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Rick Warren - Struggle: When The Heat Is On (Part 1)

July 20, 2025 | 28:30

Rick Warren - Struggle: When The Heat Is On (Part 1)
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - Struggle: When The Heat Is On (Part 1) | July 20, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, take out your message notes.
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  • We're in this series on the life of daniel.
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  • We're looking at the nine greatest tests of life.
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  • Every time daniel passes a test, he gets a promotion.
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  • And i think i told you that before every blessing comes
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  • A testing.
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  • God tests you with stress before he trusts you with success.
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  • God wants to know, are you blessable?
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  • Do you have the character and the maturity and the integrity
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  • To handle what he wants to do in your life?
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  • And so he tests you.
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  • And every time you pass the test, then you get the blessing
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  • In your life.
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  • And we've looked at a major change and we've looked at five,
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  • Four different tests.
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  • Today, we're gonna look at the test of when the heat is on.
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  • You know, it's interesting that expression, "the heat is on,"
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  • It's not that old of an expression.
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  • It's less than 100 years old.
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  • It comes from the 1930s in america during the gangster era
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  • And it meant the cops are after you.
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  • You were being chased by the police.
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  • And then it later came to mean if you were being interrogated
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  • Or grilled by the police, then the heat was on, and i think
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  • Heat grill, that's like barbecue.
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  • I understand this.
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  • Now today that phrase, of course, is an international
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  • Phrase, heat is on, it simply means i'm under pressure.
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  • I'm feeling the pressure of a deadline, the pressure of
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  • Expectation at work, at home, the pressure of peer pressure,
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  • Things like that.
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  • Today just means any testing of your strength, of your
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  • Resources, and an expectation you have to fulfill.
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  • And there are a lot of different kinds of heat.
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  • But today in this story, in daniel chapter 3, if you have
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  • Your bibles, you might open there, we're gonna actually look
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  • At literally the heat is on in a fiery furnace.
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  • Now this story in the life of daniel happens 15 years later
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  • Than the one we looked at last week.
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  • So now daniel and his friends shadrach, meshach, and abednego,
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  • Are no longer teenagers.
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  • They're in their mid '30s.
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  • Now, king nebuchadnezzar, remember, he's the emperor of
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  • The babylonian empire, which is the largest empire in the world
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  • At that time.
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  • He's the most powerful man in the world.
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  • What often comes with that is an ego.
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  • And his entire life, we're gonna see more about this later in
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  • Another week, nebuchadnezzar dealt with the issue of pride
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  • And arrogance constantly and this causes the next test.
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  • And it's a test that you're gonna have in your life when the
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  • Heat is on in your life.
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  • Now the bible tells us this.
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  • Daniel chapter 3 up here on the screen.
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  • It says this.
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  • "king nebuchadnezzar made a giant gold image of himself,
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  • Ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain
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  • Of dura in the province of babylon."
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  • Now, friends, this is what you call an ego trip.
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  • If you build a 90 feet statue to yourself, all right, and set it
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  • Up on the plane.
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  • "then he," king nebuchadnezzar, "gave this order to all of his
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  • Officials, to the princes and the prefects and the governors
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  • And the advisors and the treasurers and the judges and
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  • The magistrates and other officials."
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  • By the way, these are actually in the pecking order of
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  • That day.
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  • So the most powerful at the front, the princes were the most
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  • Powerful than the prefects, then the governors.
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  • Shadrach, meshach, and abednego, they're all three of them
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  • Are governors.
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  • They've been appointed.
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  • They've been serving for 15 years.
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  • They're jewish, but they're serving as governors in babylon.
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  • So these are all the power people of that day.
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  • And he says, i want all you guys to come to the official
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  • Dedication of the statue that he had set up.
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  • Then it says, "when they had all assembled, an announcer shouted
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  • Out, 'people of all races and nations and languages, this is
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  • The king's command: anytime you hear the royal orchestra start
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  • Playing music, you are all to immediately drop everything,
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  • Fall to your knees, and bow and worship the image of
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  • King nebuchadnezzar."
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  • Wow.
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  • That's inconvenient.
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  • But it's all--drop everything and nebuchadnezzar is saying
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  • It's not enough to be king.
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  • I wanna be god.
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  • I want everybody to worship me.
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  • And this is the oldest temptation.
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  • God says that adam and eve were told by satan, "you will be gods
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  • If you do what i tell you to do."
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  • And you're gonna be--now anyone he adds a little carrot and
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  • Stick thing here and he says, "anyone who does not fall down
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  • And worship," this idol, this image, "will immediately be
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  • Thrown into a giant blazing furnace," which he had made and
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  • Put near the statue.
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  • Now, "as soon as they heard the music, everybody bowed down
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  • Before the statue and worshiped the image of
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  • King nebuchadnezzar."
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  • Now, before we go any further on this, i just want to point out
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  • This story happened 2500 years ago, but it is as relevant today
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  • Because we have the same four things in our culture today in
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  • Western culture.
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  • You might write these down.
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  • Today, this is just as true as it was then.
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  • The world, number one, the world creates larger than life images
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  • For me to worship.
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  • Today, all around the world, the world creates larger than life
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  • Images for me to worship.
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  • Now, we don't make them out of gold anymore.
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  • We don't put up 90 foot statues.
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  • But the images that today the world wants us to idolize that
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  • Are larger than life are on movie screens.
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  • And you see actors and we idolize these actors that are
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  • Larger than life on movie screens.
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  • We see them in sports stadiums where athletes are treated like
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  • Gods and they are idolized and they're larger than life.
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  • We see them in concerts.
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  • If you've ever been to a rock concert, they make that person
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  • Look like they are god and the lights and the smoke and the all
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  • Of the whiz bang stuff and people go, whoa, they're larger
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  • Than life.
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  • We should worship this person.
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  • And then the internet makes people larger than life.
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  • And by the way, do people still worship gold today?
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  • Oh yeah, yeah, that one's still around too.
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  • But today, the idols we have are not statues.
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  • Here are the idols and the images that the world wants you
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  • To worship today.
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  • Physical beauty.
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  • That is idolized in our culture.
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  • And if you're not good looking, you don't matter in
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  • This culture.
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  • That's what the world says.
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  • Only the really sharp and sexy looking people matter and we
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  • Worship beauty.
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  • We worship physical beauty.
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  • We worship sex.
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  • That's an image.
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  • It's everywhere in western culture and even in other
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  • Cultures too.
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  • Now, it's just penetrating and taking over.
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  • Wealth, success, these are things that people idolize.
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  • Pleasure, we idolize pleasure.
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  • Fame, power, influence, popularity, these are
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  • All images.
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  • They're just as real.
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  • They're not statues on a plane, but people are worshiping them
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  • Like they are worthy of god.
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  • Okay, so that's the first thing that's in common.
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  • Second thing we have in common is me and it says, you might
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  • Write this down.
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  • I am tempted to create a false image of myself to
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  • Impress others.
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  • And you do this too.
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  • You are tempted every day of your life to build your image
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  • And to create a false impression of yourself to everybody around
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  • You 'cause you want to be loved, you want to be honored, you
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  • Wanna be well known.
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  • You really secretly would like to be worshiped.
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  • I would love to have people that worship me.
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  • Now, anytime i spend any time building my own image, that's a
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  • Potential trap because image building quickly becomes
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  • Idle building.
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  • And the whole idea of our culture is it's all about me.
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  • That's why when i wrote "purpose driven life," the first line of
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  • The book was the most counterculture statement i could
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  • Think of.
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  • It's not about you.
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  • That's a slap in the face because everything else in our
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  • Culture says, no, it's all about you.
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  • If there's any word that defines the 21st century, it's image.
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  • You can hire image consultants today to snazz up your image.
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  • You didn't even hear of these things, you know, 100 years ago.
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  • And character, what you really are, has been replaced by image,
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  • What you want everybody to think you are.
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  • And this is a big, big deal today and it's wrong.
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  • Now, i'm not talking about being the best person you can be or
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  • Dressing as good as you can.
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  • No, no, you ought to do that.
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  • You ought to be as good as you can, you ought to dress, look as
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  • Nice as you can.
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  • That can bring honor and glory to god.
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  • But when i'm talking about image building, i'm talking about
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  • Trying to be somebody you're not or trying to be somebody else.
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  • That's a bad thing.
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  • And we, you know, some people, they don't have an idol out
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  • There, they idolize themselves.
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  • Have you ever met anybody who idolizes themselves?
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  • Don't look at 'em.
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  • They may be sitting right next to you, but don't look at 'em.
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  • Be cool, all right.
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  • How do you know when somebody idolizes themselves?
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  • They think the world revolves around them.
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  • You should adapt to my schedule.
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  • You should adjust to my needs.
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  • You should all be thinking about me, not you.
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  • And that kind of ego, prideful, arrogant, narcissism is rampant
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  • In our culture today.
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  • So we don't have golden idols.
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  • We just make ourselves idol and post it on facebook and want
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  • Everybody to worship what we do.
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  • Announcer: what does it take to become more loving, live more
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  • Peacefully, have self-control?
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  • Pastor rick says throughout all the years he's been a pastor,
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  • The number one question he's been asked is "why can't
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  • I change?"
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  • In his book "god's power to change your life," rick lays the
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  • Groundwork for personal transformation, then offers
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  • Biblical insights and simple steps for ten areas of growth
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  • That you can take from where you are to where you want to be.
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  • This book connects you with the power to actually make the
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  • Changes you long to make and as you apply the truth of god's
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  • Word by the power of his spirit, your life will change.
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  • You'll move out of your rut and get on track with god's
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  • Wonderful purposes for your life.
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  • And today, when you give a gift to daily hope to help take the
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  • Hope of jesus to people everywhere, we'll send you
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  • Pastor rick's book called "god's power to change your life" to
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  • Say thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: third thing about our culture it's still
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  • True today.
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  • If i reject the world's images and idols, people will try to
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  • Burn me.
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  • Not physically burn you in a furnace, but they'll try to burn
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  • You in other ways.
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  • If i reject the world's idols, the world's images, and the
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  • Whole world says, "oh, you should worship this.
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  • Everybody is doing this.
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  • Everybody loves this.
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  • Everybody thinks this is great."
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  • And if you don't particularly think it's great, there are
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  • Gonna be people who wanna burn you.
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  • Now, when all the leaders of babylon all fall flat on their
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  • Face, the orchestra starts playing, everybody falls on
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  • Their face to worship this big idol, three guys stood
  • 00:12:40.518 --> 00:12:43.388
  • Standing tall.
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  • They're stand-up guys, shadrach, meshach, and abednego.
  • 00:12:44.789 --> 00:12:49.093
  • Now, these three guys are jewish guys.
  • 00:12:49.093 --> 00:12:52.096
  • They're the governors of the province of babylon because of
  • 00:12:52.096 --> 00:12:57.235
  • The appointment last time they've gotten promoted on the
  • 00:12:57.235 --> 00:12:59.637
  • Last test.
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  • Three guys stay standing.
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  • Everybody else in the nation is bowing.
  • 00:13:02.874 --> 00:13:05.910
  • They're sticking out like a sore thumb.
  • 00:13:05.910 --> 00:13:08.613
  • This made some people upset.
  • 00:13:08.613 --> 00:13:11.583
  • They wanted to burn them.
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  • Daniel chapter 3, verse 8, up here on the screen.
  • 00:13:12.917 --> 00:13:15.587
  • "but some babylonian officials used this opportunity to
  • 00:13:15.587 --> 00:13:20.124
  • Denounce the jews."
  • 00:13:20.124 --> 00:13:22.861
  • Now, they told the king, now listen to what a kiss up this
  • 00:13:22.861 --> 00:13:25.930
  • Is, what a--they're really flattering the king.
  • 00:13:25.930 --> 00:13:28.833
  • "oh great king, oh great king!
  • 00:13:28.833 --> 00:13:31.636
  • We hope you live forever!"
  • 00:13:31.636 --> 00:13:33.438
  • Yeah, right.
  • 00:13:33.438 --> 00:13:34.806
  • "we hope you live forever."
  • 00:13:34.806 --> 00:13:36.975
  • They're just looking for a promotion themselves.
  • 00:13:36.975 --> 00:13:39.277
  • But they said those guys over there, "the jewish officials
  • 00:13:39.277 --> 00:13:42.513
  • That you put in charge of the province of babylon, shadrach,
  • 00:13:42.513 --> 00:13:45.550
  • Meshach, and abednego, they have defied your decree."
  • 00:13:45.550 --> 00:13:50.922
  • Now, "they have refused to serve your gods and they have refused
  • 00:13:50.922 --> 00:13:55.760
  • To bow down and worship your image that you set up."
  • 00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:58.997
  • It's a self-installed image.
  • 00:13:58.997 --> 00:14:01.165
  • So he says, "we recommend that they should be burned in the
  • 00:14:01.165 --> 00:14:05.203
  • Blazing furnace."
  • 00:14:05.203 --> 00:14:06.571
  • This is where the heat's on comes from.
  • 00:14:06.571 --> 00:14:09.007
  • Now, how's this for loyalty from your co-workers?
  • 00:14:09.007 --> 00:14:13.611
  • These are the other governors, these are the other officials.
  • 00:14:13.611 --> 00:14:18.549
  • And we don't know why they did this.
  • 00:14:18.549 --> 00:14:20.852
  • I mean, we could speculate, it may have just
  • 00:14:20.852 --> 00:14:22.887
  • Been anti-semitism.
  • 00:14:22.887 --> 00:14:25.490
  • You know, they got, hey, this is babylon.
  • 00:14:25.490 --> 00:14:28.359
  • We're babylonians.
  • 00:14:28.359 --> 00:14:29.994
  • You got some foreigners in charge here.
  • 00:14:29.994 --> 00:14:33.298
  • And it could have been racial bigotry.
  • 00:14:33.298 --> 00:14:36.467
  • You got jews leading us.
  • 00:14:36.467 --> 00:14:38.002
  • We don't like that.
  • 00:14:38.002 --> 00:14:40.705
  • Some of you have been the recipient of racism.
  • 00:14:40.705 --> 00:14:45.243
  • I'm sorry.
  • 00:14:45.243 --> 00:14:46.711
  • Some of you have felt bigotry because of your country, where
  • 00:14:46.711 --> 00:14:50.682
  • You came from.
  • 00:14:50.682 --> 00:14:52.050
  • Bigotry to foreigners.
  • 00:14:52.050 --> 00:14:53.751
  • Certainly you can experience religious intolerance,
  • 00:14:53.751 --> 00:14:55.820
  • They're jews.
  • 00:14:55.820 --> 00:14:58.456
  • That could have been the reason or they could have been more
  • 00:14:58.456 --> 00:15:00.825
  • Personal that they wanted these guys' jobs.
  • 00:15:00.825 --> 00:15:04.095
  • They're just competitive.
  • 00:15:04.095 --> 00:15:05.697
  • And they're jealous and they're competitive and they go, we got
  • 00:15:05.697 --> 00:15:09.634
  • Three foreigners holding these jobs.
  • 00:15:09.634 --> 00:15:11.536
  • I want that job.
  • 00:15:11.536 --> 00:15:12.937
  • And so they wanna get rid of them.
  • 00:15:12.937 --> 00:15:14.839
  • Or they may have just been used by satan because these men
  • 00:15:14.839 --> 00:15:17.175
  • Honored god and satan doesn't like anybody who honors god.
  • 00:15:17.175 --> 00:15:21.479
  • But let me just say this, when you go to work, they're gonna be
  • 00:15:21.479 --> 00:15:24.615
  • People at your work who wanna burn you.
  • 00:15:24.615 --> 00:15:27.318
  • You just need to realize they're gonna wanna burn you for
  • 00:15:27.318 --> 00:15:30.188
  • Whatever reason that they have.
  • 00:15:30.188 --> 00:15:33.257
  • By the way, in this story, since this is the book of daniel,
  • 00:15:33.257 --> 00:15:36.060
  • Where's daniel?
  • 00:15:36.060 --> 00:15:37.428
  • He's not in this story.
  • 00:15:37.428 --> 00:15:38.763
  • It's about his friends.
  • 00:15:38.763 --> 00:15:40.164
  • Well, daniel is one of the top advisers of the king by this
  • 00:15:40.164 --> 00:15:43.368
  • Time and he may have been sent off.
  • 00:15:43.368 --> 00:15:44.869
  • He's clearly not here.
  • 00:15:44.869 --> 00:15:46.304
  • So he obviously wasn't even there.
  • 00:15:46.304 --> 00:15:48.206
  • He might have been out of the country representing king
  • 00:15:48.206 --> 00:15:50.575
  • Nebuchadnezzar or somewhere else.
  • 00:15:50.575 --> 00:15:51.943
  • So he's not involved in this story.
  • 00:15:51.943 --> 00:15:55.113
  • Now, here's the point.
  • 00:15:55.113 --> 00:15:59.951
  • If i reject the idols, people are gonna try to burn me.
  • 00:15:59.951 --> 00:16:04.589
  • One other thing, you might write this down, the fourth thing
  • 00:16:04.589 --> 00:16:06.924
  • That's true today is this.
  • 00:16:06.924 --> 00:16:08.526
  • Doing the right thing always makes some people angry.
  • 00:16:08.526 --> 00:16:14.298
  • If you do the right thing, you do the honest thing, you have
  • 00:16:14.298 --> 00:16:18.436
  • Integrity, you show character or compassion or any other
  • 00:16:18.436 --> 00:16:22.673
  • Christ-like quality, it's gonna make some people angry
  • 00:16:22.673 --> 00:16:26.177
  • Around you.
  • 00:16:26.177 --> 00:16:27.512
  • Ge, people think, "well, if i were just perfect, everybody
  • 00:16:27.512 --> 00:16:29.714
  • Would love me."
  • 00:16:29.714 --> 00:16:31.082
  • No, they wouldn't.
  • 00:16:31.082 --> 00:16:32.617
  • Jesus was perfect and they killed him.
  • 00:16:32.617 --> 00:16:35.153
  • They put him on the cross.
  • 00:16:35.153 --> 00:16:36.521
  • So even if you were perfect, there are gonna be people who
  • 00:16:36.521 --> 00:16:39.290
  • Wanna crucify you.
  • 00:16:39.290 --> 00:16:42.260
  • In this particular test, as i said, it doesn't involve daniel,
  • 00:16:42.260 --> 00:16:45.496
  • But his three best friends and what upset everybody is they
  • 00:16:45.496 --> 00:16:49.200
  • Dared to challenge the king's narcissism.
  • 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:53.337
  • And they say to nebuchadnezzar, "okay, look, you're
  • 00:16:53.337 --> 00:16:55.807
  • King, granted.
  • 00:16:55.807 --> 00:16:57.175
  • You may be the most powerful person in the world, granted.
  • 00:16:57.175 --> 00:16:59.644
  • But you're not god and we're not bowing to you and treating you
  • 00:16:59.644 --> 00:17:03.047
  • Like a god.
  • 00:17:03.047 --> 00:17:04.415
  • That's a line in the sand we will not cross."
  • 00:17:04.415 --> 00:17:08.519
  • And i wanna tell you this.
  • 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.021
  • When you stand for christ or you stand for integrity at work or
  • 00:17:10.021 --> 00:17:13.958
  • In any other place, it's gonna make some people mad.
  • 00:17:13.958 --> 00:17:17.495
  • You just need to get over that.
  • 00:17:17.495 --> 00:17:18.996
  • Don't worry about it.
  • 00:17:18.996 --> 00:17:20.364
  • It's not about you.
  • 00:17:20.364 --> 00:17:21.933
  • The king isn't used to having people say no to him.
  • 00:17:21.933 --> 00:17:25.970
  • One of the reasons why i told you all this background is
  • 00:17:25.970 --> 00:17:28.206
  • Because there are three kinds of people in the world and you work
  • 00:17:28.206 --> 00:17:31.309
  • With them all the time.
  • 00:17:31.309 --> 00:17:32.944
  • There are people who are stuck up, there are people who kiss
  • 00:17:32.944 --> 00:17:36.347
  • Up, and there are people who stand up.
  • 00:17:36.347 --> 00:17:40.551
  • Nebuchadnezzar stuck up.
  • 00:17:40.551 --> 00:17:41.919
  • He thinks he's god.
  • 00:17:41.919 --> 00:17:44.021
  • He thinks the world revolves around and he's stuck up.
  • 00:17:44.021 --> 00:17:47.758
  • These other bureaucrats are kissups.
  • 00:17:47.758 --> 00:17:50.027
  • They're going, oh, you're so great, you're so wonderful.
  • 00:17:50.027 --> 00:17:52.563
  • They're telling him what he wants to hear.
  • 00:17:52.563 --> 00:17:54.999
  • But shadrach and meshach and abednego, they're stand-up guys.
  • 00:17:54.999 --> 00:17:59.937
  • When everybody else is falling flat on their face and bowing,
  • 00:17:59.937 --> 00:18:02.373
  • They're gonna stand up.
  • 00:18:02.373 --> 00:18:03.941
  • The question is, what kind of person are you in
  • 00:18:03.941 --> 00:18:05.910
  • The marketplace?
  • 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:08.613
  • What kind of person are you at school?
  • 00:18:08.613 --> 00:18:11.616
  • What kind of person are you in business?
  • 00:18:11.616 --> 00:18:14.352
  • Are you stuck up?
  • 00:18:14.352 --> 00:18:16.454
  • Are you a kiss up?
  • 00:18:16.454 --> 00:18:18.156
  • You're flattering everybody around you.
  • 00:18:18.156 --> 00:18:19.957
  • Are you a stand up kind of person with rock
  • 00:18:19.957 --> 00:18:23.294
  • Ribbed integrity?
  • 00:18:23.294 --> 00:18:25.930
  • And it doesn't really matter if anybody disagrees.
  • 00:18:25.930 --> 00:18:27.899
  • I'm just gonna do the right thing.
  • 00:18:27.899 --> 00:18:29.233
  • Sorry, i'll do it humbly, i'll do it politely, i'll do it
  • 00:18:29.233 --> 00:18:32.637
  • Without bragging about it, but i'm gonna do what is right.
  • 00:18:32.637 --> 00:18:38.309
  • Now, why did these guys not bow down?
  • 00:18:38.309 --> 00:18:41.078
  • I mean, everybody's doing it.
  • 00:18:41.078 --> 00:18:42.413
  • I'm sure, hey, everybody's kneeling.
  • 00:18:42.413 --> 00:18:45.149
  • They didn't do it.
  • 00:18:45.149 --> 00:18:46.517
  • The reason why they wouldn't do it, it was breaking the first
  • 00:18:46.517 --> 00:18:48.819
  • Two of the ten commandments.
  • 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:51.622
  • And they knew that.
  • 00:18:51.622 --> 00:18:52.990
  • Let's just review that.
  • 00:18:52.990 --> 00:18:54.325
  • Put that on screen with you.
  • 00:18:54.325 --> 00:18:55.693
  • This is the first two commandments of the big ten.
  • 00:18:55.693 --> 00:18:57.595
  • God's top ten, the ten commandments.
  • 00:18:57.595 --> 00:18:59.764
  • Number one, "you shall have no other gods before me."
  • 00:18:59.764 --> 00:19:03.701
  • Anything that's first place in your life that isn't god breaks
  • 00:19:03.701 --> 00:19:07.905
  • That commandment.
  • 00:19:07.905 --> 00:19:10.107
  • Whatever is first place in your life is your god.
  • 00:19:10.107 --> 00:19:12.910
  • Your business can be your god.
  • 00:19:12.910 --> 00:19:15.146
  • Your spouse could be your god.
  • 00:19:15.146 --> 00:19:16.480
  • Your boyfriend can be your god.
  • 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:18.649
  • Making money could be your god.
  • 00:19:18.649 --> 00:19:19.984
  • Having fun can be your god.
  • 00:19:19.984 --> 00:19:21.719
  • Nothing wrong with these things, they just don't deserve first
  • 00:19:21.719 --> 00:19:23.821
  • Place in your life.
  • 00:19:23.821 --> 00:19:25.189
  • They should be down the list.
  • 00:19:25.189 --> 00:19:26.757
  • Anything that's first place in your life that isn't god is
  • 00:19:26.757 --> 00:19:30.127
  • An idol.
  • 00:19:30.127 --> 00:19:31.462
  • It's a false god.
  • 00:19:31.462 --> 00:19:33.130
  • And god says, "you will have no other gods before me."
  • 00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:35.900
  • Whatever you think about most in life, that's your god.
  • 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:40.037
  • You might say, oh, god's my god.
  • 00:19:40.037 --> 00:19:41.472
  • No, whatever you think about most in life is what you love
  • 00:19:41.472 --> 00:19:44.542
  • The most and what you love the most is your god.
  • 00:19:44.542 --> 00:19:48.613
  • So the first commandment says, "you shall have no other gods
  • 00:19:48.613 --> 00:19:51.449
  • Before me."
  • 00:19:51.449 --> 00:19:52.783
  • Then the second commandment is this, "you shall not make for
  • 00:19:52.783 --> 00:19:54.752
  • Yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven or above the
  • 00:19:54.752 --> 00:20:01.459
  • Earth or beneath the waters below.
  • 00:20:01.459 --> 00:20:04.695
  • And you shall not bow down to them or worship them; for i, the
  • 00:20:04.695 --> 00:20:10.034
  • Lord your god, am a jealous god, punishing the children for the
  • 00:20:10.034 --> 00:20:13.337
  • Sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."
  • 00:20:13.337 --> 00:20:15.306
  • He says, you know what?
  • 00:20:15.306 --> 00:20:16.874
  • We can be impacted by the sins of our parents.
  • 00:20:16.874 --> 00:20:22.246
  • If you don't believe that, for instance, right now, america is
  • 00:20:22.246 --> 00:20:25.583
  • Overspending, it's massively $20 million in debt.
  • 00:20:25.583 --> 00:20:28.386
  • Who's gonna pay for that?
  • 00:20:28.386 --> 00:20:29.720
  • The children.
  • 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:31.255
  • That's the sins of the parents being visited on the
  • 00:20:31.255 --> 00:20:33.658
  • Future generations.
  • 00:20:33.658 --> 00:20:34.992
  • We're not gonna pay for that debt.
  • 00:20:34.992 --> 00:20:37.561
  • It's our mistakes being paid for by future generations.
  • 00:20:37.561 --> 00:20:42.133
  • And one of the reasons these guys wouldn't do it is because
  • 00:20:42.133 --> 00:20:44.201
  • It's in the ten commandments, but the second reason is, it's
  • 00:20:44.201 --> 00:20:46.904
  • Why they're in babylon in the first place.
  • 00:20:46.904 --> 00:20:50.308
  • God had been warning israel for years.
  • 00:20:50.308 --> 00:20:52.176
  • You guys are worshiping idols.
  • 00:20:52.176 --> 00:20:54.312
  • They've been doing this for generations.
  • 00:20:54.312 --> 00:20:56.614
  • You stop worshiping the true god, you're worshiping idols.
  • 00:20:56.614 --> 00:20:59.150
  • If you don't stop, i'm gonna let you be taken off to babylon.
  • 00:20:59.150 --> 00:21:02.753
  • And sure enough, that's what happened.
  • 00:21:02.753 --> 00:21:04.989
  • The nation is destroyed, jerusalem is sacked, and 25% of
  • 00:21:04.989 --> 00:21:09.927
  • The nation is taken hostage to babylon, which is
  • 00:21:09.927 --> 00:21:12.663
  • Modern-day iraq.
  • 00:21:12.663 --> 00:21:14.198
  • So the whole reason these guys are in babylon originally as
  • 00:21:14.198 --> 00:21:18.602
  • Prisoners of war, is because their parents had broken this
  • 00:21:18.602 --> 00:21:22.006
  • Very command.
  • 00:21:22.006 --> 00:21:23.841
  • They'd love something more than god.
  • 00:21:23.841 --> 00:21:27.778
  • And so, god has said, i don't want you to do this.
  • 00:21:27.778 --> 00:21:31.515
  • I don't want you to do this.
  • 00:21:31.515 --> 00:21:33.551
  • Now, in verse 13, here's the story.
  • 00:21:33.551 --> 00:21:36.287
  • When nebuchadnezzar hears about three of his governors refusing
  • 00:21:36.287 --> 00:21:39.957
  • To bow down, he has a fit.
  • 00:21:39.957 --> 00:21:43.327
  • Verse 13, daniel 3, "then nebuchadnezzar flew into
  • 00:21:43.327 --> 00:21:47.431
  • A rage," he had an anger management problem too.
  • 00:21:47.431 --> 00:21:52.570
  • "and he ordered that shadrach, meshach, and abednego be brought
  • 00:21:52.570 --> 00:21:56.941
  • To him."
  • 00:21:56.941 --> 00:21:58.342
  • Now the king asked 'em, "is this true?
  • 00:21:58.342 --> 00:22:00.711
  • Okay, is it true that the three of you, i mean, i appointed you
  • 00:22:00.711 --> 00:22:03.581
  • As governors, you're high position guys.
  • 00:22:03.581 --> 00:22:05.816
  • Three of you refused to serve my god or worship the gold statue i
  • 00:22:05.816 --> 00:22:10.654
  • Set up?"
  • 00:22:10.654 --> 00:22:12.022
  • He says, "i'll give you one more chance."
  • 00:22:12.022 --> 00:22:14.191
  • And he says this, "if you bow down and you worship the statue,
  • 00:22:14.191 --> 00:22:18.929
  • It's all forgiven, it's all forgotten, all will be well."
  • 00:22:18.929 --> 00:22:22.533
  • But, he says, "if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately
  • 00:22:22.533 --> 00:22:28.773
  • Into the blazing furnace," the heat is on.
  • 00:22:28.773 --> 00:22:32.877
  • And then he says, "and then," this is a powerful statement,
  • 00:22:32.877 --> 00:22:39.016
  • "and then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?"
  • 00:22:39.016 --> 00:22:42.987
  • See what nebuchadnezzar is doing?
  • 00:22:42.987 --> 00:22:44.355
  • He's actually saying we're gonna have a little god contest.
  • 00:22:44.355 --> 00:22:46.323
  • Who's really god?
  • 00:22:46.323 --> 00:22:47.658
  • Me or your supposed god?
  • 00:22:47.658 --> 00:22:50.194
  • These guys did four things right when they were threatened with
  • 00:22:50.194 --> 00:22:54.665
  • The heat in their life.
  • 00:22:54.665 --> 00:22:56.000
  • Number one, i don't worry about defending myself.
  • 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.204
  • When you go to work and the heat is on you there for being a
  • 00:23:00.204 --> 00:23:03.774
  • Christian or for making a moral stand or for doing the right
  • 00:23:03.774 --> 00:23:07.745
  • Thing or whatever it is and somebody doesn't agree with you,
  • 00:23:07.745 --> 00:23:10.848
  • Doesn't like it, don't worry about defending yourself.
  • 00:23:10.848 --> 00:23:13.818
  • Just quietly trust god to take care of your attackers.
  • 00:23:13.818 --> 00:23:18.189
  • When you're in the fire, god's a whole lot better firefighter
  • 00:23:18.189 --> 00:23:20.825
  • Than you are and he's got a whole lot more water than
  • 00:23:20.825 --> 00:23:24.862
  • You do.
  • 00:23:24.862 --> 00:23:26.464
  • You know, i live back in the canyon and one of the lakes back
  • 00:23:26.464 --> 00:23:32.369
  • There all week they've been having helicopters coming in and
  • 00:23:32.369 --> 00:23:35.940
  • Dropping down and picking up the water and going out to put out
  • 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:38.375
  • All the different fires and that seems to be quite an inefficient
  • 00:23:38.375 --> 00:23:41.712
  • Way to get water to a fire, but sometimes you just do what you
  • 00:23:41.712 --> 00:23:45.182
  • Have to do.
  • 00:23:45.182 --> 00:23:46.517
  • God, on the other hand, has an unlimited fire hose.
  • 00:23:46.517 --> 00:23:50.087
  • He created all the water in the universe and he's a better
  • 00:23:50.087 --> 00:23:52.823
  • Firefighter than you.
  • 00:23:52.823 --> 00:23:54.492
  • And daniel 3:16, the first thing they did was this.
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  • "then shadrach, meshach, and abednego replied,
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  • 'o nebuchadnezzar,'" you know, he'd said, "i'll give you one
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  • Last chance."
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  • They said, "we don't need to defend ourselves in
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  • This matter."
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  • By the way, implied here is god doesn't need us to defend
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  • Him either.
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  • He says we're not gonna dignify your last question by
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  • Answering it.
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  • He said, you know, who's gonna save you, me or god?
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  • We're not gonna answer that question.
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  • We're not gonna try to defend ourselves.
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  • We're not worried about what's gonna happen and so we're not
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  • Impressed by your threats.
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  • Don't worry when people attack you.
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  • Number two, remember that god has the power to save me.
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  • Doesn't matter what kind of mess you're in, what kind of crisis,
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  • What kind of difficulty, what kind of fire you're trying to
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  • Put out in your life right now, just remember that god has the
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  • Power to save me.
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  • God is god, which means he can do anything.
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  • And in daniel 3:17, they said, "if we're thrown into the
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  • Blazing furnace, the god we worship is able to save us."
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  • That's quite a statement.
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  • We know our god is able to.
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  • He's got the power to save us.
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  • But that's not enough.
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  • The third thing is, believe god will save me.
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  • When you're in the problem, when you're in a crisis, when you're
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  • Faced with your whole life falling apart, you not only have
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  • To believe that god has the ability to help you, the ability
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  • To rescue you, the ability to deliver you and save you, you
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  • Must believe he will.
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  • Announcer: what does it take to become more loving, live more
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  • Peacefully, have self-control?
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  • Pastor rick says throughout all the years he's been a pastor,
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  • The number one question he's been asked is "why can't
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  • I change?"
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  • In his book "god's power to change your life," rick lays the
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  • Groundwork for personal transformation, then offers
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  • Biblical insights and simple steps for ten areas of growth
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  • That you can take from where you are to where you want to be.
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  • This book connects you with the power to actually make the
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  • Changes you long to make and as you apply the truth of god's
  • 00:26:28.145 --> 00:26:32.383
  • Word by the power of his spirit, your life will change.
  • 00:26:32.383 --> 00:26:36.387
  • You'll move out of your rut and get on track with god's
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  • Wonderful purposes for your life.
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  • And today, when you give a gift to daily hope to help take the
  • 00:26:43.027 --> 00:26:46.997
  • Hope of jesus to people everywhere, we'll send you
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  • Pastor rick's book called "god's power to change your life"
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  • To say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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