1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,580 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:04,060 --> 00:00:05,660 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,660 --> 00:00:07,740 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,740 --> 00:00:10,520 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:10,780 too. 6 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:13,720 This week we have William Milan with his 7 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,120 message, Daniel, 21 Days of Prayer. 8 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:20,040 Good evening of Daniel. 9 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:23,640 Daniel chapter 10. 10 00:00:27,740 --> 00:00:31,759 And I make bold to say tonight that 11 00:00:33,390 --> 00:00:39,250 this is one of the greatest chapters, not 12 00:00:39,250 --> 00:00:43,690 only in the book of Daniel, but I 13 00:00:43,690 --> 00:00:46,610 think it's one of the great chapters of 14 00:00:46,610 --> 00:00:47,130 the Bible. 15 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:51,130 Of course you might rightfully say to me, 16 00:00:51,330 --> 00:00:54,810 all the chapters in this Bible are great, 17 00:00:54,870 --> 00:00:55,990 and that is very true. 18 00:00:57,370 --> 00:01:01,070 But then you know sometimes when one has 19 00:01:01,070 --> 00:01:03,750 to give a week's Bible readings here and 20 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:07,710 there, sometimes I take a Bible reading, Bible 21 00:01:07,710 --> 00:01:12,790 week of readings, on great chapters of the 22 00:01:12,790 --> 00:01:13,210 Bible. 23 00:01:14,910 --> 00:01:17,090 And I call them great because there are 24 00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:25,170 chapters that bring doctrines to us, and revelations, 25 00:01:26,370 --> 00:01:29,810 and give us an insight into things that 26 00:01:29,810 --> 00:01:32,190 we don't find in other chapters. 27 00:01:33,470 --> 00:01:37,870 Think of Genesis 1, and we get the 28 00:01:37,870 --> 00:01:44,110 doctrine of creation, and the doctrine of the 29 00:01:44,110 --> 00:01:44,690 Creator. 30 00:01:46,490 --> 00:01:51,950 Think of Hebrews chapter 1, and there you 31 00:01:51,950 --> 00:01:56,570 get the great story of the sweet fellowship 32 00:01:56,570 --> 00:02:01,490 between the Father and the Son. 33 00:02:02,370 --> 00:02:05,830 In times past, through the prophets, the Father 34 00:02:07,350 --> 00:02:11,350 spake unto the Fathers about his Son. 35 00:02:12,610 --> 00:02:14,970 And there are great chapters just like that, 36 00:02:15,070 --> 00:02:16,110 right on through. 37 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:19,870 And this is a great chapter this evening, 38 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:26,410 because it gives us an insight into what 39 00:02:26,410 --> 00:02:32,110 goes on in the heavenlies, when men and 40 00:02:32,110 --> 00:02:34,250 women get really down to pray. 41 00:02:35,970 --> 00:02:37,930 That's why I think it's one of the 42 00:02:37,930 --> 00:02:38,790 great chapters. 43 00:02:40,010 --> 00:02:43,530 I think that this is an inspiring chapter, 44 00:02:44,050 --> 00:02:47,670 because you're going to see an old man 45 00:02:48,750 --> 00:02:52,530 of 86 years of age, and I'll sort 46 00:02:52,530 --> 00:02:56,490 of prove his age for you, an old 47 00:02:56,490 --> 00:03:01,990 man of 86 years of age, getting down 48 00:03:01,990 --> 00:03:04,690 to pray something through. 49 00:03:05,750 --> 00:03:08,770 Not just saying prayers. 50 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:14,590 Not just bowing his knee at the bedside 51 00:03:14,590 --> 00:03:15,870 for a moment or two. 52 00:03:16,850 --> 00:03:20,570 An old man of 86 years of age, 53 00:03:21,610 --> 00:03:26,330 getting the grip of God's throne, and determining 54 00:03:26,330 --> 00:03:29,670 in his own heart to pray this matter 55 00:03:29,670 --> 00:03:34,870 right through, and staying there for 21 days. 56 00:03:36,670 --> 00:03:44,040 No food, no washing, no anointing. 57 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:45,680 Praying it through. 58 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:51,400 And I venture to say, that not one 59 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,780 of us know anything about it. 60 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:00,820 I trust we shall learn what it really 61 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:03,100 means to get alone with God. 62 00:04:06,050 --> 00:04:08,970 It's much easier to sing choruses than do 63 00:04:08,970 --> 00:04:10,090 this, I assure you. 64 00:04:13,330 --> 00:04:15,769 And it's much easier to come to the 65 00:04:15,769 --> 00:04:19,350 Bible class than do this. 66 00:04:20,630 --> 00:04:23,930 Blessed are both choruses and Bible classes. 67 00:04:25,890 --> 00:04:30,130 This is our man, getting alone with his 68 00:04:30,130 --> 00:04:36,670 God, and determining in his soul to see 69 00:04:36,670 --> 00:04:38,270 it through in prayer. 70 00:04:39,690 --> 00:04:41,470 This is the mighty thing. 71 00:04:42,170 --> 00:04:46,570 We're getting an insight into what this means 72 00:04:46,570 --> 00:04:47,510 in the heavens. 73 00:04:49,050 --> 00:04:51,510 This scares the devil, you know. 74 00:04:52,910 --> 00:04:56,170 He's got to get his forces going now, 75 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:59,010 if there's such a man around. 76 00:05:00,370 --> 00:05:04,170 And so it's an inspiring chapter, when you 77 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:06,250 come to look at it from that angle. 78 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:12,210 It's a very interesting chapter, because you see 79 00:05:12,210 --> 00:05:19,670 all heaven moving to meet and answer this 80 00:05:19,670 --> 00:05:20,630 man's prayers. 81 00:05:20,850 --> 00:05:22,250 All heaven, I tell you. 82 00:05:23,190 --> 00:05:24,550 All heaven moving. 83 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,000 Most interesting. 84 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,580 And then I think it's a great chapter, 85 00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:36,040 not only because it gives us an insight 86 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,360 into this, and inspires us to pray, and 87 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,980 it's interesting to watch all heaven moving. 88 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,640 But we get an instruction here about principalities, 89 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:54,220 and powers, and the rules of the darkness 90 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:55,200 of this world. 91 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,340 I don't know whether we've ever stopped to 92 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:03,140 consider this phrase, the rules of the darkness 93 00:06:03,140 --> 00:06:05,160 of this world. 94 00:06:05,780 --> 00:06:09,500 Who are these rulers that are determined to 95 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,000 keep the world in darkness? 96 00:06:13,150 --> 00:06:15,290 Well, there's instruction here for us. 97 00:06:15,930 --> 00:06:17,690 It's an interesting chapter. 98 00:06:18,810 --> 00:06:20,650 It's an inspiring one. 99 00:06:21,110 --> 00:06:23,390 It's an instructive one. 100 00:06:24,230 --> 00:06:27,190 It's an indispensable one. 101 00:06:28,050 --> 00:06:31,090 The modernists would love to tear it out. 102 00:06:32,230 --> 00:06:33,550 And they have tried. 103 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,440 They say it doesn't come, but if not, 104 00:06:38,140 --> 00:06:38,900 we shall see. 105 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,660 I tell you, if they could tear this 106 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:47,060 chapter out, we haven't this instruction anywhere else 107 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:48,520 in the book that I know of. 108 00:06:49,580 --> 00:06:51,080 That's why I say it's one of the 109 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:51,540 great ones. 110 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:57,440 And it's not only inspiring, and interesting, and 111 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,940 instructive, and indispensable, it's an intricate chapter. 112 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:06,240 There are difficulties, I admit that. 113 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,520 We've got to face them honestly, why some 114 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:17,460 of the greatest expositors in the world are 115 00:07:17,460 --> 00:07:21,020 all at sixes and sevens with each other 116 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,440 as regards this chapter. 117 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,740 So one must think as it were the 118 00:07:27,740 --> 00:07:30,140 shoes from off his feet when we come 119 00:07:30,140 --> 00:07:30,500 here. 120 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,240 We're on very holy ground. 121 00:07:35,660 --> 00:07:39,180 It's ground that the devil doesn't want us 122 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:39,920 to be on. 123 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:44,040 And all the forces of hell will be 124 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,340 against this bible reading this evening. 125 00:07:47,780 --> 00:07:51,960 And then we take fresh courage because we're 126 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,560 living in the age of grace. 127 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,260 And the Holy Ghost the Comforter has come. 128 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,280 And Jesus promised us when he the spirit 129 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,320 of truth is come, he will guide you 130 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,280 into all truth. 131 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,280 So depending on the Holy Ghost, we're coming 132 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,100 to this great chapter this evening. 133 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:25,440 I've called it 21 Days of Prayer. 134 00:08:26,860 --> 00:08:31,299 You see, first of all, in those days 135 00:08:31,299 --> 00:08:37,200 I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. 136 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:40,880 And it's the same word that we had 137 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,980 last week in the chapter, it's the word 138 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,740 weeks, it's the word sevens. 139 00:08:48,730 --> 00:08:53,350 But it was sevens of years last week 140 00:08:53,350 --> 00:08:54,550 from the context. 141 00:08:55,890 --> 00:08:59,730 And it's quite easy to see that it's 142 00:08:59,730 --> 00:09:03,210 sevens of days this week. 143 00:09:04,050 --> 00:09:07,610 It's three sevens of days. 144 00:09:08,470 --> 00:09:12,810 It's 21 days, three full weeks. 145 00:09:13,410 --> 00:09:16,550 See what verse 3 says, I eat no 146 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:21,430 pleasant bread, neither keep flesh nor wine in 147 00:09:21,430 --> 00:09:25,530 my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at 148 00:09:25,530 --> 00:09:32,090 all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. 149 00:09:33,710 --> 00:09:38,690 21 days of prayer. 150 00:09:40,550 --> 00:09:42,550 My, what a lesson you see in this 151 00:09:42,550 --> 00:09:42,870 evening. 152 00:09:44,070 --> 00:09:48,170 And when you realize that the same Daniel 153 00:09:49,050 --> 00:09:52,070 was somewhere above 86 years of age. 154 00:09:52,730 --> 00:09:54,610 Let's get the first verse in now. 155 00:09:55,910 --> 00:09:59,810 In the third year of Cyrus, king of 156 00:09:59,810 --> 00:10:00,370 Persia. 157 00:10:01,950 --> 00:10:04,170 Now that's very interesting, isn't it? 158 00:10:05,410 --> 00:10:07,650 Those of you who know this book, and 159 00:10:07,650 --> 00:10:09,770 I think by now you should know it. 160 00:10:10,890 --> 00:10:12,650 Do you know how the chapters go? 161 00:10:13,930 --> 00:10:17,150 Well chapter 1 and 2 and 3 and 162 00:10:17,150 --> 00:10:17,570 4. 163 00:10:18,550 --> 00:10:22,770 All have to do with Nebuchadnezzar, the great 164 00:10:22,770 --> 00:10:23,710 king of Babylon. 165 00:10:25,110 --> 00:10:27,150 That's an easy way of knowing Daniel. 166 00:10:27,430 --> 00:10:31,750 1, 2, 3, 4, all belong to the 167 00:10:31,750 --> 00:10:34,490 reign of Nebuchadnezzar. 168 00:10:35,050 --> 00:10:38,230 And then you want to watch this because 169 00:10:38,230 --> 00:10:42,690 it's chapter 5, and then it misses 6 170 00:10:42,690 --> 00:10:46,670 and 7, it's chapter 5 and 8 that 171 00:10:46,670 --> 00:10:48,050 belong to Belshazzar. 172 00:10:48,850 --> 00:10:52,450 You see the chapters are not in chronological 173 00:10:52,450 --> 00:10:52,950 order. 174 00:10:53,830 --> 00:10:57,430 But 1, 2, 3, 4 belong to Nebuchadnezzar, 175 00:10:57,690 --> 00:11:01,250 and then 5 and 8 belong to Belshazzar. 176 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:07,330 And then 6 and 7 and 9 belong 177 00:11:07,330 --> 00:11:08,090 to Darius. 178 00:11:09,170 --> 00:11:13,910 And then 10, we find Cyrus the king 179 00:11:13,910 --> 00:11:14,890 of Persia. 180 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:18,330 So that you can see at a glance 181 00:11:18,330 --> 00:11:22,370 that Daniel lived right through the reign of 182 00:11:22,370 --> 00:11:27,590 Nebuchadnezzar, right through the reign of Belshazzar, right 183 00:11:27,590 --> 00:11:31,190 through the reign of Darius, right into this 184 00:11:31,190 --> 00:11:32,950 very time in this chapter. 185 00:11:34,070 --> 00:11:36,630 And here's a very interesting fact if you 186 00:11:36,630 --> 00:11:39,350 go back to the book of Ezra, let's 187 00:11:39,350 --> 00:11:41,810 go back to Ezra just for a moment. 188 00:11:43,410 --> 00:11:46,710 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, 189 00:11:46,870 --> 00:11:50,610 1st and 2nd Chronicles, and then comes the 190 00:11:50,610 --> 00:11:52,150 book of Ezra. 191 00:11:54,290 --> 00:11:56,470 Now take your time and find the place, 192 00:11:57,810 --> 00:11:59,890 and you young ones who are here and 193 00:11:59,890 --> 00:12:02,650 you don't know your Bibles any well, if 194 00:12:02,650 --> 00:12:05,310 you open the first part of your book 195 00:12:05,310 --> 00:12:09,010 just behind the back there, you'll find directions 196 00:12:09,010 --> 00:12:10,110 to the page. 197 00:12:11,610 --> 00:12:14,290 And I have all the sympathy in the 198 00:12:14,290 --> 00:12:15,210 world with you. 199 00:12:16,030 --> 00:12:19,030 Because when I was first saved and went 200 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:22,370 to church, if the picture preached out of 201 00:12:22,370 --> 00:12:26,730 anywhere, only Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, I couldn't 202 00:12:26,730 --> 00:12:27,610 find it. 203 00:12:28,130 --> 00:12:29,850 I hadn't a chance. 204 00:12:30,610 --> 00:12:32,870 I used to just open it anywhere and 205 00:12:32,870 --> 00:12:35,730 pretend, but that's no good, you're getting on 206 00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:36,810 nowhere like that. 207 00:12:37,130 --> 00:12:38,110 Have you got Ezra? 208 00:12:39,390 --> 00:12:44,230 Well, 2nd Chronicles is before Ezra, and the 209 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:46,650 last chapter is chapter 36. 210 00:12:47,150 --> 00:12:48,830 Do you see verse 22? 211 00:12:50,490 --> 00:12:51,570 Verse 22. 212 00:12:52,110 --> 00:12:55,750 Now in the first year of Cyrus. 213 00:12:56,710 --> 00:12:58,970 See where we were reading tonight? 214 00:12:59,370 --> 00:13:02,170 It's the third year of Cyrus. 215 00:13:02,870 --> 00:13:06,690 Now way back there in 2nd Chronicles, just 216 00:13:06,690 --> 00:13:09,150 before Ezra, verse 22. 217 00:13:09,590 --> 00:13:12,150 Now in the first year of Cyrus king 218 00:13:12,150 --> 00:13:15,230 of Persia, that the word of the Lord 219 00:13:15,230 --> 00:13:18,390 spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be 220 00:13:18,390 --> 00:13:22,470 accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of 221 00:13:22,470 --> 00:13:25,410 Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a 222 00:13:25,410 --> 00:13:28,690 proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it 223 00:13:28,690 --> 00:13:32,670 also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king 224 00:13:32,670 --> 00:13:35,870 of Persia, All the kingdom of the earth 225 00:13:35,870 --> 00:13:38,830 hath the Lord God of heaven given me, 226 00:13:39,150 --> 00:13:41,470 and he hath charged me to build him 227 00:13:41,470 --> 00:13:44,470 a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 228 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:48,170 Who is there among you of all his 229 00:13:48,170 --> 00:13:48,650 people? 230 00:13:49,150 --> 00:13:52,470 The Lord his God be with him, let 231 00:13:52,470 --> 00:13:53,150 him go up. 232 00:13:54,010 --> 00:13:56,790 Now this is the first year. 233 00:13:58,210 --> 00:14:02,130 You see, just to fulfill what Jeremiah had 234 00:14:02,130 --> 00:14:06,430 said, Jeremiah had said that God would take 235 00:14:06,430 --> 00:14:10,010 his people as captives into Babylon and keep 236 00:14:10,010 --> 00:14:11,210 them for 70 years. 237 00:14:11,410 --> 00:14:13,290 Now the 70 years are gone. 238 00:14:14,350 --> 00:14:16,390 It's all the fact I want out of 239 00:14:16,390 --> 00:14:16,650 it. 240 00:14:18,270 --> 00:14:21,150 And if we come to the conclusion that 241 00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:24,770 Daniel was brought as a captive to Babylon 242 00:14:24,770 --> 00:14:27,270 at the age of 16. 243 00:14:28,210 --> 00:14:30,930 Some of the scholars believe he was 14, 244 00:14:31,110 --> 00:14:33,370 some believe he was 15, some believe he 245 00:14:33,370 --> 00:14:34,130 was 16. 246 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,170 It's very difficult to be exact. 247 00:14:38,590 --> 00:14:44,110 Old Testament computerism isn't altogether correct. 248 00:14:45,250 --> 00:14:49,430 But he was somewhere about 14 or 15 249 00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:51,090 or 16, we'll say 16. 250 00:14:52,430 --> 00:14:54,630 And as he came to Babylon as a 251 00:14:54,630 --> 00:14:58,230 young prince captive at the age of 16, 252 00:14:58,550 --> 00:15:00,970 70 years have gone now. 253 00:15:01,930 --> 00:15:04,690 These kings have all run the course. 254 00:15:05,810 --> 00:15:09,870 Jeremiah's prophecy is about to be fulfilled. 255 00:15:10,790 --> 00:15:14,050 He's 86 years of age. 256 00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:17,310 Let's get that settled now. 257 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:26,000 Some people ask me, if the king of 258 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,120 Persia let the captives go back two years 259 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,400 before this, because it's the first year that 260 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:37,840 the king let them go back. 261 00:15:38,340 --> 00:15:40,920 Why did Daniel not go back? 262 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,240 It's a very good question. 263 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:46,800 Because in the third year he's still in 264 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,120 Babylon. 265 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,000 And I believe maybe the answer's found in 266 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:52,860 the book of Ezra. 267 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:57,100 You know when these captives had the liberty 268 00:15:57,100 --> 00:16:01,160 and the opportunity to go back, not very 269 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,580 many of them responded at all. 270 00:16:06,410 --> 00:16:09,930 A great multitude had made their home in 271 00:16:09,930 --> 00:16:10,290 Babylon. 272 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,540 And I believe that Daniel stayed to pray 273 00:16:17,540 --> 00:16:18,380 them out of it. 274 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:22,260 But we'll find out as we go on 275 00:16:22,260 --> 00:16:23,640 with the story this evening. 276 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,740 I'm only proving his age, so we'll not 277 00:16:26,740 --> 00:16:28,000 ponder that anymore. 278 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,740 We'll go back to Daniel 10. 279 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,100 So you can see this old man, 86 280 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:44,070 years of age, bowing down before his God, 281 00:16:45,470 --> 00:16:51,610 holding on to the throne for 21 days. 282 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,900 I want you to look at those days 283 00:16:56,900 --> 00:17:00,240 of devotion that Daniel had. 284 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,040 I want you to notice this phrase in 285 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:10,980 verse 3, I ate no pleasant bread, neither 286 00:17:10,980 --> 00:17:18,160 came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither 287 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,940 did I anoint myself at all. 288 00:17:22,579 --> 00:17:25,520 I want you to see this old man 289 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:29,520 got down before God and denied himself. 290 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:32,860 I want you to get that. 291 00:17:34,690 --> 00:17:36,490 Because I can tell some of you young 292 00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:38,450 ones if you're going to learn to pray 293 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:40,590 at all, you'll have to deny yourself. 294 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,400 I'll tell you this is not easy. 295 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:49,240 You know if you're going to really pray, 296 00:17:49,940 --> 00:17:52,700 if you're going to really get alone with 297 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:56,260 God, you'll have to learn what it meant 298 00:17:56,260 --> 00:18:00,560 when Christ said, and thou when thou dreast 299 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,320 enter into thy closet and shut thy door. 300 00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:08,600 Because you've got to get alone, you've got 301 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,660 to deny yourself. 302 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,600 You know when you're really praying something through, 303 00:18:15,820 --> 00:18:20,380 something that's burdening you, something that you must 304 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:22,660 get right before God. 305 00:18:24,060 --> 00:18:27,280 Then you'll have to deny yourself food. 306 00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:31,720 Maybe we wouldn't be prepared for that. 307 00:18:33,950 --> 00:18:36,850 Maybe the snails that come from the kitchen 308 00:18:36,850 --> 00:18:38,690 wouldn't allow you to do it. 309 00:18:40,130 --> 00:18:42,550 You have to shut the door on food 310 00:18:42,550 --> 00:18:47,640 at times, and you have to shut the 311 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,600 door on friends at times. 312 00:18:53,820 --> 00:18:56,860 Sometimes I just tell my wife, it doesn't 313 00:18:56,860 --> 00:18:59,000 make a matter who comes, you just tell 314 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,140 them that I'm with God. 315 00:19:02,910 --> 00:19:04,530 Maybe they think I'm dodging them. 316 00:19:04,570 --> 00:19:07,090 You can think whatever you like, if you 317 00:19:07,090 --> 00:19:08,190 go ahead with the thinking. 318 00:19:09,430 --> 00:19:11,370 What you think doesn't worry me. 319 00:19:14,310 --> 00:19:16,690 You've got to shut the door on food. 320 00:19:18,110 --> 00:19:20,510 You've got to shut the door on friends. 321 00:19:21,770 --> 00:19:24,030 You've got to shut the door on fun. 322 00:19:25,750 --> 00:19:31,100 Now you give up your fun too, you've 323 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:34,180 got to shut the door on fools. 324 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,080 Because usually when I get down to pray 325 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,940 there's always some fool at the door. 326 00:19:40,940 --> 00:19:43,140 I think the devil sends them round. 327 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,200 Well I just send them away. 328 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,580 I'll tell you this is the great matter 329 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:52,620 of this praying business you know. 330 00:19:54,180 --> 00:19:59,360 There are bottles that have been engaged here 331 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,140 that have never been put on the page 332 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:03,520 of history and never will. 333 00:20:05,740 --> 00:20:09,960 You see this is 21 days of denying 334 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,920 yourself. 335 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,820 Have a look at verse 11 there just 336 00:20:15,820 --> 00:20:16,620 for a moment. 337 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,340 The angel who came to Daniel when he 338 00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:22,640 had prayed for 21 days, and we'll not 339 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,240 hurry this, the angel said, he said unto 340 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:30,980 me, O Daniel a man gratefully beloved. 341 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,580 I can tell you whether the folks talked 342 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:37,820 about them or not, heaven loved them. 343 00:20:39,860 --> 00:20:42,480 Sometimes when the critics are turned away at 344 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,260 the door they could say all sorts of 345 00:20:44,260 --> 00:20:45,160 things about you. 346 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:47,720 I'll tell you heaven doesn't say a word. 347 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,040 Yes, he said unto me, O Daniel a 348 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,660 man gratefully beloved. 349 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,760 Understand the words that I speak unto thee 350 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,540 and stand upright, for unto thee am I 351 00:21:02,540 --> 00:21:03,560 now sent. 352 00:21:04,580 --> 00:21:06,440 And when he had spoken this word unto 353 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:07,960 me I stood trembling. 354 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:11,660 And he said unto me, fear not Daniel, 355 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:15,800 for from the first day that thou did 356 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,660 set thine heart to understand. 357 00:21:21,670 --> 00:21:23,550 This is what it was all about you 358 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:24,130 know. 359 00:21:25,170 --> 00:21:28,370 He got down before God, and I want 360 00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:32,490 you to watch the rephrase, set thine heart, 361 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:40,280 because in this great matter of prayer it 362 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,140 is the heart that matters. 363 00:21:44,610 --> 00:21:48,370 It is not your language, nor how quick 364 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:50,910 you can get through it, nor how fast, 365 00:21:51,010 --> 00:21:54,590 nor how loud, nor how dramatic. 366 00:21:56,660 --> 00:22:00,820 Oh not at all, it's the heart that 367 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:01,220 counts. 368 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,240 You know that the psalmist knew this. 369 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:09,520 He said if we regard iniquity in our 370 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,460 hearts the Lord will not hear us. 371 00:22:14,190 --> 00:22:16,190 And if you're going through the whole day 372 00:22:16,190 --> 00:22:19,970 thinking about sex or naked woman, you must 373 00:22:19,970 --> 00:22:24,900 stop praying, for the Lord will not hear 374 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:25,120 you. 375 00:22:26,180 --> 00:22:28,620 He just shuts his ears to that sort 376 00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:29,000 of thing. 377 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:33,340 You're blocking the Lord you know, the heart 378 00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:34,400 that can't hear. 379 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:38,680 And it's the same for husbands and wives. 380 00:22:40,060 --> 00:22:43,040 If you're barging and buckling it out, and 381 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,140 eating the face of one another at home. 382 00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:53,730 Peter said your prayers will be hindered, because 383 00:22:53,730 --> 00:22:57,350 your thought life can hinder your prayer life, 384 00:22:57,350 --> 00:23:01,610 and your home life can hinder your prayer 385 00:23:01,610 --> 00:23:01,970 life. 386 00:23:03,650 --> 00:23:05,570 You know if you're going to pray at 387 00:23:05,570 --> 00:23:08,190 all, you'll have to set your heart. 388 00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:11,010 That's the thing that we're trying to get 389 00:23:11,010 --> 00:23:11,530 across. 390 00:23:13,090 --> 00:23:16,010 You see it's the desires of the heart, 391 00:23:16,910 --> 00:23:19,810 and it's the heart that's right with God. 392 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:24,850 You know he sets his heart to understand. 393 00:23:25,090 --> 00:23:26,650 I want you to watch that. 394 00:23:27,470 --> 00:23:29,090 As you understand what? 395 00:23:30,250 --> 00:23:32,490 It says from the first day that thou 396 00:23:32,490 --> 00:23:35,770 did set thine heart to understand. 397 00:23:37,190 --> 00:23:39,690 What was Daniel praying about at all? 398 00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:40,830 Look in verse 14. 399 00:23:41,630 --> 00:23:45,690 The angel said, now I am come to 400 00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:51,050 make thee understand what shall befall thy people 401 00:23:51,050 --> 00:23:52,790 in the latter days. 402 00:23:52,910 --> 00:23:54,230 That's what he was up to. 403 00:23:57,350 --> 00:23:59,470 You know there was just a little remnant 404 00:23:59,470 --> 00:24:01,090 went back with Ephraim. 405 00:24:02,410 --> 00:24:04,950 But there's a multitude in this land of 406 00:24:04,950 --> 00:24:11,340 idols, and Daniel's burdened about God's people. 407 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,940 And he's getting down before God, and he's 408 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:21,240 gripping his throne, and he's honestly wanting to 409 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,180 know what's going to befall this people in 410 00:24:25,180 --> 00:24:26,120 the last days. 411 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,500 And you know the devil doesn't like you 412 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:34,220 to be anxious about the people of God 413 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:34,960 and their goods. 414 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,240 He doesn't like you at all. 415 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,840 And so you can see that Daniel denied 416 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,500 himself, and you can see these days of 417 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:48,160 desiring before God. 418 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,760 And I want you to watch this phrase 419 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,800 in verse 12. 420 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,080 It says, for from the first day that 421 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,820 thou did set thine heart to understand and 422 00:24:59,820 --> 00:25:04,060 to chasten myself before thy God. 423 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:10,120 You know this was between this man and 424 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:10,700 God. 425 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:14,420 He got along with God. 426 00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:17,720 It was God's throne. 427 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,300 It was God's faith. 428 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,840 It was God's ear. 429 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,000 It was God that Daniel got before. 430 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,540 This was a real business. 431 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,100 You know if you're anxious about prayer and 432 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,900 how to pray, one of the great books 433 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:39,660 of the Bible for you is the book 434 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:40,160 of Daniel. 435 00:25:42,820 --> 00:25:45,480 Because Daniel will teach you in one of 436 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,720 the chapters, when to pray. 437 00:25:50,060 --> 00:25:52,560 Three times a day. 438 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:54,620 Never failed. 439 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,600 Even when he faced the lion's den. 440 00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:01,420 He just went on as he did the 441 00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:02,120 four times. 442 00:26:02,620 --> 00:26:03,820 Three times a day. 443 00:26:03,860 --> 00:26:05,960 It's the best medicine you'll ever get. 444 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,240 They write it on the medicine bottle three 445 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,080 times a day, but I can tell you 446 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,220 this is better medicine. 447 00:26:14,460 --> 00:26:19,040 And if we could just dedicate our lives 448 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,420 that somewhere each day, maybe in the morning, 449 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,720 maybe at noon, maybe at night, but three 450 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,080 times a day somewhere, I shall get along 451 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:31,980 with God. 452 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:33,900 Do you know? 453 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,060 Daniel would teach you when to pray. 454 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,720 And I'll tell you that this chapter tonight 455 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,880 will teach you how to pray. 456 00:26:51,830 --> 00:26:53,830 You'll have to be alone with God. 457 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,640 And when you're alone, whether it's an old 458 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,580 sermon or not, I'll tell you this, you'll 459 00:27:00,580 --> 00:27:01,340 come out fresh. 460 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,340 Because unless you go in, you needn't come 461 00:27:05,340 --> 00:27:06,180 out to the folks. 462 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,500 Now Daniel was alone. 463 00:27:09,660 --> 00:27:10,140 That's it. 464 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,880 For this great vision. 465 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,480 And there remained no strength in me. 466 00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:21,260 Do you see what this revelation did to 467 00:27:21,260 --> 00:27:21,440 him? 468 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,380 Now I can catch the boys on every 469 00:27:25,380 --> 00:27:27,240 time they come to me and say they 470 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:27,900 have revelation. 471 00:27:30,590 --> 00:27:32,850 Because you know you couldn't get a heart 472 00:27:32,850 --> 00:27:33,910 big enough for them. 473 00:27:35,150 --> 00:27:37,110 Oh, I can see them, you know. 474 00:27:38,330 --> 00:27:40,630 And the character came down to me one 475 00:27:40,630 --> 00:27:44,270 night and he said, Mr. Monk, why you 476 00:27:44,270 --> 00:27:46,090 should see him demonstrating this. 477 00:27:46,910 --> 00:27:48,310 He must have thought I was a fool, 478 00:27:48,410 --> 00:27:50,150 you know, but I was watching him carefully. 479 00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:54,350 Oh, I have the greatest vision I've ever 480 00:27:54,350 --> 00:27:54,750 had. 481 00:27:55,830 --> 00:27:58,850 God came into the room, filled the room 482 00:27:58,850 --> 00:27:59,490 with light. 483 00:28:00,390 --> 00:28:04,210 And he told me that Mr. Monk was 484 00:28:04,210 --> 00:28:06,570 the greatest man in this world. 485 00:28:06,750 --> 00:28:08,770 God help them for being such a liar. 486 00:28:12,210 --> 00:28:15,030 You know, he was all charmed about it. 487 00:28:15,070 --> 00:28:16,630 He was working himself up. 488 00:28:16,730 --> 00:28:18,870 He was exalting himself. 489 00:28:19,050 --> 00:28:22,330 It was all fresh from beginning to end. 490 00:28:22,450 --> 00:28:24,190 I'll tell you where you'll find him tonight. 491 00:28:24,410 --> 00:28:25,090 Up in the pub. 492 00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:27,390 He's in the pub now. 493 00:28:28,110 --> 00:28:30,350 I find him coming along drunk there sometimes. 494 00:28:31,270 --> 00:28:32,430 I just pass him by. 495 00:28:32,510 --> 00:28:33,830 But one night I was in that sort 496 00:28:33,830 --> 00:28:35,510 of religious talk to him and said, hey, 497 00:28:35,610 --> 00:28:36,770 you the boy that had the vision. 498 00:28:39,340 --> 00:28:40,580 You will never see him. 499 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,980 I tell you, if you got near to 500 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:45,800 the Lord, it would knock a statue of 501 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:45,980 you. 502 00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:49,420 There'd be no question about it. 503 00:28:50,180 --> 00:28:51,540 You'd creep into a hole. 504 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,260 My dear friends, if you get near to 505 00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:57,980 God, you never talk about yourself at all. 506 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,940 You're just a wee fellow, miserable wee fellow. 507 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:03,900 That's all. 508 00:29:04,780 --> 00:29:06,520 St. Daniel, he was a great man. 509 00:29:08,510 --> 00:29:10,910 He says, therefore I was left alone and 510 00:29:10,910 --> 00:29:13,990 saw this great vision, and there remained no 511 00:29:13,990 --> 00:29:18,810 strength in me, for my comeliness was turned 512 00:29:18,810 --> 00:29:23,310 in me into corruption, and I retained no 513 00:29:23,310 --> 00:29:23,950 strength. 514 00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:26,690 Yet heard I the voice of his words, 515 00:29:27,270 --> 00:29:29,050 and when I heard the voice of his 516 00:29:29,050 --> 00:29:31,750 words, then was I in a deep sleep 517 00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:33,710 on my face and my face toward the 518 00:29:33,710 --> 00:29:34,010 ground. 519 00:29:36,150 --> 00:29:38,070 Now I want you to get the other 520 00:29:38,070 --> 00:29:41,190 part, because it's the other part that's really 521 00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:41,870 important. 522 00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:48,870 And behold, a hand touched me, and I 523 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:51,750 want you to watch the word touched as 524 00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:52,830 we go through the chapter. 525 00:29:53,050 --> 00:29:54,730 I'll gather them together afterwards. 526 00:29:56,330 --> 00:29:58,630 And set me upon my knees and upon 527 00:29:58,630 --> 00:30:00,610 the palms of my hands, and he said 528 00:30:00,610 --> 00:30:03,810 unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, 529 00:30:04,030 --> 00:30:06,270 understand the words that I speak unto thee, 530 00:30:06,470 --> 00:30:07,650 and stand upright. 531 00:30:09,790 --> 00:30:12,810 And that's a pretty good indication that this 532 00:30:12,810 --> 00:30:13,770 was an angel. 533 00:30:15,870 --> 00:30:17,330 Pretty good indication. 534 00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:20,670 Because it would be quite right to bow 535 00:30:20,670 --> 00:30:21,770 before the Lord. 536 00:30:23,310 --> 00:30:25,550 And you know, when the Lord walked on 537 00:30:25,550 --> 00:30:28,790 the water and got into the boat, it 538 00:30:28,790 --> 00:30:33,590 says that all the disciples worshipped him. 539 00:30:34,410 --> 00:30:36,630 In the boat, they worshipped him. 540 00:30:37,990 --> 00:30:41,150 And when the old Scottish divine was preaching 541 00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:44,690 once and that, he said there wasn't a 542 00:30:44,690 --> 00:30:46,750 blessed Unitarian in the boat. 543 00:30:48,050 --> 00:30:51,130 Because the Unitarians can't worship the Lord, because 544 00:30:51,130 --> 00:30:52,570 they don't believe he's God. 545 00:30:54,970 --> 00:30:57,130 But if you believe he's God, you can 546 00:30:57,130 --> 00:30:57,390 worship. 547 00:30:58,610 --> 00:31:00,590 But this is just an angel, and he 548 00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:02,190 says, now you just stand upright. 549 00:31:04,490 --> 00:31:06,390 And I think it goes on to prove 550 00:31:06,390 --> 00:31:07,290 it more than that. 551 00:31:07,730 --> 00:31:10,110 Unto thee am I now sent, and when 552 00:31:10,110 --> 00:31:12,410 he had spoken this word unto me, I 553 00:31:12,410 --> 00:31:14,510 stood trembling. 554 00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:19,290 My, this book's a great book, how perfectly 555 00:31:19,290 --> 00:31:20,030 it is written. 556 00:31:21,150 --> 00:31:23,770 Then said he unto me, fear not, Daniel, 557 00:31:25,570 --> 00:31:28,410 for from the first day that thou didst 558 00:31:28,410 --> 00:31:31,310 set thine heart to understand, and to treat 559 00:31:31,310 --> 00:31:34,950 them thyself before thy God, thy words were 560 00:31:34,950 --> 00:31:35,410 heard. 561 00:31:36,930 --> 00:31:38,850 You know, he got right through. 562 00:31:40,530 --> 00:31:42,610 Once did he get the hold of this. 563 00:31:43,810 --> 00:31:46,790 My, he really got through to the full. 564 00:31:47,570 --> 00:31:49,050 Thy words were heard. 565 00:31:49,110 --> 00:31:51,490 And I'll tell you this, if you can 566 00:31:51,490 --> 00:31:56,210 be absolutely sure that God hears you, if 567 00:31:56,210 --> 00:31:59,190 you know that he hears you, this New 568 00:31:59,190 --> 00:32:03,530 Testament says, then you have the petition that 569 00:32:03,530 --> 00:32:04,610 you desire to fill. 570 00:32:06,210 --> 00:32:07,850 Oh, Daniel got right through. 571 00:32:09,030 --> 00:32:11,410 But Daniel didn't know that he had got 572 00:32:11,410 --> 00:32:11,930 right through. 573 00:32:13,190 --> 00:32:15,570 And it said this, thy words were heard, 574 00:32:15,670 --> 00:32:17,250 and I am come for thy words. 575 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,380 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia 576 00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:24,780 withstood me one and twenty days. 577 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,720 Now, let's think about this prince for a 578 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,500 moment or two. 579 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,920 You know, the chapter began in the third 580 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,140 year of Cyrus, king of Persia. 581 00:32:39,860 --> 00:32:43,020 What's the difference between the king of Persia 582 00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:45,760 and the prince of Persia? 583 00:32:48,110 --> 00:32:50,270 Now, there is no doubt at all that 584 00:32:50,270 --> 00:32:53,310 this was a great angelic being that was 585 00:32:53,310 --> 00:32:56,550 sent from heaven to answer Daniel's prayer. 586 00:32:56,670 --> 00:32:58,050 There's no doubt in your mind. 587 00:32:58,590 --> 00:33:00,450 Some of the scholars believe it was the 588 00:33:00,450 --> 00:33:01,070 Lord Jesus. 589 00:33:02,830 --> 00:33:05,070 I know it was a great angelic being. 590 00:33:05,710 --> 00:33:09,210 Now, when it talks about the prince of 591 00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:11,510 the kingdom of Persia, do you think it's 592 00:33:11,510 --> 00:33:13,490 talking about an ordinary human? 593 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,400 Because I would give you more marks than 594 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:18,820 that. 595 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,960 You would know right well on the seat 596 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,220 where you sit that no human could keep 597 00:33:24,220 --> 00:33:26,400 an angel back for 21 days. 598 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,840 So, we're not talking about a human now. 599 00:33:31,380 --> 00:33:34,660 We're entering into something else that's really wonderful. 600 00:33:37,090 --> 00:33:40,750 You see, let's go to Ephesians for a 601 00:33:40,750 --> 00:33:41,330 moment. 602 00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:44,810 Twelve letters to the Ephesians. 603 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:52,280 And we're now at the sixth chapter. 604 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,680 Twelve letters to the Ephesians, chapter six. 605 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,260 I'm commencing to read at verse 10. 606 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:07,060 And Paul said, finally my brethren be strong 607 00:34:07,060 --> 00:34:08,920 in the Lord and in the power of 608 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:09,480 his might. 609 00:34:10,659 --> 00:34:12,719 Put on the whole armor of God that 610 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,699 you may be able to stand against the 611 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:15,960 wiles of the devil. 612 00:34:17,219 --> 00:34:21,040 For we believers wrestle not against flesh and 613 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:30,780 blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the 614 00:34:30,780 --> 00:34:35,320 rules of the darkness of this world, against 615 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,020 spiritual wickedness in high places. 616 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,800 I want you to see the enemy here 617 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,199 outlined before you. 618 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,679 Principalities, do you know what that means? 619 00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:54,800 We wrestle against principalities, against powers. 620 00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:59,780 Here's a great phrase, against the rules of 621 00:34:59,780 --> 00:35:05,480 the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits, 622 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,400 it is translated once, against wicked spirits in 623 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,320 heavenly places. 624 00:35:13,870 --> 00:35:18,690 You see, over the kingdom of Persia was 625 00:35:18,690 --> 00:35:21,270 the king called Cyrus at that time. 626 00:35:22,690 --> 00:35:26,630 But then over him, although he didn't know 627 00:35:26,630 --> 00:35:30,530 it, there was a prince, one of these 628 00:35:30,530 --> 00:35:37,890 principalities, one of these powers, one of these 629 00:35:37,890 --> 00:35:41,030 rulers of the darkness of Persia. 630 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,220 And there's a man in the nation now, 631 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,640 and he's going to get white. 632 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:52,600 Ah well, we'll have to stop him, says 633 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,020 the devil, from getting white. 634 00:35:55,180 --> 00:36:00,600 So he sent this mighty principality, he's called 635 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,600 the prince of Persia. 636 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:05,460 He's not a human being, he's one of 637 00:36:05,460 --> 00:36:07,340 these rulers of the darkness. 638 00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:16,280 You know friends, over this province of ours, 639 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,800 we've had many prime ministers. 640 00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:25,870 But let's get this in tonight, that over 641 00:36:25,870 --> 00:36:29,450 all the prime ministers that we've ever had, 642 00:36:29,490 --> 00:36:34,280 or are ever likely to have, the devil 643 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:40,460 has designated one of his great princes, and 644 00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:42,140 he's the prince of Ulster. 645 00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:45,980 That's what he would be called, if we 646 00:36:45,980 --> 00:36:46,660 could understand. 647 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,560 And let me tell you, he's done a 648 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,720 brave job for the devil. 649 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:53,900 He's done a brave job. 650 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,280 I'm sure the devil's thinking of decorating him 651 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:58,920 just now. 652 00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:05,610 You know, there was an old man who 653 00:37:05,610 --> 00:37:09,630 dreamed a dream once, and he thought he 654 00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:12,270 could see the whole army of the devil. 655 00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:17,900 And the devil is walking up and down 656 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:21,220 the ranks, looking at all these principalities, and 657 00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:24,240 these powers of his, and all these rulers 658 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,440 of the darkness. 659 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,560 And he's saying to them, there's a little 660 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,980 province down yonder, and they're getting more lights, 661 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,160 and more lights, and more lights, and what 662 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,520 are you fellows doing about it? 663 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,300 And one of them stepped forward and said, 664 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:46,840 said sir, I've got the folk attracted to 665 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,420 the football. 666 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,600 Now the devil says, that's no good, you 667 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:50,440 ought to stop that. 668 00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:52,480 And another one said this, and another one 669 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:53,800 said that, and they all stood. 670 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,020 And the devil said, I'll tell you what's 671 00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:57,380 wrong with you, you don't know. 672 00:37:58,580 --> 00:38:00,740 There's an old woman away down in a 673 00:38:00,740 --> 00:38:04,340 wee cottage down yonder, and she's on her 674 00:38:04,340 --> 00:38:07,600 knees from morning to night, and she's praying 675 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,880 the blessing of God down upon the place. 676 00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:11,880 You'll have to take her home. 677 00:38:14,650 --> 00:38:18,670 And I'll tell you this, you just examine 678 00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:21,930 it just in your own logic tonight. 679 00:38:23,130 --> 00:38:26,470 It doesn't matter how big it touches, it 680 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:29,150 doesn't matter how many folks we have, it 681 00:38:29,150 --> 00:38:32,090 doesn't matter about the financial end, it doesn't 682 00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:34,730 matter about the blessings in the soul, have 683 00:38:34,730 --> 00:38:35,630 a look at the promises. 684 00:38:38,510 --> 00:38:41,070 You take every church representative here, and I'll 685 00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:43,010 tell you the smallest meeting in your church 686 00:38:43,010 --> 00:38:44,010 is the prayer meeting. 687 00:38:46,990 --> 00:38:49,370 Because the devil keeps folks from going to 688 00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:50,050 the prayer meeting. 689 00:38:52,380 --> 00:38:54,360 There's a big man who sits over there 690 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,580 who prays sometimes. 691 00:38:56,620 --> 00:38:58,580 Lord, thank you for the folk at the 692 00:38:58,580 --> 00:39:00,900 prayer meeting tonight, because the devil never brought 693 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:01,400 one of them. 694 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,420 The devil doesn't take you to prayer meetings. 695 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,580 The devil keeps you from going. 696 00:39:08,540 --> 00:39:10,440 Maybe he has kept some of you for 697 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:10,960 years. 698 00:39:14,370 --> 00:39:17,710 You see, these principalities need to be understood. 699 00:39:20,050 --> 00:39:23,670 And you know this great prince of Persia, 700 00:39:24,890 --> 00:39:28,410 this prince that belonged to the devil's army, 701 00:39:29,670 --> 00:39:33,390 this prince was so powerful that he stopped 702 00:39:33,390 --> 00:39:37,890 this angelic being from coming from heaven with 703 00:39:37,890 --> 00:39:40,310 the answer for 21 days. 704 00:39:42,210 --> 00:39:44,170 You don't tell me it was Christ that 705 00:39:44,170 --> 00:39:44,730 was stopped. 706 00:39:46,570 --> 00:39:47,670 Not a bit of it. 707 00:39:47,730 --> 00:39:49,130 He would just brush him aside. 708 00:39:50,450 --> 00:39:52,790 But he was so powerful that he stopped 709 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:53,330 this angel. 710 00:39:54,630 --> 00:39:57,110 Now, let's get this bit and let's go 711 00:39:57,110 --> 00:39:57,870 back to Daniel. 712 00:40:01,870 --> 00:40:04,430 He's talking to Daniel, he says, thy words 713 00:40:04,430 --> 00:40:06,550 were heard in verse 12 at the end, 714 00:40:06,850 --> 00:40:08,690 and I am come for thy words. 715 00:40:09,770 --> 00:40:12,570 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia, 716 00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:18,470 this wicked spirit, withstood me, withstood this shining 717 00:40:18,470 --> 00:40:23,150 angel for one and twenty days, 21 days, 718 00:40:23,550 --> 00:40:24,510 three, four weeks. 719 00:40:26,050 --> 00:40:28,770 I'll tell you this, Daniel never gave in. 720 00:40:30,730 --> 00:40:31,650 Not a bit of it. 721 00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:33,370 All the time he's on his face, this 722 00:40:33,370 --> 00:40:33,910 old man. 723 00:40:35,290 --> 00:40:38,290 The battle's raged and in the heavens, he's 724 00:40:38,290 --> 00:40:41,250 got the hold of the throne by faith, 725 00:40:41,370 --> 00:40:43,810 and he's not letting go. 726 00:40:44,670 --> 00:40:46,270 He's carrying it through. 727 00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:50,350 And I'll tell you, all heaven came to 728 00:40:50,350 --> 00:40:54,550 his aid, because a man on his knees, 729 00:40:54,650 --> 00:40:57,530 or a woman on her knees, meanin' business 730 00:40:57,530 --> 00:41:00,650 with God, is a powerful character. 731 00:41:02,350 --> 00:41:04,630 Some of us only fool around with prayer, 732 00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:06,310 not talking to you at all. 733 00:41:06,990 --> 00:41:08,070 You're only blabbering. 734 00:41:09,370 --> 00:41:11,630 We're talking about people who pray. 735 00:41:13,290 --> 00:41:15,810 We're not talking about praying about business. 736 00:41:17,290 --> 00:41:19,770 We're talking about people who know how to 737 00:41:19,770 --> 00:41:20,830 get about the business. 738 00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:24,470 Some of us have never been at it 739 00:41:24,470 --> 00:41:24,730 yet. 740 00:41:26,430 --> 00:41:28,670 Oh, it's a great chapter, isn't it? 741 00:41:28,910 --> 00:41:30,430 It's a lot of things in it. 742 00:41:31,550 --> 00:41:36,450 Now watch this very carefully, verse 13. 743 00:41:37,970 --> 00:41:41,670 The angel says, but the prince of the 744 00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:45,290 kingdom of Persia, this mighty being who was 745 00:41:45,290 --> 00:41:48,950 over the darkness of Persia, withstood me, this 746 00:41:48,950 --> 00:41:51,410 great angel, one and twenty days. 747 00:41:51,710 --> 00:41:56,750 But lo, Michael, one of the chief princes. 748 00:41:58,270 --> 00:42:00,870 Oh, see now, see a human being, fair 749 00:42:00,870 --> 00:42:02,510 enough on your life is not. 750 00:42:02,910 --> 00:42:06,510 That's why I know the exposition I'm giving 751 00:42:06,510 --> 00:42:07,170 is true. 752 00:42:07,890 --> 00:42:10,090 You see, Michael is the archangel. 753 00:42:11,650 --> 00:42:13,950 Now here's what this angel is saying. 754 00:42:14,270 --> 00:42:16,430 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood 755 00:42:16,430 --> 00:42:17,650 me one and twenty days. 756 00:42:18,110 --> 00:42:20,850 But lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, 757 00:42:21,050 --> 00:42:21,970 came to help me. 758 00:42:23,450 --> 00:42:26,270 You know, it took the archangel to come 759 00:42:26,270 --> 00:42:30,950 down and help this other angel pass this 760 00:42:30,950 --> 00:42:33,610 wicked spirit so that he got there to 761 00:42:33,610 --> 00:42:35,030 tell the answer to Daniel. 762 00:42:36,290 --> 00:42:38,450 You know, when a man gets on his 763 00:42:38,450 --> 00:42:41,050 knees, all heaven gets about the business. 764 00:42:42,550 --> 00:42:44,510 I'll tell you, all hell gets about it 765 00:42:44,510 --> 00:42:44,770 too. 766 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:49,660 That's where battles rage. 767 00:42:51,060 --> 00:42:56,020 Young man, young woman, go home and learn 768 00:42:56,020 --> 00:42:56,800 to pray. 769 00:42:59,140 --> 00:43:01,060 It's the greatest thing in the world. 770 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,760 I had a wee mother, you know, she 771 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,580 was only about, about four feet thick, she 772 00:43:06,580 --> 00:43:07,520 was, maybe not. 773 00:43:09,180 --> 00:43:11,360 And I say this to you, she never 774 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,060 owned a jacket in her life. 775 00:43:13,660 --> 00:43:14,720 She wore a shawl. 776 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:17,980 She was my mother and I love her. 777 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:20,860 She always wore a shawl. 778 00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,200 Old shawl, it was too. 779 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,300 I'll tell you this, she knew more about 780 00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:29,420 prayer than anybody else I've ever known. 781 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,280 Oh, she hadn't two coppers. 782 00:43:36,470 --> 00:43:38,450 I'd see her in heaven and I must 783 00:43:38,450 --> 00:43:41,750 have the feeling that she'll be well near 784 00:43:41,750 --> 00:43:42,230 the front. 785 00:43:43,710 --> 00:43:45,330 Maybe her son will not be near the 786 00:43:45,330 --> 00:43:46,190 distance at all. 787 00:43:47,870 --> 00:43:50,150 But there were 17 of us, you know, 788 00:43:51,110 --> 00:43:52,450 and we were all in rags. 789 00:43:53,430 --> 00:43:55,490 I never had shoes on my feet when 790 00:43:55,490 --> 00:43:56,250 I went to school. 791 00:43:57,370 --> 00:44:00,630 Boy, I'd be amused that these great professors 792 00:44:00,630 --> 00:44:03,070 on the TV these nights, they amuse me. 793 00:44:03,610 --> 00:44:05,770 They're the greatest lot of doofs on God's 794 00:44:05,770 --> 00:44:06,030 earth. 795 00:44:07,350 --> 00:44:09,230 I heard one of them talking the other 796 00:44:09,230 --> 00:44:12,190 night about the school children, the tick and 797 00:44:12,190 --> 00:44:13,090 the motoxin. 798 00:44:13,970 --> 00:44:16,790 He says, you know, they'll grow up and 799 00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:20,250 they'll be all weaklings in no time at 800 00:44:20,250 --> 00:44:20,510 all. 801 00:44:20,730 --> 00:44:22,330 There's nothing about it. 802 00:44:22,850 --> 00:44:24,910 When I went to school, I went on 803 00:44:24,910 --> 00:44:26,990 the bus every day, summer and winter. 804 00:44:27,790 --> 00:44:30,490 And there were screenings, do you know what 805 00:44:30,490 --> 00:44:31,270 screenings are? 806 00:44:31,610 --> 00:44:34,110 Restones, that's what the yard wasn't tarmac or 807 00:44:34,110 --> 00:44:35,050 anything like that. 808 00:44:35,610 --> 00:44:36,010 Screenings. 809 00:44:36,810 --> 00:44:38,430 You used to learn to run on the 810 00:44:38,430 --> 00:44:39,370 screenings in your bus. 811 00:44:39,390 --> 00:44:41,010 You could do it wonderfully once you got 812 00:44:41,010 --> 00:44:41,370 to go. 813 00:44:42,410 --> 00:44:44,390 And you know, you had a piece with, 814 00:44:44,470 --> 00:44:45,610 you know what a piece is? 815 00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:48,910 And I say piece in the English footless, 816 00:44:49,050 --> 00:44:50,570 and then to this, they don't know what 817 00:44:50,570 --> 00:44:51,310 we're talking about. 818 00:44:51,370 --> 00:44:53,550 But then you see they're way backward anyway. 819 00:44:54,270 --> 00:44:56,170 That will help them when they hear this 820 00:44:56,170 --> 00:44:56,590 again. 821 00:44:58,030 --> 00:45:00,070 You know, we had two pieces of bread 822 00:45:00,070 --> 00:45:02,090 wrapped up in a bit of a telegraph 823 00:45:02,090 --> 00:45:06,350 and margarine, margarine in between. 824 00:45:06,530 --> 00:45:08,490 Sure you never saw butter in your life. 825 00:45:09,770 --> 00:45:13,030 My dear friend, I stood for all my 826 00:45:13,030 --> 00:45:17,410 school life, frozen in the wintertime on my 827 00:45:17,410 --> 00:45:21,150 bed seat, eating two slices of loaf and 828 00:45:21,150 --> 00:45:21,770 more. 829 00:45:22,290 --> 00:45:24,570 I'd like that old professor to come and 830 00:45:24,570 --> 00:45:25,370 have a look at me. 831 00:45:27,430 --> 00:45:30,270 They should hate them boys. 832 00:45:30,390 --> 00:45:31,770 They don't know what they're talking about. 833 00:45:31,870 --> 00:45:33,410 They never saw kids growing up. 834 00:45:34,030 --> 00:45:34,670 They're mad. 835 00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:37,250 The way they go on. 836 00:45:38,450 --> 00:45:40,790 Friends, let's get the hold of this. 837 00:45:41,750 --> 00:45:45,030 We had 16 boys and one girl in 838 00:45:45,030 --> 00:45:45,630 our family. 839 00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:47,290 And we were poor. 840 00:45:47,430 --> 00:45:48,430 We were in poverty. 841 00:45:50,210 --> 00:45:53,730 But my old mother got down on her 842 00:45:53,730 --> 00:45:56,650 two knees on the bed tyres every night. 843 00:45:56,710 --> 00:45:58,010 I can see her you know. 844 00:45:58,970 --> 00:46:01,110 And put her old white hands up. 845 00:46:01,730 --> 00:46:03,390 And you should hear her pray. 846 00:46:04,970 --> 00:46:07,550 Boy you wouldn't move and you wouldn't dare 847 00:46:07,550 --> 00:46:08,170 move either. 848 00:46:09,650 --> 00:46:11,310 She prayed for us. 849 00:46:13,030 --> 00:46:14,950 And there's the whole bunch of us saying 850 00:46:14,950 --> 00:46:15,730 it. 851 00:46:15,830 --> 00:46:16,810 We all say it. 852 00:46:21,370 --> 00:46:24,470 Mother, are you praying at all? 853 00:46:24,570 --> 00:46:25,770 Are all these fools around? 854 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,540 Why we need to get back to praying 855 00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:32,240 don't we? 856 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:35,860 My of this whole bunch could be enlisted 857 00:46:35,860 --> 00:46:38,440 to make, to really pray. 858 00:46:39,620 --> 00:46:42,740 I'll tell you we could move this closet. 859 00:46:45,090 --> 00:46:47,950 You see when this old man of 86 860 00:46:47,950 --> 00:46:50,150 got down on his knees and held on. 861 00:46:51,230 --> 00:46:53,790 And this angel was kept back by this 862 00:46:53,790 --> 00:46:54,930 other wicked spirit. 863 00:46:55,550 --> 00:46:58,910 Michael the archangel came along and fought the 864 00:46:58,910 --> 00:47:00,470 battle and got them through. 865 00:47:01,690 --> 00:47:04,870 It's a tremendous thing to see Michael named 866 00:47:04,870 --> 00:47:05,250 here. 867 00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:08,550 If you've any doubts about him at all. 868 00:47:08,950 --> 00:47:11,070 Just turn over the page quickly. 869 00:47:11,950 --> 00:47:14,670 And in chapter 11 next week I'll show 870 00:47:14,670 --> 00:47:15,310 you something. 871 00:47:17,070 --> 00:47:19,470 When we get to verse 36 if we 872 00:47:19,470 --> 00:47:20,890 get that far next week. 873 00:47:21,290 --> 00:47:22,390 It says the king. 874 00:47:22,850 --> 00:47:24,850 And it's talking about the antichrist. 875 00:47:25,110 --> 00:47:27,970 It's this king of Teotihuacan shall do according 876 00:47:27,970 --> 00:47:28,890 to his will. 877 00:47:29,450 --> 00:47:32,750 He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above 878 00:47:32,750 --> 00:47:33,550 every God. 879 00:47:33,890 --> 00:47:36,970 And shall speak marvelous things against the God 880 00:47:36,970 --> 00:47:37,570 of God. 881 00:47:37,770 --> 00:47:38,990 There's the mouth again. 882 00:47:39,510 --> 00:47:42,530 And shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished. 883 00:47:43,070 --> 00:47:45,190 And that that is determined shall be done. 884 00:47:45,970 --> 00:47:48,570 Neither shall he regard the God of his 885 00:47:48,570 --> 00:47:49,070 fathers. 886 00:47:49,710 --> 00:47:51,350 Nor the desire of woman. 887 00:47:51,790 --> 00:47:53,170 Nor regard any God. 888 00:47:53,550 --> 00:47:56,170 For he shall magnify himself above all. 889 00:47:56,810 --> 00:47:59,070 Now coming into chapter 12. 890 00:47:59,070 --> 00:48:00,110 Here's how it begins. 891 00:48:00,590 --> 00:48:03,190 And at that time. 892 00:48:04,030 --> 00:48:06,910 At the time when the antichrist is there. 893 00:48:07,230 --> 00:48:09,310 Shall Michael stand up. 894 00:48:10,430 --> 00:48:14,790 The great prince which standeth for the children 895 00:48:14,790 --> 00:48:15,650 of thy people. 896 00:48:16,950 --> 00:48:19,170 You see this is the wonderful thing. 897 00:48:19,970 --> 00:48:21,090 This archangel. 898 00:48:21,330 --> 00:48:22,330 This Michael. 899 00:48:23,150 --> 00:48:25,810 This one who came to fight the battle 900 00:48:25,810 --> 00:48:27,070 for this other angel. 901 00:48:28,250 --> 00:48:29,690 This Michael. 902 00:48:30,090 --> 00:48:30,830 This archangel. 903 00:48:31,710 --> 00:48:34,630 He has a job to do for Israel. 904 00:48:36,070 --> 00:48:40,230 He's the great prince which standeth for the 905 00:48:40,230 --> 00:48:41,610 children of thy people. 906 00:48:42,770 --> 00:48:44,350 Daniel's people of course. 907 00:48:44,870 --> 00:48:46,310 God's talking to Daniel. 908 00:48:46,570 --> 00:48:49,090 He says at that time shall Michael stand 909 00:48:49,090 --> 00:48:49,310 up. 910 00:48:49,370 --> 00:48:51,850 The great prince which standeth for the children 911 00:48:51,850 --> 00:48:52,650 of thy people. 912 00:48:53,550 --> 00:48:56,230 You know it's wonderful when the Lord Jesus 913 00:48:56,230 --> 00:48:56,930 shall come. 914 00:48:56,970 --> 00:48:58,250 And he's going to come one of these 915 00:48:58,250 --> 00:48:58,630 nights. 916 00:48:59,550 --> 00:49:00,770 And he'll come like this. 917 00:49:01,130 --> 00:49:03,490 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with 918 00:49:03,490 --> 00:49:03,950 his soul. 919 00:49:04,890 --> 00:49:07,410 Armed with the voice of the archangel. 920 00:49:10,010 --> 00:49:11,810 What's he got to do with it anyway? 921 00:49:13,110 --> 00:49:14,770 They're only written for the Lord. 922 00:49:15,710 --> 00:49:16,930 That's very true. 923 00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:20,270 But you see this fellow has been employed 924 00:49:20,270 --> 00:49:24,370 by God to look after all the children 925 00:49:24,370 --> 00:49:27,390 of God in Israel. 926 00:49:27,530 --> 00:49:29,730 The real Israel of God. 927 00:49:30,530 --> 00:49:32,410 And many of them have been buried. 928 00:49:33,450 --> 00:49:36,890 And when the Lord comes and calls for 929 00:49:36,890 --> 00:49:39,670 the church he shall descend from heaven with 930 00:49:39,670 --> 00:49:40,210 a shout. 931 00:49:40,730 --> 00:49:42,690 The same moment Michael will bop in. 932 00:49:43,250 --> 00:49:45,330 Armed with the voice of the archangel. 933 00:49:46,370 --> 00:49:49,470 Because we're taking the Old Testament saints home 934 00:49:49,470 --> 00:49:50,210 with us too. 935 00:49:52,410 --> 00:49:54,810 Not only the man you know. 936 00:49:54,910 --> 00:49:55,610 Remember there. 937 00:49:56,830 --> 00:49:59,550 You know when God wanted to raise the 938 00:49:59,550 --> 00:50:00,570 body of Moses. 939 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,440 Because he was going to put him on 940 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,760 the mount of transfiguration with the Lord Jesus. 941 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,260 You see nobody knew where Moses was buried. 942 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:11,320 God buried him. 943 00:50:11,380 --> 00:50:12,900 There's only one at Moses funeral. 944 00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:13,340 God. 945 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,640 Of course he sent the archangel. 946 00:50:17,780 --> 00:50:18,280 He knew. 947 00:50:19,340 --> 00:50:20,700 He knew where he was. 948 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,900 Because the devil comes along and says you 949 00:50:23,900 --> 00:50:24,480 can't. 950 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,740 You can't take this body out of the 951 00:50:26,740 --> 00:50:27,160 grave. 952 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,360 The redemption price is not paid yet you 953 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:32,640 can't take the body out. 954 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,320 And there was a dispute between the devil 955 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:38,300 and the archangel. 956 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,420 Because the archangel didn't bring any reeling accusation 957 00:50:43,420 --> 00:50:44,580 against him or anything. 958 00:50:46,850 --> 00:50:50,150 Saying God can do what he likes when 959 00:50:50,150 --> 00:50:52,310 he likes with whatever he likes. 960 00:50:52,730 --> 00:50:53,350 He's sovereign. 961 00:50:54,230 --> 00:50:56,610 And he raised the body of Moses. 962 00:50:57,070 --> 00:50:58,990 Ah but the archangel had to be there 963 00:50:58,990 --> 00:51:00,690 because this is a Jewish body. 964 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:05,840 You see when we come away back to 965 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:06,820 the book of Revelation. 966 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,440 Let's get back there for a moment. 967 00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:09,900 It's chapter 12. 968 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,360 Revelation 12. 969 00:51:20,390 --> 00:51:22,330 And watch this carefully now. 970 00:51:22,670 --> 00:51:23,510 Verse 7. 971 00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:29,200 And there was war in heaven. 972 00:51:31,900 --> 00:51:35,380 Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. 973 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,580 And you know who the dragon is. 974 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:39,820 Verse 9 will tell you. 975 00:51:40,220 --> 00:51:42,160 The great dragon was cast out. 976 00:51:42,220 --> 00:51:44,600 That old serpent called the devil and Satan. 977 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,900 Ah well this great prince is there. 978 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,360 Michael and his archangels fought. 979 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,760 It's a good thing to underline the word 980 00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:54,660 war there. 981 00:51:55,220 --> 00:51:57,440 There was war in heaven. 982 00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,880 Because you know once I said somewhere I 983 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,540 think it was in Canada in one of 984 00:52:04,540 --> 00:52:05,460 the universities. 985 00:52:06,700 --> 00:52:11,840 I said if any people near or far 986 00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,440 should come against this little province to take 987 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:15,940 it over. 988 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:17,720 And there was a war here. 989 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,260 I should go to war. 990 00:52:20,740 --> 00:52:22,340 I would have no hesitation. 991 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:25,200 None whatsoever. 992 00:52:26,220 --> 00:52:27,800 You say you'd take a Gondius. 993 00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:29,700 I would. 994 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:31,440 It is war. 995 00:52:32,060 --> 00:52:34,160 I'm not talking about the terrorists you know. 996 00:52:34,380 --> 00:52:35,680 That's the state's job. 997 00:52:36,980 --> 00:52:39,220 The state should punish evil doers. 998 00:52:39,380 --> 00:52:40,180 But they're stealing. 999 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,520 There's a difference between terrorism and war. 1000 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,360 The state offered to do this job. 1001 00:52:46,660 --> 00:52:48,940 It's trying to pamper them up. 1002 00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:50,400 It's not doing the job. 1003 00:52:51,660 --> 00:52:52,980 But there's no shame in war. 1004 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:54,220 That's different. 1005 00:52:55,580 --> 00:52:58,740 When Hitler made war our men went to 1006 00:52:58,740 --> 00:52:59,040 fight. 1007 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:00,460 And it's a good job they did. 1008 00:53:02,220 --> 00:53:04,360 There's a program on now if Britain had 1009 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:04,820 failed. 1010 00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:07,660 You wouldn't be in this place. 1011 00:53:07,820 --> 00:53:08,660 That's one thing sure. 1012 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,580 An old fella came to me when I 1013 00:53:12,580 --> 00:53:14,500 preached like this at one of the universities. 1014 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:17,080 He said I'm a conscientious objector. 1015 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:18,600 I will not go to war. 1016 00:53:19,940 --> 00:53:21,200 Will you not I said. 1017 00:53:21,820 --> 00:53:22,800 Well I'll tell you this. 1018 00:53:22,860 --> 00:53:24,780 Michael the Archangel went to war. 1019 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:27,700 And he was holier than you. 1020 00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:35,410 And I'm concluding if Michael can go to 1021 00:53:35,410 --> 00:53:35,690 war. 1022 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:39,340 That's my answer. 1023 00:53:39,900 --> 00:53:41,380 But it'll have to be war. 1024 00:53:44,030 --> 00:53:44,590 Yes. 1025 00:53:44,850 --> 00:53:46,530 Michael went to war. 1026 00:53:47,770 --> 00:53:49,150 Let's get back to Daniel. 1027 00:53:49,410 --> 00:53:51,750 Let's get this concluded this evening. 1028 00:53:51,870 --> 00:53:52,510 It's wonderful. 1029 00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:58,580 Verse 14. 1030 00:53:59,260 --> 00:54:02,280 The angel is speaking and saying now I 1031 00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,600 am come to make thee understand what shall 1032 00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,580 befall my people in the latter days. 1033 00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:10,620 For yet the vision is for many days. 1034 00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:14,360 It was a long time to the fulfillment. 1035 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,980 And Daniel says when he had spoken such 1036 00:54:17,980 --> 00:54:21,340 words unto me I set my face toward 1037 00:54:21,340 --> 00:54:23,040 the ground and I became dumb. 1038 00:54:24,700 --> 00:54:27,620 And behold one like the similitude of the 1039 00:54:27,620 --> 00:54:30,360 sons of men touched my lips. 1040 00:54:31,340 --> 00:54:32,700 There's that touch again. 1041 00:54:33,340 --> 00:54:35,320 Then I opened my mouth and speak and 1042 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,020 said unto him that stood before me. 1043 00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:40,480 Oh my Lord by the vision my sorrows 1044 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,420 are turned upon me and I have retained 1045 00:54:43,420 --> 00:54:44,280 no strength. 1046 00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:47,640 When he understood what would befall Israel in 1047 00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,460 the last days it nearly killed him. 1048 00:54:51,100 --> 00:54:53,120 For how can the servant of this my 1049 00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:54,840 Lord talk with this my Lord. 1050 00:54:55,460 --> 00:54:57,960 For ask for me speak where there remain 1051 00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,360 no strength in me. 1052 00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,220 Neither is there breath left in me. 1053 00:55:03,140 --> 00:55:07,260 Then with him again untouched me one like 1054 00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:10,920 the appearance of a man and he strengthened 1055 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:16,640 me and said oh my ungratefully beloved fear 1056 00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:17,180 not. 1057 00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:21,700 Peace be unto thee be strong yea be 1058 00:55:21,700 --> 00:55:22,340 strong. 1059 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,740 And when he had spoken unto me I 1060 00:55:25,740 --> 00:55:30,020 was strengthened and said let my Lord speak 1061 00:55:30,020 --> 00:55:34,320 for thou hast strengthened me. 1062 00:55:34,660 --> 00:55:38,180 With a text for a Sunday morning thou 1063 00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:40,920 hast strengthened me. 1064 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:41,200 How? 1065 00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:47,580 By his sympathetic touch. 1066 00:55:49,380 --> 00:55:52,860 By his encouraging message. 1067 00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,360 That's how the people of God are strengthened. 1068 00:55:59,450 --> 00:56:01,670 That's what I pray for every week that 1069 00:56:01,670 --> 00:56:03,710 God will come in from a morning meeting 1070 00:56:03,710 --> 00:56:04,930 and touch those angels. 1071 00:56:07,330 --> 00:56:11,210 And by his message he's encouraged them. 1072 00:56:12,430 --> 00:56:14,070 Because God has strengthened you. 1073 00:56:14,790 --> 00:56:16,490 That's what we need you now. 1074 00:56:17,830 --> 00:56:22,350 We need the flock to be fed not 1075 00:56:22,350 --> 00:56:23,270 flocked. 1076 00:56:24,170 --> 00:56:27,310 First when he then said he knowest thou 1077 00:56:27,310 --> 00:56:28,950 wherefore I come unto thee. 1078 00:56:29,350 --> 00:56:31,710 And now I will return to fight with 1079 00:56:31,710 --> 00:56:32,850 the prince of Persia. 1080 00:56:33,790 --> 00:56:36,470 And when I am gone forth Lord the 1081 00:56:36,470 --> 00:56:38,230 prince of Greece shall come. 1082 00:56:39,510 --> 00:56:41,690 You see the Persians were going to be 1083 00:56:41,690 --> 00:56:45,110 overthrown in a very short time by Alexander 1084 00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:48,130 the Great and Greece would take the worldwide 1085 00:56:48,130 --> 00:56:48,630 kingdom. 1086 00:56:48,950 --> 00:56:51,050 Ah but there would be a prince of 1087 00:56:51,050 --> 00:56:51,870 Greece here too. 1088 00:56:53,670 --> 00:56:57,210 The devil will see he gets somebody to 1089 00:56:57,210 --> 00:57:00,210 rule the darkness of every problem. 1090 00:57:02,390 --> 00:57:07,910 Friends can we go back to start at 1091 00:57:07,910 --> 00:57:10,070 this matter of prayer like we have never 1092 00:57:10,070 --> 00:57:10,910 done before. 1093 00:57:12,050 --> 00:57:13,290 May God help us. 1094 00:57:14,330 --> 00:57:17,370 Start to sing three short verses. 1095 00:57:18,190 --> 00:57:20,490 Three hundred and eleven please. 1096 00:57:20,670 --> 00:57:25,590 What various hindrances we meet in coming to 1097 00:57:25,590 --> 00:57:26,710 the mercy seat. 1098 00:57:27,510 --> 00:57:30,510 Yet who that knows the worth of prayer 1099 00:57:30,510 --> 00:57:34,670 but wishes to be often there. 1100 00:57:34,790 --> 00:57:37,790 Three hundred and eleven please. 1101 00:57:38,730 --> 00:57:41,290 Lord we thank thee for thy holy word. 1102 00:57:42,630 --> 00:57:49,770 We thank thee for this inspired infallible eternal 1103 00:57:49,770 --> 00:57:50,970 word of thine. 1104 00:57:52,390 --> 00:57:56,790 Lord there are truths buried here that we 1105 00:57:56,790 --> 00:57:58,910 need to dig out for the people. 1106 00:58:00,050 --> 00:58:02,590 And we pray Lord as they're passed on 1107 00:58:02,590 --> 00:58:07,290 that folks will grasp and that the word 1108 00:58:07,290 --> 00:58:11,190 will sanctify and that we shall be changed. 1109 00:58:12,410 --> 00:58:16,830 Bring us Lord into the center of this 1110 00:58:16,830 --> 00:58:20,070 matter of prevailing prayer. 1111 00:58:20,750 --> 00:58:26,450 Teach us again the de facto servant prayer. 1112 00:58:27,910 --> 00:58:29,650 You've been listening to the From the Pulpit 1113 00:58:29,650 --> 00:58:30,790 in Classic Sermons series. 1114 00:58:31,410 --> 00:58:33,530 This week you heard Willie Milan with his 1115 00:58:33,530 --> 00:58:35,930 message Daniel 21 Days of Prayer. 1116 00:58:36,770 --> 00:58:38,290 Tune in next week to hear Leonard Ravenhill 1117 00:58:38,290 --> 00:58:41,210 talk about Hebrews chapter 1 on From the 1118 00:58:41,210 --> 00:58:42,850 Pulpit in Classic Sermons.