Jan. 22, 2025

Heaven's Dominion over the Kings of the Earth - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 29b

Heaven's Dominion over the Kings of the Earth - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 29b

Send us a text Unlock the profound lessons from the story of King Nebuchadnezzar and discover how knowing that "heaven rules" can transform your spiritual journey. Have you ever wondered how ancient Babylon's political and religious systems continue to influence modern false religions? Join us as we explore the historical and spiritual significance of the Israelites' 70-year captivity in Babylon, and draw powerful parallels between their miraculous experiences in Babylon and Egypt. Witness th...

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Unlock the profound lessons from the story of King Nebuchadnezzar and discover how knowing that "heaven rules" can transform your spiritual journey. Have you ever wondered how ancient Babylon's political and religious systems continue to influence modern false religions? Join us as we explore the historical and spiritual significance of the Israelites' 70-year captivity in Babylon, and draw powerful parallels between their miraculous experiences in Babylon and Egypt. Witness the remarkable faith of young Daniel, who defied earthly systems and was rewarded with unparalleled wisdom, showcasing the providence and power of divine guidance.

In a world facing the looming threat of the Antichrist, we emphasize the critical need for spiritual readiness and alignment with God's power. Traditional Christian denominations may not fully embrace the Holy Spirit's strength, leaving a select few equipped for the spiritual battles ahead. Through the lens of military strategies, we redefine prayer as a potent tool for divine intervention, urging listeners to learn to pray in God's will and wisdom. Reflecting on historical events and prophetic insights, we advocate for unwavering faith in divine sovereignty, recognizing that heaven's rule prevails over all earthly endeavors.

Join us as we delve into the transformative power of humility and repentance, drawing inspiration from biblical figures like Nebuchadnezzar and Job. We explore how acknowledging God's eternal authority can lead to spiritual growth and blessings, urging listeners to embrace humility and continuous repentance. Through the metaphor of God as the "eternal umpire," we emphasize the importance of active participation in our spiritual journey, allowing divine rulings to guide us toward fulfilling our purpose. With faith in God's supremacy, we reinforce the assurance that no earthly power can thwart His plans for us, inviting listeners to embrace His rule and experience the richness of His divine kingship.

00:00 - Heaven Rules

05:47 - The Battle Against Antichrist

16:18 - Knowing That Heaven Rules

24:28 - God's Rule Over Kingdoms

31:18 - The King's Humility Before God

44:17 - Nebuchadnezzar's Humbling Before God

54:09 - Learning to Submit to God's Rule

01:09:20 - The Power of Humility and Repentance

01:13:21 - Divine Umpire

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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I want you to turn to the book of Daniel.

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I want to teach, I want to preach for a few minutes about one thought, and that is you need to know that heaven rules, and this is an important lesson for you, just as it was for the king of Babylon named Nebuchadnezzar.

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Now you may wonder why God put that story in the Bible, or stories like it, in the Bible.

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Well, in this case it's important because the king of Babylon is still ruling on the earth, not that king.

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That king died a long time ago, but the Bible tells us that he was one of, if not the most important king on the planet in his day.

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And not only was he king of a geographical political system, he was the king of a religious system.

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That religious system, at its roots, goes back to Nimrod after the flood.

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It actually goes back further than that, before the flood.

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It is the religion that Cain brought to the earth Amen.

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Now, this religion is at the heart of all false religions, and when you say that he is the king of Babylon, you're saying he is the king of this religious, false religious system, as well as the king of this great city and this great nation.

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This is the nation that took the children of Israel into captivity after they had disobeyed God for 490 years by not celebrating the Sabbath year.

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The people of Israel were commanded, every seven years, to let the land grow go fallow so that it could recoup itself.

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Amen.

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They didn't do that, and so God kept score.

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They didn't keep score, but God kept score.

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For 490 years they did not observe the Sabbath year, so God took them into Babylonian captivity for 70 years.

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You do the math 490 divided by 7 is 70.

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That's how many Sabbath years they did not observe.

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And God made them observe 70 Sabbath years by taking them off the land, took them to Babylon and put them into subjection to this Babylonian king, to this Babylonian system, this abomination before God.

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He brought his people into subjection to this abominable religion, amen.

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Now, if you read the book of Daniel carefully, you'll see that it is one miracle after another, after another, after another after another that God does just like he did.

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There are many similarities between this episode of the Bible and when they are in captivity in Egypt, miracle after miracle after miracle, as God kept his people and confounded the enemy.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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I want to mention this at the beginning, so I don't forget it.

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In chapter one there's a very important thing that is discussed when Daniel is first taken apart from his people and brought into the palace to be trained as a young man to serve the court.

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You know the story.

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He asked the master if he could not eat of the king's delicacies or drink of his wine, but to eat only vegetables for 10 days.

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They didn't want to do that because they thought for sure that he wasn't going to look good.

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It was going to affect him.

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But the Bible says that not only did he look better than everybody else, but he was smarter, and 10 times smarter, not of, not of the people that he's with, but of the magicians and sorcerers that were already trained.

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Now, folks, you can just say well, you know, that's no big deal.

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You know, hey, I'm talking world-class magicians.

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I'm talking you remember those two guys in Egypt that could turn their staffs into snakes and could turn Nile River into blood?

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You remember those guys?

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They were trained by Babylonian magicians.

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That religion that Egypt had came out of Babylon.

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You're not hearing me when it says that Daniel, at the age of 15 or 16, was 10 times better than those guys.

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That was the height of knowledge on the planet in its day.

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So the point is and we're going to keep hammering on this because this is what we talk about in these Saturday meetings You've got to be ready, because Antichrist is loose on the planet and is raising hell and is going to make it seem like you haven't got a chance.

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We have laid the groundwork all the way from Abel and going forward, that every time the enemy comes in comma like a flood, the Spirit of God raises up a standard against them.

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How many times has God lost?

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That would be zero.

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Actually, it's a number smaller than zero, because it's impossible for him to lose Every time.

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I don't know why they keep trying, but they keep on trying anyway, but they keep on trying.

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They are now trying and pulling out all the stops.

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They think they have God with his ears pinned back and not able to win this battle because they have deceived his people to such extent that it's difficult for God to find somebody to work with.

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If I could, can I bore you with some statistics for just a second?

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There's approximately 2.5 billion people on the planet.

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About one third of the population of the planet claims to be Christians.

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Of that 2.5 billion people, 80% of them will vehemently tell you there's no such thing as Pentecost, there's no such thing as a moving of the Holy Ghost.

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Miracles are for back then, signs and wonders are for some other story, but none of that is real.

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So that eliminates 2 billion of the 2.5 billion.

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So now you're not even in the billion range.

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Now you've got about a half a billion, 500 million people that claim to be Christians and claim to know something about the Holy Ghost.

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That includes all of the major Pentecostal denominations and all of those people.

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Now I guarantee you that if I start preaching this message or any other message in any one of those denominations and I have done it and it has got the same result I never get asked back.

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Sometimes I get to ask to leave before the message is over and all the possibilities in between.

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I've been there, done that, got t-shirts, ball caps, not very many medals, brother Willie, haven't got very many medals, got a little bit of imprints on the backside where they helped me out the door.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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What I'm trying to say is, of that 500 million, not very many of them are useful because they're too enamored with their own denominations and their own understanding and not on the understanding of the Lord.

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Glory to God.

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I estimate we're not very many and the devil is counting on that.

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The devil is counting on that to win.

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But what God is doing is God is introducing what, in military terms, is called force multipliers.

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Do you know what a false force multiplier is?

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A force multiplier is a machine gun.

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If, up until the time the machine gun was introduced, all you had was bolt-action rifles, amen.

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A machine gun is a definite force multiplier.

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It turns one guy into ten or more.

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A tank is a force multiplier.

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The B-29 was a force multiplier.

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The B-29 could turn eight guys, 16 guys, into several thousand.

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Hello, god is going to introduce false multipliers into you.

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He's going to turn you into a weapon that is greatly force-multiplied, so that you are more effective than a hundred of those people over there that call themselves Christians, a thousand times more effective than those that are over there that don't recognize the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Are you seeing what I'm saying?

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You can listen to me.

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You can, in one prayer, do what they can do in a thousand years of praying, because you know what prayer really is.

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Prayer is not asking God to do something.

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Prayer is giving God ammunition to put on the altar of incense, to force multiply how you have prayed.

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God can take how you're praying and especially when you start the prayer by saying Lord, I need intercessors on this, I can't handle this alone.

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I need multiple thousands, tens of thousands of intercessors.

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He can take your prayer and, like this, all of a sudden it's all over the planet being prayed, and not in words that can be understood, but in words that the Holy Ghost understands, bypassing all this stuff and getting into a place where even the devil doesn't know what you're praying.

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But we got to get out of this.

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You know, all the time my wife was preaching I was thinking what we're talking about here is that if we can think about how to do it, then it's probably going to end up being done in the flesh.

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If we can't even imagine how to do it, and God tells us how to do it amen.

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You better follow that instruction to the letter and keep chasing it until he tells you to do something else.

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So you know, if you've got your prayer list, you know and you're just bound and determined you're going to pray through every item in that prayer list.

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Bless God, and when I'm done.

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I'm going to start back up the top and keep on.

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You know I'm going to tell you what the Lord told me.

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Your list is wearing me out.

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Oh, how many of us we were all taught keep that pen and pad of paper right there by your bed.

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Glory to God.

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You'll never know when God's going to tell you something to pray for.

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Pretty soon you've got a list that just leads right off the table.

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Glory to God, you're over here.

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You're like the hand that's on the right handwriting on the wall.

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You know.

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Glory to God, bless God.

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We're going to pray that list.

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You can pray more effectively with one word from God and shut your mouth and pray in tongues than you can ever do with the list.

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But if you can't trust him to find somebody to pray for that list amen, some lower level somebody or other you know he'll give it to them.

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My bible still says that if you'll seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things will be added unto you.

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You don't have to worry about all that stuff.

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I can't.

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I'm not going to tell you that.

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You'll think you'll think I'm back if I told you that you'll think I'm back If I told you that you'd think I was backslid.

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Glory to God, I better.

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I better get to the, to the, to the word, don't you think that's a good idea?

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Anyway, I'm going to give you the backdrop of this story.

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We're in the fourth chapter of the book of Daniel.

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You can read the first 24 verses yourself.

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But this king, nebuchadnezzar, had a bad and a good experience.

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In chapter 3, he had set up this 90-foot gold statue.

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It was 90 feet tall, 20 feet wide, amen, solid gold.

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And he commanded everybody to worship it.

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You know the story Shadrach, meshach and Abednego didn't want to do that, and so they didn't.

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The only problem was that he ordered the fire to be turned up seven times and it fried the people that were throwing the three Hebrew children into the fire, threw the children in all, bound up Amen.

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And so the king's sitting back here and they go tumbling into the fire.

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Everybody on that side of the fence is happy, you know.

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And all of a sudden, the king gets up.

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Didn't we throw them bound?

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Didn't we throw three bound into the fire?

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Yes, king, that's very true.

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That's what happened.

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He said how is it that I see three that are walking free, unbound, and there's a fourth walking with them that looks like the Son of God.

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Hallelujah, oh Jesus, glory to God.

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So just remember this.

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Oh Jesus, glory to God.

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So just remember this the next time you get thrown in the fire.

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The fourth man is with you and there's a promotion waiting for you.

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Because that's what happened to them.

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They got out and they got a promotion.

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Glory to God.

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So the king he goes into the fourth chapter and the king tells everybody you know, this God is a great God, he is the, he is the great king above all gods.

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But I got to tell you I had a dream.

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He has this dream about this great tree and a voice comes down from heaven and says chop down the tree.

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It chops down the tree, amen, but it's told to leave the stump and the root.

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And then it goes on to tell the king that he's going to go through some stuff that you just don't tell kings.

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This is going to happen, king, you're going to be, you know, you're going to go out in the field, you're going to be like a cow, you're going to eat grass, your hair is going to be matted with dew, and this is going to happen for seven years.

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And so he tries to find somebody to interpret the dream and it falls on Daniel, and Daniel gives him the interpretation, said King, I wish this was for one of your, your worst enemies, but unfortunately this is for you.

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You are that tree and this is where we know that, that King Nebuchadnezzar is a King unlike any other King on the earth.

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He said that tree goes up into the heavens.

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Its power and authority extend all over the earth, but that voice that you heard from heaven is a real voice, and that voice said that tree is going to be cut down.

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He said because, king, it's going to come upon you, that your kingdom is going to be taken away from you, and when it's taken away from you, you're going to be turned out to the field and the night dew is going to saturate your clothes and your hair.

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Your hair is going to grow long, it's going to be matted.

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We find out later that his nails grew like claws.

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He was crawling around in the field for seven years like an ox, but the fact that the tree was not completely cut down the stump remained, the roots remained says that the kingdom will be restored to you when you have come to know that heaven rules.

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I'm telling you that in this day, in this age, this spirit that is on the planet, raising hell, wreaking damage, doing whatever it wants to do and trying its best to kill and destroy the body of Christ, this spirit is going to come to know that heaven rules.

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Oh, yes, it is.

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If you think, if you think for one second that any created being can throw a monkey wrench into the plans of God and keep God and cause God to be defeated, you don't know this, god.

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How is that even possible?

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We are, listen.

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We are not dealing with beings that are just a notch lower than God.

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When we were in our fallen state, we were made a little lower than the angels Amen.

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In our regenerative state, in our redeemed state, we are a whole lot greater than the angels.

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Amen.

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In God's state, there's just not even any comparison.

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If you think God's going to lose this battle, you just don't know him.

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And if you think God's going to lose this fight amen.

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You probably need to get saved.

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But I'm going to leave that up to God.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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I'm not worried.

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I'm telling everybody I can tell we're going to win.

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I know people that you know.

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I mean, they're just storing up everything they can store up.

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And then you've got these guys on TV, on Christian television, trying to get you to go to the caves and hoard food.

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I said, what, for, if you survive, what are you going to do on the other side?

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Have we even thought that far?

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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There are some people on this planet who call themselves Christians and they need to know that heaven rules, and they don't.

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Amen, praise God.

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You need to know that heaven rules because it will change your demeanor.

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Remember I started at the very beginning of this service saying we need to humble ourselves before the mighty hand of God that he might exalt us in due season, amen.

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But the minute you start exalting yourself, you have frustrated the grace of God and you don't know what it is that God's really trying to do, because all you're concerned with is what you're trying to do.

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The essence of humbling yourself before God is not, you know, sackcloth and ashes.

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It's not crawling on your belly for 45 miles on a on a hot pavement.

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I've seen people do that.

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You don't.

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You ought to.

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You ought to go to.

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You know.

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If you haven't been to third world countries, you ought to see what they do on all kinds of fences.

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I don't, you know, I don't care if they're Catholic, christian, buddhist, whatever I mean, the way people do is just crazy.

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Amen, that's not humility, that's pride.

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That's saying look and see how much I can take.

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You don't need to be.

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You know what are you trying to do.

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Are you in a competition with Jesus?

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Huh, see, when you think about how much, what did he take?

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He took the sin of the entire world upon him.

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You're not even close yet.

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I mean, paul said it like this you haven't even come close to suffering like Jesus suffered.

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Praise God, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah.

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Humility before God is this constant admission and repentance before God.

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Cleanse me, lord, of even thinking that I have a thought, for even considering that I might be able to do something worthy in your sight, unless you do it for me, unless you do it through me, anytime you think that you have a good idea.

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You need to quit thinking like that, because it's going to get you in trouble.

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Erase that thought and go back to let's hear from God.

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You need to erase that thought and let God fill your mind and your heart with Christ Jesus, amen, so that the only thoughts that you have are his thoughts.

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You want to.

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You want to do something.

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Let him tell you what to do and then do it, because anything else is prideful insistence on it being your way.

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Don't shout me down when I was preaching.

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Good, y'all were shouting a little bit better than that.

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Do you know how loud this sounds when it's recorded?

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Anyway, praise God.

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So when we're talking about King Nebuchadnezzar, we're also looking to ourselves, because not only does he need to know that heaven rules, we need to know that heaven rules.

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Let's pick it up in verse 25.

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When Daniel begins to tell Nebuchadnezzar what's going to happen they shall drive you from men.

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Chapter 4, verse 25 of the book of Daniel.

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They shall drive you from men.

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Your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field and they shall make you eat grass like an oxen.

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They shall wet you with the dew of heaven and seven times shall pass over you.

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Now listen to this Till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he chooses and sets over it.

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The lowest of men, right there in that sentence.

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Because everybody, you know when you say that, god, you know.

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Why do we pray for people in power and government Because God commands it.

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Why does he command it?

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Because he put them there.

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Well, you know what about Hitler, and you know we start offering excuses as to why he didn't do that, but the fact of the matter is that Hitler was only in power for about 14 years.

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Do you know who Germany got after Hitler was put down?

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He said he gives it to whom he chooses, even if they're the lowest of men.

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Do you know who they got after Hitler?

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They got Eisenhower.

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So I'm asking you we got Hitler in one hand, we got Eisenhower in the other.

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We got Hitler.

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Nobody wants Hitler for 14 minutes, much less 14 years.

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But it didn't last 14 centuries.

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See, god is in heaven and heaven rules.

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And if you don't think that he was involved, I can't even talk about that.

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I'll get in so much trouble I'm going to leave it alone.

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Hitler, eisenhower which one you want?

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You got him, and we still have troops in Germany, so they can do whatever they want over there, except they can't do whatever they want over there because we have troops over there.

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You want the Emperor Hirohito or Douglas MacArthur?

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What do you want?

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Well, macarthur's no prize, but he didn't last forever either.

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Amen, but I'm telling you who probably will last forever in Japan, and that's the 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa.

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Are you hearing what I'm talking about?

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God rules, armies rule.

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You can have whatever government you want to, and they do.

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They got a government in Germany, they got a government in Japan.

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They got, you know people all over Amen.

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But if you want to know what really happens, you better talk to the generals that are in charge of the armies that are in charge of yet occupying conquered territory.

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Some 80 years after the fact, I'm telling you heaven rules.

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We focus on that brief period of time.

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That was terrible.

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I'm not trying to diminish that.

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I've preached all over that it's horrible and it needs to be preached that it's horrible.

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But God didn't leave it like that.

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See, I preach this.

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You may not like this, you know nobody likes to raise up the obvious in the face of rabid patriotism, but you know I will preach it.

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It was the devil's intent.

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How many people died in the towers on 9-11?

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2,900 and some Almost 3,000.

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Amen.

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Do you know how many people were in those towers that day?

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100,000 people were in those towers that day.

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100,000 people were in those towers that day.

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Do you know how many people God saved.

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I'm talking about God ruling in the kingdoms of men.

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Do you know how many people he saved that day?

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97,000 people.

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He saved 97% of the people.

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Any military commander would take that on the day of battle.

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Should we mourn for those that died?

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Absolutely.

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Should we have compassion on the families?

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Absolutely.

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Should we grieve over such things?

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Absolutely.

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You know what I grieved over.

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I grieved that there wasn't prophets in the land, on every television station, telling the hundred and thousand to stay out of those towers that day.

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They're going to be attacked, they're going to be leveled.

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Get out of those towers.

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We can afford the buildings, we can't afford you.

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Where were those voices?

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Where were those prophetic voices?

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But in spite of the disobedience of the church, 97% were saved Because God rules in the heavens.

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Nobody ever talks about that, but I know, I heard this from a man's mouth.

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He was on the street, a man of God, full will of the Holy Ghost, going to his position in one of the towers, the first tower.

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He was late.

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Remember.

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That tower got hit at 9 o'clock.

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He was late and he was running to get there on time and the Lord told him go down in the subway tunnel.

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He said, lord, I'll be late, go down in the subway tunnel.

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Lord, I'm never late, go down.

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And he felt like almost was pushed.

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And at the moment that he got down in the tunnel, the plane hit the tower and a ball of liquid fire gasoline fell out from that intersection of the plane and the tower fell down the side of the tower and hit exactly where he was standing.

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Had he not gone down in the subway, I'm telling you God rules from heaven.

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I'm telling you that he saved 97% of the people that were in those towers.

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It took a long time.

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Do you remember the day it took?

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It took several hours for those buildings to collapse.

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That's how long it took to get 97,000 people out.

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Glory to God In his verse 26 says in as much as the watchers gave the command to leave the stump and the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be assured to you after you have come to know that heaven rules.

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I think a lot of the things that we go through obviously some of the things you know seven years of what he went through was because he forgot.

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We're going to get to that in just a minute, but I think that a lot of us have a lot of things happen to us in our life because we have forgotten that heaven rules.

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We're so busy trying to manipulate God with our prayers that we forget who's actually in charge and what he can do if we just get out the way.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Everybody say heaven rules.

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Not only does he rule in your life, but he rules in mine.

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See, it's real easy to tell somebody that heaven rules.

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You know you can use it like a club.

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Well, you know, bless God, it's so bad, it's so, so terrible that you're going through this.

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That heaven rules.

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You know you can use it like a club.

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Well, you know, bless God, it's so terrible that you're going through this.

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But heaven rules.

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Don't you do that.

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Don't you do that.

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Put it on you.

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Let the heaven ruling come to you and let that ruling power of God tell you, in compassion, what to say to that person.

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That's how heaven rules.

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You don't get to beat them over the head with it.

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What possible use is that?

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Glory to God.

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Verse 28 says all this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.

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Well, what a surprise.

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Amen, god spoke it and it came to pass.

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Yes, and all this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.

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Not only was he a king of Babylon.

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He was king of the nation of Babylon, he was king of over that whole part of the Middle East.

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But the Bible says that his tree went up to heaven Amen, talking about the influence that Babylon has had on the world and still has on the world.

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So here's what happened to the king.

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The king was impressed after the statue incidents, the fiery furnace incident, you know, the Hebrew children getting rescued he was impressed, gave glory to God, told all of his people to worship this God.

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He did the right thing.

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I don't want you to think he was just.

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You know, he was an abject sinner and he just continued on sinning.

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He did the right thing.

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He tried to turn his people to worship this God.

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But he's king and all the people around him are witches, warlocks, magicians, sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, and that's the kind of advice he's getting.

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So after 12 months he's walking around his palace.

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Now you think you know he's just in this old, flunky palace.

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That's, you know, 4,000 years old.

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So what did they know back then?

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This is the palace that the hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the ancient wonders of the world, the hanging gardens of Babylon, terraced off of one of the walls of his personal palace.

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You have no idea.

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The walls of the city were 130 feet tall.

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They were so wide they could have chariot races on them.

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The walls of the city were 130 feet tall.

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They were so wide they could have chariot races on them.

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The main gate to the city has been reproduced in its full size and splendor in Berlin.

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It's one of the most magnificent things you could ever imagine seeing.

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Glory to God.

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So he's strolling through the palace, you know, and the king spoke, said is not this great Babylon that I have built for my royal dwelling, by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?

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And you're going.

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Oh, he shouldn't have done that.

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You're right, he shouldn't have done that.

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But he's the king.

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He's the king of the most powerful nation on the planet.

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He's got this splendid palace, amen.

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He's got these hanging gardens, he's got a style of living that nobody can even dream of, and all he has around him are a bunch of yes, men that are devil worshipers.

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So how long would you last?

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He lasted a year until pride just took him over, until that humility before God.

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All of a sudden, it was his palace, it was his city, it was his country, it was his power, it was his majesty, it was and before.

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And the Bible.

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I love this.

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The Bible says that before the words got out of his mouth, the word was still in the king's mouth and a voice fell from heaven oh God, if you don't think God's watching, if he's ruling, he's watching.

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Jc Penney said this if you're going to expect, you've got to inspect.

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Amen.

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If God is ruling from heaven, he's watching from heaven.

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Hello.

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If he's expecting something from you, guess what?

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The Holy Ghost in you is inspecting how you're moving toward this thing that God has directed you to do.

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What are you doing?

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Amen.

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And the second, that you start taking credit for it.

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I am convinced in this whole issue about messages I told you just a couple of little stories Amen, that God has done so exceedingly and abundantly above that, so that I can never take any credit.

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I'm convinced that he invented these ridiculous systems of computers and things that control Amazon Web Services and Google Services and all that kind of stuff that's out there.

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I mean, they do all kinds of stuff.

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They do all kinds of evil things, but that doesn't bother God If he can redeem all of that with my obedience.

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Oh, you're not hearing me.

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I'm not the only one out there that's doing this kind of stuff.

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Amen.

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There's a whole bunch of people out there that are using the things that were designed to be totally and bizarrely evil to spread gospel messages that will not be accepted in churches.

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Go where they're gone.

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Gospel messages that will not be accepted in churches.

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Go rid of God.

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Think about it now.

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Well, you ought to find some other way to do it.

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God invented this.

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These idiots didn't invent it.

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Man's not smart enough for this, and neither are devils.

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I want you to think about this.

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I'm just going to use this as an example, just to show you what God permits to be done so that His word can go out in ways that could never have happened otherwise.

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Now I want the next time you're driving down the road and you plug in your destination into Google Maps and you're listening to it, and it's in a quarter mile turn right.

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You plug in your destination into Google Maps and you're listening to it, and it's, you know, in a quarter mile, turn right.

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In 200 yards, turn right.

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In 100 feet, turn right.

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And you get right up on it and it says turn right.

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That stupid satellite system is tracking you down to the inch as to where you are, and do you know how many people it's doing that for simultaneously all over the world?

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We're talking of hundreds of millions of people stopping at a stop sign and turning right at the same time.

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And they've figured it out that you're over here at.

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You know wherever we're at, at 183 and someplace it's figured.

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I don't even know where we're at and they know where you're at.

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That's just can I tell you.

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I know this stuff.

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This was my business.

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That is pocket change.

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They have so much computer capacity left over after they do that they sell it to people like me for pennies.

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I have more stuff stored up there.

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I have terabytes of stuff.

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When I got in this business, there wasn't such a thing as terabytes, there wasn't even gigabytes, there weren't even megabytes.

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We were still measuring it in hundreds and thousands of bytes.

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I went to New York once to install something and I had to carry systems on these big disk things that looked like pizza boxes.

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You know, me and two other guys are going from our hotel to the installation where we're going, and we're all carrying these kind of things and we're wondering man, what are people going to think about us?

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Not only that.

00:39:01.081 --> 00:39:03.483
What are they going to do if they think this is real valuable?

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What are we going to do if we lose it?

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You know, we're just thinking.

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And they didn't even have one ten thousandth of what you have on your phone.

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Just think about that the next time you use your GPS system.

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It's doing that for hundreds of millions of people simultaneously.

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Glory to God.

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How did I get off on that?

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When the words were still in the king's mouth.

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The voice came from heaven, king Nebuchadnezzar, to you.

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As it is spoken, the kingdom has departed from you.

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It's a done deal.

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Too late to repent.

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You were warned and you didn't believe.

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You know what happened.

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He forgot about the fourth man.

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It took him a year, but he forgot about the fourth man.

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It took him a year, but he forgot about the fourth man and started taking glory to himself.

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Here's something I mean.

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This is for you today Amen.

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Whatever it takes in your life, I don't care if it's 50 days of fasting every week.

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You know you'll figure that out when you get home.

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I don't care what it takes for you to forget that you have anything and for you to remember the fourth man that has always been bringing you out of the fire and keep running back to him.

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Keep going back to him, keep thrusting yourself back on his altar so that he can fill you with himself and tell you what it is that he wants you to do.

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You belong to him.

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You are not your own.

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You've been bought with a price.

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Therefore, honor God with your body and your spirit, which are God's Hallelujah.

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You don't belong to anybody but him.

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You don't belong to your wife.

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You don't belong to your husband.

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You certainly don't belong to your kids.

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You don't belong to your pets.

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You don't belong to your wife.

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You don't belong to your husband.

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You certainly don't belong to your kids.

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You don't belong to your pets.

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You don't belong to your job.

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You don't belong to anything.

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You belong to him.

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You are the only one you surrendered to.

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Amen, glory to God.

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He's the only one that is worthy to take your life in surrender.

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Everything else you surrender to is going to abuse your life, including you.

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You are the worst person that I can think of to be responsible for your life.

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Do you know why I say that?

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Because I'm the worst person that I can think of to be responsible for this life.

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This life belongs to God.

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It belonged to God before the creation of anything.

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It belongs to God now.

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I have given Him my life.

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I have given Him my destiny.

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I have given Him my eternal security.

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Glory to God.

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I am the worst person to ever take charge of this.

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I guarantee you that if I take charge of it, I'm going to mess it up.

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I've told thousands of people standing in lines before me to get baptized in the Holy Ghost.

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I said let me tell you what's going to happen here.

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You're going to exchange the keys to this vehicle called the Christian way of living.

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Jesus has sent the Holy Ghost to drive the bus for you, because you don't know how.

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You've been trying for a long time and all you do is mess it up.

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You've tried to quit smoking.

00:42:24.952 --> 00:42:26.190
You've tried to quit drinking.

00:42:26.190 --> 00:42:27.349
You've tried to quit this.

00:42:27.349 --> 00:42:28.469
You've tried to do this.

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You've tried to evangelize.

00:42:29.027 --> 00:42:29.610
You've tried to win the lost.

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You've tried to quit drinking.

00:42:30.213 --> 00:42:30.715
You tried to quit this.

00:42:30.715 --> 00:42:31.157
You tried to do this.

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You tried to evangelize.

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You tried to win the loss.

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You tried to go to church and here you are sleeping on Sunday.

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You know you've tried it all.

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You can't do any of it.

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I used to tell people hey, if I can get to church.

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Anybody can get to church.

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I had four kids, all of them boom, boom, boom, boom.

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I said if I can get them to church on time, you can.

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But you know what God had to do.

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God had to get me up about 3 o'clock in the morning because he still held me responsible for what I needed to do with Him before I had to start getting kids ready.

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I didn't have to get up at three o'clock to get the kids ready, I just had to put them to bed in their clothes, that's all.

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That's a joke.

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I didn't do that.

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They were the best dressed kids in church, right?

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She better say right.

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She dressed them.

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Hallelujah, the kingdom has departed from you.

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They shall drive you from men.

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Your dwelling shall be the beast of the field.

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They shall make you eat grass like oxen.

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Seven times shall pass over and he gives it to whomever he chooses.

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That very hour, the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar.

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He was driven from men, ate grass like oxen.

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His body was wet with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagle's feathers and his nails were like bird claws.

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Can you imagine the most powerful king on the planet?

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See, now you can say what you want, but we've just witnessed this in the past two months.

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The most powerful man on the planet in that day was reduced to being on all fours, his hair matted down, soaked with dew.

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He looked like an eagle with feathers.

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He's walking on all fours.

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His nails looked like claws.

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Not only that, but nobody was allowed around him.

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He could say, you know, hey, help me over here, this is the king.

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Nope, nobody was.

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No, he had a bubble around him.

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It was a judgment bubble.

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Nobody could help him.

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Nobody could come, you know, cut his hair.

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They couldn't send a manicurist out to do his nails, you know.

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He couldn't send a beauty shop person out to do the hair, you know, couldn't send him a tailor to get him a new set of clothes.

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You know, because he had a bubble around him, nobody could touch him, nobody could get to him.

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Hallelujah.

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But and this is what you need to know, we all there is a price for pride.

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Pride does not go before a fall.

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The Bible says that pride goeth before a haughty spirit, pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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When this happens to you and it will happen it will happen, it has to happen so that you learn how to humble yourself, you learn what true humility is.

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It has to happen when it happens.

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It has to happen when it happens.

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Know this there's going to be an end to the time of judgment.

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God has to deal with that.

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It's part of your chastisement.

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It's part of your correction.

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It's part of your training.

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Oh, yes, it is.

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I came in one night I had preached, the paint off the wall and it was my custom, after I preached, to get home.

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When I came home to spend a few minutes with God and thank him.

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That night I didn't.

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That night I was haughty and I can't remember exactly what I said, but it was something like boy.

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That was good.

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You know what the Lord said to me.

00:46:44.550 --> 00:46:48.153
He said he told me two things.

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He said I created John the Baptist and you're not.

00:46:51.976 --> 00:47:03.847
And then he said if you ever do that again, I will lift my anointing off of you and I will never give you my word to preach.

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I didn't think it was that bad, did I am glad I put on his helmet of salvation.

00:47:14.981 --> 00:47:31.331
I put on his mind so I could see it the way he saw it and he knew he had to nip that real quick in a young preacher for me to be any good for him down the road, because he knew the word that he was going to entrust to me.

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See he, he knew this.

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You don't know this.

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You don't know me.

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You just don't know me, you don't.

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You don't know what it's like to be given nations.

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You don't know what it's like to have a word for nations.

00:47:48.215 --> 00:47:51.925
You don't know what it's like to have a word for nations.

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You don't know what it's like to be given the lives of a nation's pastors and apostolic leadership into your hands and teach them the counsels of God.

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He knew that was happening.

00:48:02.992 --> 00:48:17.416
He knew that was going to happen, and none of that could ever go to my head, not even when, on national television in Costa Rica, they introduced me as the apostle of Costa Rica.

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I couldn't let that go to my head.

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I had to go home and repent.

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Are you hearing me?

00:48:23.985 --> 00:48:26.233
There's a valuable lesson here from Nebuchadnezzar.

00:48:26.233 --> 00:48:34.833
I thought I was going to preach about Nebuchadnezzar and the Antichrist, but we'll get around to that sooner or later.

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Glory to God.

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But I want you to know this when God's dealing with you about this, there's going to be an end to that time.

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He has never cut down your tree all the way to the stump.

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He has left something there for him to deal with, and there is going to be an end to the stump.

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He has left something there for him to deal with and there is going to be an end of the time.

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In verse 34, it said at the end of the time.

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I, nebuchadnezzar, now watch this.

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This is what happens on the other side of pride, when you have come to your senses and you're returning back to God and you want to humble yourself before God.

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This is a necessary step.

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I lifted my eyes to heaven.

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Here's Nebuchadnezzar.

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He's on his hands and knees, he's got talons, he's got matted hair.

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You know he's got all this stuff going on.

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But instead of looking at that, instead of looking at his judgment, he lifted his eyes to heaven.

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But instead of looking at that, instead of looking at his judgment, he lifted his eyes to heaven and I lifted my eyes unto the hills.

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From whence cometh my help?

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My help cometh in the name of the Lord.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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Are you hearing it?

00:49:43.777 --> 00:49:48.795
He lifted up his eyes to heaven and he got his focus.

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Colossians 3.1 says this If ye then be risen with Christ, set your eyes on the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, not on the things below.

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Look above, not below.

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Amen.

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Where's your citizenship from?

00:50:04.945 --> 00:50:08.456
Where do your marching orders come from?

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Who rules?

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Does the earth rule or does heaven rule?

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Then lift up your eyes to heaven, because that's where the rule comes from.

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And when that happens, what happens next?

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Your understanding returns to you, not your understanding, but His understanding.

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You've lifted your eyes up toward heaven, so now heaven's understanding is going to return to you and now you're going to be able to start to see and understand the way God thinks and the way God sees things.

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The heart of humility is to lay your sight aside and put on God's sight so that you can see and know the way he sees it.

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Then, when you are, when you see through his eyes, you have no choice but to humble yourself, because you're going to see yourself for who you really are and who he is making you to be.

00:51:07.548 --> 00:51:09.990
Hallelujah, praise God.

00:51:09.990 --> 00:51:15.217
And when that understanding returned, nebuchadnezzar just broke into praise.

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I love this.

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I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored him, who lives forever.

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Immediately, god's understanding took him to a place of praise and a place of honor and a place of acknowledging his eternity.

00:51:32.927 --> 00:51:39.043
You want to be humbled, start to really meditate on what eternity is.

00:51:39.043 --> 00:51:55.452
If you remember, back in 2021, we spent a whole year talking about this infinite and eternal God, just to get you into a place where you could start to pray and ask for miracles that you didn't know how to pray for.

00:51:55.452 --> 00:52:04.931
How many of you know how to say I know how to pray for what I know, but what if God tells you and he does tell you, it's in the Bible.

00:52:04.931 --> 00:52:09.293
What if he tells you to believe Him for great and mighty things that you don't know?

00:52:09.293 --> 00:52:15.266
I want you to believe for something you go.

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What I go, I don't know.

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Well, how am I supposed to believe for that?

00:52:20.490 --> 00:52:21.114
I don't know it.

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That's exactly what God wants to do.

00:52:23.353 --> 00:52:27.811
You go, but, but, but, but, but.

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That's the purpose of tongues.

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There are three messages out there that are taken from that series on why it's important to pray in tongues.

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Glory to God, it's that important.

00:52:38.838 --> 00:52:41.710
Six hours of why you need to do this.

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Are you hearing me?

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You won't get this anywhere else.

00:52:46.612 --> 00:52:49.733
Nobody teaches this the way I teach it.

00:52:49.733 --> 00:52:52.813
Nobody's been getting it like I've got it.

00:52:52.813 --> 00:52:58.235
Who are you to say that I'm the guy that's been preaching it for 30 years.

00:52:59.626 --> 00:53:11.657
I've been teaching people on multiple continents how to pray in the Holy Ghost, how to pray under God's authority, how not to pray under your own authority, hallelujah.

00:53:11.657 --> 00:53:14.215
I still get emails from people.

00:53:14.215 --> 00:53:18.773
Hallelujah, his dominion is an everlasting dominion.

00:53:18.773 --> 00:53:21.793
His kingdom is for generation to generation.

00:53:21.793 --> 00:53:28.474
We're talking about a level of understanding God and His eternity that you haven't known before.

00:53:29.164 --> 00:53:30.853
Everybody say I haven't known before.

00:53:30.853 --> 00:53:35.795
I may think I know it, but I don't know it yet.

00:53:35.795 --> 00:53:38.090
It's impossible.

00:53:38.090 --> 00:53:42.994
Everybody say this with me it's impossible to know infinity.

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It's impossible to know eternal.

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But I know the one who is.

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I know the eternal one, I know the infinite one and he can teach me.

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He's the only one that can teach me.

00:54:00.211 --> 00:54:05.893
Brother Gordon can't teach you, but the God that Brother Gordon serves can.

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Are you getting this?

00:54:10.237 --> 00:54:14.213
The Bible says Jesus said it.

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It's in red in your Bible, john 6 and 41, I believe.

00:54:18.072 --> 00:54:22.572
It says it is written in the prophets they shall all be taught of God.

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What do you think God's going to teach you?

00:54:24.952 --> 00:54:27.210
How to get by on your job?

00:54:27.210 --> 00:54:37.389
Huh, how to you know how to get through downtown Dallas?

00:54:37.389 --> 00:54:41.088
At 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon I'll tell you how to get through Dallas.

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On 5 o'clock in the afternoon, don't be there.

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Be through there at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, you might make it, or 2 o'clock in the morning, and then you better be careful where you go.

00:54:56.835 --> 00:55:02.894
I got even better at don't go to Dallas.

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This is about as far east as I get, hallelujah.

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If I want to go any further east, I'm going to stop at the airport and get on an airplane.

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Just joking, hallelujah.

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Don't get mad at me.

00:55:21.376 --> 00:55:25.650
Here's something you need to learn.

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Verse 35 says All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

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All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

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In other words, when you come into God's understanding, this thing that we call human enterprise and human thoughts and human stuff, and all this culture and all this stuff, god's side is reputed as nothing.

00:55:52.534 --> 00:56:04.670
There's only one culture that's of any importance to God, and that's the culture that is within His body, every culture.

00:56:04.670 --> 00:56:08.755
I don't want to hear about a Spanish gospel.

00:56:08.755 --> 00:56:09.744
I don't want to hear about an Ethiopian gospel.

00:56:09.744 --> 00:56:10.043
I don't want to hear about a Spanish gospel.

00:56:10.043 --> 00:56:11.431
I don't want to hear about an Ethiopian gospel.

00:56:11.431 --> 00:56:13.851
I don't want to hear about a Chinese gospel.

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You've got to make this gospel relevant to these people over here and relevant to these people over here.

00:56:19.409 --> 00:56:25.911
This gospel was written for every tribe, every tongue, every people, every nation.

00:56:25.911 --> 00:56:27.871
Hallelujah, glory to.

00:56:27.965 --> 00:56:34.711
If you can't trust the Holy Ghost to make himself known and make himself plain amen, you're in trouble.

00:56:34.711 --> 00:56:38.233
You may have to change some words here and there.

00:56:38.233 --> 00:56:40.753
There may be things that people don't understand.

00:56:40.753 --> 00:56:43.353
I was talking to a translator once.

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I heard this story once about this translator.

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He said I was in this place.

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They had no concept of what it meant to trust somebody.

00:56:51.775 --> 00:56:56.371
They were a very ferocious tribe and so he was trying to get them to.

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He was trying to translate John 3.16 and trying to get them to.

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On the word believe, what does that mean?

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They didn't have a concept like that.

00:57:06.032 --> 00:57:09.373
He says I want you to stand up and sit down in that chair.

00:57:09.373 --> 00:57:11.530
So he stood up, sat down.

00:57:11.530 --> 00:57:12.512
So what'd you do?

00:57:12.512 --> 00:57:13.795
I said I sat in a chair.

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No, do it again.

00:57:15.168 --> 00:57:16.353
What'd you do?

00:57:16.353 --> 00:57:17.688
I said I sat in a chair.

00:57:17.688 --> 00:57:18.713
No, do it again.

00:57:18.713 --> 00:57:20.110
Now, what did you just do?

00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:22.251
He said I put my weight on the chair.

00:57:22.251 --> 00:57:31.925
He said that's it right there, that?

00:57:31.925 --> 00:57:33.351
And he used that phrase as a substitute for believe and trust.

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We may have to do that, but you don't have to change this gospel just because you're taking it to one of the most ferocious tribes on the face of the planet, amen.

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You just have to take them to Romans, the second chapter, verse 5, where it says that the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

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Get them saved, get them filled with the Holy Ghost, and God will start teaching His people.

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Folks, I don't know if you know this or not, but there was no such thing as personal Bibles in the first two to three centuries of the Christian experience.

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There wasn't such thing as a written Bible until about 30 years after Jesus went up to heaven.

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I want to know how they got multiple tens of millions of people saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, healed and delivered without a written Bible.

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Well, the same way that the Chinese people get to church, they just expect the Holy Ghost to tell them where the next meeting is going to be, and that's where they show up, and everybody that doesn't have the Holy Ghost doesn't get there.

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That's how they avoid being arrested by the police, because the police go to the last place they met and they're not there anymore.

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They're over here.

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They're over here, met, and they're not there anymore.

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They're over here.

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All inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

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He does according to his will with the army of heaven.

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I mean, if you're a king, you better have an army.

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If you don't have an army, you're an opposer, you're an imposter.

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Are you hearing me?

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God has an army.

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Oh, you don't know.

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Psalm 27 is who is this king of glory?

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He is the Lord.

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Is it 27 or 24?

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One of those 24.

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Who is this king of glory?

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He is the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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He is the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

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He is the king of glory.

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Amen.

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Are we hearing it?

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He's got an army, and if he thought for one second that his current army was in trouble, you know what he could do.

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He could just make another one, only more powerful.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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He did that and you're it.

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God does not have a more powerful army than that which is His body, and he's not going to come up with a plan B for it.

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You know those movies where the guy, for whatever reason, gets pulled out in front of everybody and they rip the stripes off of him.

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You want to get your stripes ripped off real quick.

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Take pride for being in the army and doing anything in it, because it is the Lord's army.

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Are you hearing me Praise God?

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No one can restrain his hand.

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No one can say what have you done?

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Captain of the host of the Lord is not up for review by the troops.

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Hallelujah.

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Verse 36 says.

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Verse 37 says all those who walk in pride he is able to put down.

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I want to go back to verse 26 to 27.

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We need to know, everybody say, we need to know that heaven rules.

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Therefore, o King, let my advice be acceptable to you Break off your sins by being righteous and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor.

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Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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I'm going to say a couple of things and then we'll close.

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I believe that what is happening to Nebuchadnezzar is happening to kings and rulers all over the planet right now.

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I believe that the Lord is appearing to people.

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I believe that they're given a choice to humble themselves before him or they're going to be humbled and humiliated.

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I think we're seeing this right in front of our eyes.

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Remember this, people.

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The news is never what it seems to be on television.

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It never is.

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What is really happening is an ancient battle between Antichrist and the Christ.

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Now the Christ is represented by his body.

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In times past he just had to show up with angels, but now he has a permanent force on earth that is his body.

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Amen, and I believe that the Lord has singled people out.

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I read it.

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I read it every day.

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I don't get to read about it because that doesn't surface so much how the ones that are visited by the Lord respond to Him, but I see it every day about those that are visited and don't respond and they end up dead.

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You just pay attention, pay really close attention.

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You're going to probably have to look at some alternate news sources and things about these heads of tech firms.

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There was just one of a former head of YouTube that just died this week At 56,.

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It's happening all over the planet.

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All over the planet because they're being given a choice, just like Nebuchadnezzar did, and they didn't respond.

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I believe that I believe God's appearing to them because he's just so merciful, even though they deserve to be wiped off the planet and sent to hell on a one-way ticket.

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He knows that if he can get one, he can get ten, he can get twenty.

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They can be influential for the kingdom of God in and among people.

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That can never be reached otherwise.

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God is a master at strategy.

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He is a master at strategy.

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He is a master at war.

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He is a man of war.

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The art of war, military doctrine, military rules of engagement and all those things that the militaries operate with all over the they were invented by God.

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Because he's a man of war, he knows how to win this thing.

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Oh, yes, he does.

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Do you know that?

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If you go ahead and read chapter 5, amen, you'll find out that his grandson was the last representative on the throne in Babylon, and because that representative did not repent in the same way that Nebuchadnezzar did, the kingdom was taken away from him and his life was taken away from him and his city was taken away from him and it was given to another people who were not Babylonians and through that people that took over the city of Babylon.

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God brought the deliverance of the children of Israel and sent them back, not only back to occupy Jerusalem, but to rebuild the temple.

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Don't tell me God's going to lose.

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This is documented so that you can see that the most wicked man on the planet had to bow on his knees in fields like a cow eating grass before the God of all gods and the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords and the Jesus that is above every name.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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And if I know God, god's saying this, if I can get Nebuchadnezzar to do this, why can I not get my people to do this?

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Because it's still true.

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2 Chronicles 7.14.

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If my people, which are called by my name, will do what Will?

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Just shout and dance and glorify God and just hallelujah and praise Jesus and hallelujah.

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Is that what it says?

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Humble themselves.

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Is that what it says?

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Humble themselves, the first rule to get God to move from heaven.

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Who rules from heaven?

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You want him to move from heaven.

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The first rule is what?

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Humble yourself.

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If my people, which are called by my my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and repent from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.

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Blessed be the name of our God, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God.

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If you think for one second that God's going to deal with Nebuchadnezzar like that and not deal with you.

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You've got another thing coming.

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You don't know him.

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You think you're on some kind of a special special status with God.

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The only some kind of a special status with God, the only time you are in special status with God, is when you're humbling yourself.

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Then he can exalt you.

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Do we not read our Bibles, or do we just read the parts that we like and skip over the parts that we don't like?

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Matter of fact, we probably don't even get to those parts that we don't like Because we know they're there.

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We go oh, skip that whole chapter.

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If I didn't love you, I'd have bored you all afternoon with a lot of meaningless stuff about Babylon, historical things.

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You know all that kind of gobbledygook and never would have brought it home to you.

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But God was interested in getting it home to you from the very beginning, From the very beginning of this day, at 1230 in the afternoon, and here we are at 430.

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Amen, it's been right on the same thing all the time Humble yourself, humble yourself, humble yourself, humble yourself, humble yourself, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God.

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Amen, he gives yourself under the mighty hand of God.

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Amen, he gives what to the humble.

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He gives grace.

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Grace is what Grace is the power of God working in you to do those things that you cannot do without God and God will not do without you.

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That's what grace is.

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Grace is the power of God to both will will not do without you.

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That's what grace is.

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Grace is the power of God to both will and to do in you his good pleasure, amen.

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But grace only works if you're humble.

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Pride and arrogance is a stumbling block to grace.

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Got real quiet in here.

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You are all hot and bothered about getting grace, amen.

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But when I told you you know there's only one way to get it.

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It's like an on-off switch.

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It's like you know, if I went over here and turned this light off, amen, grace is flowing, but I get pride.

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Whoops, now I've got to humble myself.

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Here comes grace again.

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But if I get just a tad arrogant, the more arrogant I get, the more I'm going to have to repent before it.

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If you think I'm kidding, just try it.

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I would suggest that you don't.

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I would suggest that you find a place in your life of continual repentance.

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So while I'm not sinning, you'll find out, the further you go into the Lord, that repentance has very little to do with sinning.

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It has much more to do with formation.

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It's the way you get Christ formed in you, because you're not repenting about things you've done.

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You're repenting about the things that have yet to be done, that you have left undone.

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See, we're not going backwards, we're going.

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How many ever thought about this?

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I need to repent before I get there.

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Did you ever think about that?

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Job did, and Job's older than all of you Put together.

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Job offered sacrifices for his children just in case they sinned you in there.

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Yes, man, you put together.

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Job offered sacrifices for his children just in case they sinned you in there.

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Yes, you know how much wood and how much time and how much servant's effort and how much diligence it took for Job to do.

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Every morning he went out and sacrificed.

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He had a bunch of kids, and then you know what Glory to God.

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He had more after it was all over Not double.

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He didn't need double because they were still alive in heaven.

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But you know, are you hearing any of this?

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Yes, sir, yes, I want you to go home and meditate on that.

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Lord, I didn't get that.

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What's this stuff about?

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Repenting in the future?

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You're going to hear him say well, where are you going?

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Don't you want to be prayed up?

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Yes, sir, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Tell me this who rules from heaven?

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Do you know that?

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Do you know that?

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Because that's what God wants you to know today.

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He wants you to know that he rules.

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He wants you to know he rules over courts.

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He wants you to know he rules over bodies.

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He wants you to know he rules over courts.

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He wants you to know he rules over bodies.

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He wants you to know he rules over jobs and promotions.

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He wants you to know.

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Every time God's people obeyed God in the book of Daniel, they got promoted.

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Amen.

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Not only did they get promoted, but they got gifts.

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They got gold chains put around their neck.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Somebody say I'm getting ready to go.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Somebody say I'm getting ready to go to a jewelry store.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Are you hearing what God's saying today?

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Know that he rules from heaven.

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Know that you belong to Him.

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Know that you're a child of the King.

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Know that, because of your kingship, relationship with God, amen.

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There's nothing that he won't do for you.

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And when the king of all creation, the king of heaven, starts moving on your behalf, there is no power on earth that can resist it.

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There's no power that can resist this king.

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I said there's no power that can resist this king, amen.

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But you got to give him a reason to reach down from heaven and rule on your behalf.

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Paul called him the eternal umpire.

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Translations have it translated as the eternal judge, but in the Greek it really means he's the eternal umpire.

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He'sations have it translated as the eternal judge, but in the Greek it really means he's the eternal umpire.

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He's the one that gets to decide how the play is run, who gets, who's safe, who's out, who scores, who doesn't.

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Are you hearing?

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He is the eternal umpire.

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You got to be in the game so he can rule for you.

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If you're at home just going, I don't know if God's going to do anything for me.

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He can't even call you up to the plate, he can't even give you the ball.

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He can't say anything about the game for you Because you're not in the game.

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You've got to be in the game for the umpire to rule in your behalf.

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Praise God, praise the Lord.

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Somebody say amen, somebody stand up.

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Glory to God.