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Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 1)

May 4, 2025 | S25:E18

Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - When Your World Is Shaken Up (Part 1) | May 4, 2025
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  • Pastor rick warren: now, you know, folks, today it seems like
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  • That all the values that create a healthy society have been
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  • Turned upside down.
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  • You agree with this?
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  • I mean, it's amazing and everything's turned inside out,
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  • And isaiah, many years ago, thousands of years ago, warned
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  • That any culture is headed for collapse when it reverses the
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  • Values that created the health of that culture in the
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  • First place.
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  • Let me show you this up here on the screen.
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  • The bible says in isaiah 5:20, "you are doomed if you called
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  • Evil, good and call good evil.
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  • Destruction is certain when you call darkness, light and light,
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  • Darkness; when right is considered wrong, and what's
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  • Wrong is considered right; when you claim what is bitter is now
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  • Sweet, and what is sweet, you now call bitter."
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  • He said, "you're gonna collapse."
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  • That culture is not going to last.
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  • That, my friends, actually happened 2,600 years ago to the
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  • Nation of israel.
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  • And that nation had fallen into immorality and into injustice
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  • And into idolatry.
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  • Any of those sound familiar?
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  • You know, idolizing things that aren't god, treating people
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  • Unjustly and unfairly, and immorality.
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  • And there were a bunch of guys on that day, they were prophets,
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  • One was called jeremiah, one was called ezekiel, one was
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  • Called zephaniah.
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  • Daniel was just a young teenage boy when all this was happening,
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  • And they kept predicting.
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  • They said, "guys, if we don't get our act together, we're
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  • Gonna lose our freedom.
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  • We're gonna lose our freedom."
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  • And they were warning the nation of israel that god was ticked at
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  • Idolatry and immorality and injustice in society.
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  • And sure enough, about 600 b.c., the emperor of the powerful
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  • Babylonian empire invaded israel.
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  • His name was nebuchadnezzar.
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  • It was the most powerful empire of its day.
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  • And he came in, took over the entire nation of israel,
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  • Destroyed the capital city, totally destroyed the capital
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  • City of jerusalem, and took 25% of the nation as prisoners of
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  • War back to iraq, back to babylon, and kept them there for
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  • 70 years.
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  • It was a disaster.
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  • They lost their freedom because they were not paying attention
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  • To what god had said, and the collapse of that culture
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  • Shook everybody.
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  • Now there was another guy, he was not a prophet, his name
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  • Was asaph.
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  • Asaph was actually a songwriter, and he wrote 12 of the psalms in
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  • The bible.
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  • A lot of people think that david was the only one who wrote
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  • Psalms, but moses wrote psalms, solomon wrote psalms, and a guy
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  • Named asaph wrote 12 of them.
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  • And in psalm 82, a psalm of asaph, he is complaining on
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  • God's behalf, saying the leaders and the judges in your country
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  • Are not playing fair and they're corrupt.
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  • Here's what he says.
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  • Notice here on the screen, psalm 82:1 to 5, "god presides over
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  • Heaven's court, and he pronounces judgment on the
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  • Judges," he's talking about those in israel that day.
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  • "how long will you guys--how long will you judges hand down
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  • Unjust decisions...
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  • And show partiality?"
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  • Remember we talked last week, partiality is the old english
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  • Word for racism or prejudice.
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  • "how long are you gonna be prejudiced?
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  • Give fair judgments to the poor and to orphans; uphold the
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  • Rights of the oppressed and the defenseless."
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  • And he says there, "rescue the poor and the helpless, and
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  • Deliver them from heartless evil people...
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  • Because the leaders are foolish and they lack understanding,
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  • People are living in dark times, and," this is the whole phrase i
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  • Want you to get, "all the foundations of society are
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  • Shaken to the core."
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  • Does that sound familiar?
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  • All the foundations of society are shaken to the core.
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  • That sounds like today's news.
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  • It seems like everything's being shaken today.
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  • Our economy and the foundations of our economy are being shaken,
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  • The way we've done government in america for hundreds of years is
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  • Being shaken, our freedom of speech and conscience and
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  • Religion being shaken, marriages are being shaken, families are
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  • Being shaken, so many things.
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  • Education is being shaken.
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  • The foundations of our moral and ethical values are being shaken.
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  • Now we're living in a time of great upheaval when there's a
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  • Lot of shakiness going on, but i'm not here to talk about doom
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  • And gloom because this book is not about doom and gloom,
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  • It's about the answer, it's about the answer to those.
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  • And god says--no matter how bad the world gets in a rapidly
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  • Changing world, and even in a decaying culture, god says, "i
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  • Want you to survive and not only that, thrive, and not only that,
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  • I want you to succeed."
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  • And so, i'm starting a new series this weekend.
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  • We're gonna look at the book of daniel, a great, great book from
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  • The old testament about--it's called "unshakeable."
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  • And this series on "unshakeable" is how to thrive no matter what
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  • They throw at you, no matter what comes against you.
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  • And it starts with a young boy who was seeing all this
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  • Go--happen in his life.
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  • His name was daniel.
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  • The daniel who wrote this book was not a famous prophet when he
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  • Starts the story.
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  • And it covers 70 years of his life from age 15 to age 85.
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  • He starts off as a prisoner of war, he ends up 70 years later,
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  • As the second most powerful man in the most powerful empire at
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  • That time without losing his integrity.
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  • It's an amazing story of lessons for everyone at every stage and
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  • Age in our culture and in our church.
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  • So, this 15-year old teenager is named daniel and he watches the
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  • Destruction of his nation.
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  • And he's taken as a prisoner of war, one of the guys taken.
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  • They took 25% of the nation to babylon.
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  • He's one of the ones, and he would never see his parents
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  • Again, never see his family again, and never see his
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  • Homeland of israel again.
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  • He would spend the rest of his life living in a foreign
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  • Hostile culture.
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  • And the book of daniel teaches how to thrive no matter what
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  • They throw at you.
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  • We're gonna study his life in detail the next eight weeks
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  • Together, but this weekend i want to just set up the theme.
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  • And this is how the book of daniel starts.
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  • I'm just gonna read you the first seven verses and then
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  • We're gonna look at the theme.
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  • Here's what the first seven verses of this book say, "in the
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  • Third year of judah's king jehoiakim, his reign, king
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  • Nebuchadnezzar," that's the babylonian guy, "of babylon
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  • Besieged jerusalem with his armies," have you ever
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  • Been besieged?
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  • Have you ever felt besieged by all the problems in your life?
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  • By all the work that you gotta do and you don't have the
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  • Time and the money to do it?
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  • You've ever felt like things were caving in on you?
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  • This is the way daniel and the people of jerusalem felt.
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  • They were besieged by nebuchadnezzar and his armies,
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  • And it says, "and god gave nebuchadnezzar the victory."
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  • What?
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  • Nebuchadnezzar is not a godly man.
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  • He's not jewish, he's not christian.
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  • He's a total pagan.
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  • God gave nebuchadnezzar the victory.
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  • Now i'm not gonna get into this, but i will just say this, god
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  • Often uses pagan leaders to discipline his own children.
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  • He did it with pharaoh, he did it with cyrus the persian, he
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  • Did it with darius the mede, he did it with nebuchadnezzar.
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  • God often uses ungodly leaders to do his will, and he let
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  • Nebuchadnezzar discipline his own children, the children
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  • Of israel.
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  • And here's what happened.
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  • So, after the battle and the whole nation is taken into
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  • Captivity, "when nebuchadnezzar returned to babylon, he took
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  • With him the best sacred objects from the temple of god in
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  • Jerusalem and put them on display in his pagan temple
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  • In babylon."
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  • What's he doing?
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  • He's showing off, you know, "see, our god is better than
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  • Your god.
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  • These are supposed to be your holy things.
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  • We got them now, and they're in our foreign temple."
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  • And it says, "he also ordered that the best young men of judah
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  • Taken as captives to be brought to his palace," and one of those
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  • Happened to be daniel.
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  • And he says this, "i want you--."
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  • He told them, "select only the best-looking, the strongest, and
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  • The smartest young men and bring them to my palace."
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  • Okay.
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  • By the way, look up there for just a second.
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  • Did you notice that it's the same three values that we value
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  • In our culture today?
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  • Beauty and brains and brawn, okay?
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  • He says, "okay, our society is built on if you're not
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  • Academically, you know, proficient, academic aptitude,
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  • And if you don't have athletic ability, and if you don't have
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  • Great appearance, you're nothing."
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  • Well, that's what he's saying.
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  • This is not a new--this is the culture of the world,
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  • That it's all about sex and salary and status,
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  • It's all about brains and brawn and beauty,
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  • It's all about academics and athletics and appearance.
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  • And king nebuchadnezzar said, "bring me the best guys."
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  • And so, then they put these guys, these young teenage boys
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  • Through a three-year cultural indoctrination program, and
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  • Here's what the bible says, verse--the rest of the verses,
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  • "'make sure that they're well versed in every branch of
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  • Learning, that they're gifted with knowledge and good sense,
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  • And have the poise needed to serve in my royal palace,'" he's
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  • Gonna make them his servants.
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  • "'teach these young men the language and literature of the
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  • Babylonian culture,'" they're gonna be indoctrinated.
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  • "they were to eat only babylonian food and they were to
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  • Be trained for three years."
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  • And then it also says this, "also they were given," these
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  • Young boys, teenagers, "were given new babylonian names, so
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  • Daniel," who was clearly jewish and hebrew, "and his three best
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  • Friends were renamed: daniel was renamed belteshazzar," now later
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  • We're gonna see in daniel, one of the guy who replaces
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  • Nebuchadnezzar, his name is belshazzar, not the same guy.
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  • Belteshazzar is daniel, belshazzar is the emperor.
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  • "hananiah was renamed shadrack, mishael was named meshach.
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  • And azariah was named abednego."
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  • Now what's going on here?
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  • What's going on here is they're systematically reprogramming
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  • These jewish teens.
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  • They said, "you're not gonna be jews anymore.
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  • We're going--there's not--you're not gonna have that ethnic
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  • Background anymore."
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  • They're shaking things up.
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  • They're destroying the foundation.
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  • They're replacing the godly values of israel with the pagan
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  • Values of babylon.
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  • They have separated them from their parents, from their loved
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  • Ones, their families, and they have given them all brand new
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  • Names and new identities.
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  • He said, "your old life, that's over.
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  • You're now babylonian."
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  • Okay, question.
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  • If you're a 15-year old kid, would you say that your life had
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  • Just been shaken up a lot?
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  • Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it.
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  • You're never gonna see your parents again and your life has
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  • Been shaken up.
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  • And yet, even though his life was shaken to the foundations,
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  • Daniel, this 15-year old kid, grew into a great, great man of
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  • God, one of the greatest prophets in the bible, and while
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  • Keeping his integrity and his faith intact in the years ahead.
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  • In a hostile culture, he kept getting promoted and promoted
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  • And promoted.
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  • And he's promoted five different times, and he served and he
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  • Outlasts three different empires of two different cultures.
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  • First, the babylonians had taken over the assyrians.
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  • And then he served under two babylonian emperors and then
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  • They're taken over by the persians.
  • 00:12:38.006 --> 00:12:39.874
  • Cyrus the great says, "i'm--you guys are all dead, but i'm
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  • Keeping daniel."
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  • And so, he outlasts three administrations and he, by the
  • 00:12:44.379 --> 00:12:49.784
  • Way, leads two of those emperors to faith in god.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar and cyrus the great, both turn to god when
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  • They see daniel's life.
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  • This is an amazing young man.
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  • And at 85, he's now retired near the end of the book, and they
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  • Have a big problem in the empire and the emperor calls him out of
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  • Retirement at 85 years of age.
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  • So, we still need you.
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  • And he does such an amazing job that the emperor says, "i'm
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  • Putting you second in command in the entire empire only to me."
  • 00:13:20.148 --> 00:13:26.387
  • Now that's a huge story.
  • 00:13:26.387 --> 00:13:28.356
  • That's better than "lord of the rings," okay?
  • 00:13:28.356 --> 00:13:31.759
  • Or "star wars."
  • 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:33.161
  • This thing's filled with adventure, political intrigue,
  • 00:13:33.161 --> 00:13:36.264
  • And all kinds of things.
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  • We're gonna look at it for eight weeks after this week.
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  • And it's an amazing story of how you survive and thrive and
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  • Actually succeed when people don't--around you don't agree
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  • With what you believe.
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  • Are you interested in that?
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  • Yeah, well, you ought to be.
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  • And it tells us how to do that.
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  • Transform lives.
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  • Prayers, provide for your needs,
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  • Hope" to help take the certain
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  • Hope of jesus to people around
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  • The world, we'll send you
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  • "experience god's power
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  • Through prayer" to say thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: so, what should you do when your world is shaken up,
  • 00:15:15.697 --> 00:15:19.434
  • When the foundations become real unstable and unsteady and you
  • 00:15:19.434 --> 00:15:22.870
  • Don't know which way is up?
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  • What do you do?
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  • Well, we're gonna start this journey with just three simple
  • 00:15:25.707 --> 00:15:28.543
  • Suggestions today.
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  • I told you we'll get into the actual life of daniel next week.
  • 00:15:29.911 --> 00:15:32.313
  • This sets up the theme for the entire series.
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  • First suggestion, when your life is thrown into chaos, when your
  • 00:15:35.917 --> 00:15:40.088
  • World is shaken up, number one, don't be surprised by adversity.
  • 00:15:40.088 --> 00:15:45.693
  • That's the first thing we're gonna learn from this young
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  • Man, daniel.
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  • Don't be surprised by adversity.
  • 00:15:49.897 --> 00:15:52.333
  • Now although the collapse of the nation of israel was shock, it
  • 00:15:52.333 --> 00:15:56.237
  • Shocked everybody, it wasn't unexpected because the prophets,
  • 00:15:56.237 --> 00:16:01.542
  • Daniel and his--and zephaniah and others had been saying,
  • 00:16:01.542 --> 00:16:06.314
  • "guys, we're gonna lose our freedom, we're gonna lose our
  • 00:16:06.314 --> 00:16:08.983
  • Freedom, we're gonna lose our freedom if we don't wise up and
  • 00:16:08.983 --> 00:16:12.920
  • Stop all this idolatry and other stuff."
  • 00:16:12.920 --> 00:16:15.757
  • And so, as a teenager, daniel had been hearing this.
  • 00:16:15.757 --> 00:16:22.230
  • He heard these preachers, he could hear them in the streets
  • 00:16:22.230 --> 00:16:25.166
  • Saying, "guys, we're being warned, we're gonna lose our
  • 00:16:25.166 --> 00:16:28.369
  • Freedom if we don't do this."
  • 00:16:28.369 --> 00:16:30.204
  • Now here's what the bible says in 1 peter 4:12, "dear friends,
  • 00:16:30.204 --> 00:16:34.008
  • Don't be shocked or surprised when you suffer painful tests
  • 00:16:34.008 --> 00:16:38.813
  • And trials as if something strange is happening to you."
  • 00:16:38.813 --> 00:16:44.218
  • He said, "you know, shakeups are a normal part of life in a
  • 00:16:44.218 --> 00:16:48.389
  • Broken world."
  • 00:16:48.389 --> 00:16:49.724
  • We do not live in heaven.
  • 00:16:49.724 --> 00:16:51.459
  • In heaven, everything's perfect, everything's done great.
  • 00:16:51.459 --> 00:16:53.828
  • There are no tears, no sorrows, no suffering.
  • 00:16:53.828 --> 00:16:56.097
  • But on earth, everything is broken because of sin.
  • 00:16:56.097 --> 00:16:59.367
  • Every relationship is broken, every body is broken.
  • 00:16:59.367 --> 00:17:03.337
  • We don't have healthy minds.
  • 00:17:03.337 --> 00:17:05.540
  • The weather's broken, the economy is broken.
  • 00:17:05.540 --> 00:17:07.842
  • And so, we shouldn't expect things to be perfect here
  • 00:17:07.842 --> 00:17:10.545
  • On earth.
  • 00:17:10.545 --> 00:17:12.213
  • And when something bad happens in your life, instead of going,
  • 00:17:12.213 --> 00:17:15.316
  • "why me?"
  • 00:17:15.316 --> 00:17:16.651
  • You might wanna say, "why not me?"
  • 00:17:16.651 --> 00:17:18.586
  • I live here on earth and we're not--this is not heaven.
  • 00:17:18.586 --> 00:17:23.391
  • That's coming later.
  • 00:17:23.391 --> 00:17:25.760
  • And so, there are gonna be sufferings, there are gonna be
  • 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:28.129
  • Trials, and don't be surprised by it.
  • 00:17:28.129 --> 00:17:30.465
  • Jesus said it like this, john 16:33, "jesus said, 'in this
  • 00:17:30.465 --> 00:17:35.937
  • World you might experience difficulties!'"
  • 00:17:35.937 --> 00:17:40.775
  • That's not what he said.
  • 00:17:40.775 --> 00:17:43.077
  • "in this world you," what?
  • 00:17:43.077 --> 00:17:45.246
  • Circle that, "will."
  • 00:17:45.246 --> 00:17:46.581
  • Now if jesus said it, you can count on it.
  • 00:17:46.581 --> 00:17:48.816
  • You will have problems in life.
  • 00:17:48.816 --> 00:17:52.086
  • You are gonna face adversity.
  • 00:17:52.086 --> 00:17:53.855
  • You are going to have times where your world is tossed
  • 00:17:53.855 --> 00:17:56.357
  • Upside down and everything is shaking and baking and flying
  • 00:17:56.357 --> 00:18:00.328
  • And you don't know which way is up.
  • 00:18:00.328 --> 00:18:02.730
  • "in this world you will experience difficulties!"
  • 00:18:02.730 --> 00:18:05.266
  • Jesus promised that, but he said, "take heart!
  • 00:18:05.266 --> 00:18:08.970
  • I have conquered the world!"
  • 00:18:08.970 --> 00:18:10.805
  • He said, "i've told you this so that in trusting me, you will be
  • 00:18:10.805 --> 00:18:15.276
  • Unshakeable," that's the theme of our series.
  • 00:18:15.276 --> 00:18:18.079
  • Circle that, "you'll be unshakeable and deeply
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  • At peace."
  • 00:18:21.382 --> 00:18:22.717
  • Jesus warned us that adversity is gonna be a part of life.
  • 00:18:22.717 --> 00:18:26.287
  • Don't let it blow you away, don't be surprised, don't be
  • 00:18:26.287 --> 00:18:28.956
  • Shocked, but you need to be unshakeable, i'm telling you, so
  • 00:18:28.956 --> 00:18:33.861
  • You won't cave in.
  • 00:18:33.861 --> 00:18:35.930
  • Now you know what the typical response is when you go through
  • 00:18:35.930 --> 00:18:38.132
  • A crisis?
  • 00:18:38.132 --> 00:18:39.467
  • The typical union--human response when i or you go
  • 00:18:39.467 --> 00:18:43.504
  • Through a crisis is this.
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  • First thing we do is try to figure out who's to blame.
  • 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.076
  • That's the last thing you need to work on.
  • 00:18:49.076 --> 00:18:51.479
  • Whose fault is it?
  • 00:18:51.479 --> 00:18:53.014
  • As long as you're fixing the blame, you can't fix
  • 00:18:53.014 --> 00:18:55.783
  • The problem.
  • 00:18:55.783 --> 00:18:57.218
  • To blame is to be lame.
  • 00:18:57.218 --> 00:18:59.253
  • That's how you spell blame.
  • 00:18:59.253 --> 00:19:00.655
  • And so, when you blame other people, you're not--you're just
  • 00:19:00.655 --> 00:19:03.558
  • Perpetuating the problem, you're not solving anything.
  • 00:19:03.558 --> 00:19:07.295
  • Politicians love to blame each other, these groups and that
  • 00:19:07.295 --> 00:19:10.164
  • Groups blame each other.
  • 00:19:10.164 --> 00:19:11.499
  • You know what? blame is not--blame is lame.
  • 00:19:11.499 --> 00:19:15.403
  • Instead of asking whose fault it is, you need to be asking what
  • 00:19:15.403 --> 00:19:20.374
  • Should i do.
  • 00:19:20.374 --> 00:19:21.709
  • Now, just so you'll know, let me tell you, there are four sources
  • 00:19:21.709 --> 00:19:24.979
  • Of the problems in your life.
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  • You might write these down.
  • 00:19:26.347 --> 00:19:27.682
  • I'm gonna tell you in just a minute, doesn't really matter
  • 00:19:27.682 --> 00:19:29.550
  • Where the source is from, but i'll go ahead and tell
  • 00:19:29.550 --> 00:19:31.352
  • You anyway.
  • 00:19:31.352 --> 00:19:32.687
  • Okay, there are four sources of every problem in your life.
  • 00:19:32.687 --> 00:19:35.656
  • Number one is you, okay?
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  • I am the biggest problem to myself.
  • 00:19:40.461 --> 00:19:43.164
  • I caused myself more pain, more heartache from my
  • 00:19:43.164 --> 00:19:46.867
  • Dumb decisions.
  • 00:19:46.867 --> 00:19:48.236
  • I was talking to kay this afternoon and i said, "honey,
  • 00:19:48.236 --> 00:19:52.240
  • You know, i wanna talk to you about a character flaw in me i'm
  • 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:54.809
  • Just really bugged by."
  • 00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:56.544
  • And in a moment of clarity, i was just talking to her about
  • 00:19:56.544 --> 00:19:59.647
  • This and you know, i think it's one of the reasons why i'm
  • 00:19:59.647 --> 00:20:02.984
  • Looking forward to heaven is because in heaven, i don't have
  • 00:20:02.984 --> 00:20:05.886
  • To hang out with me, okay?
  • 00:20:05.886 --> 00:20:08.723
  • When i get to heaven, all my weaknesses, all those flaws,
  • 00:20:08.723 --> 00:20:11.492
  • They're gonna be taken away.
  • 00:20:11.492 --> 00:20:12.827
  • So, i'm gonna be the new improved me.
  • 00:20:12.827 --> 00:20:15.463
  • So, by the way, if you don't like me right now, you're gonna
  • 00:20:15.463 --> 00:20:17.999
  • Love me in heaven, okay?
  • 00:20:17.999 --> 00:20:20.201
  • You're gonna--i'll have no imperfections, i won't irritate
  • 00:20:20.201 --> 00:20:23.804
  • You in any way.
  • 00:20:23.804 --> 00:20:25.139
  • Of course, you won't irritate me either because all your hangups
  • 00:20:25.139 --> 00:20:29.010
  • Will be taken away too.
  • 00:20:29.010 --> 00:20:31.012
  • But i think being in heaven is gonna be cool just so i don't
  • 00:20:31.012 --> 00:20:33.981
  • Have to hang out with all my faults and flaws and foibles and
  • 00:20:33.981 --> 00:20:38.386
  • Weaknesses that i've had to live with all my life and you've had
  • 00:20:38.386 --> 00:20:40.821
  • To live with yours all your life.
  • 00:20:40.821 --> 00:20:43.324
  • But my--the first source of the shakeups in your life is your
  • 00:20:43.324 --> 00:20:46.327
  • Own nature, your old nature, which is your own
  • 00:20:46.327 --> 00:20:50.531
  • Biggest problem.
  • 00:20:50.531 --> 00:20:51.866
  • You might wanna write next to that romans 7, romans 7 is the
  • 00:20:51.866 --> 00:20:54.802
  • Classic chapter explains how you are the biggest problem to you,
  • 00:20:54.802 --> 00:21:00.074
  • And i won't go into that.
  • 00:21:00.074 --> 00:21:01.676
  • The second source of the problems in your life is the
  • 00:21:01.676 --> 00:21:04.578
  • World, the world.
  • 00:21:04.578 --> 00:21:06.781
  • And the world--your nature is within you, the world is around
  • 00:21:06.781 --> 00:21:10.918
  • You and it wants to pull you down.
  • 00:21:10.918 --> 00:21:12.486
  • And the primary way the world tries to pull you down is to
  • 00:21:12.486 --> 00:21:15.456
  • Ridicule and through withholding approval.
  • 00:21:15.456 --> 00:21:18.859
  • We are desperate for the approval of other people.
  • 00:21:18.859 --> 00:21:21.562
  • And so, we will lower our standards and we'll change our
  • 00:21:21.562 --> 00:21:24.365
  • Convictions and we'll give in and give up simply because we
  • 00:21:24.365 --> 00:21:27.568
  • Want somebody to like us.
  • 00:21:27.568 --> 00:21:30.004
  • You don't need the world's approval to be happy.
  • 00:21:30.004 --> 00:21:33.374
  • You're as happy as you choose to be.
  • 00:21:33.374 --> 00:21:35.309
  • You don't need the world's approval, but the world causes a
  • 00:21:35.309 --> 00:21:38.045
  • Lot of problems in your life too.
  • 00:21:38.045 --> 00:21:39.914
  • The third source of problems is, of course, satan.
  • 00:21:39.914 --> 00:21:43.417
  • The devil is real, evil incarnate.
  • 00:21:43.417 --> 00:21:46.754
  • And the moment you wake up in the morning, he's plotting to
  • 00:21:46.754 --> 00:21:49.623
  • Discourage you, to defeat you, to create doubts, depression,
  • 00:21:49.623 --> 00:21:53.627
  • Discouragement, distractions, all these different things.
  • 00:21:53.627 --> 00:21:56.130
  • When you get up in the morning, if you don't meet the devil head
  • 00:21:56.130 --> 00:21:58.499
  • On, it just means you're headed in the same direction because
  • 00:21:58.499 --> 00:22:01.736
  • He's been planning to take you down.
  • 00:22:01.736 --> 00:22:03.738
  • He hates you.
  • 00:22:03.738 --> 00:22:05.106
  • God has a good plan for your life.
  • 00:22:05.106 --> 00:22:06.440
  • He's got a bad plan for your life, okay?
  • 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.343
  • So, my old nature, the world, the flesh, and me and the devil,
  • 00:22:09.343 --> 00:22:14.315
  • They all work on me.
  • 00:22:14.315 --> 00:22:15.649
  • But the one i wanna talk to you about this weekend is the fourth
  • 00:22:15.649 --> 00:22:18.452
  • Source of problems in your life and it's god.
  • 00:22:18.452 --> 00:22:22.056
  • God, yes.
  • 00:22:22.056 --> 00:22:23.391
  • Some of the problems and pressures and difficulties you
  • 00:22:23.391 --> 00:22:28.162
  • Have in life actually come from god.
  • 00:22:28.162 --> 00:22:31.932
  • God will sometimes shake up your life for very good reasons, and
  • 00:22:31.932 --> 00:22:37.371
  • That's why i wanna cover this in detail because this is the one
  • 00:22:37.371 --> 00:22:40.674
  • That's unexpected.
  • 00:22:40.674 --> 00:22:43.010
  • And i want you to look at that.
  • 00:22:43.010 --> 00:22:44.345
  • Now it really doesn't matter where your problems came from.
  • 00:22:44.345 --> 00:22:47.882
  • They could be caused by the devil, they could be caused by
  • 00:22:47.882 --> 00:22:50.251
  • The world, they could be caused by you, or they could be brought
  • 00:22:50.251 --> 00:22:53.954
  • On in your life by god.
  • 00:22:53.954 --> 00:22:56.457
  • It doesn't really matter.
  • 00:22:56.457 --> 00:22:57.825
  • God will use every one of them for your good if you will
  • 00:22:57.825 --> 00:23:00.428
  • Trust him.
  • 00:23:00.428 --> 00:23:01.762
  • "you mean even the bad things in my life?
  • 00:23:01.762 --> 00:23:04.031
  • Even my own sins?"
  • 00:23:04.031 --> 00:23:05.366
  • Yes, even god can use those for good in your life.
  • 00:23:05.366 --> 00:23:09.069
  • He can turn crucifixions into resurrections.
  • 00:23:09.069 --> 00:23:11.539
  • He can bring good out of bad.
  • 00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:12.873
  • Any anybody can bring good out of good, but god can change even
  • 00:23:12.873 --> 00:23:15.576
  • Bad things into good if you will trust him.
  • 00:23:15.576 --> 00:23:19.146
  • So, regardless of the source of your shaking, what's got you all
  • 00:23:19.146 --> 00:23:22.817
  • Shaken up?
  • 00:23:22.817 --> 00:23:24.151
  • "i lost my job, i can't get married.
  • 00:23:24.151 --> 00:23:26.187
  • I want this, and it hasn't happened.
  • 00:23:26.187 --> 00:23:27.655
  • I have this dream and i'm hitting the barrier."
  • 00:23:27.655 --> 00:23:29.890
  • Regardless of whatever was shaking you up, god wants to use
  • 00:23:29.890 --> 00:23:33.594
  • It for good.
  • 00:23:33.594 --> 00:23:34.962
  • So, the source isn't nearly as important as your response.
  • 00:23:34.962 --> 00:23:39.366
  • Now here's the second step based on that.
  • 00:23:39.366 --> 00:23:42.736
  • Anytime the world--your world is shaken up, number two, look for
  • 00:23:42.736 --> 00:23:47.041
  • Ways that god might use it for good.
  • 00:23:47.041 --> 00:23:51.946
  • Look for ways--i look for ways that god might use it in my life
  • 00:23:51.946 --> 00:23:56.584
  • For good because he wants to use everything, even the bad things
  • 00:23:56.584 --> 00:24:01.622
  • In your life.
  • 00:24:01.622 --> 00:24:02.990
  • He wants to bring good out of even those.
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  • And if you want to succeed and thrive rather than just survive
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  • In a hostile culture, you need to look for ways that god takes
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  • The things that shake you up and can use them for good.
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  • Jeremiah 29:11 says this.
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  • God says, "the plans i have for you are plans for good and not
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  • To harm you.
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  • They're plans to give you hope and a future."
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  • The devil has bad plans for your life and therefore, bad and
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  • For destruction.
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  • God has plans.
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  • His plans are always good.
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  • They're to give you hope and they're to give you a future.
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  • Now i'm gonna give you a sneak peek at where we're going in the
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  • Next eight weeks, because in daniel's life, god did five
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  • Things with the problems that he had to face.
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  • And they are the same five things that god wants to do in
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  • Your life, regardless of what kind of problems you're
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  • Going through.
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  • So, you might write these down.
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  • This is kind of an index to daniel's life.
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  • Number one, sometimes god shakes things up, i'm talking about in
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  • Your life, sometimes god thinks--shakes things up in my
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  • Life to inspect me, to inspect me.
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  • And what i mean by that is god will bring a problem in my life
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  • That reveals a motivation that's out of whack, or a character or
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  • A thought or an emotion or a motive.
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  • He examines and he checks it out and he does it all the time.
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  • And when you, somebody said, "you know, people are like
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  • Tea bags.
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  • You don't know what's in them till you drop them in
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  • Hot water."
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  • And god will use problems to inspect you and show you what's
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  • Wrong, what's out of whack in your life.
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  • Female announcer: if you're like most people, you're probably
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  • Struggling with a difficult situation or circumstance in
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  • Your life, and you need a breakthrough.
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  • Persistent expectant prayer is how god moves to
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  • Transform lives.
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  • And to help you unlock god's power in your life, pastor rick
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  • Created, "experience god's power through prayer."
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  • This dynamic study book provides
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  • Information and inspiration that
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  • Your prayer life.
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  • As you see god answer your
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  • Prayers, provide for your needs,
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  • And open new doors, you'll develop a confidence that god is
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  • "experience god's power
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  • Through prayer" to say thanks.
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  • ♪♪♪
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