Hello and welcome to
the 3ABN Worship Center.
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My name is John Lomacang,
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I am your host
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for this
broadcast of Dare to Dream
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and our
Foundation of Faith series.
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If you have missed
the last three messages,
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I can only hope that the
Lord will somehow give you
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an opportunity to catch up
with those wonderful messages.
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First one we heard
was from 'Rags to Riches,'
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'Give it one more shot,'
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'The breaking
before the blessing.'
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And Pastor Cory Jackson, really,
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has allowed the Lord to inhabit
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his heart and to cause him
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to be a mouthpiece
for the kingdom of God.
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We have been so blessed.
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Can we all amen to that?
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We have surely
been blessed here.
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And Dare to Dream's
purposes is to bring before you
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Christ centered
messages that uplift Jesus
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and let each one of us know
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that redemption
is truly possible
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through our Savior Jesus Christ.
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The final message in this series
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from Pastor Cory Jackson
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is entitled "Didn't know
that was lurking in you."
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Now somebody may say,
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"That's
grammatically incorrect."
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No, that's...
That is linguistically
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the way he wants
to communicate it,
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"Didn't know that
was lurking in you."
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And Pastor Cory Jackson
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is a native of
Chicago, Illinois,
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but now he pastors the
Burns Seventh-day Adventist
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Church in Detroit, Michigan.
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I'm sure that his
congregation is supporting him
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with hearty amens
and the words of prayer.
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He has really come a long
way in his walk with the Lord,
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raised in the inner city,
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going through a
journey of recognition,
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one day the Lord grabbed him
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and calibrated him for
the work of the kingdom.
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And we have been
blessed because of that.
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I've said this before,
but if you've not been here,
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if this is your first broadcast
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that you're tuning into,
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he was, as many young men
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have been in this inner city,
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was being influenced by
the things of the inner city,
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like the Black
Muslims, the Black Panther,
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and as he was planning to study
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to be one of either of those,
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the Lord turned
him around and he said,
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"I became a
black pastor instead."
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And God has really
blessed this young man,
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14 years in ministry,
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he has three
lovely children and...
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But more than that, he's
child of the most High God.
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Also, our souls
have been blessed
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by a young man the
Nassau, Bahamas area,
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you will be blessed
and surprised as you hear
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the voice coming
out of his humble frame,
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Louis Cleare has
blessed from night to night
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and he's going to
bring to us a message today
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that truly talks
about that fountain
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that is never empty,
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"Come Thou Fount
of Every Blessing."
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Following this
ministry of music,
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the next voice
that you will hear
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will be that of
Pastor Cory Jackson.
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Come Thou fount
of every blessing
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Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
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Streams of mercy, never ceasing
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Call for songs of loudest praise
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Teach me some melodious sonnet
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Sung by flaming tongues above
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Praise His name
I'm fixed upon it
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Name of God's redeeming love
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Hitherto Thy love has blessed me
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Thou hast
brought me to this place
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And I know Thy
hand will bring me
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Safely home by Thy good grace
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Jesus sought me when a stranger
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Wandering from the fold of God
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He, to rescue me from danger
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Bought me with
His precious blood
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Oh, to grace how great a debtor
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Daily I'm constrained to be
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Let Thy goodness, like a fetter
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Bind my wandering heart to Thee
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Prone to wander Lord, I feel it
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Prone to leave the God I love
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Here's my heart
oh, take and seal it
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Seal it for Thy courts above
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Here's my heart
oh, take and seal it
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Seal it for Thy courts above
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Amen.
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Can you say amen for
Brother Louis, please?
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Amen.
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Every song he has sung
today has followed in line
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with what the sermon has been.
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The interesting thing he is,
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he and I had not talked
before we came together.
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So we had not met
until we got here.
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And it just shows how
the Holy Spirit is in line
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with the things we do once
we surrender ourselves to him.
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So happy Sabbath to you, again.
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Happy Sabbath.
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And good to see
you all as we finish up
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this last leg on this part,
'Foundations of our Faith.'
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I have thoroughly enjoyed myself
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and I've learned quite a
bit each time I ministered.
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So I want to
thank those for 3ABN
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and Foundations of
Faith, more particularly,
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Dr. Lewis for the
invitation to minister.
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Well, without further
delay, we will get started.
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Pastor Lomacang
mentioned our subject today,
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"You didn't know
that was lurking in you."
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So let us pray together.
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Heavenly Father, we come again
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asking for Your
continual anointment
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of this service within
our Worship Center here
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or around the
world, and we pray,
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Lord, that when
it all said and done,
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we would have
taken all we've gained
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and put it together to see
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how You've been
working with us and through us.
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Bless us, Lord.
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We pray, Holy Spirit,
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do Your continual
appointed work again,
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touching the
hearts of the people
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and allowing Your
Spirit to move upon me.
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In Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
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Again, just a
little review as we're...
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This final sermon today,
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in terms of
changes and, you know,
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to give you
something to think about.
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You may call, you may reach,
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and you've had a
day, you may even wrestle,
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but if that's not even enough,
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or what if you
don't reach those things
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and the question becomes,
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"do you think that God
will the leave you alone?"
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And I tell you the
truth, absolutely not.
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God is not one
who likes to lose,
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especially that which
is so precious in His eyes.
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So just for the sake of review,
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remember, we're talking
about character building
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and changing who we are.
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It's easy, again, to
look at everybody else
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and determine
who needs to change,
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but when we start looking
at a retrospect of ourselves,
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it can become very difficult.
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2 Corinthians 13:5 simply
says to "Examine yourselves
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whether you be in the
faith," prove your own selves.
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So God expects
that you to look at you,
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not me, but you to look at you.
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And I believe that if we spend
more time looking at ourselves
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and less time looking at others,
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we would go
further along in the Lord.
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And so because
we get to the point
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where we think that we're
okay because we don't smoke
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or we don't drink or we
don't party, that doesn't...
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That's not your indicator
that you've changed completely,
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those are just outward
things that have changed.
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Any one can do that, a
person who smokes too much
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and is told, he can
cancer, has to smoking,
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and so you have to
understand the epitome
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this walk is having the
Christian character of Christ.
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And so in Ezekiel
36:26, we mentioned it before,
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God promises to give us a
new heart and a new spirit.
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I think, all of us need a
new heart and a new spirit.
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He doesn't want that
old heart that's cold,
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but He wants
that heart of flesh.
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Romans 12:2 says,
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"Be not conformed to this world,
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but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind."
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And it is what we
think that's important.
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Proverbs 23:7 says,
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"So if a man
thinketh, so is he."
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And so whether
we like it or not,
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what ones think about
themselves tend to demonstrate
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who they really are.
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And so we get that
from volume 5, page 310,
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which simply says, for
the thoughts are wrong,
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the feelings are wrong.
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Thoughts and feelings
combined make a moral character.
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So our character is made up
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by what we
think and how we feel.
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So you spend a lot of
time thinking wrong things,
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you spend a lot of
time feeling the wrong way,
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and you find yourself
doing the wrong things.
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And that's important
because in the second volume
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'Mind, Character,
Personality,' page 670,
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transformation
begins with thoughts.
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Thoughts is where it began,
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and so we concluded
with Christ's Object Lessons
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page 69, "When the
character of Christ
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shall be perfectly
reproduced in His people,
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then He will
come to reclaim them--
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proclaim them,"
excuse me, "as their own."
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Oh, who, brothers and sisters,
I can't wait for the day
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that God's people who
like Him totality. Amen.
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I know a lot of that has
to do with the latter rain,
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but I can't wait
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we can go into
church and go among people
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and nobody's
talking bad about you,
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nobody's not
wanting to forgive you,
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and folk not mad at you,
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everybody
smiling and speak to you,
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and there's
mercifulness everywhere.
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I believe that that time
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the church will
explode in numbers, why?
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Because now God can trust,
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there's some
folk can be cared for.
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And so the day is coming.
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And it can start with you
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who's here and those
who are around the world.
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So as we begin
part four this evening.
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Proverbs Chapter 3, you know,
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my little motto here
is teach, preach, heal.
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Proverbs Chapter 3.
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Proverbs Chapter 3, and I am...
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yesterday I was
telling people in the back
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before I came out that
it's usually this time,
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Pastor Murray, that
we get done with church.
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I'm not used to
preaching twice so soon,
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but I'm so glad
to be here with you.
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And I must tell you,
I was correct earlier,
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a gentleman came to me and said,
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"I got a problem with
one thing you said today."
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And I told him,
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"I'll never vow
to say this again."
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He says, "How is it
that we have the same Father
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and you say, 'we're cousins?'"
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I said, "You got
me there, buddy."
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I said, "Never
again, when I go some place,
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I would say,
'These are my cousins.'
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You're my
brothers and my sisters."
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Amen? Amen.
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I really enjoyed that laughter,
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and he just turned all red.
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I just liked seeing that.
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And I just turned all brown,
and my brown is still here.
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It just won't go away.
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All right,
Proverbs 3:5 says this,
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"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart,"
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"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart."
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"Trust in the Lord
with all your heart,"
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now we emphatically
will say, we're doing that,
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but if were honest,
we're more on part B of it,
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"And lean not on
thine own understanding."
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We tend to lean
more on our, what?
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Own understanding.
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We trust the Lord to appoint,
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but then we start
leaning on this end.
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God says, "Give me 10 percent."
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You say, "Okay, Lord."
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Your check is short,
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you say, "Lord,
can we negotiate?
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Lord can we put
this tithes on payment,
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on lay away for a moment?"
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You start leaning upon on your
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understanding
thinking that you can tell...
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You can say, "God, I got you."
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But we tend to trust
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what we can see
instead of trusting who He is.
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"In all thy ways," verse 6 says,
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"acknowledge him,
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and he shall direct thy paths."
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"Be not wise in thine own eyes."
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We're gonna
deal with that today.
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"Be not wise in thine own eyes."
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See understand this,
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we can be in
the presence of God,
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but not be
affected by His presence.
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Let me say that again,
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we can be in
the presence of God,
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meaning, we can come to church,
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we can come to prayer meetings,
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we can listen to
sermon after sermon
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after sermon, after sermon
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and not be
affected by His presence.
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See, Lucifer was
in God's presence,
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but it did not
affect him spiritually.
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So it's possible
to be in the presence,
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but not affect by it,
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and that's a dangerous thing.
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Because sometimes we get so
used to the monotony of things
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that we've heard it
before and sometimes
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we hear sermon after sermon
after sermon after sermon,
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and it seem like
it's not talking to you,
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but listen to me closely,
if you're listening to it,
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it's for you.
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No matter how good it
is or how shabby it may be,
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it's for you.
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So the Bible says,
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"Be not wise in thine own eyes.
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Isaiah Chapter
55. Isaiah Chapter 55.
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Isaiah, the 55th chapter.
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Isaiah 55... Isaiah 55:8-11.
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Isaiah 55:8-11, the
Bible says it this way,
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"'For my thoughts
are not your thoughts,
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and neither are your
ways my ways,' says the Lord.
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For as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
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so are my ways
higher than your ways
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and my thoughts
than your thoughts.
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For as the rain cometh
down, and the snow from heaven,
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and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth,
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and maketh it
bring forth and bud,
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that it may give seed to sower,
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and bread to the eater.
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So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth."
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It shall not return
unto me void," or empty
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"It shall not return
unto me void or empty,
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but it shall
accomplish that which I please,
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and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it."
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Now I really like verse 11,
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'cause God says
that when I start it,
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I'm gonna finish it.
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That may mean, you
need to get broken,
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but what He
starts, He's gonna finish.
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And it simply says
that we can't understand
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the workings of God.
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So one of the
things that I tend to do
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when we come to
the end of something
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is to make sure that
people are very cautions
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and very aware and
don't take this thing lightly
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because there's a devil
who does not just sit down
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and lay down, he
does not just sit down
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and lay down
and think that okay,
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you then came to Jesus
and you gave all your life
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and so everything's
gonna be smooth sailing,
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that's not the
type of devil we know.
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He will even
take a Sabbath break
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and start stuff up at sunset.
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And so you have to understand
that God says what I started,
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I'm gonna compete, but
you have to be careful.
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I want to take you to a
story of Daniel Chapter 1.
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Daniel Chapter 1,
leads you to a point you
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"Didn't know that
was lurking in you,"
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can find out
what that is shortly.
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And everyone, listen to me now,
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everyone has
something lurking in them.
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Whether they want
to admit it or not,
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but everybody got
something lurking in them.
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Daniel Chapter 1, and
I'll read some verses and,
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kind of, talk
about what's going on,
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I'm just gonna
summarize some things,
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and Daniel Chapter 1,
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we know that
Nebuchadnezzar invaded Babylon,
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brought some
subjects back from Jerusalem,
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and verse 5 says, "And
the king appointed them
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a daily provision
of the king's meat
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and of the wine which he drank.
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So nourishing them three years,
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that at the end thereof they
might stand before the king."
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Verse 8, "But
Daniel purposed in heart
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that he would not defile himself
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with the portion
of the king's meat,
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nor with the
wine which he drank.
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Therefore he requested
of the price of the eunuchs
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that he might
not defile himself."
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Verse 12, "Prove thy servants,"
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Daniel says, "I beseech
thee, just give us 10 days,
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and give us vegetables or pulse
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to eat and water to drink."
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Verse 15, "And at
the end of the ten days,"
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the Bible says,
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"their countenances were
fairer and fatter in flesh
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than all the
children which did eat
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the portion of the king's food."
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Verse 20, "And in all matters
of wisdom and understanding,
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that the king
inquired or questioned of them,
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he found them ten times
better than all the magicians
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and astrologers that
were in all his realm."
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So point in simple is this,
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Daniel and his
friends were taken captives,
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they were the smart ones.
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The king says, they
need to be on my diet,
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listen here, because these boys,
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which theologians believe,
they were about 17-years-old,
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when they were
captured they understood
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what they believe,
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they said, "We're not
gonna eat the king's food,
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drink his wine.
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Put us to the test and watch."
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And after 10
days, the Bible says,
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they were ten times
wiser, the times stronger.
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And the king gets
his first impression
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through the health message.
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He realizes, there
is something different
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about these
boys, so automatically
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God is beginning to work
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and Nebuchadnezzar
just doesn't know it yet,
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but he's already
beginning to work in His behalf.
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Daniel 2:5, the
king has a dream,
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and the dream disturbs him
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and "The king answered
and said to the Chaldeans,
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'The thing is gone from me.
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If you will not make
known unto me the dream,
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with the interpretation thereof,
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you shall be cut in pieces,
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and your houses
shall be made a dunghill.'"
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Now I don't know about you,
but that's a heck of a dream,
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that you got so
mad, you are so bothered
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that if your own
people can't recite the dream,
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you're gonna start killing them.
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Now I've had some bad
dreams when I've woken up,
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but I've never thought
to kill anybody from dream.
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So it tells you off
the bat that this dream
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is something of
a different nature.
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Verse 15 says,
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"And he said to the
Arioch the king's captain,
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Why is the decree so
hasty from the king?"
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This is Daniel talking,
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"Then Arioch made the
thing known to Daniel.
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Verse 16, "Then Daniel went in,
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and desired of the king
that he would give him time,
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that he would show the
king the interpretation."
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Verse 18 says,
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"That they would desire
mercies of God of heaven
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concerning this secret
that Daniel and his fellows
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should not perish with the rest
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of the wise men of Babylon."
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Verse 32, "This
image's head was of fine gold,
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his breast and
his arms of silver,
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his belly and his thighs
of brass, his legs of iron,
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his feet part of
iron and part of clay."
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Was the dream,
Daniel interprets the dream,
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and verse 47 says,
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"The king answered unto Daniel,
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and said, Of a truth
it is that your God,"
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is a big G of the little g's,
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"and a Lord of kings,
and revealer of secrets,
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seeing that thou
revealeth this secret.
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The the king made
Daniel a great man,
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and gave him many great gifts,
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and made him ruler over
the whole province of Babylon,
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and chief of the governors over
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all the wise men of Babylon."
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So point number two,
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he's impressed
again through prophecy.
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He has this dream,
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Daniel and his friends go
into a all night prayer session,
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reveals what the
dream is to the king,
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and the king
says, "Oh, I'm so glad."
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And I know Arioch was happy
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because he helped
preserve their lives.
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See, if you stay
right and live right,
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you can help
preserve somebody else's life.
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Amen? Amen.
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And so the king,
again, is impressed by God.
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Impression number two,
the prophecy, just follow me,
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we are gonna see this
thing in a minute, third time.
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Daniel Chapter 3,
Nebuchadnezzar decides,
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he's gonna take the
dream and interpret his way.
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He thought, I'm gonna
take the head of gold,
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I'm gonna make it 90 feet tall.
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Put it in the plain
Dura, at the sound of the music
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everybody bowed down.
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Whoever does not
bow down, guess what?
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You'll get burned up.
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And so verse 6 says,
"Whoso falleth not down
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and worshippeth shall the
same hour be cast into the midst
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of a burning fiery furnace."
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Now because you're all family,
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I'm gonna treat you all family.
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Amen? Amen.
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Verse 16 says,
"Shadrach, Meshach,
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and Abednego, answered."
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Come on, now,
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that's what it says,
"Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego,
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answered and said to
the king, O Nebuchadnezzar,
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we are not careful to
answer thee in this matter.
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If it be so, our God whom
we serve is able to deliver us
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from the burning fiery furnace,
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and he will deliver us
out of thine hand, O king.
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But if not, be it
known unto thee, O king,
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that we will not serve thy gods,
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nor worship the golden image
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which thou hast set up.
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Then
Nebuchadnezzar full of fury,
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and the form of
his visage was changed
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against Shadrach,
Meshach," And what? "Abednego.
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Therefore he
spake, and commanded
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that they
should heat the furnace
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one seven times more
that it won't be heated."
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So he got so mad then he
said, "Turn this fire up.
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The brothers will make me mad."
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If you read the
rest of the story,
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the Bible said that the men
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who were taken them burned up.
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Now you should...
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Nebuchadnezzar to see
some thing right there,
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that these are
some different brothers,
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they're not the same
type of men that used to.
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Throws them inside the furnace,
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Nebby looks in, and
he sees four of them.
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He says, "Man, I
thought we threw in there."
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it's four, now one
looked like the Son of man.
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And so what's
interesting is this,
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the only thing
that was burned off
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was the things that
was binding them together.
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You got to understand
that when you're with Christ,
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.60
the only thing He'll burn off
00:25:39.63\00:25:40.97
is that's what binding you down.
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God is not into seeing you
bound down for nothing at all,
00:25:42.94\00:25:46.78
he wants you to be
free, absolutely free.
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He don't want the enemy
00:25:49.38\00:25:50.71
binding you down with anything.
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Verse 28 says, "The
Nebuchadnezzar spake,
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and said, Blessed be the
God of Shadrach, Meshach,
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and Abednego, who
hath sent his angel,
00:26:02.19\00:26:07.10
and delivered his
servants that trusted in him,
00:26:07.13\00:26:09.56
and have
changed the king's word,
00:26:09.60\00:26:11.60
and yielded their bodies,
that they might not serve
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nor worship any
god, expect their own.
00:26:15.20\00:26:18.47
Therefore I made a
decree," I make a law,
00:26:18.51\00:26:21.18
"That every people,
nation, and language,
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.81
which speak any
other thing against
00:26:23.85\00:26:25.25
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
00:26:25.28\00:26:27.85
shall be cut in pieces,
00:26:27.88\00:26:29.92
and their houses
shall be made a dunghill,
00:26:29.95\00:26:32.15
because there is no other God
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.09
that can deliver
us after this sort."
00:26:34.12\00:26:35.82
Impression number three,
00:26:35.86\00:26:37.19
Nebuchadnezzar gets
more serious with this thing.
00:26:37.23\00:26:42.06
He makes a law that God denies,
00:26:42.10\00:26:44.47
God doesn't ask
for forced worship,
00:26:44.50\00:26:47.77
but he sees
faithfulness and commitment
00:26:47.80\00:26:50.71
and he said from his mouth,
he projects from his own mouth
00:26:50.74\00:26:54.11
that there is no
other God out there.
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Impression number three,
00:26:58.61\00:27:01.75
it seems like brother
Nebby is making a change.
00:27:01.78\00:27:06.35
Now if you don't know Nebby is,
00:27:06.39\00:27:07.72
you haven't
watched Veggie Tales.
00:27:07.76\00:27:10.59
In Veggie Tales you've got kids,
00:27:10.63\00:27:12.49
they call him Nebby.
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.66
I call him brother Nebby too.
00:27:14.70\00:27:18.10
Now you will think, after
all these three interchanges,
00:27:18.13\00:27:21.57
health message,
prophetic message,
00:27:21.60\00:27:23.37
faith and commitment
00:27:23.41\00:27:24.74
that this brother would see
that there's a God in heaven.
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But sometimes, just like
us, it takes much more than that
00:27:31.28\00:27:35.08
for God to get our attention,
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.32
that even though
we can acknowledge
00:27:37.35\00:27:38.75
that there's a God in heaven,
00:27:38.79\00:27:40.49
we will not follow
the same God of heaven.
00:27:40.52\00:27:43.26
And brothers and
sisters, I tell you,
00:27:43.29\00:27:44.63
that's tragedy in itself,
when God has revealed so much
00:27:44.66\00:27:48.00
to His people in their
lives and they still decide
00:27:48.03\00:27:51.77
that they're gonna
do things themselves.
00:27:51.80\00:27:53.67
"Trust in the Lord
with all thy heart,
00:27:53.70\00:27:56.10
and lean not onto
thy own understanding."
00:27:56.14\00:27:58.87
I've talked to people
and they explain to me
00:27:58.91\00:28:00.98
why they can't
give them self fully
00:28:01.01\00:28:02.54
to the Lord right now,
00:28:02.58\00:28:03.91
and they're leaning on
their own understanding.
00:28:03.95\00:28:09.92
Chapter 4 comes in,
00:28:09.95\00:28:11.39
now this where a
little preaching takes place.
00:28:11.42\00:28:14.22
Chapter 4 comes in.
00:28:14.26\00:28:16.79
Now remember this, recap
the first three chapters,
00:28:16.83\00:28:19.73
God is doing everything possible
00:28:19.76\00:28:22.10
to grab Nebby's
heart, He's doing...
00:28:22.13\00:28:24.87
And He's using the
people that's faithful
00:28:24.90\00:28:29.04
to grab his
attention, but yet still,
00:28:29.07\00:28:32.41
Nebuchadnezzar wants
to do things his way.
00:28:32.44\00:28:35.21
He wants to make sure
that the prophecy of Daniel 2
00:28:35.24\00:28:37.91
does not come into existence.
00:28:37.95\00:28:40.42
How dare another
kingdom come up under Babylon,
00:28:40.45\00:28:43.69
will never be.
00:28:43.72\00:28:47.92
Daniel 4:5 says,
00:28:47.96\00:28:53.09
"I saw a dream
which made me afraid,
00:28:53.13\00:28:57.73
and the thoughts upon
my head and the visions
00:28:57.77\00:29:00.04
of my head troubled me."
00:29:00.07\00:29:03.51
"Thus the visions," verse
10, "of my head in my bed.
00:29:03.54\00:29:08.31
I saw, and behold a tree
in the midst of the earth
00:29:08.34\00:29:11.75
and the height
thereof was great.
00:29:11.78\00:29:14.32
The tree grew and was strong,
00:29:14.35\00:29:16.75
and the height
thereof reached unto heaven,
00:29:16.79\00:29:20.56
and the sight thereof of
the end of all the earth.
00:29:20.59\00:29:24.76
The leaves thereof were fair,
and the fruit thereof much,
00:29:24.79\00:29:29.90
and in it was meat for all.
00:29:29.93\00:29:32.23
The beasts of the
field had shadow under it.
00:29:32.27\00:29:35.84
The fowls of heaven
dwelt in the boughs thereof,
00:29:35.87\00:29:39.47
and all flesh was fed of it.
00:29:39.51\00:29:42.38
I saw in visions of head upon
my bed, and, behold, a watcher
00:29:42.41\00:29:47.08
and an holy one
came down from heaven.
00:29:47.12\00:29:50.59
He cried aloud and said
thus, Cut down the tree,
00:29:50.62\00:29:54.79
cut off his braches,
shake off his leaves,
00:29:54.82\00:29:57.89
and scatter his fruit,
00:29:57.93\00:29:59.76
let the beasts
get away from under it
00:29:59.79\00:30:02.40
and the fowls
from his branches."
00:30:02.43\00:30:05.43
Now he has these vivid dreams
and he sees this large tree
00:30:05.47\00:30:11.47
and he see that at this tree,
everybody is feeding up onto
00:30:11.51\00:30:15.98
this tree and then
all of a sudden he sees
00:30:16.01\00:30:17.85
a holy one come down and
just start cutting it off,
00:30:17.88\00:30:21.52
and things
scattering thereabout.
00:30:21.55\00:30:23.62
Now any type of dream like that
would just scare me to death.
00:30:23.65\00:30:29.79
And so he grabs Daniel
again and he grabs Daniel again,
00:30:29.82\00:30:34.66
this time it's a
little bit different,
00:30:34.70\00:30:37.57
this time it's more personal,
00:30:37.60\00:30:39.80
this time God has
said, "I've had enough."
00:30:39.83\00:30:43.07
This time God is
trying to help him understand,
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.74
"I'm trying to save you, Nebby.
00:30:45.77\00:30:48.04
I didn't just allow
you to go capture Jerusalem
00:30:48.08\00:30:51.41
and bring back captives
00:30:51.45\00:30:52.81
just so that you
can brag and boast,
00:30:52.85\00:30:54.78
but there's a purpose because
00:30:54.82\00:30:56.15
I'm a God who likes to save all
00:30:56.18\00:30:58.35
and don't want
to see anybody lost.
00:30:58.39\00:31:00.56
He is that type of God,
He has that type of resume,
00:31:00.59\00:31:03.86
He's not just King of the Jews,
00:31:03.89\00:31:05.66
He's King of the world.
00:31:05.69\00:31:07.13
He's King of
kings and Lord of lords.
00:31:07.16\00:31:09.93
He's our sovereign God.
00:31:09.96\00:31:11.67
He's a merciful God.
00:31:11.70\00:31:13.03
He's a longsuffering God.
00:31:13.07\00:31:14.77
He's a God that is,
is so sweet and so good,
00:31:14.80\00:31:18.41
but He's a God also
that has a stopping point,
00:31:18.44\00:31:21.51
when His children
are going too far,
00:31:21.54\00:31:23.35
he knows how to
pull the chain back.
00:31:23.38\00:31:27.18
So he says, Nebuchadnezzar,
I've helped you out to show
00:31:27.22\00:31:30.69
you three different impressions
00:31:30.72\00:31:32.19
and you still have not called,
00:31:32.22\00:31:34.69
and you still have
not come to understand
00:31:34.72\00:31:36.73
what I'm trying to get to you.
00:31:36.76\00:31:38.39
So let me personalize it now.
00:31:38.43\00:31:42.16
Verse 22, Daniel tells him,
00:31:42.20\00:31:45.70
I can imagine
with a shaky voice,
00:31:45.73\00:31:48.24
'cause he's
talking to the monarch,
00:31:48.27\00:31:49.84
he's talking to
the king and he says,
00:31:49.87\00:31:52.44
"It is thou, O king, that
art grown and become strong."
00:31:52.47\00:31:57.68
My mother used to say,
"Boy, you have grown beyond
00:31:57.71\00:31:59.58
your britches.
00:31:59.61\00:32:01.95
You are a little bit too
big for your britches now."
00:32:01.98\00:32:04.59
Now if you don't
know what that means,
00:32:04.62\00:32:05.95
ask somebody who is older
and has a color like mine,
00:32:05.99\00:32:09.09
or it doesn't matter.
00:32:09.12\00:32:10.46
But she said,
"you've been grown out."
00:32:10.49\00:32:11.83
Or in other words, you've
gotten too big for yourself.
00:32:11.86\00:32:15.63
"For thy greatness is
down, and reacheth unto earth,
00:32:15.66\00:32:19.07
and thy dominion to
the end of the earth."
00:32:19.10\00:32:21.97
So he explains to him that
this thing now is personal,
00:32:22.00\00:32:25.17
it's all about you now.
00:32:25.21\00:32:29.51
Verse 27, he
gives him some advice,
00:32:29.54\00:32:34.05
he says, "Wherefore, O king,
00:32:34.08\00:32:36.18
let my counsel be
acceptable unto thee,
00:32:36.22\00:32:38.95
and break off your
sins by righteousness,
00:32:38.99\00:32:42.49
and thine iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor,
00:32:42.52\00:32:45.69
if it be a
prolonging of thy tranquility."
00:32:45.73\00:32:48.96
So he says, all right,
king, here is the deal,
00:32:49.00\00:32:51.07
this thing can change for you,
00:32:51.10\00:32:53.30
but you just
have to do two things.
00:32:53.34\00:32:55.04
How many things? Two things.
00:32:55.07\00:32:57.61
Two things, all you
have to do is repent
00:32:57.64\00:33:00.68
and be merciful to the poor,
that's it, seems easy enough,
00:33:00.71\00:33:04.61
but see, that's
the most hardest thing
00:33:04.65\00:33:06.31
for somebody who is prideful.
00:33:06.35\00:33:08.88
That's the most hardest thing
for someone who is boastful.
00:33:08.92\00:33:11.69
That's the most hardest thing
for someone who is arrogant.
00:33:11.72\00:33:15.42
He says, King, all you
have to do, look at it you all,
00:33:15.46\00:33:18.29
he says, all you have to
do is break off your sins
00:33:18.33\00:33:21.20
by righteousness
and your iniquities
00:33:21.23\00:33:23.40
by showing mercy to the poor.
00:33:23.43\00:33:26.10
That's all you have to do.
00:33:26.13\00:33:27.77
Now if God came to you
in the night season tonight
00:33:27.80\00:33:30.14
and says, here's
what I need you to do,
00:33:30.17\00:33:31.61
I just need to
do these two things,
00:33:31.64\00:33:33.38
otherwise you're gonna die,
00:33:33.41\00:33:35.34
or otherwise, some thing
is going to happen to you.
00:33:35.38\00:33:37.55
You'll probably
jump out your bed
00:33:37.58\00:33:39.81
and start trying to
work that thing out.
00:33:39.85\00:33:44.35
And so we would think that this
brother who has acknowledged
00:33:44.39\00:33:50.36
that there's a God
in heaven would do it.
00:33:50.39\00:33:54.76
Verse 29,
00:33:54.80\00:34:00.84
now if you look at verse 16,
00:34:00.87\00:34:03.97
it tells you to let
his heart be changed
00:34:04.01\00:34:09.61
from a man's
heart to beast heart.
00:34:09.64\00:34:13.15
He gives this
prophecy verse 29 says,
00:34:13.18\00:34:16.02
"At the end of twelve months."
00:34:16.05\00:34:20.09
"At the end of twelve months."
00:34:20.12\00:34:21.92
Listen to me now.
00:34:21.96\00:34:23.36
God gave this
brother a whole years
00:34:23.39\00:34:25.89
to get his act together.
00:34:25.93\00:34:27.90
At the end of twelve months,
you know, I like numbers.
00:34:27.93\00:34:30.73
At the end of one
year, at the end of 365 days,
00:34:30.77\00:34:36.37
at the end of 25 weeks,
at the end of 8,736 hours,
00:34:36.40\00:34:42.34
at the end of 524,160 minutes,
00:34:42.38\00:34:46.92
at the end of
31,449,600 seconds,
00:34:46.95\00:34:52.25
he gave this brother one
years to get himself together.
00:34:52.29\00:34:55.09
See there are times that
God, He may say a prophecy,
00:34:55.12\00:34:58.49
but He gives you time
to get your life together,
00:34:58.53\00:35:01.10
so after one years,
00:35:01.13\00:35:02.53
somebody has been
through 1000 prayer meetings,
00:35:02.56\00:35:05.17
one year, they've
been to church, one year,
00:35:05.20\00:35:09.27
they've heard 3ABN on the row,
00:35:09.30\00:35:11.01
one year, they've
heard 'Dare to Dream,'
00:35:11.04\00:35:12.94
one year, they heard,
'Anchor of Truth' One year,
00:35:12.97\00:35:17.45
that he gives people one
year to get yourself together,
00:35:17.48\00:35:20.62
one year to come off the club,
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.32
one year to stop
being mean and nasty,
00:35:22.35\00:35:24.52
one year to get your
life together, one year.
00:35:24.55\00:35:29.76
Tell me, we don't
serve a merciful God.
00:35:29.79\00:35:32.39
One year to stop stealing,
one year to stop conniving,
00:35:32.43\00:35:35.80
one year to stop hustling,
one year to stop cussing,
00:35:35.83\00:35:38.90
one year.
00:35:38.93\00:35:42.30
One year, he gave him.
00:35:42.34\00:35:46.01
And this brother, at
the end of twelve months,
00:35:46.04\00:35:48.58
stepped out in
verse 30 and says,
00:35:48.61\00:35:50.85
"The king spade and
said, Is not this great Babylon
00:35:50.88\00:35:55.15
that I have built
00:35:55.18\00:35:57.89
for the house of the kingdom
by the might of my power,
00:36:03.83\00:36:07.06
and for the
honor of my majesty?"
00:36:07.10\00:36:09.76
Ellen White says in
Patriarchs and Kings,
00:36:09.80\00:36:11.70
therefore a moment the prophecy
00:36:11.73\00:36:13.34
seemed to affect Nebuchadnezzar,
00:36:13.37\00:36:15.07
but overtime it
starts wearing out.
00:36:15.10\00:36:17.11
You know how it
is, we hear a sermon,
00:36:17.14\00:36:18.47
we have a week of
prayer, we go to camp meeting,
00:36:18.51\00:36:20.71
and then that
thing just stirs us
00:36:20.74\00:36:22.31
and it moves us
and after a while
00:36:22.34\00:36:24.18
it just starts fading off.
00:36:24.21\00:36:28.28
Don't have the same
effect that it used to have.
00:36:28.32\00:36:31.75
And we find ourselves going back
00:36:31.79\00:36:33.36
and doing things we used to do,
00:36:33.39\00:36:35.02
we have to be
very careful of that,
00:36:35.06\00:36:37.09
'cause it's easy to slip back.
00:36:37.13\00:36:38.46
I tell people, you're just
00:36:38.49\00:36:39.83
60 seconds from
being unconverted.
00:36:39.86\00:36:42.16
And the Bible says,
"While the word," verse 31,
00:36:46.47\00:36:48.04
"was in the king's
mouth, there fell a voice
00:36:48.07\00:36:49.50
from heave saying,
O king Nebuchadnezzar,
00:36:49.54\00:36:50.91
to thee it is spoken,
00:36:50.94\00:36:52.54
the kingdom is
departed from thee."
00:36:52.57\00:36:55.04
Verse 33, "The same hour
the thing was fulfilled upon
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.41
Nebuchadnezzar and
he was driven from men
00:36:57.45\00:37:00.62
and did eat grass as
oxen and his body was wet
00:37:00.65\00:37:04.05
with the dew of heaven,
00:37:04.09\00:37:05.42
till his hairs were
grown like eagles' feathers,
00:37:05.45\00:37:07.69
and his nails like bird claw."
00:37:07.72\00:37:09.66
The man then lost his
mind, he became a maniac.
00:37:09.69\00:37:15.36
One year, he had.
00:37:15.40\00:37:18.40
One year, he was
given one year to call out
00:37:18.43\00:37:23.44
to Jesus, one year to reach,
00:37:23.47\00:37:26.37
one year to wrestle,
one year to surrender,
00:37:26.41\00:37:30.31
one year to let go
and let God in, one year.
00:37:30.35\00:37:36.58
And he decided to be a
knuckle head and he says,
00:37:36.62\00:37:38.29
"You know what?
00:37:38.32\00:37:39.65
I'm Nebuchadnezzar,
what you thought.
00:37:39.69\00:37:41.46
The Bible says that he
went and lost his mind.
00:37:44.89\00:37:49.03
Scholars believe, he
lost his mind for seven years,
00:37:49.06\00:37:53.23
hair became
unkempt, fingernails, long.
00:37:53.27\00:37:56.71
For seven years,
listen, one year,
00:37:56.74\00:37:59.67
and you lose your
mind for seven years,
00:37:59.71\00:38:02.51
that's a long time, you all.
00:38:02.54\00:38:04.15
When you've had this
over here for one year
00:38:04.18\00:38:06.61
and you lose your
mind for seven years.
00:38:06.65\00:38:08.62
Listen, I've
been around some folk
00:38:08.65\00:38:10.05
that have lost their mind.
00:38:10.09\00:38:11.42
As a matter of fact, I
see them every Sabbath.
00:38:11.45\00:38:17.69
But I've been around some folk
00:38:17.73\00:38:19.06
who have
literally lost their mind
00:38:19.09\00:38:20.66
and you can't reason with them,
00:38:20.70\00:38:22.23
you can't talk to them,
00:38:22.26\00:38:23.60
and it is, like you
wonder what zone they're in.
00:38:23.63\00:38:28.40
One year, you all, listen to me,
00:38:28.44\00:38:30.11
don't ever take
this thing for granted.
00:38:30.14\00:38:31.84
One year, seven years.
00:38:31.87\00:38:34.61
Listen, one year,
00:38:34.64\00:38:38.31
he's lost his mind.
00:38:38.35\00:38:41.98
Can you imagine,
this is the king,
00:38:42.02\00:38:45.45
and Prophets and Kings says
00:38:45.49\00:38:46.89
that he was
humiliated around the world.
00:38:46.92\00:38:51.59
God had to humble him.
00:38:51.63\00:38:55.46
Some of us, it's gonna take
the beast to come out of us.
00:38:55.50\00:38:59.43
See, you didn't know
that thing was lurking in you.
00:38:59.47\00:39:01.64
See, if you don't deal with you,
00:39:01.67\00:39:04.11
that thing that's lurking in you
00:39:04.14\00:39:05.97
is going to come out
and when you look around
00:39:06.01\00:39:07.94
and you say, well,
how did that come out?
00:39:07.98\00:39:09.51
Well, its been there.
00:39:09.54\00:39:11.35
It's just been
lurking, you've been petting it
00:39:11.38\00:39:13.62
on the side when the sun set.
00:39:13.65\00:39:15.95
And so it's been
lurking to come out.
00:39:15.98\00:39:17.82
So if you, if you
sneak and watch pornography
00:39:17.85\00:39:20.29
then one time, it's
gonna start coming out.
00:39:20.32\00:39:22.29
It's in there,
it's been lurking.
00:39:22.32\00:39:24.66
If your meanness is there,
00:39:24.69\00:39:26.13
and it's going
to come out one day,
00:39:26.16\00:39:28.70
then you're gonna try
to fasten it up by saying,
00:39:28.73\00:39:30.33
you know what? I
really didn't mean it.
00:39:30.37\00:39:31.73
Yes you did. It just came out.
00:39:31.77\00:39:35.40
See we all have
something that's lurking in us.
00:39:35.44\00:39:39.41
If we're not careful,
it's gonna come out of us
00:39:39.44\00:39:41.94
if the blood of
Jesus does not swallow it.
00:39:41.98\00:39:45.48
We all got something
in us, it's by God's grace
00:39:45.51\00:39:48.15
that we're not killers.
00:39:48.18\00:39:49.52
It's by God's
grace, we're not murderers.
00:39:49.55\00:39:51.09
It's by God's
grace, we're not thieves.
00:39:51.12\00:39:52.99
It's by God's grace!
00:39:53.02\00:39:56.56
We all have something that's
lurking on the inside of us
00:39:56.59\00:39:59.29
that nobody sees but Jesus.
00:39:59.33\00:40:01.43
And this thing in
Nebuchadnezzar was lurking
00:40:01.56\00:40:03.70
for a while and even
though he acknowledged
00:40:03.73\00:40:05.97
that there's a God of heaven,
00:40:06.00\00:40:07.34
it was still on
the inside of him.
00:40:07.37\00:40:10.87
And God had to
help him lose his mind,
00:40:10.91\00:40:12.94
for he can realize
how important it is.
00:40:12.97\00:40:17.05
My brothers and sisters, I
get scared for us sometimes,
00:40:17.08\00:40:20.05
when we don't want to
admit that we're challenged
00:40:20.08\00:40:21.48
by some things and we find
ourselves lurking in the dark.
00:40:21.52\00:40:26.19
We wonder why this
happened and that happened.
00:40:26.22\00:40:27.92
It's no
accident, it's no mystery,
00:40:27.96\00:40:29.76
that thing has
always been there.
00:40:29.79\00:40:33.09
All of us have a
beast on the side of us.
00:40:33.13\00:40:35.33
Listen, every
time I come to church
00:40:35.36\00:40:37.17
there's monkeys
and tigers, oh my!
00:40:37.20\00:40:42.04
I don't have to...
00:40:42.07\00:40:43.41
Listen, I told my son one time
00:40:43.44\00:40:44.77
listen, you don't have to worry
00:40:44.81\00:40:46.14
about me taking you to the zoo,
00:40:46.17\00:40:47.51
you see it every week, son.
00:40:47.54\00:40:48.88
It's for your mission,
I'm the zoo master, amen.
00:40:48.91\00:40:51.98
All you got to do is
catch somebody on the wrong day
00:40:55.28\00:40:58.35
and still on one
of them, big old corn,
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.46
it's gonna start
coming out at you.
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.02
But we all got some lurking
on the inside of us, amen?
00:41:06.76\00:41:10.20
We all got some
that's on the inside,
00:41:10.23\00:41:13.74
if we're not careful.
00:41:13.77\00:41:16.24
Listen to me, if
the story ended there,
00:41:16.27\00:41:20.24
we in trouble,
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.44
but in 2 Peter 3: 9 it says,
00:41:22.48\00:41:24.21
"The Lord is not
Slacking concerning his promise,
00:41:24.25\00:41:27.02
as some men count slackness,
00:41:27.05\00:41:29.08
but is longsuffering towards us,
00:41:29.12\00:41:31.45
not willing that
any," should what?
00:41:31.49\00:41:33.39
"Should perish, but that
all should be," What? "Saved."
00:41:33.42\00:41:36.02
See I told you, God's
was are not like my ways.
00:41:36.06\00:41:38.79
See, if that was me
with Nebuchadnezzar,
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.36
I would have gotten
rid of Nebuchadnezzar,
00:41:40.40\00:41:41.73
men are, you're not
worthy, get up out of there.
00:41:41.76\00:41:43.10
But God says that my
word would not come back void,
00:41:43.13\00:41:46.20
and because it won't back void,
00:41:46.23\00:41:47.57
He's gonna prosper
that thing, so go to Job 14,
00:41:47.60\00:41:49.70
I want to show you something.
00:41:49.74\00:41:51.07
We're gonna come back to Job 14,
00:41:51.11\00:41:52.74
Job 14, just over a book or two
00:41:52.77\00:41:54.98
just go over right before
the book of Psalms, Job 14.
00:41:55.01\00:41:58.51
Job the 14th chapter.
00:41:58.55\00:42:00.52
Or if you're at home,
00:42:00.55\00:42:02.02
you're trying to figure
of what Job is, it's Job,
00:42:02.05\00:42:03.99
J-O-B, Job.
00:42:04.02\00:42:06.05
Job, Job, same
thing. Job, Job 14, amen.
00:42:06.09\00:42:10.39
When I first came to
the church, they said,
00:42:10.43\00:42:11.76
turn the book of Job.
00:42:11.79\00:42:13.13
I'm thinking, you
spell that J-O-B-E something.
00:42:13.16\00:42:15.23
They said, Job, when they
finally came out and spelt it,
00:42:15.26\00:42:17.80
that's Job, said it real loud,
00:42:17.83\00:42:19.77
tell you how
ignorant I was in the church,
00:42:19.80\00:42:21.40
but they just said,
Amen to the brother.
00:42:21.44\00:42:24.87
They figured out I was
new, they didn't know no better.
00:42:24.91\00:42:27.08
I was like, that's Job!
00:42:27.11\00:42:28.94
All right, Job 14, are we there?
00:42:28.98\00:42:30.95
Verse 7, the Bible
says, oh, I love...
00:42:30.98\00:42:33.28
Listen, there's a God that love,
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.28
He is so
merciful, He is so kind,
00:42:35.32\00:42:37.65
He is so everlasting,
I just love this God.
00:42:37.69\00:42:40.16
The Bible says,
00:42:40.19\00:42:41.99
"For there is hope of
a tree, if it be," What?
00:42:42.02\00:42:45.66
"cut down," we're
going to come back to that,
00:42:45.69\00:42:47.70
"that it will sprout again,
00:42:47.73\00:42:49.26
and that the tender
branch there of will not cease.
00:42:49.30\00:42:51.77
Through the root
thereof was old in the earth,
00:42:51.80\00:42:54.20
and the stock
thereof die in the ground.
00:42:54.24\00:42:57.11
Yet through the
scent of water it will bud,
00:42:57.14\00:43:00.61
and bring forth
boughs like a plant."
00:43:00.64\00:43:03.04
I like that promise.
00:43:03.08\00:43:04.41
When you get down and out
you need to garner that chapter
00:43:04.45\00:43:07.62
and put a old P, God
says that at center of water,
00:43:07.65\00:43:11.05
not that water didn't touch you,
00:43:11.09\00:43:12.72
but when you smell
like water is coming.
00:43:12.75\00:43:14.62
Oh, have mercy.
Shoot! Shut your mouth!
00:43:14.66\00:43:17.16
Listen, it comes
again, it re-sprouts again,
00:43:17.19\00:43:20.23
it comes alive again.
00:43:20.26\00:43:21.83
Listen, I don't know about you,
00:43:21.86\00:43:23.20
but when you're down and out
00:43:23.23\00:43:24.57
and you need just little water,
00:43:24.60\00:43:25.93
it do something to you. Amen.
00:43:25.97\00:43:29.70
Daniel 15...
00:43:29.74\00:43:31.07
Daniel 4, you're
gonna see what I mean.
00:43:31.11\00:43:32.81
Daniel 4, listen, if
he left it at Daniel 4,
00:43:32.84\00:43:35.81
see I'm encouraged by Nebby,
00:43:35.84\00:43:38.21
I'm encouraged that
even if I may not call right
00:43:38.25\00:43:41.18
or even if I don't reach and,
even if I have not wrestled,
00:43:41.22\00:43:44.69
God says, I can still tame you.
00:43:44.72\00:43:46.96
Listen to me now, I can...
00:43:46.99\00:43:48.32
Now it may take you
going out your mind,
00:43:48.36\00:43:50.36
but He still can tame you.
00:43:50.39\00:43:51.73
Amen.
00:43:51.76\00:43:53.09
And for some of us, you're
gonna have to loose your mind
00:43:53.13\00:43:54.76
before Christ get it.
00:43:54.80\00:43:58.43
Daniel 4, look at
this promise here,
00:43:58.47\00:44:00.64
and I didn't read it on purpose.
00:44:00.67\00:44:03.24
Verse 15 says,
same story he says,
00:44:03.27\00:44:05.74
"Nevertheless," I like when
the Bible says nevertheless,
00:44:05.77\00:44:08.74
"leave the stump of
his roots in the earth,"
00:44:08.78\00:44:10.98
Oh, shoot you!
00:44:11.01\00:44:12.35
I thought I'll get you excited.
00:44:12.38\00:44:13.72
He says, "Cut down the tree,
00:44:13.75\00:44:15.08
but leave the
root in the earth."
00:44:15.12\00:44:17.09
When the root
is there that means
00:44:17.12\00:44:18.45
there is some hope that's left,
00:44:18.49\00:44:19.82
there's some
sustain that's left.
00:44:19.85\00:44:21.56
He says, "Leave
the root in the earth,
00:44:21.59\00:44:23.29
even with a band
of iron and brass
00:44:23.32\00:44:26.13
in the tender
grass of the field,
00:44:26.16\00:44:28.43
and let it be wet
with the dew of heaven."
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.67
See, I like that
part, C.A. Murray.
00:44:30.70\00:44:32.97
Here's the reason
why I like it, he says,
00:44:33.00\00:44:34.70
"Cut Cory down,
but save the root.
00:44:34.74\00:44:37.51
Cut him down, down off
his anger, cut off his temper,
00:44:37.54\00:44:40.78
come off his impatience,
00:44:40.81\00:44:42.14
but, but, but don't
chop him all the way down,
00:44:42.18\00:44:44.65
let his root stay in the earth."
00:44:44.68\00:44:46.31
And I like the part, it
says, put a band around.
00:44:46.35\00:44:48.75
See, there's a guy in my church,
00:44:48.78\00:44:50.25
he's a tree
trimmer, and a tree cutter.
00:44:50.29\00:44:52.82
He says, Pastor Jackson,
you know what that band means?
00:44:52.85\00:44:55.32
That prevents
you from cracking."
00:44:55.36\00:44:56.89
Oh, have mercy!
00:44:56.93\00:44:58.26
When he told me
that, I almost lost it.
00:44:58.29\00:45:00.13
He says, Listen,
cut down the tree,
00:45:00.16\00:45:02.40
but put a band around it
00:45:02.43\00:45:04.27
so it don't crack anymore,
so it won't split into half.
00:45:04.30\00:45:07.24
See I got to chop him down
00:45:07.27\00:45:08.90
so I can him build him back up.
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.57
He may have to
lose his mind, but, hey,
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.67
he's going to be built
back up and much better.
00:45:12.71\00:45:15.61
Amen.
00:45:15.64\00:45:17.35
God never leaves
us nor forsake us.
00:45:17.38\00:45:20.32
He may chop us down,
but He's gonna build you up.
00:45:20.35\00:45:23.18
He may put you in solitary,
but He's gonna build you up.
00:45:23.22\00:45:26.02
He may shake the
stuff off your life,
00:45:26.05\00:45:28.29
but He's gonna build it back up.
00:45:28.32\00:45:29.76
And he says, "With
the dew of heaven."
00:45:29.79\00:45:31.79
Oh, my goodness!
00:45:31.83\00:45:33.83
Oh! wish I had a
witness in this place.
00:45:33.86\00:45:35.76
What the dew of
heaven, let it be water,
00:45:35.80\00:45:38.10
Oh, Holy Ghost, yes
sprinkle Your water upon me
00:45:38.13\00:45:41.34
so I can grow again.
00:45:41.37\00:45:43.20
Amen.
00:45:43.24\00:45:46.74
Nebuchadnezzar finally got it.
00:45:46.78\00:45:49.68
In verse 34 in
that same text he says,
00:45:49.71\00:45:54.12
"And at the end of the days
00:45:54.15\00:45:56.95
I Nebuchadnezzar
lifted up my eyes unto heaven
00:45:56.99\00:46:02.42
and my
understanding returned unto me
00:46:02.46\00:46:05.89
and I blessed
the most High God."
00:46:05.93\00:46:08.26
"I blessed the most High God
00:46:08.30\00:46:11.63
and praised and honored
Him that liveth for ever,
00:46:11.67\00:46:15.17
whose dominion is
an everlasting dominion
00:46:15.20\00:46:18.71
and his kingdom is from
generation to generation.
00:46:18.74\00:46:21.64
And all the
inhabitants of the earth
00:46:21.68\00:46:23.91
are reputed as nothing.
00:46:23.95\00:46:25.41
And he doeth
according to his will
00:46:25.45\00:46:28.78
in the army of heaven,
00:46:28.82\00:46:30.15
and among the
inhabitants of the earth,
00:46:30.19\00:46:31.69
and non can stay or restraint
his hand and say to him,
00:46:31.72\00:46:35.46
"what are You doing?
00:46:35.49\00:46:37.33
"What are You doing?"
00:46:37.36\00:46:38.69
You can't say,
"God, what are You doing?"
00:46:38.73\00:46:41.00
You don't have the power.
00:46:41.03\00:46:42.56
And he says, "At the same
time my reason returned unto me,
00:46:42.60\00:46:46.20
and for the glory of my kingdom,
00:46:46.23\00:46:48.17
my honor and
brightness returned unto me.
00:46:48.20\00:46:51.44
And my counselors and
my lords sought unto me,
00:46:51.47\00:46:54.54
and I was
established in my kingdom
00:46:54.58\00:46:56.64
and excellent
majesty was added unto me.
00:46:56.68\00:46:59.08
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
00:46:59.11\00:47:01.35
" No longer the
fool in Daniel 1,
00:47:01.38\00:47:03.89
no longer the idiot in Daniel 2,
00:47:03.92\00:47:06.12
no longer the dummy in Daniel 3,
00:47:06.15\00:47:08.52
now I, the
converted Nebuchadnezzar,
00:47:08.56\00:47:11.69
"Praise and extol and
honor the King of heaven,
00:47:11.73\00:47:14.70
all whose works are
truth and his ways justice,
00:47:14.73\00:47:18.87
and those that walk in
pride, he is able to abase."
00:47:18.90\00:47:22.24
He said, "Oh, now
I've had an experience.
00:47:22.27\00:47:24.84
Oh, now I've seen it
one of the king said,
00:47:24.87\00:47:27.38
the coming of the Lord.
00:47:27.41\00:47:28.74
Oh, now I can understand
why worked the way He did."
00:47:28.78\00:47:31.91
Why? 'Cause he's
just trying to save us
00:47:31.95\00:47:34.08
and He had me lose
my everlasting mind
00:47:34.12\00:47:36.58
so I can come to this place.
00:47:36.62\00:47:41.09
Tell me, we
don't serve a good God?
00:47:41.12\00:47:43.76
That'd do what He can
and what He won't to save.
00:47:43.79\00:47:46.53
I told you, God
doesn't like to lose,
00:47:46.56\00:47:48.86
and He'll do
anything to let you see
00:47:48.90\00:47:51.20
that He's the
number one of your life.
00:47:51.23\00:47:54.24
He does not
like to lose one bit.
00:47:54.27\00:47:58.37
And so I'm just
thankful that Nebby
00:47:58.41\00:48:01.01
had another
chance and we're told,
00:48:01.04\00:48:03.85
and it's by writing
that from this moment,
00:48:03.88\00:48:06.05
Nebuchadnezzar became a
Christian, a son of God.
00:48:06.08\00:48:09.52
Oh, he had to lose his
mind and there's some times,
00:48:09.55\00:48:12.95
you all, we just have to lose it
00:48:12.99\00:48:14.82
in order to gain it back.
00:48:14.86\00:48:17.79
And as brother Louis comes
out and sings this last song,
00:48:17.83\00:48:20.86
I want you to listen
real closely to the words,
00:48:20.90\00:48:23.73
listen real
closely to what's going on.
00:48:23.77\00:48:26.57
Because listen, some
of us have to lose it
00:48:26.60\00:48:30.14
in order to gain it.
00:48:30.17\00:48:32.27
All to Jesus I
surrender All to Him
00:48:50.36\00:48:57.37
I freely give
00:49:03.47\00:49:08.64
I will ever love and trust Him
00:49:08.68\00:49:15.65
In His presence daily live
00:49:17.49\00:49:24.49
I surrender all I surrender all
00:49:26.23\00:49:33.23
All to Thee, my blessed Savior
00:49:44.21\00:49:51.22
I surrender all.
00:49:53.19\00:50:00.20
All to Jesus I surrender
00:50:06.47\00:50:13.48
Humbly at His feet I bow
00:50:15.51\00:50:22.48
Worldly pleasures now
forsaken Take me, Jesus,
00:50:24.12\00:50:31.09
take me now
00:50:37.47\00:50:42.00
I surrender all I surrender all
00:50:42.04\00:50:49.01
All to Thee, my blessed Savior
00:50:59.82\00:51:06.83
I surrender all.
00:51:08.53\00:51:15.54
I surrender all.
00:51:17.61\00:51:24.61
All to Jesus I surrender
00:51:30.79\00:51:37.79
All to Him I freely give
00:51:39.73\00:51:46.74
I will ever love and trust Him
00:51:48.54\00:51:55.54
All to Him I freely give
00:51:57.55\00:52:04.55
I surrender all
00:52:06.35\00:52:13.36
We come to point
where the song indicated,
00:52:26.47\00:52:32.38
there's a need for
a complete surrender.
00:52:32.41\00:52:35.75
Again, as I mentioned, sometimes
00:52:35.78\00:52:37.32
we look at the fact that
00:52:37.35\00:52:40.49
we've been in
church, we've been exposed,
00:52:40.52\00:52:44.59
we've been around,
00:52:44.63\00:52:46.80
we've read our Bibles through
00:52:46.83\00:52:48.86
two or three times in a year.
00:52:48.90\00:52:52.47
Let me tell you
this with no disrespect,
00:52:52.50\00:52:53.97
it doesn't matter how
many times you read your Bible,
00:52:54.00\00:52:56.57
if it doesn't change you,
00:52:56.60\00:52:57.94
then you've
wasted time reading it.
00:52:57.97\00:53:02.51
We've read those
little red books,
00:53:02.54\00:53:05.15
they're not red anymore,
they're little blue books,
00:53:05.18\00:53:07.88
but have we completely
surrendered all to Jesus?
00:53:07.92\00:53:12.32
We have sermons after sermon,
00:53:12.35\00:53:14.19
we attend
convocation after convocation,
00:53:14.22\00:53:18.29
and we hear this, we hear that,
00:53:18.33\00:53:21.76
and sometimes we
just get immune to things.
00:53:21.80\00:53:26.94
And I'm here to tell
you that the very thing
00:53:26.97\00:53:28.50
that happened to Nebuchadnezzar
00:53:28.54\00:53:30.94
could happen to
either one of us.
00:53:30.97\00:53:33.88
The very things we
read about in the news
00:53:33.91\00:53:36.95
can happen to us.
00:53:36.98\00:53:39.91
The very things that
we pray about for others
00:53:39.95\00:53:43.89
can become us if
we're not careful.
00:53:43.92\00:53:46.86
We're not immune
to the situations
00:53:46.89\00:53:49.66
that take place around us.
00:53:49.69\00:53:52.46
And just because one attend
church faithfully and weekly,
00:53:52.49\00:53:57.33
does not mean they're not
susceptible to Satan's poison.
00:53:57.37\00:54:02.90
What we have to learn
to do is to surrender all.
00:54:02.94\00:54:06.78
In 1 Corinthians 15: 31,
Paul says, "I die daily."
00:54:06.81\00:54:13.15
When you wake up,
one must wake up to die
00:54:13.18\00:54:17.82
because if we're not
careful, our messages
00:54:17.85\00:54:22.02
breathe arrogance.
00:54:22.06\00:54:25.79
It can breathe
arrogance to the individual
00:54:25.83\00:54:29.50
because of the
prophetic messages that we know,
00:54:29.53\00:54:32.93
the health message we live
by, the day in which we worship
00:54:32.97\00:54:36.87
and the times we live in,
00:54:36.91\00:54:41.04
baptizing daily
18 million strong
00:54:41.08\00:54:45.05
and those thing in
itself, if we're not careful,
00:54:45.08\00:54:49.28
can make us arrogant.
00:54:49.32\00:54:51.19
The same as it was
with Nebuchadnezzar.
00:54:51.22\00:54:55.46
So you can extol God
00:54:55.49\00:54:57.23
or you can say
there's none other like Him,
00:54:57.26\00:54:59.86
or you can see the
benefits of the health messages
00:54:59.89\00:55:02.73
and things of that nature,
00:55:02.76\00:55:04.30
but if you don't
surrender completely
00:55:04.33\00:55:07.60
then how can God fix you?
00:55:07.64\00:55:10.97
And since I've
been in this thing,
00:55:11.01\00:55:12.74
preaching
faithfully for 14 years,
00:55:12.77\00:55:15.21
I've seen some
folk that walked away,
00:55:15.24\00:55:18.45
they didn't
want to give God all,
00:55:18.48\00:55:21.02
and I've seen
folk on the inside,
00:55:21.05\00:55:22.62
struggle because they've
been a part of this thing,
00:55:22.65\00:55:24.65
they've been born into it.
00:55:24.69\00:55:27.52
But it takes a
complete surrender
00:55:27.56\00:55:30.83
to Foundations of
our Faith of Christ,
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.83
of course, it is Christ.
00:55:32.86\00:55:34.33
But He wants to
build upon that foundation
00:55:34.36\00:55:37.47
and He wants to
build it in a ways
00:55:37.50\00:55:39.30
that the house looks like Him,
00:55:39.33\00:55:42.50
resembles Him, talks
like Him, smells like Him,
00:55:42.54\00:55:46.21
dresses like Him, eat like Him,
00:55:46.24\00:55:48.61
worship like
Him, all those things.
00:55:48.64\00:55:53.21
And so as you stand
to your feet with me,
00:55:53.25\00:55:56.18
as you're at home, as you
stand to your feet as well,
00:55:56.22\00:55:58.79
you can be in harmony with us.
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I'm challenging
each and every one of you
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in this Worship Center.
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I'm challenging each and every
one of you around the globe,
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that if you have not surrendered
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your life to Christ, you
ought to do it right now.
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'Cause you find
yourself in a situation
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that is unheard of, but that
thing's been lurking in you,
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and because it's
been lurking in you,
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the enemy's gonna
find the right time
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to bring it out of you.
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And so he studies
one like a stealth bomb,
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like a stealth
helicopter, he's silent.
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And Ellen White says,
"Things don't come out quickly,
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it's a slow process."
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So now is your
time to say, "Lord,
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if there is anything in me,
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I need You to kill it right now.
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If there is
anything lurking in me, Lord,
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I need it to die.
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Matter of fact,
tell the Lord what it is
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that's lurking in you."
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You know what it
is, I can't tell...
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You know what it is.
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God knows your heart,
so your eyes are closed
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and you'll tell Him right now,
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"Lord, kill the thing
that's in me right now,
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that's lurking in
me, whether it is gossip,
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whether it is backbiting,
whether it is jealously,
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whether it is envy,
whether it is pornography,
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whether it is stealing.
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You tell God
what's in you right now.
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Tell Him what's there so
that that thing can be gone,
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so that the blood of
Jesus can drown that thing out.
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Maybe you've got a
heart that doesn't forgive.
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Maybe you've got a
heart that's conditional,
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I don't know, it's time
for you to tell God right now
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before you lose your mind.
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Lord, take it from me.
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And as I pray
with you that's here
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and those around the world,
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I am challenging you
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to allow God's character
to be in you in totality,
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so that when he
comes his character
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shall be
perfectly reproduced in us
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so we can go home, you all.
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Father, in the name of
Jesus, we spend this time here
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not just for program,
Lord, but for ministry.
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We pray that hearts
would have been touched,
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and souls would have warmed
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and lives would have
been kept by thee, Lord.
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And so we're asking in the name
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of Jesus that you answer
this prayer in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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