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Episode 69: Shut The Mouths · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Yay. Though we may go through the valley of the shadow of death,
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we need fear no evil because the Lord, our God is with us.
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Father, we thank you for being that ever present, always there help in
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the time of trouble, in the time of need. At all times.
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Lord, you never leave us, you never forsake us. We can rest
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in your word, we can rest in your promises. We thank you for
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the Angel of the Lord in camping all around those that fear you. Lord.
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We bless your name, and we magnify you this day for all of
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your goodness toward your people. Lord, we pray to day that you will
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send now blessing and prosperity to the hearts, into the mind and into the
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lives of those that a man fear Your name, both small and great.
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Bless us now we shall be blessed, Keep us, and we shall be
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kept by your mighty power. God, be glorified today and your people we
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pray and give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen, all right,
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God, bless you again. Thank you Lord for this another day that he
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has made. We certainly are the recipients of all of the benefits that God
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has bestowed upon us, and we a man acknowledge Him who is the source
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and the supply of all that we will ever need. Amen, Thank God
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for it. Amen. All right, God bless you again. We welcome
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you once more. Amen to this another edition of End Time Revival ministries us
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a broadcast and podcast, and I am your host. And today we are
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going to a man. Continue a man to a man again, reaffirm a
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man the people of God, a man, and send words of encouragement your
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way, a man, to let you know that a man. God is
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with you, God is for you. A man. He never leaves nor
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forsakes his own people. God has an established a man, formidable a man
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Affirmative Action program a man, and he himself watches over it, over his
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people. He has sent forth his word. He is a man spoken,
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a man good concerning us. He has promised a man, and decreed for
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ordained a man, predestined, a man before the foundation of the world,
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a man. And he said, I know the thoughts that I think toward
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your, thoughts of good and not of evil, to give you and expect
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it in. And so we know that all things work together for good to
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them that love the Lord, to them who are the called according to His
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purpose A man. All right, So we're gonna go A Man in the
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Word of the Lord again on today. And of course, those of you
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who have been faithfully listening to this particular broadcast, we certainly a man.
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readily available. Amen. All right, God, bless you again to the
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word of the Lord. If you have your Bibles, go with us to
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the Book of Daniel, and we're going to Amen. Be there in chapter
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number six on today. And although there have been and certainly continues to be
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martyrs, martyrs, Amen for the cause of Jesus Christ. It is also
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of great comfort, Amen to the people of God, a man to know
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that the omnipotent Umni present again God is always with us. The omnipotent Umni
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present God we serve, can and will deliver us if He wills to do
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so from the plans, from the schemes of wicked men, who themselves are
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troubled in their unrest and certainly in their hatred a man of God, hatred
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for the truth, hatred for a man. The calls of Jesus Christ,
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the name of Jesus Christ a man, and
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so the Bible tells us, I mean the wicked are like the troubled seed
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cannot rest a man. And Jesus forewarned his disciples about this kind of unbridled
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hatred a man that would lead to murder. He told his disciples that some
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of you are going to be killed a man. And so we we saw,
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we saw that it happened, a man we know historically, a man.
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These things came to pass. Almost all of the apostles were martyred a
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man. Many many, many of the early Amn Church disciples and fathers also
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a man were put to death. A man for the cause of the Gospel,
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for the truth, a man. And Jesus said himself, he was
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hated by this world because he testified a man of the deeds of this world
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being evil, a man. Anyone who takes to stand a man with God's
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truth, a man, especially in particularly, if you speak out a man
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against the evil of this world, you will be hated. And and if
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God allows it, a man, these evil, wicked, amn demonic in
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dwelling folk. Amen. And they are of the devil, As Jesus said,
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you are of your father, the devil, and the deeds of your
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father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning. And if
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God allows it, Amen. They will first and foremost they will seek to
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silence you, but they will murder you in their violent hatred of God and
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his truth. Now, this hatred and this malice, it did not commence
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in the days of Jesus Christ, of course, a man, although he
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was by far, by far the most despised and rejected of men, a
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man. This is a spirit of hatred against God that began to manifest itself
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with Kin, a man against his righteous brother Abel, a man. And
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it will continue until Jesus Christ returns a man for his church and the final
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judgment. Today, so of course we are still in this warfare. And
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we're going to look back at a very familiar narrative in the Old Testament,
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in the life of this prophet Daniel, a man who was hated of his
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peers simply because he was not one of them. He was a man of
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holiness, He was a man of honesty and in godliness. And and again
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again, don't marvel, Jesus said, if the world hate you, Amen,
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if you don't run with them, if you don't do what they do,
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Amen, And and and so this is what we can expect, Amen,
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if we again take a stand for truth, for the for the word
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of God, Amen, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Amen, And and
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speaking out against what is evil and wicked. Amen. In this present world.
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All right, let's look at Daniel chapter number six. Amen. If
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you have your bibles, Daniel chapter number six, Amen. I'm going to
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be reading from the King James twenty first century edition. The Bible tells us
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verse number one, it please that rious to set over the kingdom one hundred
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and twenty. Who should be over the whole kingdom, and over these three
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presidents, of whom Daniel was first, that the princess might give account unto
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them, and the King should have no damage. Then this Daniel was preferred
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above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him, and
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the King thought to set him over the whole realm. Amen. All right,
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let me go down, let me let me continue reading version number four,
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Amen, And I'll come back just a moment. Then the presidents and
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princess sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could not
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find anything, and no occasion or fault. Inasmuch the Bible says, as
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he was faithful, neither was there any era or fault found in him.
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Then said these men, we shall not find any occasion against this Dangl unless
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we find it a gainst him concerning the law of his God. Then these
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presidents and princes assembled together before the king and said, thus unto him,
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King Dorias, live forever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors,
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and the princes, the counselors and the captains have consulted together to establish
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a royal statue and to make a firm decree that whosoever shall ask a petition
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of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee O King,
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he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now O King established the
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decree, signed the writing that it be not changed according to the law the
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meats and Persians, which all to not. Therefore King Drias signed the writing
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and the decree. Now first and foremost a man. Drias came to power
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in the aftermath of the defeat of Babylon, a man. And you can
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see that in Daniel chapter number five a man. He is now in charge,
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and he is appointing and assembling a cabinet of officials with the responsibility,
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of course, of overseeing the affairs of the king and of his kingdom.
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A man in regards to UH, the business and the affairs, a man
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justice, treasury, UH all of the things in peace, of course,
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in all throughout the ram and and and and and this is this is necessary
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a man in any government to have a man, a good and honest a
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man officials, officials overseeing the affairs of that state, every ruler, every
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ruler should be diligent in appointing a governing officials who ought to be more concerned,
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ought to be more concerned with the welfare and the well being of the
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state. A man, that is, for all people, a man,
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rather than their own selfish desires and ambitions. So it is, but we
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understand how this works. A man, because it is the nature of fallen
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man first and foremost to covet that which does not belong to him, that
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which has not been appointed for him. A man, and even those who
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are already in high ranking positions of power, certainly can be we know this
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to be true, can be corrupted by the spirit of covetousness, by the
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spirit of envy, by the spirit of greed. A man that would deem
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them a man unfit, a man to be in service for the good of
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the state a man, and the riots was simply seeking a man to put
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in place a man people, that a man would be accountable, be responsible,
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be diligent, a man, and see to it that the kingdom and
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the king himself suffered no damage or hurt or loss because of corruption, and
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those kinds of things that we certainly know that can certainly enter into a man.
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The realm of any kingdom, any state, any nation, any tribe,
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a man, any group, any corporation a man. And so he
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sought to set up a hierarchy system of government with officials who would be accountable
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to someone else above them. The highest ranking official in any a government,
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any government, The highest ranking official in any government must be of the highest
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level of morality and integrity. If that government is going to function in service
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for the good of the people, for the good of the state, Amen,
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for the good of all the people. At the highest levels of any
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government must be of the highest level of morality and integrity. I mean nobody's
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perfect. Amen. But they need to have integrity, They need to be
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God fearing. A mean, they need to be people of morality. Amen.
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If that state, that nation that tried that people that institution, whatever
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it is, Amen, if it is going to survive, Amen, there
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must be integrity. Amen. And it seems that the riots understood amen to
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some degree, the depravity of man a man, and the lack of accountability,
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that it would be disastrous Amen for the king and ultimately again for the
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kingdom. So so he chose three presidents, as you saw a man in
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the word of God. He chose three presidents to oversee the one hundred and
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twenty princes or officials a man that he had appointed or signed over all of
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the different provinces that was in his kingdom. So again, his system of
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government that he set up had one hundred and twenty a man lore level officials
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a man. But above these officials, one hundred and twenty officials, they
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had to report to three presidents a man and and and and and and would
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be accountable to them. And then, of course these presidents were reporting directly
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to Darius the King. Now, of these three presidents, the man Daniel,
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the Bible tells us the man Daniel, a man, stood out as
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of course the most trustworthy of all of these officials, a man and and
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and and and Darius the Bible tells us thought to place Daniel over everyone,
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of course, but himself. A man, Daniel would be second in command.
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A man, he would be the chief, even over the other two
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presidents. A man. Daniel was not only a man of faith, a
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man, but he was also a man of faithfulness, faith and faithfulness.
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And a lot of people claim to be in the faith. A man have
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faith, But a man we need to be faithful. A man even in
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our a man day to day civic duties, a man responsibilities, jobs,
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a man careers, a man wherever God has assigned us to be. And
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keep in mind, remember that Daniel was a captive, a man. He
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had been taken into captivity, into slavery, into servitude, as it were,
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into Babylon, and of course he had been there. Now now at
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this particular point in time, he's in his early to mid eighties, a
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man, and he has a man, been in captivity, a man in
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Babylon for over seventy for that seventy year period of time, and now a
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man. The Babylonians have been defeated, and he now has been, as
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God is always with us, he has been elevated in the kingdom of the
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meats and the persons, a man. And again it is because Daniel was
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not only a man of faith, Amen, but he was a man of
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faithfulness, a man. He was faithful to God first and foremost. What
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did Jesus tell us, seek the kingdom first? Seek the kingdom first?
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This is what Daniel did. Amn. He served God first. A man.
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He was faithful to God first. He was faithful in all of his
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duties. He was a faithful man to speak the truth, a man to
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speak the truth in love, a man to give sound, advice and wisdom.
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Amen. It just loosed out of him a man. God gave it
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to him. Amen, by the way he and his friends had prayed to
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God. Amen. And God opened their eyes and blessed them and gave them
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understanding and wisdom and insight a man. And they were promoted, as you
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know, in the kingdom of Nebuchadnezza, above all of the other wise men
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that he had on his payroll. A man, and so again, being
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a man of faith and faithfulness, having integrity in all of his ways.
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When Daniel was examined a man, and when he was put under scrutiny,
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he had always been found to be a man again of integrity, and truth.
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Amen. And so these presidents a man, really, they were jealous
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a man, and they were envious of Daniel. And again the Bible tells
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us they sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But again,
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he was a man of integrity, he was a man of character, he
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was a man of impeccable, a man work ethic, a man. And
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so they couldn't find anything. They could not find anything. They couldn't find
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anywhere in any way that he had embezzled, a man, that he was
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a man of pilfering, that he was taking home a man and office supplies
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for himself, a man that he was, he was doing anything. He
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didn't cheat on his taxes, He didn't cheat the state in any way.
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Amen. And and they they they searched, and they looked, They did
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background checks and searches, and they, I'm no doubt, interviewed people and
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talked to people who knew Daniel, and they couldn't find anything. Amen.
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And they watched him, the Bible tells us, a man, and the
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Bible tells us that he was faithful, and neither was there any error or
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fault found in him. A man, he was perfect, and upright in
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his doings. Amen. So the Bible tells us these men decided, Amen,
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We're not gonna find anything against this Daniel unless we find it against him
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concerning the law of his God. Amen. And so the three presidents,
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or these presidents, the other two presidents, Rothern and the Princess. The
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Bible says they got together, and they assembled themselves before the king, King
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Drias. And of course here they come with their flattery and all and and
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and they come to him, King Drias live for ever, Amen, all
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the presidents of the kingdom. That's a lie. That's a lie. That's
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the first thing out of the devil's mouth is a lie. The lasting out
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of the devil's mouth is a lie. He is a lying spirit. His
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children are lying devils also, Amen. The deeds of their father they would
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do. And they came a man to Drias lying with deception. All the
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presidents of the kingdom knows. It was not because Daniel was not included.
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Amen. He was excluded. He was excommunicated by them because they were out
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to get him. Amen. So they listen to what they say. All
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the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes the counselors and
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the captains, we have all all consulted together. We've decided that we need
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to establish a royal statue, Amen, and to make a firm decree that
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whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except
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of the old King, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
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Amen. Now listen, this was all designed, This was all schemed up
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and plotted, Amen, to get Daniel, because they had been watching him,
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and they knew his amen rising up and his sitting down. They knew
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his amen habits every day, what he did, and they saw how again
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meticulous he was, how carefully was how scrupulous he was in his faithfulness and
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in his in his integrity, Amen, with his work ethic and all of
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that. They they observed all of that, Amen, Excuse me. And
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they couldn't find anything a man to get him or to discredit him a man
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in any way concerning that. And so again, what the devil always wants
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to do, First and foremost, he wants to kill you if he can.
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That's number one, Amen. He just wants to kill you, period,
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a man. And if he can't, and he can't, by the
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way, unless God allows it, and men. You know again, I
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always point back to the story of Job. Amen. Amen. The Lord
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allowed say them to do all kinds of things to Job, but he did
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not allow him to take Job's life. No one can take your life,
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Jesus said it, even of himself. No one can take my life.
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I have the power to lay it down. I have the power to take
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it up again. And that a man actually extends to all of his people.
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No one can take your life unless God allows it. An unless God
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permits it, Amen, until he allows it. Amen. And so they
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plotted and schemed a man and to kill Daniel, because they knew his habits
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a man. They knew that he would be praying to God, his God,
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the God of creation, the God of the universe, the Sovereign,
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the Almighty. They knew that they would find him doing so, and so
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they cooked up this king in order to appease the king. And in antiquity
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a lot of time and most of these kingdoms of antiquity, kings were often
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worshiped a man. They were often highly exalted a man and considered to be
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gods themselves. And so this was appeasing to darias a man is sounded good
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to him, and he didn't realize. He didn't have the discernment amen to
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know that this was trickery. And he did not know that they were lying
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to him, because he assumed, because they said all the presidents, he
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assumed that Daniel was a man a part of this. So uh, they
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said to the king. Now, King, King, King, King established
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this decree, signed the writing that it be not changed according to the law
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of the Meads and Persians, which alterth not. In other words, once
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he signs this amen statute Amen, into law, no one could change it,
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not even him. Amen. Therefore the Bible tells us in verse number
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nine, King Darias signed the writing, he signed the decree, signed off
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on it. Amen. He was tricked. Amen. That's that's that's who
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the devil is. That's who he is. Amen. He loves trickery,
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Amen, scheming. Amen. But listen with the Bible says we are not
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ignorant. Paul says, we are not ignorant of his devices. Amen.
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Amen, we are not of the devices the schemes. That's why the Bible
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tells us to put on the whole armor of God, that we may be
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able to stand against the wilds w I ls the tricks, the schemes,
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Amen, the trickery of the devil. The Bible tells us, look at
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verse number ten. When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went
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into his house, and now he knows what. He knows what is happening.
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He knows what's being plotted and planned against us, against him. Rather,
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he knew what they had done. He knew what they had cooked up.
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Amen, And it didn't matter, Amen. The Bible says, when
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Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and
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his windows being opened in his chamber towards Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees
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three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did
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formerly. That's very important too, ladies and gentlemen. Daniel was consistent in
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his prayer life. He didn't wait for an emergency. He didn't wait until
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a chrisis came. He didn't wait until he got a prognosis diagnosis from the
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doctor. He didn't wait until bankruptcy was looming over his head. He didn't
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wait. He didn't wait. He prayed always. He was consistent in his
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praying and giving thanks. That's important. As will giving thanks to God.
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Amen. No matter what state you're in, Amen, no matter what you
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find yourself facing, always be thankful. That's very challenging for most of us,
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and man, it's difficult for most of us. Amen. Amen.
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But the Bible tells us. The Bible teaches us, in everything, give
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thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us. Daniel
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was in ativity. He was of the captives, a man who was taken
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away all of his life, no matter of fact, all his whole life,
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all of his whole, entire adult life, was spent in captivity.
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Even though God had promoted him, even though God had exalted him, he
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was still not home, not in his homeland. A man not free in
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a sense, a man that he could, a man just do as he
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pleased in or live his life as he wanted. Like most of us take
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freedom for granted. A man, Daniel was in captivity, a man in
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Babylon for seventy years, and he established in his lifetime a man of daily
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habit of praying and giving thanks to God. A man and he knew that
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the enemies of his had had schemed up again and plotted against him. But
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his faithman's faithfulness to the Lord his God. He understood. I believe,
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I'm Daniel. I believe without question, Daniel understood, Amen, that what
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they had conjured up against him, Amen, it was certainly first and foremost,
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it would not deter him from doing exactly what he had already been doing
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before, before their wickedness, before their evil, before their envy rods up
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to this point of scheming against him, to have him killed, to have
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him murdered. Amen. Now what they schemed up again was specifically designed Amen,
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just for Daniel. Amen, for him to be accused and for him
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to be murdered. Can you imagine this? How is it that you can
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get a hundred and twenty two people, all one hundred and twenty two people,
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at least one hundred and twenty two, if all of the hundred and
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twenty princes agreed, and the other two governors agreed, presidents rather a governor's
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presidents. If those one hundred and twenty two got how is it that not
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one single person among the hundred and twenty two would speak up and say,
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wait a minute, this is not right, this is not, this is
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not this is not we shouldn't be doing this against this man. Amen.
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But this listen, this is this is what they did to Jesus. Amen,
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after all that Jesus had done. Listen, don't think that your goodness,
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Amen, your good deeds, any of those things can keep you,
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Amen, from the only God can do that, the evil from the hatred
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of man. It won't. Amen. Look at all the good that Jesus
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did. Look at his faithfulness. Look at this again. No one was
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hated more, no one was despised more. So you got one hundred and
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twenty two and not one single person, not one single person, had the
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integrity Amen, to stand up for Daniel and to say, no, this
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is not right, we should not do this. Amen. They targeted him
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in their wickedness, in their desperately ungodly hearts a man that but the Bible
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tells us a body. Remember the Bible says about the heart of man,
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it is desperately wicked, and who can know it. They all agreed together
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to do this, and they believed in their minds, in their wickedness,
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that they had devised a fool proof plan to rid themselves of this Daniel.
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Amen. And no doubt that they were crooked, they were thieves. Amen.
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They were embezzlers. Amen. They wanted to a man uh steal.
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Remember Darriots. I believe d Riots understood. And he again he knew.
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And this is why he said this, Daniel, I got a guy like
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this. I'm gonna put this guy in charge of everybody, Amen, because
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I I know how people operate. I know you. Just listen, boy,
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I tell you, let me, I'm let me. I'm I'm gonna
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move to somesm thirty seven. I just want to read a little bit of
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that some thirty seven. But listen. Never never, never, never.
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And this is a sad mistake that a lot of people make in assuming that
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people are basically good, people are good at heart. It's not true.
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It's not what the Bible teaches a man. The heart of man is wicked.
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The heart of man is wicked, Amen, and evil, the Bible
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says in wickedness is bound up even in the heart of a child. But
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the rod of correction Amen will drive it away. Amen, and the Lord
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make this testimony. Amen, way back in the Book of Genesis, that
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man is evil from his youth up a hundred and twenty two people, and
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not one person there had enough integrity Amen to stand up for this man,
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Daniel, who was impeccable in his work, ethic and his faithfulness. Amen,
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not one, not one. But listen. When the Bible tells us,
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I want you to hear this some I'm thirty seven. Do not fret
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because of evil doers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity, for
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they shall soon be cut down like the grass and whither as the green herb.
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Listen what we're to do verse number three. Trust in the Lord and
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do good. That's what Daniel was doing. He was trusting in the Lord,
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and he did the right thing. Amen. Dwell in the land,
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the Bible says, and feed on his faithfulness. Amen. Know that the
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God that we serve is faithful. He's faithful in all his ways. I
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mean, he's the faithful God. Amen. He's the ever present God.
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He's the almighty God. He's the sovereign, he's the ruler over all.
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This is what the Bible tells us to do. Delight yourself also in the
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Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your
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way to the Lord. Trust also in him, and he shall bring it
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to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your
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justice as the noonday. Listen, all I love this first number sevens I'm
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thirty seven verse seven, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him.
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Daniel did not fight his own battle. Amen. The battle is not yours.
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He knew what they had done. He knew what they were scheming.
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He didn't protest it. He didn't. He didn't he he you know what
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he did. He just went back to his prayer closet. Amen. He
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went back to prayer. Opened the window, Amen, opened it. Oh
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you can see what I'm doing. I'm not hiding it. Amen. So
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resting Daniel was at rest. He was at peace Amen with God. Amen.
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No matter what God permitted, Amen, he was at peace. He
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was at rest. And so Daniel was resting in the Lord, and he
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waited patiently for him. This is when the Bible says, do not fret
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because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings
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wicked schemes to pass. They brought they that's that's, that's exactly what they
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did. Excuse me. They brought their wicked schemes Amen, to pass and
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getting the riots to sign this decree, the statue into law that they knew
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could not be changed. Amen. This was their wicked scheme in order to
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get rid of Daniel. But the Bible says, verse number eight, cease
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from anger. Daniel could have gotten mad. He could have went to the
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riots and protested and say, hey, wait a minute, I was not
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among them. I had nothing to do with this. Amen, And and
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and and and this is this is all a design to get at me,
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to get mean. Dani didn't bother with that. Amen. He went to
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the highest of courts. He went to the supreme of the supreme courts.
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He went to the sovereign a man, and made his petitions known to God.
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Amen. So cease from anger. Amen, the Bible says, and
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forsake wrath. Do not fret. In other words, don't worry. Amen,
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don't fret about it. And man, the Bible says, it only
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calls it harm for evil doers. This is just the promise of God.
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Evil doers shall be cut off. Evil doers are going to be dealt with.
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This is what God does. Amen. Evil doers are going to be
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punished. But those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
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Oh my God, help us, Jesus, help us to believe your
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report. Those who wait on the Lord. Amen. The Bible says,
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they shall inherit the earth. So don't fret, don't fret. Listen what
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he says. Verse, tend for yet a little while, and the wicked
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shall be no more. Indeed, you will look carefully for his place,
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but it shall be no more. But the meek shall inherit the earth.
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And this shall they like themselves in the abundance of peace. Watch what the
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Bible says. Look, look what happens. This is what they do,
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the wicked. This is what they were doing against Daniel. The wicked plots
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against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. They were jealous,
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they were full of envy. They were just. I mean, they
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just hated the man that because he see they could. They really wanted to,
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I believe with all my heart what they really wanted to do was steal
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and and per amen and and and pinch a little gold off here and there
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for themselves. But Daniel was standing in their way. Daniel was standing in
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their way, and they needed to get rid of him. So the Bible
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says, the wicked plots against the just, gnash is at him with his
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teeth. The Lord, Oh, watch it. The Lord laughs at him.
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He laughs at this wicked man. Amen, for he sees the Lord's
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ease that his day, the day of the wicked, they of vengeance,
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the day of our God, did their retribution. Amen. He said,
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he sees that it is coming. I hope you see it. I hope
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we can see it. Amen. Thus will the Lord tell us vengeance his
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mind. I will repay. If your enemy is hungry, what feed him?
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If he's thirts, to give him drink? Amen, I will repay.
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I will repay. Because the wrath of man, the Bible says,
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does not work or produce the righteousness of God. Amen. So commit your
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way to him. Amen. God sees Listen, he has already affirmed you.
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He's already for you. And if God be for us, if God
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be for us, who can be against us? Amen? So these men,
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the Bible says, when they knew that Daniel had prayed, they been.
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The Bible tells us, look at verse num eleven, back to Daniel
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chapter six. Amen. They assembled themselves, and they found Daniel praying and
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making supplication before his God. Oh that we would be found praying, Oh
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that we would gather and pray. Amen. Then they came near the Bible
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says, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree. Hast thou not
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signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or
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man within thirty days, except of thee or king. By the way,
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if this is such a great law, if this is such a necessary law,
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if this is such uh something, such, such such a something that
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is needed, why only thirty days, Why only thirty days? Why not
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make it permanent? Why just the thirty days? Because ladies and gentlemen,
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everybody, we know it was simply designed to get Daniel, That's all.
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It was all designed to go after this one man, this one man.
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Have you not signed, are of the creole king that anybody who would ask
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a petition of any god or any man within thirty days except of the old
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king, this person is to be cast into the den of lions. And
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the King answered and said, the thing is true, according to the law
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of the Meats and Persians, which alter it not, which cannot be change.
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And so they answered and said before the King, well, that Daniel,
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who is of the children of the captivity of Judah used there it is
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there's that racism. Ah there. It is there. It is there,
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it is there, it is Why mentioned that? Why even mentioned? Why?
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Why does it matter? What does it matter? What does it matter
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where he came from? What does it matter? If he's a criminal,
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Amen, if he's a lawbreaker, what does it matter? Oh? You
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see that's that's the wickedness that's in the heart of man. Amen. But
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you're not the front. Don't fret. Don't fret. Don't fret because somebody
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hates you because of your heritage, because of your lineage, because of your
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skin color, Amen, because of your family, I mean, where you
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came from. Don't don't, don't don't, don't worry about that. Don't
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fract that Daniel who is of the children of the captivity of Judah. He's
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a Jew. Regard if not thee O King nor the decree that thou hast
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signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. So King, he
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is violating the law not once, not twice, but three times every single
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day. Kind of like that Pharisees, you know, brought that woman who
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was calling adultery, Amen, And to Jesus, Amen, they didn't bring
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the man. Where where was the man? Set up? Set up?
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So set up, so set up. Now, of course they was not
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setting a woman up. They were setting Jesus up. I mean, it
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was all about it in trapping him. Amen. But this is what this
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was. This was his trap that they set and Daniel knew it. He
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knew it, he knew it, he knew it. But he was not
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going to stop his praise and worship and prayer and faithfulness to God that comes
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first. But you see, please understand this that the carnal man, the
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natural man, the no fear of God man, he is in a state
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of delusion. He is a denier of the creation and of the sovereignty of
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God, and all that he has is bound up. Amen. In this
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world, he's he's, he's he's he's a man of vanity and and and
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and he's only seeking his own prosperity and gain and and he doesn't matter if
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it comes at the expense of someone, a man that he believes is in
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the way of his supposed destiny. If you are standing in their way,
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Amen, if you are standing for truth and integrity, and you're dealing with
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a person who is cricket, Amen, and of no character, Amen,
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and of no integrity, they will do whatever they have to do to get
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rid of you, to get you out of the way, Amen, and
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all of them will could scheme together, and they will come together. They
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will agree to Pharisees and the Sadducees and all of the scribes, and all
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of them. They all, first of all they were at odds with each
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other. But when it came to Jesus, all, when it came to
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Jesus, they all came together to get rid of Jesus. And exactly what
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they did here with Daniel, they all came together. No matter whatever differences
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they might have had with each other, Amen, competition that was amongst each
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other, it didn't matter. Amen. They didn't even I guess they probably
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didn't even care to decide or whatever, who would be the one to take
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Daniel's place, if if somebody was taking his place, they didn't care.
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First and foremost, we gotta get rid of him, We gotta get him
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out of here. But little did these schemers realize that the God of Daniel
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is the God who is sovereign, who is the creation, who is the
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ruler over all people, all places, all things, at all times,
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visible and invisible, known and unknown to their little feeble, finite minds of
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futility. I might add amen. Colossians Chapter one tells us for by him,
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by Jesus, where all things created that are in heaven and on earth,
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and that are on earth, rather visible and invisible, whether they be
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thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers, all things, Ladies and gentlemen,
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The Bible says, all things were created by Him and for him,
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and he Jesus is before all things, and by him Jesus, all things
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consists. And he Jesus is the head of the body the Church. He
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Jesus is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in all
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things he Jesus might have the pre eminence. But you see the problem for
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the unbeliever, I mean, he doesn't believe. That's his problem, unbelief.
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And the unbeliever in the sovereign power of Christ has his faith, his
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hope, his confidence. Everything for him is in the kingdoms of this world,
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the here and the now, because that's all he has. That's his
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only hope. And what he fails to understand is that God is in control
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even in what we may seem to think insignificant affairs of men of this world.
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God is in control of all things, and he has decreed, and
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he hasking good, the Bible says concerning his people, his children, And
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no weapon. I remind you again, no weapon formed against the people of
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God prospers. And every mouth that speaks against them will be condemned, will
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be shut. A man, listen when the Bible tells us again. Let's
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go back to Daniel, chapter six, verse fourteen. Then the king,
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when he heard these things, he was sorely displeased with himself. He knew
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that they had gotten him, they had tricked him, And the Bible says,
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he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him. He labored to the
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going down of the sun to deliver Daniel. But these men, these devils
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a man, these tools of the enemy Satan, a man they assembled unto
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the king said to the king, no, o, King, that the
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law the Meets and Persians is that no decree, no stature, which the
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king establishes, can be changed. The King, you can't change this law,
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so the Bible says. The king commanded, and they brought Daniel and
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cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said,
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unto Daniel, oh I like this. I don't have time to old boy.
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I wish I had time to deal with this. But the king even
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had some faith. I mean, I think he. I believe, I
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believe he had some faith in the God of Daniel, a man. Then
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he says, Thy God. Listen what he says. This is the king,
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pagan king. He says, Thy God, Daniel, whom thou service.
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Continually he will deliver thee Oh, my God, Oh, I wish
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I had time for that one. But the Bible says was verse seventeen.
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And a stone was brought laid upon the mouth of the den, and the
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king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords.
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That the purpose a man, the purpose a man. In other words,
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what they had designed might not be changed concerning Daniel. In other words,
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they had already designed a decree a man is already in the laudings. Nothing
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the king could do about it to change it. Amen. And so the
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Bible tells us verse eighteen. The king went to his palace, and he
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passed the night fasting. Neither were instruments of music brought before him, And
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the Bible says, his sleep went from him. This man, this is
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what you call brokenness, contrition, godly sorrow. And he knew that he
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had been tricked. And I believe God dealt with that king in that very
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night. I believe that, Amen. And the Bible says, the king
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arose early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions.
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And when he came to the den, now want nothing to ask you this
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now, folks, please understand a man you got all these hungry lions in
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this den. Daniel has been thrown into the den. If this man didn't
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have the faith, if he didn't have the confidence in what he had said,
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why would he rise up early in the morning, run, the Bible
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says, literally to the den of lions, Amen, and then have the
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stone rolled away to actually see if Daniel was still alive. Now, if
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this man has been thrown into there's no way he's going to survive this.
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These hungry lions are going to tear him to pieces. That's what these wicked
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folk had thought and schemed up. And this is why they came up with
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this a plot a man. They figured in their minds, there's no way
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he's gonna escape this. There's no way out of this. As soon as
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he's tossed into this den of lions, they're gonna eat him alive. But
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the King had faith in the God of Daniel. Amen, he got up
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early in the morning when he hastened the den of lions. Bible said,
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when he came to the den, he cried for the lamentable voice. Into
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Daniel. King spoke and said to name, oh, Daniel, servant of
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the Living God, is thy God, whom thou service continually able to deliver
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thee from the lions. And Daniel said to the King, O King,
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live forever. My God sent his angel and has shut the lions mouths that
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they have not hurt me in as much as before him, innocency was found
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in me, and also before thee, O King, have I done.
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Listen, God shuts the mouths of the lions that are going about seeking to
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deviole his people. God will not leave you alone alone. He will not
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leave you a man into in the hands of the wicked. All we have
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to do is fear God, keep his commandments, put your trust, your
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confidence, your faith totally in him. Amen, the one who will watch
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over you. Shutting the mouths of the adversary of these roaring lions as roaring
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that's what they are. They like roaring lions, just like the devil.
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They then God shuts their mouths. This is why they would always resort to
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the tactics of violence and murder, because they have nothing against the truth.
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Look what the Bible tells us. Let me finish this. Then the king,
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the Bible says, was exceedingly glad for him and commanded that they should
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take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of
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the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he
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believed in his God. So the king commanded, and they brought those men
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who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions,
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them their children, their wives, and the lions, the Bible says,
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had the mastery of them and broke all their bones and pieces before they came
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to the bottom of the den. Before they could even hit the ground,
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the lions tore them the pieces. So that proves that they were hungry.
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That proves that there wasn't you know some kind of the lions weren't hungry the
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lions then, no, no, no, then, King Derias, this
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is why I believe God dealt with this man. Listen with the Bible tellers.
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He wrote, unto all people, nations, languages that dwell on the
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earth, peace be multiplied. Unto you, I make a decree that in
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every dominion of my kingdom, men tremble in fear before the God of Daniel.
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For he is the living God, that which shall and steadfast forever,
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and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be
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even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and
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wonders in heaven and in earth. Who hath delivered Daniel from the power of
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the lions. So this Daniel, the Bible tells us, prospered in the
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reign of Drias and in the reign of Cyrus. The Persian. Let me
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close with these words from the Book of Job chapter five. But as for
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me verse eight, I would seek God, and to God I would commit
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my cause. Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.
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He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields. This is
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what the Bible says. He sets on high those who are lowly, and
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to those who mourn, and lift it to safety. He frustrates the devices
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of the crafty, so that their hands cannot carry out their plans. He
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catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning comes
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quickly upon them. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grow up
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at noontime as in the night. But he saves the needy from the sword,
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from the mouth of the mighty, and from their hand, so the
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poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. God shuts the manus of
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the wicked, of the wicked. God. We thank you for your promises.
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We thank you for your word, We thank you for your faithfulness.
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We thank you that you're ever there, ever present, help in the lives
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of your people. Your will be done, Your kingdom come. We bless
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your name for evermore. In Jesus name a man and a man