Bobby Chandler - Ghost Stories (Part 1)

July 11, 2025 | 29:2

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 - Ghost Stories (Part 1) | July 11, 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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  • Stop playing around with things that do not matter.
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  • God loves you.
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  • It's time for a change.
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  • We are on week seven of our series titled thrones and beast.
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  • Okay, and if you haven't been here
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  • Over the last few weeks, over the last six weeks,
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  • We have been taking a deep dive into the entire book of daniel.
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  • And i love the book of daniel
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  • Because we see so many different things. okay.
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  • We see what it means to have incredible faith
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  • Through hard, difficult times.
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  • We see what it means
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  • To stand firm and stand strong against opposition.
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  • And very soon we're going to be talking about
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  • Some of the end days prophecies and apocalyptic type of things.
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  • In the coming chapters.
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  • But there's so many challenging chapters
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  • Out of the book of daniel.
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  • But over and over again, there was one theme.
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  • Do not give up on god, because god won't give up on you
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  • Over and over again.
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  • It doesn't matter what your life looks like.
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  • God is still in control,
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  • And he loves you so much that you can surrender
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  • Everything over to him.
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  • And so if you have your bibles,
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  • You can turn to daniel chapter five today.
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  • Daniel in chapter five.
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  • Okay, i love this chapter.
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  • The reason why it's because it's one of the most chilling
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  • Chapters out of the entire bible.
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  • It's for a lot of people
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  • You may read this and think it's even a strange chapter.
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  • All right.
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  • So i'm going to do something
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  • I normally don't do before i read the verse.
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  • Let me just put you in a scenario.
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  • So imagine with me, okay.
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  • Look to somebody next to you and say we're
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  • Going to imagine this together okay.
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  • All right. imagine with me.
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  • You were invited to a party by a friend,
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  • And they say, listen, you got to come to this party
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  • Because it's going to be a lot of important people there,
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  • And the king is going to be there.
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  • And you'll get to meet the king.
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  • And you're thinking to yourself,
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  • Well, i don't really like parties.
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  • I don't want to go anywhere.
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  • I don't really like people sometimes. okay.
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  • We get that. all right.
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  • But you decide.
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  • Okay.
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  • Well, i don't want to miss this opportunity to meet the king.
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  • And so you go to this party,
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  • And the moment you step foot into the room,
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  • You're like, i want to go home.
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  • Have you ever felt like that before?
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  • Like people are loud.
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  • The music's too loud.
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  • The people are drunk and obnoxious.
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  • And the king that is there he is acting like a fool.
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  • So what do you do?
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  • Maybe you cross your arms in the corner.
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  • Like i'm just going to wait here till i go home.
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  • But then all of a sudden, the laughter turns into screams.
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  • All of a sudden, the
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  • Music stops and everybody's pointing.
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  • Everybody's screaming.
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  • The king that was having a good time and was laughing.
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  • Now he's scared to death.
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  • And he is actually turned pale.
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  • So you're looking around like what just happened?
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  • And so what you see is this.
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  • You actually see a hand
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  • Writing on the wall.
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  • Now some of you are like, well, that's not weird.
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  • You know who's writing on the wall? no, no, no. okay.
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  • Let me clear this up.
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  • It's just a hand light straight out of the addams family.
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  • It's just a hand floating in midair, writing on the wall.
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  • And so you're thinking
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  • To yourself, like,
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  • What kind of episode of stranger things did i get myself into?
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  • I should have just stayed home.
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  • Here's the thing, though.
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  • The hand is writing a mystery message on the wall.
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  • Nobody could figure it out.
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  • If you think that's a very strange story,
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  • That's actually the story of daniel chapter five.
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  • Here's what's even crazier.
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  • It's true.
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  • It actually happened.
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  • I say this all the time because it's truth.
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  • The bible is not boring. you're boring. i'm just kidding.
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  • I love you.
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  • But the bible is not boring.
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  • We hear this all the time.
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  • There's so many incredible chapters out of the bible.
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  • So let's look at this together.
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  • I'm going to read it, and then i'll break it down as we go.
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  • Daniel, chapter five, verses one through eight states
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  • This many years later.
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  • Now for you note takers.
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  • You want to underline that right then.
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  • Many years later, king belshazzar gave a great feast
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  • For a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine from them.
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  • Okay.
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  • When the verse here states many years later,
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  • This is about 23 years later
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  • From daniel chapter four to daniel chapter five.
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  • So we've been talking about daniel being so young
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  • And standing up to the king, king nebuchadnezzar.
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  • And he was young, but now this is much, much later on.
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  • Daniel is no longer a young man, okay?
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  • He is way older.
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  • There's a new king, new leadership going on.
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  • And so this king right here, belshazzar,
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  • Who was actually in charge of the palace,
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  • I'm going to explain that in a second.
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  • While belshazzar was drinking the wine.
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  • Listen to this right here.
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  • He gave orders to bring in the gold
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  • And the silver cups from his predecessor, nebuchadnezzar,
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  • Who had taken them from the temple of jerusalem.
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  • So remember, we talked about this in daniel chapter one.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar destroyed solomon's temple.
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  • And what did he do?
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  • He took a lot of the sacred
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  • Objects, and he brought them back to babylon.
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  • I love daniel chapter one because it makes something very,
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  • Very clear.
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  • God allowed nebuchadnezzar to do this
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  • Because out of the old testament,
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  • If he touched these
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  • Sacred objects in the wrong way, you would die.
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  • But god wants to teach his people a lesson
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  • Because they've been worshiping demons
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  • And living for the world.
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  • And so he allows nebuchadnezzar
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  • To take all these artifacts back into the temple of babylon.
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  • Well, belshazzar says, okay, bring them to me.
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  • The gold cups, the silver cups, all these things,
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  • And we're going to drink from them.
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  • And he drank from them
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  • With his wives, his concubines, and his nobles.
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  • And again, about a thousand nobles are there.
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  • This is a very large party.
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  • Everybody's having a good time.
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  • So they brought these gold cups taken from the temple,
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  • The house of god in jerusalem.
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  • And the king and his nobles and his wives and his concubines
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  • Drank from them.
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  • And while they drank from them. now, listen to this.
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  • Not only are they drinking
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  • From these sacred vessels, but they start worshiping demons
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  • Right there for everybody to see.
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  • They are drunk.
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  • They're living for the world.
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  • Notice how that goes together.
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  • They're living for the world, and they can't help but now
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  • To praise idols and demons.
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  • They praise the idols made of gold, of silver.
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  • Her bronze, iron, wood and stone.
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  • And they thought
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  • Nothing would happen.
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  • Do you understand that?
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  • Like they thought it was another day.
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  • Just another normal day.
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  • I'm sure belshazzar was always throwing parties in the palace.
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  • This seems to be his lifestyle and the way that he lived.
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  • And so they're mocking god.
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  • They're having a good time in their own eyes.
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  • They think nothing is going to happen.
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  • But listen to what the bible says.
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  • Suddenly,
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  • Suddenly, when they thought they were going to get away
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  • With everything, they saw the fingers
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  • Of a human hand writing on the plaster
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  • Wall of the king's palace near the lampstand.
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  • And the king himself saw the hand
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  • As it wrote on the wall.
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  • So guess what happened?
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  • His face turned pale with fright.
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  • His knees.
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  • I love the description there.
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  • His knees started knocking together
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  • And fear, and his legs gave way beneath him.
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  • This man is doing the wobble. that's what's happening here.
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  • Okay. he literally is like doing this.
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  • He's so scared. they just don't see that.
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  • Like this man can't walk.
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  • He's about to pass out. he's about to fall.
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  • He is pale at this moment because he is seeing
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  • What looks like a human hand floating in midair.
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  • Writing on the wall.
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  • It's a crazy story.
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  • I told you this.
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  • And so then the king shouted, and he's like, help!
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  • Like anybody.
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  • Anybody in the room can help me.
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  • Enchanters, astrologers, fortune tellers be brought before me.
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  • And it's just crazy to me that he keeps asking for
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  • These so-called wise men
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  • Because they never give him any answers.
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  • They've never helped a situation.
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  • They've never brought forth a solution. ever. why?
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  • Because demons cannot help you.
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  • They hear from demons.
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  • Demons do not help you.
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  • Demons are not your friend.
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  • They always want to bring you down
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  • And lead you to the pit of hell.
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  • Only god can help you.
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  • So stop chasing what is demonic in this world.
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  • To give you the answers that only god can give you.
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  • We need to listen to the holy spirit.
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  • But these men come, okay?
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  • And he asks okay.
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  • Anybody that can read the writing
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  • Because nobody could read the writing.
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  • It was a mysterious message on the wall.
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  • If you could tell me what it means,
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  • Then here's here's your prize.
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  • I'm going to dress you up.
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  • I'm going to give you the perfect fit.
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  • Okay? i'm gonna.
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  • I'm gonna dress you up in purple robes and royal honor.
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  • I'll even put a gold chain around your neck.
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  • And then you will
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  • Become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
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  • Doesn't that sound appealing?
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  • Here's what's crazy.
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  • The people who can't hear from god will be misled
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  • By these prizes.
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  • But daniel already knew there was a change coming.
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  • Here's where the whole story comes together.
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  • Because not that long ago, i told you that
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  • Daniel was able to interpret that dream of nebuchadnezzar.
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  • What did he tell nebuchadnezzar?
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  • Listen, god has placed you here,
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  • But god is also bringing other kings.
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  • There's other empires that are coming in.
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  • Daniel already knows.
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  • Very soon it's time up for babylon.
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  • They.
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  • Babylon's time of reigning over the entire world.
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  • It's up. there's a new kingdom coming.
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  • The persian empire is on its way.
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  • I don't care about your gold chain.
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  • You're going to see that later on from daniel.
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  • I don't care about the prizes that you can give me.
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  • I just want to honor god.
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  • There's a new king coming
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  • In. daniel never feared the kings of the world because he's
  • 00:10:01.693 --> 00:10:03.828
  • Heard the king of all kings, the lord of our lords.
  • 00:10:03.828 --> 00:10:06.898
  • And so they're listening to this,
  • 00:10:07.599 --> 00:10:08.667
  • And they're going to get a lot of prizes.
  • 00:10:08.667 --> 00:10:10.602
  • But then who stays the king's wise men had come in,
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  • But none of them could read the writing on the wall
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  • Or tell him what it meant.
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  • So the king grew even more alarmed in his face
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  • And turned pale, and his nobles, too, were shaken.
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  • The title of today's message is this ghost stories.
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  • We're going to have some fun with this message.
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  • Because we would hear this
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  • And we would think, oh, man, is this a ghost story.
  • 00:10:36.361 --> 00:10:38.797
  • Some of the hand writing on the wall is this demonic?
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  • Like what is going on right here?
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  • So, like i said, we're gonna have fun with this,
  • 00:10:44.836 --> 00:10:46.938
  • But let me clear up some things very quickly.
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  • We here at authentic church do not believe in ghost.
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  • I want to make that very clear.
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  • All right.
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  • Ghosts are actually demons playing with you.
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  • That's what's happening. all right?
  • 00:10:58.650 --> 00:11:00.018
  • We don't believe in ghost.
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  • We believe according to the word of god
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  • That when you die, you are judged immediately.
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  • And either you go to heaven or you go to hell.
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  • And that is what the bible tells us, okay?
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  • You don't get to linger upon this earth.
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  • You don't get the heart.
  • 00:11:13.331 --> 00:11:14.499
  • Anybody that you know messed with you during your life.
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  • I can't wait to mess with them. that doesn't happen.
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  • All right. and.
  • 00:11:19.037 --> 00:11:20.105
  • But there's a lot of people. i gotta clear this up.
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  • A lot of people believe these lies.
  • 00:11:21.139 --> 00:11:23.808
  • Hebrews chapter nine, verse 27 states it like this.
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  • And just as each person is a destined to die once,
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  • After that comes where you stand before god,
  • 00:11:30.849 --> 00:11:35.120
  • Immediately after you die,
  • 00:11:35.687 --> 00:11:37.589
  • You will stand before god, and you will be judged.
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  • And either the lord will state to you,
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  • Well done, my good and faithful servant,
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  • Or he will say, i never knew you.
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  • As a pastor, that really shakes me up
  • 00:11:50.802 --> 00:11:52.871
  • Because i imagine
  • 00:11:52.871 --> 00:11:53.938
  • So many people coming to church every single week,
  • 00:11:53.938 --> 00:11:56.941
  • Listening to the word, even praising him with worship songs
  • 00:11:56.941 --> 00:12:00.078
  • That jesus will say to them, i never knew you.
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  • He didn't live for me.
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  • So you don't do this to please people.
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  • Don't show up to to please your parents
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  • And make people think that you're on the right track.
  • 00:12:10.755 --> 00:12:12.757
  • You can't fool god.
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  • God doesn't want you playing with him.
  • 00:12:14.893 --> 00:12:16.461
  • He wants a real relationship with you.
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  • It is time to get right with the lord.
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  • Because i'm telling you, when you die,
  • 00:12:20.832 --> 00:12:22.700
  • You will meet your maker.
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  • There is no more time.
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  • But today there is.
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  • When you pass, there's no more time.
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  • But today god has given you time.
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  • This is his mercy and grace.
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  • He desires for everyone to be saved.
  • 00:12:33.978 --> 00:12:37.282
  • Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse seven also states it like this.
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  • Your body came from the earth, and when you die,
  • 00:12:40.652 --> 00:12:44.389
  • The body will return to the earth.
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  • But your spirit came from god.
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  • When you die, it will return to him.
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  • And one of my favorite stories.
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  • I don't have time to really go into it today,
  • 00:12:53.498 --> 00:12:55.934
  • But it's out of the book of luke.
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  • Jesus talks about the story of two men who died,
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  • And immediately they go to their eternal resting place.
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  • Okay, there's a rich man that goes down to sheol,
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  • And then there's a poor man
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  • That's allowed into what's called paradise.
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  • It's like this righteous waiting place
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  • Until jesus died for our sins.
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  • Now that jesus has died for our sins,
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  • We can go straight to the kingdom of heaven.
  • 00:13:18.923 --> 00:13:20.792
  • But jesus told this story saying, these two men died
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  • And immediately went to their eternal place.
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  • That is what's going to happen with us.
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  • And i need to warn us because i'm telling you,
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  • We live in a culture today where people love the paranormal,
  • 00:13:31.803 --> 00:13:35.173
  • Like like let's let's be honest right here.
  • 00:13:36.074 --> 00:13:38.243
  • Like people even kind of worship the paranormal.
  • 00:13:38.243 --> 00:13:40.612
  • And how many of you grew up seeing those,
  • 00:13:40.612 --> 00:13:42.614
  • Those commercials from like, cleo telling you
  • 00:13:42.614 --> 00:13:45.183
  • So you can tell you your future
  • 00:13:45.183 --> 00:13:46.384
  • If you just call in only one person, like, come on, come on.
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  • I remember those commercials all the time.
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  • They just called miss cleo.
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  • She can tell you what's going to happen.
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  • Cleo lied to you.
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  • Let me make that very clear today.
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  • Because the bible warns us.
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  • Do not play with this.
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  • Do not contact the dead. it is not a game.
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  • It is not a game.
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  • Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse ten and 11.
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  • Do not let your people practice fortune telling
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  • Or sorcery or interpret omens.
  • 00:14:17.448 --> 00:14:19.851
  • Now, before you even get there, look at the
  • 00:14:19.851 --> 00:14:21.686
  • First part of verse ten.
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  • I'm gonna go over this now.
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  • I didn't put it in my my sermon, but i want you to see this.
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  • For example,
  • 00:14:26.791 --> 00:14:27.959
  • Never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering.
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  • Isn't it crazy that the lord
  • 00:14:33.031 --> 00:14:34.299
  • Had to remind his people not to do that?
  • 00:14:34.299 --> 00:14:38.136
  • Why would they do that anyway?
  • 00:14:38.736 --> 00:14:40.071
  • Because they were living
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  • Among pagan nations,
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  • And these nations were worshiping these idols,
  • 00:14:43.508 --> 00:14:46.110
  • And they would sacrifice their children
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  • To these idols, believing that they would receive a wealth
  • 00:14:48.246 --> 00:14:51.316
  • For doing these things.
  • 00:14:51.316 --> 00:14:53.217
  • They were literally handing over their family for wealth.
  • 00:14:53.217 --> 00:14:56.654
  • They were handing
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  • Over their loved ones, their own children, to be blessed.
  • 00:14:58.256 --> 00:15:01.025
  • It was demonic. it is counterfeit.
  • 00:15:01.025 --> 00:15:04.128
  • So god had to remind his people, don't do these things.
  • 00:15:04.128 --> 00:15:07.665
  • But look here in the same passage
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  • As literally sacrificing your children.
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  • Don't practice fortune telling,
  • 00:15:11.602 --> 00:15:14.105
  • Or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage
  • 00:15:14.105 --> 00:15:17.642
  • In witchcraft, or cast spells, or function
  • 00:15:17.642 --> 00:15:20.878
  • As a medium or psychic, or call forth the spirits of the dead.
  • 00:15:20.878 --> 00:15:24.816
  • God is not just discouraging it.
  • 00:15:24.816 --> 00:15:26.784
  • He is forbidding it from your life.
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  • He's saying, do not play this game
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  • Because some of us grew up
  • 00:15:33.191 --> 00:15:34.258
  • And people are like, oh, it's just a joke.
  • 00:15:34.258 --> 00:15:36.794
  • It's just a joke.
  • 00:15:36.794 --> 00:15:37.628
  • Listen, do not treat it like a joke
  • 00:15:37.628 --> 00:15:39.397
  • When god said it would actually lead you to destruction.
  • 00:15:39.397 --> 00:15:42.567
  • Because what you're doing
  • 00:15:43.134 --> 00:15:44.168
  • Here, you're playing games with the spiritual,
  • 00:15:44.168 --> 00:15:45.536
  • But you don't have the covering of god.
  • 00:15:45.536 --> 00:15:47.872
  • You're playing games with the spiritual world,
  • 00:15:47.872 --> 00:15:49.707
  • But you don't have the covering of god.
  • 00:15:49.707 --> 00:15:51.075
  • You're in disobedience to what god is telling you to do.
  • 00:15:51.075 --> 00:15:53.077
  • So guess what?
  • 00:15:53.077 --> 00:15:54.178
  • Guess who comes to play that game with you? demons.
  • 00:15:54.178 --> 00:15:57.248
  • And when it comes to oppression, when it comes to possession,
  • 00:15:57.248 --> 00:16:00.785
  • This is how it starts.
  • 00:16:01.252 --> 00:16:03.221
  • As a pastor,
  • 00:16:03.221 --> 00:16:04.055
  • I don't want to weird you out today,
  • 00:16:04.055 --> 00:16:04.922
  • But there have been some conversations
  • 00:16:04.922 --> 00:16:06.858
  • I've had where
  • 00:16:06.858 --> 00:16:08.059
  • People have really struggled with actually seeing demons
  • 00:16:08.059 --> 00:16:11.295
  • And overcoming these things.
  • 00:16:11.295 --> 00:16:12.530
  • And yet every story involves, at one point in their life,
  • 00:16:12.530 --> 00:16:16.267
  • They played something they shouldn't have played.
  • 00:16:16.267 --> 00:16:18.136
  • They opened up a door to demons in their life.
  • 00:16:18.136 --> 00:16:22.040
  • You got to be careful with these things.
  • 00:16:22.040 --> 00:16:24.409
  • And so i'm making this very clear.
  • 00:16:24.409 --> 00:16:26.010
  • But listen, in this story, okay?
  • 00:16:26.010 --> 00:16:28.246
  • We're talking about this handwriting on the wall.
  • 00:16:28.246 --> 00:16:31.849
  • This hand is not a ghost, but it's also not a demon.
  • 00:16:31.849 --> 00:16:35.987
  • It's not demonic.
  • 00:16:35.987 --> 00:16:37.722
  • It's actually a it's just crazy.
  • 00:16:37.722 --> 00:16:39.924
  • It's the presence of god.
  • 00:16:39.924 --> 00:16:42.960
  • It is.
  • 00:16:43.161 --> 00:16:44.028
  • It is actually the judgment of god.
  • 00:16:44.028 --> 00:16:46.130
  • The hand of god shows up telling those
  • 00:16:46.130 --> 00:16:49.867
  • That are over babylon right now.
  • 00:16:49.867 --> 00:16:51.469
  • Listen, your empire is coming down.
  • 00:16:51.469 --> 00:16:54.439
  • It's crashing tonight.
  • 00:16:54.439 --> 00:16:56.074
  • You have been weighed and you have been judged.
  • 00:16:56.074 --> 00:17:00.478
  • Babylon will fall.
  • 00:17:00.912 --> 00:17:03.414
  • So let's go ahead and dive into point number one.
  • 00:17:03.414 --> 00:17:05.750
  • I got a lot to show you in a short amount of time.
  • 00:17:05.750 --> 00:17:08.386
  • Point number one is this.
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  • Do not mock god.
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  • Please hear me on that.
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  • Do not mock god.
  • 00:17:15.860 --> 00:17:17.028
  • It's not going to go well for you.
  • 00:17:17.028 --> 00:17:19.163
  • Do not live this type of life.
  • 00:17:19.163 --> 00:17:20.765
  • Do not hang out with people that mock god
  • 00:17:20.765 --> 00:17:23.334
  • And don't take the word of god seriously.
  • 00:17:23.334 --> 00:17:25.470
  • Or these people that you're around
  • 00:17:25.470 --> 00:17:26.637
  • Always joking about jesus, always joking about the bible,
  • 00:17:26.637 --> 00:17:30.308
  • Telling you to come on, get over it.
  • 00:17:30.308 --> 00:17:31.809
  • It's not that big of a deal.
  • 00:17:31.809 --> 00:17:33.411
  • Do not god. god is always a big deal.
  • 00:17:33.411 --> 00:17:37.014
  • Okay?
  • 00:17:37.248 --> 00:17:38.382
  • But let me give you a little quick history lesson here.
  • 00:17:38.382 --> 00:17:40.618
  • At this point in daniel chapter five.
  • 00:17:40.618 --> 00:17:42.620
  • Nebuchadnezzar is dead.
  • 00:17:42.620 --> 00:17:44.822
  • Nebuchadnezzar died at the age of around 72,
  • 00:17:44.822 --> 00:17:48.426
  • In 562 b.c., after neb died.
  • 00:17:48.426 --> 00:17:52.196
  • Okay?
  • 00:17:52.196 --> 00:17:53.164
  • Babylon becomes weak, so he dies and babylon
  • 00:17:53.164 --> 00:17:57.335
  • Becomes weak because now new leadership comes in and out.
  • 00:17:57.335 --> 00:18:00.605
  • It doesn't really work.
  • 00:18:00.605 --> 00:18:01.939
  • I believe nebuchadnezzar's son was even assassinated.
  • 00:18:01.939 --> 00:18:05.176
  • Nobody can lead the kingdom, right?
  • 00:18:05.176 --> 00:18:07.545
  • And so the power of babylon starts to crumble.
  • 00:18:07.545 --> 00:18:10.915
  • Okay?
  • 00:18:11.149 --> 00:18:11.782
  • The poor leadership starts
  • 00:18:11.782 --> 00:18:12.950
  • To make the empire fall, and then eventually,
  • 00:18:12.950 --> 00:18:16.187
  • A man named no benefits becomes the king of babylon.
  • 00:18:16.187 --> 00:18:20.258
  • No, bennett is had a little problem, though.
  • 00:18:20.258 --> 00:18:22.727
  • He didn't want to, be in charge from the palace.
  • 00:18:22.727 --> 00:18:26.164
  • Poor guy. you know what i mean?
  • 00:18:26.797 --> 00:18:28.032
  • I just had to sit in the palace and tell people what to do.
  • 00:18:28.032 --> 00:18:31.135
  • And so he would rather travel the world,
  • 00:18:31.135 --> 00:18:33.838
  • And that's what he did.
  • 00:18:33.838 --> 00:18:35.072
  • So he was in charge of babylon, but he would travel the world.
  • 00:18:35.072 --> 00:18:38.075
  • So every time he left, he would put his son in charge.
  • 00:18:38.075 --> 00:18:41.979
  • Guess who his son is?
  • 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:43.981
  • Both sides are.
  • 00:18:43.981 --> 00:18:45.383
  • And so belshazzar wasn't actually the king of babylon.
  • 00:18:45.383 --> 00:18:49.620
  • He was just left in charge when daddy's away.
  • 00:18:49.620 --> 00:18:53.090
  • That's really what's happening here.
  • 00:18:53.090 --> 00:18:54.225
  • Belshazzar is also nebuchadnezzar's grandson,
  • 00:18:54.225 --> 00:18:58.429
  • Most likely by marriage.
  • 00:18:58.429 --> 00:19:00.698
  • But the problem here. okay, that was a quick history lesson.
  • 00:19:00.698 --> 00:19:03.034
  • Belshazzar has a problem. here's his problem.
  • 00:19:03.034 --> 00:19:05.436
  • He does not fear god.
  • 00:19:05.436 --> 00:19:07.572
  • He mocks god.
  • 00:19:07.939 --> 00:19:09.440
  • He laughs at god.
  • 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:10.942
  • He has no fear over the lord.
  • 00:19:10.942 --> 00:19:12.843
  • So every time daddy's away, he wants to play
  • 00:19:12.843 --> 00:19:16.981
  • And he literally turns the palace into a frat house
  • 00:19:16.981 --> 00:19:20.418
  • Every single night.
  • 00:19:20.418 --> 00:19:21.786
  • He turns the palace into his own private nightclub.
  • 00:19:21.786 --> 00:19:25.690
  • Everybody's partying.
  • 00:19:25.690 --> 00:19:27.158
  • Everybody's drinking.
  • 00:19:27.158 --> 00:19:28.593
  • He's arrogant and he's reckless.
  • 00:19:28.593 --> 00:19:30.962
  • And in chapter five, he mocks god.
  • 00:19:30.962 --> 00:19:33.598
  • And god has had enough.
  • 00:19:33.598 --> 00:19:37.001
  • And there's something that's revealed
  • 00:19:37.802 --> 00:19:39.637
  • About belshazzar that you don't see until later in the story.
  • 00:19:39.637 --> 00:19:43.641
  • That's very important.
  • 00:19:43.641 --> 00:19:44.809
  • Okay, but look at how he triggers.
  • 00:19:44.809 --> 00:19:48.779
  • Belshazzar actually triggers the hand of god to show up.
  • 00:19:48.779 --> 00:19:52.817
  • How? daniel chapter five, verse two.
  • 00:19:52.817 --> 00:19:54.418
  • Let's look at it again.
  • 00:19:54.418 --> 00:19:56.120
  • While belshazzar was drinking the wine,
  • 00:19:56.120 --> 00:19:59.390
  • He gave orders to bring in the gold,
  • 00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:02.293
  • The silver cups that his predecessor
  • 00:20:02.293 --> 00:20:04.528
  • Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple of solomon.
  • 00:20:04.528 --> 00:20:07.999
  • What did he want to do? he wanted to drink from them.
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  • Okay, these things were valuable,
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  • But their
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  • Value wasn't there because they were made out of silver
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  • And gold.
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  • They were valuable because in the temple of solomon
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  • They were dedicated as a form of worship to yahweh.
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  • That's what they were for.
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  • They were these sacred objects that were used to worship god
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  • In the temple, solomon's temple.
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  • But i have a little bit of information
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  • That would change your perspective right here. okay.
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  • They would take these cups.
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  • If you've ever heard of a drink
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  • Offering, here's what they would do.
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  • They would take these cups a cup of gold okay.
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  • They would pour expensive wine into the cup.
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  • Not for them to drink.
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  • Please hear that.
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  • So in the temple, they would pour the wine into the cup.
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  • Not for them to drink,
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  • But they would actually take
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  • This expensive wine and come before the presence of god
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  • And pour it out.
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  • That was called a drink offering.
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  • So they would take expensive wine and pour it out to god.
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  • It's the same thing we do when we come down to the altar,
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  • When we're devoting our life over to the lord god.
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  • I'm pouring myself out to you.
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  • All right?
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  • My my pride, my arrogance, my sin,
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  • My addictions, all of these things
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  • That want to control me and consume me.
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  • I'm going to pour it out before the altar.
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  • Make me new.
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  • That's what they did in the temple.
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  • And so listen to this.
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  • So this was a sign of a worship to god exalting god.
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  • The moment belshazzar drank from this cup, he reversed it.
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  • Instead of exalting yahweh,
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  • He's exalting himself.
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  • He's praising himself every time he takes a sip.
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  • But not only is he drinking out of the lord's cups, okay?
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  • These aren't party cups.
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  • These are sacred vessels.
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  • Every time he drinks out of them. all right.
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  • He's not only drinking, but he's getting drunk.
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  • He is mocking god's presence.
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  • Listen. these things were set apart.
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  • Exodus chapter 30, verse 29 states it like this.
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  • Consecrate them to make them absolutely holy.
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  • After this, whatever touches them will also be holy
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  • Out of the old testament.
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  • If you handled these things wrong, you die.
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  • But again, god allowed nebuchadnezzar
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  • To take this to babylon. and so this leads
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  • Us to understand something very important. here it is.
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  • If you mishandle what is holy, it could cost you
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  • Your life.
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  • Please see that?
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  • Because again, i've been talking about it recently.
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  • I feel like
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  • It's been heavy on my heart because a lot of us
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  • Are no longer seeing god is holy.
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  • We forget that he is a holy god.
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  • But if you mishandle what is holy,
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  • It could actually cost you your life.
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  • Rebellion against god.
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  • Listen will lead to a life full of the darkness
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  • And demonic, and you will be attacked.
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  • And so he is getting drunk off the temple vessels.
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  • He mishandled it.
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  • He mocked it.
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  • He profaned it. and then
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  • He's worshiping himself.
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  • And then he also worship demons.
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  • Notice again how that goes.
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  • Hand in there.
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  • He's lifting up himself and he's praising his demons again.
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  • Daniel, chapter five, verse four.
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  • While he drank from them, they praise their idols
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  • Made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
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  • What is he doing?
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  • This is a spiritual slap in the face.
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  • That's what he's doing to the lord.
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  • He's mocking god.
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  • He's laughing at god.
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  • God, you won't do anything to me.
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  • That's what he's saying.
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  • There's a temptation that we need to be careful over.
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  • God will show you grace and tell you to repent
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  • And to change.
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  • But remember the story of nebuchadnezzar.
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  • We talked about it last week.
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  • God gave him an entire year to repent, but he never did
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  • Because the next day came and no punishment came.
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  • So we thought he was good.
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  • The next day came, no punishment came,
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  • So we thought he was good. the next day came.
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  • No punishment came every single day that happened.
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  • So he thought he got away with it
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  • Until it was a year later.
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  • God's appointed time showed up.
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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.
  • 00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:33.163
  • 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.
  • 00:24:48.245 --> 00:24:51.282
  • 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 in our community.
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  • Help people who are in need
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  • And who need to know the love of god and something
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  • That we're unashamed about here in this ministry.
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  • It's 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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  • Unashamed, 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 and 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 and help us.
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  • 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.
  • 00:25:57.314 --> 00:26:00.184
  • This job doesn't work out for me.
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  • What if i move my life by faith and it all just
  • 00:26:03.087 --> 00:26:06.957
  • Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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  • What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
  • 00:26:09.727 --> 00:26:12.663
  • But i would rather move by faith
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  • And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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  • And i ended up exactly.
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  • Where i needed to be.
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  • You know what today is
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  • Sunday.
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  • Pentecost sunday.
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  • Woohoo!
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  • You better not ask
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  • A holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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  • I came here to remind you you need
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  • The holy spirit.
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  • Maybe.
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