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
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- Heard the king of all kings, the lord of our lords.
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- And so they're listening to this,
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- And they're going to get a lot of prizes.
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- 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?
- 00:10:38.797 --> 00:10:42.600
- Like what is going on right here?
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- So, like i said, we're gonna have fun with this,
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- But let me clear up some things very quickly.
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- We here at authentic church do not believe in ghost.
- 00:10:49.708 --> 00:10:53.278
- I want to make that very clear.
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- All right.
- 00:10:55.513 --> 00:10:56.514
- Ghosts are actually demons playing with you.
- 00:10:56.514 --> 00:10:58.650
- That's what's happening. all right?
- 00:10:58.650 --> 00:11:00.018
- We don't believe in ghost.
- 00:11:00.018 --> 00:11:00.919
- We believe according to the word of god
- 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:02.554
- That when you die, you are judged immediately.
- 00:11:02.554 --> 00:11:05.757
- And either you go to heaven or you go to hell.
- 00:11:05.757 --> 00:11:08.960
- And that is what the bible tells us, okay?
- 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.795
- You don't get to linger upon this earth.
- 00:11:10.795 --> 00:11:13.331
- You don't get the heart.
- 00:11:13.331 --> 00:11:14.499
- Anybody that you know messed with you during your life.
- 00:11:14.499 --> 00:11:16.434
- I can't wait to mess with them. that doesn't happen.
- 00:11:16.434 --> 00:11:19.037
- All right. and.
- 00:11:19.037 --> 00:11:20.105
- But there's a lot of people. i gotta clear this up.
- 00:11:20.105 --> 00:11:21.139
- A lot of people believe these lies.
- 00:11:21.139 --> 00:11:23.808
- Hebrews chapter nine, verse 27 states it like this.
- 00:11:23.808 --> 00:11:26.611
- And just as each person is a destined to die once,
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- After that comes where you stand before god,
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- Immediately after you die,
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- You will stand before god, and you will be judged.
- 00:11:37.589 --> 00:11:41.659
- 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.
- 00:11:46.231 --> 00:11:50.001
- 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.
- 00:12:00.078 --> 00:12:03.381
- He didn't live for me.
- 00:12:03.848 --> 00:12:05.884
- So you don't do this to please people.
- 00:12:05.884 --> 00:12:08.219
- Don't show up to to please your parents
- 00:12:08.219 --> 00:12:10.755
- And make people think that you're on the right track.
- 00:12:10.755 --> 00:12:12.757
- You can't fool god.
- 00:12:12.757 --> 00:12:14.893
- God doesn't want you playing with him.
- 00:12:14.893 --> 00:12:16.461
- He wants a real relationship with you.
- 00:12:16.461 --> 00:12:18.863
- It is time to get right with the lord.
- 00:12:18.863 --> 00:12:20.832
- Because i'm telling you, when you die,
- 00:12:20.832 --> 00:12:22.700
- You will meet your maker.
- 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:24.769
- There is no more time.
- 00:12:25.236 --> 00:12:26.271
- But today there is.
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- When you pass, there's no more time.
- 00:12:28.940 --> 00:12:30.275
- But today god has given you time.
- 00:12:30.275 --> 00:12:32.277
- This is his mercy and grace.
- 00:12:32.277 --> 00:12:33.978
- 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.
- 00:12:44.389 --> 00:12:46.391
- But your spirit came from god.
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- When you die, it will return to him.
- 00:12:48.626 --> 00:12:51.729
- And one of my favorite stories.
- 00:12:52.363 --> 00:12:53.498
- 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.
- 00:13:00.805 --> 00:13:04.409
- 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.
- 00:13:09.547 --> 00:13:12.350
- It's like this righteous waiting place
- 00:13:12.350 --> 00:13:15.286
- Until jesus died for our sins.
- 00:13:15.286 --> 00:13:17.121
- Now that jesus has died for our sins,
- 00:13:17.121 --> 00:13:18.923
- 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.
- 00:13:26.631 --> 00:13:29.968
- 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.
- 00:13:46.384 --> 00:13:49.721
- I remember those commercials all the time.
- 00:13:49.721 --> 00:13:51.623
- They just called miss cleo.
- 00:13:51.623 --> 00:13:52.790
- She can tell you what's going to happen.
- 00:13:52.790 --> 00:13:54.259
- 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.
- 00:14:01.633 --> 00:14:05.303
- It is not a game.
- 00:14:05.737 --> 00:14:08.206
- 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,
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- Never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering.
- 00:14:27.959 --> 00:14:32.430
- 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
- 00:14:40.071 --> 00:14:41.773
- 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
- 00:14:57.088 --> 00:14:58.256
- 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,
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- 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.
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- He is forbidding it from your life.
- 00:15:26.784 --> 00:15:29.854
- He's saying, do not play this game
- 00:15:29.854 --> 00:15:33.191
- 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.
- 00:17:09.587 --> 00:17:13.391
- Please hear me on that.
- 00:17:13.891 --> 00:17:15.860
- 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.
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- Nebuchadnezzar is dead.
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- 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.
- 00:20:07.999 --> 00:20:10.768
- Okay, these things were valuable,
- 00:20:10.768 --> 00:20:14.138
- But their
- 00:20:14.438 --> 00:20:15.606
- Value wasn't there because they were made out of silver
- 00:20:15.606 --> 00:20:17.775
- And gold.
- 00:20:17.775 --> 00:20:18.843
- They were valuable because in the temple of solomon
- 00:20:18.843 --> 00:20:21.912
- They were dedicated as a form of worship to yahweh.
- 00:20:21.912 --> 00:20:26.517
- That's what they were for.
- 00:20:27.084 --> 00:20:28.319
- They were these sacred objects that were used to worship god
- 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:31.989
- In the temple, solomon's temple.
- 00:20:31.989 --> 00:20:33.758
- But i have a little bit of information
- 00:20:33.758 --> 00:20:35.826
- That would change your perspective right here. okay.
- 00:20:35.826 --> 00:20:38.062
- They would take these cups.
- 00:20:38.062 --> 00:20:39.764
- If you've ever heard of a drink
- 00:20:39.764 --> 00:20:40.765
- Offering, here's what they would do.
- 00:20:40.765 --> 00:20:41.966
- They would take these cups a cup of gold okay.
- 00:20:41.966 --> 00:20:45.002
- They would pour expensive wine into the cup.
- 00:20:45.002 --> 00:20:49.473
- Not for them to drink.
- 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:53.878
- Please hear that.
- 00:20:54.312 --> 00:20:55.680
- So in the temple, they would pour the wine into the cup.
- 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:59.216
- Not for them to drink,
- 00:20:59.216 --> 00:21:00.885
- But they would actually take
- 00:21:00.885 --> 00:21:02.186
- This expensive wine and come before the presence of god
- 00:21:02.186 --> 00:21:05.956
- And pour it out.
- 00:21:05.956 --> 00:21:07.792
- That was called a drink offering.
- 00:21:08.526 --> 00:21:10.728
- So they would take expensive wine and pour it out to god.
- 00:21:10.728 --> 00:21:13.731
- It's the same thing we do when we come down to the altar,
- 00:21:13.731 --> 00:21:17.134
- When we're devoting our life over to the lord god.
- 00:21:17.134 --> 00:21:19.970
- I'm pouring myself out to you.
- 00:21:19.970 --> 00:21:22.673
- All right?
- 00:21:22.673 --> 00:21:23.507
- My my pride, my arrogance, my sin,
- 00:21:23.507 --> 00:21:26.277
- My addictions, all of these things
- 00:21:26.277 --> 00:21:28.312
- That want to control me and consume me.
- 00:21:28.312 --> 00:21:30.314
- I'm going to pour it out before the altar.
- 00:21:30.314 --> 00:21:32.216
- Make me new.
- 00:21:32.216 --> 00:21:34.051
- 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.
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- And if you want to become a partner,
- 00:24:33.163 --> 00:24:34.832
- All you have to do is give to bobby chandler, dawg.
- 00:24:34.832 --> 00:24:37.668
- 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.
- 00:25:27.718 --> 00:25:32.089
- 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.
- 00:25:39.029 --> 00:25:42.666
- 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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