Jan. 22, 2025

Cultivating an Excellent Spirit Through Faith and Diligence - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 23

Cultivating an Excellent Spirit Through Faith and Diligence - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 23

Send us a text Is there a timeless wisdom that can guide us through life's complexities? Join us as we explore the extraordinary story of Daniel, a biblical figure whose "excellent spirit" serves as a beacon of divine excellence. Discover how Daniel's unwavering faith amidst the temptations of the king's court reveals the profound impact of divine wisdom over mere human effort. We promise you’ll leave with insights on cultivating an excellent spirit that aligns with God's will, equipping you ...

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Is there a timeless wisdom that can guide us through life's complexities? Join us as we explore the extraordinary story of Daniel, a biblical figure whose "excellent spirit" serves as a beacon of divine excellence. Discover how Daniel's unwavering faith amidst the temptations of the king's court reveals the profound impact of divine wisdom over mere human effort. We promise you’ll leave with insights on cultivating an excellent spirit that aligns with God's will, equipping you with wisdom to navigate life's challenges.

Equipped with Daniel's narrative as our guide, we tackle the realities of maintaining integrity in environments that test our personal convictions. From the lessons of Egypt and Goshen to modern-day challenges, we share practical strategies for avoiding defilement while seeking divine wisdom over worldly knowledge. Our discussion also highlights how living in alignment with God's supernatural realm empowers us to manifest His wondrous works, and how miracles carry deeper purposes that transcend the event itself, as demonstrated by the story of Jesus and the woman accused of adultery.

Finally, we delve into the dynamics of prayer and spiritual discipline, drawing parallels between Daniel’s practices and our own spiritual journeys. Through the lens of Daniel’s meditation and spiritual watching, we explore how quiet reflection can lead to greater spiritual insight and understanding. Witness the shifting power dynamics Daniel observed and the eternal sovereignty of God, underscoring the transient nature of earthly thrones. Prepare to be inspired to embrace the divine influence in your life, developing an excellent spirit that is rooted in faith and empowered by God’s wisdom.

00:00 - Realm of Excellence

05:32 - Wisdom and Avoiding Defilement

22:05 - Realm of God's Supernatural Excellence

34:32 - Understanding Miracles and Visions

44:59 - Developing an Excellent Spirit

01:01:00 - Sacrifice and Intercession for Spiritual Excellence

01:11:10 - Daniel's Temple and Excellent Spirit

01:19:06 - Thrones Rising and Falling

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Glory to God, praise Jesus, hallelujah.

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We are in the book of Daniel.

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We are talking about for the second week, talking about what does the Bible say, not what we think or what we assume, but what does the Bible say in the context of the life of Daniel that makes the Holy Spirit say repeatedly about him that he had an excellent spirit.

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And we mentioned this before that, when we we're talking about a realm of God and not man, you can, you know, people will.

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People applaud your efforts when you do the best that you can.

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Amen, and they will, they will.

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And if you go beyond your ability that's the kind of stuff that they give medals for in war and things like that when you do something that is really beyond your capacity, you step into something.

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That is what they say, above and beyond the call of duty.

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But if you want to step into a realm, realm of excellence, you're going to have.

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That realm belongs to god, that realm, because the, because he is the excellent one, he is the one who is, who defines excellence, who creates excellence, who enables us to do excellence.

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Without him, we can only do the best we can do, and the best that you can do is never enough to do what God wants us to do.

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We need to understand that real clearly, that what God has called us to do is always going to be way above our best, because it's going to be him working in us both to do and to will his good pleasure.

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He is going to be the one that allows us to step into this realm of excellence, and only him.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Now, a lot of people, you know, we give awards for excellence, we give awards for, you know, kids being excellent in academics and in sports and things like that, but we misuse the word.

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We misuse the word like we misuse the word awesome, marvelous, wonderful.

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All of those things are names of God.

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Hello, they're not just adjectives, they're names of God and excellence is an attribute of God.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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So we're not talking about a realm that men define, we're talking about a realm that god defines, and god said of daniel repeatedly throughout this book that daniel had an excellent spirit.

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Now we looked at three things last time we were together as to how this, how the bible describes daniel and why the bible says he has an excellent spirit.

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The first thing we found in chapter 1, I'm just going to review just a little bit.

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The first thing was in chapter 1 that Daniel purposed in his heart or in his spirit that he would not defile himself with the things that the king of the earth had to offer.

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Amen.

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He was working for Nebuchadnezzar.

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Nebuchadnezzar had brought him into his court, was going to train him in the things of the court and provide for his food, provide for his clothing, all of that.

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Daniel said let me not partake of what the king's given me.

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Let me just eat vegetables, drink water, do this for 10 days, then you can examine, and after that 10-day period, if I show myself above and beyond, then you'll know that God has helped me.

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Otherwise, I'll be glad to do what you tell me to do.

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Well, we know the story that after 10 days he was found to be 10 times smarter, wiser, more intelligent, more able than anyone else in the king's court and anyone else of the children of Israel that were being trained at the same time, that were eating off of the king's table.

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So we saw that this first thing, the first purpose, is not to defile ourselves.

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Amen.

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It is a hard thing to do in this world that we live in, especially in the condition that the world is in.

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In the condition that the world is in, it is a difficult thing to not step into places that are constant sources of defilement.

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I mean, you can go into some stores and what they're marketing for clothing, what they're marketing as in any kind of realm you want to think of, is almost dead set against what you believe.

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Or marketing as in any kind of realm you want to think of, is almost dead set against what you believe.

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You may have to conduct business in that place.

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You can't necessarily just not go, but you're going to have to minimize, you're going to have to limit what you do.

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I found this, you can take this.

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This is not gospel, this is just things I do.

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I found this, you can take this.

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This is not gospel, this is just things I do when I go into a place.

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I never shop.

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I don't do that anymore.

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I don't just go in and browse.

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I used to just love to do that at Home Depot.

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There's got to be at least a half a dozen things in here that I just can't live without.

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You know, I'd spend.

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I'd spend, you know, half hour or more just in the tools section, just looking at tools and just saying okay, well, I might not need that this time, but I can remember where it is and I can remember that I saw it, what it's for, blah, blah, blah.

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You know, I just educate myself.

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You know, go back and see what the price of plywood is now.

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Well, I might need to know that.

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I do not do that anymore.

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If I have something to do, I am laser.

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Go right to that place, know where it is, pick it up, go to the checkout and I'm out of there.

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Same thing with Walmart.

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I don't try to economize on trips and things right across the street, so I don't need to do that.

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I can understand if you live a long way.

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That's a different matter, but it's not that way for me.

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It's right across the street.

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So if I want something, I just go get it and then I get out.

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I want something else, I go get it where I ordered on Amazon.

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That way I don't even have to deal with it.

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I, you know, you say well, that's kind of extreme.

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I'm trying not to.

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You can't convince me, you.

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There's nothing you could say that could ever convince me that their motives are as pure as the driven snow they are in.

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They are in this thing up to their eyeballs, even to include the music that they play.

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You just have you know, you have to be on guard and one of the ways you protect yourself in how you touch the world the Bible says that we, we touch the world as if not using it.

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The way that you do that is just minimize your time in it, go touch it, retreat.

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Go touch it and retreat.

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You have to see yourself on it as a military person and just go touch it, what you need to do, and then retreat.

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You know what?

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That's just way severe.

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That's how Daniel developed an excellent spirit.

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He refused to defile himself.

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Now you have to understand that, daniel, the whole time he was in Babylon, for approximately 70 years, the whole time he was there, he worked among magicians, soothsayers, fortune tellers, you know, witches, warlocks and who knows what I mean.

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Those were the people he worked with.

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You talk about a hostile work environment.

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Those were the folks that he worked with.

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So he learned how to work among them, but yet not be one of them and not be somebody that can get caught up in it.

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He had to keep himself separate or he wasn't going to be effective.

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Praise God.

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Point number two, chapter two, we find out that Daniel learned to seek first the wisdom of God, the King.

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We have to train ourselves to always seek the wisdom of God before we seek our own wisdom.

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Our wisdom is the wisdom that we have is going to be a wisdom that is developed by experience, by practice, by learning, by hand down from other people.

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Those are all good things, but the Bible calls that wisdom sensual.

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The Bible calls that wisdom of the flesh, which it is.

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It's the kind of wisdom that you acquire just by living.

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You don't learn how to use tools or to build things, or to operate machinery, or to bake a cake, or you know, or whatever you do.

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You don't learn that just by waking up one morning and it's and it's in your spirit.

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You don't do that.

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You have to learn it and you have to practice it.

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You have to make mistakes.

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You know you have to.

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You have to throw the burnt cookies away because you forgot to turn down the oven.

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Whatever the case is, you go through the trial and error, things that you have to do, but the wisdom of God comes down.

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James says it comes down from above.

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It's first of all peaceful and of good fruit, and that kind of wisdom that comes down from God.

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You don't have to learn it, it just comes.

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That wisdom comes ready-made, ready for you to use.

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Now, what you have to get used to is depending on that wisdom, rather than the wisdom that you've learned, and that's what Daniel did.

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Daniel said in verse 21 that God changes the times and the seasons.

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Now, he's not talking about the autumn, winter, summer and spring, he's talking about the times and seasons of men, and that he changes the times and he changes the seasons, and he removes kings and he raises up kings and he gives wisdom to the wise.

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Now, that's something that we would think in the human realm of wisdom.

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We would think in the human realm of wisdom that he would give wisdom to the unwise, but the unwise don't know how to use it.

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So he gives wisdom to those who seek wisdom and as you accumulate this wisdom, he's going to give you more wisdom, because he can only give you more wisdom and deeper wisdom if he has learned that he can trust you with it.

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Some people can't be trusted with wisdom.

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They'll misuse it.

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You have to show yourself worthy and you have to show yourself to be a seeker.

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Bible says to him who has more will be given.

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So if God has given you wisdom and you have used it properly, he's going to give you more wisdom if you keep on seeking.

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And he's also going to give you wisdom concerning deep things, secret things, things that are in darkness, that god wants to bring into his light.

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He's going to show you things that he does not show other people, and people will.

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People will remark and say of you that that person has excellent knowledge, they have an excellent spirit.

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They always seem to know the right thing to say.

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They always seem to know the the right way to say something.

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They always.

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That's because people who are trained by the wisdom of god, amen, learn how to hear his voice and move in it.

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But if you're, if you're a person who is always giving your own advice or your own counsel or whatever, you've learned that sooner or later that's going to fail, because sooner or later it's not going to be what God wants to use to touch somebody's life.

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Daniel, in verse 21 and 22, tells us a practice that he had developed in seeking wisdom from the most high God and wisdom from the king amen, because his wisdom is the most high wisdom and all of these things wisdom, knowledge, understanding, revelation, depth, secret things all of those things come with this wisdom if you seek after it and you seek to live by it.

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Amen.

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We're talking about an excellent spirit.

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If we want an excellent spirit, these are things that they are not optional.

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It's just not optional.

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This is why Daniel had an excellent spirit, because he did these things and he did them.

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The Bible says consistently, from his youth till he was an old man, a span of 70 years.

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Daniel practiced this.

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So we think we're doing pretty good that we've lived 70 years.

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We're doing pretty good that we've lived 70 years.

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Daniel lived with an excellent spirit for 70 years, even from the time he was probably 15, 16, maybe even younger, praise God.

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And the third thing that this wisdom will teach you and this is perhaps one of the most important things to remember and to know and to put into practice, because if you don't have this one down, then you're always, you're all you.

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How should I say it?

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You will always be in a place of temptation to touch, not to touch the unclean thing.

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You can touch the unclean thing in a lot of ways.

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Every election cycle, I say the same thing over and, over and over again.

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Don't become a slave to the television.

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Don't become a slave to what talking heads are telling you how to think, because they're all paid an obscene amount of money to do that for you.

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So don't do that.

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Don't touch that unclean thing.

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Now see, you wouldn't think of that as being unclean when you just sit down and look at a list of things.

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You're thinking about idols, you're thinking about bad sin, you're thinking about all that kind of stuff, and what God wants you to hear today is that an unclean thing is anything that is going to keep you from pursuing an excellent spirit, you from pursuing an excellent spirit, and that unclean thing, by touching it, will defile you.

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And what Daniel realized and he came to understand this is that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and he gives those kingdoms to whom he will.

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What does that mean?

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That means Daniel could be the number two man in the kingdom and serve his king honorably before God and have operational dominion over all of these other people in the kingdom and not let that touch his spirit, because he learned from God that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of men.

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So it doesn't matter what if King gets mad one day and threatens to kill everybody.

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Guess what?

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I can count, because I serve my God before I serve my King, and I serve my God so much that I have the faith that when the King gets mad, god's going to give me the interpretation of the dream.

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God's going to do something, god's going to enable something to happen, and we're going to talk about that at length in just a moment.

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But I want you to get that point that when you learn that the God of heaven rules in the kingdoms of men, then what the kingdoms of men do cannot produce fear in you.

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They can only force you.

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It only, it only.

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It only strengthens your resolve to be more excellent of spirit and chase after the wisdom of God and get God involved in what's going on.

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Amen, in our world.

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Daniel operated in this in the Old Testament.

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We operate in the New Testament, where God lives with us, walks in us, performs and does things in us and through us to a much greater degree than he did in the day of Daniel, although Daniel had one foot and half of the other one in the New Testament, I think.

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But at any rate, what Daniel learned was that if I keep riveted on this king of heaven, then I'm going to keep looking to him for solutions, and it doesn't matter what happens down here.

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The king of heaven rules.

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Now, you've heard me use this example before and I'm going to use it again right now.

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When all hell breaks around you okay, and the world is, you know, just flying apart the seams there's only one thing that you've got to make sure that you can locate yourself, because God's hand is going to be raised up at some point against all that.

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The king of heaven rules the kingdoms of men, okay, and when he has his full of it, he does this.

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He will bless a thing for a while, amen.

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And then he'll just do this.

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I have heard ever since the 90s.

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I have heard people say you know, it's just harder to minister to people now than it was in the 80s, than it was in the 70s, and there's a reason for that.

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I'm not going to get into it on the tape, but there's a reason for that.

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There's something that happened in the early 90s and late 80s and God did this.

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And when God does that to a nation, it is very difficult to minister to that nation because it's under judgment.

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If God is against a nation, it's very difficult for that nation to turn to him.

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They have to be completely broken and convicted in order for them to return to him.

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So his people in that time, in that place where God has turned his hand against they, have to be sure that they're on this side of the hand so that that doesn't touch them.

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Okay, if you're on this side of the hand, the judgment is not going to touch you.

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You're on the heart side of the hand, the judgment won't touch you.

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I'm going to keep saying this until Jesus tells me not to say it anymore.

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There was darkness in Egypt, but there was light in Goshen.

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Amen, there was.

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There was famine in Egypt, but there was.

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There was food in Goshen.

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Glory to God.

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God knows how to.

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I'm telling you you can't.

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You can't possibly imagine this.

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This is beyond your intellectual capacity to appreciate how this was.

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But if you could stand on the boundary line between Egypt and Goshen, there was darkness on one side of that boundary line that you couldn't see the hand in front of your face and there was bright sunshine on the other side, and right down the dividing line was a wall of darkness and a wall of light and they met like that and they didn't cross over each other.

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There wasn't a twilight between them.

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There wasn't like it.

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You know like it.

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You know like on the, on the, the little space of of light and darkness that's between the dark side of the moon and the light side of the moon.

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You know there's a little twilight space in there, that where the temperature is kind of, you know, not too bad and all that kind of stuff.

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Wasn't any of that, it was just a like you're gonna put a razor down between them, not locust one got into goshen, not fly one, not toad one, not frog one, none of that.

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They tried to hop over.

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You could just see a frog going.

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That's exactly how it was.

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You can try to explain it away and say, well, you know, this little frog got over and was glad he got in the light and everything.

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You know, because God was just Jesus loved those frogs.

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That's not at all what happened.

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God's judgment was over here, god's blessing was over here and there was a dividing line right down the middle.

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Oh, jesus, hallelujah, praise the Lord when the king of heaven see.

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We have been studying since Abel how the king of heaven rules.

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Men think they rule.

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Men think they've got it all out there.

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Antichrist thinks he rules the fallen angels and the created beings that came out of the union of angels and men, all of those things that happened.

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They thought they had it nailed down, and every time God raises up a standard and just amazes everybody that's around.

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Go over to God.

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It's no different than Daniel.

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But if you don't know that the most high God rules, then you're going to be fearful, you're going to be disturbed, you're going to not be in that place.

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That Jesus says let not your heart be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also in me.

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Let not your heart be troubled.

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What are they going to do to you?

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Well, they might torture me.

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Oh well, they've tortured better saints than us before.

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Glory to God.

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They might.

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If they can find you, they might.

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But I'm telling you what Pharaoh couldn't bring his army into Goshen either.

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There was a protection around it because they were on the other side of God's hand.

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Oh, glory to God, praise the Lord.

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I better get going, hallelujah.

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What we want to talk about tonight?

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The fourth thing and the most important thing, I think, after we do all these other three things we've got to do something with it.

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We've got to do something with it.

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We've got to do something with not defiling ourselves.

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We've got to do something with God, hallelujah With seeking first the wisdom of God and the wisdom of the king, and then knowing that this king is the king of all kings and he rules from heaven.

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Those three things, now, what are we going to do with it?

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Those are three things.

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Now, what are we going to do with it?

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And here's what Daniel did.

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That makes the book of Daniel so unique and makes Daniel such a remarkable man, and that is that excellence of spirit is only measured on where you live.

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It is based on living and manifesting in the supernatural.

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This is why I say that excellence comes from God.

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He is the one who is excellent.

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So if there's any excellence that's going to be happening, it's going to come from Him.

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Right, we understand that.

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So the minute that God gets involved and starts doing in you to produce excellence of spirit in you, then the way that is going to be measured by God is how much of him is working in you, how much of you does he have Okay?

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And the way that is measured is by how much you live in the supernatural as opposed to living in the natural, how much signs, wonders, miracles, all sorts of things.

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How are these manifesting in your life?

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And that's how you'll know.

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You'll know that you're crossing over, you're transitioning into this realm of an excellent spirit, when the signs and wonders and miracles and all of those things that God does see.

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The Bible says this said the Lord does wondrous things.

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He only does wondrous things, and wondrous things are all he does.

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So he is the only one that does them and they're the only things that he does.

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So if you want to have an excellent spirit, it's going to be God working in you to do those things, amen.

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And if you're going to be doing, if you want that excellent spirit of God working in you, then the only thing that God's going to do working in you is wondrous things.

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Listen, the only time you need God to drive your car is if you become temporarily impaired.

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Now, that can happen if you just pass out, or, in Roger's case, if you fall asleep, or if or if uh, you know, we've all heard stories about people that got caught up in the, in the spirit, and just start praising God and lifted their hands and the next thing, they know.

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They know they're 20 miles down the road I heard one guy tell the story that he was going down this mountain road you know, curve like this and everything else and God just said praise me.

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And he just lifted up his hand and praised him.

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God drove the car down the road.

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Now you know, take it for what it's worth.

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I don't know, I wasn't there, I can't witness, but he was witnessing, he was telling the story.

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I wouldn't have told that story if it hadn't happened.

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I wouldn't have made a liar out of God.

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That's a serious issue.

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Glory to God.

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So let's look at this.

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What's Daniel's?

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What's the first thing that happens to Daniel?

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That is a notable miracle.

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Nebuchadnezzar has this dream amen about the man with the golden head and the bronze torso and the legs of brass and iron and all that.

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Remember that.

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And he's going to kill all of the astrologers, all of the soothsayers, all the magicians, because nobody can tell him what the dream is and nobody can tell him the interpretation.

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So he's going to line them all up and just that's it.

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I'll just tell God you died and bring in some new ones.

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And so Daniel hears here's the story, right.

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And he, he goes to the King.

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He says tell the King not to do this.

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I'll be there in a couple of days Give me some time, but I will come.

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I will tell him what the dream is and I will interpret the dream.

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Now, folks, do you know what's going to happen to Daniel if he misses it?

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But Daniel didn't have that fear.

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He did not have that fear Because he knew what that the most high God rules the kingdoms of men and that God had given him that dream so that Daniel could interpret it and tell him what it was.

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Daniel knew that.

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Daniel knew that about God.

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So Daniel is now moving into a realm where he is living in this realm of God more than he's living in the realm of Nebuchadnezzar, cause, I mean, he's at, he's number one on the list.

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If he's going to kill all of the they.

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Who's the head of the?

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Who's the head of that group, daniel?

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Who's going to be the first one to go, daniel, are you hearing me?

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So Daniel's not one to go, daniel, are you hearing me?

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So Daniel's not.

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You know why would he want to participate in that?

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You know, if he was going to participate in that, he would have done what the other guys did.

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Well, king, tell us what the dream was and we'll help you out with the interpretation, and Daniel would have been the first one up there.

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Well, if you give us a hint about the, you know the dream.

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But see, he didn't do that.

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He had stepped over into God's realm and he said tell the King, I'll be there in a couple of days and I will have the goods, I will have what the dream was all about and I will have the interpretation of the dream.

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You better know you heard from God.

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You better know that you are in that realm and not over in this realm trying to make an impression.

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Oh, hallelujah, Are you hearing me?

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You better know that you're over here, and being in that realm is how God is going to measure the quality of the excellence of your spirit, because you're trusting in his supernatural power rather than the things that you know.

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You can go to a dream interpretation school if you want to, but it's not going to help you out in that one.

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You're talking about one of, if not the most powerful king in the world.

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Amen.

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You better have a calling card from the most powerful king saying this is my son and he has an excellent spirit.

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You may not know what that means, but when God says it.

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You may not know what that means, but when God says it, he knows exactly what he's saying.

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Glory to God.

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So the interpretation of dreams is one of these areas.

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That's kind of like the interpretation of tongues.

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You know you have to get it from God or you're going to start putting your own thoughts into it.

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And I've had people come and ask me what does that dream mean?

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I say I don't know.

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God's not telling me what it is, he's not letting me see that.

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And then other times people have come and the interpretation comes like water flowing.

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It's from God, it's not from me.

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So if he gives me the interpretation, fine, if he doesn't, fine.

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And I it's not.

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I'm not on the spot like daniel was, and I don't necessarily have to have the interpretation for every dream.

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Praise god, hallelujah.

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A lot of people, a lot of people's dreams.

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I figure that if God doesn't give me something for them, chances are that dream didn't come from God.

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You may have had a pizza dream.

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You may have had a, you know, upset tummy dream you may have had.

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You know, there's dreams can come from all different kinds of places.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Let's move on.

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This is one of the.

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This is one of the more difficult areas, but it's absolutely necessary for experienced, seasoned spiritual people.

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We have to get beyond the ooh, wow thing of miracles.

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Not that we're not impressed and not that we're not awestruck, but there is.

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There's something that, for lack of a better word, is called the spiritual understanding of miracles.

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In other words, not only understanding that god does miracles, but why is he doing this particular kind of miracle, or why did he do it this way?

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Let me give you an example.

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In John, the eighth chapter, when the Pharisees brought to Jesus the woman caught in the act of adultery and they said this woman was caught in the very act.

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Okay, my immediate question is how did they do?

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How did they get?

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How did that happen with them?

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What were they doing there?

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But that's another, that's another message.

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Praise God.

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But they said we caught him in the very act.

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Moses said that we should stone him.

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What do you say?

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Jesus didn't say anything.

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He knelt down in the ground, started to write in the ground with his finger.

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He looks up, says he that is without sin, cast the first stone.

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Now you don't know for sure what he wrote, but I'm guessing because of what happened.

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This is just a guess, but it makes sense that he wrote down the names of the people that were there making accusation, starting with the oldest to the youngest.

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So he said, you that were without sin, go ahead, cast the first stone.

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And then he sat.

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Then he wrote over next to their names a sin, and the Bible says beginning with the oldest a sin, and the Bible says beginning with the oldest.

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They started to peel off and leave.

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Now Jesus did a miracle, but it was a particular kind of miracle.

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Why did he do it that way?

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Well, obviously, if that's what happened, oh, it may have been something else entirely.

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He just he may have drawn just pictures of balloons and birds flying and you, by that, the Holy Ghost, convicted the oldest first.

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I don't know, but it makes sense that that happened like that.

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It may have been something else entirely, I don't know, but I do know this that the purpose of that miracle was to remove accusation from the surroundings, because if he can take away condemnation, there is therefore now no condemnation.

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So the law came with condemnation.

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The spirit, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the spirit, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, drove condemnation out of the midst by a miracle, not by Jesus having an argument with them, not by I saw you over here and I saw you doing this and I, you know he didn't do that.

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He didn't.

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He didn't say a word because he didn't have to.

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The miracle itself had a delivering power and it had a cleansing power.

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So we have to.

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This is what I mean when we look at miracles, and not from the point of view of wow, that was just amazing, but from the point of view of what was God doing here?

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What was God doing?

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Why was he doing it?

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Obviously, the result of it was that this woman was set free, but there was a byproduct of it that conviction came upon all the accusers.

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They weren't driven away just because they were accusers.

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They were driven away because of their sin and they had to deal with it.

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And Jesus, no.

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I'm convinced that not another person there knew what Jesus did, except the people that were affected by it.

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God put a laser beam miracle down there and drove condemnation out of the place, so that the spirit of life in Christ Jesus could be manifest and set this poor woman free.

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So what does Jesus?

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He stands up by.

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This time he's going to be like this, or maybe not.

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Maybe he just erased the sins and left the name of the names.

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Where are your accusers?

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She goes they're not here, they're gone.

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There's no one here to accuse me.

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And then the spirit of life in Christ Jesus spoke and said neither do I accuse you.

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There is therefore now no condemnation.

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There is therefore now no condemnation, which this miracle is a walking personification of Romans 8, 1 and 2.

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Condemnation got thrown out.

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The spirit of life in Christ Jesus took over the scene and just says where are your accusers?

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There are none, lord.

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Well, neither do I accuse you, but she didn't get off the hook, and neither does the spirit of life in Christ Jesus let you off the hook, because there's always a higher standard to be held to.

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It is the king of heaven who rules.

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I wish I could preach this.

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It needs to be preached.

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He looks at her and he says go and sin no more.

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It needs to be preached.

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He looks at her and he says go and sin no more.

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Now you know why the devil wants to take that story out of the Bible.

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You know you get the modern translations and that story's not in the Bible.

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It's funny that the few stories that are picked are some of the most important to be left in, like the 16th chapter of the book of Mark, and these signs shall follow them.

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That believe that's admitted.

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Oh, that's not in the most reliable text.

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Oh, you get a brain.

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Glory to God, daniel.

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Now, it was a miracle that a hand appeared at the feast when they were celebrating the moon, god, and drinking wine out of the goblets that had come out of the temple, amen.

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And all of a sudden a hand shows up and starts to write on the wall.

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Everybody knows that story, amen.

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I, I, you just think.

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Just think of one concentration in the Bible of more stories that everybody knows.

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I mean, you've got, you've got Exodus and all of those stories that's.

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That's a clump of miracles, for sure.

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I don't know if there's another place that has more.

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There's a few over here with David.

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But here's Daniel.

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Who does not know the fiery furnace story?

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Who does not know the lion's den story?

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Who doesn't know the handwritings on the wall?

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I mean, boy, they got thrown into the lion's den.

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I mean, we've got figures of speech that tie all these miracles together that are from the book of Daniel.

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Right, but it took Daniel to come in and interpret what the scripture or what the words said that were written, and then tell the king the words said that were written.

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And then tell the king tonight is your last night, king.

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The time is up for you.

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You've been weighed in the balance balances and you've been found lacking and your kingdom is going to be given to another.

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And that night the king was slain.

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Daniel had spiritual understanding of miracles.

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He understood why this miracle happened.

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He understood the words that were written, but he also understood the intent of the words and how immediate their prophecy was.

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Let's go to the next one Visions and their interpretation.

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I'm talking about being a person that lives in this kind of a realm.

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So well, these kind of things don't happen to me.

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Move over, move over into that realm and start expecting it.

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Say Lord, I want this and then start expecting it.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Chapter 10 says this In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel whose name was called Belshazzar, and the message listen to this.

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The message was true, but the appointed time was long.

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How would you like to be somebody like Isaiah that had prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus?

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And it was 700 and some years before that was going to be manifested.

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How would you like to be David and write Psalm 22, which is?

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I mean, it's like he was standing right next to the cross and Jesus was on it.

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It's that clear.

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And that was a thousand years before Calvary.

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Moses prophesied that another one just like me was coming, and you need to hear him Praise God.

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The message was true, but the appointed time was long.

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Now listen to what it says about Daniel.

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He understood the message and had understanding of the vision.

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So Daniel's given something to see.

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You read about in chapter 10, he's given something to see, and in seeing it, the Bible says that, even though it was true, it was for a long time off, but Daniel had the understanding and he knew what the vision was about.

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Not only did he know what the vision was about, he understood the message and he understood the timing I'm talking about.

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When God develops an excellent spirit in you, he's going to bring you over into the realm where he sees and where he thinks and where he envisions and where he tries to disclose to you.

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Look at how excellent the spirit of John was to receive the entirety of the book of revelation, and he understood it.

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In the very beginning he said this is the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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A lot of people you know a lot of people call it the book of revelations.

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It's not the book of revelation.

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Is the book of revelation.

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It is a the book of revelations.

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It's not the book of revelation.

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It is the book of revelation.

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It is the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ and it's not the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ, the book that he had.

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Jesus had these.

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It is Jesus, unveiled, opened up, clearly seen.

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Are we with?

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Are we?

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Everything in the book of Revelation is an unveiling of who he is.

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Praise God, and John had such a wondrously excellent spirit that that could be given to him and he was able to transcribe it.

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And most of that stuff, trust me, most of that stuff is a Greek explanation of something that John saw in the Spirit and tried his utmost best to write it.

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But you can only understand the book of Revelation if you're in the spirit, like John was on the Lord's day.

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If you think you're going to understand it with charts and with preaching seminars and with you, know, pay your $25 and get you know.

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If you think you're going to understand it that way.

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Good luck with that.

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Amen, john didn't get it that way, john didn't write it that way and it's not supposed to be received that way.

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It's supposed to be received the way Daniel received this, with understanding of the message and understanding of the vision, and that understanding comes from the Lord, not from somebody's book.

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Glory to God.

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So so far we've got interpretation of dreams, special understanding of miracles, visions and their interpretation.

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Are you getting the picture here?

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This is not watching Fox News, you know and hoping that the right man gets elected.

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Glory, hallelujah.

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Next thing prophecies.

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We haven't talked too much about this in the book of Daniel because we've been looking at the first half of the book of Daniel.

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The first half of the book of Daniel is all about miracles.

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It's one miracle after another.

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It's the miracle of the interpretation of dreams.

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It's a miracle of the fiery furnace.

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It's the miracle of another dream that's interpreted.

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Then it's the miracle of the lion's den, or the handwriting, then the lion's den, and it just you know, one after another and then all of a sudden it breaks off and it starts.

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Then the last half of the book becomes a book of prophecies, and these are some of the most most precise prophecies concerning Israel, concerning the Messiah, concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem, concerning timings, years, concerning the children of Israel going back to Jerusalem, all of those things.

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And on past, daniel got prophecies that go way past where we are now, back to the repopulation of Jerusalem and some of the building of the temple, and those kinds of things Tremend tremendous prophecies.

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So not only do we live in a realm that believes in prophecies, but we live in a realm that depends on them, and we live in a realm where we are vehicles that god can bring those prophecies through.

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Because, listen, this is just a snippet.

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You know what a snippet is.

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It's a little piece of how your life should be.

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You don't get to be Daniel on day one.

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Daniel had to grow into a lot of this.

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Some of Daniel's greatest prophecies didn't come until he was almost at the end of his life.

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But you can start today.

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You can be sensitive to the Holy Ghost everywhere you go, in every situation you're in, and hear what God is telling you about the situation or this person or something like this.

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And you know you don't have to be a.

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You know you don't have to be a.

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Thus saith the Lord.

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You don't have to.

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You know, just do one of those things and immediately put people off.

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Amen.

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Just go up to him and you know, can I pray for you?

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Most people say yes, most people kind of look at you weird, but they'll go okay, and in the middle of your prayer just say, you know, you know, I think whatever God's showing you, say it, you know what that's going to do.

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First of all, it's going to bless that person.

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So you've just turned into a walking.

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Remember what I've said about the atomizer.

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You just turned into the.

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You are the fragrance of God.

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You've just turned into that fragrance of God for that person and you've driven death off of them and you have spoken the Word of God and spoken that out so that they can hear it.

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But it has made you more attentive to what God's saying.

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The next time it'll be easier.

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The next time it'll get deeper.

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The next time it'll be easier, the next time it gets more precise.

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So you've heard this story but I'm going to mention it right now because it's what the lord says.

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I can testify, I was there.

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We're checking out of the checkout at Walmart.

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Sarah's in front.

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She's doing what her doing, the girl that is there and she's obviously upset, sarah takes her hand and says I need to pray for you.

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God wants you to know that he does not want you to do what you're about to do.

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Now, she knew what God was saying, but she didn't say it.

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She said it in the way that God would allow her to finish the sentence, and so she said it God doesn't want you to do what you're about to do.

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And she just broke in tears.

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She, she said this afternoon I was going to an abortion clinic, I was going to terminate my pregnancy and I did not want to do it.

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Sarah kept on praying with her and said you don't have to let me pray for you.

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She saw her what a few days later, sometime after, and she said I didn't go.

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I didn't go and I'm still carrying that baby.

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I don't know whatever happened to her.

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We never did find out.

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But see, that was just one of those things where, if you get accustomed to doing this, it's going to happen all the time.

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There's no reason why it should.

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Not because God is training us to be excellent spirits.

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But if you think be excellent spirits, but if you think that excellent spirits do something else other than what I'm listing off here, that's not correct, because an excellent spirit is going to be developed by God to do supernatural things, not natural things.

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He's not going to help, he's not going to.

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He's not going to help you make a better cake.

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He may help you not to eat cake for three weeks, but he's not going to help, he's not going to help you bake a cake.

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You can bake a cake, you know you can bake an excellent cake.

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You just have to be careful.

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Praise God, somebody help me here.

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You know what he's going to do is he's going to help you to live in a realm that you can't possibly live in without him and do things that you can't possibly do without him.

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Otherwise, you're just going to go through life like everybody else does Mad, angry, anxious, vengeful, upset Instead of being the lightning rod that God is sending down to whatever he tells you to do and wherever he sends you, you need to expect these things are going to happen.

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Glory to God, I just can't.

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No, you can't Not.

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If you want to be an excellent spirit, you want to be a good person.

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You can do that.

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Amen.

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You don't need God to be a good person, but you do need God to be an excellent spirit.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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People don't like it when I say things like that, because that's all the church is concerned about anymore Is people being good people.

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Glory to God.

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You can be a good person Just by observing one thing Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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You'll be a good person.

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You'll be a good neighbor.

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You can learn how to be responsible in your community, raise your kids decently.

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But we're to God.

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Everybody makes all that kind of stuff.

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We've got to have God for that.

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You've got to have God to do God things.

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I feel sorry for people that can't figure out how to be good just for the sake of being good.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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There's something else, that one of these things and this is important in this day and age for us is to understand the times.

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One of the things that's going to be required of an excellent spirit is that they understand times.

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Chapter 9, verse 1 says this In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus of the lineage of the means, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans or over Babylon, in the first year of his reign, I, daniel, understood by the books the number of years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah, the prophet, that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

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So, in other words, in the first year of Darius's reign, daniel started to study the Bible, not that he hadn't studied it before, but he started to study certain books because he was impressed by God that the time was up.

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And so he went back and studied the prophet Jeremiah, where it is written that there would be 70 years of captivity, and Daniel was Daniel.

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It's written right here that Daniel saw that those 70 years were quickly coming to an end.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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So Daniel not only read the books, read the prophecies, but he understood the times.

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See, he had to know that there was a 70-year period.

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He had to know when it started, he had to know when it was going to end, and so he didn't rely on his own knowledge, he sought the knowledge of the Lord.

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That was already written in the book of Jeremiah.

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You do remember the book of Jeremiah, right?

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You do remember that Jeremiah wrote the book and the king didn't like it, so he threw the book in the fire and Jeremiah wrote the longest book in the Bible, again, word for word, didn't miss one word.

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Do you think that Jeremiah might have had an excellent spirit.

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Hopefully, thank God, hallelujah, that's one of the most amazing miracles that's in the Bible, because, jeremiah I don't know if you've read it lately just pick out a few chapters and read it.

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It is not an easy book, glory to God.

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So let's go back again, living and manifesting in the supernatural.

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What does that consist of?

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Interpretation of dreams I'm just using Daniel Spiritual understanding of miracles Getting past the the.

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Oh wow, wasn't that?

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Oh God, really moved.

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You know well, why did he move?

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Why did he do that?

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Why did he reach down and spit in the ground and make mud and put it on the guy's eye?

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Why did he poke his fingers in his ear?

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Why has he told me to hit people in the stomach?

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Why does he do that?

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Well, you know.

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Well, it's just the Lord, you know.

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Quit with that kind of cheap, easy, mindless answers and spend some time with God and ask the hard questions why did you do that?

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Why is that?

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Why?

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Why is this necessary?

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Why do, why do we do this?

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Why?

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Why is praise God, hallelujah?

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I asked God one time.

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I said.

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I said, lord, I don't want the miracles that you do through this ministry.

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I don't want people looking at us.

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I don't want that.

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I know that a certain amount of that is inevitable, but I don't want it.

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How do I deal with that?

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How do I avoid the pitfalls that you've given such mighty power to?

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How do we get around?

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He said involve more people.

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I said, okay, show me how to do that.

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And so God taught me so when we were in Costa Rica, when we'd have conferences, we'd have a couple hundred people there, maybe more.

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We would call people up to get prayed for and I'd say, okay, listen, I don't need to know what's wrong with you, and this is not the time for you to share what you know, everything that's wrong with your body, and how many doctors you've seen, and how sick your aunt Matilda is, and and how bad your dog is.

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And you know Aunt Matilda is and how bad your dog is.

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And you know.

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Trust me, god knows all of this.

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What you need to be focused on right now is receiving your healing, or receiving a miracle, or whatever it is that you need from God, because God already knows what you have need of.

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You know, if you get into one of these things where, well, tell me what you want God to do.

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Oh Lord, that's.

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You know.

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That's one of those things like, you know, asking a stranger, how are you?

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You never know if they're not one of those people that's really going to tell you how they are and you're going to be there for the next hour, you know, listening to all their maladies and stuff.

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I don't ever do that.

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Anyway, you know, I would tell him that and Then I would bring up all of the ministers that were there and there'd be sometimes there'd be a bunch of them, you know and bring them all up.

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I said now go pray for these people.

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And I mean the power of God would fall, people would get prayed for.

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They would get prayed for so much and so many times because we just make, we go around, and they'd no sooner get up off the floor and somebody else would be right there and they'd bring something else, another part of the work, another part of the healing, another part of the deliverance, and nobody was getting the glory and nobody was the big shot.

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People would get so caught up in the Spirit they wouldn't even know who had been praying for them.

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They'd just get up and get something else and back down.

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They'd go.

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And then they'd get up and back down.

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They'd go and they didn't know what was going on.

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It was kind of like that passage that Paul said Nobody can say that Brother Gordon did this because it was a whole bunch of us and I saw the power of God move in that.

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But I saw more than that the mind of the Lord and how to diffuse the miracles through many hands, the miracles through many hands, so that no one was the.

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You know, you got to get it for me or you're not going to get it.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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We've got to understand miracles, visions and their interpretation, prophecies and the understanding of time.

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See, these are all things that prophetic people do.

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These are all things that we do and we can do and we can diffuse things.

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You're like well, I just know what's going to happen if certain things happen and I just don't know what's going to happen.

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Well, I know what's going to happen.

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God's going to rule from heaven.

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Well, it doesn't help me out.

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You better believe it's going to help you out, especially if you get on the right hand place of God and it's just an opportunity for you to teach a little bit.

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Well, they don't want to hear this.

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Hey, I don't care whether they want to hear it or not.

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You got a shot.

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Give it to them.

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Well, they may not like me, but they probably don't like you.

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Now, glory to God.

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Do you know that Daniel did not care?

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Daniel didn't care, he was an excellent spirit, hallelujah.

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Now one more point, then we're going to bring this to a close.

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One more point, then we're going to bring this to a close.

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There are appropriate.

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Not only does the Bible tell you the things that Daniel did, but it tells you the responses that he took when he heard from God.

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I'm going to say that again, because all these things happen by faith.

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Right, you hear and you obey.

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You hear, you believe, you obey, you hear, you believe, you obey.

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You hear, you believe, you obey.

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Jesus said who's my mother and who's my brothers?

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Those that hear the word of God and do it.

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You have to hear it, believe it and do it, hear it, believe it and do it.

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Hearing it, faith comes so that you can believe it, and then grace comes so that, once you believe it, so that you can do it, amen.

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So grace works by faith and faith comes by the word.

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So God speaks.

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You hear it, you believe it, you do it On this.

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So this is how it happened with Daniel.

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Daniel had faith because the word came to him, he believed it and he turned right around and did it.

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Word came to him, he believed it and he turned right around and did it.

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But when he heard it and he believed it before the doing of it, he would do things.

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Chapter 10, verse 2 says I, daniel, was mourning three full weeks.

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This was after he heard the vision.

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He got the vision of the appointed time.

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That was long and he understood the message and he understood the vision.

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He said in those days, I, daniel, was mourning three full weeks and I ate no pleasant food, no meat, no wine came into my mouth, no meat, no wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

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If you want to live in this realm of being an excellent spirit, there's going to be some sacrifice required and especially, there's going to be a sacrifice as to the kinds of things that you consume and eat, because in order to move into the realm of the excellent spirit, you have to sacrifice some things that go into your body.

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It just has to happen Now.

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I am not going to tell you that you have to follow a Daniel's fast.

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Trust me, the only time I've chosen to do a 21-day fast was when the Lord told me to do a 21-day fast.

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You don't want to do a 21-day fast if the Lord hasn't told you to do it.

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You will not be a very well person.

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But in the days that he told me to do a 21-day fast and I've done them several of them he told me to do a 21 day fast and I've done them, several of them I've.

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I had to go to work.

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I had to raise children.

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I had to fix meals for them.

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There was nobody.

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Nobody was keeping me from smelling food.

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You know, I've heard all these people.

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Well, you got to get all the food out of the refrigerator.

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You got to get all the food out of the house.

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You know you can't, can't have any cause.

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You'll be tempted and you'll give into that.

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I'm telling you, when the Lord tells you to do 21 days and you set your heart to it Amen, I can testify.

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You can go to work.

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Oh, you'll be so weak you won't even be able to walk.

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You can go.

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You can go to work.

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You can drive cars.

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You can take care of your family.

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You can take care of meals.

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You can be around food cooking.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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They didn't give Daniel three weeks off from hanging out with magicians and witches.

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Well, somebody say amen.

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You never thought of that, did you?

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You thought Daniel was just, you know, and he may have been a good part of the time, but he still had the responsibilities of the number two man in the empire.

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You don't think somebody came knocking at his door at the most inopportune times?

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What are you nuts?

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These people were working for the devil, for the devil.

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They were going to pester him all day long.

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Glory to God.

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He was in mourning and he humbled himself before the Lord.

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See, this is the main thing.

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I don't care how.

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Whatever the Lord tells you to do, do it, but just do it with that spirit of humbling yourself before the King of heaven who rules.

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He tells you to go on 21 days.

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Go on 21 days.

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So he.

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The first time he did this, he knew I wouldn't do 21 days, he just knew it.

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So he tells me to do 10 days.

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At the end of 10 days, I heard some of the most amazing things I've ever heard, in the most amazing way I'm not going to get into.

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It Doesn't make any difference, I just it was one of those Whoa.

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So then he says this this is just the Lord says eat a cracker I was thinking steak potatoes eat a cracker.

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I said, okay, ate a cracker.

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He says now 11 more days.

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10 plus 11 makes 21.

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I said, well, he got me to the halfway point and then said do it again.

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I said you did it this much, you can do it again.

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I let you eat a cracker.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise God.

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Verse three says Then I set my face toward the Lord to make requests by prayer and supplications, fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

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Again that humility before the Lord.

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But Daniel mixes intercession into this mix.

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Not only did he just pray and fast and seek the Lord, but he was interceding and he took upon himself the nation of Israel and prayed out their deliverance, hallelujah.

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I'm glad that God got started with Daniel when he was a young boy and brought him through until he was in his probably middle 80s and then, about the time that you think it's time to start laying it down and retiring, god put the entire fate of Israel on Daniel.

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He said pray it in, daniel.

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Are you hearing what God did.

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Do you think God could have just delivered Israel and brought him back?

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Yes, he could have.

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Do you think it pleases him more to do it through an excellent spirit like Daniel?

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Of course it does.

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He trained Daniel, he raised Daniel, he made Daniel, he crafted him, he formed him in his mother's womb and he formed him in God's bosom before time even began.

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Are you hearing this?

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Daniel just didn't show up one day and just because he wouldn't eat the king's candy and beef, you know, got to be an excellent spirit.

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He was formed from before time to be this excellent spirit and at the end of his sojourn upon the earth he was given the destiny of Israel to move them back and reconstruct the temple that would be there for when Jesus came.

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Oh, would somebody help me Turn around?

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Look at that picture.

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It's right over rock.

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You see that temple.

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You see that temple.

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That's not Solomon's temple.

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Somebody might say it's Ezra's temple.

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Somebody might say it's Nehemiah's temple.

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But I'm here to tell you today that's Daniel's temple, because Daniel may put it on his shoulders to bring Israel out of Babylon and back to that spot so that they could build that temple amen, and have it ready for Jesus to stand on the last day, on the great day of the feast, and cry out if any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink, and if he believeth in me, as the scripture saith, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

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By this he spake of the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given, for Jesus had not yet been glorified.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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And Daniel, because he was an excellent spirit, prophesied that very day of Jesus coming down the Mount of Olives and into the Temple Mount.

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Amen, as the prince, that's Daniel's temple.

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It wasn't there when Daniel prophesied them back into Israel, amen, but it was there 50 years later.

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Glory to God, chapter 8, verse 5,.

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It says this as I was considering, or meditating, one of the things that one of the spiritual abilities that you have to develop as an excellent spirit is the is the power of meditation, and that's where you know you just listen, or you just ask a question and you listen.

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You don't go with with your big prayer list, you don't go with all these demands that you want God to do.

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You know, you don't.

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You know that's not what meditation is.

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Meditation is sitting, being still and knowing that the king who rules from heaven is God, amen, and that this king wants to talk to you, and then you get to do the one thing that Mary told you to do, and that is whatever he says to you, do it, and that's the whole purpose of meditation.

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You will find that almost everything we've ministered about tonight and last Sunday concerning Daniel and his excellent spirit, is the kind of things that God is going to talk to you about Now.

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He may give you a roadmap to all kinds of future things.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what he's going to do.

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Think you won't know until you start to meditate.

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If you don't meditate, you won't ever get.

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You won't get to this level that Daniel is showing us the way to cut, to get to.

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You won't do it.

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If you, if you just constantly do this in the presence of God, he won't reveal things to you because you won't be quiet.

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You know, I mean, it's just you know.

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You got you.

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You can.

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You can be that person that just talks all the time or you can be the person that listens most of the time.

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But Daniel teaches us right.

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Ancient of days was seated.

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He watched until thrones were put in place and the ancient of days was seated and the ancient of days was seated.

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This tells us about a lot of the things that get summed up, of understanding times, of understanding visions, of understanding interpretations, of just understanding the things of God, being able to see them, being able to understand them.

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And he watched.

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Everybody say watched, he watched, he watched with his spirit.

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He watched with his spirit until thrones.

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What does God want us to remember out of the book of Daniel?

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The king of heaven rules over the kingdoms of men.

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He watched until thrones were in place and the ancient of days came and was seated where?

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On one of those thrones?

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No, on his throne, over all of these other thrones that were put in place.

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See, a watcher in the Spirit can watch over things you don't know, that God hasn't put you someplace to watch and to change things for God, and you have to watch until those thrones are in place and the Ancient of Days can come and take his place.

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Now, most denominations would just choke faster and you can imagine on that kind of teaching, because they don't know who are you to think you can make a place for God.

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But this is what the Bible says.

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You're not making a place as much as you are watching the power of God move, watching over the power of God as it moves, participating with God in that.

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But your job is to watch.

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Watch, therefore.

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Watch, watch over it, pray over it, intercede over it, confess over it.

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Medcede over it, confess over it, meditate about it.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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You can go to, you can go to all the council meetings you want to.

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You know, just knock yourself out.

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But you'll do a lot more for God if you'll watch over it.

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You can do that from the comfort of your own armchair.

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Glory to God.

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Let somebody else do the talking.

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You do the watching, you do the things that excellent spirits can do, because not everybody, trust me, not everybody, not hardly anybody is qualified to do this.

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Praise the Lord, qualified to do this?

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Praise the Lord.

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Hey, I'm not making you be an excellent spirit, that's God's job.

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I'm just telling you what Daniel would tell you if he was sitting here and you don't know that he's not.

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He may be right there, right there, bible calls them ministering spirits, and if he's right here, I'm going to tell you there is an empty seat around the throne of God.

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Because if he's not one of the 24 elders, I do not know what's going on.

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The magnitude of what was given Daniel to transmit into the world is off the charts.

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Daniel, all the things that have been written about Daniel and said about Daniel and quoted about Daniel most important thing you can ever say of Daniels he's an excellent spirit.

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Because God said that over and over and over again in this book.

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It is worthwhile taking the weeks that we have taken to study it and break it apart.

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Hallelujah.

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I watched.

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Do you know what Do you hear?

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Can you hear this?

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Can you see?

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Daniel's up in his little room.

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He's got his windows open.

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He's praying three times a day toward Jerusalem and when he's not praying he's watching.

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And what's he watching?

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He watched Nebuchadnezzar.

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One throne go up, one throne go down.

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Nebuchadnezzar dies.

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His son comes in.

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One throne goes down.

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One throne goes up.

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He doesn't like to be king, so he basically gives it to his grandson, belchassar.

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One throne goes down, one throne goes up.

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Handwriting comes on the wall.

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He wants an interpretation.

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Daniel comes in and gives him the interpretation.

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One throne goes down.

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One throne goes up.

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Darius gets done with being king.

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One throne goes down.

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Cyrus comes in and takes over.

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One throne goes up.

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Anybody paying attention here.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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I watched the thrones until they were put in place and the ancient of days took his place and was seated, and by the mouth of Jeremiah, the prophet, whose word was still speaking, the end of the 70 years was up, and there wasn't any way that any king who was on any throne could have kept Israel one more day than the appointed time that God had made they practically.

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They didn't kick them out, they escorted them out.

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They sent military people, they sent money, they sent gifts, they just like Egypt, they just here.

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Get out of here, go build your temple, go build your city, build your walls.

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Hallelujah, praise God, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

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Glory be to God.

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Father, in the mighty and holy name of Jesus, I thank you, lord, that you are forming an excellent spirit in us.

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There can be no doubt, lord, you are creating us for a much greater dimension of living than we can possibly even imagine, and it's going to start today.

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It's just not a reason why it does not start today, jesus, hallelujah, praise God, praise God, amen.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.