Bobby Chandler - Insane Pride (Part 2)

July 12, 2025 | 32:10

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,
  • 00:11:29.613 --> 00:11:31.582
  • But even those that are wicked, even those that say
  • 00:11:31.582 --> 00:11:34.051
  • 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.
  • 00:11:38.222 --> 00:11:41.492
  • 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.
  • 00:11:45.295 --> 00:11:50.534
  • Meaning god's goal is not to destroy you, it's to deliver
  • 00:11:51.668 --> 00:11:54.404
  • You. and i was reading the book of daniel and i'm.
  • 00:11:54.404 --> 00:11:59.510
  • And again, we're going to go over
  • 00:11:59.510 --> 00:12:00.644
  • Many different topics with the book of daniel. but.
  • 00:12:00.644 --> 00:12:07.351
  • 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.
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  • I'm telling you, i hear so many people say.
  • 00:12:24.368 --> 00:12:25.736
  • But, pastor, you don't know what i've done.
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  • You don't know what i've said.
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  • You don't know the mistakes in my life.
  • 00:12:32.075 --> 00:12:33.944
  • And you are 100% correct.
  • 00:12:33.944 --> 00:12:35.846
  • 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.
  • 00:12:40.751 --> 00:12:42.886
  • How he's meeting with you right now.
  • 00:12:42.886 --> 00:12:47.391
  • If you feel
  • 00:12:47.724 --> 00:12:48.792
  • Convicted at all, he's meeting with you right now.
  • 00:12:48.792 --> 00:12:51.328
  • 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.
  • 00:12:59.803 --> 00:13:02.239
  • You don't have to run away.
  • 00:13:02.239 --> 00:13:03.507
  • It doesn't matter what you did in the past.
  • 00:13:03.507 --> 00:13:05.309
  • 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.
  • 00:13:19.723 --> 00:13:20.524
  • Long ago the lord said to israel,
  • 00:13:20.524 --> 00:13:22.059
  • 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.
  • 00:13:31.535 --> 00:13:34.705
  • God has been pursuing you through it all.
  • 00:13:35.572 --> 00:13:40.043
  • And i was going to get to my
  • 00:13:40.644 --> 00:13:41.678
  • Next point, but i really felt led this morning
  • 00:13:41.678 --> 00:13:44.848
  • To share a brief story.
  • 00:13:44.848 --> 00:13:46.149
  • You know,
  • 00:13:46.149 --> 00:13:48.385
  • I fully did not surrender my life over to
  • 00:13:48.385 --> 00:13:50.821
  • Jesus until i was around the age of 21.
  • 00:13:50.821 --> 00:13:53.991
  • That's a hard age to give your life to.
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  • Jesus.
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  • But before that,
  • 00:13:59.730 --> 00:14:00.597
  • 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
  • 00:14:03.467 --> 00:14:05.369
  • 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,
  • 00:14:14.945 --> 00:14:18.215
  • 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,
  • 00:14:28.225 --> 00:14:31.895
  • In an unexpected way.
  • 00:14:32.396 --> 00:14:35.666
  • And they saw alcohol all over the house
  • 00:14:35.666 --> 00:14:39.336
  • While.
  • 00:14:39.536 --> 00:14:42.139
  • And i remember leaving and felt like i broke
  • 00:14:42.139 --> 00:14:45.542
  • Their heart.
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  • And i remember going into my room.
  • 00:14:48.845 --> 00:14:52.182
  • And i remember just praying
  • 00:14:52.783 --> 00:14:53.884
  • 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.
  • 00:15:02.259 --> 00:15:04.828
  • 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,
  • 00:15:08.198 --> 00:15:09.533
  • 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,
  • 00:15:14.671 --> 00:15:15.839
  • And i was completely running
  • 00:15:15.839 --> 00:15:17.074
  • 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.
  • 00:15:26.316 --> 00:15:28.919
  • And today he's still pursuing me.
  • 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.056
  • So here's the truth for
  • 00:15:33.557 --> 00:15:34.791
  • 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?
  • 00:15:54.711 --> 00:15:58.348
  • Because here's my second point, which is this
  • 00:15:58.348 --> 00:16:00.550
  • 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,
  • 00:16:20.971 --> 00:16:22.439
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:16:50.233 --> 00:16:52.536
  • Since the demon of pride consumed him,
  • 00:16:52.536 --> 00:16:55.272
  • God is warning him.
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  • The tree will be cut down.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar, you will lose your authority
  • 00:16:58.108 --> 00:17:01.144
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:27.938 --> 00:17:31.975
  • 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?
  • 00:17:43.186 --> 00:17:45.489
  • 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
  • 00:17:52.529 --> 00:17:55.799
  • From your mistakes, from your past,
  • 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.369
  • From the things that you have faced.
  • 00:17:59.369 --> 00:18:02.572
  • But god is very clear, nebuchadnezzar.
  • 00:18:02.572 --> 00:18:04.508
  • Dark days are ahead.
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  • You will lose your mind.
  • 00:18:06.743 --> 00:18:09.746
  • You will be humbled.
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  • You'll be driven out of society.
  • 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.849
  • 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.
  • 00:18:25.228 --> 00:18:26.963
  • His hair grows out.
  • 00:18:26.963 --> 00:18:28.064
  • It looks like feathers.
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  • It's so thick and long.
  • 00:18:29.099 --> 00:18:31.101
  • His nails, grow out so long that it looks like he has claws.
  • 00:18:31.101 --> 00:18:34.671
  • And he's literally living like a wild animal.
  • 00:18:34.671 --> 00:18:40.443
  • Get here every
  • 00:18:40.777 --> 00:18:44.014
  • 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
  • 00:18:52.722 --> 00:18:54.457
  • Accept my advice.
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  • Stop sinning.
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  • Do what is right.
  • 00:18:58.728 --> 00:19:00.063
  • Break from your wicked path.
  • 00:19:00.063 --> 00:19:02.365
  • 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.
  • 00:19:06.670 --> 00:19:08.071
  • This is not a message of condemnation.
  • 00:19:08.071 --> 00:19:10.473
  • 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.
  • 00:19:14.778 --> 00:19:16.813
  • Judgment is coming, but it's not too late.
  • 00:19:16.813 --> 00:19:20.350
  • Today is an opportunity to repent, to change things,
  • 00:19:20.350 --> 00:19:25.055
  • To ask god for forgiveness, and he will continue to bless you.
  • 00:19:25.055 --> 00:19:29.926
  • How patient is the lord?
  • 00:19:30.460 --> 00:19:33.396
  • How long you think god waited on nebuchadnezzar?
  • 00:19:33.396 --> 00:19:35.999
  • A week.
  • 00:19:35.999 --> 00:19:37.500
  • How long would you wait on somebody?
  • 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.536
  • Some of y'all, like
  • 00:19:40.003 --> 00:19:40.537
  • I give him a day.
  • 00:19:40.537 --> 00:19:43.873
  • Daniel, chapter four, verse 29.
  • 00:19:43.873 --> 00:19:45.208
  • 12 months later,
  • 00:19:45.208 --> 00:19:48.144
  • God gave him an entire year
  • 00:19:48.144 --> 00:19:51.248
  • To repent.
  • 00:19:51.548 --> 00:19:53.416
  • He's walking on the flat
  • 00:19:53.416 --> 00:19:55.652
  • 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.
  • 00:19:59.923 --> 00:20:03.927
  • Price will always.
  • 00:20:04.361 --> 00:20:05.262
  • A pride will always steal your peace.
  • 00:20:05.262 --> 00:20:08.131
  • 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.
  • 00:20:24.881 --> 00:20:26.816
  • 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.
  • 00:20:31.655 --> 00:20:34.124
  • Afraid? maybe for a week.
  • 00:20:34.124 --> 00:20:35.358
  • 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,
  • 00:20:54.878 --> 00:20:58.348
  • A voice called down from heaven, o king
  • 00:20:58.348 --> 00:21:01.284
  • Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for you.
  • 00:21:01.284 --> 00:21:04.654
  • You are no longer ruler over this kingdom.
  • 00:21:04.654 --> 00:21:07.924
  • You will be driven out from human society.
  • 00:21:08.792 --> 00:21:10.794
  • You will live in the fields of wild animals.
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  • You'll eat grass like a cow.
  • 00:21:13.163 --> 00:21:14.864
  • Seven periods of time will pass seven years
  • 00:21:14.864 --> 00:21:18.034
  • Until you learn that
  • 00:21:18.034 --> 00:21:19.102
  • The most high rules over the kingdoms of the world
  • 00:21:19.102 --> 00:21:22.339
  • And gives it to anyone he choose.
  • 00:21:22.339 --> 00:21:25.642
  • All power and
  • 00:21:26.009 --> 00:21:26.910
  • 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.
  • 00:21:33.883 --> 00:21:36.419
  • Eat grass like a cow.
  • 00:21:36.419 --> 00:21:37.721
  • He was drenched with the dew of heaven.
  • 00:21:37.721 --> 00:21:39.989
  • He lived this way until his hair was as long as eagle's
  • 00:21:39.989 --> 00:21:42.892
  • 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
  • 00:21:54.204 --> 00:21:57.173
  • 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?
  • 00:22:04.681 --> 00:22:07.851
  • Overnight.
  • 00:22:07.851 --> 00:22:11.087
  • Again, i'm going to ask you this question.
  • 00:22:11.087 --> 00:22:12.522
  • Why are you fighting with god?
  • 00:22:12.522 --> 00:22:16.826
  • Just.
  • 00:22:17.060 --> 00:22:19.996
  • 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.
  • 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:25.568
  • 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
  • 00:22:37.914 --> 00:22:40.683
  • 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,
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  • But those who humbled themselves will be exalted,
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  • Will be lifted up, will be placed in a position
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  • Designed by god.
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  • And so here's
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  • My warning out of love today.
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  • Where are you?
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  • Have you asked god to forgive you over something
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  • In your life that you've been holding on?
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  • Have you not humbled yourself?
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  • Are you ignoring conviction in listen, listen.
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  • It goes deep. it goes deep.
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  • For some of us, we have a hard time just saying.
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  • God forgive me over my past mistakes.
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  • For some of you, you've gotten there.
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  • The hard thing is this you haven't forgiven yourself.
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  • Or you
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  • Haven't forgiven somebody else.
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  • And you're still holding on to it.
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  • You're no creation.
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  • How many times does god have to tell you that
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  • Doesn't mean life will be perfect.
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  • You're not going to be perfect, but you are a new creation.
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  • You are not who you used to be.
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  • So hold on to him.
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  • Because here's the last point.
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  • Here's god's grace right here.
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  • God restores the humble.
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  • He restores the humble.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar lost everything.
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  • Here's the crazy thing he never lost god,
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  • And he barely knew who god was.
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  • This is the difference between god and people.
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  • People will cancel you.
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  • God will restore you.
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  • People will abandon you.
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  • 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,
  • 00:26:27.176 --> 00:26:28.411
  • 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
  • 00:28:08.511 --> 00:28:11.581
  • 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,
  • 00:29:25.588 --> 00:29:28.491
  • I want to thank you so much.
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  • We are so excited about what the lord is doing in your life.
  • 00:29:30.593 --> 00:29:35.998
  • 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,
  • 00:29:39.468 --> 00:29:42.905
  • And if you want to become a partner,
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  • All you have to do is give to bobby chandler, dawg.
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  • And it helps our ministry reach people all over the world
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  • For the kingdom of god.
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  • See, it's not just a donation, but it's actually a declaration
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  • That god comes first in your life,
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  • That he is number one and that he is in control.
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  • And every giving that comes into this ministry
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  • Helps us broadcast the good news of the gospel of jesus christ
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  • All over the world, reaching homes,
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  • Even in different countries.
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  • And also it helps us reach people here
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  • In our community, help people who are in need
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  • And who need to know the love of god
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  • And something that we're unashamed about here
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  • In this ministry is preaching the truth of god's word.
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  • So every time you give, it allows us to preach the truth
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  • 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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