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Pastor Josh: All right,
Daniel chapter two.

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It was about 10 years ago when everything.

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Fell apart in my life and the
life of those closest to me.

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My young sister had passed away.

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I was at the height of debilitating
chronic migraines, and it was at a

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point where it was the most severe.

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I was in the midst of losing the church.

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I had planted, my
reputation and character.

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Was being accused and publicly crucified,
and most of those I had poured into

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for a decade and called my church
family disappeared without a trace.

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The group of pastors I had nipped my heart
too and became utterly vulnerable with.

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I came to find out to my naive surprise.

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They no longer had my back, and I found
for myself in this state, amongst other

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things that were going on, sitting
across from a Christian therapist and

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just weeping on his couch and crying
like I've never cried in my life.

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There were a lot of things
that he said in those sessions.

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Wisdom he passed on practical
tools he gave me to deal with

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the chaos of my own heart.

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But the thing that he said that haunts
me on a daily basis, and that is no

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exaggeration, the thing he wouldn't
let me wiggle out or ate from the North

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star of all those sessions is this.

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He said after he listened and
listened to me, pour out my heart,

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I think you really need to take this
in and figure out what this means.

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And then he opened his Bible and
as I was sitting on the couch and

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I could see he's about two thirds
in, he must be in the gospels trying

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to figure out where he is going.

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He was in the gospels.

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He opened to Matthew chapter five, verse
three specifically, and he proceeded to

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read to me, blessed are the poor in spirit
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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I have to be honest.

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When.

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He read that I hated it.

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I wanted him to validate my perspective.

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That's what I'm paying you for
good money to be angry at the

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injustice and to solidify my sadness.

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And as a pastor, I knew what
that dang word blessed means.

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Jesus is essentially saying in
that beatitude, congratulations.

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You're broken now.

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Way to go.

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And to his credit, he would not let me
weasel out of it as much as I tried.

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And he kept coming back to me
and coming back to me and saying,

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blessed are the poor in spirit for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Why share that?

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And what does that have to do
with Daniel A lot actually.

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And this and other scriptures rescued me
from the riches of self-righteousness, the

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fool's go of bitterness and the bankruptcy
of building my own kingdom instead of

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god's, and to break the clay feet of
trust that I had attached to other things.

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So let's get into this today.

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you'll remember our north
star for this series.

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Daniel, as we're going through the
Bible, is Daniel chapter 12, verse three.

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This is the theme of Daniel.

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Those who have wisdom will shine like
the bright expanse of the heavens, and

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those who lead many to righteousness
like the stars forever and ever.

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Fireworks are awesome, but
they're only for a moment.

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What God is doing is something
lasting and genuine and weighty,

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and true and eternal in your life.

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Now, interestingly enough, unlike
most other Old Testament books,

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Daniel wrote his book outside
of the Confines of Israel.

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Some of it, in fact is in Aramaic.

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We'll see that transition tonight.

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The language of Babylon, not
Hebrew, the language of Israel.

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The book is about how to live wisely
in a place where God is not respected

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in a culture where everyone around
you lives by different values.

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Sound, sound similar or familiar, and
the book is about how not just to survive

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begrudgingly that kind of environment.

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I remember a pastor once I got to teach
alongside him, and he wore a hazmat suit.

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and he is that's, going to work, going to
school, it's like putting on a hazmat suit

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and then you get home and you take it off.

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And I was like, I dunno if that's really
what Daniel's doing here, but Daniel

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flourishes in the midst of it flourishes.

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And in fact, as Daniel 12 three says.

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They lead many to righteousness.

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In fact, the emperor himself
is the story of stories.

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I think Nebuchadnezzar, we're
gonna see the first domino

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in his conversion experience.

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the world ruling empire, man
in power is gonna be humbled in

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the course of a couple chapters.

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when it comes to living in a different
culture, many Christians choose

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either assimilation or separation,
and we talked about that last week.

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Assimilation.

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It means you gradually
look like everybody else.

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You're not distinguishable.

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Their values become your values.

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You might have Christianese word
sprinkled on top of it, but basically

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at the core, you're just no different.

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Your lifestyle imitates theirs.

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It's the thermometer
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Some people are like thermometers.

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They adjust to the temperature of
the room, whether they go to work,

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they talk like everybody at work,
whether they're, here, they talk,

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then they're at church, whatever.

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And they just adjust like a, thermometer,
but a thermostat's different.

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Why?

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Because it adjusts the
temperature of the room to itself.

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Interesting.

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But separation is the opposite.

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the world is evil.

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So come out from among
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We don't wanna be tainted, we
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want to be blemished, we don't
want to, we've gotta stay away

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and be, keep ourselves from that.

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Come out from among them and
be separate is the life verse.

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And, misses what God was saying.

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You're like an air conditioner
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Redding in the middle of summer.

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I just found out I was at in Redding,
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it's gonna be hot this summer.

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I'm like, I live in the valley.

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I'm used to heat.

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He's our high last year was 125 degrees.

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I was a, holy moly,
I'm not ready for that.

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But a heater in Redding in the middle
of summer, all of that differences

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doesn't do anything if you are not
in the place where it's needed.

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Some Christians, like the Jews of
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either assimilation or separation,
but there's a third option that God

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calls us to and that's transformation.

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We're not called separation.

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We're called the transformation.

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So Daniel and his friends take on
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language, work in the Babylonian palace,
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God and primarily, and they never lose
sight of this as citizens of his kingdom.

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But this can be really hard as
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a current in this world.

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I remember Knights Ferry, if you've ever
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just depends on how much rain we get.

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Sometimes it's exciting and
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or the raft and carrying it down.

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Long stretches of the river
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But my friend was, got pulled into the
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his whole family, and they're walk,
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think your son's about to die, And he's.

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Calling for help and
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it's a river.

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What could go wrong?

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And he was about to die.

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And I jumped in and grabbed him and
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shore, and we just laid there exhausted
and everybody was like looking.

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And they're like, are you okay?

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You guys are so dramatic kind of a thing.

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But it takes an immense amount of effort
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And here's what's interesting
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It takes no effort whatsoever to relax.

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And get carried along the current,
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to swim upstream against the river by
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you're working so hard is that despite
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still getting carried down the river.

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My friend needed me.

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I remember me being in a pool.

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One of my earliest memories was drowning
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rescue, and everybody's doing something.

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And I see my dad at the water fountain.

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I'm like, my last time I
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I can't get up and all of a sudden I see
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grab me with those strong arms and me up.

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We need each other.

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And we can't lose in this
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The story of Daniel and his friends
Daniel and his friends, Daniel

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and his friends, they're together.

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They're gonna have a
prayer meeting together.

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They go and they are on mission together.

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As Daniel's promoted, he's Hey.

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My one request is that
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We gotta work together.

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We gotta stay shoulders to shoulder, yoked
to each other in touch with one another.

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And that's the dynamic and the challenge
that the book of Daniel opens up for us.

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So we come together to get equipped
as a church, then we scatter into the

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nooks and the crannies of the city.

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We've all got our posts.

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And as salt and light we're scattered
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the father's business to reap in our
king's field that is wide under harvest.

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It's what we see happening
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The majority of stories and acts actually
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40 Miracles and Acts 39 of them happen
outside the four walls of the church.

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'cause that's where God wants
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neighborhoods and the businesses
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And you're like, what
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Do you know one of the great things
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It being rough and gnarly.

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They say that if you're in Yosemite
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year, that you can light a match.

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I'm not talking about
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I'm talking about a match.

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You strike a match, you can see it from
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That's the impact.

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That we can have in a place like Stockton.

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So verse one we roll in.

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That's the setup.

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Daniel and his friends,
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They're 10 times better at
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And then we're gonna come back to that.

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That's very interesting.

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10 times they stand out more.

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Oh, the of that.

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But 10 times better is
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Verse one, in the second year
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Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, his
spirit was troubled, and his sleep.

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Left him.

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Now Nebuchadnezzar is the king, or if you
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empire, the world power at that time.

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The top of the top, the man in power.

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He's not just the president
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He's not just, he is the power most
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that time, the empire that had conquered
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companions from their homes in Jerusalem
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them in the University of Babylon, where
introduced in Nebuchadnezzar last week.

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We got a glimpse of them,
but now it's interesting.

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Chapter two narratively Zooms in,
and we have this intimate image

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of Nebuchadnezzar as we zoom
into his bed and into his dreams.

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And into, what's going on.

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And this gr dream verse one
says, greatly troubled him.

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Have you ever had that experience
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just like, you feel sick all day
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and you're like, it's not you.

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I just, I had a crazy dream and he
can't really put his finger on it, and

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it keeps him from going back to sleep.

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He can't sleep.

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It's all he is thinking about.

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He's consumed by it.

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Usually if I have a bad dream, when
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I'm so relieved.

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I'm like, oh, I hug my wife and my kids.

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Thank the Lord.

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Yes, it's just a dream, a
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There's a deep undercurrent and unease
that he can't quite put his finger on.

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There's something, it's almost
like God knew his address.

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There's something that God is
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dream that undoes him that is like.

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Yeah, with all his power and
palm circumstances, the one thing

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he knows he can't withstand.

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We often think dreams are psychological.

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It's like suppressed
fears or inner struggles.

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And yeah, that can be true, but
in their time, in their culture,

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they thought of dreams as the god's
breaking through from above and giving

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a divine message about the future.

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And so Nebuchadnezzar has this dream,
he can't quite remember it and.

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And so he's maybe I missed with
the gods we're trying to tell me.

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So I told you I had those dreams.

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Sometimes you wake up and oh,
this family member passed away

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and you wake, oh, it's a dream.

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Or, I got arrested, I was running for
the cops, grandpa theft, thought of

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style, oh, it's just a dream, but I
did have a, I have a reoccurring dream.

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I used to, and it literally happened.

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15 to 20 times in my life as a pastor.

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Interesting.

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Started happening when I was a
pastor and it goes like this.

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I get up and I'm called to
preach to a thousand people.

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or more.

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Sometimes the venue changes
and I can't find my notes.

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And I start scrambling,
but I'm like, it's okay.

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It's, I got this, I could do it
from, but I can't remember anything.

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And so I'm scrambling and I'm looking
and I'm like, do something else.

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I've got time, but every
get, keep getting distracted.

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And so pretty soon, brass tacks
comes and I, I'll just do something.

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I know by heart, I can't
remember anything by heart.

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And so I get up there at the pulpit.

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The music was amazing.

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People are excited, they're cheering.

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Even the five minute greeting, people
are actually making true connections.

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You're like, this is such a spiritual
moment, And then, I just sit

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there and my can't say anything.

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There's just silence and I'm bumbling
still waiting for inspiration to happen.

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And slowly, one by one,
everybody gets up and walks out

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until I'm left alone up there.

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Failed.

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Failed God.

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That'd be fine to have.

268
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I know that says a lot about
me, just get vulnerable.

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but to have it 15 times now, I'll
come back to that because actually

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will tell you why stop having it.

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which is cool.

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But here Nebuchadnezzar is and he's
I can't quite put my finger on it,

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but it's that unease and I'm, I can't
actually rest, I can't go back to sleep.

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Until this problem solved.

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And so in the middle of the night,
he's gonna call his wise men.

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And the king verse two commanded
that the magicians, the enchanters,

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the sorcerers and the Chaldeans be
summoned to tell the king his dreams.

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So they came and stood before the king and
the king said to them, I had a dream and

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my spirit is troubled to know the dream.

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And the Chaldean said
to the king, an Aramaic.

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And this is where it shifts
to about chapter seven.

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Oh King Lived forever.

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Tell your servants the dream and
we will show the interpretation.

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We don't know.

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It could be the middle of the night,
but in a sweaty panic, he summons

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his wise men who are close by.

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Babylonian wise men had this little book
with this interpretive key that explained

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what each element in a dream meant.

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You just studied the book So a cow
meant this, A bird meant this puff.

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The magic dragon meant this and
appearing before the royal court and

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nothing but your underwear meant this.

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So just tell us, we'll put all the symbols
together and we'll tell you the dream.

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And so he'd tell 'em his dream
and they'd look up the images

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and boom, dream interpretation.

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that's pay into our 401k.

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we just did our job for another year.

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And of course, they'd give their
interpretations of these generalized

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terms, like a horoscope or a
fortune cookie today that uses

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these broad categories that can
always, in some sense be true, Your

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patience will one day be rewarded.

301
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Oh, really?

302
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Wow.

303
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So insightful.

304
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Don't trust friends who gossip about you.

305
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Okay.

306
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Or if you're fan's, a mystery,
Ben, he who questions training only

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trains himself at asking questions.

308
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I love it.

309
00:17:06,454 --> 00:17:06,575
Yeah.

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You must be like, Wolf pack, not six
pack anyways, or something like that.

311
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And then they get paid the big bucks.

312
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These were the top guys.

313
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These were the.

314
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These were the guys who
were leading the AI charge.

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they're breaking the new technological,
ground and they're making all

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the money in Silicon Valley.

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I.

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A textual note here, beginning now at
verse four of Daniel chapter two, all

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the way through the end of chapter seven.

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It's not written in Hebrew.

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It's wi written in Aramaic, which was the
official court language, the government

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language of the Babylonian kingdom.

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So it's interesting, so scholars don't
know exactly why, but perhaps it's

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because we've been focusing on these
four Israelites and the call for them

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to be faithful, and now we're going to
start seeing the global significance

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of the kingdom of God for all.

327
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It's very interesting.

328
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Very interesting.

329
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It was so utterly important at the
reversal of Babylon or Babel, the

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reversal of the Tower of Babel.

331
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When was that?

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The day of Pentecost.

333
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You remember?

334
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Tower of Babel.

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Everybody had their languages divided,
so they didn't understand each other.

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And at Pentecost, everybody understood?

337
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And their own dialect.

338
00:18:19,535 --> 00:18:20,389
What was God saying?

339
00:18:20,389 --> 00:18:24,649
He's saying this is not just
for Hebrews, this is for all.

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This is for everybody.

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And so it seems like here in these prof as
he's gonna move into prophecy and as he's

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going to say that, man, there is a global
picture here when it comes to the kingdom

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of God and that it's not just Israel,
even though Israel's who it comes through

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verse five, the king answered and said to
the Chaldeans, the word from me is firm.

345
00:18:54,405 --> 00:18:57,975
He's you guys look like you're
ready to barter and bargain.

346
00:18:58,725 --> 00:19:02,535
But no, like what I said, if you
do not make known to me the dream

347
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in its interpretation, you shall
be torn limb from limb and your

348
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houses shall be laid in ruins.

349
00:19:11,805 --> 00:19:15,825
But if you show the dream and its
interpretation, yo shall receive from me.

350
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Gifts and rewards in great honor.

351
00:19:18,015 --> 00:19:20,355
I'm sure there don't even hear that part.

352
00:19:21,060 --> 00:19:23,640
They're like, wait, go back
to the torn limb from limb.

353
00:19:25,830 --> 00:19:27,960
Therefore, show me the
dream in its interpretation.

354
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,690
They answered a second time and said,
let the king tells servants the dream

355
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and we will show its interpretation.

356
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The king answered and said, I
know a certainty that you are

357
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trying to gain time because you
see that the word for me is firm.

358
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If you do not make the dream known to
me, there is but one sentence for you.

359
00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:47,160
You have agreed to speak lying
and corrupt words before me until.

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the times changed.

361
00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:52,900
Therefore, tell me the dream, and I
shall know that you can show me its

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interpretation that Chaldeans answered
the king and said, there is not a

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man on earth who can meet the king's
demand for no great and powerful.

364
00:20:00,850 --> 00:20:06,400
King has asked such a thing of any
magician or Enchanter or Cal dn.

365
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,140
So Nebuchadnezzar, he's pretty
smart, and he starts to suspect that

366
00:20:11,140 --> 00:20:12,730
this was all a bunch of malarkey.

367
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,280
Let there.

368
00:20:15,655 --> 00:20:16,705
Like we can interpret.

369
00:20:16,705 --> 00:20:17,635
That's our speciality.

370
00:20:17,635 --> 00:20:18,625
That's what we're trained in.

371
00:20:18,625 --> 00:20:20,035
That's what we have these powers in.

372
00:20:20,305 --> 00:20:21,925
But we can't tell you the dream.

373
00:20:21,925 --> 00:20:24,775
They say not even the gods can do that.

374
00:20:25,495 --> 00:20:29,815
They know the dream, but our gods,
they don't dwell with people.

375
00:20:29,875 --> 00:20:31,225
They wouldn't do that.

376
00:20:31,915 --> 00:20:32,965
Ah, and interesting to you.

377
00:20:33,025 --> 00:20:34,075
Pretty soon, huh?

378
00:20:34,405 --> 00:20:36,325
Our gods don't come down.

379
00:20:37,225 --> 00:20:38,515
Our gods don't dwell.

380
00:20:38,515 --> 00:20:41,635
They stay disconnected and
separate in a different realm.

381
00:20:41,755 --> 00:20:43,105
That's why they're the gods.

382
00:20:43,105 --> 00:20:43,915
And we're the people.

383
00:20:45,025 --> 00:20:49,105
And so the king responds
to this by going irate.

384
00:20:49,135 --> 00:20:50,305
He had already threatened them.

385
00:20:50,305 --> 00:20:52,735
If you can't tell me the dream,
I'm gonna rip your arms and

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00:20:52,735 --> 00:20:56,095
legs off and burn your house.

387
00:20:56,725 --> 00:21:00,835
So that means their families too
would be destroyed and killed.

388
00:21:01,135 --> 00:21:05,515
Nebuchadnezzar was the kind of
man where this was what he did.

389
00:21:05,545 --> 00:21:06,325
You remember?

390
00:21:06,425 --> 00:21:09,605
he did this something similar to
the one of the kings of Judah.

391
00:21:10,685 --> 00:21:16,055
He got the king's son in front of the
king as he had lost the king had rebelled

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00:21:16,115 --> 00:21:21,365
against Nebuchadnezzar, the king of
Judah, and so Nebuchadnezzar brought

393
00:21:21,845 --> 00:21:28,025
the king's sons in front of him and
then proceeded to slaughter the king's

394
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sons in front of him, and then went and
cut out his eyes so that the last thing

395
00:21:34,055 --> 00:21:36,965
he saw would be the death of his sons.

396
00:21:38,135 --> 00:21:38,885
That's.

397
00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:45,275
The kind of guy that Nebuchadnezzar
was, so they know, okay, this guy's

398
00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:47,975
serious, but they keep pushing back.

399
00:21:47,975 --> 00:21:48,935
That's unreasonable.

400
00:21:48,935 --> 00:21:50,135
And he said, stop stalling.

401
00:21:50,135 --> 00:21:51,335
Verse 11 and 12.

402
00:21:51,395 --> 00:21:55,305
Then the king, the thing
that king asks is difficult.

403
00:21:55,305 --> 00:21:59,145
No one can show it to the king except the
gods who's dwelling is not with flesh.

404
00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:04,155
Because of this, the king was angry
and very furious and commanded that all

405
00:22:04,155 --> 00:22:07,905
the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

406
00:22:09,225 --> 00:22:12,645
And in verse 11 and 12, the desperate
astrologers say essentially, there are

407
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limits to what human beings can do.

408
00:22:14,775 --> 00:22:21,555
Only a God can do what you want, and
they are not at your beck and call.

409
00:22:22,995 --> 00:22:28,785
It's this statement that enrages the
king and leads to the death decree.

410
00:22:30,764 --> 00:22:31,574
What is this show?

411
00:22:32,985 --> 00:22:37,634
Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful man
on earth, but he is being confronted with

412
00:22:37,634 --> 00:22:40,995
the fact that he is still just a man.

413
00:22:42,435 --> 00:22:48,854
The dream would bring him to terms
with his limits in his finiteness.

414
00:22:49,364 --> 00:22:53,534
The wise men in verse 12, bring up a
very sore subject with a powerful person.

415
00:22:53,534 --> 00:22:56,084
Powerful people don't like to hear.

416
00:22:56,084 --> 00:22:57,554
You're just another human being.

417
00:22:58,215 --> 00:23:01,485
There are limits to what human
beings can actually accomplish.

418
00:23:01,725 --> 00:23:05,085
Nebuchadnezzar's inner conflict
is now revealed for all to see.

419
00:23:05,085 --> 00:23:08,535
The dream is not just some
predictor of future events.

420
00:23:08,895 --> 00:23:13,575
He senses that it's about
his own fall somehow.

421
00:23:14,415 --> 00:23:16,335
I think that's why he's unraveling.

422
00:23:16,665 --> 00:23:18,555
That's why he's stirring.

423
00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:23,805
He can't quite just put his finger, he
can't remember, but that lasting taste in

424
00:23:23,805 --> 00:23:27,075
his mouth that he has is of his own doom.

425
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,570
Of his own fall, of his own destruction.

426
00:23:31,979 --> 00:23:34,259
So that's what's getting to him.

427
00:23:34,709 --> 00:23:39,060
His inability to discover the meaning
is a further reminder to him that he's

428
00:23:39,060 --> 00:23:41,159
not God, that he doesn't have the power.

429
00:23:41,429 --> 00:23:44,820
As Nietzsche once famously
said, if there is a God, how

430
00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:47,699
can I bear not to be that God?

431
00:23:49,469 --> 00:23:50,969
Finally they can't do it.

432
00:23:50,969 --> 00:23:54,780
The king explodes and not only does he
say kill these enchanters and astrologers.

433
00:23:55,034 --> 00:23:58,394
And all these people right here, he
says, kill all the wise men in Babylon,

434
00:23:58,394 --> 00:23:59,594
not just the guys in front of him.

435
00:23:59,784 --> 00:24:00,564
imagine the power.

436
00:24:00,564 --> 00:24:02,935
This ruler who is intoxicated
with his own power.

437
00:24:02,935 --> 00:24:07,165
He doesn't get his way after having a bad
night's sleep and decides to decimate an

438
00:24:07,165 --> 00:24:13,105
entire field of humanity in Babylon, who
he just poured three years into investing

439
00:24:13,105 --> 00:24:15,175
in and building all these guys up.

440
00:24:15,534 --> 00:24:18,745
Anger is an often an
interesting indicator.

441
00:24:18,745 --> 00:24:23,605
You can reverse engineer
anger to find some things out.

442
00:24:23,965 --> 00:24:27,685
In your life or told,
be angry, but don't sin

443
00:24:29,725 --> 00:24:33,175
because it comes down to
what we're angry about.

444
00:24:35,275 --> 00:24:36,415
Not just the anger.

445
00:24:37,495 --> 00:24:41,845
Am I angry over injustice, the injustice
that's happening in the world, or

446
00:24:41,845 --> 00:24:47,695
am I angry at the injustice that my
kids have bothered me on my day off?

447
00:24:48,565 --> 00:24:50,725
Ah, the injustice of it.

448
00:24:50,754 --> 00:24:53,485
Yes, I'm angry at injustice,
but what kind of injustice?

449
00:24:55,570 --> 00:24:58,030
And you can reverse engineer that.

450
00:25:00,250 --> 00:25:06,160
The more I'm angry, usually the more
foundational that thing is to my life.

451
00:25:06,910 --> 00:25:09,820
You know how there's the irrational
kind of anger and we all have

452
00:25:09,820 --> 00:25:11,230
different versions of that.

453
00:25:11,289 --> 00:25:13,389
for some people they'd be
like, ah, that's no problem.

454
00:25:14,199 --> 00:25:16,709
And for some it's you will
not take this from my life.

455
00:25:16,709 --> 00:25:17,884
This is, this is it.

456
00:25:17,889 --> 00:25:20,489
It indicates this might
be foundational to you.

457
00:25:21,179 --> 00:25:23,399
This might be something
you're building your life on.

458
00:25:23,399 --> 00:25:28,019
And remember, you can build your
life on good things, but if you

459
00:25:28,019 --> 00:25:31,499
build your life on good things,
those good things cannot support the

460
00:25:31,499 --> 00:25:34,229
freight and the weight of a life.

461
00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:36,839
And you'll crumble.

462
00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:38,099
And they will crumble.

463
00:25:40,409 --> 00:25:43,709
And so NAB says, everyone who works
in this vocation kill them all.

464
00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:44,490
it's crazy.

465
00:25:44,490 --> 00:25:46,080
And then we're told that.

466
00:25:46,770 --> 00:25:51,060
All includes Daniel and his
three friends because they are

467
00:25:51,060 --> 00:25:52,770
part of the group of wise men.

468
00:25:52,860 --> 00:25:53,490
Verse 13.

469
00:25:53,490 --> 00:25:57,510
So the decree went out and the wise men
were about to be killed, and they sought

470
00:25:57,510 --> 00:25:59,100
Daniel and his companions to kill them.

471
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:03,600
Then Daniel replied with prudence
and discretion to Och, the captain

472
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,229
of the King's Guard who had gone
out to kill the wise men of Babylon.

473
00:26:08,804 --> 00:26:10,695
He declared och the king's captain.

474
00:26:10,695 --> 00:26:14,564
Why is the decree of the king so urgent
that OCH made the matter known to Daniel?

475
00:26:14,564 --> 00:26:19,034
And Daniel went in and requested the
king to appoint him a time that he might

476
00:26:19,034 --> 00:26:21,284
show the interpretation to the king.

477
00:26:21,824 --> 00:26:22,804
So knock.

478
00:26:24,094 --> 00:26:30,485
It's not an Amazon delivery, it's the
executioner showing up at your door, man.

479
00:26:32,014 --> 00:26:33,004
Not prepared for that.

480
00:26:33,004 --> 00:26:36,514
I remember, one time briefly, we were
getting to go to the dentist when I

481
00:26:36,514 --> 00:26:39,484
was a kid and we were always excited.

482
00:26:39,484 --> 00:26:42,964
I was homeschooled, so we had a
lot of time in the morning to get

483
00:26:42,964 --> 00:26:44,815
ready and just just take our time.

484
00:26:46,014 --> 00:26:48,445
and we were getting ready to go
and we were always excited because.

485
00:26:48,969 --> 00:26:50,259
UPS packages.

486
00:26:50,490 --> 00:26:53,920
when we'd see a UPS truck,
there weren't a lot of, houses.

487
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,810
They probably don't get UPS packages.

488
00:26:55,810 --> 00:26:56,710
They're older, a thing.

489
00:26:56,710 --> 00:27:01,330
But may, maybe it's for us, maybe somebody
sending us a present hopeful thinking.

490
00:27:01,930 --> 00:27:04,240
And so we saw this UPS,
but it wasn't marked UPS.

491
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,940
And we're like, that's strange, sometimes
there's deliveries and everything.

492
00:27:06,940 --> 00:27:09,460
And so we're all at the window
watching and we're like, oh,

493
00:27:09,490 --> 00:27:10,570
they pulled up at our house.

494
00:27:10,630 --> 00:27:11,950
Yes it is for us.

495
00:27:12,010 --> 00:27:15,160
Grandma must be sending us early
Christmas presents and then.

496
00:27:15,790 --> 00:27:21,489
Men with m sixteens proceeded to
jump out of the, of the UPS truck

497
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:23,729
and, and knocked on our door.

498
00:27:26,069 --> 00:27:28,589
And I served for a couple weeks
until my parents got me out.

499
00:27:28,589 --> 00:27:29,099
No, just kidding.

500
00:27:29,339 --> 00:27:29,729
But.

501
00:27:31,245 --> 00:27:34,784
But they, there was a SWAT team and there
was somebody loose in the neighborhood who

502
00:27:34,784 --> 00:27:38,235
they were trying to capture and they said,
we need to make your house home base.

503
00:27:38,235 --> 00:27:39,975
And we're like, yes, of course.

504
00:27:40,064 --> 00:27:42,144
And I remember my mom's I have
to take him to the dentist.

505
00:27:42,144 --> 00:27:44,474
They're like, and we're
like, mom, are you crazy?

506
00:27:45,014 --> 00:27:48,044
We get to be around the
SWAT team, and so we stayed.

507
00:27:48,044 --> 00:27:48,674
She's awesome.

508
00:27:49,394 --> 00:27:53,119
And, that was a good school day,
hanging out with the SWAT team.

509
00:27:54,369 --> 00:27:55,224
but anyways, that's the shit.

510
00:27:55,224 --> 00:27:56,184
Shock it.

511
00:27:56,574 --> 00:28:00,984
Open the door and it's och
and he's got a he, you know,

512
00:28:00,984 --> 00:28:02,304
Daniel sees the dripping blood.

513
00:28:02,304 --> 00:28:04,794
He's already on the move with executions.

514
00:28:06,624 --> 00:28:08,124
What do you do in this situation?

515
00:28:08,754 --> 00:28:11,514
And so Daniel's like,
Hey, give me some time.

516
00:28:11,514 --> 00:28:15,054
And Daniel's got so much pull and
so much weight with these guys

517
00:28:15,474 --> 00:28:20,814
that like och giving him time,
putting his own life on the line.

518
00:28:21,354 --> 00:28:24,444
But he's like, okay, then check this out.

519
00:28:24,444 --> 00:28:25,434
Here's where the battles won.

520
00:28:25,524 --> 00:28:26,664
Verse 17 and 18.

521
00:28:26,664 --> 00:28:29,609
Then Daniel went to his house and
made the matter known to Nia and Ms.

522
00:28:29,609 --> 00:28:35,034
Sheel and Azariah, they're Hebrew names,
his companions, and told them to seek

523
00:28:35,034 --> 00:28:39,534
mercy from the God of heaven concerning
this mystery so that Daniel and his

524
00:28:39,534 --> 00:28:45,054
companions might not be destroyed with
the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

525
00:28:45,054 --> 00:28:46,164
They go to God in prayer.

526
00:28:47,664 --> 00:28:49,734
You see this pattern
all throughout Daniel.

527
00:28:50,469 --> 00:28:55,019
Praise, and he's just it's a part
of his day and it's really important

528
00:28:56,369 --> 00:28:59,039
and he doesn't give it up and he
actually goes, ends up in a lions den

529
00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:00,869
because of it later on in the story,

530
00:29:03,299 --> 00:29:04,859
but they go to God in prayer.

531
00:29:04,949 --> 00:29:08,159
See Daniel's in the kind of
situation where he knew that

532
00:29:08,219 --> 00:29:10,169
only God could meet his knee.

533
00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:12,434
Only God.

534
00:29:13,334 --> 00:29:15,584
You see, they're the astrologers.

535
00:29:15,584 --> 00:29:20,084
They believed in something called
futurology, and as much as they were

536
00:29:20,084 --> 00:29:24,224
called magicians and astrologers,
basically, they're almost naturalists,

537
00:29:24,224 --> 00:29:28,214
like some people nowadays because
what they did is they studied history.

538
00:29:28,214 --> 00:29:33,734
They stu studied economics and culture
and they would make educated guesses.

539
00:29:34,094 --> 00:29:35,679
They trust their reason.

540
00:29:37,349 --> 00:29:39,149
And then they use the gods.

541
00:29:39,209 --> 00:29:40,379
If they get stuck,

542
00:29:42,749 --> 00:29:45,449
they trust their reason and
they use the gods to get sick.

543
00:29:45,449 --> 00:29:49,109
But all of a sudden we see that God
works through divine revelation.

544
00:29:49,499 --> 00:29:52,169
And one of the things Daniel
shows us is that Christians

545
00:29:52,169 --> 00:29:55,259
trust God and use their reason.

546
00:29:57,749 --> 00:29:59,159
They don't trust their reason.

547
00:29:59,879 --> 00:30:04,169
They trust God because God is
their foundation, but they also

548
00:30:04,169 --> 00:30:05,489
don't abandon their reason.

549
00:30:05,489 --> 00:30:09,959
There kind of was an anti-intellectual
movement that happened where it was like

550
00:30:10,019 --> 00:30:17,629
Christians, everything is just on, good
vibes or whatever, we're told Love the

551
00:30:17,629 --> 00:30:20,359
Lord your God with all your heart, mind.

552
00:30:20,884 --> 00:30:25,264
Soul and strength were told in Romans
12 to re, by the renewing of your mind.

553
00:30:25,394 --> 00:30:26,684
don't abandon that.

554
00:30:26,734 --> 00:30:27,025
like God.

555
00:30:28,304 --> 00:30:31,034
He gives us wisdom and
he gives us these things.

556
00:30:31,034 --> 00:30:32,484
And but it's ultimately a trust.

557
00:30:32,484 --> 00:30:35,694
And what can happen is people
trust their reason that they,

558
00:30:35,964 --> 00:30:37,704
the reason becomes their God.

559
00:30:37,764 --> 00:30:39,864
And we see that happening nowadays.

560
00:30:39,864 --> 00:30:44,629
they weigh and they look at predictors
and weigh eco, and they're so convinced

561
00:30:44,629 --> 00:30:46,549
that their reason is the salvation.

562
00:30:46,549 --> 00:30:49,339
And they get stuck and they're like,
we've gotta, we'll figure this out.

563
00:30:49,819 --> 00:30:51,169
We'll make some sacrifices.

564
00:30:51,649 --> 00:30:54,439
You know where it's, no, we're called to.

565
00:30:54,844 --> 00:30:56,164
Trust God.

566
00:30:56,164 --> 00:30:57,634
He's our foundation.

567
00:30:57,664 --> 00:31:02,434
But don't abandon the reason because
Daniel tells us all the way through.

568
00:31:02,434 --> 00:31:04,824
He's 10 times brilliant.

569
00:31:05,244 --> 00:31:10,764
In fact, what happens is when God is
your foundation and your trust, you

570
00:31:10,764 --> 00:31:13,134
always become more fully who you are.

571
00:31:13,864 --> 00:31:14,764
it's interesting.

572
00:31:15,199 --> 00:31:17,659
Because God isn't after automaton robots.

573
00:31:17,659 --> 00:31:19,909
I think people think that if I
become a Christian man, I'm gonna

574
00:31:19,909 --> 00:31:22,729
lose all my freedom and not really
have fun and go out in the world.

575
00:31:22,729 --> 00:31:26,149
I'm just gonna be this automaton
robot for God and I'm just, no.

576
00:31:26,149 --> 00:31:28,310
God wants you to be more
fully who he designed you to

577
00:31:28,310 --> 00:31:29,899
be more fully awake and live.

578
00:31:29,899 --> 00:31:33,679
I put in lights all the time, and I
think so many people are like the lights.

579
00:31:34,159 --> 00:31:37,940
They're like, man, I've got this light
and it does this and it does that.

580
00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:42,140
And it's, it's got this do man, I'm an
electrician that doesn't have do dads.

581
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,240
It's got this luminary capability and
it's got, this type of lamp and it

582
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,590
takes this kind of voltage and stuff.

583
00:31:47,590 --> 00:31:48,730
But did you turn it on?

584
00:31:48,730 --> 00:31:49,630
Did you plug it in?

585
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,570
What happens is when you plug
it in, it comes and it is

586
00:31:55,570 --> 00:31:57,160
more than just sitting there.

587
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,570
it's more of its purpose.

588
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,340
And so too for the Christian,
you fulfill more of your purpose.

589
00:32:03,340 --> 00:32:08,200
You become more fully human, and
he's your source when he's your

590
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,990
everything, when he's your trust.

591
00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:16,780
So the Christian, so they trust God,
but they don't abandon their reason.

592
00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,710
But I know when I start to have
a lack of prayer in my life, it's

593
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:23,260
because I start to think that I'm
sufficient and I can handle it.

594
00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:26,970
a professor in a Bible, college class
had his students do an exercise.

595
00:32:26,970 --> 00:32:28,560
He said, everybody pair up.

596
00:32:29,070 --> 00:32:32,010
One of you close your fist and then the
other one try to get that fist open.

597
00:32:33,330 --> 00:32:36,990
And so for 10 minutes they're working
and you know you've got the jocks.

598
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,160
Who weren't really jocks in high school,
but they went to Bible college, so

599
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,140
now they're the jocks, But anyways,
so they're, they're pulling and

600
00:32:44,140 --> 00:32:47,400
they're using their strength and,
everybody's trying different ways and

601
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,220
everything, and nobody gets the other
one say, and he says, okay, enough.

602
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,260
It's like, how'd you guys try to do it?

603
00:32:52,260 --> 00:32:55,710
I tried with my, and he asked one
interesting question and he said, did any

604
00:32:55,710 --> 00:32:58,110
of you just ask them to open your hand?

605
00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:00,570
Not one person.

606
00:33:01,065 --> 00:33:02,565
Because we want to earn something.

607
00:33:02,565 --> 00:33:03,495
We want to earn it.

608
00:33:03,495 --> 00:33:05,805
I wanna use my strength
that I could take the glory.

609
00:33:05,805 --> 00:33:07,425
I work for it, then it's mine.

610
00:33:08,175 --> 00:33:09,945
It'd be weak just to ask.

611
00:33:11,505 --> 00:33:12,855
I have to do something.

612
00:33:13,365 --> 00:33:18,195
But Daniel and his guys ask, and
Daniel knew these other wise men,

613
00:33:18,255 --> 00:33:21,465
it wasn't within the power of
any men that they couldn't do it.

614
00:33:21,945 --> 00:33:23,595
And so they're gonna stand in the gap.

615
00:33:23,715 --> 00:33:26,685
And you weren't going to go into
Nebuchadnezzar presence and just

616
00:33:26,685 --> 00:33:28,155
start guessing what the dream was.

617
00:33:28,795 --> 00:33:29,905
like the psychics do.

618
00:33:29,905 --> 00:33:33,505
Oh, you'll tall, dark stranger
in your future, something

619
00:33:33,505 --> 00:33:34,825
important will happen to you.

620
00:33:35,135 --> 00:33:36,245
all these vague kind of things.

621
00:33:36,245 --> 00:33:39,845
So Daniel knew he needed to
get a revelation from God, and

622
00:33:39,845 --> 00:33:41,165
he knew that came by prayer.

623
00:33:41,165 --> 00:33:45,125
And the whole battle of this chapters
won right there in verse 17 and 18.

624
00:33:45,185 --> 00:33:48,305
The battles won when Daniel
prayed with his friends.

625
00:33:49,085 --> 00:33:53,165
And I think one of the greatest privileges
of any man or woman on Earth is to have.

626
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,930
Praying friends, we touched on this
last week, Christian friends, man,

627
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,060
people you can talk the gospel with.

628
00:33:59,110 --> 00:34:00,820
not just kinda like,
oh, you're a Christian.

629
00:34:00,820 --> 00:34:01,270
I'm a Christian.

630
00:34:01,270 --> 00:34:01,630
Cool.

631
00:34:02,230 --> 00:34:03,310
How's the 49 ERs?

632
00:34:03,310 --> 00:34:05,640
But pray and weep together.

633
00:34:05,790 --> 00:34:06,930
That stuff's cool too.

634
00:34:06,930 --> 00:34:14,370
But man, what a treasure we have in one
another that we can, like God is in you.

635
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:20,190
The King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords is in you.

636
00:34:20,310 --> 00:34:21,420
And I see it.

637
00:34:22,710 --> 00:34:23,130
Man.

638
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,030
So history was made in
this prayer meeting.

639
00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:29,010
History was revealed
in this prayer meeting.

640
00:34:29,010 --> 00:34:32,850
Man, those are the movers
and shakers in this world.

641
00:34:33,330 --> 00:34:35,580
It's not the preachers, it's
not the church plan, it's the

642
00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:37,139
people who've just been praying.

643
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,530
But they know that God
had done this before.

644
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,179
And they, with the Hebrews,
they know the story of Joseph.

645
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,760
That God gave interpretation.

646
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,810
They said, listen, we'll pray.

647
00:34:46,810 --> 00:34:48,670
We're gonna pray with
earnestness and passion.

648
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,360
It looks like they prayed all night, or
at least till they had a breakthrough.

649
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,370
They prayed that they might not perish.

650
00:34:54,370 --> 00:34:55,900
That's such a strong word there.

651
00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:58,450
We're going to, they're
leaving it all out there.

652
00:34:58,450 --> 00:35:03,370
passion and heart and prayer is a
beautiful thing, not the manipulative,

653
00:35:03,370 --> 00:35:06,700
twisting the god's arm, like the
prophets of bow, who are like cutting

654
00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,820
themselves for hours, yelling at
the sky to a dead piece of wood.

655
00:35:12,915 --> 00:35:16,245
But I love the passage in the book at
acts where it talks about the earnest

656
00:35:16,245 --> 00:35:18,035
prayer made, being made for the disciples.

657
00:35:18,035 --> 00:35:21,875
Peter's in jail and in Acts 12, verse
five, Luke says, Peter was kept in

658
00:35:21,875 --> 00:35:25,695
prison, but earnest prayer was made
for him by, to God, by the church.

659
00:35:26,085 --> 00:35:29,145
And the earnest prayer, the Greek word
there literally means stretched out.

660
00:35:29,145 --> 00:35:35,085
Inness has this idea you ever, and you're
trying to get something outta the pantry.

661
00:35:35,085 --> 00:35:38,625
Andrea asks me all the
time, can you reach that?

662
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,180
And of course I can reach
it, I'm taller than her.

663
00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:47,200
But sometimes the stuff's, there's one
of our shelves that's really up there,

664
00:35:48,130 --> 00:35:52,150
so I have the little stand on my tiptoes,
go up, the little hop where you hop

665
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,970
up on the tip, And that's the idea.

666
00:35:53,970 --> 00:35:59,335
It's this utter reaching out to your
extremities, to your outstretched ness.

667
00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:02,430
And that's what the, that's
how the church is praying.

668
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,700
What's beautiful about that story

669
00:36:12,090 --> 00:36:15,149
is that's not like the key that
unlocks God, but that just,

670
00:36:15,149 --> 00:36:20,609
man, because Peter shows up and
they're like, it can't be Peter.

671
00:36:20,609 --> 00:36:22,980
We're praying for this to happen
and we're stretched out in this.

672
00:36:23,029 --> 00:36:25,790
so God's working despite
us, but absolutely amazing.

673
00:36:25,790 --> 00:36:29,150
Every fiber of your being has to stretch
out to grab you some, grab something.

674
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,050
Then the mystery is revealed to
Daniel in a vision of the night that

675
00:36:33,050 --> 00:36:36,590
Daniel blesses the God of heaven
vision of the night in verse 19.

676
00:36:37,410 --> 00:36:38,069
dream.

677
00:36:38,069 --> 00:36:41,370
Did he go to sleep that night
or was he awake, pressing

678
00:36:41,370 --> 00:36:42,810
in until the Lord answered.

679
00:36:42,810 --> 00:36:44,609
Sometimes we wrestle and wrestle.

680
00:36:45,899 --> 00:36:48,779
I remember the story of a pastor
at list of names under his pillow.

681
00:36:48,779 --> 00:36:52,020
He prayed for every night, and he kept
crossing him off as his friends came

682
00:36:52,020 --> 00:36:55,950
to Jesus, but he died and there were
two names that weren't crossed out

683
00:36:58,380 --> 00:36:59,190
at his funeral.

684
00:37:01,305 --> 00:37:02,565
His friends came to Jesus,

685
00:37:05,205 --> 00:37:07,635
so sometimes it's a lifelong wrestle.

686
00:37:07,695 --> 00:37:10,425
Sometimes God answers so quick,
like Peter being freed from prison.

687
00:37:10,425 --> 00:37:11,230
We can hardly believe it.

688
00:37:11,415 --> 00:37:13,545
Is verse 20.

689
00:37:13,605 --> 00:37:16,935
Daniel answered and said, blessed
be the name of God forever and ever

690
00:37:16,935 --> 00:37:18,555
to whom belong wisdom and might.

691
00:37:18,555 --> 00:37:20,385
He changes the times and the seasons.

692
00:37:20,385 --> 00:37:22,035
He removes kings and sets up kings.

693
00:37:22,035 --> 00:37:25,935
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge
to those who have understanding.

694
00:37:25,935 --> 00:37:27,735
He reveals deep and hidden things.

695
00:37:27,735 --> 00:37:31,665
He knows what is in the darkness
and the light dwells within him

696
00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:34,154
to you, oh God, of my father's.

697
00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:39,779
I give thanks and praise for you
have given me wisdom and might

698
00:37:40,110 --> 00:37:42,120
and have now made known to me.

699
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:48,029
What we asked of you for, you have
made known to us the kings matter.

700
00:37:48,029 --> 00:37:49,170
So beautiful guys.

701
00:37:49,170 --> 00:37:51,840
He hasn't even asked if
this is the interpretation.

702
00:37:54,795 --> 00:37:58,890
He hasn't this said before Nebuchadnezzar
and been like, I think this is the dream.

703
00:37:58,890 --> 00:38:02,700
He is so sure what God revealed to him.

704
00:38:03,450 --> 00:38:05,279
And he just bursts out in praise.

705
00:38:06,060 --> 00:38:09,480
A beautiful thing about a heart
of dependence on God is that.

706
00:38:09,990 --> 00:38:12,480
The heart is quick to the dependent.

707
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,160
Heart is quick to give him all the glory.

708
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:18,600
I love how Daniel Exalts, the
Lord is being higher than any king

709
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,720
because he was in the presence of
a terrifying king who was a tyrant,

710
00:38:21,930 --> 00:38:23,880
who was ready to rip limb from limb.

711
00:38:24,060 --> 00:38:26,010
So there's no fear of man in him.

712
00:38:26,010 --> 00:38:29,069
'cause he sees King,
king God on the throne.

713
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:30,569
Daniel recognized.

714
00:38:30,815 --> 00:38:33,575
recognizes God removes
kings and raises kings up.

715
00:38:33,605 --> 00:38:37,955
If Nebuchadnezzar is the king, God
could remove him if he wanted to, God

716
00:38:37,955 --> 00:38:39,305
could raise him up if he wanted to.

717
00:38:39,305 --> 00:38:40,655
It's all in God's hands.

718
00:38:40,655 --> 00:38:45,165
God is in control of all of this,
and he loves the verbs he uses in 20

719
00:38:45,165 --> 00:38:48,065
21, 22 and 23, he says he changes.

720
00:38:48,515 --> 00:38:49,235
He removes.

721
00:38:50,270 --> 00:38:56,090
And he knows, Daniel knows that the power
and might of God, that God is mightier

722
00:38:56,270 --> 00:38:58,010
than the mighty king like Nebuchadnezzar.

723
00:38:58,010 --> 00:39:02,510
But then he also says, and this is
glorious in verse 21 and 22, he says,

724
00:39:02,510 --> 00:39:08,580
he gives and he reveals, friends,
all of God's might, all of God's

725
00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:13,290
wisdom, all of God's power would be
meaningless to us unless he gave to

726
00:39:13,290 --> 00:39:19,140
us and revealed to us what a grace.

727
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:27,319
That we see blind eyes that have
been open and he gracelessly chosen

728
00:39:27,319 --> 00:39:30,260
to reveal himself to us to turn
on the lights so that we don't

729
00:39:30,260 --> 00:39:31,940
have to walk through the dark.

730
00:39:32,090 --> 00:39:35,600
And remember that Babylon Wiseman
said, only the Gods know this.

731
00:39:35,779 --> 00:39:37,640
And they don't associate with humans.

732
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,990
They don't come down with us.

733
00:39:38,990 --> 00:39:42,709
And yet as if Daniel is saying through
this poem, the God of Israel, he

734
00:39:42,709 --> 00:39:46,549
reigns over the world and yet he stoops
down and he listens to his people.

735
00:39:47,059 --> 00:39:50,059
He's high and lifted up, but
he associates with the lowly.

736
00:39:51,470 --> 00:39:56,059
You look at verse 23, you've made known
to us, well, who was it revealed to?

737
00:39:56,870 --> 00:39:58,430
Just Daniel or all four of them.

738
00:39:58,430 --> 00:40:02,720
And the answer is yes, because Daniel
knows that it was revealed to all

739
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,249
of them because of their prayer.

740
00:40:04,430 --> 00:40:09,559
They're in this together, they're a team,
and they all sought God for the answer.

741
00:40:09,559 --> 00:40:12,859
God was bringing deliverance to them
all, and they all had a share in this

742
00:40:12,859 --> 00:40:14,479
because of their prayer together.

743
00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:18,845
So again, Daniel is rejoicing, his
friends are rejoicing, and then

744
00:40:18,845 --> 00:40:20,584
they rushed to the king, verse 24.

745
00:40:20,644 --> 00:40:23,524
Therefore, Daniel went to into
Och, whom the king had appointed

746
00:40:23,524 --> 00:40:25,444
to destroy the Wiseman of Babylon.

747
00:40:26,825 --> 00:40:32,254
He went and said, thus to him, do
not destroy the Wiseman of Babylon.

748
00:40:32,254 --> 00:40:35,254
Bring me in before the king and I'll
show the king the interpretation.

749
00:40:35,689 --> 00:40:39,799
Then Och brought in Daniel before the
king and hast and said thus to him, I

750
00:40:39,799 --> 00:40:43,939
have found among the exiles from Judah,
a man who will make known to the king,

751
00:40:43,939 --> 00:40:49,099
the interpretation The king declared to
Daniel, whose name was Belt to Shaar.

752
00:40:49,279 --> 00:40:52,939
Are you able to make known to me the dream
that I have seen and its interpretation?

753
00:40:52,939 --> 00:40:54,439
Daniel answered the king and said, no.

754
00:40:54,439 --> 00:40:58,519
Wise men, enchanters, magicians, or
astrologers can show the king the

755
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:00,019
mystery that the king has asked.

756
00:41:00,289 --> 00:41:01,910
But there is a God in heaven.

757
00:41:02,974 --> 00:41:06,274
Who reveals mysteries and he has
made known to King Nebuchadnezzar

758
00:41:06,634 --> 00:41:08,434
what will be in the latter days.

759
00:41:08,434 --> 00:41:12,154
Your dream and the visions of your
head as you lay in bed are these.

760
00:41:12,154 --> 00:41:16,654
Now pause right there, because this is the
turning point of the entire story because

761
00:41:16,654 --> 00:41:20,345
so far everyone in Babylon, the Babylonian
empire has been trying to do this on their

762
00:41:20,345 --> 00:41:21,845
own strength and through human wisdom.

763
00:41:21,845 --> 00:41:25,654
But Daniel blows the roof off
and he says that we can't do

764
00:41:25,654 --> 00:41:26,944
it, but there's a God in heaven.

765
00:41:26,944 --> 00:41:30,184
Very interesting because it's the
same thing the astrologers said.

766
00:41:30,514 --> 00:41:32,224
That made him so upset.

767
00:41:32,434 --> 00:41:35,014
They said, no man can do this.

768
00:41:35,014 --> 00:41:35,944
And he is ah.

769
00:41:36,334 --> 00:41:38,794
Daniel said, no man can do this.

770
00:41:39,214 --> 00:41:40,534
But there's a God who talks.

771
00:41:42,604 --> 00:41:46,534
There's a God who reveals there's
a God who wants to be known.

772
00:41:47,194 --> 00:41:49,684
And how often do we
forget this basic truth?

773
00:41:49,714 --> 00:41:50,194
I do.

774
00:41:50,404 --> 00:41:53,704
Me when life is falling apart.

775
00:41:53,704 --> 00:41:56,674
Like I said, that there's a God in heaven.

776
00:41:57,674 --> 00:42:03,584
it's easy to say that we believe in God,
but then so often I live for stretches

777
00:42:03,584 --> 00:42:05,474
of time, like a functional atheist.

778
00:42:06,074 --> 00:42:09,224
We say we believe in God and
then we live is if it's up to us.

779
00:42:09,224 --> 00:42:09,854
I do.

780
00:42:10,154 --> 00:42:13,154
We say that God approves me of it
in Christ, but then I'm out going

781
00:42:13,154 --> 00:42:14,564
looking for the approval of others.

782
00:42:14,564 --> 00:42:17,084
We say that God has
given me an DI identity.

783
00:42:17,429 --> 00:42:20,849
But we use all our energy to try
to construct our own identity.

784
00:42:21,089 --> 00:42:24,539
We say that God has given me a purpose,
but when we try to create our own

785
00:42:24,539 --> 00:42:27,719
purpose, we say that God is bringing his
kingdom, but then we spend all of our

786
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,819
time trying to build our own kingdom.

787
00:42:30,359 --> 00:42:31,139
Ah.

788
00:42:31,769 --> 00:42:35,609
And so Daniel says to the king, what
you long for is not possible with

789
00:42:35,609 --> 00:42:37,859
man, but there is a God in heaven.

790
00:42:37,859 --> 00:42:40,469
And that's really the
question behind all of this.

791
00:42:41,939 --> 00:42:43,319
Is there a God in heaven?

792
00:42:44,054 --> 00:42:46,814
And has he said something
to us here on Earth?

793
00:42:46,814 --> 00:42:50,384
Is there a God in heaven and
is his power available to us?

794
00:42:50,434 --> 00:42:53,374
sometimes like Nebuchadnezzar,
you get to a point where all

795
00:42:53,374 --> 00:42:56,194
human strategies fail, and I feel

796
00:42:58,444 --> 00:43:01,984
like one of the rules of being a
preacher is to proclaim over and over.

797
00:43:01,984 --> 00:43:05,674
Actually just being a Christian is for
you to proclaim over and over to me too.

798
00:43:06,124 --> 00:43:07,414
There's a God in heaven.

799
00:43:09,634 --> 00:43:10,444
What did that change?

800
00:43:10,444 --> 00:43:15,115
How we saw everything to see, in
the year that King Siah died, Isaiah

801
00:43:15,115 --> 00:43:16,255
I think had put all his hopes.

802
00:43:16,255 --> 00:43:19,615
He's a young, fresh out of Bible
school prophet, wet behind the ears.

803
00:43:19,915 --> 00:43:22,165
He's excited, he's legalistic.

804
00:43:22,165 --> 00:43:23,924
He's woe, do you co on woe?

805
00:43:23,924 --> 00:43:25,845
Do you best say, the
first couple chapters?

806
00:43:25,875 --> 00:43:27,644
He's just a woes on everybody.

807
00:43:27,644 --> 00:43:28,814
Like a gun slinger, right?

808
00:43:28,814 --> 00:43:29,625
A legalistic gun.

809
00:43:29,625 --> 00:43:30,615
Slinger, bababa, boom.

810
00:43:30,825 --> 00:43:31,245
Woe to you.

811
00:43:31,245 --> 00:43:31,754
Woe to you.

812
00:43:33,015 --> 00:43:33,975
But the good king.

813
00:43:34,964 --> 00:43:37,455
Goes in and he gets proceed because he
does something he's not supposed to.

814
00:43:37,455 --> 00:43:39,854
And this good king, he had put
all these hopes and this good

815
00:43:39,854 --> 00:43:41,384
king turning the kingdom around.

816
00:43:41,384 --> 00:43:45,134
And he says, in the year that King
Siah died, I went into the temple.

817
00:43:45,134 --> 00:43:45,974
I was wrecked.

818
00:43:45,974 --> 00:43:47,205
What is going on?

819
00:43:47,205 --> 00:43:48,404
What is happening?

820
00:43:51,644 --> 00:43:56,564
And I saw the Lord seated on his
throne and the train of his robe

821
00:43:56,564 --> 00:43:59,654
filled the temple with glory.

822
00:44:01,934 --> 00:44:02,865
And I said.

823
00:44:04,184 --> 00:44:05,205
Woes me.

824
00:44:05,234 --> 00:44:05,294
Yeah.

825
00:44:06,884 --> 00:44:07,814
I'm undone.

826
00:44:09,314 --> 00:44:12,705
I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell
amongst the people of unclean lips.

827
00:44:12,979 --> 00:44:15,044
Oh, I'm broken.

828
00:44:17,055 --> 00:44:18,644
Blessed are the poor in spirit.

829
00:44:18,974 --> 00:44:19,035
Yeah.

830
00:44:20,115 --> 00:44:21,794
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

831
00:44:24,419 --> 00:44:27,194
The king on the throne fixed everything.

832
00:44:27,974 --> 00:44:32,205
I think about the asap, right when
he goes in and he sees the prosperity

833
00:44:32,415 --> 00:44:35,474
of the wicked while the goopy perish.

834
00:44:37,694 --> 00:44:40,184
No, he said My feet almost slipped.

835
00:44:42,554 --> 00:44:43,304
I was almost done.

836
00:44:43,304 --> 00:44:48,285
I was ready to turn in My
Christianity card doesn't make sense.

837
00:44:49,469 --> 00:44:53,474
And then I went to the temple
and I understood their end.

838
00:44:54,749 --> 00:45:00,899
Oh, it all made sense when I saw King on
the Throne and how it changes everything.

839
00:45:01,620 --> 00:45:05,429
We've tried to make relationships
work, maybe in our own strength,

840
00:45:05,999 --> 00:45:07,410
tried to fix what's broken.

841
00:45:07,410 --> 00:45:08,970
You failed and you feel
like there's no hope.

842
00:45:10,229 --> 00:45:14,069
There's a God in heaven and his
power starts where ours end.

843
00:45:14,519 --> 00:45:17,069
We've tried to make our
kids turn out right, man.

844
00:45:17,069 --> 00:45:19,679
Have we invested and struggled and toiled?

845
00:45:20,220 --> 00:45:22,349
You've told them everything you
know to tell them you've tried

846
00:45:22,349 --> 00:45:25,290
everything, you know to make them
choose what's right to follow God.

847
00:45:25,290 --> 00:45:27,809
There's nothing left you can
do, but there's a God in heaven.

848
00:45:28,710 --> 00:45:30,779
You've tried to overcome addiction.

849
00:45:31,049 --> 00:45:32,580
You've tried to find that missing piece.

850
00:45:32,580 --> 00:45:34,830
You failed so many times or
to think there's no point.

851
00:45:36,555 --> 00:45:39,765
But, and that's a huge, but
there's a God in heaven, death

852
00:45:39,765 --> 00:45:41,984
and disease, so seems so final.

853
00:45:43,575 --> 00:45:46,875
And maybe they've taken things that
you feel like you can never get back.

854
00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:48,674
Won't death just take us all away?

855
00:45:48,674 --> 00:45:49,424
And they end.

856
00:45:49,424 --> 00:45:50,774
Yes, but there's a God in heaven.

857
00:45:50,805 --> 00:45:53,894
You're disappointed in politics,
dismayed by our leaders.

858
00:45:53,894 --> 00:45:56,984
Democrats disappoint Republicans,
disappoint, newsflash.

859
00:45:57,015 --> 00:45:59,115
If you were in power,
you'd disappoint us too.

860
00:45:59,160 --> 00:45:59,370
Amen.

861
00:45:59,759 --> 00:46:01,080
But there's a God in heaven.

862
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:04,559
And speaking of disappointments,
let's talk about us.

863
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,620
For some of us, none of us has
disappointed you more than you.

864
00:46:08,549 --> 00:46:12,240
No one has lied to you, let you
down our broken promises more than

865
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:17,219
you have to yourself, and you have
no confidence to go forward and

866
00:46:17,219 --> 00:46:18,899
create a better future than today.

867
00:46:18,899 --> 00:46:20,339
Yes, but there is a God in heaven.

868
00:46:20,339 --> 00:46:20,969
Do you believe that?

869
00:46:20,969 --> 00:46:21,990
That would change everything?

870
00:46:21,990 --> 00:46:23,339
There is a God in heaven.

871
00:46:23,879 --> 00:46:28,740
Who's good and what makes it even
more spectacular is that God who is in

872
00:46:28,740 --> 00:46:33,450
heaven came down to earth and stooped
low in the dust he took on human flesh,

873
00:46:33,450 --> 00:46:37,139
and he was born as an infant who grew
up and lived perfectly before a man.

874
00:46:37,139 --> 00:46:37,769
And God.

875
00:46:38,189 --> 00:46:41,879
He is the good shepherd who leads the
99 to go after the one, the friend

876
00:46:41,879 --> 00:46:43,379
that sticks closer than a brother.

877
00:46:43,379 --> 00:46:46,620
The truly good father who
loves our kids more than we do.

878
00:46:47,115 --> 00:46:50,295
He's the loving groom who
presents his bride pure and

879
00:46:50,295 --> 00:46:52,154
spotless by taking her spots.

880
00:46:52,335 --> 00:46:55,424
He's the warrior who defeated
death by taking it sting.

881
00:46:55,634 --> 00:46:59,024
He's the fulfillment of the law who
took the curse by becoming the curse.

882
00:46:59,024 --> 00:47:02,024
He's the king of kings who
uses his power to serve.

883
00:47:02,234 --> 00:47:04,964
He is the one who sees you through
and through and knows every

884
00:47:04,964 --> 00:47:06,974
hidden thing and runs toward you.

885
00:47:07,334 --> 00:47:09,734
And swallows up your
darkness with his light.

886
00:47:09,734 --> 00:47:13,124
He runs after you every day,
drawing you with cords of kindness.

887
00:47:13,154 --> 00:47:16,394
There is a God he's on his eternal
throne, and he reaches down into

888
00:47:16,394 --> 00:47:20,865
history and gives this little king a
dream about his kingdom and the coming

889
00:47:20,865 --> 00:47:24,644
kingdoms of man and how they will not
stand in the coming kingdom of the

890
00:47:24,644 --> 00:47:26,354
King of kings and the Lord of Lords.

891
00:47:26,444 --> 00:47:28,154
Let me wrap this up.

892
00:47:28,154 --> 00:47:29,264
Verse 31 35.

893
00:47:29,264 --> 00:47:33,134
It says, you saw king and behold
this image mighty and exceeding

894
00:47:33,134 --> 00:47:35,684
brightness stood before you and
its appearance is frightening.

895
00:47:36,194 --> 00:47:38,324
The head of this image was a fine gold.

896
00:47:38,324 --> 00:47:39,764
Its chest and arms of silver.

897
00:47:39,764 --> 00:47:43,454
Its middle and thighs of bronze,
its leg of iron, its feet, partly

898
00:47:43,454 --> 00:47:45,044
of iron, and partly of clay.

899
00:47:45,464 --> 00:47:49,154
As you look, the stone was cut out by
no human hand, and its struck the image

900
00:47:49,154 --> 00:47:52,994
on its feet of iron and clay broke them
in pieces and the iron and the clay,

901
00:47:52,994 --> 00:47:56,774
the bronze and the silver and the gold
all together were broken in pieces and

902
00:47:56,774 --> 00:47:58,934
it became like chaff of the summer.

903
00:47:59,044 --> 00:48:01,684
the summer threshing floors and
the wind carried them away so that

904
00:48:01,684 --> 00:48:03,814
not a trace of them could be found.

905
00:48:04,774 --> 00:48:09,004
But the stone that struck the
image became a great mountain

906
00:48:09,244 --> 00:48:12,124
and filled the whole earth.

907
00:48:13,204 --> 00:48:15,934
So Daniel shares a stream, and
it's a dream of a huge statue.

908
00:48:16,114 --> 00:48:17,794
The statue has a golden head.

909
00:48:18,034 --> 00:48:19,714
It's chest and its orbs are silver.

910
00:48:19,714 --> 00:48:20,674
It's midsection.

911
00:48:21,289 --> 00:48:22,549
And its thighs are bront.

912
00:48:22,849 --> 00:48:26,419
Its legs are iron and its feet
are part iron and part clay.

913
00:48:26,929 --> 00:48:29,239
And this stone comes from the sky.

914
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:29,959
It starts small.

915
00:48:29,959 --> 00:48:31,249
It smashes the statue.

916
00:48:31,519 --> 00:48:33,529
It smashes, it turns everything into dust.

917
00:48:33,529 --> 00:48:35,419
The wind blows it away, so
there's nothing left of it.

918
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,959
But then this stone that came
from the sky grows into a mountain

919
00:48:38,959 --> 00:48:39,919
and fills the whole earth.

920
00:48:39,919 --> 00:48:40,819
Strange right?

921
00:48:41,419 --> 00:48:42,799
What in the world is going on here?

922
00:48:43,339 --> 00:48:44,299
What does this mean?

923
00:48:44,429 --> 00:48:45,929
Daniel has told us the dream.

924
00:48:45,929 --> 00:48:48,689
He is told the king the dream, and now
he's going to share the interpretation.

925
00:48:49,634 --> 00:48:50,534
Verse 36.

926
00:48:51,434 --> 00:48:52,394
This was the dream.

927
00:48:53,204 --> 00:48:55,064
Now we will tell the
king it's interpretation.

928
00:48:55,064 --> 00:48:57,434
Nebu, Kez are just on
the edge of his seat now.

929
00:48:57,944 --> 00:48:59,264
He's you nailed it.

930
00:49:00,074 --> 00:49:01,274
Holy moly.

931
00:49:01,874 --> 00:49:02,624
I'm back.

932
00:49:02,624 --> 00:49:03,314
It's vivid.

933
00:49:03,314 --> 00:49:04,274
I see it all.

934
00:49:04,274 --> 00:49:06,104
Everything's clicking back in place.

935
00:49:06,644 --> 00:49:08,714
And now he gets to hear
the interpretation.

936
00:49:08,714 --> 00:49:12,914
So not only tell me the vision, but the
interpretation, and now he's all ears.

937
00:49:13,474 --> 00:49:14,584
He says, here's the interpretation.

938
00:49:14,584 --> 00:49:16,804
You O King, the king of kings.

939
00:49:16,804 --> 00:49:22,744
To whom the God of heaven has given the
kingdom, the power and the might glory,

940
00:49:22,954 --> 00:49:26,614
and into whose hand he has given wherever
they dwell, the children of man, the

941
00:49:26,614 --> 00:49:30,124
beasts of the field and the birds of the
heavens, making you rule over them all.

942
00:49:30,469 --> 00:49:32,209
You are the head of gold.

943
00:49:32,689 --> 00:49:36,799
Another kingdom inferior to you shall
arise after you, and yet a third kingdom

944
00:49:36,799 --> 00:49:40,099
of bronze, which shall rule over all
the earth and there shall be a fourth

945
00:49:40,099 --> 00:49:44,329
kingdom strong as iron because iron
breaks to pieces and shatters all things.

946
00:49:44,329 --> 00:49:47,659
And like iron that crushes it shall
break and crush all these things.

947
00:49:48,109 --> 00:49:52,939
And as you saw the feet and the
toes, partly of the potter's clay

948
00:49:52,939 --> 00:49:57,409
and partly of iron, it shall be a
divided kingdom, but some of the

949
00:49:57,409 --> 00:49:59,059
firmness of iron shall be in it.

950
00:49:59,294 --> 00:50:03,554
Just as you saw iron mixed with the
soft clay and as the toes of the feet

951
00:50:03,554 --> 00:50:05,204
were partly iron and partly clay.

952
00:50:05,204 --> 00:50:09,164
So the kingdom shall be partly
strong and partly brittle as you

953
00:50:09,164 --> 00:50:10,874
saw the iron mixed with soft clay.

954
00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:15,284
So they will mix with one another in
marriage, but they will not hold together

955
00:50:15,284 --> 00:50:17,234
just as iron does not mix with clay.

956
00:50:17,889 --> 00:50:21,849
And in the days of those kings, the
God of heaven will set up a kingdom

957
00:50:21,849 --> 00:50:23,259
that shall never be destroyed.

958
00:50:23,259 --> 00:50:26,109
No shall the kingdom be
left to another people.

959
00:50:26,109 --> 00:50:31,209
It shall break in pieces, all these
kingdoms, all of them, and bring them

960
00:50:31,209 --> 00:50:33,759
to an end, and it shall stand forever.

961
00:50:33,759 --> 00:50:39,219
Just as you saw that stone was cut from
the mountain by no human hand, and that

962
00:50:39,219 --> 00:50:42,969
it broke in pieces of the iron, the
bronze, the clay, the silver, the gold.

963
00:50:43,474 --> 00:50:47,134
A great God has made known to the
king what shall be after this.

964
00:50:47,194 --> 00:50:51,154
The dream is certain and
its interpretation is sure.

965
00:50:53,104 --> 00:50:57,634
Now I'm gonna wrap this up because what's
exciting to me and what changed and shaped

966
00:50:57,634 --> 00:51:02,584
me as I opened up with that open verse
from Matthew chapter five is not the

967
00:51:02,584 --> 00:51:06,574
charts and graphs of Biblical prophecy,
which we'll get into later in Daniel.

968
00:51:06,574 --> 00:51:10,144
That's exciting, but the rock.

969
00:51:11,474 --> 00:51:15,904
The rock and the vision, the rock
that's not made by human hands.

970
00:51:16,204 --> 00:51:20,374
The rock that smashes that nothing
can stand in the way of the rock.

971
00:51:20,374 --> 00:51:21,334
What's the meaning of the dream?

972
00:51:21,334 --> 00:51:24,124
The meaning of the dream is everybody
is building somebody's kingdom.

973
00:51:25,414 --> 00:51:27,754
Everybody has a foundation
for what they're doing.

974
00:51:28,744 --> 00:51:30,694
The motivation, the foundation is really.

975
00:51:31,489 --> 00:51:33,709
What sets the course?

976
00:51:33,769 --> 00:51:36,859
Look at your foundation.

977
00:51:36,889 --> 00:51:38,869
Why are you doing it?

978
00:51:38,899 --> 00:51:45,289
No matter how strong we appear or
how well off in life, any foundation

979
00:51:45,289 --> 00:51:48,589
that isn't built on God is like iron.

980
00:51:48,864 --> 00:51:56,574
Mixed with clay and every single
person has clay mixed in with whatever

981
00:51:56,574 --> 00:52:02,034
they think is strong because all
of humanity, the only kingdom that

982
00:52:02,034 --> 00:52:06,774
can, as much as gold as they put
out, there's always weakness in it.

983
00:52:07,434 --> 00:52:09,474
There's always that sin nature.

984
00:52:09,474 --> 00:52:14,454
There's always that brokenness and
some are like, I'm the gold head.

985
00:52:14,874 --> 00:52:16,164
Money's my security.

986
00:52:17,539 --> 00:52:18,589
It's mixed with clay.

987
00:52:18,589 --> 00:52:23,740
Some are like strength iron's, my
security as long as I'm, strong enough.

988
00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:28,509
But it doesn't hold,
man's kingdoms never hold.

989
00:52:28,569 --> 00:52:29,799
They never hold together.

990
00:52:30,099 --> 00:52:34,539
And I think as Nebuchadnezzar sitting
there, I think he's got that in his guts.

991
00:52:34,539 --> 00:52:38,349
He knows, even though I'm the gold
head, even though I've got it all

992
00:52:38,349 --> 00:52:45,189
together, even though I'm the most prized
material there, my feet are exposed.

993
00:52:45,894 --> 00:52:50,035
My weakness is exposed, and no
matter how much I try to guard my

994
00:52:50,035 --> 00:52:55,404
strength and make it look like this
man, those kingdoms don't stand.

995
00:52:55,794 --> 00:52:56,964
They don't hold together.

996
00:52:57,174 --> 00:52:58,254
They fall apart.

997
00:52:58,464 --> 00:53:01,104
And not only do they fall apart,
but in this vision, it's telling

998
00:53:01,104 --> 00:53:02,785
them the rock is gonna smash it.

999
00:53:04,224 --> 00:53:05,544
and eventually it will collapse.

1000
00:53:05,544 --> 00:53:07,884
It's funny how we look back
in history and watch this.

1001
00:53:08,229 --> 00:53:13,439
Be true over and over of every
kingdom of every age, but we think

1002
00:53:13,439 --> 00:53:15,479
our kingdom is the invincible one.

1003
00:53:17,759 --> 00:53:22,619
And I come back to my reoccurring
dream because what was happening

1004
00:53:22,619 --> 00:53:27,479
in that dream, I'm convinced,
is that my clay was exposed.

1005
00:53:30,149 --> 00:53:31,589
I like approval from people.

1006
00:53:33,509 --> 00:53:39,059
And what that dream was was me showing
my clay because what was my strength?

1007
00:53:39,059 --> 00:53:40,579
My strength is getting up, communicating.

1008
00:53:40,579 --> 00:53:43,969
I can do it on the spot, I can open
God's word and share the gospel.

1009
00:53:44,539 --> 00:53:48,859
But what I was building my
foundation on was this desire

1010
00:53:48,889 --> 00:53:51,709
for the masses to say, good job.

1011
00:53:53,179 --> 00:53:54,049
Hey, good job.

1012
00:53:54,049 --> 00:53:55,279
And what was being destroyed?

1013
00:53:57,754 --> 00:54:03,924
Was that weakness was what I was building
my life on, and 15 times over and over.

1014
00:54:04,014 --> 00:54:04,974
I'm being demolished.

1015
00:54:04,974 --> 00:54:05,604
I'm being demolished.

1016
00:54:05,604 --> 00:54:08,094
I'm having the dream, and the
whole statue is crumbling.

1017
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,439
And I wake up in a sweat and I'm like, oh.

1018
00:54:11,499 --> 00:54:15,009
And for a day, a week,
I have that feeling.

1019
00:54:15,009 --> 00:54:16,959
I pray, Lord, please take this.

1020
00:54:17,019 --> 00:54:18,819
And I tried different ways.

1021
00:54:19,209 --> 00:54:23,499
I would study a passage just to be
in a dream, so I'd know it by heart.

1022
00:54:23,499 --> 00:54:24,849
I've got my three points.

1023
00:54:24,910 --> 00:54:27,759
I could teach Luke seven by heart,
and then when I get there in my

1024
00:54:27,759 --> 00:54:30,939
dream, I can't remember anything.

1025
00:54:31,450 --> 00:54:35,139
I can't even read the Bible when I'm
up there and I'm trying all these

1026
00:54:35,139 --> 00:54:36,374
things, you know what happened?

1027
00:54:37,194 --> 00:54:39,414
Was for some reason

1028
00:54:45,414 --> 00:54:46,344
I gave up

1029
00:54:52,584 --> 00:54:58,044
and people were leaving, except I noticed
in the front row was one like the son of

1030
00:54:58,044 --> 00:55:00,684
man and he had a big smile on his face.

1031
00:55:05,904 --> 00:55:08,634
And I knew he stoked,

1032
00:55:11,274 --> 00:55:12,594
and I never had the dream again.

1033
00:55:15,084 --> 00:55:15,624
Blessed.

1034
00:55:16,764 --> 00:55:21,264
Are the poor in spirit for
theirs is the kingdom of God.

1035
00:55:21,894 --> 00:55:22,224
Okay?

1036
00:55:22,224 --> 00:55:26,544
So the rock is the kingdom of God,
and the text directly says that.

1037
00:55:26,724 --> 00:55:31,404
And when Jesus shows up, he made it
clear in Matthew 2141 that this rock

1038
00:55:31,404 --> 00:55:33,384
coming from heaven was a picture of him.

1039
00:55:33,624 --> 00:55:34,914
Matthew 2142.

1040
00:55:34,914 --> 00:55:37,194
Jesus said to them, have
you read in the scriptures?

1041
00:55:37,194 --> 00:55:41,214
The stone that the builders
rejected has become the cornerstone.

1042
00:55:41,484 --> 00:55:44,274
This was the Lord's doing, and
it's marvelous in our eyes.

1043
00:55:44,844 --> 00:55:46,854
I always didn't see that part.

1044
00:55:46,854 --> 00:55:50,575
It's marvelous in our eyes that
he's been the rejected one.

1045
00:55:50,575 --> 00:55:54,504
It's marvelous that he was rejected so
that I didn't have to think about it.

1046
00:55:54,504 --> 00:55:56,154
The stone was made without human hands.

1047
00:55:56,154 --> 00:55:57,804
It came with no human agency.

1048
00:55:58,014 --> 00:56:00,325
That was to show that no
part of God's salvation would

1049
00:56:00,325 --> 00:56:01,825
come about by human agency.

1050
00:56:02,004 --> 00:56:03,115
No hand touched it.

1051
00:56:03,115 --> 00:56:04,164
God would do it all.

1052
00:56:04,344 --> 00:56:07,254
So like the stone, Jesus would
be made without human hands.

1053
00:56:07,254 --> 00:56:08,334
He was born a virgin.

1054
00:56:08,634 --> 00:56:10,524
Second, the rock was the least valuable

1055
00:56:10,524 --> 00:56:11,874
Substance in the dream.

1056
00:56:12,115 --> 00:56:15,084
Granite is much less valuable
than gold, silver, bronze, and

1057
00:56:15,084 --> 00:56:17,365
even iron, or even iron and clay.

1058
00:56:17,634 --> 00:56:21,115
Yet this rock came with the power of
God and it so shattered into dust,

1059
00:56:21,115 --> 00:56:22,584
those more expensive materials.

1060
00:56:22,914 --> 00:56:25,524
This represents how Jesus would
not come with all the bling

1061
00:56:25,524 --> 00:56:26,514
and the shine of the world.

1062
00:56:26,514 --> 00:56:27,474
He was born poor.

1063
00:56:27,714 --> 00:56:28,705
He never owned a home.

1064
00:56:28,705 --> 00:56:29,964
He never raised an army.

1065
00:56:29,964 --> 00:56:31,254
He was no head of gold.

1066
00:56:31,285 --> 00:56:34,974
Yet he came with death
defying power of God.

1067
00:56:35,279 --> 00:56:39,269
Third in the dream, the rock started
small, but eventually grew into a gigantic

1068
00:56:39,269 --> 00:56:41,129
mountain that filled the whole earth.

1069
00:56:41,399 --> 00:56:45,059
It's the same thing that Jesus said
about his kingdom in Matthew 13.

1070
00:56:45,059 --> 00:56:48,029
He said, this kingdom would start
small like a seed, but eventually

1071
00:56:48,209 --> 00:56:51,089
it will multiply so that it
covers every part of the earth.

1072
00:56:51,450 --> 00:56:52,619
You know when Jesus left.

1073
00:56:53,334 --> 00:56:56,634
You could put all of his
followers into one upper room.

1074
00:56:56,634 --> 00:57:01,075
He didn't leave an army or a fortress like
Nebuchadnezzar or Alexander The Great.

1075
00:57:01,434 --> 00:57:04,794
Yet that small movement has
today swelled into the largest

1076
00:57:05,164 --> 00:57:06,724
religious movement in history.

1077
00:57:06,874 --> 00:57:08,974
It literally covers the face of the earth.

1078
00:57:09,294 --> 00:57:13,404
And that leads us to the substance of our
core message of Babylon, that what we're

1079
00:57:13,404 --> 00:57:18,294
witnessing to, to testify of that God sent
a rock to earth called Jesus, who will

1080
00:57:18,294 --> 00:57:22,704
destroy every false kingdom erected by
man, whether those of large geopolitical

1081
00:57:22,704 --> 00:57:26,724
kingdoms in the world, or the independent
little kingdoms of our own lives.

1082
00:57:27,089 --> 00:57:28,349
He came first to save.

1083
00:57:28,349 --> 00:57:30,899
He came not to judge us, but
to die on the cross, to save us

1084
00:57:30,899 --> 00:57:34,229
to be a rock of salvation that
we could build our lives upon.

1085
00:57:34,469 --> 00:57:37,589
But if we don't do that,
then that rock crushes.

1086
00:57:37,829 --> 00:57:40,019
And here's the verse that
brings it all together and that

1087
00:57:40,019 --> 00:57:40,919
brought it together for me.

1088
00:57:40,919 --> 00:57:45,029
Matthew 2142 to 44, Jesus said to
them, have you not read the scriptures?

1089
00:57:45,299 --> 00:57:48,329
The stone, the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.

1090
00:57:49,054 --> 00:57:51,664
The Lord has done this and
it's marvelous in our eyes.

1091
00:57:51,664 --> 00:57:55,714
Therefore, I tell you that the
kingdom of God will be taken away from

1092
00:57:55,714 --> 00:57:59,404
you and given to a people who will
produce its fruit, and here it is.

1093
00:57:59,644 --> 00:58:05,434
Anyone who falls on this stone will
be broken to pieces, but anyone

1094
00:58:05,434 --> 00:58:07,264
on whom it falls will be crushed.

1095
00:58:08,764 --> 00:58:09,514
Guys.

1096
00:58:10,264 --> 00:58:13,325
That's why I hate the Prosperity
Gospel because it's a.

1097
00:58:13,669 --> 00:58:20,479
Demonic theology brokenness is
involved in the Christian life.

1098
00:58:20,539 --> 00:58:21,619
That's right.

1099
00:58:21,619 --> 00:58:23,959
Blessed are the poor in spirit.

1100
00:58:24,349 --> 00:58:25,009
How happy.

1101
00:58:25,219 --> 00:58:26,869
Congratulations.

1102
00:58:27,139 --> 00:58:27,949
You're broken now.

1103
00:58:28,009 --> 00:58:28,099
Yes,

1104
00:58:32,089 --> 00:58:34,999
but it's, he's, the call is
to humble yourselves, to admit

1105
00:58:35,359 --> 00:58:37,039
that you are already broken.

1106
00:58:37,249 --> 00:58:41,529
See, the thing is that's the tragedy of
humanity is here we are all spiritual

1107
00:58:41,529 --> 00:58:45,220
beggars who are poor, and yet some
people pretend like they're not.

1108
00:58:48,039 --> 00:58:51,549
And it says, man, that rock is
coming against the kingdoms of man.

1109
00:58:51,729 --> 00:58:56,319
That rock is coming to judge these false
kingdoms, these kingdoms that offer lies.

1110
00:58:57,099 --> 00:59:00,490
That steer people away from the
true God man, that rock is coming.

1111
00:59:00,490 --> 00:59:03,429
And if that rock falls on
you, there'll be nothing left.

1112
00:59:04,389 --> 00:59:07,779
But now Jesus is the way,
the truth and the life.

1113
00:59:07,779 --> 00:59:09,099
He says, come to me.

1114
00:59:11,919 --> 00:59:13,089
Yes, you will be broken.

1115
00:59:13,089 --> 00:59:14,169
But what is broken?

1116
00:59:14,169 --> 00:59:15,399
Our thirst is broken.

1117
00:59:15,819 --> 00:59:17,229
Our hunger is broken.

1118
00:59:17,559 --> 00:59:19,959
Our permanent residence
in a grave is broken.

1119
00:59:20,724 --> 00:59:24,534
That's the things that are broken, the
things that hold us back to chain us down.

1120
00:59:24,534 --> 00:59:25,345
That ties us up.

1121
00:59:25,404 --> 00:59:27,144
That's what broken.

1122
00:59:27,714 --> 00:59:28,615
Ah,

1123
00:59:30,804 --> 00:59:31,914
somebody once said, I love it.

1124
00:59:31,914 --> 00:59:34,044
God loves you and has a
terrible plan for your life

1125
00:59:39,144 --> 00:59:41,304
because it's terrible to
the kingdoms of this world.

1126
00:59:41,904 --> 00:59:43,075
It doesn't make any sense.

1127
00:59:43,075 --> 00:59:45,294
It's backwards and inside
out and upside down.

1128
00:59:45,325 --> 00:59:46,104
Love your enemies.

1129
00:59:46,104 --> 00:59:46,704
Turn the cheek.

1130
00:59:46,704 --> 00:59:46,944
What?

1131
00:59:48,729 --> 00:59:49,389
That sounds horrible.

1132
00:59:49,389 --> 00:59:50,950
Forgive those who wrong you.

1133
00:59:52,329 --> 00:59:56,409
To those who have stepped into that
new life, it is liberation itself.

1134
00:59:57,549 --> 00:59:58,389
It is freedom.

1135
00:59:59,079 --> 01:00:03,519
It is seeing the world in color, and
he's telling the sinners who have wrecked

1136
01:00:03,519 --> 01:00:08,439
their lives in a return for his grace
and mercy, that they own the future.

1137
01:00:08,919 --> 01:00:09,879
Yours is the kingdom.

1138
01:00:12,504 --> 01:00:14,124
I am going to build a
whole new world with you.

1139
01:00:14,124 --> 01:00:18,384
He says, poor in spirit doesn't
mean lackluster disposition.

1140
01:00:18,384 --> 01:00:19,644
Get that out of your mind.

1141
01:00:19,704 --> 01:00:27,054
There is a joy, but it's this honesty
that the only thing we bring is need.

1142
01:00:27,894 --> 01:00:28,824
And nothing

1143
01:00:31,345 --> 01:00:34,074
real wealth begins with real need.

1144
01:00:34,674 --> 01:00:37,614
He doesn't mean people who have little,
but those who have nothing because

1145
01:00:37,614 --> 01:00:39,294
we don't have anything to offer 'em.

1146
01:00:39,504 --> 01:00:43,704
And God owes me nothing, and
they look at a crossword.

1147
01:00:43,704 --> 01:00:45,744
Jesus died for their sins in any pride.

1148
01:00:45,744 --> 01:00:48,394
Like a vampire at Sunrise,
disintegrates in the night.

1149
01:00:49,054 --> 01:00:51,544
Poverty is not how the earthly
kingdom starts a movement.

1150
01:00:51,784 --> 01:00:54,994
The kingdom of heaven is green
pastures and still waters brilliantly

1151
01:00:54,994 --> 01:00:57,034
disguised as poverty of spirit.

1152
01:00:57,934 --> 01:00:59,854
You see, when we build the
kingdom, we look for the heavy

1153
01:00:59,854 --> 01:01:02,464
hitters and the insiders, not
the dropouts in the bankrupt.

1154
01:01:02,464 --> 01:01:06,394
That's who God's building his
kingdom with, but Jesus does

1155
01:01:06,394 --> 01:01:08,524
because he brings everything to you.

1156
01:01:09,904 --> 01:01:11,014
We only bring need.

1157
01:01:12,304 --> 01:01:16,114
That is something Jesus is doing and
building, and he gets the glory because

1158
01:01:16,114 --> 01:01:17,704
he does it all from first to last.

1159
01:01:17,914 --> 01:01:19,414
He says, I'm the alpha the Omega.

1160
01:01:19,414 --> 01:01:20,764
I'm from first to last.

1161
01:01:21,724 --> 01:01:22,924
How do we know he's good?

1162
01:01:23,494 --> 01:01:26,194
Because this infinite rock that
crushes and obliterates everything

1163
01:01:26,194 --> 01:01:31,654
in his path, we're told in the Book
of Exodus, shows up to a very thirsty

1164
01:01:31,654 --> 01:01:39,184
people who are dying this rock, and
Moses is told, go and strike the rock.

1165
01:01:40,204 --> 01:01:42,784
And Moses takes his staff and he
strikes the rock and he hits it.

1166
01:01:43,534 --> 01:01:45,424
And this rock ples in water.

1167
01:01:45,454 --> 01:01:45,814
What?

1168
01:01:45,904 --> 01:01:47,284
We read that story too much.

1169
01:01:47,284 --> 01:01:49,204
That's bonkers, guys.

1170
01:01:49,744 --> 01:01:51,424
That's ridiculous.

1171
01:01:52,024 --> 01:01:59,824
Yeah, and they're all saved
because this rock was obliterated.

1172
01:02:02,164 --> 01:02:05,164
Comes back booking numbers and he
is like, they're thirsty again.

1173
01:02:05,584 --> 01:02:06,694
Just speak to the rock.

1174
01:02:08,989 --> 01:02:12,799
And man, not walk post reports forth
Moses misrepresents, but God gets him

1175
01:02:12,799 --> 01:02:14,149
into the promised land 'cause grace,

1176
01:02:19,099 --> 01:02:20,239
God is not mocked.

1177
01:02:21,829 --> 01:02:24,739
If you do not humble yourself,
recognize your spiritual poverty.

1178
01:02:24,739 --> 01:02:27,889
The rock crushes every other kingdom,
whether that's Babylon or ours.

1179
01:02:28,759 --> 01:02:31,969
And what's happens to Nebuchadnezzar
when he hears this, and this is mind

1180
01:02:31,969 --> 01:02:35,538
blowing, verse 46, the Nebuchadnezzar
fell on his face and paid.

1181
01:02:36,034 --> 01:02:37,204
Homage to Daniels.

1182
01:02:37,204 --> 01:02:40,354
He's doesn't got quite get it yet,
and commanded that an offering

1183
01:02:40,354 --> 01:02:42,064
in incense be offered up to him.

1184
01:02:42,634 --> 01:02:46,564
The king answered and said to Daniel,
truly, your God is the God of Gods and the

1185
01:02:46,564 --> 01:02:48,814
Lord of lords and a revealer of mysteries.

1186
01:02:49,174 --> 01:02:51,754
For you have been able
to reveal this mystery.

1187
01:02:52,354 --> 01:02:56,104
Blessed are the poor and spirit for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1188
01:02:57,274 --> 01:03:00,754
And Nebuchadnezzar kid continues
to get broken and because of that,

1189
01:03:00,754 --> 01:03:05,284
he finds himself in a different
kingdom than his dream was about.

1190
01:03:07,024 --> 01:03:11,614
Not the statue of gold that he thought
he was, but as part of the invincible

1191
01:03:11,614 --> 01:03:14,163
kingdom whose builder and maker is God.