirit
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into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast
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which was full of
names of blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and ten horns.
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The woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet,
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and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
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plenty of money,
having in her hand
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a golden cup
full of abominations
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and the filthiness
of her fornication.
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And on her
forehead a name was written:
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"Mystery, Babylon the
great, the mother of harlots
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and of the
abominations of the earth."
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I saw the woman, the church,
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drunk with the
blood of the saints
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and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus.
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And when I saw her, I
marveled with great amazement."
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Every Bible
scholar, Roman Catholic,
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Protestant, or Jewish,
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knows that in Bible prophecy
a woman symbolizes the church.
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Here is the
great apostate church,
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the great antichrist,
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symbolized by a
woman sitting on the beast,
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that is the state.
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So the union of church and state
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is the very essence
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of the spirit of antichrist.
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Now, this has happened in
history on many occasions.
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The law of Darius
was wrong back then
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because man's
conscience must be free.
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The state does
not have the right
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to interfere
with your conscience.
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No, no, no.
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The state does
not have the right
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to tell me any thing
at all about my worship.
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God must be
first, not my country.
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Now, if Daniel had
thought like many people today,
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he would have said "I will go
along with the law of the land,
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because it's my country first."
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But in the
Bible, it is God first,
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God must always be first.
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You shall worship
the Lord, your God.
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The state does
not have the authority
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to interfere with my worship.
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Now, why did the
pilgrims come to America?
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Many Americans
seem to have lost sight
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of the precious
origin of their great nation.
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They came with this
Bible, The Geneva Bible,
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written even before
the King James Version.
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This Bile was translated
by some British scholars
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in Geneva.
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You know why
they were in Geneva?
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Because of the persecutions
of a bloody Queen Mary,
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who was trying to bring back
persecution and was doing so.
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And so they
escaped the British Isles
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and they went to Geneva.
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Amazing.
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And this is the Bible
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that became the foundation stone
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of the United States of America.
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This Bible came
out on the boats,
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came out on the
Mayflower, not this one,
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but the original one.
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This is the Bible
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that was the foundation of
the United Sates of America.
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It is a book about freedom.
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Every person ought to have it.
Every person ought to read it.
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And look at Daniel 6:9, 10
as we go back to the chapter.
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"Therefore King Darius
signed the written decree.
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Now when Daniel knew
that the writing was signed,
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he went home.
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And in his upper room,
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with his windows
open toward Jerusalem,
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he knelt down on his
knees three times that day,
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and prayed and gave
thanks before his God,
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as was his custom
since early days."
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Daniel's worship
was not in secret.
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What he was in
secret, he was in public,
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and what he was in
public, he wasn't secret,
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he was the real deal.
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Now, Jesus said
something about this.
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Jesus said something
about this in Matthew 10:32,
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Matthew 10:32.
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Jesus said these
words, Matthew 10:32,
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"Therefore whoever
confesses Me before men,
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him I will also
confess before My Father
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who is in heaven."
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And so even
though the death decree
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has been passed,
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Daniel doesn't
change his attitude to God.
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And look at Daniel 6:11-13.
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Daniel 6:11-13.
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"Then these men assembled
and found Daniel praying
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and making
supplication before his God.
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And they went before the king,
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and spoke
concerning the king's decree,
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'Have you not signed a decree
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that every man who
petitions any god or man
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within thirty
days, except you, O king,
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shall be cast
into the den of lions?'
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The king answered and
said, 'The thing is true,
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according to the law
of the Medes and Persians
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which does not alter.'
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So they answered and said
before the king, 'That Daniel,
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who is one of the captives
from Judah, is foreigner,
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does not show due
regard to you, O king,
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or to the decree
that you have signed,
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but makes his petition
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three times a day."
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It is interesting to
observe, my American friends,
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that religious
bigotry and religious hatred
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drive people to commit murder.
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Here you have
religious and racial bigotry
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which is not
confined to any one race.
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So the king is
trapped by his own vanity.
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And notice
verses 14 and onwards.
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This is 14 and onwards,
14 to 17, "And the king,
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when he heard these words,
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was greatly
displeased with himself,
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set his heart on
Daniel to deliver him,
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and he labored till the going
down of the sun to deliver him.
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Then these men
approached the king,
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and said to the king,
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'Know, O king, that is the
law of the Medes and Persians
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that no decree or statute
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which the king
establishes may be changed.'
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So the king gave the
command, and they brought Daniel
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and cast him
into the den of lions.
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But the king
spoke, saying to Daniel,
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'Your God, whom
you serve continually,
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He will deliver you.'
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Then a stone was brought
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and laid on the
mouth of the den,
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and the king sealed it
with his own signet ring
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and with the
signets of his lords,
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that the purpose
concerning Daniel
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might not be changed."
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Daniel is now
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an old man in his 80s.
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The greatest test was given
to him not when he was a boy,
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but when he is an old man.
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There is a death decree.
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He is going to be
thrown to the lions
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because of his
religious convictions.
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The Bible teaches
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that there is coming a
great test for God's people
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in the last days.
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Revelation 13:15-17,
I want you to notice it.
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"He was granted
power to give breath
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to the image of the
beast, the antichrist,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak
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and cause as many as
would not worship the image
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of the beast to be killed.
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He causes all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and slave,
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to receive a mark
on their right hand
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or on their foreheads,
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and that no one may buy or sell
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except the one who has the
mark or the name of the beast,
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or the number of his name."
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What does it mean?
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Every Bible commentator
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who is anything
in his scholarship
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knows that the
beast is the antichrist.
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And the
antichrist in its essence
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is a union of church
and state persecuting.
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So when the Bible talks
about the image of the beast,
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it means a copy
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of the antichrist.
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And so in the last days,
there will come a decree,
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which will certainly go
against the First Amendment.
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It will say,
"Unless you conform,
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you will be put to death."
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It's coming.
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May I point out to
you, my dear friends,
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that conformity
is the sin of our age
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and the sin of
millions of Americans today?
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Our age is the
age of conformity.
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We elect presidents
with slogans and sound bites,
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and we're sucked into
the vortex of destruction.
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As it was, so it shall be.
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Daniel 6:18-23,
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Daniel 6,
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"Now the king went to his palace
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and spent the night fasting,
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no musicians were
brought before him.
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Also his sleep went from him.
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Then the king arose
very early in the morning
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and went in haste
to the den of lions.
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And when he came to the den,
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he cried out
with a lamenting voice
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to Daniel.
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The king spoke,
saying to Daniel, 'Daniel,
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servant of the
living God, has your God,
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whom you serve continually,
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been able to
deliver you from the lions?"
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Then Daniel said to the king,
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he's alive, 'O
king, live forever!
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My God sent His angel
and shut the lions' mouths,
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so that they have not hurt me,
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because I was found
innocent before Him,
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and also, O King, I have
done no wrong before you.'
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Now the king was
exceedingly glad for him,
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and commanded that they should
take Daniel up out of the den.
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So Daniel was
taken up out of the den
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and no injury
whatever was found on him,
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listen, because he
believed in his God."
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Can you hear this?
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He believed in his God.
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Now, it's very plain
that God is able to deliver,
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but not always in this lifetime,
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but certainly he will
deliver before the end.
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Like the three
Hebrews in the fiery furnace,
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Christ came down
on this occasion,
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but He was not seen.
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When they went
into the fiery furnace,
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bless your hearts,
Christ came down, He was seen.
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But Daniel, now an
old man has not comforted
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by the visible
presence of Christ,
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but He's there just the same.
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When you can't
see Him, my friends,
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He is there just the same.
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Hallelujah! Amen!
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You say.
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And Daniel is delivered.
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Now, I like
telling you, folks, stories
00:17:21.00\00:17:23.51
because I'm not an
arm chair theologian.
00:17:23.54\00:17:25.81
I don't like a
lot of philosophy,
00:17:25.84\00:17:27.21
I don't like a lot of
hot air and lot of talk.
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I'm telling you
what I know it's true,
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I have seen His deliverance.
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Some time back in South Africa,
Carter Report team was there.
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Our lives were threatened.
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We could have been killed,
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but God delivered us.
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He's a merciful God.
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South Africa incidentally
is the most dangerous place
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we have ever been to.
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But God delivered us.
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In India, we were
threatened by extremists,
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but God delivered us.
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I have seen the hand of God.
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We've been delivered from people
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who are religious extremists.
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The worst type of extremist
is a religious extremist.
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And of course atheism
also is a form of religion.
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Now we don't
recommend Daniel 6:24,
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but we shall read it. Daniel 6.
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Now this man was hardly a
model Christian gentleman.
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"And the king gave the command
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and they brought those
men who had accused Daniel,
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and they cast them
into the den of lions- them,
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their children, and their wives,
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and the lions overpowered them,
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and broke all
their bones in pieces
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before they ever came
to the bottom of the den."
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That is clear
proof that these lions
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were not little innocent cats,
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they were not vegetarians,
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they were man-eaters,
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and so they take these people
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who have
persecuted the prophet of God,
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and they picked them up,
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and they tossed them
down into the den of lion
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and before they
reach the bottom,
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they're broken in pieces.
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And what do you say about that?
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Is the Bible saying
that's what you ought to do
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to your enemies?
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Of course not.
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It's telling you
what a pagan king did.
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But our Lord told
us, to love our enemies.
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Love your enemies.
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Do good to those
who persecute you,
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those who hate you.
00:20:04.73\00:20:06.23
Be merciful to
those people, love them.
00:20:06.27\00:20:10.14
But Darius to me was
no Christian gentleman.
00:20:10.17\00:20:14.14
He was not
guided by the teachings
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that say "Love your
neighbors as yourself."
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.85
It is also true to make
this unfortunate comment.
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This is a symbol of
God's final judgment.
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God's final judgment upon
the oppressors of the poor
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and the
persecutors of God's people.
00:20:37.83\00:20:40.74
We should thank God,
00:20:44.34\00:20:45.97
we live in a country
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whose culture was
shaped by the Bible.
00:20:47.38\00:20:50.08
As I showed you before,
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this is a modern
edition of the Geneva Bible.
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I wasn't brought up in America,
I was brought up in Australia.
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But I knew religious
freedom, religious liberty,
00:21:02.76\00:21:05.69
freedom of the press.
00:21:05.73\00:21:08.73
We knew those things,
00:21:08.76\00:21:10.10
because of our British heritage.
00:21:10.13\00:21:14.37
But people are telling us today
00:21:14.40\00:21:16.30
now that this
country was never meant
00:21:16.34\00:21:19.27
to be based upon
biblical principles.
00:21:19.31\00:21:23.78
We believe in the
separation of church and state,
00:21:23.81\00:21:27.12
but let me tell you this,
00:21:27.15\00:21:28.85
we believe that
the teachings of Christ
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ought to permeate
every facet of society.
00:21:32.79\00:21:38.03
That makes a great society.
00:21:38.06\00:21:41.53
Why is America
better than most countries?
00:21:41.56\00:21:47.64
Because it is based
upon biblical teachings.
00:21:47.67\00:21:51.57
If you don't
like to accept that,
00:21:51.61\00:21:53.78
go to those countries
00:21:53.81\00:21:55.14
where the people
never had the Bible.
00:21:55.18\00:21:58.58
Never had the reformation,
never had great preachers.
00:21:58.61\00:22:02.42
What do you have? The
oppression of the poor.
00:22:02.45\00:22:05.99
You have filth and squalor.
00:22:06.02\00:22:09.66
Thank God for our heritage.
00:22:09.69\00:22:13.80
And look at Daniel 6:25-27,
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"Then king Darius wrote:
00:22:18.37\00:22:20.10
To all people,
nations, and languages
00:22:20.14\00:22:22.34
that dwell in all the earth:
Peace be multiplied to you.
00:22:22.37\00:22:25.97
I make a decree that in
every dominion of my kingdom
00:22:26.01\00:22:29.11
men must tremble and
fear before the God of Daniel.
00:22:29.14\00:22:33.15
For He is the living
God, and steadfast forever,
00:22:33.18\00:22:37.09
His kingdom is the one
which shall not be destroyed,
00:22:37.12\00:22:40.36
and his dominion
shall endure to the end.
00:22:40.39\00:22:43.39
He delivers and rescues,
00:22:43.43\00:22:45.86
and He works signs
00:22:45.89\00:22:47.23
and wonders in
heaven and on earth,
00:22:47.26\00:22:49.60
who has delivered Daniel
from the power of the lions."
00:22:49.63\00:22:54.30
What can we
take from this today?
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Here is the truth.
00:22:57.14\00:23:01.81
Not everybody is going to
like this, but here it is.
00:23:01.84\00:23:06.25
There is only one true God.
00:23:06.28\00:23:09.78
Not all gods are the same.
00:23:09.82\00:23:11.79
You say, oh, I have got many...
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.19
No, no, no. There
is only one true God.
00:23:13.22\00:23:16.36
Only one true God.
00:23:16.39\00:23:18.16
Not all religions
are of equal worth.
00:23:18.19\00:23:23.83
Only the religion of
the one true God can save.
00:23:23.87\00:23:27.04
Only the God of
Daniel, Yahweh, Elohim
00:23:27.07\00:23:32.54
can save and deliver
because He is the true God.
00:23:32.57\00:23:38.08
What a great God, this God is?
00:23:38.11\00:23:41.15
He is the one
true, He is the true God
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.52
because He is the creator.
00:23:43.55\00:23:45.82
The gods of the pagan world
00:23:45.85\00:23:48.39
including the
gods of Medo-Persia
00:23:48.42\00:23:51.19
and the gods of Babylon
00:23:51.23\00:23:53.33
are futile and hopeless.
00:23:53.36\00:23:59.27
That's not politically correct.
00:23:59.30\00:24:01.64
It's correct.
00:24:01.67\00:24:04.67
And here is another truth.
00:24:04.71\00:24:06.37
Lions are submissive and
docile when Christ is present.
00:24:06.41\00:24:12.65
He can shut the mouths of lions.
00:24:12.68\00:24:16.45
And look at Daniel 6:28.
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Daniel 6:28.
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.12
So this Daniel, what did he do?
00:24:21.16\00:24:23.99
He prospered,
can't keep him down.
00:24:24.03\00:24:27.36
Ten times better.
00:24:27.40\00:24:28.73
"This Daniel
prospered in the reign of Darius
00:24:28.76\00:24:33.57
and in the reign
of Cyrus the Persian."
00:24:33.60\00:24:39.34
He prospered
because he was true to God.
00:24:39.37\00:24:43.85
God honored him
because he honored God.
00:24:43.88\00:24:50.55
There are conditions,
00:24:50.59\00:24:51.92
people would say,
well, no you just.
00:24:51.95\00:24:53.89
No, no, no, there are conditions
00:24:53.92\00:24:56.93
to the manifold blessing of God.
00:24:56.96\00:25:01.50
God honors the
man who honors Him.
00:25:01.53\00:25:06.84
And this Daniel
through all the intrigue
00:25:06.87\00:25:09.50
of the gods of Babylon,
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.77
he was promoted
and he prospered.
00:25:12.81\00:25:17.81
You can't keep God's man down,
00:25:17.85\00:25:20.85
therefore in the
words of that little hymn.
00:25:20.88\00:25:27.39
"Standing by a purpose true,
00:25:27.42\00:25:31.83
heeding God's command,
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.63
honor them the faithful few!
00:25:34.66\00:25:37.87
All hail to Daniel's band.
00:25:37.90\00:25:41.90
Dare to be a Daniel.
00:25:41.94\00:25:44.84
Dare to stand alone.
00:25:44.87\00:25:48.41
Don't be an
insipid, mediocre conformist.
00:25:48.44\00:25:53.92
Dare to stand alone!
00:25:56.95\00:25:58.95
Dare to have a purpose firm!
00:25:58.99\00:26:04.06
Dare to make it known!
00:26:04.09\00:26:07.70
So here it is.
00:26:07.73\00:26:12.27
God blesses the
man who trusts in Him.
00:26:12.30\00:26:18.87
Amen.
00:26:18.91\00:26:20.74
Today, we are starting
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00:26:24.48\00:26:29.05
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00:26:29.08\00:26:31.65
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00:26:35.52\00:26:38.46
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