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 2) | July 14, 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.
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- 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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- And so i believe here.
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- He thought that he got away with these things.
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- And so it was a spiritual slap in the face.
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- So god brought his hand to play
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- By his literal hand to play this game.
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- And i started thinking, i don't know
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- If you guys have ever seen those reels on.
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- Tiktok or whatever, where.
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- Like two people literally have a slapping contest.
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- Like it's actually a sport.
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- I don't know what's wrong with these people.
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- And they're standing looking at each other
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- And they're smiling
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- And everything, and they just slap each other.
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- They take turns
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- And do eventually somebody is knocked out.
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- Their face gets all swollen like it's crazy looking, right?
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- Listen, you do not want to play this game with god.
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- God will fold you up every time.
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- Let me make that very clear.
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- Can we say amen to that?
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- And there are times us and there are times we need
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- God to be like, my god, thank you.
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- Thank you for put me in my place right now.
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- But he will fold you up.
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- That's why i love this.
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- Because he's playing that game and god brings his hand to play.
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- But listen to this.
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- Galatians chapter six, verse seven.
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- Don't be misled.
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- You cannot mock the justice of god. why?
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- You will always harvest what you plant.
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- What you put in the ground is what's going to grow
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- From the ground, what you invest into in your life.
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- It's what's going to happen
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- Tomorrow if you continuously mock
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- God believing you're going to get away with it.
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- Now you never get away from it.
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- But understand this. this is still his grace.
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- He's giving you the free will to choose.
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- You can choose whatever you want to do.
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- You can praise him.
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- You can mock him. that's up to you.
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- But if you choose to mock god,
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- Don't be surprised when the consequences slap back,
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- Because they will.
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- You can choose your decisions.
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- You cannot choose your consequences.
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- Consequences belong to the lord.
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- And sometimes they hit.
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- But at the same time,
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- We serve such a good father.
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- And what kind of good
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- Father would not discipline his own children?
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- We don't like discipline.
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- Nobody likes that.
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- If you're a parent in the room, you know what it's like
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- To tell your child 100 times to clean up their room.
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- What do you mean?
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- You never heard me?
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- I said it 100 times. right?
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- But that discipline builds character.
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- And so god is trying to mature our character.
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- And he wants us to know that he loves us. but
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- I believe this is important.
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- We need to understand this is being fulfilled right
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- Now. this is prophecy being fulfilled.
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- How so?
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- We are living in a culture where people mock. god.
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- And they still praise demons.
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- We see that all around us.
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- People are mocking god, yet they'll worship the world.
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- They'll worship their material possessions,
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- The things that they have.
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- And they're living life like there were no consequences.
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- Live your life however you want to.
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- And i do believe. listen.
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- Social media is a blessing.
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- We can get the gospel all over the world.
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- Yet at the same time,
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- I realize that social media has desensitized us.
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- Nobody is surprised by anything anymore,
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- And a lot of us are allowing depression and anxiety
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- In our homes daily because of social media.
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- So you need to guard your eyes.
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- You need to be careful about what you listen to,
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- What you watch.
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- But listen to this second peter. here's the prophecy.
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- Chapter three, verse three and four.
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- Most importantly, i want to remind you that in the
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- Last days scoffers will come.
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- And what would they do?
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- They will mock the truth.
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- O you following jesus?
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- Are you a bible nerd?
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- You love jesus.
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- You want to live your life, better than me.
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- Is that what you're saying?
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- People say that all the time. don't say.
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- You just think you're better than me.
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- No, no, no, i don't want to be better than you.
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- I just want to be a better me.
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- I want to i want to live my life for jesus
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- Instead of pleasing people all the time.
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- But in the last days, scoffers will come, mocking the truth.
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- Following.
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- Now listen to this to sound familiar.
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- They will follow their own desires.
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- You know what that means?
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- They're going to follow their feelings over the truth of god.
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- If i feel this way, it makes it truth.
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- No, it doesn't.
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- Just because you felt it doesn't mean it's the truth.
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- This is why we need god's word to sometimes slap us back,
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- To knock us back.
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- Because i want to put god's word in control over my emotions.
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- And sometimes the holy spirit
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- Is going to tell you lovingly chill out,
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- Calm down,
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- Have peace.
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- We are you with god. god, i can't have peace right now.
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- God's not asking you for permission.
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- He's telling you that peace is available for you.
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- But people followed their own desires.
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- And then they will say,
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- What happened to the promise of jesus coming back?
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- We hear this all the time to.
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- What happened to the promise
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- Of jesus coming back from before the times of our ancestors.
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- Everything has remained the same since
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- The beginning of the world, since everything was created.
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- So how did people mock god today?
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- They crack jokes about jesus and make him a mean
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- All right.
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- I see this comment all the time on our church rules.
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- People will say, oh, you still believe in that fairy tale?
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- They act like disney movies in the bible are the same thing.
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- Listen, my lord still lives today.
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- It's not the same thing.
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- This is not make believe.
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- He shows up in my life every single day.
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- I know his voice
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- And you can know his voice.
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- But then also too,
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- This is what we got to be careful, because a lot of us
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- Are allowing this in our homes daily.
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- Those that use god's name in vain,
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- Taking god's name in vain.
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- Listen, that is a form of mocking. god.
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- That is taking his holy name.
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- What is holy and defiling it,
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- Bringing it down, bringing it down low.
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- But also listen.
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- Just as important
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- Are those that use god's name for their own personal agenda.
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- God told me this is going to happen, so you.
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- Need to do this.
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- God told me, if you just did this for me,
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- Then he'll bless you and do all these things.
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- Listen. beware of that.
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- Beware of people that use god's name
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- To get the things that they want from your life.
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- And so some of us are saying, but.
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- I'm tired of people mocking.
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- Me. listen, jesus knows
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- Jesus knows more than anybody else
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- What it's like to be mocked and condemned.
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- But listen carefully.
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- If you are mocking god and refuse
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- To repent, mocking god will come back to haunt you.
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- Because listen, god is patient, but he's not passive.
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- God is merciful and he shows love,
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- But he's not going to allow you to walk all over him. why?
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- Because he already sees
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- Your heart and the things that nobody else can see.
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- But also hear me on this.
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- God doesn't want to punish you.
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- I think some of us have got that.
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- Twisted where like, god just wants to.
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- Punish me all the time and he he just wants judgment in my life
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- And all these things.
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- No, no, no, he doesn't want to punish you.
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- The thing is, you have rejected
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- The one who took the punishment for you.
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- Let me illustrate it like this jesus
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- Came to stand in our place.
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- Do you understand that?
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- He came to stand in your place?
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- He came to take that judgment and that wrath, condemnation,
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- All of it. but here's what we do in our life.
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- Sometimes we push jesus away.
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- Jesus, i don't need you right now in this area of my life.
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- I seem to be having fun with my demons.
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- I seem to be having fun with my addictions.
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- Jesus, i just don't need you right now.
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- I'm not ready to forgive. i'm not ready to to go past it.
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- So we
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- We move jesus out of the way, and then
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- We're not even living for jesus.
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- And so it happens. we actually trade
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- The spot here.
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- Jesus has taken judgment, but some of us pushed him
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- Completely away.
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- Well, we have traded his mercy for judgment ourselves.
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- That is what's happening here.
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- But i also want you to understand jesus.
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- Is standing right now in your place,
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- Ready to take all the punishment for you
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- Because it just judge
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- Has to judge wickedness and evil.
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- Sin has to be dealt with.
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- So jesus paid the price for you
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- So that you can know his love and his grace.
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- My second point is this sister, don't
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- Forget what god has done.
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- Right now, if you feel like you're.
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- In a in a struggle
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- Going through a trial.
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- God, where are you?
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- Why aren't you answering me?
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- Why aren't you helping me? okay, okay. take a breather.
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- Write down the last.
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- Time that happened.
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- And how god. showed up.
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- Remind yourself how over and over again, god showed up.
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- How did he speak to you last time?
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- What did he do last time?
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- See, once
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- You start to remember these things,
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- You understand that god still shows up in your life today.
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- So let's continue the story here, daniel chapter five,
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- Verse ten through 12
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- And it states, but when the queen mother,
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- This is belshazzar, grandmother heard what was happening.
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- She hurried to the banquet hall
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- And she said to bill scherzer, long live the king.
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- So don't be so pale and frightened.
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- She's pretty much saying,
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- My poor baby, it's going to be okay.
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- You know.
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- There was a man in your kingdom
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- Who has within him the spirit of the holy gods.
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- And again, the reason they talk like this,
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- Because they believe in many idols, many different gods.
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- The babylonians. did.
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- During nebuchadnezzar's reign,
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- This man was found to have insight,
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- Understanding and wisdom like that of the gods.
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- Your predecessor, the king,
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- Your predecessor, the king nebuchadnezzar,
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- Made him chief over all the magicians and enchanters
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- And astrologers and fortune tellers of babylon.
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- And this man named daniel, whom the king named, built.
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- But the czar had exceptional ability
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- And is filled with divine knowledge and understanding.
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- Listen to this, listen to this bragging right here.
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- He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, solve difficult
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- Problems, call for daniel and he will tell you what it means.
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- Who wants that type of favor
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- Like that is a favor of the lord right there.
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- Like people know
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- When you show up, because god's presence is felt,
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- You're able to interpret things people can understand.
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- You're able to give wisdom that only comes from above.
- 00:10:53.211 --> 00:10:55.880
- Everybody is searching for that.
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- By the. way.
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- Don't let people lie to you.
- 00:10:59.851 --> 00:11:01.019
- Everybody is searching for that.
- 00:11:01.019 --> 00:11:03.221
- But many are looking in the wrong areas.
- 00:11:03.221 --> 00:11:06.524
- But what i love about this story right here is that
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- Daniel is no longer a young man.
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- He's no longer in his 30s.
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- Like the last chapter.
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- He is now around the age, anywhere from 75 to 80 years
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- Old, 75 to 80 years old.
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- You know what i love about daniel?
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- He was faithful when he's young.
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- When he was young.
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- He is just as. faithful as he's older.
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- Because.
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- Listen. please listen.
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- He did a lot of miracles, okay?
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- A lot of miracles.
- 00:11:34.819 --> 00:11:35.653
- But over time, he.
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- Was forgotten in the palace.
- 00:11:37.021 --> 00:11:40.425
- To the point where the grandmother
- 00:11:40.425 --> 00:11:41.960
- Has to remind her grandson.
- 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.028
- Hey, there's a man named daniel in.
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- The palace that hears from god.
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- Can you imagine?
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- Daniel is taken at the age of 15 from his homeland,
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- Brought into captivity in babylon.
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- He keeps standing up to the king. he gets older.
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- Many of us would feel like god, a waste of my life.
- 00:11:57.642 --> 00:12:01.112
- How could you allow me to be in a place like this?
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- Why did you bring me here in these circumstances?
- 00:12:05.583 --> 00:12:08.419
- Daniel never thought like that.
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- He said. okay, god brought me here.
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- I'm going to be used by god
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- And every day is an opportunity.
- 00:12:14.859 --> 00:12:16.494
- When i was younger, i moved by faith.
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- It was an opportunity.
- 00:12:18.596 --> 00:12:19.798
- Even as i'm older, i'm going to move by faith
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- Because this is an opportunity to always serve the lord.
- 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:26.437
- Meaning daniel was forgotten in the palace, but he was never.
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- Forgotten by god.
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- How many of you know
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- The pain of being forgotten?
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- You worked hard. you did a lot.
- 00:12:38.716 --> 00:12:39.984
- You help people
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- And over time they forgot about you.
- 00:12:42.420 --> 00:12:46.524
- Daniel teaches us
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- To mature because he only cared
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- About what the lord.
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- He was okay.
- 00:12:54.132 --> 00:12:54.999
- He was faithful all the way to the end.
- 00:12:54.999 --> 00:12:58.236
- So he stands up to this king
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- Again.
- 00:13:00.705 --> 00:13:01.873
- Kind of the same scenario as he did with nebuchadnezzar.
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- Daniel chapter five, verse 13 and 14.
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- So daniel was brought in before the king,
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- And the king asked him, are you daniel,
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- One of the exiles brought from judah
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- By my predecessor, king nebuchadnezzar?
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- But i've heard that you have the spirit of the gods within you,
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- And that you are filled
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- With insight, understanding, and wisdom.
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- Verse 16 and 17 i have been told that you can give
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- Interpretations and solve difficult problems.
- 00:13:23.394 --> 00:13:26.564
- By the way, just a side note here.
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- As a believer, as a follower of christ,
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- You have been called to be a problem solver.
- 00:13:31.069 --> 00:13:33.338
- It's not always fun,
- 00:13:33.805 --> 00:13:35.473
- But people will come to you with their problems
- 00:13:35.473 --> 00:13:37.208
- So that you can solve them by the word of god.
- 00:13:37.208 --> 00:13:39.878
- Okay, but listen, i want you to solve these problems.
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- If you can read these words and tell me their meaning,
- 00:13:43.081 --> 00:13:45.516
- Then guess what, daniel?
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- You'll be clothed in purple robes, given royal honor,
- 00:13:46.684 --> 00:13:49.654
- And you'll have a gold chain placed around your neck,
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- And you will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
- 00:13:52.557 --> 00:13:56.594
- I love how daniel replied.
- 00:13:56.594 --> 00:14:00.231
- Like a lot of us would be like, oh, thank you.
- 00:14:01.132 --> 00:14:03.935
- Thank you for thinking about me.
- 00:14:03.935 --> 00:14:05.570
- Thank you for considering me, even if we try to deny it.
- 00:14:05.570 --> 00:14:08.239
- But daniel asks to the king.
- 00:14:08.239 --> 00:14:10.241
- He's pretty much like. keep your gifts.
- 00:14:10.241 --> 00:14:13.077
- I think he's poking at his chest
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- A little bit when he said that.
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- Keep your. gifts.
- 00:14:15.380 --> 00:14:17.348
- He's older too. he doesn't care anymore.
- 00:14:17.348 --> 00:14:18.716
- He's like, give them to someone else.
- 00:14:18.716 --> 00:14:21.052
- But i will tell you what the writing means.
- 00:14:21.052 --> 00:14:23.154
- Meaning, i'm not doing this for you.
- 00:14:23.154 --> 00:14:25.456
- I'm doing this for the lord.
- 00:14:25.456 --> 00:14:27.258
- But also he's making it very clear.
- 00:14:27.258 --> 00:14:28.793
- I feel i feared your grandfather. i don't fear you.
- 00:14:28.793 --> 00:14:31.829
- That's what he's stating here.
- 00:14:32.430 --> 00:14:33.364
- Because he also throws in your majesty. okay?
- 00:14:33.364 --> 00:14:35.900
- And then he gives belshazzar this quick history
- 00:14:35.900 --> 00:14:39.504
- Lesson about, nebuchadnezzar.
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- Remember nebuchadnezzar,
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- He had all the power in the world,
- 00:14:43.608 --> 00:14:45.443
- But god humbled him because of his pride.
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- He fell.
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- And one day remember this story.
- 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:53.017
- And he tells this story.
- 00:14:53.017 --> 00:14:55.653
- But then daniel reveals something i think
- 00:14:55.653 --> 00:14:58.489
- I believe is powerful in verse 22 and 23,
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- Because if you're reading the story,
- 00:15:02.060 --> 00:15:03.261
- You think, okay, he's just hearing this for the first time.
- 00:15:03.261 --> 00:15:06.464
- Daniel calls him out.
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- He said, you are his successor.
- 00:15:07.832 --> 00:15:09.500
- Oh, both sides are.
- 00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:10.969
- But you knew all of this.
- 00:15:10.969 --> 00:15:13.838
- Please hear that right there.
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- That's this big.
- 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.007
- You knew all of this.
- 00:15:16.007 --> 00:15:18.076
- Yet you have not humbled yourself.
- 00:15:18.076 --> 00:15:21.312
- Daniel told him the story and then made it very clear
- 00:15:21.312 --> 00:15:24.515
- You already knew the story.
- 00:15:24.515 --> 00:15:27.051
- You were
- 00:15:27.318 --> 00:15:28.453
- Young when it happened, but you already knew the story.
- 00:15:28.453 --> 00:15:31.656
- You knew what god did in babylon.
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- You knew how your grandfather praised yahweh.
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- You knew about meshach, shadrach, and abednego.
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- You knew how your grandfather was humbled,
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- So you didn't sin out of ignorance.
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- You send out of arrogance.
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- This is the difference
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- Between belshazzar and king nebuchadnezzar.
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- Nebuchadnezzar was a very prideful man,
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- But every time he was humbled, he praised yahweh.
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- Okay.
- 00:16:03.154 --> 00:16:04.222
- Belshazzar knew the stories and he did not care.
- 00:16:04.222 --> 00:16:09.460
- Listen to the wording here, for you have proudly defied.
- 00:16:09.460 --> 00:16:12.663
- The lord of heaven.
- 00:16:13.131 --> 00:16:15.833
- You have mocked god even though you knew all the stories.
- 00:16:15.833 --> 00:16:19.303
- You have taken these cups from the temple brought before you,
- 00:16:19.303 --> 00:16:22.540
- You and your nobles and your wives
- 00:16:22.540 --> 00:16:24.008
- And your concubines have been drinking from them,
- 00:16:24.008 --> 00:16:27.178
- Drinking wine from them, while praising gods
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- Of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
- 00:16:30.348 --> 00:16:33.684
- God that neither sees these gods, neither see nor hear,
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- Nor know anything at all.
- 00:16:37.922 --> 00:16:41.292
- They don't speak to you.
- 00:16:41.826 --> 00:16:43.728
- They don't give you value.
- 00:16:43.728 --> 00:16:46.697
- We do the same thing.
- 00:16:46.697 --> 00:16:47.732
- The spirit of babylon is still alive and well.
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- Many of us.
- 00:16:51.169 --> 00:16:52.003
- We have these material possessions
- 00:16:52.003 --> 00:16:54.172
- That we believe give us value and worth
- 00:16:54.172 --> 00:16:56.941
- And make us seen.
- 00:16:56.941 --> 00:17:00.111
- That's not where your value comes from.
- 00:17:00.111 --> 00:17:03.081
- If you believe that's where your value comes from,
- 00:17:03.081 --> 00:17:04.816
- Then you've been misled by the spirit of babylon.
- 00:17:04.816 --> 00:17:07.985
- Let me make that very, very clear.
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- Daniel made it clear
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- To belshazzar.
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- He said, but you have not honored god.
- 00:17:14.225 --> 00:17:17.628
- Listen to the wording here.
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- Who gives you.
- 00:17:18.429 --> 00:17:19.530
- The breath of life and controls your destiny
- 00:17:19.530 --> 00:17:22.300
- That will breathe.
- 00:17:22.300 --> 00:17:25.470
- You've forgotten god.
- 00:17:25.470 --> 00:17:28.339
- The one in charge of the very breath
- 00:17:28.339 --> 00:17:30.575
- You breathe, who was giving you life.
- 00:17:30.575 --> 00:17:33.778
- You've lived for the wrong things.
- 00:17:33.778 --> 00:17:35.613
- The one who was in control of your destiny.
- 00:17:35.613 --> 00:17:38.616
- That's the god you want to go against.
- 00:17:38.616 --> 00:17:41.586
- That's the one you want to fight against.
- 00:17:42.420 --> 00:17:44.655
- You have forgotten what he's done for you.
- 00:17:44.655 --> 00:17:47.992
- And so you live foolishly.
- 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.929
- Listen to this.
- 00:17:51.929 --> 00:17:52.430
- Daniel was stating.
- 00:17:52.430 --> 00:17:53.297
- Let's break it down here.
- 00:17:53.297 --> 00:17:54.465
- You knew what pride caused your family, and you did it
- 00:17:54.465 --> 00:17:58.069
- Anyway.
- 00:17:58.069 --> 00:18:01.105
- The arrogance that we see out of this.
- 00:18:01.105 --> 00:18:03.040
- Story.
- 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:04.308
- Is a generational curse.
- 00:18:04.308 --> 00:18:07.178
- It is a generational curse.
- 00:18:07.178 --> 00:18:08.779
- Okay, let me ask you this question.
- 00:18:08.779 --> 00:18:10.481
- I want you to be real and roll today.
- 00:18:10.481 --> 00:18:12.483
- Has stubborn pride been passed down?
- 00:18:12.483 --> 00:18:15.853
- Your family?
- 00:18:15.853 --> 00:18:18.122
- And it's funny when i say this.
- 00:18:18.122 --> 00:18:19.724
- Some people are like, no, who are we talking about,
- 00:18:19.724 --> 00:18:22.793
- Pastor? no.
- 00:18:22.793 --> 00:18:24.996
- Does it make you upset? why?
- 00:18:24.996 --> 00:18:29.934
- Why does it irritate you?
- 00:18:30.501 --> 00:18:33.137
- Why does the subject arise?
- 00:18:33.137 --> 00:18:34.639
- Something on the inside of you?
- 00:18:34.639 --> 00:18:37.909
- Could it be because it's actually a generational curse?
- 00:18:37.909 --> 00:18:40.811
- This pride run down your bloodline.
- 00:18:40.811 --> 00:18:43.414
- That's the stubbornness that you've seen from your parents.
- 00:18:43.414 --> 00:18:45.683
- Or maybe your grandparents generation.
- 00:18:45.683 --> 00:18:47.785
- Has it destroyed relationships?
- 00:18:47.785 --> 00:18:49.820
- Have you allowed ego to split your family apart?
- 00:18:49.820 --> 00:18:53.090
- Generations of men and women
- 00:18:53.090 --> 00:18:55.159
- Who would never, ever say, i'm sorry?
- 00:18:55.159 --> 00:18:58.963
- Not once
- 00:18:59.230 --> 00:19:01.098
- Will they ever say i'm sorry,
- 00:19:01.098 --> 00:19:03.434
- Ever apologize.
- 00:19:03.434 --> 00:19:07.338
- Listen, here's what i've learned with the lord.
- 00:19:07.338 --> 00:19:09.240
- You got to give it to him fully.
- 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:10.841
- And there are some times where you want to say god,
- 00:19:10.841 --> 00:19:13.578
- But it's not my fault. it's their fault.
- 00:19:13.578 --> 00:19:16.280
- They did this.
- 00:19:16.280 --> 00:19:17.448
- And god still telling you, you humble yourself before me.
- 00:19:17.448 --> 00:19:22.353
- And say i'm sorry.
- 00:19:22.787 --> 00:19:25.756
- For how can i forgive you if you do not forgive
- 00:19:25.756 --> 00:19:28.726
- Your brother or sister in christ?
- 00:19:28.726 --> 00:19:32.029
- How can you share my.
- 00:19:32.530 --> 00:19:33.698
- Gospel and my.
- 00:19:33.698 --> 00:19:34.799
- Testimony of grace that i show you every single day?
- 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:39.670
- You are not willing to get on your knees and just beg the lord
- 00:19:39.670 --> 00:19:43.341
- To do something different, to just say, i'm sorry,
- 00:19:43.341 --> 00:19:46.777
- Would you ruin it?
- 00:19:46.777 --> 00:19:50.448
- For pride.
- 00:19:50.748 --> 00:19:53.584
- And if that's you, here's the good news, though.
- 00:19:53.584 --> 00:19:56.354
- This is dysfunction.
- 00:19:56.821 --> 00:19:58.022
- But this dysfunction can stop today before it's too late.
- 00:19:58.022 --> 00:20:02.260
- First peter chapter one, verse 18.
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- Listen to this. for you know that god paid a ransom.
- 00:20:05.029 --> 00:20:07.732
- To save you from the empty life you inherited from your.
- 00:20:07.732 --> 00:20:11.068
- Ancestors.
- 00:20:11.068 --> 00:20:13.170
- And it was not paid with mere gold or silver.
- 00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:16.173
- I love how it states
- 00:20:16.173 --> 00:20:17.341
- That mere gold and silver, almost like it's worthless.
- 00:20:17.341 --> 00:20:20.444
- But he stayed in this because those things lose their value.
- 00:20:20.444 --> 00:20:23.281
- But listen to this.
- 00:20:23.281 --> 00:20:24.348
- It was the precious blood of christ, the sinless,
- 00:20:24.348 --> 00:20:28.219
- Spotless lamb of god that has redeemed you.
- 00:20:28.219 --> 00:20:31.589
- That's where your value comes from.
- 00:20:31.589 --> 00:20:34.625
- Stop losing sight of that.
- 00:20:34.625 --> 00:20:38.029
- Stop chasing everything else that will not satisfy.
- 00:20:38.029 --> 00:20:40.998
- You are not bound by what ran in your bloodline,
- 00:20:40.998 --> 00:20:44.502
- Because the blood of jesus runs deeper.
- 00:20:44.502 --> 00:20:48.406
- It frees you from the chains
- 00:20:49.006 --> 00:20:51.142
- That have been passed down from generation to generation.
- 00:20:51.142 --> 00:20:54.345
- Today is a new day.
- 00:20:54.345 --> 00:20:57.982
- What will you do?
- 00:20:58.416 --> 00:21:02.019
- Those chains
- 00:21:02.353 --> 00:21:03.220
- Are had a chance to break the cycle,
- 00:21:03.220 --> 00:21:06.190
- But he chose pride over repentance.
- 00:21:06.190 --> 00:21:07.792
- And so my last point is this.
- 00:21:07.792 --> 00:21:10.861
- You cannot ignore the writing on the wall.
- 00:21:10.861 --> 00:21:14.398
- And if you've ever heard that phrase
- 00:21:14.398 --> 00:21:16.200
- Before, understand that phrase actually came.
- 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.403
- From daniel chapter five.
- 00:21:19.403 --> 00:21:22.506
- You cannot ignore the writing on the wall,
- 00:21:22.506 --> 00:21:24.575
- But god is telling you what somebody is saying to you.
- 00:21:24.575 --> 00:21:27.945
- So then daniel explains daniel chapter five, verse 25 to 28.
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- This is what these words mean.
- 00:21:31.382 --> 00:21:33.517
- Meaner means numbered.
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- Okay?
- 00:21:35.653 --> 00:21:36.087
- God has numbered
- 00:21:36.087 --> 00:21:37.188
- The days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
- 00:21:37.188 --> 00:21:40.358
- Teco means weighed.
- 00:21:40.358 --> 00:21:42.526
- You have been weighed on the balances
- 00:21:42.526 --> 00:21:45.429
- And have not measured up.
- 00:21:45.429 --> 00:21:46.564
- Please listen to this. passing means divide it.
- 00:21:46.564 --> 00:21:50.167
- Your kingdom has been divided
- 00:21:50.801 --> 00:21:52.837
- And given to the medes and the persians.
- 00:21:52.837 --> 00:21:56.440
- What is the lord stating here?
- 00:21:57.041 --> 00:21:58.342
- Okay, here's what god is stating.
- 00:21:58.342 --> 00:22:00.144
- Here's why he brought the hand of judgment.
- 00:22:00.144 --> 00:22:02.780
- He's stating, i have weighed your life
- 00:22:02.780 --> 00:22:06.183
- And your life has had no value because you have chased
- 00:22:06.183 --> 00:22:09.620
- And lived for the wrong things.
- 00:22:09.620 --> 00:22:13.190
- You've been living in the palace throwing parties.
- 00:22:13.190 --> 00:22:16.427
- That's the life you want to live for.
- 00:22:17.228 --> 00:22:18.496
- That's the legacy you want to bring behind.
- 00:22:18.496 --> 00:22:22.066
- You're living for drunkenness,
- 00:22:22.066 --> 00:22:24.068
- For demons, for looking like the world.
- 00:22:24.068 --> 00:22:26.737
- And everything is falling apart.
- 00:22:26.737 --> 00:22:27.972
- And you will lose everything tonight.
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- But you have been weighed because you have been pursuing
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- The wrong things and the most feared empire in the world.
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- Babylon was conquered by the persian.
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- Empire that night. now.
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- Please listen to this.
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- That night.
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- Belshazzar mocked god.
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- He mocked the lord.
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- It was that night he lost his life.
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- Don't play around with what is holy.
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- It can cost you your life.
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- But i pray that you see the holiness of god.
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- Today.
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- And that he gave his only son.
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- Jesus christ.
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- To die for you
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- Upon the cross,
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- To take your sins
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- And the judgment that you and i deserve.
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- And he took it for us to show us there is a better way.
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- So please listen to my plea to you today.
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- Open your eyes.
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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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- If there's things controlling you, throw it out.
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- If there's things coming against your mind in your heart,
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- Throw it out. get rid of it. be in the word of god.
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- If there's things talking to you,
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- Putting these words of rebellion in your heart,
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- Then shut the tv up.
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- Turn the tv off.
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- Turn off the the shows, the things that you're watching.
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- The things that are
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- Speaking into your life and be in the word of god.
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- Fight back.
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- Fight the enemy.
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- It is a spiritual fight.
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- But i need you to know
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- That you are so loved by god.
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- Jesus took the punishment for you.
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- And you could be healed today.
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- Hey, this pastor bobby and i just want to personally
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- Thank you for joining us today.
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- I pray that this message blessed you and made it impact
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- In your life.
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- And i, i pray that you've been enjoying
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- This series, thrones and beast.
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- We've been taking a deep dive into the entire book of daniel,
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- Learning what it means
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- To have incredible faith through difficult times.
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- And i believe that there's a reason you've watched today's
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- Sermon, and i believe that god has a plan for you.
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- And maybe right now you feel like life is difficult.
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- Maybe you're going through a trial.
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- Maybe you feel like you're in a season
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- Where you're just stuck, or you're just
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- Walking through the fire, or you're stuck in the
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- The den with a bunch of lions that are ready to attack you.
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- But here's something we can remember
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- From the book of daniel.
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- No matter what your situation is,
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- No matter what your environment looks like, the lord god
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- That we serve will always be with you.
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- Even when you're in the fire, he is with you holding
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- Your hand.
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- You'll be able to go through trials and not be burned
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- When you rely completely on the lord.
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- It's an amazing promise and it's an amazing,
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- Encouraging story to remind you
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- You're not alone in the battles that you face.
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- You're here for a reason.
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- And i believe that
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- This message that you heard today was for a reason.
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- God is telling you that he loves you, that you're amazing,
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- And that he has a purpose for you and plans for your life.
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- So right now, it would be the biggest honor
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- To be able to pray over you.
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- We let me pray over you.
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- Come on, let's pray together.
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- God, i thank you, father.
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- I thank you, lord, for every person
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- That has watched this message today.
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- And i thank you, jesus for the pull on their heart.
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- I thank you, father,
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- That you are able to speak directly into their situation
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- And what they're going through and what they're dealing with.
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- God. and i pray, lord, that you remind them
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- You're always with them.
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- You will never abandon them.
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- You will never lead them.
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- And i pray god that you just encourage them today
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- To stand firm like daniel by faith,
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- No matter the trials, no matter the opposition,
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- No matter the attacks that are coming
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- And god is not done with you, he is still moving in your life.
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- Do not give up hope.
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- Keep moving god, give them the strength to keep moving.
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- Let him hear your holy spirit.
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- Let him hear your voice.
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- God is see the impossible.
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- Become possible.
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- God, we love you so much and we thank you, lord in
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- Jesus mighty name a man.
- 00:27:14.458 --> 00:27:18.228
- And if you just prayed that prayer with this today,
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- I want to thank you so much.
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- We are so excited about what the lord is doing in your life.
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- This ministry has blessed you or helped build your faith.
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- I want to ask you right now to consider partnering with us,
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- And if you want to become a partner,
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- All you have to do is give to bobby chandler dawg.
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- And it helps our ministry reach people all over the world
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- For the kingdom of god.
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- See, it's not just a donation, but it's actually a declaration
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- That god comes first in your life,
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- That he is number one and that he is in control.
- 00:27:50.661 --> 00:27:53.664
- And every giving that comes into this ministry
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- Helps us broadcast the good news of the gospel of jesus christ
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- All over the world, reaching homes,
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- Even in different countries.
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- And also it helps us reach people here
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- In our community, help people who are in need
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- And who need to know the love of god 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 in christ
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- And be set free by jesus christ.
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- And so again, i want to thank you
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- And ask you to pray about it.
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- Do you want to become a partner.
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- And help us.
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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.
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