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I would like to read a very well

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-known portion of scripture out of Daniel.

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Chapter 4.

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Bear with me if I read a few

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verses.

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I'll read from verse 24.

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This is the interpretation, O King, and this

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is the decree the Most High has issued

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against my Lord the King.

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You will be driven away from people and

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will live with the wild animals.

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You will eat grass like cattle and be

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drenched with the dew of heaven.

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Seven times will pass by for you until

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you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign

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over the kingdoms of men and gives them

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to anyone He wishes.

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The command to leave the stump of the

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tree with its roots means that your kingdom

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will be restored to you.

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Your kingdom will be restored to you when

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you acknowledge that heavenly rules.

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Therefore, O King, be pleased to accept my

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advice.

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Renounce your sins by doing what is right

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and your wickedness by being kind to the

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oppressed.

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It may be that then your prosperity will

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continue.

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We'll read thus far.

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Here in this portion of scripture we hear

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how Daniel interprets the dream of the King.

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And after he has interpreted and told the

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King what's going to happen to him and

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his kingdom, then

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Daniel turns to the King and personally addresses

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him and says, O King, be

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pleased to accept my advice.

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Isn't that something wonderful?

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That immediately after the interpretation of that dream,

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Daniel pleads with the King.

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And at the same time he warns the

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King.

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And he says, you know, if you repent

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from your sins and turn away from evil,

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it might be that God will forgive you

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and He'll turn away this which is going

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to come upon you and He'll turn it

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and He'll grant you prosperity.

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And how terrible that the King didn't heed

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that warning.

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But you know, so often that very same

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thing happens to you and to me.

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My mother comes and she warns me.

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My father comes and he warns me and

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he pleads with me and says, don't do

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that.

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Why are we people so stiff-necked?

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Why are we so self-willed?

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Here, a child of the Lord, a young

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man comes to the King and he pleads

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with the King.

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And he says, you know, this is the

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interpretation of your dream.

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This is what's going to come upon you.

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But I want to give you advice.

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I want to give you hope.

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I want to help you.

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Renounce your sins.

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Turn away from your sins.

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Don't continue doing that what you are doing.

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It is displeasing to the Lord.

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Please don't.

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And you find people pleading with people and

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say, please turn away from your evil ways

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and turn to God.

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Don't live your own life anymore.

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Please don't do as you please.

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Don't think that you are the only person

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that is right.

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Turn away from that and put God first

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in your life.

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Let God be the first in your life.

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Acknowledge Him.

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And let your life from now onwards belong

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to the Lord where God is God in

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your life.

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Yes, we all want to serve God.

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We all acknowledge or say that we are

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Christians.

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But God says, there is something in your

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life which I detest.

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There is something in your life which I

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don't like.

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Turn away from it.

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If you don't turn away from it, you

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will have to reap the consequences.

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And yet we find ourselves stiff-necked and

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self-assured.

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We continue with that what we think is

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right.

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We can say, oh no, God is blessing

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me.

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God is speaking to me.

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Just like the king was.

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Just look at the prosperity he enjoyed in

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his kingdom.

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And he had all reason to say, God

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is blessing me.

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And he had all reason to say, I

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am on the right way.

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Just look at how I am blessed.

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And little did he realize God was blessing

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him in such a way because he wanted

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his heart.

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And that is so often we think everything

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is fine, I am on the right track,

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because God is blessing me, everything is going

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according to plan, and we don't realize that

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God is actually against us.

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And we don't realize that God does everything

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in his power to draw us to himself.

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And here we see a king having a

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dream.

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And in this dream, Daniel interprets that dream

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for him and says, King, you are in

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the gravest of dangers.

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Don't continue on that road.

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Please accept my advice.

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Turn away from your sins.

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Renounce your sins.

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And do what is right.

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You see, so often we can think that

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what I am doing, what I am thinking

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is right.

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And we don't realize that it might be

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contrary to the will of God.

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And that is the danger of us Christians,

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that we become self-assured.

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And we think we are still on the

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right track.

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And God's word comes to us every Sunday.

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And God speaks to our hearts.

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God warns us.

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God pleads with us.

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But it doesn't change our lives.

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We continue the way we've been living the

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last 10, 20 years.

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And we don't want to submit under the

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mighty hand of God.

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And here we get Daniel coming to the

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king and saying, I'm warning you, please turn

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away from your ways, those ways which you

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are going.

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Although you might think they are blessed, they

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are a curse in God's eyes.

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They are a curse in God's eyes.

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In Colossians 1 verse 3 we read, Him,

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Jesus Christ, we preach warning every man and

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teaching every man in all wisdom that we

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may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

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That we warn every person.

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Teaching every man.

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That is important, that we warn the people

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if we see that they aren't walking in

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God's ways.

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That is the message of a preacher.

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That we warn the people that they might

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be sanctified and purified with the precious blood

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of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Teaching them in every possible way.

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Warning them.

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Telling them, listen, that way which you are

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going is the wrong way.

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Submit to God.

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Even if you think you are on the

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right way, you are not doing anything wrong.

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You know that is the most difficult thing

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for a person to submit, to bow, to

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acknowledge, to accept, if he thinks he is

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right.

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Hear the king thought, he is king, he

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is prosperous, everything is going according to his

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plan.

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And he sees all the people, all the

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nations, they accept him, they honour him as

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king.

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And God in his love and his mercy,

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he speaks to him.

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How often has God spoken to you already?

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And yet you continue in your way.

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You continue in that what you feel is

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right.

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And you continue in that which appeals to

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you.

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But to submit and to bow to something

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where you feel, I don't agree with it.

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I don't feel at home here.

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I, you know, it's far too pressurising.

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And they put fear into my heart.

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Oh, I wish I could put fear, the

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fear of the Lord into everybody's heart.

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But here we see King Nebuchadnezzar being addressed

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by a young boy, and that young boy

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interprets the dream the king had, and he

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says, renounce your sins, turn away from them,

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and do right.

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How often has God spoken to you?

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And you know it's wrong what you are

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doing.

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But somehow you are vindicating yourself.

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You somehow try to prove to yourself that

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the way I'm going is right.

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Instead of just bowing, submitting, admitting, and say,

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God, I bow under your mighty hand.

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That's why so many people land in trouble.

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That's why you see so many people, all

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of a sudden it is as if God

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withdraws his hand from them, and they are

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in dire need.

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And whatever they do, doesn't turn out to

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be good.

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And you work, and you pray, and you

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do all sorts of things, and think, I'll

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still get it right in the meantime.

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You don't realise that God is against you.

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And sickness comes upon you.

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And accidents come your way.

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Nobody understands you.

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It is as if everybody is against you.

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And you only see the fault in the

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next person.

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Instead of bowing and saying, Lord, what are

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you trying to tell me?

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Because everything that happens to a Christian has

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passed God.

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Everything works together for good to them that

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love the Lord.

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So if things come your way, know very

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well, it's got to work together for good,

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for your life.

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And instead of bowing low and saying, God,

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oh please help me, forgive me, cleanse me,

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I don't want to go my way.

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I want to submit to your way.

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But know, I still try to vindicate myself.

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I still try to prove to others that

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I'm right.

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And I'd like to give you an advice

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this morning.

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Submit and bow to the will or to

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the mighty hand of God.

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You know, it's easy to submit and to

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bow to God if you know you are

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wrong.

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But to submit and to bow, if I

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for myself think I am right, then to

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submit becomes difficult.

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And we forget that God's thoughts are not

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our thoughts.

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God's ways aren't our ways.

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They are far higher than what we can

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think or comprehend with our mind.

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And that's why it is so important that

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we learn that if God speaks to us,

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if God's word warns us, bow, submit, don't

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be stiff necked.

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Just look at Noah.

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When he was warned about the things which

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were yet to come, which weren't seen yet,

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he submitted and in a holy fear, he

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started building the ark.

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And every person on earth looked at him

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and thought he was mad.

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Everyone said that what you are doing is

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totally insane.

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Do you see, that is the moment we

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try to think with our mind, with our

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human mind.

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We are in the danger to go against

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that or not to accept that which is

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in God's place.

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When the wise men went to Bethlehem to

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see the born child Christ, they

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were warned in a dream not to go

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back to Jerusalem, not to go back to

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Herod.

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And they had promised King Herod, we are

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going to come back and we are going

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to tell you where Christ is born.

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Now according to our thinking, we would say,

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no, well, we have committed ourselves, we have

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got to go back to Herod and tell

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him where the child is born.

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But through a divine dream, God warned them

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and said, don't go back to Jerusalem.

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And they listened, they

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submitted to the will of God.

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Noah submitted to the warning of God.

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And through that, they saved themselves.

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Noah saved himself and his family by bowing,

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by submitting, not to their thinking, but to

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the will of God.

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Joseph was warned not to go back into

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his home country.

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But he was warned in a dream and

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said, go to Galilee.

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And he lived in Nazareth from that day

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on.

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Here we have the wise men, we have

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Noah and we have Joseph heeding the warning.

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Against all human thinking.

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But they submitted to the speaking of God.

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And that is important.

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Oh, I wish we could learn that.

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And that saved them.

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And if you want it to go well

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with you and to be under the blessing

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of God, then heed the warning that is

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coming to you from this pulpit.

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Heed the warning when God's word speaks to

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you.

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That is most, most important.

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And Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, If

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you don't acknowledge God in your life, this

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will come upon you and your kingdom.

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And if you don't admit and recognize and

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acknowledge that everything is of God.

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And that's why I asked the youth choir

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to come and sing that song again.

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Where we recognize and acknowledge that God is

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God.

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And that God gets his rightful place.

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And instead of the king heeding this warning,

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and acknowledging that everything he has and his

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whole existence, his whole kingdom, is there because

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of God, because God gave it to him.

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Now just listen to this tragedy.

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After God has spoken to him through that

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dream.

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After sending that little boy Daniel to him,

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who warned him and who pleaded with him.

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And he said, you turn away, you renounce,

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that you turn away from your sins and

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from your life in the past.

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It may be that then your prosperity will

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continue.

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Twelve months later, as the king was walking

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on the roof of the royal palace of

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Babylon, he said, is not this all the

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great Babylon I have built as the royal

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residence by my mighty power and for the

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glory of my majesty.

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God had warned him, Nebuchadnezzar, don't do that,

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give me the glory, give me the honor,

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I want to be king and God in

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your life.

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And he used that young boy and that

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young boy warned him and pleaded with him

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and yet he didn't have a change of

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heart.

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Tell me, how often has your father pleaded

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with you?

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How often has your mother pleaded with you?

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How often has your brother pleaded with you?

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How often has the preacher pleaded with you

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from the pulpit?

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How often maybe through you reading the word

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of God, God has spoken to you, pleaded

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with you, warned you and you didn't change.

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And you just say, no, I'm continuing, I'm

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carrying on the way I'm used to.

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I'm driven by my feelings, because I'm convinced

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that I'm not doing wrong.

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And I'm sure people have done me wrong

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and I just carry on, I bulldoze my

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way through.

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I don't want to listen, I don't want

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to heed the warning, I don't want to

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acknowledge God, you are God.

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I take it out of your hand, you

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are doing this to humble me, to attain

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your purpose with me.

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Lord, I bow to your will.

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I submit my whole being to thee, whether

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I understand it or not.

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But here we see the king going on

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to the top of the palace and he

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looks over Babylon, over all that what he

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has done and he said, that's what I

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have done.

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The words were still on his lips when

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a voice came from heaven, this is what

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is decreed for you king Nebuchadnezzar, your royal

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authority has been taken from you.

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Oh children, pupils, parents, how terrible when that

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voice rings out from heaven and says, all

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your royal authority has been taken away from

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you.

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All that what you thought you were, all

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your work you have worked for 10, 20,

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30, 40 years and all of a sudden

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you realize and you feel it, it's been

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taken away from me.

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What a terrible day must that have been,

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where all of a sudden you realize, hey

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that what I had, I have lost.

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That prosperity, that joy, that feeling of being

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good, all of a sudden it's gone and

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you feel empty, you feel desolate and you

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feel forsaken.

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And he was driven away from the people.

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All of a sudden he wasn't amongst the

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people anymore.

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He didn't feel at home anymore.

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You don't feel at home amongst the Christians

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anymore.

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And you go, we in English say you

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go to the dogs.

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And we go to the animals, we live

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with the wild animals, we eat grass, we

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behave like an animal who hasn't got a

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brain.

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And just imagine this king, he was eating

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grass, he was behaving like an animal, he

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was sleeping with the animals, he was amongst

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the animals and he was quite happy there.

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Because his mind was taken away from him.

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And oh Christian be careful, be careful, be

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careful that you don't end up there with

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the animals.

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You eat grass, you behave like an animal

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and you don't even realize it.

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And for seven years he lived like an

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animal, outside in the wild, in the desert.

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Terrible if a Christian ends up in the

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desert amongst the wild animals, amongst the cows,

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the goats, the donkeys and that's where he

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feels at home.

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Tell me where do you find yourself today?

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In your spiritual life.

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It would be good if you just think

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for a moment, where am I spiritually?

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Am I still there where I once was?

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Or have I lost everything?

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I just do as if everything is in

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order.

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But in the meantime I'm living with the

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animals.

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You know there's only one thing, when I

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read this, I just bowed down and I

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said God, there's no God like you are.

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Although I have failed so utterly,

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although I've been living with the animals, I've

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been living in the desert.

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I've behaved like an animal.

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God has a time and when God's time

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was fulfilled, those seven years,

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he lifted his eyes to heaven and acknowledged

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God.

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And when he lifted his eyes and acknowledged

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God and said God, you are the first,

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you are the last, you are the only

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one, you are God and everything is of

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you and from you, his mind and his

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senses came back to him.

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Thank God that there is a time.

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And maybe God is giving you that time.

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Please lift your eyes to the one, to

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our creator, the one who died for us

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on Calvary.

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Oh, that you don't fall into more sin.

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That you don't fall into deeper darkness.

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That you don't wander off into the desert

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and it's deserted.