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Well, I tell you, I've enjoyed myself yesterday

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evening, and then last night, later, the opportunity

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to give my testimony, and then this morning,

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you've been very responsive, you've listened well, and

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you've set up straight, and you've paid attention

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to the Bible, and I appreciate that so,

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so very much.

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You don't know what it's like, if you're

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not a preacher, to preach to people that

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are obviously not interested in what you had

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to say.

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You're back here taking pictures trying to make

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me laugh, amen?

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But you don't know what it's like to

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preach to people, and they kind of look

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at you, and it looks like you're kind

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of preaching to a bunch of not-for

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-logs, but you've listened well, and you smile

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when you're supposed to smile, frown when you're

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supposed to frown, and this, that, and the

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other.

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So I appreciate your good spirit's been kind

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to me, and I do hope that you'd

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pray, and I know some of you have

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a long trip, a few hours ahead of

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you, going to different places, Minnesota, all over

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Wisconsin.

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I'll go to Rockford, as I said, and

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then early in the morning, I'll catch a

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flight out of Midway, and then I'll be

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starting a revival meeting tomorrow morning.

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I'll just be getting in in time, just

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to get to the church on time, and

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I'll meet up with the Robertson family, who

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many of you know from here at the

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camp, to have our music for the week,

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and so you pray that everything works well,

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pray I don't get delayed, and all that

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kind of stuff, because if I do, I

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guess my wife has to preach the revival

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meeting.

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Amen?

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She knows most of my sermons anyhow.

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Daniel 1, verse 8.

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Let's all stand, please, out of respect for

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God's Word.

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Just one verse of Scripture, by way of

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a text, although we will use other Scriptures

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in the duration of our message.

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I'll read it two times, because I want

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to make sure it sinks not into your

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head this afternoon, but into your heart, alright?

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Daniel 1, verse 8.

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The Bible says, But Daniel purposed in his

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heart that he would not defile himself with

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the portion of the king's meat, nor with

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the wine which he drank.

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Therefore he requested of the prince of the

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eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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Look at it one more time.

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But Daniel purposed in his heart that he

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would not defile himself with the portion of

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the king's meat, nor with the wine which

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he drank.

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Therefore he requested of the prince of the

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eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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I want to preach to you this afternoon

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a message entitled, Dynamic Daniel.

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Thank you very much.

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You may be seated.

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Let's bow our heads and hearts once again,

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and let's ask the Lord to bless our

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time together in this last session here at

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our Truth Conference.

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Father, truly, you've been so good to us.

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We've seen people saved and get right with

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God.

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We've seen some wonderful victories this weekend.

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What a blessing it's been to be able

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to share my heart and my burden with

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these young people.

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They've listened well.

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I pray you bless them for that.

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But now, Lord, we also realize that the

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other service victories are not going to fight

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the battles that we're going to face in

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this service.

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And so, Lord, we need you to work

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afresh and anew in this service.

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I pray that you'd open the hearts and

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minds of those that are before me.

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Dear God, just very humbly help them and

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help me now, I pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Young people, if you know anything about the

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book of Daniel, we meet up with a

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young man that most Bible scholars and historians

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tell us was anywhere from the age of

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15 to 17.

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And so, for time's sake and argument's sake,

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he's going to be 16 in my message.

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So, here's this 16-year-old teenager.

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He is not at a fundamental camp in

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a Truth Conference, so he is impacted with

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the truths of the Word of God.

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He does not have a youth pastor breathing

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down his neck, making him do right.

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He does not have a mom and dad

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at this time that are telling him, OK,

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little Daniel boy, I want you to read

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your Bible, I want you to have your

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devotions and do good in your Christian school.

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He has no Christian school.

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He has no good sermon tapes to listen

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to of good fundamental Bible preaching around America,

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around the world.

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He has none of that.

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He has none of the modern day opportunities

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that many of you have, but yet he

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still shines like a great rock of Gibraltar

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and shines like a great light right here

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in the midst of a wicked, perverse nation.

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Now, I want you to know that the

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city of Babylon, or the nation of Babylon,

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was not a nice place to live.

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Here, the children of Israel had been separated

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from family and friends and from their priests,

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and they had been taken away from the

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worship of their God.

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They had not their temples, they had not

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their Bibles, and they had been taken miles

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and hundreds of miles away into a wicked

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land of people that were immoral, people that

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served these other gods of Baal.

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Matter of fact, Nebuchadnezzar at this time, when

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he first went there, was the king of

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Babylon.

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The Bible says that he had a wild,

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crazy, spooky dream, and the dream scared him

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so much, and he liked himself so much

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that he erected a 90-foot golden statue

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that looked just like himself.

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Now, I've met some young ladies that were

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vain enough to spend two or three hours

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in front of the mirror, but I've never

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met anybody that liked themselves so much that

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they erected a 90-foot golden statue of

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themselves.

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And every person that was ever a king

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of Babylon, you study history, they all fell

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because of pride.

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Nebuchadnezzar fell because of pride.

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Darius fell because of pride.

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Because this was such a great nation, if

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I mean, although it was wicked, man, they

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had the greatest military powers.

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They had the greatest buildings, the greatest temples,

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the greatest chariots.

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They had everything.

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They were an indestructible fortress, and that's where

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Daniel is.

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Now, later in the book, we're not going

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to preach on him, but later in the

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book, we also have three more friends of

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Daniel that stood for God.

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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

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Meshach, Yershach, and Abednego.

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Whatever you call them, they live for God.

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And the Bible says that here was a

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young man in the midst of apostasy, in

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the midst of sin and wickedness and depravity

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and degradation, in the midst of all of

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this, he still stands and he is still

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dynamic and has an explosive testimony for Jesus

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Christ.

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Now, as I travel in evangelism, I meet

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two groups of young people.

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There are two and only two.

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Number one, there are those that I meet

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who, like Daniel, are dynamic.

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And then there's those that I meet all

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too often, just about 95% of the

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young people I meet, who I call not

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dynamic but duds.

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And we've got too many duds in America.

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We've got too many duds in our Christian

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colleges.

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We've got too many duds in our Christian

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schools and public schools.

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We've got too many duds in our youth

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groups.

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And you can either be dynamic for God

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or you can be a dud for God.

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Now, the average young person is the average

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Joe Blow, run of the mill, fly by

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the seat of the britches, just go with

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the grain, never swim upstream like the trout

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do, never go against the grain, never go

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against their friend, just follow everybody and just

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go with the flow through life.

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And that's the basic average lifestyle of the

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average young man and the average young lady.

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That is not how Daniel was.

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Daniel went against the grain.

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He didn't do it so people could look

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at him and think that he was some

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grand, great Christian.

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He did it because he wanted to please

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God.

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Now, if in fact Daniel was dynamic, how

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did he attain such a status?

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How did he please God in his life?

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Well, the same way you and I can.

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Why don't you look at verse number 8?

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I want to show you three things here,

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and then one thing in Daniel chapter 6

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in just a moment and we'll be through,

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alright?

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Daniel 1.8, the Bible says, But Daniel

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purposed in his heart.

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If you're taking notes or at least middle

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notes right now, number one, Daniel was purposed.

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Now, you know as a young person, it

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does not say he was purposed in his

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head.

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This was not mere determination to serve God.

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It said he was purposed in his heart.

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This was more than determination.

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This was devotion and dedication.

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He was 100% sold out, lock, stock

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and barrel.

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Jesus Christ, Almighty God had his life, and

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he was purposed.

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He knew what he wanted in life.

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He didn't go with the flow.

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He didn't go with all the friends.

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He didn't go with the crowd.

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He didn't have to have the latest fads.

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He wanted to please God.

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More than anything else, he wanted to be

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a 1 Corinthians 10, 31 Christian.

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Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever

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ye do, do all to the glory of

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God.

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He had his head screwed on straight, for

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lack of better terminology.

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He wasn't interested in just fitting in and

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going with everybody else.

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He wanted, more than anything else, to be

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so purposed, to be so dedicated and so

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determined to serve God, that he denied himself

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certain pleasures and certain things in life.

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He took his responsibilities within the will of

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God seriously, and he was a purposed young

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man.

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I suppose it's been about seven years ago,

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I attended a graduation service for a Christian

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high school at the University of Texas A

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&M, outside of Houston, Texas, a little town

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called Springfield, something like that.

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I was attending there, and there were hundreds

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of graduating seniors.

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Now, if you know anything about a graduation,

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one of two things is true.

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Either, number one, if it is not yours,

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or number two, somebody that you know very

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well, or are closely related to, those things

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can be boring as the day is long.

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And so I am sitting here, and there's

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a couple of hundred, I mean several hundred

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graduates, they're going to be walking this platform,

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and they have this guy, he gives his

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little sermonance, you know, and then they have

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these people get up and they pray, and

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they have this little choir sing, and this

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guy came up, you know, they called him

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the Magna Cum Laude, and then they had

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the Sum Cum Laude, I just graduated, thank

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you the Lord, Amen.

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And so they got up and they had

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all this feeling, they had this, that, and

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the other, took you a minute to catch

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that, but I figured you'd catch up with

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me, alright?

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And so they had these people get up,

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and they gave out their awards, and they

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had these little ceremony times, and finally it

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was time to give out their certificates, their

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diplomas of graduation.

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Well, they took these young people, they stood

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them up in lines and in rows of

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twelve.

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They would have twelve come to the platform,

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they would call them name by name, as

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the twelfth one was going across, twelve more

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would stand up, and so on and so

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forth, twelve and twelve and twelve.

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This thing was going to last several hours,

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with everything they had on the program.

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I'm reading through the program, I see this

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name, and I'm thinking, man, they've got a

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long ways to go, you know?

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I was watching my cousin, Amy Davenport, graduate,

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so she gets to graduate, and I think

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to myself, okay, she's D's, now we got

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all these other letters to go, and I

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mean, with all these kids, certainly somebody's going

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to have a name, all the way to

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Z.

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So I'm sitting there, I'm ready to get

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a hamburger, I'm ready to leave, you know,

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I'm ready to take a nap, but out

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of respect, we had to stay and watch

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everybody else.

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Twelve went, twelve went, twelve went.

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Same old rut and routine, I was born,

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I was ready to go to sleep, I

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was ready to get out of there, and

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all of a sudden, something caught my attention.

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There was a young man who was the

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eleventh in line, in one of those little

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lines that they were putting up in twelve,

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and the reason I knew he was the

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eleventh is because he was in a wheelchair,

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and the twelfth young man was the one

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who was designated to push him across the

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platform.

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And so they get up there, and they

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call this young man's name in a wheelchair,

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and they call the young man's name behind

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him, who was pushing the wheelchair, called them

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both at the same time, so this guy

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in the wheelchair wouldn't be, you know, he

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wouldn't be upset, wouldn't be put on the

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spot, and so they pushed him across, they

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were both going to receive their diploma at

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the same time.

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Now, it's very obvious, it is very obvious

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that the young man that was pushing him

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had no idea that he was fixing to

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do this.

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This guy calls both their names, he starts

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wildly gagging, just real happy-go-lucky, you

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know, we're graduating, whoopee-dee, you know, we're

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walking across the platform, and this guy reaches

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down, he had cerebral palsy, and they talked

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about it, he reaches down with his hands,

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and he puts the brakes on his wheelchair

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in front of all these people, I mean

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thousands of people in the stands here at

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this basketball stadium, I mean thousands everywhere, and

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this guy reaches down, all of a sudden,

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man, I perk up real good, I think,

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man, this might be pretty good, I'm going

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to see a fight right here on the

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platform, you know, this guy reaches down, he

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puts the brakes on his wheelchair, and you

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see these two guys dialoguing, talking back and

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forth.

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Now, obviously, you know, I was in the

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cheap seats, no bleed section, way up there,

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you know, real high, so way up in

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the rafters, and so I couldn't hear what

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was going on, but you could hear the

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whispers carrying around through the great dome, you

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could see this guy, he's doing this, and

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all over, and his hands were moving this

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way, this way, this guy's sitting in a

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chair, he's not even looking at him, he's

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just shaking his head like this, and finally,

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the guy behind him throws up his hands,

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leaves that guy sitting there in his wheelchair,

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and walks across the platform, gets his diploma,

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and goes down to the other side, and

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I'm thinking to myself, this is going to

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be good.

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He leaves the guy sitting over in his

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wheelchair.

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I'm thinking, what's this guy going to do?

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And all of a sudden, he put his

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hands on the side of that wheelchair, and

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he lifted his twisted, contorted, and most emaciated

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body up out of that seat.

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That guy's going to fall over.

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He reached around this big old blue curtain,

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and they had these great big huge blue

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velvet curtains all over the ceiling, a great

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old thing, 25, 30 feet high.

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He reached around, and he pulled out a

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set of crutches.

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Now, it wasn't these little wooden crutches, you

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know, that you want sympathy of when you

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break your leg or something like that, and

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you went about the scene, and you hop

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around like an idiot.

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I'm not talking about crutches like that.

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I'm talking about the little steel ones, the

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little metal ones, you hook them to your

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arms, and they stabilize you as you walk,

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and he put those things on, and he

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started to walk, and he'd go this way,

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and he'd trip a little bit, and he'd

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go this way, and I guarantee you, I

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know the platform was probably, it was a

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little wider than this room, this auditorium that

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we're in here at Rokey Lodge.

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It was a rather large auditorium, or rather

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large platform, rather.

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And, you know, if I was to stand

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at that wall and go to this wall,

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it'd only take me a few seconds.

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Man, some of you guys could run that

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real fast.

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Some of you young ladies could walk that

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real fast.

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It doesn't take us long at all, and

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sometimes we take our health for granted.

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I bet you it took this young man

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eight minutes to get across point A to

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point B.

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I mean, he'd walk this way, and he'd

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stumble back, and he'd catch himself and walk

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this way, and stumble back and catch himself.

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He'd walk, and you'd see him stop, and

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he'd catch his balance.

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He'd do his arms like this.

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You know, you could tell he was in

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a lot of pain, and his body was

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all contorted.

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I mean, he couldn't walk a bit.

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Here he was on these crutches, and he

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was walking this way.

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He got across there, and they gave him

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his diploma.

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They shook his hand.

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They hugged his neck.

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He walked on the other side, walked all

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the way down the exit ramp, that little

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ramp for handicapped people, all by himself.

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And by this time, the young man that

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left him sitting there earlier, who I thought

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just went back to his seat, he went

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around the back of the platform, grabbed his

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wheelchair, and had met him at the other

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side.

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And so here this young man gets out

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of his seat, puts on the crutches, walks

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all the way to his place to get

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his diploma.

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He gets it.

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Has his hand shook.

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Hugs his neck.

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Everybody claps for just a few moments.

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And he walks to the other end of

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the platform, walks all the way down the

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ramp by himself.

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He hands his crutches to the other guy,

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stumbling the whole way.

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He sits down in the wheelchair, and the

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other guy starts to push him back to

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his seat.

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The moment, the moment that young man hit

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that wheelchair, I mean, when he sat down,

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that place erupted like an active volcano.

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I mean, them people stood up and started

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shouting and hollering, and yelling.

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I mean, their hands were just a-clapping.

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I mean, I was a-crying, and people

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around me was crying, and the tears were

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flowing, and snot was flying all over the

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place, and everybody was clapping this way.

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And we stood up.

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I bet you we clapped for five minutes.

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I guarantee you the gospel truth.

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We clapped and clapped and clapped until I

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thought my fingers would fall off.

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And we kept on clapping.

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And I mean, people was blowing kazoos, and

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hollering and yelling.

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Them singers were going hog wild down there.

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I mean, they were throwing their hats up

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in the air.

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I mean, this place erupted and went nuts.

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And I thought to myself, there is a

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young man that has purpose.

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You know what?

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I'm not preaching to a room full of

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boys and girls or teenagers that have cerebral

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palsy.

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But it's going to take that same kind

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of determination, that same kind of devotion, and

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that same kind of purpose if you are

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going to live for God in the day

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and age in which we live.

497
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You know what?

498
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If you don't make a conscious effort to

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live for God, you will not live for

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God.

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If you don't make a conscious effort to

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read your Bible, you won't read your Bible.

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If you don't make a conscious effort to

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pray, you won't pray.

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If you don't make a conscious effort to

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witness to your friends, you won't witness to

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your friends.

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Because that stuff just doesn't come natural.

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That's why the Bible says in Titus 2,

510
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that when we have the grace of God

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applied to our life, it says it teaches

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us to deny ungodliness.

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You have to be taught things that you

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don't previously know.

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And if you don't make a conscious effort,

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I'm going to make up my mind.

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I'm going to live for God.

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I'm going to do what's right.

519
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No wonder you don't do what's right.

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No wonder you don't live for God.

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No wonder you're cast along by the wayside

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and you live a life that is icky

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as a burnt out volcano.

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You wake up every day, no peace, no

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joy, no assurance, because you're not purposed.

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You know what our problem is?

527
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Well, we have a problem, and I know

528
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it's just kind of wordology, if you will.

529
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It's just kind of semantics.

530
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I've been guilty to the next person.

531
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I know a lot of youth pastors are

532
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guilty of it, and I've heard a lot

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of evangelists use it.

534
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We've got a terminology that is plaguing modern

535
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-day Christians.

536
00:13:48,910 --> 00:13:49,190
You know what it is?

537
00:13:49,250 --> 00:13:50,150
We get in the pulpit and we say,

538
00:13:50,370 --> 00:13:51,270
we need rededication.

539
00:13:51,530 --> 00:13:53,510
We need young people to rededicate, and rededicate,

540
00:13:53,630 --> 00:13:54,030
and rededicate.

541
00:13:54,150 --> 00:13:55,770
We freaks don't rededicate, and we don't even

542
00:13:55,770 --> 00:13:56,630
know what rededicate means.

543
00:13:56,650 --> 00:13:57,910
We do not need rededication.

544
00:13:58,110 --> 00:13:59,130
We need total dedication.

545
00:13:59,130 --> 00:14:00,770
We need some young people that would just

546
00:14:00,770 --> 00:14:03,130
totally dedicate themselves to Almighty God, and quit

547
00:14:03,130 --> 00:14:04,750
running off to the world, and quit running

548
00:14:04,750 --> 00:14:06,190
off to what they want, and they're just

549
00:14:06,190 --> 00:14:07,010
going to get purposed.

550
00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:08,530
Get their heads screwed on straight, and say,

551
00:14:08,550 --> 00:14:09,770
I don't care what my friends are going

552
00:14:09,770 --> 00:14:11,070
to say, and if you've got the right

553
00:14:11,070 --> 00:14:12,570
kind of friends, by the way, they'll rejoice

554
00:14:12,570 --> 00:14:14,250
in your decision for Christ, and they don't

555
00:14:14,250 --> 00:14:15,530
have to keep coming to the altar and

556
00:14:15,530 --> 00:14:16,230
getting right with God.

557
00:14:16,370 --> 00:14:17,810
Keep coming to the altar and getting right

558
00:14:17,810 --> 00:14:18,150
with God.

559
00:14:18,290 --> 00:14:19,530
No, they get right with God.

560
00:14:19,610 --> 00:14:21,470
They stay on fire, and although they fall

561
00:14:21,470 --> 00:14:23,230
back a little bit, and although sometimes they

562
00:14:23,230 --> 00:14:24,730
get to the place where they're still cold

563
00:14:24,730 --> 00:14:27,370
and lethargic, they remember that great divine commitment,

564
00:14:27,490 --> 00:14:29,390
decision that they made for God, and they

565
00:14:29,390 --> 00:14:30,750
go through life with purpose.

566
00:14:31,030 --> 00:14:34,150
God uses people that are purposed.

567
00:14:34,330 --> 00:14:36,050
People that have their heads screwed on straight.

568
00:14:36,310 --> 00:14:37,670
People that want to please God.

569
00:14:37,870 --> 00:14:39,190
People that want to glorify God.

570
00:14:39,250 --> 00:14:40,390
And that's the way Daniel was.

571
00:14:40,710 --> 00:14:42,350
He said, I don't care what my surroundings

572
00:14:42,350 --> 00:14:42,850
are like.

573
00:14:43,150 --> 00:14:44,970
It makes no difference what my family life

574
00:14:44,970 --> 00:14:45,350
is like.

575
00:14:45,490 --> 00:14:46,310
I have no pastor.

576
00:14:46,450 --> 00:14:47,290
I have no youth pastor.

577
00:14:47,370 --> 00:14:48,770
I have no good church to go to.

578
00:14:49,090 --> 00:14:50,710
I have no good tapes to listen to.

579
00:14:50,910 --> 00:14:52,070
I have no Bible to read.

580
00:14:52,150 --> 00:14:55,030
But yet, he still stood strong.

581
00:14:55,130 --> 00:14:55,350
Why?

582
00:14:55,350 --> 00:14:59,110
Because he knew he wanted to please God.

583
00:14:59,590 --> 00:15:02,890
He had some purpose, some determination, but more

584
00:15:02,890 --> 00:15:04,350
than that, he had some devotion.

585
00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:05,650
Now, go back in your Bible to verse

586
00:15:05,650 --> 00:15:06,290
number 8, would you?

587
00:15:06,890 --> 00:15:08,670
Not only was Daniel purposed, but there's something

588
00:15:08,670 --> 00:15:10,590
else very interesting here that sometimes we overlook

589
00:15:10,590 --> 00:15:11,290
if we're not careful.

590
00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,610
It says, "...but Daniel purposed in his heart

591
00:15:13,610 --> 00:15:15,930
that he would not defile himself with a

592
00:15:15,930 --> 00:15:17,230
portion of the king's meat, nor with the

593
00:15:17,230 --> 00:15:17,930
wine which he drank.

594
00:15:18,010 --> 00:15:20,150
Therefore he requested of the prince of the

595
00:15:20,150 --> 00:15:21,250
eunuchs," who, by the way, in a moment

596
00:15:21,250 --> 00:15:23,230
we'll learn his name's Melzar, "...requested of the

597
00:15:23,230 --> 00:15:24,270
prince of the eunuchs that he might not

598
00:15:24,270 --> 00:15:24,930
defile himself."

599
00:15:24,930 --> 00:15:25,830
Now, get it and get it good.

600
00:15:25,970 --> 00:15:27,010
Number one, Daniel was purposed.

601
00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:28,270
Number two, Daniel was polite.

602
00:15:28,390 --> 00:15:29,510
Say, brother, how do you get that?

603
00:15:29,890 --> 00:15:31,170
I'll remind you what the Bible says.

604
00:15:31,530 --> 00:15:32,770
It says when he came to the prince

605
00:15:32,770 --> 00:15:33,770
of the eunuchs, a man by the name

606
00:15:33,770 --> 00:15:37,670
of Melzar, it says, "...therefore Daniel requested of

607
00:15:37,670 --> 00:15:39,070
the prince of the eunuchs that he might

608
00:15:39,070 --> 00:15:40,330
not defile himself."

609
00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:42,090
Now, had he been the average Joe Blow

610
00:15:42,090 --> 00:15:44,310
teenager of today, man, he'd have come walking

611
00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:45,150
in them palace doors.

612
00:15:45,550 --> 00:15:46,830
He'd have kicked them jokers open with his

613
00:15:46,830 --> 00:15:48,210
Nike tennis shoes and come walking in there

614
00:15:48,210 --> 00:15:48,990
and said, I'm going to tell you something

615
00:15:48,990 --> 00:15:49,750
right now, bless God.

616
00:15:49,910 --> 00:15:51,090
You don't know who my daddy is.

617
00:15:51,190 --> 00:15:52,330
You don't know what my mama's done.

618
00:15:52,490 --> 00:15:53,570
And I don't give a good door slip

619
00:15:53,570 --> 00:15:54,190
what you say.

620
00:15:54,190 --> 00:15:55,510
I'm not going to drink your wine.

621
00:15:55,690 --> 00:15:56,650
I'm not going to eat your steak and

622
00:15:56,650 --> 00:15:56,830
meat.

623
00:15:57,050 --> 00:15:58,090
And if you don't like it, I could

624
00:15:58,090 --> 00:15:58,930
give a good door slip.

625
00:15:59,010 --> 00:15:59,270
And you know what?

626
00:15:59,290 --> 00:16:00,150
That would chop his head off.

627
00:16:00,850 --> 00:16:02,350
He didn't come in there rolling his eyes

628
00:16:02,350 --> 00:16:04,230
and crossing his arms and begging and pleading,

629
00:16:04,370 --> 00:16:05,810
hollering and yelling and saying, it's going to

630
00:16:05,810 --> 00:16:07,350
be my way or the highway, my way

631
00:16:07,350 --> 00:16:07,790
or no way.

632
00:16:07,970 --> 00:16:09,570
They would have killed him and they would

633
00:16:09,570 --> 00:16:11,470
not have honored him and God would not

634
00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:13,610
have uplifted him had he been that way.

635
00:16:13,670 --> 00:16:16,310
The Bible says, "...he requested of the prince

636
00:16:16,310 --> 00:16:17,070
of the eunuchs."

637
00:16:17,070 --> 00:16:18,930
He came in there, spoke the truth in

638
00:16:18,930 --> 00:16:19,130
love.

639
00:16:19,270 --> 00:16:21,130
I believe you can stand strong but still

640
00:16:21,130 --> 00:16:23,050
be compassionate, still be kind and still be

641
00:16:23,050 --> 00:16:23,390
nice.

642
00:16:23,390 --> 00:16:26,250
And Daniel came in, realizing these people weren't

643
00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:28,390
in authority over him, although they were wrong.

644
00:16:28,570 --> 00:16:30,030
He came in, and the Bible says, instead

645
00:16:30,030 --> 00:16:31,950
of kicking and screaming and being a hot

646
00:16:31,950 --> 00:16:34,250
-headed, rebellious, teenage young man, he came in

647
00:16:34,250 --> 00:16:37,190
simply requested and God honored him because he

648
00:16:37,190 --> 00:16:39,170
had a good attitude and God honored him

649
00:16:39,170 --> 00:16:40,030
because he was polite.

650
00:16:40,110 --> 00:16:41,530
I'm going to tell you something that grieves

651
00:16:41,530 --> 00:16:42,510
my spirit.

652
00:16:42,890 --> 00:16:44,610
And if it grieves my spirit, I know

653
00:16:44,610 --> 00:16:46,190
it grieves the Spirit of Almighty God.

654
00:16:46,270 --> 00:16:48,670
I know it must grieve the Holy Spirit

655
00:16:48,670 --> 00:16:49,050
of God.

656
00:16:49,170 --> 00:16:50,730
It must break His heart as we preached

657
00:16:50,730 --> 00:16:51,130
on this morning.

658
00:16:51,190 --> 00:16:52,930
I'm going to tell you, it bothers me

659
00:16:52,930 --> 00:16:56,090
that in modern day Christianity, among so-called

660
00:16:56,090 --> 00:16:58,490
Christian young people, they do not know how

661
00:16:58,490 --> 00:16:59,170
to treat authority.

662
00:16:59,410 --> 00:17:00,550
They do not know how to talk to

663
00:17:00,550 --> 00:17:01,390
their moms and dads.

664
00:17:01,610 --> 00:17:02,650
And there used to be a day when

665
00:17:02,650 --> 00:17:04,210
they'd say, yes ma'am, and no ma

666
00:17:04,210 --> 00:17:04,310
'am.

667
00:17:04,410 --> 00:17:05,530
Yes sir, and no sir.

668
00:17:05,630 --> 00:17:06,810
But now when your parents talk to you,

669
00:17:07,010 --> 00:17:08,750
it's yeah, and he, and ho, and nah.

670
00:17:08,849 --> 00:17:10,550
It's like a bunch of retards that fell

671
00:17:10,550 --> 00:17:11,810
off Mars two or three years ago.

672
00:17:11,930 --> 00:17:12,849
And we don't know how to talk to

673
00:17:12,849 --> 00:17:13,369
mom anymore.

674
00:17:13,569 --> 00:17:14,730
And we don't know how to respect daddy

675
00:17:14,730 --> 00:17:15,050
anymore.

676
00:17:15,250 --> 00:17:16,470
And we don't respect the preachers.

677
00:17:16,589 --> 00:17:17,790
And we don't respect our teachers.

678
00:17:18,050 --> 00:17:19,310
And we don't respect people that are in

679
00:17:19,310 --> 00:17:19,650
authority.

680
00:17:19,910 --> 00:17:21,069
And you hear me, and hear me well.

681
00:17:21,069 --> 00:17:22,690
If you're not a young person that is

682
00:17:22,690 --> 00:17:24,849
polite, and that has some manners, and is

683
00:17:24,849 --> 00:17:27,089
respectful, don't you ever expect Almighty God to

684
00:17:27,089 --> 00:17:28,610
use you, because He's never used anybody with

685
00:17:28,610 --> 00:17:29,070
a bad attitude.

686
00:17:29,610 --> 00:17:30,230
You remember Jonah?

687
00:17:30,490 --> 00:17:31,390
Jonah got a bad attitude.

688
00:17:31,510 --> 00:17:32,090
He got all upset.

689
00:17:32,190 --> 00:17:33,590
The Bible says he was exceeding mad.

690
00:17:33,790 --> 00:17:35,270
The next day, the Bible says that God

691
00:17:35,270 --> 00:17:35,850
sent him a gourd.

692
00:17:36,090 --> 00:17:37,990
He went from being exceeding mad to exceeding

693
00:17:37,990 --> 00:17:38,270
glad.

694
00:17:38,370 --> 00:17:39,350
Then God used him again.

695
00:17:39,610 --> 00:17:41,310
You see, God could not use Jonah in

696
00:17:41,310 --> 00:17:43,250
that position when he was mad and upset

697
00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:44,490
and had a bad attitude.

698
00:17:44,970 --> 00:17:46,310
Just a little later in the Bible, we'll

699
00:17:46,310 --> 00:17:48,430
see that Daniel had an excellent spirit.

700
00:17:48,430 --> 00:17:51,110
The word spirit is basically the word attitude.

701
00:17:51,250 --> 00:17:52,530
In your King James Bible, there is no

702
00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:53,090
word attitude.

703
00:17:53,290 --> 00:17:54,870
It's always translated the word spirit.

704
00:17:55,150 --> 00:17:56,190
And here was a young man that was

705
00:17:56,190 --> 00:17:56,530
polite.

706
00:17:56,890 --> 00:17:57,890
Here was a young man that had his

707
00:17:57,890 --> 00:17:58,710
head screwed on straight.

708
00:17:58,950 --> 00:18:00,010
He respected authority.

709
00:18:00,350 --> 00:18:01,510
He was a godly young man.

710
00:18:01,650 --> 00:18:03,010
And we have the idea that you've got

711
00:18:03,010 --> 00:18:04,450
to be a sissy if you're going to

712
00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:05,250
respect mom and dad.

713
00:18:05,410 --> 00:18:06,570
We have the idea that you've got to

714
00:18:06,570 --> 00:18:07,770
be a rip, and you've got to be

715
00:18:07,770 --> 00:18:09,710
some kind of little cantankerous sissy if you

716
00:18:09,710 --> 00:18:10,830
do what mom and dad says.

717
00:18:11,010 --> 00:18:12,870
Well, you can have any terminology.

718
00:18:13,350 --> 00:18:15,570
You can have any idealistic view of anybody

719
00:18:15,570 --> 00:18:16,450
you want to in your mind.

720
00:18:16,450 --> 00:18:17,490
But the truth of the matter is, you

721
00:18:17,490 --> 00:18:19,130
are commanded to obey your mom and dad.

722
00:18:19,370 --> 00:18:21,150
You are commanded to obey those that are

723
00:18:21,150 --> 00:18:22,550
in authority over you.

724
00:18:22,650 --> 00:18:24,410
I quoted last night Ephesians 6, 1 and

725
00:18:24,410 --> 00:18:24,590
2.

726
00:18:24,850 --> 00:18:26,430
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for

727
00:18:26,430 --> 00:18:26,890
this is right.

728
00:18:27,210 --> 00:18:28,610
Honor your father and mother, which is the

729
00:18:28,610 --> 00:18:30,430
first commandment with promise, that it may be

730
00:18:30,430 --> 00:18:32,190
well with thee, and thou mayest live long

731
00:18:32,190 --> 00:18:32,730
upon the earth.

732
00:18:32,950 --> 00:18:35,010
And everybody says, and all these evangelists say,

733
00:18:35,050 --> 00:18:37,150
well, you know, the reason you obey mom

734
00:18:37,150 --> 00:18:38,950
and dad is so you'll live long upon

735
00:18:38,950 --> 00:18:39,270
the earth.

736
00:18:39,350 --> 00:18:40,330
No, that's just a byproduct.

737
00:18:40,930 --> 00:18:42,590
The Bible doesn't say you're going to obey

738
00:18:42,590 --> 00:18:44,130
mom and dad so the result is you'll

739
00:18:44,130 --> 00:18:44,890
live long upon the earth.

740
00:18:44,910 --> 00:18:46,230
It says the reason you obey your parents

741
00:18:46,230 --> 00:18:47,810
is because it's in the Lord and because

742
00:18:47,810 --> 00:18:48,670
it is right.

743
00:18:49,050 --> 00:18:50,150
And young person, it's real simple.

744
00:18:50,410 --> 00:18:51,970
If you obey mom and dad, you are

745
00:18:51,970 --> 00:18:52,270
right.

746
00:18:52,370 --> 00:18:54,070
If you don't, you are wrong, and there's

747
00:18:54,070 --> 00:18:55,030
no other way about it.

748
00:18:55,170 --> 00:18:56,770
And when you get mad, and pop up

749
00:18:56,770 --> 00:18:58,510
at the mouth, and muddle under your breath,

750
00:18:58,590 --> 00:19:00,370
and roll your eyes, and close your arms,

751
00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:01,790
and say, I'll live anyway I want to.

752
00:19:01,930 --> 00:19:03,030
I can't wait till I'm 18.

753
00:19:03,250 --> 00:19:04,390
I can't wait till I get out of

754
00:19:04,390 --> 00:19:04,530
here.

755
00:19:04,730 --> 00:19:06,610
What you are doing is digging your own

756
00:19:06,610 --> 00:19:06,870
grave.

757
00:19:06,930 --> 00:19:08,750
And I want to remind you, Almighty God

758
00:19:08,750 --> 00:19:11,370
uses some very explicit language when He talks

759
00:19:11,370 --> 00:19:13,210
about teenagers and their parents.

760
00:19:13,490 --> 00:19:15,510
You read sometimes the book of Proverbs, and

761
00:19:15,510 --> 00:19:17,350
the Bible says, a young man or a

762
00:19:17,350 --> 00:19:19,710
young lady that is continually defiant to Almighty

763
00:19:19,710 --> 00:19:23,010
God, the Bible says that the young ravens

764
00:19:23,010 --> 00:19:24,670
will pick their eyes out.

765
00:19:24,890 --> 00:19:26,310
Did you know in the Old Testament if

766
00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:27,530
a young man or a young lady popped

767
00:19:27,530 --> 00:19:28,850
off to mom and dad, they didn't get

768
00:19:28,850 --> 00:19:29,550
a smack in the mouth.

769
00:19:29,650 --> 00:19:30,950
They were stoned to death.

770
00:19:31,190 --> 00:19:33,270
That's how respected in that day moms and

771
00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:33,710
dads were.

772
00:19:33,870 --> 00:19:34,730
And I'm going to tell you what, a

773
00:19:34,730 --> 00:19:35,990
lot of you would be dead at 4

774
00:19:35,990 --> 00:19:36,970
o'clock in the morning if we still

775
00:19:36,970 --> 00:19:37,450
had that law.

776
00:19:37,970 --> 00:19:38,990
A lot of you wouldn't even be at

777
00:19:38,990 --> 00:19:39,630
this truth conference.

778
00:19:39,930 --> 00:19:41,150
A lot of you wouldn't even be here.

779
00:19:41,290 --> 00:19:43,190
I mean, probably just yesterday before you even

780
00:19:43,190 --> 00:19:44,690
left, you popped off and got all mad.

781
00:19:44,690 --> 00:19:46,150
Mom and dad said, do this, and you

782
00:19:46,150 --> 00:19:46,910
decided to do that.

783
00:19:47,110 --> 00:19:48,310
And I'm going to tell you, one day

784
00:19:48,310 --> 00:19:49,310
it will be too late.

785
00:19:49,570 --> 00:19:50,910
There'll be no more I love you's.

786
00:19:50,930 --> 00:19:52,170
There'll be no more I'm sorry's.

787
00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:53,890
And as I said last night, I learned

788
00:19:53,890 --> 00:19:55,410
how much I loved and needed my mother

789
00:19:55,410 --> 00:19:56,790
when she dropped me off at a children's

790
00:19:56,790 --> 00:19:57,990
home and I didn't have her anymore.

791
00:19:58,190 --> 00:20:00,570
And God used this young man because he

792
00:20:00,570 --> 00:20:01,050
was purpose.

793
00:20:01,370 --> 00:20:03,430
And God used this young man because he

794
00:20:03,430 --> 00:20:03,950
was polite.

795
00:20:04,230 --> 00:20:05,710
He simply requested.

796
00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,810
He knew what he wanted, but he didn't

797
00:20:07,810 --> 00:20:09,650
go about it as the average teenager would.

798
00:20:09,930 --> 00:20:12,110
He wasn't rebellious and hot-headed and mean

799
00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:14,610
and cantankerous and stamping and spitting like a

800
00:20:14,610 --> 00:20:15,090
wild horse.

801
00:20:15,290 --> 00:20:16,030
He didn't do that.

802
00:20:16,490 --> 00:20:19,610
He had some basic old-fashioned manners about

803
00:20:19,610 --> 00:20:19,790
him.

804
00:20:20,150 --> 00:20:21,570
And you can call it old-fashioned if

805
00:20:21,570 --> 00:20:22,890
you want to, but I think I'll stay

806
00:20:22,890 --> 00:20:23,750
with the old-time way.

807
00:20:24,030 --> 00:20:27,010
Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 6, verse 16, Ask

808
00:20:27,010 --> 00:20:29,090
for the old paths, wherein is the good

809
00:20:29,090 --> 00:20:29,310
way.

810
00:20:29,510 --> 00:20:30,950
Now, this makes sense to me logically.

811
00:20:31,270 --> 00:20:32,910
If God says ask for the old paths,

812
00:20:32,990 --> 00:20:34,350
then there must be some new paths somewhere.

813
00:20:34,510 --> 00:20:35,890
And too many teenagers are taking the new

814
00:20:35,890 --> 00:20:37,690
path when God Almighty says you better take

815
00:20:37,690 --> 00:20:38,230
the old path.

816
00:20:38,450 --> 00:20:40,330
And he says, listen, the reason he was

817
00:20:40,330 --> 00:20:41,890
dynamic is because he was purpose.

818
00:20:42,150 --> 00:20:43,590
He knew what he wanted in life.

819
00:20:43,590 --> 00:20:45,590
He was determined and devoted to serve God.

820
00:20:45,970 --> 00:20:46,750
And he was polite.

821
00:20:46,850 --> 00:20:47,670
But I want to show you something else

822
00:20:47,670 --> 00:20:48,230
in your Bible, can I?

823
00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:49,690
Look back at verse number 8 again.

824
00:20:50,470 --> 00:20:52,090
It says, But Daniel purposed in his heart

825
00:20:52,630 --> 00:20:56,450
that he would not defile himself with the

826
00:20:56,450 --> 00:20:58,210
portion of the king's meat, nor with the

827
00:20:58,210 --> 00:20:58,950
wine which he drank.

828
00:20:59,050 --> 00:20:59,930
Number one, he was purposed.

829
00:21:00,270 --> 00:21:01,250
Number two, he was polite.

830
00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:02,810
Number three, Daniel was pure.

831
00:21:03,790 --> 00:21:05,950
Daniel was a young man that had one

832
00:21:05,950 --> 00:21:08,770
major objective in his life, and that was

833
00:21:08,770 --> 00:21:09,790
to keep himself pure.

834
00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:12,730
Somebody says, okay, Brother Greg, the reason Daniel

835
00:21:12,730 --> 00:21:15,310
made such a stink over this issue, the

836
00:21:15,310 --> 00:21:17,030
reason he wouldn't drink the wine, the reason

837
00:21:17,030 --> 00:21:18,550
he wouldn't eat the meat, is so everybody

838
00:21:18,550 --> 00:21:20,190
could look at him and say, hey, glory

839
00:21:20,190 --> 00:21:22,430
to Bob, look how wonderful Daniel is.

840
00:21:22,610 --> 00:21:23,330
Good giggly wiggly.

841
00:21:23,470 --> 00:21:25,170
Isn't he the most wonderful Christian you've ever

842
00:21:25,170 --> 00:21:25,390
seen?

843
00:21:25,590 --> 00:21:26,370
Man, he reads his Bible.

844
00:21:26,570 --> 00:21:27,530
All he does is pray.

845
00:21:27,770 --> 00:21:29,590
And Daniel walked around with his hand on

846
00:21:29,590 --> 00:21:31,050
his lapel all the time, had a Bible

847
00:21:31,050 --> 00:21:32,490
tucked to his arm, great big old family

848
00:21:32,490 --> 00:21:33,470
sized King James Bible.

849
00:21:33,670 --> 00:21:35,330
And he walked around, look at me, Billy

850
00:21:35,330 --> 00:21:35,690
Bible.

851
00:21:35,890 --> 00:21:37,330
I'm the most spiritual person in all the

852
00:21:37,330 --> 00:21:37,530
kingdom.

853
00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:38,590
Well, that's not why he did that.

854
00:21:39,170 --> 00:21:40,510
He didn't do it so people could see

855
00:21:40,510 --> 00:21:40,810
him.

856
00:21:40,810 --> 00:21:43,190
The Bible tells us the reason he rejected

857
00:21:43,190 --> 00:21:43,650
the wine.

858
00:21:44,170 --> 00:21:46,690
The Bible specifically and very plainly, very bluntly

859
00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:48,150
tells us the reason he rejected the meat.

860
00:21:48,290 --> 00:21:50,110
It says he did not want to defile

861
00:21:50,110 --> 00:21:50,630
himself.

862
00:21:51,230 --> 00:21:53,150
You see, he knew in Exodus 20, God

863
00:21:53,150 --> 00:21:54,350
said, thou shalt have no other gods before

864
00:21:54,350 --> 00:21:54,550
me.

865
00:21:54,890 --> 00:21:55,830
And thou shalt not make it to be

866
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:57,370
any graven images, says Almighty God.

867
00:21:57,390 --> 00:21:58,430
And he knew that meat had been offered

868
00:21:58,430 --> 00:21:58,930
unto idols.

869
00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:00,630
He knew that meat had been served and

870
00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:01,530
offered up to other gods.

871
00:22:01,730 --> 00:22:04,030
He knew that wine, Proverbs 20, verse 1,

872
00:22:04,170 --> 00:22:04,690
wine is an offer.

873
00:22:04,930 --> 00:22:05,890
Strong drink is raising.

874
00:22:05,990 --> 00:22:07,410
That went against his Christian convictions.

875
00:22:07,610 --> 00:22:09,350
It went against his convictions to do those

876
00:22:09,350 --> 00:22:09,610
things.

877
00:22:09,610 --> 00:22:11,230
And he said, listen, I can't do that.

878
00:22:11,370 --> 00:22:13,350
He said, I don't want to defile myself.

879
00:22:13,770 --> 00:22:15,250
Daniel was a young man that wanted to

880
00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:18,590
keep every avenue, every alleyway, and every part

881
00:22:18,590 --> 00:22:20,150
and parcel of his life pure.

882
00:22:20,430 --> 00:22:21,570
And that ought to be one of your

883
00:22:21,570 --> 00:22:23,870
main objectives as a young lady and as

884
00:22:23,870 --> 00:22:24,430
a young man.

885
00:22:24,670 --> 00:22:26,490
You ought to want to keep yourself pure.

886
00:22:26,930 --> 00:22:27,770
You ought to want to keep your thought

887
00:22:27,770 --> 00:22:28,230
life pure.

888
00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:30,670
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 10, verse

889
00:22:30,670 --> 00:22:31,910
5, casting down.

890
00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:34,090
The word casting down literally means to throw

891
00:22:34,090 --> 00:22:35,650
away or to lock in a box.

892
00:22:36,030 --> 00:22:38,510
Casting down imaginations and every high thing that

893
00:22:38,510 --> 00:22:40,230
exalts itself against the knowledge of God.

894
00:22:40,390 --> 00:22:43,350
And bring into captivity every thought to the

895
00:22:43,350 --> 00:22:44,190
obedience of Christ.

896
00:22:44,370 --> 00:22:45,410
You young men better be careful.

897
00:22:45,690 --> 00:22:46,750
You can look just as spiritual as you

898
00:22:46,750 --> 00:22:47,850
want to on the outside, but if you

899
00:22:47,850 --> 00:22:49,170
lay in bed at night and you think

900
00:22:49,170 --> 00:22:51,470
about wicked, foul, fornicating thoughts and you think

901
00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:53,250
about things that are undoddly, or young lady,

902
00:22:53,270 --> 00:22:54,730
you think about the opposite sex in a

903
00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:56,130
way that you should not, you better be

904
00:22:56,130 --> 00:22:57,770
real careful because the more you think, the

905
00:22:57,770 --> 00:22:59,370
more you think, the flesh will begin to

906
00:22:59,370 --> 00:23:01,070
justify it and the flesh will begin to

907
00:23:01,070 --> 00:23:02,390
give you opportunities and ways.

908
00:23:02,490 --> 00:23:03,970
You know, it's not wrong to be tempted.

909
00:23:04,230 --> 00:23:05,010
But I'm going to tell you something.

910
00:23:05,190 --> 00:23:06,690
When you get tempted, the devil's going to

911
00:23:06,690 --> 00:23:09,010
make sure Mr. Opportunity comes around the door.

912
00:23:09,270 --> 00:23:11,330
And if temptation and opportunity ever meet, friend,

913
00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:13,090
you're in big, bad trouble.

914
00:23:13,230 --> 00:23:14,630
You better be careful what you think about

915
00:23:14,630 --> 00:23:16,930
because one day your thoughts will become actions.

916
00:23:17,190 --> 00:23:18,370
But you should want to keep your eyes

917
00:23:18,370 --> 00:23:18,570
peeled.

918
00:23:18,910 --> 00:23:20,870
David said in Psalm 101, verse number 3,

919
00:23:21,070 --> 00:23:22,490
I will set no, not a, not one,

920
00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:24,390
I will set no wicked thing before mine

921
00:23:24,390 --> 00:23:24,650
eyes.

922
00:23:24,830 --> 00:23:26,070
I hate the work of them that turn

923
00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:27,770
aside, it shall not cleave unto me.

924
00:23:27,890 --> 00:23:29,110
You ought to be careful what you're looking

925
00:23:29,110 --> 00:23:29,270
at.

926
00:23:29,470 --> 00:23:30,770
You ought to be careful the videos that

927
00:23:30,770 --> 00:23:32,190
you watch and the videos that you rent

928
00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:33,250
and the things that you watch up on

929
00:23:33,250 --> 00:23:33,690
the television.

930
00:23:33,950 --> 00:23:35,170
And if you feel your heart and mind

931
00:23:35,170 --> 00:23:37,010
with MTV and all that Hollywood and all

932
00:23:37,010 --> 00:23:39,010
that smut and mess and David Lettermouth and

933
00:23:39,010 --> 00:23:40,530
Orpah Windbag and all them soap operas and

934
00:23:40,530 --> 00:23:42,190
the rest of that junk, no wonder we're

935
00:23:42,190 --> 00:23:42,650
not pure.

936
00:23:42,910 --> 00:23:44,270
No wonder we're living in a day and

937
00:23:44,270 --> 00:23:46,470
age when people have no regard for God

938
00:23:46,470 --> 00:23:48,430
and no regard for the Bible and sexual

939
00:23:48,430 --> 00:23:50,890
promiscuity is running everywhere because of what people

940
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:51,430
are watching.

941
00:23:51,650 --> 00:23:52,130
Be careful.

942
00:23:52,490 --> 00:23:54,370
Hey, don't you tell me what you watch

943
00:23:54,370 --> 00:23:55,990
and what you listen to doesn't affect you.

944
00:23:56,370 --> 00:23:57,670
If you believe that, why don't you talk

945
00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:58,870
to the parents of Cassie Burnell?

946
00:23:59,410 --> 00:24:00,910
That young lady that had her head blown

947
00:24:00,910 --> 00:24:01,110
off.

948
00:24:01,310 --> 00:24:03,290
O'Sullivan said, watch that wicked Val Keanu Reeves

949
00:24:03,290 --> 00:24:04,330
movie by the name of The Matrix.

950
00:24:04,490 --> 00:24:05,350
Some of you probably saw it.

951
00:24:05,350 --> 00:24:07,070
And then probably they listened to that Marilyn

952
00:24:07,070 --> 00:24:08,930
Manson, that wicked guy right straight out of

953
00:24:08,930 --> 00:24:10,250
the pits of hell who said he doesn't

954
00:24:10,250 --> 00:24:11,750
believe in the Bible, urinates from the Bible

955
00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:12,350
in his concert.

956
00:24:12,630 --> 00:24:13,850
And if you listen to that stuff, you've

957
00:24:13,850 --> 00:24:15,010
never been saved by the grace of God.

958
00:24:15,050 --> 00:24:16,090
I promise you that right now.

959
00:24:16,230 --> 00:24:17,590
And they said that they listened to that

960
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:19,290
and they watched that and they took that

961
00:24:19,290 --> 00:24:20,490
gun and stuck it in that girl's head

962
00:24:20,490 --> 00:24:21,830
and they said, do you believe in God?

963
00:24:21,850 --> 00:24:23,150
And unreservedly she said, yes!

964
00:24:23,150 --> 00:24:24,190
And they blew her head off.

965
00:24:24,310 --> 00:24:25,490
Don't you tell me what you watch and

966
00:24:25,490 --> 00:24:26,770
what you listen to doesn't affect you.

967
00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:28,470
Ephesians 5, 18 and 19.

968
00:24:28,770 --> 00:24:29,850
And be not drunk with wine.

969
00:24:30,190 --> 00:24:31,970
Wherein is excess, but be filled with the

970
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:32,190
Spirit.

971
00:24:32,510 --> 00:24:34,490
Speaking to yourselves in songs and hymns and

972
00:24:34,490 --> 00:24:35,170
spiritual songs.

973
00:24:35,170 --> 00:24:37,710
Singing and making melody in your hearts and

974
00:24:37,710 --> 00:24:38,090
to the Lord.

975
00:24:38,290 --> 00:24:39,850
And things that young people look at.

976
00:24:40,070 --> 00:24:41,570
And things that young people listen to.

977
00:24:41,810 --> 00:24:44,030
And things that young people wear and think

978
00:24:44,030 --> 00:24:44,250
about.

979
00:24:44,530 --> 00:24:46,350
Always affect their actions.

980
00:24:46,510 --> 00:24:48,450
Always, always, always.

981
00:24:48,810 --> 00:24:50,430
Now it could be for the good, but

982
00:24:50,430 --> 00:24:51,930
most of the time it is for the

983
00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:52,130
bad.

984
00:24:52,410 --> 00:24:53,710
You know, I'm not going to step on

985
00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:54,610
a whole lot of toes, but if I

986
00:24:54,610 --> 00:24:55,330
do it doesn't make a whole lot of

987
00:24:55,330 --> 00:24:55,730
difference to me.

988
00:24:55,790 --> 00:24:56,590
It don't make any difference to me if

989
00:24:56,590 --> 00:24:57,530
you shout or pout when I preach.

990
00:24:57,570 --> 00:24:58,090
I'm going to tell you something.

991
00:24:58,490 --> 00:24:59,910
There are some things that are going across

992
00:24:59,910 --> 00:25:01,730
America, even in many of our youth groups,

993
00:25:01,730 --> 00:25:03,790
that are ruining the morals of young men

994
00:25:03,790 --> 00:25:04,430
and young ladies.

995
00:25:04,430 --> 00:25:05,910
You know who young ladies are all messed

996
00:25:05,910 --> 00:25:06,590
up on nowadays?

997
00:25:08,050 --> 00:25:08,650
Britney Spears!

998
00:25:09,510 --> 00:25:11,490
You say, but Brother Locke, didn't you grow

999
00:25:11,490 --> 00:25:12,490
up to know Britney Spears?

1000
00:25:12,850 --> 00:25:14,150
She used to be a Mouseketeer.

1001
00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:16,150
She's not a Mouseketeer anymore, friend.

1002
00:25:16,210 --> 00:25:16,730
She's a whore.

1003
00:25:17,530 --> 00:25:18,330
And I'm going to tell you something.

1004
00:25:18,690 --> 00:25:19,670
You watch her get up on TV.

1005
00:25:19,910 --> 00:25:20,870
She gets in her little mini skirt.

1006
00:25:20,910 --> 00:25:21,550
Don't she hops around.

1007
00:25:21,610 --> 00:25:22,530
She can hardly move.

1008
00:25:22,910 --> 00:25:23,950
And she gets up there and moves her

1009
00:25:23,950 --> 00:25:24,650
body in such a way.

1010
00:25:24,790 --> 00:25:25,890
I'm going to tell you why she dresses

1011
00:25:25,890 --> 00:25:26,410
that way.

1012
00:25:27,010 --> 00:25:28,770
Because she knows you watch her, young lady.

1013
00:25:28,910 --> 00:25:29,910
And you listen to her.

1014
00:25:30,010 --> 00:25:31,370
And you dress like she does.

1015
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:32,730
So the young men will look at you

1016
00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:33,810
and their tongues will drop out of their

1017
00:25:33,810 --> 00:25:33,990
mouths.

1018
00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:35,870
And they'll think, what's the wicked mouth that

1019
00:25:35,870 --> 00:25:36,330
talks about you?

1020
00:25:36,450 --> 00:25:37,670
No wonder America's so wicked.

1021
00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:40,490
Guys, listen to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilar

1022
00:25:40,490 --> 00:25:41,210
and the rest of that mess.

1023
00:25:41,390 --> 00:25:43,310
And we even got this Christian contemporary music

1024
00:25:43,310 --> 00:25:43,690
business.

1025
00:25:43,850 --> 00:25:45,010
And they're trying to look just like them

1026
00:25:45,010 --> 00:25:46,210
and act just like them and dress just

1027
00:25:46,210 --> 00:25:46,590
like them.

1028
00:25:46,730 --> 00:25:47,350
And I'll tell you what.

1029
00:25:47,470 --> 00:25:48,790
I get up and preach in Christian schools.

1030
00:25:48,930 --> 00:25:49,990
And I say stuff about that.

1031
00:25:50,190 --> 00:25:51,350
And it's almost like you go to a

1032
00:25:51,350 --> 00:25:53,350
doctor when he gives you a shot, you

1033
00:25:53,350 --> 00:25:53,490
know.

1034
00:25:53,610 --> 00:25:55,110
And sometimes he hits the wrong place.

1035
00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:56,310
Sometimes he hits the bone.

1036
00:25:56,430 --> 00:25:57,310
And he gets a nerve.

1037
00:25:57,570 --> 00:25:58,930
I was preaching this in a Christian school

1038
00:25:58,930 --> 00:25:59,630
not too long ago.

1039
00:25:59,870 --> 00:26:02,290
Up in Kensington, North Carolina, somewhere like that,

1040
00:26:02,370 --> 00:26:03,070
Belford Christian School.

1041
00:26:03,070 --> 00:26:03,910
And I preached this.

1042
00:26:03,990 --> 00:26:05,130
And I said something about Britney Spears.

1043
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:06,430
And I'm going to tell you, that place

1044
00:26:06,430 --> 00:26:06,910
erupted.

1045
00:26:07,270 --> 00:26:08,930
And they started talking while I was preaching

1046
00:26:08,930 --> 00:26:10,570
for about the next 15 or 20 seconds.

1047
00:26:10,870 --> 00:26:11,590
And I stopped right there.

1048
00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:12,490
And I said, you know what?

1049
00:26:12,850 --> 00:26:13,910
I said, I feel like I've been to

1050
00:26:13,910 --> 00:26:14,210
a doctor.

1051
00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:16,070
I said, I think I just hit a

1052
00:26:16,070 --> 00:26:16,310
nerve.

1053
00:26:16,530 --> 00:26:17,370
I said, have you ever been to a

1054
00:26:17,370 --> 00:26:18,870
doctor and they hit the wrong place?

1055
00:26:19,030 --> 00:26:19,790
And I don't mean to tell you what

1056
00:26:19,790 --> 00:26:19,970
the truth.

1057
00:26:20,130 --> 00:26:21,370
It just kind of gives you this shake

1058
00:26:21,370 --> 00:26:22,050
like this.

1059
00:26:22,190 --> 00:26:23,310
But when I was up there preaching for

1060
00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:24,250
him, I'm going to tell you what.

1061
00:26:24,410 --> 00:26:26,290
I felt like I hit a nerve.

1062
00:26:26,330 --> 00:26:27,550
And I had the shake for sure.

1063
00:26:27,610 --> 00:26:28,410
And I was up there just to preach

1064
00:26:28,410 --> 00:26:28,550
it.

1065
00:26:28,850 --> 00:26:29,970
And I mean, I'm telling you what the

1066
00:26:29,970 --> 00:26:30,130
truth.

1067
00:26:30,130 --> 00:26:31,350
I mean, these people was looking at me,

1068
00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:32,410
staring daggers through me.

1069
00:26:32,530 --> 00:26:33,270
And I'm going to tell you what.

1070
00:26:33,390 --> 00:26:34,130
We can laugh.

1071
00:26:34,350 --> 00:26:34,890
We can amen.

1072
00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:36,130
We can pout, shout.

1073
00:26:36,250 --> 00:26:36,950
We can get mad.

1074
00:26:37,090 --> 00:26:38,890
But it's ruining the morals of young people

1075
00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:39,370
in America.

1076
00:26:39,610 --> 00:26:40,990
And I'm telling you, somebody ought to stand

1077
00:26:40,990 --> 00:26:42,030
up and say something about it.

1078
00:26:42,130 --> 00:26:43,890
I'm thinking you ought to be pure.

1079
00:26:44,210 --> 00:26:45,290
You ought to want to keep your body

1080
00:26:45,290 --> 00:26:45,610
pure.

1081
00:26:45,790 --> 00:26:47,030
Want to keep yourself pure.

1082
00:26:47,470 --> 00:26:47,910
I'm going to tell you something.

1083
00:26:47,930 --> 00:26:49,090
I'm only 24 years old.

1084
00:26:49,150 --> 00:26:50,930
So I do not remember this day that

1085
00:26:50,930 --> 00:26:51,790
I'm fixing to tell you about.

1086
00:26:52,670 --> 00:26:54,710
I do not remember when there was a

1087
00:26:54,710 --> 00:26:56,710
day in my lifetime, although they tell me

1088
00:26:56,710 --> 00:26:57,190
there was.

1089
00:26:57,230 --> 00:26:59,250
And I have wonderful reasons to believe them.

1090
00:26:59,690 --> 00:27:01,750
But there was a day in America.

1091
00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:04,350
There was a day in Wisconsin, in Minnesota,

1092
00:27:04,470 --> 00:27:04,830
in Tennessee.

1093
00:27:05,050 --> 00:27:06,490
There was a day all over this nation

1094
00:27:06,490 --> 00:27:08,090
and really all over this world, but especially

1095
00:27:08,090 --> 00:27:08,550
in America.

1096
00:27:09,450 --> 00:27:12,370
When if you were pure, as a young

1097
00:27:12,370 --> 00:27:14,550
lady and as a young man, if you

1098
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:16,810
kept yourself clean and you kept yourself right,

1099
00:27:17,150 --> 00:27:18,510
and you didn't mess around and fool around

1100
00:27:18,510 --> 00:27:20,530
with the opposite sex, and you saved yourself

1101
00:27:20,530 --> 00:27:21,990
to that one that God has for you

1102
00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:23,870
in His sovereign plan, there was a day

1103
00:27:23,870 --> 00:27:26,690
that you were looked upon and respected and

1104
00:27:26,690 --> 00:27:27,410
you were honored.

1105
00:27:28,350 --> 00:27:29,810
But it's not that way anymore.

1106
00:27:30,390 --> 00:27:31,670
Now they call you a cooch.

1107
00:27:32,010 --> 00:27:33,370
Oh, they say, I'll tell you what, if

1108
00:27:33,370 --> 00:27:35,070
you get married and you're a virgin, you

1109
00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:35,870
just hadn't lived.

1110
00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:37,110
I'm going to tell you something right now,

1111
00:27:37,150 --> 00:27:37,510
young person.

1112
00:27:37,610 --> 00:27:38,930
You hear me and you hear me well.

1113
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:41,790
Almighty God has always commanded that we abstain

1114
00:27:41,790 --> 00:27:42,490
from fornication.

1115
00:27:42,770 --> 00:27:44,450
He has always commanded that we live lives

1116
00:27:44,450 --> 00:27:47,090
of purity and chastity and righteousness and virginity.

1117
00:27:47,310 --> 00:27:48,310
He's always commanded it.

1118
00:27:48,450 --> 00:27:49,790
I don't care what Bill Clinton says.

1119
00:27:49,950 --> 00:27:51,550
I don't care what Liberal Al Gore says.

1120
00:27:51,690 --> 00:27:52,610
I don't care what the rest of the

1121
00:27:52,610 --> 00:27:53,050
world says.

1122
00:27:53,210 --> 00:27:54,790
I don't care what Jerry Falwell says about

1123
00:27:54,790 --> 00:27:55,290
sodomites.

1124
00:27:55,390 --> 00:27:57,230
I'm telling you, there are certain principles in

1125
00:27:57,230 --> 00:27:58,650
the Word of God that if we break

1126
00:27:58,650 --> 00:28:00,650
them, we bring upon ourselves the judgment of

1127
00:28:00,650 --> 00:28:00,910
God.

1128
00:28:01,090 --> 00:28:03,250
And I'm telling you, even in our Baptist

1129
00:28:03,250 --> 00:28:05,230
youth groups, we have young people that mess

1130
00:28:05,230 --> 00:28:07,210
around and that turn around and they think

1131
00:28:07,210 --> 00:28:08,970
it won't happen to me, but you take

1132
00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:10,130
fire to your bosom and you will get

1133
00:28:10,130 --> 00:28:11,010
burned, Solomon said.

1134
00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:13,330
Young person, you better keep yourself pure.

1135
00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:16,510
Every avenue of your life, you better keep

1136
00:28:16,510 --> 00:28:17,270
yourself pure.

1137
00:28:18,250 --> 00:28:20,230
I had a young man send me a

1138
00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:20,830
letter not long ago.

1139
00:28:20,850 --> 00:28:21,690
I'll not give you his name.

1140
00:28:21,910 --> 00:28:23,230
I'll call him Kevin.

1141
00:28:23,370 --> 00:28:24,550
That wasn't it, but...

1142
00:28:24,550 --> 00:28:25,650
Let's say Kevin sent me a letter.

1143
00:28:25,810 --> 00:28:27,150
I guess it's probably been now.

1144
00:28:28,070 --> 00:28:28,490
I don't know.

1145
00:28:28,570 --> 00:28:29,650
It's probably been about five or six months

1146
00:28:29,650 --> 00:28:29,910
ago.

1147
00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:31,790
Kevin's 19 years old.

1148
00:28:32,510 --> 00:28:34,190
He's heard me preach many, many different times.

1149
00:28:34,930 --> 00:28:36,270
He got in some trouble and he ended

1150
00:28:36,270 --> 00:28:38,270
up marrying this girl and I thought it

1151
00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:39,690
was honorable of him to at least marry

1152
00:28:39,690 --> 00:28:40,050
the girl.

1153
00:28:40,850 --> 00:28:42,190
Come to find out after they got married,

1154
00:28:42,370 --> 00:28:43,670
he found out that she had been married

1155
00:28:43,670 --> 00:28:44,730
about six or seven other times.

1156
00:28:44,810 --> 00:28:45,490
She's basically a harlot.

1157
00:28:46,410 --> 00:28:47,890
And so he marries this girl, 19 years

1158
00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:48,030
old.

1159
00:28:48,090 --> 00:28:48,770
He writes me a letter.

1160
00:28:48,910 --> 00:28:49,610
He's already been through a divorce.

1161
00:28:50,290 --> 00:28:51,190
She had a couple of kids, so he

1162
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:51,650
lost them.

1163
00:28:52,010 --> 00:28:53,530
He'd gone through some mental wars, you know,

1164
00:28:53,530 --> 00:28:54,850
the padded party room, the hotel.

1165
00:28:55,330 --> 00:28:56,330
I mean, just put him on all kind

1166
00:28:56,330 --> 00:28:57,930
of Prozac, uppers and downers, and just about

1167
00:28:57,930 --> 00:28:58,750
everything you can imagine.

1168
00:28:59,450 --> 00:29:00,590
He writes me a letter and sends me

1169
00:29:00,590 --> 00:29:01,530
a check for $500.

1170
00:29:02,270 --> 00:29:02,590
Teenager.

1171
00:29:03,230 --> 00:29:04,710
Sends me a love offering check for 500

1172
00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:05,110
bucks.

1173
00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:06,570
Thanked me for my preaching.

1174
00:29:06,730 --> 00:29:07,490
Thanked me for my prayers.

1175
00:29:07,670 --> 00:29:08,830
And for every now and then, I was

1176
00:29:08,830 --> 00:29:10,350
able to support his family and do some

1177
00:29:10,350 --> 00:29:10,930
things like that.

1178
00:29:11,710 --> 00:29:12,730
So he writes me and here's what he

1179
00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:12,910
says.

1180
00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:14,450
He says, Brother Locke, would you tell young

1181
00:29:14,450 --> 00:29:17,590
people all over this country, I thought...

1182
00:29:18,330 --> 00:29:20,230
I thought I was the exception to the

1183
00:29:20,230 --> 00:29:20,410
rule.

1184
00:29:25,470 --> 00:29:26,270
You'll be wrong too.

1185
00:29:27,250 --> 00:29:28,090
You'll be wrong too.

1186
00:29:28,330 --> 00:29:31,270
I grew up in a fundamental, Bible-believing,

1187
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,570
Baptist children's home for four years of my

1188
00:29:33,570 --> 00:29:33,870
life.

1189
00:29:34,390 --> 00:29:36,090
There are people that lived in that children's

1190
00:29:36,090 --> 00:29:38,270
home years before I got there.

1191
00:29:38,930 --> 00:29:41,210
They had the same devotion, the same preachers,

1192
00:29:41,410 --> 00:29:42,470
the same Christian schools.

1193
00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:45,090
They had everything, the same opportunities that this

1194
00:29:45,090 --> 00:29:46,630
preacher this afternoon had.

1195
00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:48,790
And some of their lives are wasted because

1196
00:29:48,790 --> 00:29:50,790
they thought they could mess around, because they

1197
00:29:50,790 --> 00:29:51,910
thought they could get away with it.

1198
00:29:52,110 --> 00:29:53,530
And they thought, well, nobody knows.

1199
00:29:53,790 --> 00:29:55,570
Maybe they don't, but God knows.

1200
00:29:55,570 --> 00:29:56,730
And that's what matters.

1201
00:29:57,310 --> 00:29:59,090
And Numbers 23, 33 says, You better be

1202
00:29:59,090 --> 00:30:00,810
sure your sin will find you out.

1203
00:30:01,030 --> 00:30:02,230
You won't be the exception to the rule.

1204
00:30:02,410 --> 00:30:03,450
And what you think right now is a

1205
00:30:03,450 --> 00:30:05,430
secret one day will be common knowledge to

1206
00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:05,870
everybody.

1207
00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:08,230
Daniel wanted to keep himself pure.

1208
00:30:08,770 --> 00:30:10,530
He wanted to hang around people that helped

1209
00:30:10,530 --> 00:30:11,030
him be pure.

1210
00:30:11,490 --> 00:30:12,630
You know, the Bible says in Amos 3,

1211
00:30:12,690 --> 00:30:14,350
3, Can two walk together except they be

1212
00:30:14,350 --> 00:30:14,630
agreed?

1213
00:30:15,050 --> 00:30:16,410
I've preached five times in Mexico.

1214
00:30:16,570 --> 00:30:18,110
They taught me a little phrase, No way,

1215
00:30:18,350 --> 00:30:18,590
Jose.

1216
00:30:18,870 --> 00:30:19,230
You know what?

1217
00:30:19,450 --> 00:30:20,670
You can't run with the wrong crowd and

1218
00:30:20,670 --> 00:30:21,170
turn out right.

1219
00:30:21,610 --> 00:30:22,990
Hey, that prodigal son, man, when he had

1220
00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:24,570
money, when he had drugs, when he had

1221
00:30:24,570 --> 00:30:25,410
booze, he had friends.

1222
00:30:26,090 --> 00:30:27,470
But when all the money and the drugs

1223
00:30:27,470 --> 00:30:28,790
and the booze were gone, guess what?

1224
00:30:28,810 --> 00:30:29,370
His friends were gone.

1225
00:30:29,470 --> 00:30:30,810
He found himself a little Jewish boy.

1226
00:30:31,070 --> 00:30:32,150
When he was supposed to be feeding pigs,

1227
00:30:32,570 --> 00:30:33,330
or when he was supposed to be around

1228
00:30:33,330 --> 00:30:34,630
pigs, and he's feeding pigs, eating what the

1229
00:30:34,630 --> 00:30:36,490
pigs eat, sleeping where the pigs sleep, and

1230
00:30:36,490 --> 00:30:38,010
finally he realized what a blooming fool he

1231
00:30:38,010 --> 00:30:38,230
had been.

1232
00:30:38,410 --> 00:30:39,670
All those friends that he was with, I

1233
00:30:39,670 --> 00:30:40,630
call it the great desertion.

1234
00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:41,630
Everybody deserted him.

1235
00:30:41,630 --> 00:30:41,950
You know what?

1236
00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:43,070
Because he had the wrong kind of friends.

1237
00:30:43,950 --> 00:30:45,930
Oh, every relationship you have, everything in your

1238
00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:47,030
life, young person, you ought to want to

1239
00:30:47,030 --> 00:30:47,450
guard yourself.

1240
00:30:48,350 --> 00:30:49,730
You ought to want to guard your testimony.

1241
00:30:50,410 --> 00:30:51,470
You ought to want to guard your heart.

1242
00:30:51,510 --> 00:30:53,290
The devil's doing everything he can to destroy

1243
00:30:53,290 --> 00:30:54,430
you and to suck you in with all

1244
00:30:54,430 --> 00:30:56,270
of his lies and all of his problems.

1245
00:30:56,450 --> 00:30:57,690
He just wants to destroy you.

1246
00:30:57,870 --> 00:30:59,590
The Bible says the thief cometh not but

1247
00:30:59,590 --> 00:31:02,570
to kill and to steal and to destroy.

1248
00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:04,290
He wants to kill your testimony.

1249
00:31:04,670 --> 00:31:05,970
He wants to steal your purity.

1250
00:31:06,230 --> 00:31:08,330
And he wants to destroy everything that God

1251
00:31:08,330 --> 00:31:08,950
has done for you.

1252
00:31:09,150 --> 00:31:10,210
And he's doing a real good job.

1253
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:11,030
But you know what the problem is?

1254
00:31:11,210 --> 00:31:12,610
We're opening up the doors and letting him

1255
00:31:12,610 --> 00:31:12,910
do it.

1256
00:31:13,690 --> 00:31:15,030
Young person, keep yourself pure.

1257
00:31:15,830 --> 00:31:16,950
Keep your mind pure.

1258
00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:18,950
That's why God used Daniel in such a

1259
00:31:18,950 --> 00:31:19,130
way.

1260
00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:20,230
Now, think about something.

1261
00:31:20,850 --> 00:31:21,910
Okay, brother Lott, let's recap.

1262
00:31:22,210 --> 00:31:22,870
Daniel was perfect.

1263
00:31:23,010 --> 00:31:23,450
Well, that's one.

1264
00:31:24,070 --> 00:31:24,970
Daniel was polite.

1265
00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:25,590
Oh, that's wonderful.

1266
00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:26,410
I want to be that way, too.

1267
00:31:26,550 --> 00:31:27,110
Daniel was pure.

1268
00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:27,610
That's great.

1269
00:31:27,670 --> 00:31:28,270
But how did he do that?

1270
00:31:29,250 --> 00:31:30,970
How did Daniel, as a 16-year-old

1271
00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:33,390
teenager, how did he attain such a spiritual

1272
00:31:33,390 --> 00:31:33,770
status?

1273
00:31:34,570 --> 00:31:36,450
How was he used so mightily of Almighty

1274
00:31:36,450 --> 00:31:36,770
God?

1275
00:31:37,130 --> 00:31:38,130
Well, I'm glad you asked that question.

1276
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:39,330
You turn to chapter 6, and I'll show

1277
00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:40,150
you the answer to that, and we'll be

1278
00:31:40,150 --> 00:31:40,330
through.

1279
00:31:41,670 --> 00:31:43,510
How was Daniel so dynamic?

1280
00:31:43,590 --> 00:31:44,330
What made him purpose?

1281
00:31:44,450 --> 00:31:45,150
What made him polite?

1282
00:31:45,250 --> 00:31:45,990
What made him pure?

1283
00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:47,710
Well, I believe the answer is found in

1284
00:31:47,710 --> 00:31:48,530
Daniel chapter 6.

1285
00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:49,550
And when you go there, I want you

1286
00:31:49,550 --> 00:31:50,850
to look with your eyes at verse number

1287
00:31:50,850 --> 00:31:51,410
10, would you?

1288
00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:53,410
Daniel chapter 6 and verse number 10.

1289
00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:55,830
The Bible says, Now when Daniel knew that

1290
00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:58,030
the writing was signed, he went into his

1291
00:31:58,030 --> 00:31:59,490
house, and his windows being opened in his

1292
00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:01,790
chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees

1293
00:32:01,790 --> 00:32:03,290
three times a day, and prayed and gave

1294
00:32:03,290 --> 00:32:05,230
thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

1295
00:32:05,490 --> 00:32:06,270
He was purpose.

1296
00:32:06,430 --> 00:32:07,050
He was polite.

1297
00:32:07,170 --> 00:32:07,670
He was pure.

1298
00:32:07,830 --> 00:32:08,010
Why?

1299
00:32:08,130 --> 00:32:09,930
Because fourthly and lastly, Daniel was prayerful.

1300
00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:11,910
Daniel knew what it meant to spend time

1301
00:32:11,910 --> 00:32:13,390
with God and fellowship with God on a

1302
00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:13,850
daily basis.

1303
00:32:13,930 --> 00:32:15,270
Now, I want you to follow me just

1304
00:32:15,270 --> 00:32:16,070
for a moment, all right, a little Sunday

1305
00:32:16,070 --> 00:32:16,450
School lesson.

1306
00:32:17,350 --> 00:32:19,870
The book of Daniel is the inspired Word

1307
00:32:19,870 --> 00:32:20,250
of God.

1308
00:32:21,130 --> 00:32:23,070
Why God saw fit to write it this

1309
00:32:23,070 --> 00:32:24,110
way, I'm not sure.

1310
00:32:24,250 --> 00:32:25,670
I won't dictate what God did.

1311
00:32:25,770 --> 00:32:27,330
I'll just read what God dictated for me,

1312
00:32:27,350 --> 00:32:27,610
all right?

1313
00:32:27,670 --> 00:32:30,110
But the book of Daniel is not written

1314
00:32:30,110 --> 00:32:31,190
in chronological order.

1315
00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:32,350
What I mean by that is it does

1316
00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:33,270
not go from A to B.

1317
00:32:33,330 --> 00:32:34,850
You might find somebody in chapter 3, then

1318
00:32:34,850 --> 00:32:36,110
not see him again till chapter 8.

1319
00:32:36,370 --> 00:32:37,870
You might see somebody in chapter 1, then

1320
00:32:37,870 --> 00:32:39,230
not read about him again till chapter 4

1321
00:32:39,230 --> 00:32:39,470
or 5.

1322
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:41,050
The reason I say that, because I don't

1323
00:32:41,050 --> 00:32:42,810
want you to be confused about what I'm

1324
00:32:42,810 --> 00:32:43,350
about to tell you.

1325
00:32:43,410 --> 00:32:45,670
In Daniel chapter 1, Daniel was 16.

1326
00:32:46,550 --> 00:32:48,970
Five short chapters later in Daniel chapter 6,

1327
00:32:48,970 --> 00:32:49,870
Daniel is 85.

1328
00:32:50,550 --> 00:32:52,850
So many, many, many years have passed.

1329
00:32:52,990 --> 00:32:55,150
All of this time frame has passed, but

1330
00:32:55,150 --> 00:32:56,510
yet Daniel is still polite.

1331
00:32:57,150 --> 00:32:58,090
He is still pure.

1332
00:32:58,550 --> 00:32:59,550
He is still perfect.

1333
00:32:59,810 --> 00:33:01,330
How did he attain that?

1334
00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:03,790
Because Daniel knew from a teenager, even from

1335
00:33:03,790 --> 00:33:05,890
a kid, he knew from a teenager to

1336
00:33:05,890 --> 00:33:07,370
an adult, to a middle-aged person, to

1337
00:33:07,370 --> 00:33:09,970
an older person, he knew the ability and

1338
00:33:09,970 --> 00:33:12,650
the great quality of spending time with God

1339
00:33:12,650 --> 00:33:13,990
on a regular basis.

1340
00:33:14,110 --> 00:33:16,030
Here's the context of Daniel chapter 6.

1341
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:17,630
The Bible says, and for time's sake, we

1342
00:33:17,630 --> 00:33:18,590
don't have time to deal with all of

1343
00:33:18,590 --> 00:33:20,790
it, that Daniel was preferred above three other

1344
00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:22,830
groups of presidents or captains, some governors and

1345
00:33:22,830 --> 00:33:23,210
some princes.

1346
00:33:23,750 --> 00:33:24,770
And those fellows got a little bit hot

1347
00:33:24,770 --> 00:33:25,890
and trot about that, and they said, hey,

1348
00:33:25,970 --> 00:33:26,310
wait a minute.

1349
00:33:26,650 --> 00:33:27,810
We're not going to let Daniel get all

1350
00:33:27,810 --> 00:33:28,390
the prestige.

1351
00:33:28,530 --> 00:33:29,390
We're not going to let him be the

1352
00:33:29,390 --> 00:33:30,190
one that's in charge.

1353
00:33:30,410 --> 00:33:31,890
And so let's find something wrong with his

1354
00:33:31,890 --> 00:33:32,130
life.

1355
00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:35,270
Let's find something impeachable, if you will.

1356
00:33:35,570 --> 00:33:37,310
Let's find something that would cause the king

1357
00:33:37,310 --> 00:33:38,190
to want to kick him out of the

1358
00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:39,830
kingdom and fire him from his little presidential

1359
00:33:39,830 --> 00:33:40,610
providential job.

1360
00:33:41,090 --> 00:33:43,130
And so they scrutinized the life of Daniel.

1361
00:33:43,210 --> 00:33:44,510
And young person, the Bible does not tell

1362
00:33:44,510 --> 00:33:45,530
us how long they did this.

1363
00:33:46,030 --> 00:33:47,050
But they followed Daniel.

1364
00:33:47,130 --> 00:33:48,250
They looked at his viewing habits.

1365
00:33:48,250 --> 00:33:49,430
They looked at where he went, who he

1366
00:33:49,430 --> 00:33:49,930
talked to.

1367
00:33:50,130 --> 00:33:51,350
They looked at the things that he did.

1368
00:33:51,450 --> 00:33:52,470
They looked at the clothes that he wore.

1369
00:33:52,670 --> 00:33:53,710
They were looking for something.

1370
00:33:53,750 --> 00:33:55,230
I mean, the most insignificant thing.

1371
00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:56,750
They just wanted to find something small.

1372
00:33:57,110 --> 00:33:59,270
They wanted to get Daniel so bad, they

1373
00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:00,270
wanted his position.

1374
00:34:00,850 --> 00:34:02,310
And so they searched and they scrutinized.

1375
00:34:02,390 --> 00:34:03,930
They brought up the FBI and the DEA

1376
00:34:03,930 --> 00:34:05,690
and all the sheriff's patrol there in Babylon.

1377
00:34:05,870 --> 00:34:07,750
And I mean, they scrutinized his life, and

1378
00:34:07,750 --> 00:34:08,650
they couldn't come up with anything.

1379
00:34:09,469 --> 00:34:10,830
So they said to themselves, all right, the

1380
00:34:10,830 --> 00:34:11,710
only thing we're going to get him with

1381
00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:12,510
is against his God.

1382
00:34:12,590 --> 00:34:13,270
You know what they came up with?

1383
00:34:13,550 --> 00:34:14,770
He just loves God too much, and he

1384
00:34:14,770 --> 00:34:15,350
prays too much.

1385
00:34:15,889 --> 00:34:17,290
So they went to the proud, haughty King

1386
00:34:17,290 --> 00:34:18,730
Darius, and they said, Mr. King, we want

1387
00:34:18,730 --> 00:34:19,870
you to make an decree that for 30

1388
00:34:19,870 --> 00:34:21,790
days, no man, woman, boy, or girl can

1389
00:34:21,790 --> 00:34:23,250
pray in the name of any other god

1390
00:34:23,250 --> 00:34:24,790
or any other deity except for your name.

1391
00:34:25,030 --> 00:34:26,070
He was a proud, haughty guy.

1392
00:34:26,110 --> 00:34:27,010
He thought that was a good idea.

1393
00:34:27,230 --> 00:34:28,190
He took his kingly ring.

1394
00:34:28,350 --> 00:34:29,449
He dipped it in the kingly wax.

1395
00:34:29,610 --> 00:34:30,610
He signed the kingly paper.

1396
00:34:30,830 --> 00:34:31,630
It was a kingly law.

1397
00:34:31,710 --> 00:34:33,230
The law's amazing, virgins with the altar of

1398
00:34:33,230 --> 00:34:33,350
not.

1399
00:34:33,429 --> 00:34:35,670
30 days, nobody can pray in any name

1400
00:34:35,670 --> 00:34:37,929
except for the name of the great King

1401
00:34:37,929 --> 00:34:38,810
God, Darius.

1402
00:34:39,090 --> 00:34:40,310
You can't pray in the name of Jehovah,

1403
00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:41,030
any other god.

1404
00:34:41,070 --> 00:34:42,330
No matter what you worship, you have to

1405
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:43,210
pray in the name of Darius.

1406
00:34:43,489 --> 00:34:44,850
And the Bible says in verse number 10,

1407
00:34:44,850 --> 00:34:47,570
Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was

1408
00:34:47,570 --> 00:34:47,889
signed.

1409
00:34:48,330 --> 00:34:49,489
Now, you believe what you want to, but

1410
00:34:49,489 --> 00:34:50,850
the reason I think he knew it was

1411
00:34:50,850 --> 00:34:52,469
signed is because he was the president.

1412
00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:54,190
He was probably standing there when they signed

1413
00:34:54,190 --> 00:34:54,350
it.

1414
00:34:54,590 --> 00:34:55,770
The Bible says that he went back.

1415
00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:58,210
He opened up his windows towards Jerusalem, not

1416
00:34:58,210 --> 00:35:00,090
out of belligerence, not out of just being

1417
00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:00,550
rebellious.

1418
00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:01,450
We'll see that in just a moment.

1419
00:35:01,710 --> 00:35:03,490
He opened his windows towards Jerusalem, as they

1420
00:35:03,490 --> 00:35:04,970
did the Old Testament custom, praying to the

1421
00:35:04,970 --> 00:35:05,630
great city of God.

1422
00:35:05,830 --> 00:35:08,110
He got on his knees, morning, noon, and

1423
00:35:08,110 --> 00:35:10,630
night, and prayed and gave thanks before his

1424
00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:13,890
God as he did aforetime.

1425
00:35:13,890 --> 00:35:15,770
He prayed before they made the law.

1426
00:35:16,070 --> 00:35:17,390
He prayed while they were making the law.

1427
00:35:17,630 --> 00:35:19,810
And he prayed long after the law was

1428
00:35:19,810 --> 00:35:20,070
given.

1429
00:35:20,370 --> 00:35:22,190
He was prayerful.

1430
00:35:22,810 --> 00:35:25,970
He knew what it meant to spend time

1431
00:35:25,970 --> 00:35:28,010
with God on a daily basis.

1432
00:35:28,770 --> 00:35:30,750
You know, we've swallowed the lie of the

1433
00:35:30,750 --> 00:35:33,850
devil that teenagers cannot fellowship with God.

1434
00:35:34,730 --> 00:35:35,710
You study your Bible.

1435
00:35:35,890 --> 00:35:38,190
If you were just to have the 39

1436
00:35:38,190 --> 00:35:39,750
books of the Old Testament, thank God for

1437
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:40,510
the 27 of the Bible.

1438
00:35:40,870 --> 00:35:43,150
But if you just had Genesis to Malachi

1439
00:35:43,150 --> 00:35:45,030
or Genesis to Malachi if you're Italian this

1440
00:35:45,030 --> 00:35:47,430
afternoon, if you just had the 39 books

1441
00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:48,990
of your Old Testament Bible, did you know,

1442
00:35:49,110 --> 00:35:50,190
hey, I found 25.

1443
00:35:50,330 --> 00:35:51,110
You may find more.

1444
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,890
But I have found 25 young men and

1445
00:35:53,890 --> 00:35:57,790
young ladies in 39 books under the age

1446
00:35:57,790 --> 00:36:00,190
of 20 that God used in a miraculous

1447
00:36:00,190 --> 00:36:02,150
way to turn nations back to Himself.

1448
00:36:02,430 --> 00:36:03,370
One of them was named Josiah.

1449
00:36:03,450 --> 00:36:03,990
You know how old he was?

1450
00:36:04,030 --> 00:36:04,210
Eight.

1451
00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:06,690
And the Bible says from the beginning of

1452
00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:07,830
his reign to the end of his reign,

1453
00:36:07,890 --> 00:36:08,930
he was in his thirties when he stepped

1454
00:36:08,930 --> 00:36:10,570
off the throne, the Bible says he did

1455
00:36:10,570 --> 00:36:12,950
that which was right in the sight of

1456
00:36:12,950 --> 00:36:15,930
God according to all his father David had

1457
00:36:15,930 --> 00:36:16,130
done.

1458
00:36:16,310 --> 00:36:18,070
From eight years old to thirty-something years

1459
00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:18,990
old, he lived right.

1460
00:36:19,070 --> 00:36:20,670
That means all through his teenage years, he

1461
00:36:20,670 --> 00:36:21,810
pleased God and done what was right.

1462
00:36:22,030 --> 00:36:22,890
Isaiah lived for God.

1463
00:36:22,990 --> 00:36:23,750
Jeremiah lived for God.

1464
00:36:23,870 --> 00:36:24,710
Hezekiah lived for God.

1465
00:36:24,870 --> 00:36:25,690
Joseph lived for God.

1466
00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:27,330
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego.

1467
00:36:27,530 --> 00:36:29,970
All of these people continually living for God,

1468
00:36:30,070 --> 00:36:31,750
doing what God wanted them to do under

1469
00:36:31,750 --> 00:36:33,010
the age of 20.

1470
00:36:33,170 --> 00:36:34,270
You can fellowship with God.

1471
00:36:34,490 --> 00:36:35,590
You can have the power of God.

1472
00:36:35,830 --> 00:36:37,230
We think that the power of God belongs

1473
00:36:37,230 --> 00:36:37,710
to the preacher.

1474
00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:39,310
We think the power of God belongs to

1475
00:36:39,310 --> 00:36:40,550
the evangelist or the camp director.

1476
00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:41,990
It has nothing further from the truth.

1477
00:36:42,230 --> 00:36:43,450
The power of God and the filling of

1478
00:36:43,450 --> 00:36:45,450
the Spirit can be to somebody in a

1479
00:36:45,450 --> 00:36:45,970
nursery worker.

1480
00:36:46,230 --> 00:36:47,270
It can be to a Sunday school teacher.

1481
00:36:47,470 --> 00:36:48,570
It can be to a light bulb changer,

1482
00:36:48,690 --> 00:36:49,990
somebody that cleans porcelain toilets.

1483
00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:51,590
It is available for teenagers.

1484
00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:53,310
But you've got to avail yourself and say,

1485
00:36:53,390 --> 00:36:54,450
Dear God, can you use me?

1486
00:36:54,930 --> 00:36:56,110
Dear God, can I be a Daniel?

1487
00:36:56,510 --> 00:36:58,010
Can I be somebody that is dynamic?

1488
00:36:58,390 --> 00:36:59,830
Did you know that Daniel and Joseph are

1489
00:36:59,830 --> 00:37:01,130
the only two people in your Bible that

1490
00:37:01,130 --> 00:37:03,870
no moral flaw is given against their character?

1491
00:37:04,310 --> 00:37:06,150
Now that does not mean they were sinless.

1492
00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:07,650
It meant that they were mature.

1493
00:37:07,650 --> 00:37:09,890
Oh, God, I'm sure, could have recorded some

1494
00:37:09,890 --> 00:37:11,910
things, but Joseph and Daniel are the only

1495
00:37:11,910 --> 00:37:13,370
two in your Bible that have no moral

1496
00:37:13,370 --> 00:37:14,830
flaw against their character.

1497
00:37:15,110 --> 00:37:15,710
Here is Joseph.

1498
00:37:15,910 --> 00:37:17,370
He's living in the land of Potiphar over

1499
00:37:17,370 --> 00:37:17,630
in Egypt.

1500
00:37:17,930 --> 00:37:19,390
And Potiphar's wife comes by one day.

1501
00:37:19,430 --> 00:37:20,570
And by the way, fellas, I'm sure she

1502
00:37:20,570 --> 00:37:21,290
wasn't a dog, okay?

1503
00:37:21,290 --> 00:37:22,150
She was Potiphar's wife.

1504
00:37:22,190 --> 00:37:23,390
She was probably a pretty hot-looking babe,

1505
00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:23,670
okay?

1506
00:37:23,830 --> 00:37:24,850
So she comes walking in there.

1507
00:37:25,070 --> 00:37:26,250
She gets to batten her eyelashes.

1508
00:37:27,110 --> 00:37:29,110
And she said, Joseph, lie with me.

1509
00:37:29,270 --> 00:37:30,430
Basically, she said, I want you to go

1510
00:37:30,430 --> 00:37:30,970
to bed with me.

1511
00:37:31,030 --> 00:37:32,110
Commit adultery and fornication.

1512
00:37:32,370 --> 00:37:33,570
He said, I can't do that.

1513
00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:35,910
Genesis 39.9 How can I do this

1514
00:37:35,910 --> 00:37:37,710
great wickedness and sin against God?

1515
00:37:37,850 --> 00:37:39,270
He didn't say, I'll get a venereal disease.

1516
00:37:39,490 --> 00:37:40,790
He didn't say, I'll bust up your marriage.

1517
00:37:40,970 --> 00:37:42,210
He didn't say, I'll lose my job or

1518
00:37:42,210 --> 00:37:42,710
lose my head.

1519
00:37:42,850 --> 00:37:43,850
He said, I'm not going to do this

1520
00:37:43,850 --> 00:37:45,630
because it will offend my God.

1521
00:37:45,790 --> 00:37:47,450
She must have said something like, well, that

1522
00:37:47,450 --> 00:37:48,690
sure is a handsome coat you got on.

1523
00:37:48,810 --> 00:37:49,850
He said, good, you can have it because

1524
00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:51,130
the Bible says he left his coat in

1525
00:37:51,130 --> 00:37:52,550
her hand and he hot-footed it out

1526
00:37:52,550 --> 00:37:52,770
of there.

1527
00:37:52,970 --> 00:37:54,270
He still went to jail, but he kept

1528
00:37:54,270 --> 00:37:54,870
himself pure.

1529
00:37:55,330 --> 00:37:56,310
He kept himself right.

1530
00:37:56,890 --> 00:37:58,970
And these people knew that if they were

1531
00:37:58,970 --> 00:38:01,590
going to be used by God, they had

1532
00:38:01,590 --> 00:38:03,590
to fellowship with God.

1533
00:38:04,470 --> 00:38:06,870
I was preaching last year in the state

1534
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:07,470
of North Carolina.

1535
00:38:07,890 --> 00:38:09,910
Probably North Carolina and Tennessee are the two

1536
00:38:09,910 --> 00:38:11,130
states that I preach more than any other

1537
00:38:11,130 --> 00:38:12,030
state in the United States.

1538
00:38:12,130 --> 00:38:12,970
And I preached in a lot of Christian

1539
00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:13,250
schools.

1540
00:38:13,290 --> 00:38:14,450
And I was in a larger Christian school.

1541
00:38:14,490 --> 00:38:15,290
And they had this platform.

1542
00:38:15,430 --> 00:38:16,790
And this joker was raised way up.

1543
00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:18,930
The platform was probably just about as high

1544
00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:20,250
as this little fire area here, okay?

1545
00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:21,090
So, I'm standing way up.

1546
00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:22,430
I could see all the people that were

1547
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:23,490
listening, about 400 teenagers.

1548
00:38:23,610 --> 00:38:24,790
I could see all those that weren't.

1549
00:38:24,790 --> 00:38:26,090
I could see those that were writing notes

1550
00:38:26,090 --> 00:38:27,030
and those that were passing notes.

1551
00:38:27,110 --> 00:38:28,170
I could see those that were talking and

1552
00:38:28,170 --> 00:38:28,870
those that were not talking.

1553
00:38:29,150 --> 00:38:29,750
And so, I'm preaching.

1554
00:38:29,950 --> 00:38:31,730
And I'm preaching the message that day, last

1555
00:38:31,730 --> 00:38:33,330
year, that I'm preaching to you right now.

1556
00:38:33,990 --> 00:38:35,750
But obviously, it didn't have this illustration in

1557
00:38:35,750 --> 00:38:36,930
it because I gained it and added it

1558
00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:37,710
to my message that day.

1559
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:38,250
I was preaching.

1560
00:38:38,890 --> 00:38:40,070
I read my text, had them sit down.

1561
00:38:40,450 --> 00:38:41,930
From the moment they sat down, when I

1562
00:38:41,930 --> 00:38:44,070
said amen and started in on the message,

1563
00:38:44,150 --> 00:38:45,090
when I got in and just jumped in

1564
00:38:45,090 --> 00:38:46,410
there both feet, both guns ablaze, and I

1565
00:38:46,410 --> 00:38:48,070
started to preach it, there was a young

1566
00:38:48,070 --> 00:38:50,350
man sitting on the front row whose eyeballs

1567
00:38:50,350 --> 00:38:52,590
were bigger round than spare tires or Jimmy

1568
00:38:52,590 --> 00:38:53,430
Dean sausage tapes.

1569
00:38:53,530 --> 00:38:54,630
And I mean, he was looking at me.

1570
00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:56,750
And his eyeballs were glued in right on

1571
00:38:56,750 --> 00:38:56,850
me.

1572
00:38:56,890 --> 00:38:57,670
He was kind of one of these chubby

1573
00:38:57,670 --> 00:38:57,970
guys.

1574
00:38:58,270 --> 00:39:00,170
He was about four by four or five

1575
00:39:00,170 --> 00:39:00,950
by five, something like that.

1576
00:39:00,970 --> 00:39:01,790
He was about as tall as he was

1577
00:39:01,790 --> 00:39:02,390
wide type of deal.

1578
00:39:02,550 --> 00:39:03,510
And so, here's this guy sitting here.

1579
00:39:03,690 --> 00:39:05,030
He's got these rosy little cheeks on the

1580
00:39:05,030 --> 00:39:05,390
front row.

1581
00:39:05,630 --> 00:39:07,350
Now, I'm kind of one of these guys.

1582
00:39:07,430 --> 00:39:08,190
And don't ask me to do this.

1583
00:39:08,250 --> 00:39:09,510
Sometimes, I'll give this illustration.

1584
00:39:09,650 --> 00:39:11,250
Somebody say, hey, can you guess my name?

1585
00:39:11,290 --> 00:39:12,130
But I'm kind of one of these guys.

1586
00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:13,370
Sometimes, I can look at you for a

1587
00:39:13,370 --> 00:39:13,510
moment.

1588
00:39:13,570 --> 00:39:14,730
I can look at your actions and I

1589
00:39:14,730 --> 00:39:15,610
can kind of get kind of close to

1590
00:39:15,610 --> 00:39:15,910
your name.

1591
00:39:15,990 --> 00:39:17,890
So, I was thinking in my mind, this

1592
00:39:17,890 --> 00:39:19,430
guy looks like an Elroy, huh?

1593
00:39:19,610 --> 00:39:20,730
This guy looks like a Leroy.

1594
00:39:20,810 --> 00:39:21,810
He looks like somebody that's dealing in front

1595
00:39:21,810 --> 00:39:22,850
of a dog food bag, you know, something

1596
00:39:22,850 --> 00:39:23,730
like that, you know, some kind of cute

1597
00:39:23,730 --> 00:39:23,910
dude.

1598
00:39:23,910 --> 00:39:25,910
And so, I'm thinking this guy's an Elroy,

1599
00:39:26,050 --> 00:39:27,830
this guy's a Leroy, something like that, you

1600
00:39:27,830 --> 00:39:27,970
know.

1601
00:39:28,110 --> 00:39:29,070
And so, I'm up there preaching.

1602
00:39:29,350 --> 00:39:30,250
And this guy's watching me.

1603
00:39:30,290 --> 00:39:31,290
I go this way, he goes that way.

1604
00:39:31,290 --> 00:39:32,290
I go this way, he goes that way.

1605
00:39:32,450 --> 00:39:33,510
I mean, he just glued in on me.

1606
00:39:33,670 --> 00:39:34,890
I started getting a conflict, you know.

1607
00:39:35,110 --> 00:39:36,330
I'm thinking something's hanging out of my nose,

1608
00:39:36,410 --> 00:39:36,630
you know.

1609
00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:38,390
I'm turning around making sure everything's all right.

1610
00:39:38,450 --> 00:39:39,430
I'm wondering what in the world this guy's

1611
00:39:39,430 --> 00:39:39,710
going to do.

1612
00:39:39,910 --> 00:39:41,370
I'm thinking Columbine all over again.

1613
00:39:41,450 --> 00:39:42,590
You know, he's got a great big 357

1614
00:39:42,590 --> 00:39:43,230
inside his coat.

1615
00:39:43,270 --> 00:39:44,210
He's going to blow me away when I

1616
00:39:44,210 --> 00:39:44,510
get through.

1617
00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:46,370
I mean, this guy's just watching me like

1618
00:39:46,370 --> 00:39:47,030
a hawk.

1619
00:39:47,070 --> 00:39:48,010
I mean, I'm over here preaching.

1620
00:39:48,010 --> 00:39:49,370
I'm trying to get away from the guy.

1621
00:39:49,490 --> 00:39:50,630
His eyeball's just beating right on me.

1622
00:39:50,810 --> 00:39:51,850
He's just looking at me like this, you

1623
00:39:51,850 --> 00:39:51,950
know.

1624
00:39:52,130 --> 00:39:52,610
I'm preaching.

1625
00:39:52,850 --> 00:39:53,510
I mean, he just thought.

1626
00:39:53,610 --> 00:39:54,410
He never looked down.

1627
00:39:54,830 --> 00:39:55,910
He never took a stitch and oath.

1628
00:39:56,230 --> 00:39:57,310
He never looked at his Bible.

1629
00:39:57,550 --> 00:39:58,770
I don't think the boy ever bleeds.

1630
00:39:58,870 --> 00:39:59,910
I mean, he's just looking at me like

1631
00:39:59,910 --> 00:40:00,070
this.

1632
00:40:00,330 --> 00:40:00,790
I had to stop.

1633
00:40:01,010 --> 00:40:01,830
So, I'm getting a conflict.

1634
00:40:02,010 --> 00:40:02,790
I'm getting kind of nervous.

1635
00:40:02,950 --> 00:40:03,750
I give the invitation.

1636
00:40:03,890 --> 00:40:04,870
I was glad the service was over.

1637
00:40:04,930 --> 00:40:05,890
I was ready to leave by this time.

1638
00:40:06,270 --> 00:40:07,030
I give the invitation.

1639
00:40:07,170 --> 00:40:08,070
Man, he's the first one to hit the

1640
00:40:08,070 --> 00:40:08,190
altar.

1641
00:40:08,470 --> 00:40:09,290
Man, he jumps on the altar.

1642
00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:11,190
Oh, he came over just to cry and

1643
00:40:11,190 --> 00:40:11,630
just to weep.

1644
00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:13,030
I didn't say anything about it.

1645
00:40:13,030 --> 00:40:14,290
I said, if you need any help this

1646
00:40:14,290 --> 00:40:15,490
morning at the altar, I said, raise your

1647
00:40:15,490 --> 00:40:15,670
hand.

1648
00:40:15,730 --> 00:40:16,650
Somebody will be glad to pray with you.

1649
00:40:16,650 --> 00:40:17,150
I'll pray with you.

1650
00:40:17,190 --> 00:40:18,310
One of the preachers prayed with you.

1651
00:40:18,490 --> 00:40:19,030
He didn't raise his hand.

1652
00:40:19,070 --> 00:40:20,050
He just cried and prayed a little while.

1653
00:40:20,290 --> 00:40:21,010
Got back up in his seat.

1654
00:40:21,270 --> 00:40:21,630
They came.

1655
00:40:21,690 --> 00:40:22,310
They led in a song.

1656
00:40:22,390 --> 00:40:23,450
Did a little offering, something like that.

1657
00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:24,390
And we started to leave.

1658
00:40:24,470 --> 00:40:24,950
I was walking out.

1659
00:40:24,990 --> 00:40:26,270
I was talking to the administrator about coming

1660
00:40:26,270 --> 00:40:26,910
back the next year.

1661
00:40:27,110 --> 00:40:28,410
And I was talking to the pastor who

1662
00:40:28,410 --> 00:40:29,530
I was with across town.

1663
00:40:30,050 --> 00:40:31,610
And so, we were talking this, that, and

1664
00:40:31,610 --> 00:40:31,730
the other.

1665
00:40:32,750 --> 00:40:34,550
And he ever walked in a room or

1666
00:40:34,550 --> 00:40:36,130
maybe walked out of a room and somebody

1667
00:40:36,130 --> 00:40:38,330
turned on a television and you weren't in

1668
00:40:38,330 --> 00:40:39,890
the room that the television came on in

1669
00:40:39,890 --> 00:40:41,430
but you could feel the television come on.

1670
00:40:41,430 --> 00:40:42,590
That's a weird feeling, okay?

1671
00:40:42,990 --> 00:40:44,090
Have you ever had somebody come up behind

1672
00:40:44,090 --> 00:40:45,390
you and tap you and you immediately knew

1673
00:40:45,390 --> 00:40:45,830
who it was?

1674
00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:47,310
Now, my mom used to tell me when

1675
00:40:47,310 --> 00:40:48,710
I was a kid, Dr. Hickey, I got

1676
00:40:48,710 --> 00:40:49,670
eyes in the back of my head.

1677
00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:51,610
Now, people don't have eyes in the back

1678
00:40:51,610 --> 00:40:51,970
of their head.

1679
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:53,090
But it was one of those times when

1680
00:40:53,090 --> 00:40:53,730
I thought I did.

1681
00:40:54,270 --> 00:40:55,870
Immediately, I felt somebody tug on me like

1682
00:40:55,870 --> 00:40:57,470
this and I thought to myself, Leroy.

1683
00:40:59,050 --> 00:40:59,330
Leroy!

1684
00:40:59,710 --> 00:41:00,770
I thought I'm going to turn around and

1685
00:41:00,770 --> 00:41:01,730
I'm going to be facing a big old

1686
00:41:01,730 --> 00:41:03,110
long 357 Magnum.

1687
00:41:03,110 --> 00:41:04,230
It's going to blow my head off right

1688
00:41:04,230 --> 00:41:04,490
here.

1689
00:41:04,730 --> 00:41:06,210
And I'm just talking to myself and I'm

1690
00:41:06,210 --> 00:41:06,910
kind of nervous, you know.

1691
00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:07,910
I feel this little tug.

1692
00:41:08,130 --> 00:41:08,630
I say, okay.

1693
00:41:09,010 --> 00:41:09,390
This is it.

1694
00:41:09,390 --> 00:41:10,330
Even so, come Lord Jesus.

1695
00:41:10,330 --> 00:41:11,350
Come right now, would you please.

1696
00:41:11,550 --> 00:41:12,390
And so I turn around.

1697
00:41:12,570 --> 00:41:13,070
No gun.

1698
00:41:13,570 --> 00:41:14,690
Just a little fat chubby guy standing there

1699
00:41:14,690 --> 00:41:15,430
with his Bible in his hand.

1700
00:41:15,650 --> 00:41:17,070
Great big tears dripping down his face.

1701
00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:18,070
His name wasn't Leroy.

1702
00:41:18,110 --> 00:41:18,730
His name was John.

1703
00:41:19,290 --> 00:41:20,270
I was relieved of that.

1704
00:41:20,370 --> 00:41:20,470
Amen.

1705
00:41:21,030 --> 00:41:22,970
His eyes had not swollen so much now

1706
00:41:22,970 --> 00:41:23,830
where they were kind of down a little

1707
00:41:23,830 --> 00:41:24,030
bit.

1708
00:41:24,550 --> 00:41:25,550
And I'll never forget what he said.

1709
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:26,510
I'll never forget it in a million years.

1710
00:41:27,510 --> 00:41:28,370
He put his hand in mine.

1711
00:41:28,450 --> 00:41:29,050
He said, brother Leroy.

1712
00:41:30,030 --> 00:41:31,490
He said, do you mean to tell me.

1713
00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:32,510
Now, his friends were standing around.

1714
00:41:32,610 --> 00:41:32,870
He didn't care.

1715
00:41:33,150 --> 00:41:33,450
Fine.

1716
00:41:34,010 --> 00:41:34,670
Fifteen years old.

1717
00:41:35,210 --> 00:41:36,710
He said, do you mean to tell me

1718
00:41:36,710 --> 00:41:39,350
that as a fifteen year old teenager.

1719
00:41:40,450 --> 00:41:42,510
I can have the power of God and

1720
00:41:42,510 --> 00:41:44,250
I can fellowship with God on a daily

1721
00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:44,630
basis.

1722
00:41:46,780 --> 00:41:48,600
Man, a great big smile came across my

1723
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,720
face and I wasn't so nervous anymore.

1724
00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:51,520
And I said, John.

1725
00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,440
You better believe you can fellowship with God

1726
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:55,680
and God is interested in you.

1727
00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:57,580
And here was a fifteen year old teenager

1728
00:41:57,580 --> 00:42:00,940
who was so excited that for the first

1729
00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:02,760
time in his young Christian walk, he realized

1730
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,240
the God of heaven is interested in me.

1731
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:08,500
Not just in saving me, cleansing me of

1732
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:09,280
sin and taking me to heaven.

1733
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,660
He wants to speak to me through the

1734
00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:11,000
Bible.

1735
00:42:11,540 --> 00:42:12,600
He wants me to get on my face

1736
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,760
and knees and give him all of my

1737
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,600
needs and wants and wishes and desires.

1738
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:17,740
And here was a fifteen year old teenager

1739
00:42:17,740 --> 00:42:19,860
that was excited that the power of God

1740
00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:22,080
and the abilities of the Spirit of God

1741
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,560
were available to him as a teenager.

1742
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:26,700
And man, he walked away with the joy

1743
00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:28,500
bells of God ringing in his soul and

1744
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:29,940
I walked away with the joy bells of

1745
00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:32,680
God ringing in my heart because I finally

1746
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,820
found a teenager that got the message.

1747
00:42:36,180 --> 00:42:39,400
You can fellowship with God.

1748
00:42:40,060 --> 00:42:42,800
And if you don't, you will not be

1749
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:43,040
perfect.

1750
00:42:44,060 --> 00:42:45,560
You will not be polite.

1751
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,460
And by no means, mister or ma'am,

1752
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:49,560
will you ever be pure.

1753
00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:52,940
You need the power of God.

1754
00:42:53,060 --> 00:42:54,680
So you got one choice and one choice

1755
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:54,900
only.

1756
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,740
You can be as Daniel was, dynamic.

1757
00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:00,760
Or you can be as most people are,

1758
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:02,200
a dud.

1759
00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:04,440
But there is no in between.