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 - Insane Pride (Part 2) | July 12, 2025
- And now he has given us an assignment.
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- And that assignment is to spread the gospel all over the world.
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- So today we get to celebrate jesus.
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- You don't have to fight him anymore.
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- You don't have to run away.
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- It doesn't matter what you did in the past.
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- He is pursuing you since the day you were born.
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- But i also want you to see this.
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- Nebuchadnezzar
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- At this point was living the life in his comfort.
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- He created one of the ancient wonders of the world.
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- Okay. the the hanging pyramid.
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- Right.
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- The hanging gardens is actually what it was called.
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- You had people traveling to babylon.
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- They would see the golden walls.
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- His empire was known as the empire of gold.
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- Every empire that he went against, he conquered.
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- God always gave him victory.
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- He had everything he wanted.
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- All the money, all the wealth, all the authority.
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- But listen to me.
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- His comfort was a leading him into the wrong direction.
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- Sometimes because of god's love.
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- He's going to allow your comfort to be disrupted.
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- Sometimes god is going to allow your life to be shaken up. why?
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- Because you have been misled by that comfort.
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- And you're going the wrong way.
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- Because now you have forgotten how to pray.
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- Think about it.
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- When you were going through that trial
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- And your heart was broken and things were happening
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- Every day, you were on your knees praying,
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- God, meet me where i am.
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- But once everything got good, hey god,
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- I'm good.
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- Comfort.
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- Listen.
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- Blessings can come into your life
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- Because god gives us blessings.
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- But at the same time, sometimes we start to worship
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- These blessings instead of the creator of the blessing.
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- And so this is when comfort starts to consume our heart.
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- And i'm telling you right now, we could be misled
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- By our comfort.
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- And so god is looking at nebuchadnezzar.
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- He's shaking up his life with a nightmare
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- So that he can see the reality of the way that he is living.
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- God is not punishing him.
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- God is actually waking him up.
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- So think about your life right now.
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- You have a comfortable
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- Life, everything getting shaky at this moment.
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- Your job,
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- Your relationship.
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- What you feel.
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- Just.
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- Just bind everything right now. just
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- What's been shaking you.
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- Your life at this very moment.
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- And i believe god says in his mercy,
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- I would rather shake up your world
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- And let you lose your soul.
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- Let me prove it to you.
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- One quick example.
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- Jesus spoke this to the church earlier this year
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- At a revelation, chapter three, verses 15 through 17.
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- A lot of us have heard this part of the verse.
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- I know all the things you do.
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- Now, this is jesus speaking to the church
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- That you were neither hot nor cold.
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- I wish that you were one or the other,
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- But since you are like lukewarm water,
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- But they're hot, neither hot nor cold.
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- I will spit you out of my mouth.
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- Meaning listen, god saying, stop playing with me.
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- That's what god is saying.
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- Either be hot or cold.
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- Stop standing in the middle ground.
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- You can't have one foot being hot and one foot being cold.
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- You can't have one foot with god, one foot with the world.
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- It means it's a false testimony.
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- You're telling people about me, but you're not living for me.
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- It's all lukewarm.
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- It's a false testimony.
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- I want you to be real with me.
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- God is saying, stop playing.
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- He sees your heart. he sees your life.
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- But here's the thing. here's my question.
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- How did they become so lukewarm?
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- So let me show you right here.
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- It says because you say i am rich.
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- I have everything i want.
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- I am so comfortable.
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- I don't need a thing.
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- And listen to the words of jesus here.
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- And you don't realize that you are wretched.
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- Miserable.
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- Poor in the spirit, blind and naked.
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- You don't even see how bad it is in your life. why?
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- Because of the comfort that you have right now.
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- You're pursuing these shallow things and you still feel empty
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- On the inside.
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- You have forgotten your purpose.
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- How quickly comfort
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- Can change everything.
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- You can have success. start to lose the fire.
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- You can have money and start to lose your hunger for god.
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- Let me challenge you today.
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- How's your prayer life?
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- Are you still praying as heavy as you did
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- When you were going through a trial?
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- Just because it seems like life is better.
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- This was the comfort in his life.
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- And so god had to disrupt some things.
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- Let's continue the story now.
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- Daniel chapter four, verses 6 to 18.
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- Nebuchadnezzar stated,
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- So i issued an order calling in all the wise men of babylon,
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- So they could tell me what my dream meant
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- When all the magicians, enchanters, astrologers,
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- And fortune tellers came in.
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- I told them the dream,
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- But they could not tell me what it meant.
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- Again, this is demonic
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- And demons cannot reveal to him what he needed to hear.
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- Demons cannot help you.
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- This is dark magic.
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- But then look at the verse here.
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- At last daniel came in.
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- This is the favor of god.
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- There are times
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- That you're going to
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- Show up to a place, and somebody is going to say, at last,
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- Like somebody who hears from god is here,
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- And you're going to be able to give wisdom to
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- Daniel came in before me and i told him the dream.
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- He was named belteshazzar after my god
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- And the spirit of the holy gods in him.
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- Now, the reason why i'm saying this is because nebuchadnezzar
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- Was admitting that he worshiped many gods.
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- So this from nebuchadnezzar's point of view,
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- This is again why we have to be careful.
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- He worshiped yahweh, but he also worshiped a lot of demons.
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- And i said to
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- Him, well, to are chief of the magicians.
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- I know that the spirit of the holy gods
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- Is in you, and that no mystery is too great for you to solve.
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- Now tell me what my dream means.
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- And then he explains the dream before i get there.
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- Let me just make this clear.
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- It's not the subject of today's sermon,
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- But god still speaks to us today.
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- 100%, i believe that.
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- And god can speak to us in many supernatural ways
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- And bring confirmations in our lives.
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- And i truly believe that
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- God still speaks to us today in dreams.
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- And i've also shared some of the stories,
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- Even just a few weeks ago.
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- But listen to the dream here, nebuchadnezzar stated
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- While i was lying in my bed, this is what i dream.
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- And i saw a large tree in the middle of the earth.
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- The tree grew very tall and strong,
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- Reaching high into the heavens for all the world to see.
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- It had fresh green leaves and it was loaded with fruit
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- For all to eat.
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- Wild animals lived in its shade, and the birds nested
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- In its branches.
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- And all the world was fed from this tree.
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- Everybody was comfortable from this tree.
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- But then as i lay there dreaming, i saw a messenger,
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- A holy one.
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- This is an angel coming down from heaven.
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- Now listen to this.
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- The messenger shouted.
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- Cut down the tree
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- And lop off its branches.
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- Shake off its leaves, scatter its fruit.
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- Chased about animals from its shade
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- And the birds from its branches.
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- Everything in your life.
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- It's about to get shaken up.
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- But leave the stump.
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- We underline that it's very important.
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- We're going to get back to that.
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- Okay, but leave the stump and the roots in the ground
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- Bound with a band of iron and bronze,
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- Surrounded by tinder grass.
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- Now listen to what's going to happen to nebuchadnezzar.
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- Here's what the lord is showing him. okay?
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- But let him be drenched with the dew of heaven.
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- Let him live like wild animals among the plants of the field
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- For seven periods of time.
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- Let him have the mind of a wild animal
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- Instead of the mind of
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- A human being, meaning he is going to completely lose
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- His sanity, lose his mind.
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- Do you see what pride can do?
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- When you live for the world,
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- When you live to only glorify yourself, listen.
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- You will lose your mind.
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- You will lose your peace.
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- And then he stated, for this has been decreed
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- By the messengers of the angels, commanded by the holy ones,
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- So that everyone may know that the most high rules
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- Over the kingdoms of the world,
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- And god gives them to anyone he chooses, even to the lowest,
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- Lowliest of people.
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- You know what god is proving here?
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- God is stating to king nebuchadnezzar,
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- I'm still in control.
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- I am in control of all things.
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- But it also brings up another question
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- Why is god warning nebuchadnezzar?
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- I just told you earlier that a warning from god
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- Is actually god's mercy and grace.
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- Here is a very vain, selfish king who is prideful,
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- Full of himself.
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- Again he destroyed solomon's temple.
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- He brought the people of god into captivity.
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- And i started looking into the text
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- And the commentaries,
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- And the answer shocked me.
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- Yet at the same time, it's not surprising
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- God wasn't warning nebuchadnezzar
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- Just for daniel.
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- Even though daniel would be blessed and again proven
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- That he hears from the lord.
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- Listen to this. this is crazy.
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- But god did this because he loves
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- Nebuchadnezzar.
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- I want,
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- I think about it,
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- This man.
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- Are you saying god loves him?
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- This ruthless, selfish,
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- Arrogant king who's hurt many people?
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- Yes. the truth is, god loves all of his creation.
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- We're all created in the image of god.
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- And here's what's shocking to me from daniel's chapter two
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- They don't have to do to daniel chapter four.
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- That's a period over 30 years.
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- God is pursuing nebuchadnezzar.
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- 30 years of grace, 30 years of
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- Mercy, 30 years of patience
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- Second peter chapter three, verse nine.
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- Listen to this, for the lord isn't really being slow
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- About his promise, as some people think he is what he is.
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- Being patient,
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- But whose sake?
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- Your sake,
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- Oh, i see why
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- He doesn't want anyone to be destroyed,
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- But he wants everyone to repent.
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- Do me a favor, underline anyone
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- Meaning god desires
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- All to repent, not just the people you like,
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- Not just the people that make you happy
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- Or say the right things to you,
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- But even those that are wicked, even those that say
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- The wrong thing, even those that are ruthless,
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- That come after you and attack you.
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- God still desires to rescue them.
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- God still desires for all of his children
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- To open up her eyes, to see him in a more clear way.
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- Meaning god's goal is not to destroy you, it's to deliver
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- You. and i was reading the book of daniel and i'm.
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- And again, we're going to go over
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- Many different topics with the book of daniel. but.
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- How good is god?
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- Like this story right here.
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- I pray that it hits your heart.
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- This evil king
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- Was chased down by the love of god.
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- It has a pastor.
- 00:12:23.400 --> 00:12:24.368
- I'm telling you, i hear so many people say.
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- But, pastor, you don't know what i've done.
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- You don't know what i've said.
- 00:12:29.439 --> 00:12:32.075
- You don't know the mistakes in my life.
- 00:12:32.075 --> 00:12:33.944
- And you are 100% correct.
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- I have no idea.
- 00:12:35.846 --> 00:12:37.281
- But god knows every detail, every mistake.
- 00:12:37.281 --> 00:12:40.751
- And he's proving his love to you today.
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- How he's meeting with you right now.
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- If you feel
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- Convicted at all, he's meeting with you right now.
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- If you feel hope at all, he's meeting with you right now
- 00:12:52.462 --> 00:12:55.866
- And he's telling you that he's proved his love to you.
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- You don't have to fight him anymore.
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- You don't have to run away.
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- It doesn't matter what you did in the past.
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- He is pursuing you since the day you were born.
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- He's been pursuing you.
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- Listen to this.
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- Jeremiah 31 verse three.
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- The lord is speaking to his children of israel.
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- But listen to his character.
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- Hear.
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- Long ago the lord said to israel,
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- I have loved you, my people, with what?
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- With an everlasting love,
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- With unfailing love, i have drawn you to
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- Myself.
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- God has been pursuing you through it all.
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- And i was going to get to my
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- Next point, but i really felt led this morning
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- To share a brief story.
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- You know,
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- I fully did not surrender my life over to
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- Jesus until i was around the age of 21.
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- That's a hard age to give your life to.
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- Jesus.
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- But before that,
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- I felt like i was chasing the world,
- 00:14:00.597 --> 00:14:03.467
- Living for the things that the world told me
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- Would make me happy.
- 00:14:05.369 --> 00:14:06.536
- And it just devastated me.
- 00:14:06.536 --> 00:14:09.573
- And it hurt.
- 00:14:09.573 --> 00:14:11.341
- And i remember being in college, and i've been very open
- 00:14:11.341 --> 00:14:14.945
- About some of the alcoholic addictions,
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- That have been in our family from, my brother
- 00:14:19.149 --> 00:14:22.286
- And some of the battles that we have faced in that.
- 00:14:22.286 --> 00:14:24.254
- And i remember at that time completely, completely
- 00:14:24.254 --> 00:14:28.225
- Living for the world. and my parents showed up,
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- In an unexpected way.
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- And they saw alcohol all over the house
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- While.
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- And i remember leaving and felt like i broke
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- Their heart.
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- And i remember going into my room.
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- And i remember just praying
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- God with me.
- 00:14:53.884 --> 00:14:57.254
- Because, you know, it's crazy.
- 00:14:57.254 --> 00:14:58.155
- I always, always felt his love.
- 00:14:58.155 --> 00:15:01.692
- I believe all of us have.
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- Like i remember as a kid
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- And growing up
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- And the things that i went through here and there,
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- And just like i always felt him with me,
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- I always knew that he was
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- There is is so many times
- 00:15:12.769 --> 00:15:14.004
- I was still
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- Running away from him,
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- And i was completely running
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- Away from him at this time of my life, yet he still pursued me.
- 00:15:17.074 --> 00:15:22.646
- And i didn't change overnight.
- 00:15:23.246 --> 00:15:26.316
- Yet he still pursued me over and over again.
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- And today he's still pursuing me.
- 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.056
- So here's the truth for
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- You right now god is pursuing you.
- 00:15:34.791 --> 00:15:38.028
- He has proven his love upon the cross.
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- He will never let go of you.
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- He will never abandon you.
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- He will never leave you.
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- No matter what mistakes you have made in the past.
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- But will you surrender your life to him?
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- Will you know his love and his grace for you?
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- Because here's my second point, which is this
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- God does humble the proud.
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- If you don't humble yourself before god, god will humble you
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- Because again, that's his mercy and grace.
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- Daniel is about to interpret this dream
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- Now to king nebuchadnezzar,
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- And he says, oh, king,
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- I wish, i wish this meeting wasn't for you.
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- I wish it was for another king.
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- Instead of reading the whole passage,
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- I'm just going to break it down.
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- Here's the first thing that he saw
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- A great tree that reached heaven.
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- This is king nebuchadnezzar.
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- He is known all over the world.
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- His authority, his power.
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- Everybody fears him.
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- He is the great tree.
- 00:16:37.020 --> 00:16:39.089
- But look at the next thing.
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- The tree will be cut down.
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- Listen to what pride will always lead to in your life.
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- Pride will always lead to a fall.
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- Pride will always lead to destruction.
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- Since the demon of pride consumed him,
- 00:16:52.536 --> 00:16:55.272
- God is warning him.
- 00:16:55.272 --> 00:16:56.573
- The tree will be cut down.
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- Nebuchadnezzar, you will lose your authority
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- And power because this is my judgment
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- That is coming, and only the stump will be left.
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- Here's what's fascinating.
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- That's isn't that
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- The stump represents god's mercy.
- 00:17:15.025 --> 00:17:19.429
- Just recently, the lord has shown me this, okay?
- 00:17:20.430 --> 00:17:22.799
- Because god could have
- 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:24.468
- Completely annihilated king nebuchadnezzar.
- 00:17:24.468 --> 00:17:27.938
- Can completely taken the entire tree, the roots and everything.
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- Why would god leave the stump?
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- Here's why. to give him a chance to grow back.
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- That great
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- King nebuchadnezzar.
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- No, no, no, i'm gonna leave the stump. why?
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- Because you will be humbled, and my mercy and grace
- 00:17:45.489 --> 00:17:49.226
- Will still be here.
- 00:17:49.226 --> 00:17:52.529
- There's always a chance to keep crawling
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- From your mistakes, from your past,
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- From the things that you have faced.
- 00:17:59.369 --> 00:18:02.572
- But god is very clear, nebuchadnezzar.
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- Dark days are ahead.
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- You will lose your mind.
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- You will be humbled.
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- You'll be driven out of society.
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- You will live like a wild animal
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- Eating grass for seven years.
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- For seven years.
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- Think about this. he's out in the field.
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- He does not bathe.
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- He does not take care of himself.
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- His hair grows out.
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- It looks like feathers.
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- It's so thick and long.
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- His nails, grow out so long that it looks like he has claws.
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- And he's literally living like a wild animal.
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- Get here every
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- The world tells us would make us happy.
- 00:18:44.014 --> 00:18:47.384
- But here's something i just feel like
- 00:18:47.384 --> 00:18:48.885
- I've never noticed before.
- 00:18:48.885 --> 00:18:49.653
- Verse 27. this is so powerful.
- 00:18:49.653 --> 00:18:52.722
- But daniel says, king nebuchadnezzar, please
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- Accept my advice.
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- Stop sinning.
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- Do what is right.
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- Break from your wicked path.
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- Be merciful to the poor.
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- Perhaps you will continue to prosper.
- 00:19:03.934 --> 00:19:06.670
- Here's what daniel was saying.
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- This is not a message of condemnation.
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- This is a message of hope.
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- It's not too late.
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- God is warning you right now.
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- Judgment is coming, but it's not too late.
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- Today is an opportunity to repent, to change things,
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- To ask god for forgiveness, and he will continue to bless you.
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- How patient is the lord?
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- How long you think god waited on nebuchadnezzar?
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- A week.
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- How long would you wait on somebody?
- 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.536
- Some of y'all, like
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- I give him a day.
- 00:19:40.537 --> 00:19:43.873
- Daniel, chapter four, verse 29.
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- 12 months later,
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- God gave him an entire year
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- To repent.
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- He's walking on the flat
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- Roof of the royal palace in babylon.
- 00:19:55.652 --> 00:19:58.722
- But listen to me, please.
- 00:19:58.722 --> 00:19:59.923
- If pride stays, peace cannot.
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- Price will always.
- 00:20:04.361 --> 00:20:05.262
- A pride will always steal your peace.
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- Verse 30 listen to his wording.
- 00:20:08.131 --> 00:20:09.766
- As he looked out across the city, he said,
- 00:20:09.766 --> 00:20:12.802
- Look at this great city of babylon by my own
- 00:20:12.802 --> 00:20:16.072
- Mighty power,
- 00:20:16.072 --> 00:20:19.209
- I have built this beautiful city
- 00:20:19.209 --> 00:20:21.011
- As my royal residence to display my majestic splendor.
- 00:20:21.011 --> 00:20:24.881
- It's all about me. it's all about king.
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- That is still about me.
- 00:20:26.816 --> 00:20:29.719
- You know what i think his temptation was?
- 00:20:29.719 --> 00:20:31.655
- I think he was afraid for a day.
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- Afraid? maybe for a week.
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- But here's the problem.
- 00:20:35.358 --> 00:20:36.893
- When we feel like we're getting away with something,
- 00:20:36.893 --> 00:20:39.162
- Then we start to believe will know judgment is going to come.
- 00:20:40.363 --> 00:20:42.966
- And i don't need to repent, right?
- 00:20:42.966 --> 00:20:45.368
- An entire year he felt like he got away with it.
- 00:20:45.368 --> 00:20:48.471
- So he speaks these words of pride out loud.
- 00:20:48.471 --> 00:20:51.875
- Then daniel chapter four, verse 31 to 33, while
- 00:20:51.875 --> 00:20:54.878
- These words were still in his mouth,
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- A voice called down from heaven, o king
- 00:20:58.348 --> 00:21:01.284
- Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for you.
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- You are no longer ruler over this kingdom.
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- You will be driven out from human society.
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- You will live in the fields of wild animals.
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- You'll eat grass like a cow.
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- Seven periods of time will pass seven years
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- Until you learn that
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- The most high rules over the kingdoms of the world
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- And gives it to anyone he choose.
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- All power and
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- Authority comes from god.
- 00:21:26.910 --> 00:21:30.380
- Then in verse 33, the same hour the judgment was fulfilled,
- 00:21:30.380 --> 00:21:33.883
- Nebuchadnezzar was driven from human society.
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- Eat grass like a cow.
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- He was drenched with the dew of heaven.
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- He lived this way until his hair was as long as eagle's
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- Feathers, and his nails were like birds claws.
- 00:21:42.892 --> 00:21:46.129
- This man had it all and lost it all
- 00:21:46.129 --> 00:21:49.299
- In a single day.
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- Do you realize
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- Being arrogant or prideful, or running away from god
- 00:21:57.173 --> 00:22:01.544
- Can cause you to lose everything
- 00:22:01.544 --> 00:22:04.681
- In one day?
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- Overnight.
- 00:22:07.851 --> 00:22:11.087
- Again, i'm going to ask you this question.
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- Why are you fighting with god?
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- Just.
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- Like he loves you so much,
- 00:22:19.996 --> 00:22:22.599
- He gives warnings.
- 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:23.400
- You don't have.
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- He tells you what's coming.
- 00:22:25.568 --> 00:22:26.569
- You don't have.
- 00:22:26.569 --> 00:22:28.738
- Trust him with your life
- 00:22:28.738 --> 00:22:30.340
- Because pride would take away your faith.
- 00:22:31.241 --> 00:22:33.877
- Pride will also take away your mind and your reputation.
- 00:22:33.877 --> 00:22:37.914
- And so god had humbled him publicly because he would not
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- Humble himself privately.
- 00:22:40.683 --> 00:22:43.787
- Matthew 23, verse 12.
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- But those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
- 00:22:45.855 --> 00:22:48.391
- But those who humbled themselves will be exalted,
- 00:22:48.391 --> 00:22:51.728
- Will be lifted up, will be placed in a position
- 00:22:51.728 --> 00:22:56.733
- Designed by god.
- 00:22:57.133 --> 00:23:00.136
- And so here's
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- My warning out of love today.
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- Where are you?
- 00:23:04.707 --> 00:23:08.011
- Have you asked god to forgive you over something
- 00:23:09.012 --> 00:23:12.148
- In your life that you've been holding on?
- 00:23:12.148 --> 00:23:16.719
- Have you not humbled yourself?
- 00:23:17.320 --> 00:23:18.855
- Are you ignoring conviction in listen, listen.
- 00:23:18.855 --> 00:23:21.724
- It goes deep. it goes deep.
- 00:23:21.724 --> 00:23:23.159
- For some of us, we have a hard time just saying.
- 00:23:23.159 --> 00:23:25.595
- God forgive me over my past mistakes.
- 00:23:25.595 --> 00:23:28.431
- For some of you, you've gotten there.
- 00:23:28.431 --> 00:23:29.966
- The hard thing is this you haven't forgiven yourself.
- 00:23:29.966 --> 00:23:36.172
- Or you
- 00:23:36.372 --> 00:23:37.073
- Haven't forgiven somebody else.
- 00:23:37.073 --> 00:23:39.876
- And you're still holding on to it.
- 00:23:40.610 --> 00:23:42.212
- You're no creation.
- 00:23:42.212 --> 00:23:45.281
- How many times does god have to tell you that
- 00:23:46.249 --> 00:23:49.619
- Doesn't mean life will be perfect.
- 00:23:49.619 --> 00:23:51.721
- You're not going to be perfect, but you are a new creation.
- 00:23:51.721 --> 00:23:55.058
- You are not who you used to be.
- 00:23:55.058 --> 00:23:59.462
- So hold on to him.
- 00:23:59.896 --> 00:24:01.764
- Because here's the last point.
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- Here's god's grace right here.
- 00:24:02.866 --> 00:24:04.367
- God restores the humble.
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- He restores the humble.
- 00:24:07.570 --> 00:24:09.239
- Nebuchadnezzar lost everything.
- 00:24:09.239 --> 00:24:11.674
- Here's the crazy thing he never lost god,
- 00:24:11.674 --> 00:24:15.278
- And he barely knew who god was.
- 00:24:15.278 --> 00:24:18.281
- This is the difference between god and people.
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- People will cancel you.
- 00:24:20.884 --> 00:24:23.920
- God will restore you.
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- People will abandon you.
- 00:24:26.556 --> 00:24:27.891
- They'll mock you. they'll condemn you.
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- They'll cut you off.
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- God is always there.
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- Daniel chapter four, verse 34.
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- After seven years, listen to this.
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- After the time and pass of
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- Seven years, i, nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven.
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- My sanity returned.
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- What happens when you set your eyes upon jesus?
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- Sanity returns a sound mind returns peace upon your mind.
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- And i praise.
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- And i worship
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- The most high and honored the one who lives forever.
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- His rule is everlasting and his kingdom is eternal.
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- Seven years of torment was ended in a moment
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- Of looking up.
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- Ten years of torment can change today.
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- In a moment of looking up.
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- 20 years, 50 years,
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- 60 years of torment and your life can change today,
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- The moment you look up and give it over to god.
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- That's available for you.
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- Jeremiah 29, verse 12.
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- In those days when you pray,
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- I will listen.
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- If you look for me wholeheartedly,
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- You will find,
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- Okay, one more thing.
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- I think this is so called to
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- Daniel chapter four by many scholars.
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- Many scholars believe
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- That nebuchadnezzar himself
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- Wrote daniel chapter four
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- Because it's from his point of view.
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- This is nebuchadnezzar's testimony of his fall,
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- But also his redemption.
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- God allowed a pagan king to put his testimony
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- In the bible.
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- You're
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- Not too far from god's mercy.
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- You're not too far for god to reach.
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- You have been through some things,
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- But i'm telling you today,
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- God can use your testimony today to change the lives of others.
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- God allowed his story to be in the bible.
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- Imagine what he's doing with you.
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- Hey, this pastor bobby
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- And i just want to personally 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 this 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 leave 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.
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- Oh god.
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- 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 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.
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- 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.
- 00:29:44.607 --> 00:29:47.443
- 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.
- 00:29:58.020 --> 00:30:01.023
- And every giving that comes into this ministry
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- Helps us broadcast the good news of the gospel of jesus christ
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- All over the world, reaching homes,
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- Even in different countries.
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- And also it helps us reach people here
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- In our community, help people who are in need
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- And who need to know the love of god
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- And something that we're unashamed about here
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- In this ministry is preaching the truth of god's word.
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- So every time you give, it allows us to preach the truth
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- 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 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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