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Robert Jeffress - A Night to Remember (Part 2)

November 10, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - A Night to Remember (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - A Night to Remember (Part 2) | November 10, 2025
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  • From the pulpit of
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  • The first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • The bible teaches that all of sin
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  • Doesn't fall short of the glory of god.
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  • Graciously, god has given everyone the opportunity
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  • To turn away from their sin and receive his forgiveness,
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  • But some people would rather double down
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  • In their own immorality rather than admit their wrongdoing.
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  • Today we'll learn a compelling lesson about repentance
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  • And judgment from the story
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  • Of the handwriting on the wall in daniel 5.
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  • My message is titled, a night to remember
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • In a culture that celebrates compromise
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  • And rejects absolute truth,
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  • How can you stand firm in your christian faith?
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  • The prophet daniel faced this same challenge millennia ago
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  • And his unwavering courage offers a powerful example
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  • For believers today.
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  • In the book, "daniel: courageous living in a pagan world,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress shares how you can remain steadfast
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  • And immovable in a culture ruled by darkness.
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  • Request your copy today when you give a generous gift
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  • To support the ministry of "pathway to victory."
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  • First of all, his first charge was you have rejected
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  • The truth you've been given.
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  • He said, "belshazzar, you knew the truth.
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  • You knew about god through your father,
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  • Your ancestor, nebuchadnezzar,
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  • And yet you willingly rejected that truth.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand
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  • That god holds us accountable for the revelation,
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  • The information that he's given to us about himself?
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  • Many people don't understand this.
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  • Heaven is not going to be the same for all christians
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  • And hell is not going to be the same for all non-christians.
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  • In fact, in luke 2,
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  • Jesus very clearly thought that the degrees of hell
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  • That people will experience will be based on
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  • The amount of information revelation they had.
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  • In luke 12:47-48, jesus said,
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  • "and the slave who knew his master's will
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  • And did not get ready or act in accord with his will,
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  • Will receive many lashes,
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  • But the one who did not know his masters will,
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  • And committed deeds worthy of a flogging,
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  • Will receive but few.
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  • From everyone who has been given much,
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  • Much will be required;
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  • And to whom they entrusted much,
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  • Much will asked of them."
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  • You know, we use that verse in terms of money
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  • And giving, to whom much is given, much is required,
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  • But that verse applies to more than money.
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  • It actually applies to information, revelation about god
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  • We have received.
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  • The person who has heard god's word,
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  • Who has a bible available to him,
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  • Who has heard the word of god taught
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  • Over and over and over again,
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  • And yet rejects god's message will be more accountable
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  • And will suffer a greater judgment
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  • Than the one who has never heard god's word.
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  • He said, "first of all,
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  • You have rejected the knowledge you have received."
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  • "secondly," he says, "you have willingly disobeyed god."
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  • Look at verse 23,
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  • "but you have exalted yourself against the lord of heaven."
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  • You've heard me say this before,
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  • But in the old testament there were two kinds of sins.
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  • There were sins of ignorance,
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  • Sometimes called unintentional sins,
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  • And there were sins of defiance.
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  • For sins of ignorance or sins of weakness,
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  • Numbers four and five gives a prescription
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  • For how to make a sacrifice for those sins.
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  • But in the old testament, there was absolutely no provision
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  • For intentional sins
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  • Or what the bible calls, "high-handed sins."
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  • Sins in which a person willingly knows
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  • What the will of god is but willingly and defiantly
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  • Says to god, "god, i don't care what you say,
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  • I'm going to do what i want to do."
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  • There are some of you here tonight in listening
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  • Who are engaged and willingly, knowingly,
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  • And continually violating what you know to be the truth.
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  • And there is a special judgment in the bible
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  • For those kind of defiant and high-handed sins.
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  • Thirdly, he says, "you have worshiped
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  • Other gods, belshazzar."
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  • Look at verse 23 again,
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  • "and they have brought the vessels of his house before you
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  • And you and your nobles, your wives,
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  • Your concubines have been drinking wine from them;
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  • And you have praised the gods of silver and gold,
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  • Of bronze, iron, wood, and stone,
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  • Which do not see, they don't hear, or understand.
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  • But the god in whose hand are your life and breath,
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  • Your ways, you have not glorified."
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  • He was saying, "belshazzar, you have given your attention.
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  • You have followed these gods that are inanimate objects.
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  • They can't see, hear or feel,
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  • And yet you have ignored and not glorified the true god."
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  • Only those of us who are parents
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  • Can really understand the heartache we inflict upon god
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  • Because of our unwillingness to have fellowship with him
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  • And chase after other false gods.
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  • Those of you who are parents know
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  • That your children reach a certain age when they would
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  • Rather spend time with somebody else rather than you,
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  • Make that anyone else other than you.
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  • You know what i'm talking about.
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  • And so just imagine that you planned a day
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  • With your son or daughter,
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  • You've been looking forward to it.
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  • Your son or daughter agreed to spend the day with you.
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  • You've been making plans, the day arrives
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  • And your child says, "well, i'm sorry, mom, dad,
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  • Something else has come up.
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  • I'm not going to be able to spend the day with you."
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  • "oh, really, homework you're going to be working on?"
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  • "no, no." "you're doing something with a friend?
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  • "no, no."
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  • "well, what are you going to do
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  • Instead of spending time with me?"
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  • And your child says, "i'm going to go in the backyard
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  • And talk to that tree all day
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  • Rather than spend time with you.
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  • I'd rather to talk to that tree
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  • Than have to spend a day with you.
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  • Can you imagine how much that would wound you as a parent?
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  • Yet the reason we feel that way
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  • Is because we have been created in the image of god.
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  • God desires to have fellowship with us,
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  • And yet daniel said the belshazzar, "you have chased
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  • After other gods, inanimate objects, gold and silver,
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  • Instead of worshiping the true god."
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  • And now it comes time, therefore
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  • Because of that, here is the judgment.
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  • Look at verse 25.
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  • He says, "now this is the interpretation
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  • That is written out:
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  • Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin."
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  • It's aramaic, it means this.
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  • The interpretation in verse 26,
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  • Mene: it means god has numbered your kingdom,
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  • He has numbered your days and put an end to it.
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  • Tekel, verse 27, "you have been weighed on the scales
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  • And found deficient."
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  • You understand in biblical times
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  • How the balance scales work.
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  • The balance scales consisted of two pans
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  • Connected to a balance beam
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  • And the two pans had a gold chain on each of them.
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  • And if you were involved in commerce,
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  • Let's say you wanted to sell a piece of gold
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  • Or a bag of gold that was 16 ounces
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  • And you took it the merchant, you wanted to sell your gold,
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  • You're 16 ounces.
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  • Well, the merchant you were selling it to,
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  • Would take a one pound weight
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  • And he would put it in one of the pounds
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  • And it would weight down the pound, the pan.
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  • And then you would take your little bag of gold
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  • And you would put it in the other pan.
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  • But let's say you thought you were going to get away
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  • With something, you just put 14 ounces instead of 16 ounces.
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  • You put that in the scale, it wouldn't balance out.
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  • The scale would be found lacking,
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  • It would be found deficient.
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  • And that's exactly the illustration he's using here.
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  • He says, "compared to the standard,
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  • The absolute perfection of god,
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  • Against which we are all measured, you belshazzar,
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  • You have come up lacking, you have come up light,
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  • You have come up deficient."
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  • That's what the word tekel means.
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  • "you have been weighed on the scales
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  • And you have been found deficient."
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  • And then upharsin, it's a plural term,
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  • Simply meaning, "your kingdom has been divided
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  • And given over to others, to the medes and to the persians."
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  • Now look at verse 30.
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  • We see the fulfillment of this interpretation,
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  • The mighty defeat.
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  • Verse 30, "that same night,"
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  • The same night of this feast,
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  • "belshazzar, the chaldean king was slain.
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  • And so darius the mede
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  • Received the kingdom at about age 62."
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  • Now we know from extra biblical literature,
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  • We know from archeology not only the year we know the month
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  • And the exact date this happened.
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  • It happened the night of october 11th
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  • And the early morning of october the 12th 539 bc.
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  • We know from the cylinder of cyrus what happened that night
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  • And it completely matches the biblical record.
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  • Cyrus perhaps was another name for darius,
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  • And we know that during the midst of this drunken orangy,
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  • While everybody was in a stupor, there were some
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  • Inside the city gates who were sympathetic to the medes
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  • And the persians.
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  • And while everybody was drunk,
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  • The kings nobleman were drunk,
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  • They lifted the city gates
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  • And darius and his soldiers walked into the city.
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  • And without loosening an arrow,
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  • Without throwing a single spear,
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  • They were able to overtake the mighty kingdom of babylon.
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  • It happened just as god had predicted.
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  • What are the principles that we find in this passage?
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  • I want you to write three of them down.
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  • Three principles from this passage.
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  • First of all, god hates pride.
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  • In proverbs 6, god tells us the seven things
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  • That he hates most and at the top of the list is pride.
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  • And there is no greater demonstration of pride
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  • Against god than knowingly, willingly
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  • And continually disobeying god.
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  • That is the essence of pride
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  • And no one of us can survive that.
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  • James 4:6 says, "god is opposed to the proud."
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  • Secondly, this passage reminds us that god honors courage.
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  • Instead of telling the king what he wanted to hear,
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  • Daniel told the king what he needed to hear.
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  • In fact, daniel was an old man now,
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  • He didn't have anything to lose
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  • And therefore he said, "i'm going to tell the king
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  • What he needs to hear.
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  • I'm going to deliver god's message
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  • Regardless of the consequences."
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  • There are some of you who are pastors
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  • Who are listening to this message right now.
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  • Perhaps you're fearful of speaking the truth
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  • In you're pulpit.
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  • You don't want to offend church members.
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  • You don't want to offend potential new members.
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  • You don't want to offend wealthy people in your church
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  • Who may give a lot of money.
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  • Listen, god honors his men and his women
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  • Who will speak the truth without fear of consequences.
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  • And it's not only pastors, it's all of us
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  • Who have been called to speak god's truth
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  • Regardless of the fallout of the message.
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  • And the third truth in this passage is god will hold us
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  • Accountable for the truth we have received.
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  • God holds us accountable for the truth
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  • That we have received.
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  • You know it's interesting, verse 29 says
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  • That belshazzar honored daniel
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  • For interpreting the scripture passage,
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  • But there is nothing that says belshazzar repented
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  • Because of the message.
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  • He heard the message, he had the revelation,
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  • But he didn't repent and his judgment came that very night.
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  • God holds us accountable for the information
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  • That we have received.
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  • Some people say, "well, how could belshazzar be so foolish
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  • And disregard the handwriting on the wall?"
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  • When you've seen a miraculous demonstration like that,
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  • Who would be so foolish as to ignore a message like that?"
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  • Let's think about our own nation for just a moment.
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  • We've received a much clearer revelation than belshazzar
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  • And babylon ever received.
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  • We have the revelation found in god's word.
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  • We have men of god continually preaching in the pulpits
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  • For the 250 years of our nation's history,
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  • And yet what is the state of our country right now?
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  • Before we judge babylon too severely,
  • 00:12:59.468 --> 00:13:03.439
  • Let's look at our own nation.
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  • God destroyed babylon in 539 bc.
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  • We know in revelation 17 and 18
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  • That god's going to destroy another nation
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  • That goes by the name of babylon.
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  • It's the kingdom of the antichrist in revelation 17 and 18.
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  • Let's look at our nation.
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  • Let's see how we measure up and compare to babylon
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  • And most of all how we compare to god's perfect standard.
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  • God judges us.
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  • He puts us in the balance just like he placed babylon
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  • And the standard of judgment is not what other nations do.
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  • The standard of judgment is god's perfect righteousness.
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  • So let's do a measurement of where we are
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  • As a country right now.
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  • What is similar in our country
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  • To what was happening in babylon.
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  • First of all, we promote and encourage idolatry.
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  • We have a nation that worships many, many gods
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  • And although we celebrated its plurality,
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  • God calls it idolatry, the worship of many gods.
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  • Some of them are the mythological gods of other religions.
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  • Some are the gods of money, materialism, pleasure,
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  • But we worship false gods
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  • And not only that, as a nation since 1962,
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  • We have defiantly outlawed the mention of god
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  • In the public square.
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  • Decision after decision after decision
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  • Has demonstrated government's not neutrality,
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  • But hostility toward the christian faith.
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  • You dare not mention the name of god
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  • In a high school graduation ceremony.
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  • You dare not display a bible verse,
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  • You dare not try to teach god's laws to our children.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, god is no respecter of nations.
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  • Any nation that rejects god will be rejected by god.
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  • Or let's look at the immorality that was sweeping babylon,
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  • That was a reason for his judgment against babylon.
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  • Look at what is happening in our country.
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  • Look at what's happening in our country.
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  • I had a friend this week who pointed this out to me.
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  • It never quite hit me like this before.
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  • He said, "robert, just think about this.
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  • 15 years ago or even 10 years ago,
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  • If a pastor or a sandwich company
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  • Had said, 'marriage is between a husband and a wife,
  • 00:15:17.439 --> 00:15:21.176
  • A man and a woman,' 15 years ago, 10 years ago,
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  • Would that have caused any controversy?
  • 00:15:24.847 --> 00:15:27.149
  • Would anybody be irate by saying marriage
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  • Is between a man and a woman?
  • 00:15:30.486 --> 00:15:32.788
  • And yet today, if you say that you are accused
  • 00:15:32.788 --> 00:15:35.824
  • Of hate speech, well, that's hate speech to say marriage
  • 00:15:35.824 --> 00:15:40.262
  • Is between a man and a woman."
  • 00:15:40.262 --> 00:15:42.698
  • Now what's changed?
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  • God's message hasn't changed.
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  • We've been saying that for thousands of years
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  • That marriage is between a man and woman.
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  • What has changed is our culture.
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  • Our culture is moving further and further
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  • And further away from the standards of almighty god.
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  • We have condoned what god has condemned.
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  • We have called evil what god calls good marriage.
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  • And we have called good homosexuality what god calls evil.
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  • And it's not just homosexuality, it's adultery,
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  • It's premarital sex, it is unbiblical divorce.
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  • All of those things are categorized
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  • As sexual immorality and god judges it.
  • 00:16:20.235 --> 00:16:24.206
  • God judged babylon
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  • Because of its treatment of life.
  • 00:16:25.908 --> 00:16:30.512
  • Bloodshed, the taking of the life of the innocent
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  • Was one reason that god judged babylon
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  • And judged many of the nations of the old testament.
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  • How do we measure up?
  • 00:16:39.822 --> 00:16:41.356
  • According to that, since 1970,
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  • There had been 50 million children in our country murdered
  • 00:16:43.625 --> 00:16:47.362
  • In the womb through abortion.
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  • The highest court in our land,
  • 00:16:49.698 --> 00:16:51.133
  • The supreme court, said it is okay.
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  • It is permissible to murder a child in the womb.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, all you have to do
  • 00:16:58.207 --> 00:17:00.109
  • Is look at how god dealt with the old testament nations
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  • That practiced child sacrifice.
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  • All you have to do is see what god did to nazi germany
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  • For taking children to the crematorium by the trainloads.
  • 00:17:08.417 --> 00:17:12.054
  • Just look at that
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  • And you'll know why god is going to judge america.
  • 00:17:13.422 --> 00:17:17.893
  • Well, that is true about god's dealing of nations
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  • Is true of us as individuals.
  • 00:17:21.363 --> 00:17:23.732
  • How could belshazzar and babylon
  • 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:27.169
  • Reject the handwriting on the wall?
  • 00:17:27.169 --> 00:17:29.905
  • Look at what you and i have done
  • 00:17:30.539 --> 00:17:32.574
  • With the handwriting that is in the book.
  • 00:17:32.574 --> 00:17:35.177
  • God has given us an even more clearer revelation
  • 00:17:35.177 --> 00:17:39.414
  • Than belshazzar ever received.
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  • He has said to us just like he did to belshazzar,
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  • "mene, mene your days are numbered."
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  • Do you understand that?
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  • Do you understand you're not going to live here forever?
  • 00:17:50.392 --> 00:17:53.061
  • Saint augustine said, "we are deafened
  • 00:17:53.061 --> 00:17:55.130
  • By the clanking sounds of our mortality."
  • 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:58.167
  • All around us, you can hear the clanking sounds of death.
  • 00:17:58.167 --> 00:18:01.703
  • Just look around at the people who are no longer here,
  • 00:18:01.703 --> 00:18:05.274
  • You knew who were here a year ago.
  • 00:18:05.274 --> 00:18:07.643
  • Just look at what's happening to your own body
  • 00:18:07.643 --> 00:18:09.344
  • And the deterioration and the sickness.
  • 00:18:09.344 --> 00:18:12.080
  • Everywhere around us, we have the message
  • 00:18:12.080 --> 00:18:14.783
  • That we are not going to live forever.
  • 00:18:14.783 --> 00:18:16.685
  • The bible says, "it is appointed unto
  • 00:18:16.685 --> 00:18:18.520
  • Every one of us to die."
  • 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:20.155
  • And then the judgment.
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  • Upharsin, one day your kingdom will be divided
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  • And left to others.
  • 00:18:25.661 --> 00:18:27.062
  • Do you realize that's the message to us as well?
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  • One day, everything you have spent your life accumulating,
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:33.402
  • You're going to leave it all behind for somebody else.
  • 00:18:33.402 --> 00:18:36.271
  • You came into this world with nothing
  • 00:18:36.271 --> 00:18:38.540
  • And you're going to leave this world
  • 00:18:38.540 --> 00:18:40.576
  • With absolutely nothing.
  • 00:18:40.576 --> 00:18:42.277
  • Everything you have will be divided up and given to others.
  • 00:18:42.277 --> 00:18:46.281
  • "tekel - you have been placed on god's scales
  • 00:18:46.281 --> 00:18:50.652
  • And found lacking."
  • 00:18:50.652 --> 00:18:52.421
  • The bible says every one of us is going to be judged by god.
  • 00:18:53.622 --> 00:18:56.525
  • It's appointed unto every man wants to die
  • 00:18:56.525 --> 00:18:58.460
  • And then the judgment.
  • 00:18:58.460 --> 00:19:00.028
  • And the standard, the measurement that god uses
  • 00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:03.432
  • To measure us against is not other people.
  • 00:19:03.432 --> 00:19:06.368
  • It is the perfect righteousness of his son jesus christ.
  • 00:19:06.368 --> 00:19:10.472
  • And unless we have a righteousness that measures up to his,
  • 00:19:10.472 --> 00:19:13.909
  • We are found lacking.
  • 00:19:13.909 --> 00:19:15.277
  • And that means we are all deficient in god's eyes.
  • 00:19:15.277 --> 00:19:18.146
  • We've all sinned, we've all come short of the glory of god.
  • 00:19:18.146 --> 00:19:22.284
  • The only way we can ever survive the judgment of god
  • 00:19:22.284 --> 00:19:25.721
  • Is to wrap ourselves in the righteousness of jesus christ.
  • 00:19:25.721 --> 00:19:29.157
  • In revelation 20 20, god talks about that final judgment,
  • 00:19:29.157 --> 00:19:33.495
  • The great white throne judgment.
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  • And he said at that judgment, "all unbelievers were standing
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  • Before the great white throne
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  • And the books were open, the books of every man's deeds,
  • 00:19:39.067 --> 00:19:42.104
  • And the book was open, the book of life.
  • 00:19:42.104 --> 00:19:44.506
  • And if any man, woman, child was not found written
  • 00:19:44.506 --> 00:19:47.409
  • In the book of life,
  • 00:19:47.409 --> 00:19:49.311
  • He was cast into the lake of fire and tormented there
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  • Day and night forever and ever."
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  • You see the real question is not
  • 00:19:57.653 --> 00:20:01.623
  • How could belshazzar and babylon
  • 00:20:01.623 --> 00:20:04.059
  • Ignore the handwriting on the wall?
  • 00:20:04.059 --> 00:20:08.430
  • The real question is how could you
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  • And i ignore god's handwriting in his book?
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  • The old testament book of daniel
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  • Isn't a mere lesson in ancient history.
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  • The words in this powerful book are god breathed
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  • And designed to get our attention today.
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  • And i hope this message has prompted you
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  • To heed god's warning
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  • And invest your life in things that truly matter.
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  • Our world is spinning out of control.
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  • And his three friends' names.
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  • Secondly, he changed their culture, their education,
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  • And finally he asked them to change their diet.
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  • And this is where daniel drew the line.
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  • Gary, that's a great question.
  • 00:22:44.286 --> 00:22:46.221
  • Fortunately, the bible doesn't stutter
  • 00:22:46.221 --> 00:22:48.390
  • In answering that question.
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  • In 1 corinthians 12:13, paul was riding to a group
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  • Of carnal christians, backslidden,
  • 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:56.631
  • Who were involved in immorality.
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  • They were terrible excuses and examples of christians,
  • 00:22:58.867 --> 00:23:01.937
  • And yet paul said in 1 corinthians 12:13,
  • 00:23:01.937 --> 00:23:04.940
  • "for by one spirit we were all baptized into one body."
  • 00:23:04.940 --> 00:23:10.278
  • The baptism with the holy spirit is not just reserved
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  • For a special group of superior christians.
  • 00:23:14.316 --> 00:23:18.019
  • The baptism with the holy spirit
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  • Is a part of the basic package that each one of us receives
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  • When we trust in christ as savior.
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  • The baptism with the holy spirit is that act of god
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  • By which god connects us to the head of the body of christ,
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  • Jesus christ, and to other members of the body, the church.
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  • We receive that the moment we trust in god.
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  • There's no command ever to be baptized with the spirit.
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  • That's something god does, it's not something we do.
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  • But what the bible does command in relationship
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  • To the holy spirit is to be filled with the holy spirit.
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  • Ephesians 5:18, what is the filling of the holy spirit?
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  • It means to be controlled by the holy spirit of god.
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  • It's a greek word pleroo
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  • That was used to describe the wind
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  • Filling up the mast of a ship
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  • And driving that ship in a particular direction.
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  • To be filled with the spirit means to be controlled
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  • By the spirit of god, and that's a continual process.
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  • Think of it this way,
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  • The moment you're saved, you receive all the holy
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  • Of the holy spirit of god.
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  • There's no more to receive.
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  • You are baptized with the holy spirit.
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  • So the question is no longer,
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  • Do we have all of the holy spirit?
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  • The question is, does the holy spirit have all of us?
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  • And that's what being filled with the spirit talks about.
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  • So if you're a christian today, you've been baptized
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  • With the holy spirit of god and there is no greater gift.
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  • In my extensive study of the bible,
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  • I've discovered that the book of daniel
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  • Isn't just a wonderful guidebook for courageous living,
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  • It's a powerful testimony to the sovereignty of god
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  • Over human events.
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  • Daniel reminds us that while kings and kingdoms come and go,
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  • God has a plan that he's fulfilling in human history.
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  • And the book of daniel shows us through the life
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  • And faith of its main character,
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  • How we should live our lives right now
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  • In light of the soon return of jesus christ.
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  • Let me invite you to join us again next time
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  • For an inspiring lesson from the story of daniel
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  • And the lion's den.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next on "pathway to victory."
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  • When i read the book of daniel,
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  • I find that daniel is really a primer on authentic courage.
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  • Just think about it, in daniel 1,
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  • You see his courage as a teenager refusing to eat
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  • The king's meat and therefore violate the law of god.
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  • But all of those examples of courage pale in comparison
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  • To the story we're going to see tonight.
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  • That illustrates what real courage is.
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