I'm thankful to be
part of this rally.
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You know that the word rally,
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simply means to gather together
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so that you can become inspired.
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And we are living in such a time
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where it's almost
hard to be inspired
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because they are so much
bad news around us, Amen.
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And so, I entitled
to this sermon today,
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oh, I forgot to have my
V8. When I was little boy,
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I didn't like vegetables at all.
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Matter of fact I
could not stand them
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and it wasn't until I
became a Christian 10 years ago
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and decided to
be a vegetarian that
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I had to start
liking vegetables.
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And even though
they are some that
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I struggled with, I
eat them, but there is
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popular commercial
that's on the TV today,
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and basically whenever
you see these commercials
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about V8 juice, fruit
juice and one particular
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one that I like is,
he is about to throw away
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with his vegetables
and amidst he throwing
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his vegetables his wife
hit some day at the noggin
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and she says oh, oh you
should to have had a V8.
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And so, when I think about that,
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I think about the
understanding behind it
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and the understanding
behind it is if you don't
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have your vegetables
that your life would be
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off balance, it
would be unhealthy.
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I never knew the
importance of vegetables
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even though my
mother would scream at me
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about eat
vegetables son this and that,
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but now being a
vegetarian I understand
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I can't live without
them. And it's the same
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way in the spiritual
life that I believe that
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many of us are not
taking our vegetables,
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which is the word
of God and some of us
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have forgotten the
V8. And so if you were
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closer I would
probably hit you in the noggin
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and said oh, oh you
should have had your V8.
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As you look, in the
world around us is seemly
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not getting any
better. Matter of fact, it's a
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jungle out here. My
children, they love to
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go to the zoo. And
I'm at the point now well
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may not have to pay
to go to the zoo anymore,
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especially in the city
of Detroit which is the
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second most
violent city in America.
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I can just go to
a local neighborhood
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and watch the
Tigers and the animals and
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the Bears oh my, but
it's a sad commentary,
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where we live and how we live.
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And I want to tell you
that, that's not far from
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many of us, anytime
you and I don't spend
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time with God. There
is a Beast that resides
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in all of us. I
was looking at CNN
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and I'm an
advocate of watching news.
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There is anything I'm guilty off
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I watch CNN too
much. And yesterday as I
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watching the news
I listened to a man,
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who was watching
his girlfriend's baby
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and you've
probably heard about it,
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he was given her
bath, she didn't like
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a hair wash, she
began crying, the crying get
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even more intense, he
got so upset with her,
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he threw in the dryer,
he threw it in the dryer.
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The dryer had
already been on so you know
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that the heat was
already exceedingly hot,
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but he threw in the
dryer and he says for
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only five seconds as
though he is some hero,
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but that's the type
of world we live in.
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where there is
bestiality all around us from
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violence to sexual
predators. There is a
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website out now
for pedophiles that
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teaches them how to
get close to a child
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without breaking the
law. And he is a pedophile
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and is so the internet.
If you have your Bibles,
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I know you do go
to Isaiah 64, verse 6,
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and I'm like
Pastor Howard, I love when
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people say
Amen. And in my church
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if you don't if you are
not there they generally
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say give me a
minute. So we won't leave
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anyone out, amen.
So if you not there yet
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you can simply
say give me a minute.
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Isaiah chapter 64,
talking about the need of having
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of the V8, the
verse 6 simply says,
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but we are all
as an unclean thing,
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and all our
righteousness are as what?
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Filthy Rags; and we
do all fade as a leaf;
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and our
iniquities, like the wind,
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have taken us where,
away so the best that
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I could give God is
still like a what, filthy rag.
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Go one look over to
Jeremiah chapter 13,
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Jeremiah chapter
13th, Jeremiah the 13th
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chapter familiar text, verse 23,
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the Bible says at
this way, can Ethiopian
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change his skin, or
the leopard his spots?
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Then may ye
also do good that are
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accustomed to do what, Evil.
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So, you and I are
used to do what Evil.
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I give you an example.
Say you have in a bad day,
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no, no, no you folks
you don't have a bad day,
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but let's say
you have in a bad day
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and for some reason
the shoes you worn last
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night just all of
the sudden developed
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a corn on one of
your toes, and all of the
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sudden someone
comes in happy go lucky
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and smile and
not really penetrated
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what they are doing
and they just step on
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your foot. Get tired,
get irritated and you are
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countered, Amen,
your first response
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would be hey thank
you, have a great day.
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Your first
response would be this,
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but didn't you catch yourself.
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So our first
response generally is what,
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of Evil and so God
says that our righteousness
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as filthy rags and
we are accustomed to
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doing what Evil.
Jeremiah 17 verse 9,
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says that the
heart is deceitful above
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what all things and
desperately what wicked.
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So it tells you
already of our condition
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before we even get
started with a message.
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Uh, oh I should had a what V8.
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One of my favorite
books, The "Mount of Blessings"
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page 22 says this;
the heart of man is
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by nature cold,
dark and unloving.
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The heart of man
by nature is cold,
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dark and what, unloving.
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This is the
reason why it's easy for
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someone to kill a
baby, mess with a child,
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rape someone,
rob someone, killed
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without a moment
because anytime you
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and I are not
possessed by Christ.
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We are not natural
state, are you with me so far?
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And I'm gonna to
show you real life example
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of this, if I may.
Turn in your book to do in
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your Bibles at Daniel chapter 4,
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one of the
horrifying things about society
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is that no matter,
if you have security
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alarms, no matter
if you have an arsenal,
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there is still a
chance that you and I subject
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violence, Amen. No
matter if we are in
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cold water or
Detroit, you're subject to some
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type of
violence. There was a young
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girl in Minnesota
age 14, who was pregnant
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and her parents
did not know she was
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pregnant and how
that is I don't know,
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but they did not
know she was pregnant.
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So she has the
baby and of course
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because of parents
did not know she wanted
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to get rid off the
baby and so she decided
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that she is going to
kill the baby and hide
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the baby in the garage.
Now, killing the baby is
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sad enough, but she commenced to
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stabbing the baby a 135 times.
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Now you tell me
what's wrong with that
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picture. This is
the world we live in and
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in each one of us
there is a beast ready to
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lunge out. Are
you with me so forth?
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All you have to
do is have a bad day
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and watch the beast
come out on your spouse,
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on your children,
on your co-workers
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or even somebody
in the church family.
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You can have a bad
day and walk in to miles,
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and she missed
ring up your mout,
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and it's more than
you having your pocket.
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And there would be
terror at the corner,
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there is a beast in all
of us. And Nebuchadnezzar
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is a perfect example of
this. In Daniel chapter 1
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and I will review
for you for time purpose,
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Nebuchadnezzar had
many chances to accept God,
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amen. In Daniel
chapter 1 we see Daniel who is
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taking away from his
family into captivity
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and Scott was
believed he was age 17 and
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17 years old he is
in Babylon, the greatest
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nation at the time.
And because of his wisdom,
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Nebuchadnezzar besides
that Daniel and his three
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Hebrews were going
to be scholars for him.
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And so he told
them that they need to
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change their diet that
they need to eat like him,
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eat as food and drink
as wine and so Daniel says
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not so king,
somebody else say amen.
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That even our young
people, when they told
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right would be
obedient. So Daniel said not so,
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he said do you understand
by doing this what you put
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me at risk to do to
you, Daniel understood to God
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he serves so, he
says just give me 10 days
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and just give me
vegetables and water
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and watch God
work and after 10 days
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you know the story he
was 10 times what stronger
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and wiser and so the
king saw it so the king
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should have known
right there, there is some
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strange about these
boys. Then you get the
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Daniel chapter 2 the
king have the strange dream
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of the middle man and he
get all of his soothsayers
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and his astrologers
and his scientific men
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and of course
they could not tell him
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what the dream
was, they go to Daniel,
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Daniel try was to
commotion and Daniel
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says just give it
to me and Daniel has
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an all night prayer
meet. Hymns just three Hebrew
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words and they
had have to praying
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and Daniel is
given a vision from God
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and Daniel goes with
the king and explains to
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the king exactly what
the dream interpret in
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and in the king
acknowledges God.
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And you get the
chapter 3, the temporary fix
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of conversion last
shortly, because now he sees
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his head of God and
he says oh that's me.
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He makes this 90 foot
statue in the plain of Dura.
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He committed to
everybody to come into what,
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worship. At the sound
of the music they were
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suppose to drop down
and bow down and dance
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and all the service
staff. But, the three Hebrew
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words that says not so
king. And he says if you
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don't do it I will throw
you into the fiery furnish
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and he says even if
you do you will know
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that the God we serve,
amen is strong within you,
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but he get inside and
there is foe in the midst,
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don't you, don't you
tell me that Jesus never
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with you. Even in
the midst of a burning
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fiery furnish. How
God will make some cool
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when he is hot,
hello, amen. The king sees it
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and acknowledges
again, but again as only a
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temporary fix. Now
the thing that I enjoy
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about the Lord that
he is a chaser, amen,
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he chases us. And
I've been married to
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my wife for 12
years now and we just
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renewed our vows
last Sunday and I chased
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my wife, amen. I
chase her so much I told her
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that I still holding
her down, but God chases
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his people. He
chases with us because he
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created us and
he loves us, amen.
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Now don't
misunderstand it comes to time
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when probation will
close don't misunderstand that,
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but in Christ
Object lessons page 218,
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the book says the
heart that does not respond
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to divine graces
becomes hardy until it is no
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longer susceptible
to the influence of the
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Holy Spirit. The
hard, that does not respond
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get hard as a pastor
as a Gospel this ministry
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I've seen it that
hearts of grown hot on this
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message of
salvation, but even in the midst
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of that God
still continues to try
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to what soften us
and he will take us to
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experiences, are
you with me so far.
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And here Nebuchadnezzar
had three different
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experiences, three
different chapters that show
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who God was and yet
he still he only had a
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temporary
conversion, that only last at a
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few moments, then it
takes us to Daniel chapter 4
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and in verse 10,
Daniel chapter 4 the king
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has another dream
and I'll read it to you,
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the Bible says in
verse 10 of Daniel chapter 4,
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those were the visions
of mine heard in my bed;
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I saw, and behold a tree
in the midst of the earth,
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and the height
thereof was great.
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The tree grew, and was strong,
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and the height
thereof reached unto heaven,
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and the sight thereof to
the end of all the earth:
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the leaves thereof were
fair, and the fruit thereof
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much, and it was food
for all: the beasts of the
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field had shadow under
it, and the fowls of the
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heaven dwelt in
the boughs thereof,
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and all flesh was fed
on it. I saw in the visions
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of my head upon my
bed, and, behold, a watcher
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and holy one
came down from heaven;
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He cried with a loud
voice, and said thus,
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shake off its leaves,
and scatter its fruit:
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let the beasts get
away from under it,
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and the fowls from its branches:
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Nevertheless leave
the stump of his roots in
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the earth, even with a
band of iron and brass,
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in the tender
grass of the field;
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and let it be wet
with the dew of the heaven,
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they let his portion
be with the beasts in the
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grass of the earth:
Let his heart be changed
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from man's, and let a
beasts heart be given unto him;
00:16:41.26\00:16:44.36
and that seven
years pass over him.
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Can you imagine
having a dream like this,
00:16:47.23\00:16:50.29
that you have a
dream and you see this tree
00:16:50.32\00:16:53.53
and everything under the
sun, receives its fulfillment
00:16:53.56\00:17:00.12
from you and
then all of the sudden
00:17:00.15\00:17:02.23
I don't where,
cut down the tree,
00:17:02.26\00:17:06.87
shake the leaves. Now
me I would have woke up
00:17:06.90\00:17:11.14
in panic
especially, but I know the
00:17:11.17\00:17:15.03
understand enough.
Nebuchadnezzar have a
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history with Daniel
called Daniel needs to know
00:17:18.24\00:17:24.03
the
interpretation, it's important.
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The interpretation
is given in verse 22
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and 25 excuse me 26 and
27, and verse 22 he says,
00:17:31.62\00:17:38.95
it is you, oh, king, you
are grown and become strong:
00:17:38.98\00:17:42.46
for the greatness is
grown, and reach into heaven,
00:17:42.49\00:17:45.05
and thy domain to
the end of the earth.
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Verse 26, whereas
thy commanded to leave
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the stump of the tree of roots;
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Thy kingdom shall
be sure unto thee,
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after that have known
that the heavens do rule.
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So God says I got
to let you know that
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I'm a transform of
heart, but because you being
00:18:02.25\00:18:05.36
heart hurt right
now Nebuchadnezzar
00:18:05.39\00:18:07.51
I got to take you to the fire.
00:18:07.54\00:18:09.35
You know any horror
here people out there,
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don't look at him,
he'll give me away,
00:18:13.93\00:18:15.88
but he said I got
to take you through
00:18:18.04\00:18:19.43
something to let you
know that I'm in controlled,
00:18:19.46\00:18:22.30
because I want your
heart above anything else,
00:18:22.33\00:18:25.18
are you with me so far.
See God's word transform
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us from beast, I will
take it the rest later.
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Is there a transformer,
otherwise we've been like
00:18:34.36\00:18:37.74
a valley of dry bone.
Verse 27 careful instructions,
00:18:37.77\00:18:44.47
wherefore, O king, let
my counsel be acceptable
00:18:44.50\00:18:48.56
unto thee, and break
off your sins, your say,
00:18:48.59\00:18:52.76
by righteousness, by
being righteous and thine
00:18:52.79\00:18:56.28
iniquities by
showing mercy to the poor;
00:18:56.31\00:18:58.50
if it be for a
lengthening of thy tranquility.
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So he says I here
is we need to happen,
00:19:01.89\00:19:05.27
we need to take the
counsel that I give you
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and there you need to
start living right you
00:19:07.25\00:19:10.13
need to start living
what, because you've listen
00:19:10.16\00:19:13.25
to me. Now do you
start living right
00:19:13.28\00:19:15.59
but now you start showing mercy
00:19:15.62\00:19:16.93
because now you
living in righteous life you
00:19:16.96\00:19:18.85
showing mercy of the
poor. Whenever, So, So,
00:19:18.88\00:19:23.02
he has to count. Now
he knows that Daniel is
00:19:23.05\00:19:28.38
a man of God and
everything that Daniel has said,
00:19:28.41\00:19:32.14
he has spoken it
from God. God's word never
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changes, amen. If he
says it, is gonna to happen,
00:19:35.97\00:19:39.45
then am I right,
amen. So, he said of no,
00:19:39.48\00:19:43.23
above all that if I
don't listen there is gonna
00:19:43.26\00:19:48.76
to be trouble in the
camp. The pass out we can
00:19:48.79\00:19:52.62
tell you we've counsel
people we show them Bible,
00:19:52.65\00:19:55.25
but yet and still
people still just don't want to
00:19:55.28\00:19:57.86
listen and you fear for
them, because God's word is
00:19:57.89\00:20:02.44
there to have
our love to be rooted
00:20:02.47\00:20:05.60
and grounded in him.
That's what we have to send
00:20:05.63\00:20:08.73
Bibles to Africa, amen.
So that they can have the
00:20:08.76\00:20:12.41
same chance that we
have. The king being like most
00:20:12.44\00:20:18.73
of us and you
know Nebuchadnezzar is
00:20:18.76\00:20:22.13
some of our grandfather;
he is kind to us somehow.
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Verse 29 says, at
the end of twelve months,
00:20:25.26\00:20:34.41
he walked in the palace
of the kingdom of Babylon.
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How many months with
equal to how long one
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year at the end
of twelve months,
00:20:41.71\00:20:45.00
he went to his palace.
Verse 30 says, the king spoke,
00:20:45.03\00:20:50.62
and said, is not
this great Babylon,
00:20:50.65\00:20:55.61
that I have built for
the house of the kingdom
00:20:55.64\00:20:59.81
by the might of my
power, and for the honor of my
00:20:59.84\00:21:03.53
majesty? Is this not
to Babylon that I have
00:21:03.56\00:21:07.27
built I've done
this, all of this is mine,
00:21:07.30\00:21:12.52
all of it is mine;
not giving God credit all,
00:21:12.55\00:21:16.37
but
Nebuchadnezzar had a problem,
00:21:16.40\00:21:18.16
he had a pride issue.
And you have to understand
00:21:18.19\00:21:22.11
that God is trying to
cut off everything for
00:21:22.14\00:21:24.96
my life that will stop
us from being translated,
00:21:24.99\00:21:28.14
are you with me so far.
And it's only by his word
00:21:28.17\00:21:31.84
that we know it uh, oh
well I should had a V8,
00:21:31.87\00:21:36.01
but before we get
to the next verse,
00:21:38.13\00:21:40.64
let's look at the time
frame, he had twelve months to
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repent, he had twelve
months to get Bible studies,
00:21:46.76\00:21:50.89
he had twelve months to
get pastoral counseling,
00:21:50.92\00:21:54.12
he had twelve months to
go to church every week,
00:21:54.15\00:21:57.27
he had twelve
months to go to pray of me,
00:21:57.30\00:21:59.18
he had twelve months
to have a small group
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Bible study, he had
twelve months yeah, amen,
00:22:02.06\00:22:05.16
he had twelve long
months God was waiting don't
00:22:05.19\00:22:09.26
you tell me my God is
not a patient God, amen.
00:22:09.29\00:22:12.32
Let me show you
2nd Peter chapter 3,
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hold just thumb
there, hold your thumb there
00:22:15.51\00:22:17.81
and go to 2nd Peter 3
now I don't know most of
00:22:17.84\00:22:19.82
you can be
sided, but 2nd Peter 3,
00:22:19.85\00:22:21.88
2nd Peter chapter 3
every one you there please
00:22:23.71\00:22:28.45
say amen. 2nd Peter
chapter 3, 2nd Peter chapter 3,
00:22:28.48\00:22:36.00
the Bible says, the
Lord is not slack concern
00:22:36.03\00:22:39.00
his promise, as
some men count slackness;
00:22:39.03\00:22:41.27
but is long-suffering
to us, not willing that any
00:22:41.30\00:22:44.32
should perish, but
that all should what come to
00:22:44.35\00:22:47.51
repentant. God is
waiting for people to get their
00:22:47.54\00:22:51.25
lives in order and the
only way that happens is
00:22:51.28\00:22:53.77
when they know the word of God.
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.25
So for twelve months
he has waited on Neby.
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For twelve months he is
waiting for him to change
00:22:59.35\00:23:03.24
his thought
pattern, for twelve months
00:23:03.27\00:23:05.21
he is waiting for him
to stop listen to certain
00:23:05.24\00:23:07.41
music, for twelve
months he is waiting for him
00:23:07.44\00:23:09.78
to stop and hanging
out with certain friends,
00:23:09.81\00:23:11.73
for twelve months
long months he is waiting.
00:23:11.76\00:23:14.63
Besides he is waiting
for some of us in this very
00:23:17.14\00:23:18.92
room. For twelve months
he is waiting for some of us
00:23:18.95\00:23:23.05
to stop
fornicating, for twelve months
00:23:23.08\00:23:26.46
he is waiting for
some of us to stop using
00:23:26.49\00:23:28.69
pervaded
language, for twelve months
00:23:28.72\00:23:31.36
he is waiting for
some of us to come out
00:23:31.39\00:23:34.12
of in a torches relationship,
for twelve months he is
00:23:34.15\00:23:37.32
waiting for some of
us to stop our lustful
00:23:37.35\00:23:39.83
practices that we
have, for twelve months
00:23:39.86\00:23:42.76
he is waiting for us
to stop watching movies
00:23:42.79\00:23:44.60
that law of the
Christian character,
00:23:44.63\00:23:46.39
for twelve months he
is waiting for us to stop
00:23:46.42\00:23:49.06
listening to music
that, that brings out the
00:23:49.09\00:23:51.35
animal passion, for
twelve months he is waiting
00:23:51.38\00:23:54.79
for us to stop being
so mean and so hateful,
00:23:54.82\00:23:57.25
for twelve months he
is waiting for us to stop
00:23:57.28\00:24:00.57
gossiping, for
twelve months he is waiting
00:24:00.60\00:24:04.27
for us to stop be in
judgmental and hypocritical,
00:24:04.30\00:24:06.95
and for twelve
months he is waiting for us
00:24:06.98\00:24:09.14
to be more faithful in
our given ourselves to God,
00:24:09.17\00:24:12.08
for twelve months he is
waiting for us to act like,
00:24:12.11\00:24:15.44
we know and whom we
believe, for twelve months,
00:24:15.47\00:24:18.49
he is waiting for
prejudice and racism and sexism
00:24:18.52\00:24:23.23
and Agism and all
that stuff to be removed,
00:24:23.26\00:24:25.60
for twelve months he is
waiting, for twelve months
00:24:25.63\00:24:29.71
he is waiting to
remove everything that stuns
00:24:29.74\00:24:32.44
the Christian
growth, for twelve months
00:24:32.47\00:24:34.90
they are sitting back waiting,
00:24:34.93\00:24:37.37
Jesus is intercessing
on for us, twelve months
00:24:37.40\00:24:40.96
he is waiting for us to
stop going to the casinos
00:24:40.99\00:24:43.54
and, twelve month he
is waiting for us to eat
00:24:43.57\00:24:45.73
and live right,
for twelve months yeah,
00:24:45.76\00:24:47.88
he is waiting for
you and I, twelve months,
00:24:49.03\00:24:53.52
now I don't know
about you, but if my wife,
00:24:53.55\00:24:58.72
if I was the was
like Gomer I don't know
00:24:58.75\00:25:02.84
if I have twelve
months, I love my wife to death,
00:25:02.87\00:25:06.41
but if she decided to
walk out on our relationship
00:25:08.11\00:25:12.24
and sleep with somebody else.
00:25:12.27\00:25:13.96
I don't know if
I would give her a
00:25:13.99\00:25:14.98
twelve months judgment
we'll be executed, amen.
00:25:15.01\00:25:20.15
I'm sorry I don't
have twelve months,
00:25:20.18\00:25:23.19
twelve months is a
long time. 365 days 52 weeks
00:25:25.53\00:25:32.42
that's a long time.
All you got is axed someone
00:25:32.45\00:25:36.59
who is engaged,
and they are married
00:25:36.62\00:25:38.95
just twelve months from
now, I've had some common past,
00:25:38.98\00:25:42.43
can we speed this
process up, can we change the
00:25:42.46\00:25:45.18
wedding date, can we
hurry up in you know get
00:25:45.21\00:25:47.07
married. Time is
running twelve months to go.
00:25:47.10\00:25:50.82
This is a long time,
but God is so gracious
00:25:50.85\00:25:55.33
that he is waiting
for Nebuchadnezzar to get
00:25:55.36\00:25:59.32
his wife together. And
unfortunately Nebuchadnezzar
00:25:59.35\00:26:06.24
like many of us won't
listen. Verse 31, verse 31,
00:26:06.27\00:26:14.38
while the word was
in the king's mouth,
00:26:20.07\00:26:22.10
their fell a voice
from heaven, saying,
00:26:23.99\00:26:26.12
O king Nebuchadnezzar,
to thee it is spoken;
00:26:26.15\00:26:29.99
thy kingdom is
departed. But brother can't get
00:26:30.02\00:26:34.67
the words out of his
mouth before the Lord
00:26:34.70\00:26:36.96
executed the
prophecy. Did Daniel prophecy to
00:26:36.99\00:26:43.16
the bones? He
did he said change,
00:26:43.19\00:26:46.07
but he don't want to
listen, and says unto you the
00:26:48.07\00:26:53.63
kingdom is departed.
Now verse 33, the same hour
00:26:53.66\00:26:59.26
was the thing
fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar:
00:26:59.29\00:27:02.01
and was driven from men,
and did eat grass as oxen,
00:27:02.04\00:27:05.32
and his body was wet
with the dew of heaven,
00:27:05.35\00:27:07.75
till his hairs were
grown like eagles' feathers,
00:27:07.78\00:27:10.11
and his nails like birds' claws.
00:27:10.14\00:27:12.36
This is the king,
brothers and sisters,
00:27:12.39\00:27:15.87
this is not the
servant, this is not the jackal,
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.46
this is the king,
can you imagine one early
00:27:18.49\00:27:23.51
morning your responsibility
is to go to the king
00:27:23.54\00:27:26.88
and serve him his
cup of tea for the day
00:27:26.91\00:27:29.38
and you go and
you knock on the door
00:27:29.41\00:27:31.25
and don't hear anything
and it becomes strange to you.
00:27:32.93\00:27:35.89
So you knock a little
bit louder boong, boong,
00:27:35.92\00:27:38.45
boong, and all of the
sudden you hear something,
00:27:38.48\00:27:40.63
do you know the
king don't have any pets
00:27:40.66\00:27:44.42
in the room so easily
your heart start shaking,
00:27:44.45\00:27:47.71
you drop the tea and
you nervous you hear again,
00:27:47.74\00:27:50.64
so you immediately
called a captain guards
00:27:50.67\00:27:53.67
and everybody
is running, run and
00:27:55.26\00:27:56.54
coming what's going
on listen wait listen
00:27:56.57\00:27:58.95
let me knock.
And now they scare,
00:27:58.98\00:28:06.45
because they know
the king did not go
00:28:06.48\00:28:08.14
and bought pit
Bulls and German Shepherds
00:28:08.17\00:28:09.66
and Bulldogs. So
they tried door open just
00:28:09.69\00:28:13.86
a little bit, they
peak in and they always
00:28:13.89\00:28:17.54
send a one, who is a
scary send first some
00:28:17.57\00:28:21.88
of you almost been in that boat
00:28:21.91\00:28:23.29
or so he tries the
door open, he peaks in and
00:28:23.32\00:28:30.59
he walking slowly
and he don't see anything
00:28:30.62\00:28:34.22
and say common,
keeps moving, common scary
00:28:34.25\00:28:38.17
guards not the
king is now in the room
00:28:38.20\00:28:41.94
and all of the sudden
you hear the noise you jump
00:28:41.97\00:28:45.09
and you back out of the
room and you look around
00:28:45.12\00:28:47.15
and see nothing there
then you go to the courtyard,
00:28:47.18\00:28:50.54
the balcony where
the king is, usually have
00:28:50.57\00:28:53.79
a mid-day sun and
you go and you look over.
00:28:53.82\00:28:57.23
You come back and just
as though you just seen
00:28:58.78\00:29:02.56
a dead man and here
you see the king of the
00:29:02.59\00:29:06.80
greatest nation of
earth want all full was
00:29:06.83\00:29:09.66
eating grass man.
Eating grass, ghost long again,
00:29:09.69\00:29:17.72
hair is long again, he looks up,
00:29:17.75\00:29:20.83
he is the king. I
know some of you may look
00:29:24.55\00:29:29.70
like dead in the morning
before you get all beautify,
00:29:29.73\00:29:32.53
If you honest,
this is how we go, amen.
00:29:32.56\00:29:41.23
But the king now is a
beast. Now scholars believe that
00:29:43.95\00:29:51.95
he wasn't really a
beast. They simply suggest that
00:29:51.98\00:29:56.62
he had lost his
mind for seven years
00:29:56.65\00:29:58.79
and when you lose your
mind your nails go long,
00:29:58.82\00:30:01.06
your hairs uncombed
and you act like a beast,
00:30:01.09\00:30:05.29
but my Bible said, he was
like a beast eating grass.
00:30:05.32\00:30:09.32
There are beasts in
this room right now.
00:30:09.35\00:30:14.29
There are beasts
watching all around the world.
00:30:14.32\00:30:16.76
When church folk don't
live according to God's
00:30:20.01\00:30:22.69
word he became a
beast. All you got to do is
00:30:22.72\00:30:27.12
catch one of the
wrong time and you are like
00:30:27.15\00:30:29.94
where did that come
from. Can we pray together
00:30:29.97\00:30:32.35
no we no need to pray together.
00:30:32.38\00:30:33.80
Brothers and sisters, uh,
oh I forgot to have my V8.
00:30:39.02\00:30:46.88
If we you don't get
your V8 you began to fear
00:30:46.91\00:30:51.04
feel the beast,
are you with me so far.
00:30:51.07\00:30:55.39
And God has a
special way of showing his
00:30:58.40\00:31:01.96
people their sins, amen.
Nothing is here from under
00:31:01.99\00:31:07.76
the sun. I got a
good friend I won't say
00:31:07.79\00:31:12.10
who it is or where is
from, but he has a sibling,
00:31:12.13\00:31:15.72
who grew up knowing God's word,
00:31:15.75\00:31:20.61
who grew up
knowing what God expects
00:31:20.64\00:31:25.33
and this
particular individual decided
00:31:25.36\00:31:27.34
to have an lustrous
affair with married individual
00:31:27.37\00:31:31.77
for years. And a
friend of mine found out
00:31:31.80\00:31:37.99
that his sibling has HIV
then he got understand some.
00:31:38.02\00:31:44.63
The sibling wasn't in
the church didn't take
00:31:44.66\00:31:46.65
associate was
show up you know make a
00:31:46.68\00:31:48.96
guest appearance
you know super star
00:31:48.99\00:31:51.10
appearance and wave
and say hello and good bye,
00:31:51.13\00:31:53.52
but this particular person
was in his affair for years,
00:31:53.55\00:31:57.45
and now this
particular person has HIV.
00:31:58.47\00:32:02.15
Can you imagine how
the parents feels send
00:32:03.35\00:32:07.70
the person to
church school and college
00:32:07.73\00:32:11.07
and to have the
kid end up like this?
00:32:11.10\00:32:14.63
There is a beast in
all of us looking out,
00:32:14.66\00:32:19.01
there is a place
that I go to often is
00:32:20.01\00:32:21.96
called Advent Home
in Calhoun, Tennessee
00:32:21.99\00:32:24.25
and I go there
three times a year,
00:32:24.28\00:32:26.19
because my background
is a probation officer
00:32:26.22\00:32:29.09
during my probation
officer. So I'm used to
00:32:29.12\00:32:31.31
dealing with
hardcore case that don't mean
00:32:31.34\00:32:33.38
you could sin or
you case to me either,
00:32:33.41\00:32:35.17
but this place is
desire to help the linked
00:32:36.39\00:32:38.65
case especially
those who have the church.
00:32:38.68\00:32:41.08
And when I sit
and talk with him,
00:32:41.11\00:32:44.27
and interview
them, and counsel them,
00:32:44.30\00:32:46.17
you will be amazed how
they hooked on pornography.
00:32:46.89\00:32:50.07
You will be amazed
how they hooked on drugs.
00:32:50.10\00:32:52.11
You will be amazed
on how they are hooked
00:32:52.14\00:32:53.81
on all these
negative attributes and guess
00:32:53.84\00:32:57.62
where they see it
from, the parents.
00:32:57.65\00:32:59.94
There was a beast
in me, that's the how
00:33:05.32\00:33:08.57
we are informed you.
I was studying to be a
00:33:08.60\00:33:11.70
Black Panther; I was
studying to be a Black
00:33:11.73\00:33:14.38
Muslim. So, if I
was who I was back then
00:33:14.41\00:33:19.06
and brother do I
hold and invited me to a
00:33:19.09\00:33:21.23
rally I wouldn't think
it was this type of rally,
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.10
amen. But there was
a beast in me and my
00:33:23.13\00:33:28.22
number priority in life
was to kill the white man,
00:33:28.25\00:33:31.74
I live for that. Even
when my mother sent me
00:33:33.82\00:33:35.78
to college, but I'm
from the south side of
00:33:35.81\00:33:39.30
Chicago which is a
very segregated area,
00:33:39.33\00:33:42.59
where free of kind
is the man his temple
00:33:42.62\00:33:45.99
and everything is
there, the Mosque,
00:33:46.02\00:33:48.94
and so I grew up in a
early 90's in my teenage years
00:33:48.97\00:33:53.46
and that's one all the
black perhaps start resurging
00:33:53.49\00:33:55.92
and black sans
party and so as I got to
00:33:55.95\00:33:58.80
acquaint this college
in Grand Rapids in Michigan
00:33:58.83\00:34:00.80
they weren't too many
folks like me at the campus.
00:34:00.83\00:34:03.82
And so I am
running in with folks,
00:34:03.85\00:34:06.64
we are always, and so my buddies
00:34:06.67\00:34:09.86
and I we just knew
that we are going to kill us
00:34:09.89\00:34:12.10
white man one day.
That was our desire.
00:34:12.13\00:34:16.45
It really was to
kill us a white man.
00:34:16.48\00:34:21.59
We were waiting
for the opportunity.
00:34:21.62\00:34:24.02
All he had to do
would say that wrong word
00:34:24.05\00:34:26.97
and it was on. And I
deserved this hardness
00:34:27.00\00:34:31.80
of the heart and as a
result of that hardness
00:34:31.83\00:34:34.07
my temper became very
quick, so that if we got
00:34:34.10\00:34:37.72
into it I would swing
before I asked questions,
00:34:37.75\00:34:40.21
did as I was
told. Oh don't worry now
00:34:40.24\00:34:44.47
I'm not like that
now, amen. It's only one of
00:34:44.50\00:34:50.45
me, ha, ha, ha. And
I won't give you too
00:34:50.48\00:34:55.28
much because I am going
to take your more tomorrow,
00:34:55.31\00:34:56.98
but the whole point
is, if I could have been a
00:34:57.01\00:35:01.22
wrong force like a
beast it would have been,
00:35:01.25\00:35:02.86
but when God gave me
this message to a mentor
00:35:02.89\00:35:08.14
of mine, a Richard Magsby,
it began to soften my heart.
00:35:08.17\00:35:12.94
So my desire to
kill began to diminish,
00:35:12.97\00:35:17.52
my desire to hurt
began to diminish and all the
00:35:17.55\00:35:21.73
desires that I had
that I grown up with in the
00:35:21.76\00:35:23.82
world began to
diminished and as a result God
00:35:23.85\00:35:27.69
touched my
soul, amen halleluiah.
00:35:27.72\00:35:31.33
And God has a funny
way of showing you how
00:35:31.36\00:35:34.83
he has broken you
down. So when I came into the
00:35:34.86\00:35:36.87
church the first
person I brought to the church
00:35:36.90\00:35:39.56
was a white
female. Isn't that so?
00:35:39.59\00:35:44.22
Does God have a
sense of humor, amen? Amen.
00:35:44.25\00:35:46.56
But I was a beast, and
I don't mind acknowledging
00:35:49.09\00:35:52.45
I was beast but even
when I got in the church,
00:35:52.48\00:35:54.39
I still was a beast
because I was eating wrong type
00:35:54.42\00:35:59.21
of food, spiritually,
are you with me so far.
00:35:59.24\00:36:03.56
So you can be in the
church and not be part
00:36:04.94\00:36:07.37
of the church and not
be looking towards sermon
00:36:07.40\00:36:09.95
but I was still a beast,
I was not drinking my V8,
00:36:09.98\00:36:12.96
are you with me so
far. I was drinking some
00:36:14.89\00:36:17.52
other type of stuff. So I
will go to church and then
00:36:17.55\00:36:20.63
after church I was
still go to my block buster
00:36:20.66\00:36:22.30
videos, I was still
hanging out with some my friends
00:36:22.33\00:36:25.36
I was still doing this
and that. I was not drinking
00:36:25.39\00:36:29.28
the V8. I did not have
my mind on spiritual things,
00:36:29.31\00:36:36.67
but I was in the
church, but I was still a beast,
00:36:36.70\00:36:40.49
are you with me so
far, amen. So Nebuchadnezzar
00:36:40.52\00:36:45.07
now is a beast. Now
the story ended there,
00:36:45.10\00:36:50.36
there is no hope, amen,
amen. He is a beast yeah,
00:36:50.39\00:36:58.61
he is the king look at
the picture; he is a beast,
00:36:58.64\00:37:02.08
eating grass land. Oh
but my God is gracious,
00:37:02.11\00:37:08.57
he is gracious go
to Daniel chapter 4,
00:37:08.60\00:37:12.08
look at verse 15, I get excited,
00:37:12.11\00:37:16.66
so if I get jumping
around the camera can catch me
00:37:16.69\00:37:19.47
I'm sorry, but,
but, but God, he shows us
00:37:19.50\00:37:23.60
something in his
word that even though
00:37:23.63\00:37:25.53
we can act like a beast,
there is still hope, amen.
00:37:25.56\00:37:30.33
Daniel chapter 4
verse 15, he says,
00:37:30.36\00:37:33.45
nevertheless leave
the stump of his roots
00:37:33.48\00:37:37.72
in the what, in the
earth, even with a band of iron
00:37:37.75\00:37:43.84
and brass and the
tender grass of the field,
00:37:43.87\00:37:46.19
and let it be wet
with the dew of heaven,
00:37:46.22\00:37:48.38
and let us portion
with the beasts in the grass
00:37:48.41\00:37:50.67
of the earth. God says
that even though cut down
00:37:50.70\00:37:53.33
the tree save the root.
See you don't understand
00:37:53.36\00:37:56.81
that? He says cut down the tree,
00:37:56.84\00:37:58.81
but I'm going to save the root,
00:37:58.84\00:38:00.61
I'm going to
keep it in the earth.
00:38:00.64\00:38:02.10
Somebody get excited.
I will cut down the lambs
00:38:02.13\00:38:05.82
of what, the lamb
of sexual perversion,
00:38:05.85\00:38:09.60
the lamb of
adultery, the lamb of hatred,
00:38:09.63\00:38:12.65
the lamb of anger, the
lamb of lustful desire,
00:38:12.68\00:38:16.76
the lamb of lying,
the lamb of cheating,
00:38:16.79\00:38:19.84
but I want to leave the
root, and now I going to
00:38:19.87\00:38:22.95
leave the root, but don't
put middle band around it,
00:38:22.98\00:38:25.66
see the middle band
is there to protect from
00:38:25.69\00:38:27.30
cracking and spinning
in two because spinning
00:38:27.33\00:38:29.94
of two is there,
are you with me so far?
00:38:29.97\00:38:32.70
So God says I want cut
all the sinful stuff down,
00:38:32.73\00:38:36.43
but I want to leave the
root and I want to leave
00:38:36.46\00:38:38.37
the in the earth
because in the earth is
00:38:38.40\00:38:39.80
where the new trends
are and then I'm going to
00:38:39.83\00:38:42.79
take care with
the dew from heaven,
00:38:42.82\00:38:44.82
are you with me so
far. See God is not want to
00:38:44.85\00:38:48.84
destroy us, he want to save us,
00:38:48.87\00:38:51.24
but he will cut you down,
but he will leave the root
00:38:51.27\00:38:54.79
and he will put a
band around us so that you
00:38:54.82\00:38:57.82
won't crack, you won't
split, because he don't
00:38:57.85\00:39:01.18
want you to die,
are you with me so far.
00:39:01.21\00:39:04.06
Nebuchadnezzar did all of that,
00:39:05.87\00:39:07.40
God cut him down to a
beast, but yet he kept
00:39:07.43\00:39:12.35
the root and he
announced that he keep the root,
00:39:12.38\00:39:15.16
he then put a band
around it to protect it.
00:39:15.19\00:39:17.61
He said that's my
tree, that's my stone and
00:39:17.64\00:39:22.47
because of that,
I can take damage
00:39:22.50\00:39:25.51
Ghost to heaven, amen
this good stuff in it.
00:39:25.54\00:39:31.35
And even though
Nebuchadnezzar was
00:39:33.58\00:39:35.20
a knucklehead, God
so fair that he needed
00:39:35.23\00:39:40.82
to save him. God
wants to cut away the sin
00:39:40.85\00:39:46.74
from our lives. He cut
all my anger, my prior,
00:39:46.77\00:39:51.08
my lack of faithfulness,
my lack of willingness,
00:39:51.11\00:39:55.02
he cut all that
down while I was thread
00:39:55.05\00:39:57.10
with 15 years in a prison.
He says I got to get that
00:39:57.13\00:40:00.70
boy right there, I was
I used to tearful Jesus
00:40:00.73\00:40:04.34
is a white man for a
white of full what a black Jesus
00:40:04.37\00:40:09.55
there are you know I'm radical.
00:40:09.58\00:40:11.36
I would start turning
focus the Bible is win by
00:40:11.39\00:40:14.69
Shakespeare I said
think that all pastors
00:40:14.72\00:40:20.49
and preaches were
pimps, look at me now.
00:40:20.52\00:40:23.35
I told you God got a
sense of humor, amen.
00:40:23.38\00:40:28.33
I just knew that what
was in this word wasn't true.
00:40:28.36\00:40:34.32
And he says he cut
this boy down, but I must,
00:40:34.35\00:40:38.11
I must save the
root, because there are
00:40:38.14\00:40:40.05
something that I
see him that he don't
00:40:40.08\00:40:41.52
see in himself,
someone jump him down all the
00:40:41.55\00:40:45.74
way to the ground but
then I'm going to feed him.
00:40:45.77\00:40:49.60
I'm going to read to
him. I'm going to send him
00:40:49.63\00:40:52.72
away to a small
school in South Dakota
00:40:52.75\00:40:55.29
called Missionka.
I'm going to convert him.
00:40:55.32\00:40:57.92
I'm going go to teach
him how to love everybody
00:41:00.78\00:41:03.14
and not just one
body. God wanted to cut all
00:41:03.17\00:41:09.81
this down so that
the man can sprout again.
00:41:09.84\00:41:12.78
Go to Job chapter 14,
Job is the before psalms,
00:41:12.81\00:41:16.33
Job come along with me
Job, Job are you with me
00:41:16.36\00:41:20.04
so far. Oh, oh, we
should had a what V8.
00:41:20.07\00:41:24.95
Job 14, Job 14, Job 14,
verse 4, are you there amen.
00:41:24.98\00:41:40.42
The Bible says, who
can bring a clean thing out
00:41:40.45\00:41:43.22
of an unclean, no
one. Seeing his days are
00:41:43.25\00:41:47.83
determined, the number
of his months are with thee,
00:41:47.86\00:41:49.70
that has point his
bounds that he cannot pass;
00:41:49.73\00:41:53.22
Turn from him, that he
may rest, till he shall
00:41:53.25\00:41:55.97
accomplish, as
an hireling his day.
00:41:56.00\00:41:58.45
Here is what I want
you to pay attention to,
00:41:58.48\00:42:00.66
For there is hope,
for there is hope of what,
00:42:00.69\00:42:04.93
of a tree, if it be
cut down, Lord have mercy,
00:42:04.96\00:42:08.96
Lord have mercy,
Lord have mercy that it
00:42:08.99\00:42:12.18
what it will sprout
again, he has got so what
00:42:12.21\00:42:16.11
that the tree that cut
out, God says I need to sprout
00:42:16.14\00:42:18.65
it again so it
can be my tree see you
00:42:18.68\00:42:20.59
and I have grown out
trees. We've grown a tree where
00:42:20.62\00:42:24.52
we wanted to and
because of that our
00:42:24.55\00:42:26.72
lives is not going to
where we wanted to go.
00:42:26.75\00:42:28.73
So if you can put a stamp on it,
00:42:28.76\00:42:30.91
it would be
pastor Jackson's tree,
00:42:30.94\00:42:32.51
but it needs to be God's tree.
00:42:32.54\00:42:34.58
So he says, I'll cut it
down for the whole prove
00:42:34.61\00:42:38.98
that it would what
it will sprout again
00:42:39.01\00:42:41.12
and when it's
sprout again this time gets
00:42:41.15\00:42:44.28
losing control.
Jesus anything control
00:42:44.31\00:42:47.69
because then he can hang
on the top of it my tree,
00:42:47.72\00:42:51.03
only for me. Go
back to Daniel chapter 4,
00:42:51.06\00:42:55.17
go back to Daniel chapter
4 we can much to a close,
00:42:55.20\00:42:57.32
Daniel chapter 4, this
is what folk in Africa,
00:42:57.35\00:43:01.22
need Bibles, so they
can get what you got they
00:43:01.25\00:43:05.05
can see themselves
perhaps as beast to come again
00:43:05.08\00:43:10.20
and get there and
send their same as band,
00:43:10.23\00:43:13.07
are you with me so
far. Daniel chapter 4,
00:43:13.10\00:43:16.24
for seven years
this brother was a beast
00:43:16.27\00:43:20.12
and unfortunately
some of us would have to go
00:43:20.15\00:43:22.18
through trials and
tribulation for seven
00:43:22.21\00:43:24.33
long years, until
God gets our attention.
00:43:24.36\00:43:27.97
Now hope it doesn't
happen, but if it happens
00:43:28.00\00:43:31.24
then he is in control,
amen. My wife and I we have
00:43:31.27\00:43:35.20
three kids. Oldest
daughter is a singer
00:43:35.23\00:43:38.93
in high school, our
oldest boy is in 8th grade
00:43:38.96\00:43:43.79
and our youngest
one is in 2nd grade
00:43:43.82\00:43:47.70
and my wife and I,
we have family devotion
00:43:47.73\00:43:50.08
we have prayer,
and we explain to them,
00:43:50.11\00:43:51.97
if you don't have an
experience with Jesus
00:43:52.00\00:43:55.24
of what, experience
with Jesus, you are reading
00:43:55.27\00:43:59.16
to be meaningless. And
you will leave this house
00:43:59.19\00:44:03.99
and become a beast.
And if God has to take
00:44:04.02\00:44:07.63
him down the road and
back, we know he will.
00:44:07.66\00:44:11.94
Some of us have to go
through the fiery trials
00:44:14.29\00:44:16.34
to be beast. And
for some of us it takes
00:44:16.37\00:44:21.26
years you know
I've been in my church
00:44:21.29\00:44:22.88
Detroit Northwest for
a year and I'm watched
00:44:22.91\00:44:25.71
in so many of the kids
left the church as teenagers
00:44:25.74\00:44:28.58
began to comeback and
then when their listen
00:44:28.61\00:44:30.94
to the horror
stories of how they lived,
00:44:30.97\00:44:33.06
I said this only by
God's grace that you just still
00:44:33.09\00:44:35.13
alive. You know the
story that our children
00:44:35.16\00:44:39.13
go through and
they leave God's church.
00:44:39.16\00:44:40.81
And they come back in
the horror stories as there,
00:44:42.27\00:44:44.37
so young people don't
leave, because you will
00:44:44.40\00:44:48.24
become a beast,
but you can be a beast
00:44:48.27\00:44:51.44
and appear too.
Daniel chapter 4 verse 37,
00:44:51.47\00:44:59.34
excuse me I'm
starting verse 34, he says at
00:44:59.37\00:45:05.16
the end of the
days I Nebuchadnezzar
00:45:05.19\00:45:07.91
lifted up my eyes unto heaven,
00:45:07.94\00:45:10.42
and my
understanding returned unto me,
00:45:10.45\00:45:13.02
and I blessed the most High God,
00:45:13.05\00:45:15.31
and I praised and
honored him that lives forever,
00:45:15.34\00:45:18.82
whose dominion is an
everlasting dominion,
00:45:18.85\00:45:21.48
and his kingdom is from
generation to generation:
00:45:21.51\00:45:26.09
excuse me, And all the
inhabitants of the earth
00:45:26.12\00:45:28.37
are reputed as
nothing: and he doeth according
00:45:28.40\00:45:31.44
to his will in
the army of heaven,
00:45:31.47\00:45:33.24
and among the
inhabitants of the earth:
00:45:33.27\00:45:34.95
and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him,
00:45:34.98\00:45:37.95
what doest thou?
At the same time Lord
00:45:37.98\00:45:41.80
have mercy, my reason
my mind returned unto me;
00:45:41.83\00:45:45.60
and for the glory of my kingdom,
00:45:45.63\00:45:48.28
my honor and
brightness returned unto me;
00:45:48.31\00:45:51.01
and my counselors and
my Lords sought unto me;
00:45:51.04\00:45:54.64
and I was
established in my kingdom,
00:45:54.67\00:45:56.78
and excellent
majesty was added unto me.
00:45:56.81\00:45:59.37
Now I Nebuchadnezzar,
the hard hated doeth praise
00:45:59.40\00:46:04.63
and extol and
honor the King of heaven,
00:46:04.66\00:46:07.57
all whose works are
truth, and his ways justice:
00:46:07.60\00:46:12.11
and those that walk in
pride he is able to what
00:46:12.14\00:46:15.46
amen, it took him
seven years to realize that.
00:46:15.49\00:46:20.23
It took him seven
years to finally acknowledge
00:46:21.62\00:46:24.91
that God was who he says he was.
00:46:24.94\00:46:27.87
Seven years, seven long years,
00:46:27.90\00:46:34.34
but he had to come
back to the word of God
00:46:34.37\00:46:36.35
in order to find, who
God is. There is a beast
00:46:36.38\00:46:42.94
in all of us, if
we don't have our V8;
00:46:42.97\00:46:47.06
this is the V8 that
you need to eat in drink
00:46:47.09\00:46:53.52
every day. Ezekiel said
I eat it and it was good
00:46:53.55\00:46:58.17
to my belly. What about
you? I want to tell you a
00:46:58.20\00:47:05.13
story of mount climbers,
three mount, four mount
00:47:05.16\00:47:08.50
climbers. The
four friends one day
00:47:08.53\00:47:12.74
decided they go on
to climb as high in huge
00:47:12.77\00:47:15.80
mountain. In the midst
of climb at this mountain,
00:47:15.83\00:47:20.71
it was competitive and
so they climb the mountain
00:47:20.74\00:47:27.43
by climbing and then
it started to get dark
00:47:27.46\00:47:31.75
outside and that's
it get dark outside on
00:47:31.78\00:47:36.65
this particular night
the cloud it was very cloudy,
00:47:36.68\00:47:41.50
the stars did not
show, the light, the moon was
00:47:41.53\00:47:45.66
not visible, it was
very, very, very dark.
00:47:45.69\00:47:50.32
And so as they began
to go up higher three
00:47:50.35\00:47:55.07
of them friend
says hey we just stop
00:47:55.10\00:47:58.13
and camp here for
tonight, but see there
00:47:58.16\00:48:01.65
is always one in the
bunch who is gonna to
00:48:01.68\00:48:03.35
do what they want to do anyway.
00:48:03.38\00:48:05.31
He decided you know
what, I'm getting to
00:48:05.34\00:48:07.75
the top you guys are some girls.
00:48:07.78\00:48:10.43
So they decided, the
three friends decided
00:48:11.47\00:48:13.00
to camp for the
night and they felt that
00:48:13.03\00:48:14.86
well just finished in
the morning it's not that
00:48:14.89\00:48:17.14
serious but no,
no, no not this one,
00:48:17.17\00:48:19.61
this one decided he
is going to keep going,
00:48:19.64\00:48:22.70
because he has a point to prove
00:48:22.73\00:48:24.44
and he is climbing away
and it's dark it's so dark
00:48:24.47\00:48:28.48
he can't even see
his hand before his face,
00:48:28.51\00:48:30.80
but he says oh I
got to get to this top.
00:48:30.83\00:48:32.95
I got to get high
these guys are some losers.
00:48:32.98\00:48:36.82
So he is climbing
away he is getting arrogant
00:48:36.85\00:48:39.60
he is so prideful
and he is climbing away
00:48:39.63\00:48:41.72
and all of the
sudden he lunges out to put
00:48:41.75\00:48:44.58
his jabbing whatever
it is called any he looses
00:48:44.61\00:48:49.11
and all of a
sudden he began to fall
00:48:49.14\00:48:52.36
and he has fallen,
he is screaming in the
00:48:52.39\00:48:53.95
midst of the fog,
Lord help me Lord save me
00:48:53.98\00:48:56.21
Lord help me help me
save me, Lord help me help me
00:48:56.24\00:48:59.07
help me save me, save
me Lord help me please
00:48:59.10\00:49:01.07
don't let me die and he
is screaming in all and all,
00:49:01.10\00:49:03.20
help, help, help,
and all of the sudden
00:49:03.23\00:49:04.71
he remember his
safety items are left
00:49:04.74\00:49:08.77
and he swinging in
the air and out of no
00:49:08.80\00:49:14.02
where he hears voice
and the voice says cut
00:49:14.05\00:49:18.80
the rope. So he
thinks he is delirious
00:49:18.83\00:49:21.99
because he knew he
has fallen so far down
00:49:22.02\00:49:24.17
he hears this voice
cut the rope right now,
00:49:24.20\00:49:26.66
if I cut this rope he
didn't trying to feel,
00:49:26.69\00:49:29.43
nothing there. He
hears the voice again cut the
00:49:29.46\00:49:35.00
rope. He says
listen I must be delusional
00:49:35.03\00:49:41.72
there is no way I'm
gonna to cut this rope,
00:49:42.85\00:49:45.20
no way at all. The next
morning his friends get up
00:49:45.23\00:49:52.44
they're looking
for their friend,
00:49:52.47\00:49:54.81
he is no where to be
found. So they run to the local
00:49:54.84\00:49:58.82
park ranger and
they tell them the story
00:49:58.85\00:50:01.17
he sends all alerts
and began looking for the
00:50:01.20\00:50:03.80
friend and they
are desperately looking
00:50:03.83\00:50:05.76
for him because he
got to understand is
00:50:05.79\00:50:07.49
real coldest night and
they are looking for him,
00:50:07.52\00:50:10.72
looking for him, they
can't find him and then
00:50:10.75\00:50:13.05
all of the sudden
park ranger calls them
00:50:13.08\00:50:14.65
and said, guys I
found your friend.
00:50:14.68\00:50:18.56
He is not looking too
good, so as friends all came,
00:50:20.66\00:50:23.70
they huddled
around him and they just
00:50:23.73\00:50:28.85
stayed as he
lay there stay less.
00:50:28.88\00:50:33.00
The thing that destructive
park ranger is not that
00:50:33.03\00:50:39.81
he die. Is the fact
that if he would have cut
00:50:39.84\00:50:44.35
the rope he was only
two feet from the ground,
00:50:44.38\00:50:46.67
two feet from the ground
could have save his life,
00:50:49.77\00:50:52.98
but because he didn't
want to listen to God's voice,
00:50:53.01\00:50:56.59
because he didn't want
to listen to God's word,
00:50:56.62\00:50:58.56
he couldn't know to cut
the rope? Isaiah 30 says,
00:50:58.59\00:51:03.51
that he speaks to us
and tell us this is the
00:51:03.54\00:51:06.54
way go ye in it, if you
don't listen to his voice
00:51:06.57\00:51:11.52
and cut whatever rope is
in your life you will be a
00:51:11.55\00:51:15.70
beast soon. And
that's how we have the word,
00:51:15.73\00:51:18.88
that's the other
transformed our lives
00:51:18.91\00:51:21.41
and transform our hearts, amen.
00:51:21.44\00:51:25.42
Because the word
tells me to cut down the
00:51:25.45\00:51:27.95
rope the word tells
me to cut it out my life,
00:51:27.98\00:51:30.53
so that I won't become beast.
00:51:30.56\00:51:33.62
Now I don't about
you but I don't want to
00:51:35.11\00:51:36.40
be like Nebuchadnezzar.
I was faced 15 years of
00:51:36.43\00:51:39.44
prison. No way in Kentucky
that I want to see anything
00:51:39.47\00:51:43.75
like that, but some of
you have not cut the rope
00:51:43.78\00:51:47.42
in here and God has holding
back the beast from coming
00:51:47.45\00:51:51.22
out, but you are
constantly feeding the beast
00:51:51.25\00:51:54.56
and God has died
to kill the beast.
00:51:55.76\00:51:58.23
John 15 says if you
abide in me and I'm in you,
00:51:59.83\00:52:02.28
was to rest you'll bear
a fruit, but if you don't
00:52:04.50\00:52:07.37
abide in me, you
can't do anything.
00:52:07.40\00:52:10.09
We have to
learn to cut the rope.
00:52:10.12\00:52:13.91
I didn't cut the rope
until God send me away
00:52:13.94\00:52:18.62
to mission college
and I didn't realize
00:52:18.65\00:52:21.18
how racist I was,
how prejudice I was,
00:52:21.21\00:52:23.92
even in the church,
until God set me down
00:52:23.95\00:52:26.75
and abide and I looked
as though I was a paranormal
00:52:26.78\00:52:31.12
view of a TV and he
began to show me my life.
00:52:31.15\00:52:33.77
He show me how I
was treating my wife,
00:52:33.80\00:52:35.63
he showed me how I
was treating my children.
00:52:35.66\00:52:37.29
He showed me how I
was treating his folks,
00:52:37.32\00:52:39.69
and I was like
no, I must be dreaming
00:52:39.72\00:52:42.99
and I'm sitting to my
bed, waiting for classes
00:52:43.02\00:52:46.04
to start and I'm
looking at it and everything
00:52:46.07\00:52:49.36
I've ever done was on
this screen like you seen
00:52:49.39\00:52:51.47
on this screen now.
And you says you got a
00:52:51.50\00:52:54.92
change before
you leave this place,
00:52:54.95\00:52:57.44
that very day I
get down on my knees
00:52:57.47\00:53:01.84
and I asked God to forgive me.
00:53:01.87\00:53:03.57
He said don't start with
me, start with your wife,
00:53:03.60\00:53:06.69
start with your children,
start with those who hurt
00:53:06.72\00:53:09.80
and didn't come to me
and I did exactly that.
00:53:09.83\00:53:12.67
And when I left that
valley with Mount Lassen
00:53:13.57\00:53:15.63
in Valley, the city
boy, whole different person
00:53:15.66\00:53:20.03
from when I went. And I
was terrible before I left,
00:53:20.06\00:53:26.26
but you can tell me
nothing, but I have to cut
00:53:26.29\00:53:29.96
something and as me
there are three things
00:53:29.99\00:53:34.99
that we deal with
self, Satan and sin.
00:53:35.02\00:53:38.50
Self, Satan, and
sin and God need you
00:53:38.53\00:53:42.92
and I to cut all
of the mounts today.
00:53:42.95\00:53:45.68
He didn't give us
Nebuchadnezzar just,
00:53:45.71\00:53:48.69
oh that's a nice
story to you in church
00:53:48.72\00:53:50.47
and that he tells and
make it so you can laugh
00:53:50.50\00:53:52.51
about in the
chocolate factory God made that
00:53:52.54\00:53:55.28
to show you point and
the point is where you and I
00:53:55.31\00:53:58.30
would be without him.
If, we don't take his words
00:53:58.33\00:54:03.36
seriously, there is lot
of beast running out of here
00:54:03.39\00:54:07.14
and you and I maybe one
of them and so as we have
00:54:07.17\00:54:11.42
had pray you need to
tell God in your heart.
00:54:11.45\00:54:13.75
How you've been a
bear, how you've been a lion,
00:54:16.58\00:54:20.33
how you've been a cheetah,
how you've been a raccoon,
00:54:20.36\00:54:24.12
how you've been a wolf,
how you've been a mouse,
00:54:24.15\00:54:28.35
how you've been an
elephant, how you've been a rat,
00:54:28.38\00:54:32.23
how you've been a cockroach,
how you've been one of
00:54:32.26\00:54:39.04
the worst animals ever
and he is there for you,
00:54:39.07\00:54:42.49
the same as he was
with Nebuchadnezzar.
00:54:42.52\00:54:45.79
It's time to be
honest with God and once
00:54:45.82\00:54:49.70
we become honest with
God, God there can working
00:54:49.73\00:54:53.17
in our light
Nebuchadnezzar was honest,
00:54:53.20\00:54:56.05
but brother and
sisters look what he had to go
00:54:56.08\00:54:58.08
through in order to
get there is that something
00:54:58.11\00:55:00.78
you want. I know I
don't and I don't want to for
00:55:00.81\00:55:04.16
you so as I kneel
I'm hoping you will kneel
00:55:04.19\00:55:07.72
and I'm hoping you will
surrender yourself to God
00:55:07.75\00:55:10.80
right now, because
you don't know what
00:55:10.83\00:55:13.26
you make turn out to be.
You may be like my friends,
00:55:13.29\00:55:17.85
siblings, who has HIV
or you maybe some female
00:55:17.88\00:55:22.38
who has babies but
two different daddies
00:55:22.41\00:55:24.26
and none of them in
your life you may lose
00:55:24.29\00:55:26.17
your Job who knows, but
the beast will come out,
00:55:26.20\00:55:30.68
you may go pastor one day
00:55:30.71\00:55:33.63
oh, oh I should to have my
V8, will you kneel with me.
00:55:35.68\00:55:40.71
My father in heaven, what
the joy it is to know that
00:55:45.63\00:55:52.31
your word is true, but
Lord I pray today for all
00:55:52.34\00:55:56.40
of us that there is
a beast working in us
00:55:56.43\00:56:00.00
and the beast comes
up when we have not had
00:56:00.65\00:56:03.02
our V8 our word of God,
to transform us, to hold us,
00:56:03.05\00:56:07.84
to keep us and I
pray today that you will
00:56:07.87\00:56:12.39
kill the beast in
our lives that your blood
00:56:12.42\00:56:15.19
would drown and completely,
so that his ugly head never
00:56:15.22\00:56:18.45
again arise again
that someone he who are
00:56:18.48\00:56:20.24
struggling. Lord you
direct them to where they need
00:56:20.27\00:56:22.71
to go, so that it can
be well said at the end
00:56:22.74\00:56:26.32
that is well with
your soul thank you,
00:56:26.35\00:56:29.32
thank you Jesus for loving us.
00:56:29.35\00:56:31.47
We pray this prayer in
Jesus name for our savior, amen.
00:56:31.50\00:56:39.64