Bobby Chandler - Faith Under Pressure

August 25, 2025 | 29:24

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Faith Under Pressure | August 25, 2025

And now he has given us an assignment.
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And that assignment is to spread the gospel all over the world.
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So today we get to celebrate jesus.
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You can't help that.
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That's not based on you.
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That is the spirit of god working in you, all around you.
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People see that light and you better believe
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There is favor from god on a godly,
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Faithful mother that keeps praying.
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We have been in an incredible series.
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I've enjoyed it.
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I pray that you have enjoyed it as well.
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But we are on week
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Eight of our series titled thrones and beast.
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Okay.
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And if that sounds a little different
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To you, especially on mother's day,
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We've actually
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Been taking a deep dive into the entire book of daniel.
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Okay. and today we're going to be in daniel chapter six.
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But we've been learning what it means
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To have incredible faith through difficult times.
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And today's story
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Is one of my favorite stories out of the book of daniel.
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It is daniel in the lion's den.
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How many of y'all love that story?
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Hallelu.
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Yeah, it's a great day to preach that.
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And listen, even though i know this story is not specifically
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About a mother, it does teach us how to have incredible faith.
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Times of pressure.
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Because let's be honest,
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All the godly moms in the house right now,
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Some of you feel like you've been fighting lions all week,
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Right?
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You've been making sure your kids don't hurt each other,
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Don't fight each other all the time.
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You've been
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Running errands in places
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Where you want to make sure you don't hurt somebody, right?
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Because it's too crowded and people get in your way.
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And maybe you've been overcoming the allergies
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That have been attacking us. all right.
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Making sure everybody's healthy
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And you take care of yourself and the family.
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Like, how do you do that?
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You're a super mom. and i want you to know that today,
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Let's be real for a second,
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Because, as a pastor, i've heard this many times
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That for a lot of you mothers, even though
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You're doing the right thing and following the lord,
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Sometimes it's hard to put it all together.
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And maybe right now you feel some pressure.
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Maybe right now you're actually in a trial
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And you're praying for your family,
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And you're believing for your children
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To come to the lord.
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And it's very difficult.
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And things aren't
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Really working out the way you thought they would.
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Maybe there's dysfunction happening right now
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In your family and you're like, god, i'm doing my best, right?
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And i've been giving it all over to you.
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But i don't really know what to do in this situation.
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Maybe you feel like you're being compared to everyone else
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Because we live in a day where it's very easy.
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You don't have to go outside to look at your neighbor
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And see what they have.
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All you have to do is wake up and look at your phone,
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And then immediately
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You see maybe another mom that's going on vacations
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And doing all these things that you wish
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You could do right now, but you just can't do it.
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And sometimes we allow that pressure to get the best of us.
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I want you to be honest
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With yourself right now in the presence of the lord.
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Where are you?
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Do you feel god's peace?
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Do you feel his love?
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I want you to know as a church, we pray for you.
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I've been praying over you today that you feel honored,
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That you know how special you are, that
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You know what kind of difference you're making in your family.
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Even though i know some days it's hard
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And nobody understands. but god does.
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And so let me encourage you with this special promise.
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And if isaiah 2 to 41,
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Verse ten, i want you to hear, this is a promise of god, okay?
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Don't be afraid.
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It doesn't matter what life looks like
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Or how bad the situation gets.
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The future can be unknown.
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That's okay.
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Don't be afraid.
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Listen to this.
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Here's the promise.
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For i am with you.
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I'm holding your hand.
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That's what god is saying.
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I know it feels.
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Sometimes you're fighting this alone, but you're not.
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And then don't be discouraged.
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See, i love it right there.
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Because the world is going to attack the light that is in you.
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The darkness of the world is going to come after your mind,
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After your peace, after your sanity, after everything.
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But don't be discouraged.
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God is reminding us that he is our god.
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I'm in control.
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That's what the lord is stating here.
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And so i will strengthen you and i will help you.
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And this one, this i will hold you up.
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And maybe right now you're giving yourself a hard time.
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Maybe you're the one putting yourself down.
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Let's look at the scripture one more time, okay?
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God is saying, i will hold you up.
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You can't do this on your own.
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The bible never stated that you would have to do it
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On your own.
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Jesus said, come to me, okay, give me your
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Yoke and i will give you my yoke.
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My yoke is light and easy to bear.
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I will strengthen you. i will help you.
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I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
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Meaning, when you allow god to hold you
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Up, you're already sharing in the victory of jesus christ.
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There's a victory
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Over your marriage.
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There's victory over your family.
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There's a victory over the future because of jesus.
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Don't ever lose sight of that.
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Because the world gets hard.
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And again, these aren't just my words.
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This is a promise from god.
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This is his character.
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And i
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Love this passage of scripture
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Because god is speaking through his prophet isaiah,
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And he's speaking to his people, and god is reminding them.
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Listen, i know you're going to go through captivity at times.
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You're going to go through trials.
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The assyrian empire is going to come against you.
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The babylonian empire is going to come against you.
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But here's my promise.
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No matter how bad it gets, i'm there.
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Please hear that?
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No matter how bad it gets, you have not been abandoned.
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And the lord has not abandoned you today.
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He is in your situation. keep going.
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Keep moving. by faith, you're making a difference.
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And i feel that from the lord today.
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Because i do feel like some of y'all are like, right here.
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I just one more thing.
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It's going to set you off.
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I just one more step into the wrong direction.
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Let jesus hold your hand and watch a miracle happen.
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Even though you were under pressure.
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So the title of today's message is this faith under pressure.
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You can still have faith even though life is getting bad.
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And that's what we learn from the book of daniel.
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And so if you have your bibles,
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You can turn to daniel chapter six.
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And again, we're going to be talking
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About daniel in the lion's den.
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But i do want to correct
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Something i said last week, because sometimes
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I figured out last week that my math just wasn't
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Matching correctly.
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Okay.
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And i kind of told you some ages i want to clarify something
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From daniel chapter four to daniel chapter five.
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I said it had been 23 years.
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That is that is incorrect.
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It's actually 23 years since king nebuchadnezzar
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And nebuchadnezzar died to the fall of babylon.
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Okay, so 23 years,
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The moment that nebuchadnezzar died to the fall of babylon.
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So daniel is much older now in chapters five and six.
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So just to clarify,
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Daniel is in his 30s in daniel chapter three.
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He's actually around, ages 45 to 50.
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And daniel in chapter four.
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And now he's in his 80s, starting in daniel 2 to 5
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And further on in the story.
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So for the rest of the story,
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Daniel is in his 80s, and so he's an older man now
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Living for the lord. and this is incredible to me.
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Like his entire life, he's been living faithfully for god.
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He was taken at the age of around 15 years old
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Into captivity.
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And yet he still knew
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That god placed in there to make a difference.
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Please don't lose sight of that,
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Because right now you may not like where you are.
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You may not like your environment or your situation.
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But what if god placed you there to make a difference?
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God still has a plan.
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See, daniel saw that and he knew that.
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And he's been serving different empires.
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He was serving the babylonian empire.
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And we talked about this last week
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That babylon has fallen.
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The middle persian empire has now taken over and is risen.
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And so he's under king darius the mede and king cyrus
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The persian, because the medes and the persians came together
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To conquer babylon.
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So he's under a new empire, yet he's still faithfully
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Serving god.
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That is the
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Definition of not giving up.
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That is the very definition of always trust god.
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No matter how bad it gets in your life.
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But i'm reading the story, and i would think now
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At daniel's in his older age, he's in his 80s.
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I would think by now in daniel chapter six,
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God would take it easy on him.
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I hope for daniel, he's older.
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He's in his 80s.
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I'm gonna let him retire now.
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Everything's going to be okay.
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Just be comfortable.
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But he's about to be tested like he's never been tested before.
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Meaning? it doesn't matter your age.
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God is still prepared in you for a trial that is coming.
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There's still a miracle to see.
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But his entire life of moving by faith,
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Standing up to the king,
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Seeing his friends walk through the fire
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And not be burned, has prepared him
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For the biggest test of his life.
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Even in his 80s.
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He's still a
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Testimony of god's goodness.
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Let me encourage you.
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Don't waste your life.
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It does not matter what age you are.
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Here's what i see, i see.
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As a young person, okay?
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If you're young in the room, you have great influence
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Right now for the kingdom of god.
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But you will notice that every movie, every song,
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All entertainment, attacks your identity. why?
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Because they want you to think that when you're young,
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You can be dumb
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And live for the world and live foolishly like it's fun.
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And then you'll have a lot of regrets as you get older.
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Don't waste your youth at the same time in your older age.
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Don't waste what god has taught you right now.
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God has prepared you for this.
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You may feel like you're walking into the lion's den,
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But you need to tell the world that god is with you,
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That he's protecting you, and that he's saving you.
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And here's what i've learned out of the bible.
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Okay, here's the theme.
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The greater your faith, the louder the lions may roar,
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The greater your faith.
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Listen. you walking by faith.
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You're talking by faith.
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You better believe it.
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Lions will come after you.
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The mouths of others will come after you.
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Demons will come after you.
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God is still with you.
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Okay?
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Just because you're walking
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Through a trial doesn't mean that the lord has abandoned you.
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So let's go ahead and dive in.
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Point number one is this.
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Sometimes the favor you want will
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Bring trials you did not see coming.
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And i love asking this question because when i ask people,
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Do you want favor from god?
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Everybody's like, yes.
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Do you want trials from god? no,
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No. here's the thing.
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Here's the revelation.
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They go hand in hand.
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When you walk in obedience, god will show you favor.
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But that favor is going to bring trials
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Into your life that you did not see coming.
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Let's read and i'll break it down as we go.
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Daniel, chapter six, verses one through nine.
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King darius thought it would be a good idea
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To choose 120 satraps to rule throughout his kingdom.
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This is like 120
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Mini bosses governors to help rule the kingdom.
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Okay.
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But he also chose three men to rule over the 120 satraps.
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Daniel was one of these three supervisors
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To keep anyone from cheating him.
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Now, i think this is remarkable because again, he's older.
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This is a new leadership, a new kingdom.
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Yet you still see the favor of god over his life.
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So right now,
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If you're stressing over a new boss, over a new job,
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Over the future,
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Listen, god is still in control and he'll show you favor
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With new people that just met you.
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And so that's what we see in daniel's life.
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He's always placed in
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A very high position because of the favor of god.
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Daniel proved himself, though, to be a better supervisor
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Than any of the others.
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And he did this by his good character and great ability.
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And the king was so impressed with daniel
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That he was thinking to himself, maybe i should just make him
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Ruler over the entire your kingdom, right?
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Pretty much second in command,
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Just like the favor of god on joseph with pharaoh.
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Okay. but listen to this.
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Not everybody is going to be happy over your success, okay?
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Not everybody's going to be rejoicing with you
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When there's failure of your life.
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Because when the other supervisors
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And the tribes heard about this, they were so excited.
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They drew him cards and gave him gifts.
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Now they were jealous.
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Have you been through that?
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Like you thought everybody would celebrate
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The reward that you got?
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And nobody was happy for you.
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Nobody was cheering you on or encouraging you.
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This is what jealousy does.
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Jealousy dampens the party and the celebration
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Because now you just want to compare your life
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With other people and listen to me.
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If you're struggling with jealousy,
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The way to overcome jealousy is to celebrate other people.
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Like, you can actually look at somebody
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And see their success and say, good for them.
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You'd be a little angry. it's fine.
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Like good for them.
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I'm so proud of you and i'm praying over you.
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Listen, it's not in my life right now.
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I'm okay with that.
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Because god is telling me that i'm not ready for that.
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But if they're ready, i'm praying for them.
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And i'm so happy for you.
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It will overcome jealousy in your heart.
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Because i'm telling you, we're don't talk about it.
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And just a little bit.
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Jealousy wants to consume you and your family
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And take everybody down.
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But these men were jealous.
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And so they try to find reasons to accuse daniel.
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So they watched what daniel did as he went
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About doing the business of the government.
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But they could not find anything wrong.
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Nothing wrong with him.
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So they could not accuse him of doing anything wrong.
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Daniel was a man people could trust.
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He did not cheat the king.
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He worked very hard.
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And then finally they said.
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We will never find a reason
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To accuse daniel of doing something wrong.
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Now, pay attention to this.
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We're going to get into this.
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So we must find something to complain about.
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God is connected to the law of his god.
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See, we have been talking about babylon.
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Now we're talking about middle persia,
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The middle persian empire.
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But it's the same spirit working through the empires,
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Trying to shut believers up
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From proclaiming the truth about god's word and god's presence.
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And so, since they couldn't come against him,
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They wanted to find a way to shut up his faith
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So that he doesn't keep worshiping yahweh.
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Okay.
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Again, because they were very jealous of this.
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And so finally they said, whenever you find a reason,
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We're going to complain about his god.
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So the two supervisors and the satraps
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Went as a group to the king,
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And they said, king darius live forever.
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The supervisors, prefects and satraps and advisors
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And governors have all agreed on something.
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But this is good news,
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We think that the king should make this law,
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That everyone must obey it for the next 30 days.
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Whoever prays to any god or man
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Except you, king, will be thrown into the lion's den.
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Now the king.
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The king made the law.
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Sign the paper.
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Or they stated, if you sign the law
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And sign the paperwork, it is written
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So that it cannot be changed, because the laws of the medes
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And the persians cannot be canceled or changed.
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And then it states king darius made the law and signed it.
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Okay, so let's break down what is happening in this story.
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King darius is making a flowchart of leadership.
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Okay?
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Governmental leaders
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That will help rule over the areas and the entire empire.
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But he's got 120 satraps over the 120 satraps.
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He puts three men, three men in charge of them.
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Daniel is one of those men.
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But listen, daniel is so good at what he does.
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King darius starts to think to himself,
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You know, like i always go to daniel.
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Like he's always the one that gives me
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A solution to my problems.
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He's always the one that i can talk to that i can trust.
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What if i just put him in charge of everybody,
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In charge of all the other
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Supervisors and my satraps and the entire empire?
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Okay. i want you to think a bit about it like this.
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How would you feel
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If you worked in the office and your coworkers
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Started spreading a rumor around that one person is going to be
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In charge of everybody who's not even the boss?
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Okay? they didn't like this.
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As they started
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To hear the rumors going around like, oh, you're talking about,
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Daniel is going to be leader over all of us.
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This old man, like, has king darius lost his mind?
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Okay. so jealousy starts to sink in.
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Once they found out a coworker was being promoted.
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Maybe you've been through that as well.
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Okay, keep trusting god.
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But i also want you to see how they attacked daniel.
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Notice the strategy of the enemy here.
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What did they do?
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They were jealous of daniel. so here's what they did.
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Verse four.
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They watched everything that daniel did
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As he went about the business, the government,
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Meaning they were checking his emails.
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Right?
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They were looking at his social media posts.
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They were paying attention to how he interacts with people.
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They're like in the corner.
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Like, i wonder if daniel heard that song in his head.
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Like, sometimes it feels like i'm okay.
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I'm not gonna sing that.
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Of course, he didn't know that song and then went out there.
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But anyway, okay, that's what i think about it.
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Like he's he's gotta feel people looking at him.
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You know what i mean?
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Like, you're just doing your work
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And somebody's around you like, why are they staring at me?
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Why are they looking at me?
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Because they were trying to find something wrong.
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Notice that about people who are jealous
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And consumed by jealousy.
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Once you're promoted, they're just looking for an opportunity.
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They're looking for that one slip up.
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They're looking for that one thing in your life.
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Guess what?
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The same thing happens
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When you tell your family and your friends
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That now you're a believer in christ,
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And they start paying attention to you.
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How do you act when you're angry?
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Some of us need to repent today.
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Let's be honest.
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What words did you say?
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Where did you go on the weekend?
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People are watching you.
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They're watching for just one slip up.
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But. but, daniel.
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Now, it wasn't perfect, but he was following the lord.
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And so since they couldn't
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Bring anything against his character.
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Listen to this.
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They turned his devotion to god into a problem.
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They couldn't bring anything against this character,
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So they turned the idea of his devotion
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To god into a governmental problem.
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Why? here's the same spirit we're dealing with today,
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Because now people will be offended.
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The king is going to be offended.
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People are going to be offended.
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Now if you start to worship yahweh.
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So do not worship god in public.
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Don't talk about your god. don't worship him.
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I don't want to hear about it because i am offended.
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Listen,
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Offense is a demonic spirit that is consuming our culture.
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And if you're struggling right now with offense,
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You're offended by what everybody says.
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It means that you have a wound
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On the inside that you have not allowed jesus to heal.
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And we talked about this in the past.
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One day i'm going to go back into the series and keep going.
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But we talked about how we have
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Sometimes these wounds in our life,
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And instead of cleaning them
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And giving them to god, we just have a band-aid on it
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And we go to other things.
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But then all of a sudden
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We start to notice that offense starts to consume us there.
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Offended. why?
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Because there's actually a root problem of jealousy there.
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So they want to shut him up.
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And so what they did okay.
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Just to help make sense of the whole situation,
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They got together and they said, okay, let's, create a law
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And make it a legal for anybody to worship
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Yahweh for at least 30 days.
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So that's what they did here.
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And they had it all written out, all ready to go.
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And i can't help. okay.
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How many satraps? 120.
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And then three governors.
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Okay.
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So a little over 120 men get together
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And they're planning a plot against daniel.
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How many hours did they waste?
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Well, the governmental time, you know what i mean. like,
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How many
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Hours did they waste just to come against daniel?
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Isn't it crazy that there are people who would
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Literally spend hours to plan and plot against your success?
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And i'm about to preach right here.
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But if you spend
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Just half those hours on your own life,
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Your life would not look like the mess it looks like
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Right now.
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If you paid attention to your own life,
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The details in your own life, listen to the lord.
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You're paying attention to other people. why?
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Because you want what they have, but it's not for you.
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It's not for you.
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All good things come from above.
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If you don't have it yet, you're not ready for it.
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Stop trying to take it from somebody else.
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Stop trying to make somebody else look bad,
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Because it's exposing your character
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And what you really desire on the inside.
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But here's the truth that people cannot cancel you.
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They will try to cancel what you believe.
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And that's what's happening here.
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And so again, they pass this,
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But they want to pass this 30 day law to make it
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Illegal to worship yahweh.
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And they just spend so many hours doing this.
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And then they show up to king darius.
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Now, pay attention to this.
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Have you ever had something like this happen?
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They show up to king darius
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And they're like, hey, all of us are together, okay?
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So we're all in unity over this.
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And by the way, we had the contract in our hands.
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Be careful and beware of people that show up
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With the contract in their hands all ready for you to sign.
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Because you know what it tells you.
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It tells you that they've been plotting.
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It also exposes.
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There's been some talk.
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There's been some talk.
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People have come together.
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And now they had this contract ready for you to sign.
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But here's the revelation.
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I need you to understand, okay?
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And it's hard because you want to love everybody, right?
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But not every compliment is a blessing.
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Some compliments are just bait.
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Okay, not every compliment is a blessing.
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And this is where sometimes i even struggle because,
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You know, i just want god to use me and love on people.
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But i've learned this in my life
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Just because somebody is giving
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You compliments doesn't mean they're for you
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Or they're with you,
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But sometimes they give you compliments
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As bait, and it's just a setup.
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Listen to this proverbs chapter 29 verse
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Five to flatter friends, it's to lay a trap for their feet.
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The bible is
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Exposing the true intentions of many people.
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Okay, there will be people that use flattery,
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But it's actually a set up to control
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Or to take something from you.
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So that's what they're doing here.
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They show up to king darius and they're pretty much
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Stating, king, you're amazing.
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We love you.
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All of us got together and talked for hours
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About how amazing you are.
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And so we had this plan. i'm pretty sure you'll love it.
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Listen, we're thinking you should just declare yourself
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To be a god for 30 days.
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30 day.
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Like when the world like this makes me kind of laugh.
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Like 30 days.
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Like it's a free trial,
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You know, like,
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Let me see if i want to keep paying
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The membership here to be a god for 30 day.
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What kind of god is a god for 30 days, right?
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We serve the everlasting god.
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He is always god, right?
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So this is counterfeit and it's fake and it's dumb.
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But let's expose something here.
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Doesn't it seem like the favor over
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Daniel's life is disappearing?
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All right.
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How would you feel?
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You've been promoted.
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God's using you.
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Your coworkers come together, they gossip about you.
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They go to the boss.
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The boss signs the paperwork.
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Doesn't it feel like everything is falling apart?
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What would you do in that moment?
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Would you tell god, god, where are you in my situation?
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God, how come you aren't helping me?
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How come you aren't dealing with these people
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That are coming up against me?
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They use flattery to deceive the king.
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But here's something
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I want you to understand too about godly favor.
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It is a blessing.
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It's a blessing because godly favor makes you stand out,
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But because you stand out, it also puts a target on your back.
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Okay,
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This is a theme that we see throughout the entire bible.
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Godly favor will make you stand out,
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But it also will put a target on your back again.
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King darius has said in verse three that he was so impressed
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With daniel, he planned to make him ruler
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Over the whole entire kingdom.
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When you have favor from god, please listen.
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You're not going to blend in.
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You'll always stand out.
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You can't help that.
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That's not based on you.
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That is the spirit of god working in you.
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All around you.
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People see that light and you better believe
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There is favor from god on a godly, faithful mother
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That keeps praying, that keeps moving by faith.
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God sees you.
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By the way, i just feel like
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I need to encourage some of the moms in the room.
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God sees you every time you are praying
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And you're raising your children, right?
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Asking the lord, okay, god, help me to teach them the word.
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Help me, lord, to teach them how to hear your voice,
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How to know you had a god.
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Your eyes.
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So many moms in this room.
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You have been warriors when it comes
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To what your children are.
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Listen to
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And there's some things you've had to take away
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And they've been screaming and fighting against you.
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And sometimes they call you names.
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But it's the love of god
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That's moving through you.
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God is using you to do the hard things,
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And you're teaching your children
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How to have godly character.
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But here's what's amazing about it
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Because the spirit of god is living in you,
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You will always stand out as a godly mother.
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This ministry has blessed you or helped build your faith.
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I'm going to ask you right now to consider partnering with us.
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And if you want to become a partner,
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All you have to do is give to bobby chandler dawg.
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And it helps our ministry reach people all over the world
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For the kingdom of god.
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See, it's not just a donation, but it's actually a declaration
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That god comes first in your life,
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That he is number one and that he is in control.
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And every giving that comes into this ministry
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Helps us broadcast the good news of the gospel of jesus christ
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All over the world, reaching homes,
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Even in different countries.
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And also it helps us reach people here
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In our community, help people who are in need
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And who need to know the love of god.
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And something that we're unashamed about here
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In this ministry is preaching the truth of god's word.
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So every time you give, it allows us to preach the truth.
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An ashamed, allowing people to see freedom,
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Chains falling off from generational curses
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Because of the spirit of god, because of where
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The spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.
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And when you give, it helps us reach our mission
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To have people encounter god, to grow in christ
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And be set free by jesus christ.
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And so again, i want to thank you
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And ask you to pray about it.
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Do you want to become a partner
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And help us reach more people for jesus?
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Again, i pray that today's message bless your life.
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I'm so thankful that you watched it with this,
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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Bobby Chandler - Faith Under Pressure

August 25, 2025 | 29:24

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