Jan. 22, 2025

The Importance of Purpose in Cultivating an Excellent Spirit - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 22

The Importance of Purpose in Cultivating an Excellent Spirit - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 22

Send us a text What if cultivating an "excellent spirit" could transform your life and the lives of those around you? Join us as we explore the life of Daniel, whose remarkable spirit was even acknowledged by non-believers. Through Daniel's story, we draw parallels to Jesus's engagement with sinners, emphasizing the importance of reaching out to the lost and the power of allowing God's grace to elevate our efforts. We reflect on the spiritual decisions that align us with God's will, illustrat...

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What if cultivating an "excellent spirit" could transform your life and the lives of those around you? Join us as we explore the life of Daniel, whose remarkable spirit was even acknowledged by non-believers. Through Daniel's story, we draw parallels to Jesus's engagement with sinners, emphasizing the importance of reaching out to the lost and the power of allowing God's grace to elevate our efforts. We reflect on the spiritual decisions that align us with God's will, illustrating how excellence begins with our best efforts, coupled with divine intervention.

Moving forward, we delve into the realm of wisdom and understanding in God, encouraging an enriching relationship grounded in communication and trust. By pondering the lives of historical figures like Hitler and Stalin, we confront life's complexities within the grander scheme of divine orchestration. The conversation highlights the value of sharing wisdom to nurture creativity and innovation. We celebrate the divine attribute of creation, urging us to seek wisdom actively, transform it into knowledge, and ultimately generate a wealth that transcends material accumulation.

Finally, we tackle the sovereignty of the King of Kings, exploring how earthly rulers exist by divine will amidst philosophical shifts toward humanism and secularism. Drawing from biblical narratives, we underscore the timeless truth that God governs all. Personal anecdotes and scriptural insights affirm the unwavering protection and rule of God, encouraging listeners to stand firm in this truth and find shelter within the secret place of the Most High. Through these reflections, we aim to inspire confidence in divine protection and the assurance that our lives are intricately woven into God's eternal plan.

00:00 - Cultivating an Excellent Spirit

15:19 - Wisdom and Understanding in God

31:32 - The King of Kings Rules

46:35 - Divine Protection and Rule in God

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Well, praise the Lord.

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Let's turn to the book of Daniel.

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We're going to talk about today something that has come up over the time that we've been in the book of Daniel.

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We have talked about it, we have mentioned it, we referred to it, and that is an excellent spirit.

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Daniel is said to have had an excellent spirit.

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I don't know that that phrase is used to describe anybody else in the Bible.

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Amen.

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Daniel was a remarkable, remarkable man of God, and the Bible calls him an excellent spirit.

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And not only does it say that about him, but the people that made those statements were not exactly in the top 10 of believers in that day.

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I mean, we're talking Nebuchadnezzar, we're talking his grandson, we're talking the grandson's wife, we're talking astrologers, magicians, soothsayers and other assorted people that we wouldn't want to associate with.

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Today.

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You did notice that Daniel was made the chief of a whole bunch of people we wouldn't go out to lunch with.

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Did that seem to bother Daniel?

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It didn't mess with his anointing, did it?

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Glory to God?

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It didn't mess with Jesus' anointing either.

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Jesus sat down to eat with sinners, with tax collectors, with prostitutes, and when they wouldn't invite the prostitutes in, he brought them with him and had them, wash his feet.

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You know, come on now.

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People don't get holy on me, you know, that's right.

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That's what it said of Mary Magdalene.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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When are we going to learn that?

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You know, we weren't just like Jesus.

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We're not sent to minister to the saints, we're sent to minister to those that are lost.

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Praise God, praise the name of Jesus, glory to God.

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I want to talk about several things that the book of Daniel says about this excellent spirit, things that we need to incorporate into our lives If we're going to move in this direction.

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Now, if you don't want to have an excellent spirit, then you can just kind of take notes and toss them into the waste can when you get home.

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But if you want to have an excellent spirit, I remember the first time I read this book and the Lord stopped me on that phrase, and it's been part of what I teach ever since.

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Out of this scripture and I'm not teaching this today, but I will mention it I developed a message that was called excellence your best and one step more.

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You haven't.

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You know everybody thinks that they've done excellently.

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But when you haven't done excellently until you've done the very best that you know how to do and then the only thing you've got left is God, and God takes over into that next step and that's your first step into excellence.

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You can't step into excellence unless it's God doing it for you, because he's the only one that is excellent.

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Hello, now you know, I know we live in a culture where they give you know excellent stickers to everybody that just kind of shows up and hangs around.

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You know, you don't even have to participate, you just have to be there, you know and you get an excellent sticker.

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Well, you know, that's not the definition of excellence.

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And in the spirit world, excellence is when God takes over.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Another word for excellence would be grace, when God takes over and does excellent things in you.

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So the first thing that we learn about Daniel in this thing, about being an excellent spirit, is in the first chapter of Daniel, in verse 8, where it says that Daniel purposed in his heart or in his spirit that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank.

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The important thing here is that he purposed in his spirit not to defile himself.

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He purposed, he made a spiritual decision.

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He didn't make a mental decision.

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He didn't make a soulish realm decision.

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I'm gonna do better.

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I really am.

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I'm gonna try real hard and I'm going to do a whole lot better.

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I'm going to be good.

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I'm going to really be good.

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You sound like a three-year-old that just got caught eating the cookies for the 15th time.

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I promise I won't do it, no more.

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Yeah, you will.

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You're going to do it until this foolishness is driven far from you.

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Hallelujah.

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Daniel purposed in his spirit because he knew that it was in his spirit that it had to happen.

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It's like repentance.

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You can repent in the realm of the flesh.

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You can repent in the realm of the flesh.

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You can repent in the realm of the soul.

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But until you repent in the realm of the spirit, you haven't repented.

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You can repent in the realm of the flesh, which is I'm sorry, I got caught.

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You can repent in the realm of the soul, which is I'm sorry because it's caused me bad feelings.

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But until you can repent and say what I did God hated and I've got to learn to make a complete turn away from it and hate it the way God hates it.

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That's a summary of it.

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But you got to.

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You know, when you purpose in your spirit.

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It's that kind of a purpose that I'm going to purpose to see things the way God sees them and to line up myself with that, because I know that if I do that, god's going to be in it.

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Amen.

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God can't help but be in it If you align yourself with God's purposes and God's will and his ways.

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Amen.

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This is the very thing that he's trying to cultivate in you.

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So he can't help but get involved.

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Praise God.

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So he would not defile himself.

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And we know that.

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He asked the master that was in charge to give him 10 days, 10 days of just eating vegetables and water, not the sweet breads, not the meats, not the wine, not all of that stuff that the king would serve to fatten these people up.

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But Daniel said just give us vegetables, just give us water and give us 10 days and then test us.

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If we don't pass the test, we will obey what you tell us to do, amen.

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So what did they find?

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They found that for each day of their consecration, god gave them a measure of increase over all of the others, and at the end of 10 days they were 10 times better than anyone else that the king examined.

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Amen.

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Not only were they better than the other young men that were being trained along with Daniel, shadrach, meshach and Abednego, but they were better than the current crop of astrologers, magicians, soothsayers, you know, wackos, charlatans, snake oil salesmen and everybody else that was in the court trying to impress the king all the time.

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Amen, all these servants of the Antichrist and the servants of Jezebel.

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In 10 days, god took Daniel from being a rookie trainee to 10 times greater than any of those people who had access to the most ancient of magic books, spells, incantations and everything else that came from the flood forward.

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They had access to that, and Daniel, just by eating greens and water I didn't say that, lord, you know, yeah, stop up your ears Just by eating turnip greens and water, oh dear God, got ten times their ability.

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Why?

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Because of the vegetables?

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No, because of the water.

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No, because he purposed in his spirit not to defile himself.

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It was that statement of purpose that set Daniel apart and God rewarded him amen in a measure that could be compared with all of these other people that had access to the king.

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So the first thing that we learn about this life of being an excellent spirit is that we have to purpose to separate ourselves and be undefiled.

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I'm going to say it again you have to purpose in your spirit that what I am going to separate myself.

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God, listen, the call out from the spirit of God to come out from among them and be separate is a constant call.

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He is always saying this to your spirit Come out from among them and be separate, then I will be your father, then I will be your God, not when you're doing what you want to do, in the time that you want to do it and how you want to do it.

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I'm not your God in those situations you are.

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You've got to come out and be separate from that so that I can be your God and I can be your father and you can be my people and you can be my children.

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But you have to touch, not the unclean thing, so I can receive you.

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Now see we, we, you know, we think.

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We think that he's talking to the heathen when he's talking, when he's saying that kind of stuff, but that's not who he was talking to.

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That that was written in the book of Corinthians and it is written for people who are full of the Holy Ghost.

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I'm going to say this again.

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I'm going to keep on saying it.

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The New Testament was written for spirit-filled people who were in Christ.

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They did not know any way else to come.

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Here's Paul.

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He's on his way to Damascus.

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He meets the Lord in the road.

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What would you have me do, lord?

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Lord tells him you're going to be a servant of mine.

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You're going to go to the Gentiles.

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I want you to go to a street named Straight.

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Find a man named Judas, stay with him, and a man named Ananias is going to come and take care of you.

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So he goes Amen.

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The very next day after he goes through all this and the scales come off his eyes.

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He's been blind for three days.

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No food, no water he has.

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What has he done?

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He's separated himself.

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He has not defiled himself.

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He has stayed alone with this God until Ananias shows up.

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The very next day, he goes into the synagogue and begins preaching the Christ.

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He had such power and such authority, in spite of who he was before, to understand that that man was no longer there.

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He was a new man in Christ.

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He understood all those things in a 24-hour period.

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Glory to God.

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Hallelujah, he's talking to us.

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Come out from among them.

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Be ye separate.

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Saith the Lord, and I will be a father to you.

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You shall be my sons and daughters.

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Saith the Lord of hosts.

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Glory to God.

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Are we hearing what God's saying?

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Today we have to commit to this a lifestyle, a way of being that is separate.

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Are you hearing me?

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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Hallelujah and undefiled praise God.

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Let's go on.

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Second thing we found in the second chapter of Daniel is that the first thing, according to the book of Proverbs, that we need to seek after is wisdom.

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In all of your seeking, seek wisdom and after that, seek understanding.

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Amen, wisdom is the principal thing In all of your seeking, seek wisdom.

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Daniel, in verse 20 of chapter 2, says this blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his, and he changes.

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Now he starts to confess some things that he knows about this god that others in his day, both babylonians and Israelites, either had forgotten or didn't know, or they had substituted other gods for them.

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He changes the times and the seasons.

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He removes kings and raise them up.

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See, he wasn't talking about summer, fall, winter and things he's talking about.

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He changes the times and the seasons of men.

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He brings one up, he removes one, he raises up another.

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Hello, see, daniel had a revelation of God that very few people ever come to, and that is that God is God, no matter what.

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Now listen, it's a whole lot of difference between the level of living that Daniel lived in and the level of living that most people live in.

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Well, you never know what God's going to do.

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Well, you know God's in charge.

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Well, god, you know God's.

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Yeah, god's in control.

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Hallelujah, you know.

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And they give you all this lip service, but they don't live like Daniel.

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They live like people who are victims of a God that you never know what he's going to do.

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I wouldn't serve a God like that.

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I want a God who communicates with me, who tells me, who shares with me.

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This is the God that he tells me that he is in his word.

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Amen.

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I will walk among.

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See that part same thing.

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If you'll come out from among them and be separate, then I will walk with you, I will talk with you, I will walk in you and talk with you.

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You shall be my children and I will be your father, says the Lord.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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But you got to know him.

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If you don't know him, you won't trust him.

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That way, daniel knew him.

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He said, wisdom and might are his and he changes the times and the seasons according to his wisdom and his might.

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He removes kings and he raises up kings.

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This is not a big thing for God.

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Hello, remember what we said the other day when we were talking about people say well, what about Hitler?

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Well, what about him?

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He was the chancellor.

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He became the chancellor of Germany in 1932.

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He committed suicide in 1945.

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That's 13 years.

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That's not even an eyelash blink in eternity.

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Now, did he do terrible things in that 13 years?

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Absolutely.

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If he'd had more time he would have done more.

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But yet, listen, trust me, I am not making light of what he did, but there is proportion to this stuff.

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You know, his next door neighbor, joseph Stalin, who had a little bit more time to do what he did, probably doubled or tripled the amount of lives that he was responsible for.

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And then his next door neighbor, mao Zedong, did even worse.

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Oh yes, they did.

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We're talking multiple hundreds of millions of people.

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Glory to God.

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He gives wisdom to the wise.

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Reminds me of what it says in the New Testament that to him who has more will be given.

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If you don't seek after wisdom, amen you'll never be wise, and if you get wisdom and you sit on it, you'll lose what wisdom you had.

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If you get, if you gain wisdom, you have to give it so that you can seek and get more.

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Because the Bible says if you have, if you have, more will be given.

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But it also said if you've been freely given, freely give.

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Amen.

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I understand much more in God the more I freely give.

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So I don't try to say I'm not one of these people that well, you better sit on that revelation until God really gives.

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Put that one in the oven, let it bake a little bit more.

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I don't know where that is in the Bible.

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You know that that sounds like grandma's recipe book.

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That doesn't sound like the Bible.

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Amen, I don't necessarily believe that's true.

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Now there are some things that that, if you get, get it and God tells you now is not the time, these are not the people.

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Whatever he tells you to do, you know that's another thing.

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Then you put it up there and you wait until God takes it off and brushes it off a little bit.

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That's fine, but just know this that he gives wisdom to the wise.

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So if you want to be, not only be a wise person, but a wise person that increases in wisdom.

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Amen, know this, it is God that does that.

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Bible says that in the book of James, that he will give wisdom liberally to anyone who asks.

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Amen, but you have to ask.

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You can't be sitting there just expecting it to fall like snow out of the sky.

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You've got to seek it and ask for it and then, receiving it, you have to be willing to share it.

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Praise God.

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Then he says he gives knowledge to those who have understanding.

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And that's exactly what David said to Solomon in the book of Proverbs.

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He said to your wisdom get understanding so that not only do you get the things that wisdom contains, but you have a depth to it.

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That shows some understanding.

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Amen, you know what.

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This is what I liken it to.

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You can, let's say, you had an instruction manual on how to use a tomahawk, okay.

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And it said get a stick, get some leather thongs, and then fasten a stone to the end of the stick with the leather thongs, make it good and tight.

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And then it shows you how to do this motion, okay, kind of like the Florida state motion.

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You know, you're going to do that.

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To do that, you know I say so.

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It's giving you wisdom.

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It's giving you wisdom how to make this thing and how to use it.

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But understanding would say that if somebody puts down a hammer right next to you, you don't stare at it like a calf stares at a new gate.

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You look at it and understanding would tell you that's a much better tomahawk.

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I think I'm going to use it.

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Boom, boom, boom.

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Because you know why the head doesn't fly off, the leather thongs don't break.

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You know, et cetera, et cetera.

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It's got a flat edge which is better for doing some things in this irregularly shaped stone.

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Wisdom tells you all of those things because you've used wisdom and understanding together to give you a depth of how.

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The next thing you know, you've taken that hammer, which is a better tomahawk, and you've built a larger head for it and put it on the end of a steam-driven pile driver and now you can drive stakes down into the ground, build bridges.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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Understanding plus wisdom leads to creativity and innovation, which is at the heart of God.

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God is.

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If God is nothing, he is a creator.

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Hello, is anybody paying attention?

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He is a creator.

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He teaches us how to create.

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The Bible says.

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He teaches us how to create wealth, but you can't create wealth unless you have understanding.

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Teaches us how to create wealth, but you can't create wealth unless you have understanding.

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You might be able to create piles of money with wisdom, but you won't be able to create wealth, which is the capacity to pass on what you know about accumulating money into a system where other people can do that and actually produce more things that will bring more wealth to more people.

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That's what creating wealth is all about.

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Well, creating wealth is not amassing a bunch of money.

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That's wisdom.

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Understanding says let's involve more people.

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You ask anybody that has made different transitions in wealth accumulation and generation and they'll tell you that I could do myself up to a certain level.

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I know one guy that told me one time.

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He said I figured out that the most I was ever going to be able to generate on my own was about a million or $2 million a year.

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And if I wanted to go to 20 million, I was going to have to have 20 of me, or since there's not any 20 of me around, I'll probably going to need 40.

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And there's a formula that will tell you how many, how many people, how many employees you have to have to generate in your, in your field, how much it takes to generate wealth.

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Hello, but I'm here to tell you and I've consulted with people like this I said one of the reasons you're stuck at 20 million is that the people that you have can't get to 50.

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They don't know how, and they certainly don't know how to get to 100 million.

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You may have to hire people that have nothing to do with your business, but they know how to take a business from 20 to 50, 50 to 100.

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Most men that I've met choke at that point because they don't know those people.

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They're trying to get where they're going just by running it in their family and stuff like that, and you can't do that.

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It doesn't work that way because your family has never been trained to do that.

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Hello, they don't have the wisdom to do that.

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They don't have the understanding, they don't have the gut instincts, they don't know how to do it.

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Just face it, they don't know.

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You want to stay at $20 million?

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Fine.

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You want to stay at 20 million?

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Fine.

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You want to stay at 10 million?

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Fine.

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You want to stay at a million?

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Just be self-employed and run yourself ragged.

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You know, 80 hours a week, go ahead.

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I'm talking about wisdom and understanding.

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I'm not talking about how to make money.

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I'm talking just using that as an example.

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Amen.

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Wisdom and understanding will tell you that at some point you're going to have to employ some people, and then understanding is going to tell you how to hire those people.

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Glory to God and understand this that if you know the Lord, wisdom and understanding come from God.

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I've sat in a chair hiring people and heard the Lord say not that one, not that one, not that one.

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This is the one Time after time after.

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Is that not?

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Not that one, not that one.

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This is the one Time after time after.

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Is that not true, brenda?

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You've done it, because wisdom and understanding come from the Lord.

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Bible says in verse 22 that he reveals deep and secret things, and this is where a lot of people in the church get off the bus Amen.

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They don't want to know deep and secret things.

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They want to know puffy and easy things.

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They want marshmallow Jesus.

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Oh, that's a new one.

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I've had bobblehead Jesus and flannelgram Jesus.

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Now I've got marshmallow Jesus.

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They want marshmallow Jesus.

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I'm going with this one.

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They want a constant diet of s'mores.

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You know, they want to get their little stick in a bonfire and their marshmallow and their graham crackers and their whatever chocolate syrup.

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There you go.

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I don't know how that got in there.

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A little bit of Hershey's chocolate in there, boy, you know, you just flat burn your lips out getting at that, won't you Try to eat it while it's still on fire.

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Glory to God.

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Poor people that are listening to this tape don't even have a clue as to what I'm talking about.

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They don't want the deep and secret things.

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They want this kind of just bare level entry.

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You know, christmas card, jesus.

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They just you know, they don't want anything else.

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If you start even touching on anything, because you know why it challenges them, you know what they're going to have to do If they're going to do anything with it.

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They're going to have to go home and read their Bible, amen.

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And they're going to have to read it and read it and study it.

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They're going to have to dig in it and I'll tell you, most people they won't.

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They won't, if it's not on an app on their phone, they're not going to, they're not going to read it.

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There you go, because God knows what's in the darkness and he knows he.

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And because light dwells in him, he can separate the light from the darkness.

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It's like it's like.

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It's like when you, when you were given the command in the Bible To discern the Lord's body, amen.

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Well, if you're going to discern the Lord's body, you have to discern what is not the lord's body.

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Amen, you just have you know.

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So billy billy graham's wife was on an airplane one time and she happened to be sitting next to an fbi agent and the fbi agent was an expert in, in uh, counterfeit money.

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And he said and she, oh, you must have to study all kinds of counterfeit money to be an expert in that.

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And he says actually, ma'am, no, what I do is I study the real so that I can identify the unreal, the counterfeit.

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And it's the same with us.

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We have to study the real body of Christ, discern the body so that we can know what's not body.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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I have you know.

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I know there's people out there that make a you know, make a ministry out of studying the things of a cult and bringing those kinds of awarenesses to churches and things like that.

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And I've done my share of that.

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But I would much rather study the real Christ and know him so well that as soon as something comes up.

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That is not him.

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I know it a mile away.

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That is not him.

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I know it a mile away.

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I can smell it a mile away, I can smell.

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That's not right.

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That's not right.

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If they keep doing that, they're going to do this, this, this and this.

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Sure enough, there they go, right off the platform.

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You know, you can smell it.

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All you have to do is you can look at them and see it.

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Glory to God, because God reveals deep and secret things Sometimes.

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I don't want this kind of information.

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I'd be watching, you know.

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This is one reason why I don't watch political candidates, because not even the ones I have kind of an affinity for.

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I don't watch them because I get too much spiritual information.

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I can't watch what they're saying.

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I mean, the Holy Ghost just starts going.

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This is not real.

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That's not real.

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This is not.

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And I finally decided that, since most of them were lying all the time, why would I want to pay any attention?

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Why didn't get a single amen on that?

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Let's go on to the next point, dan.

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If we're going to have an excellent spirit, let me.

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Let me just read.

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We've already been.

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We need to be separate and undefiled, and we need to seek after the wisdom that only comes from God.

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Okay, third thing, we need to know who this king really is, and the echo that just echoes throughout the book of Daniel is that you've got to know that the most high rules in the kingdoms of men and he gives it to whomever he chooses.

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And then, if you don't know that, you need to go back to step two and seek the wisdom of God, because until you understand, until you have an understanding, not just wisdom See, wisdom starts with some factual information.

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God rules in the kingdom's men.

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Everybody goes, yeah, amen, hallelujah.

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Well, what does that mean?

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If you don't know history, you haven't got a clue.

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And as soon as you say that, most people just cringe.

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Because I have found out in my lifetime that most people I don't know what everybody was doing in school, but most people slept through biology, they slept through geology, they slept through geography, they slept through math, they slept through chemistry, they slept through physics.

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They slept.

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You know, I don't know what y'all did in school besides sleep, because when I go, start to talk about something you know, you get that look like oh no, not that again.

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You know, hallelujah.

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It's never too late to learn but you need to know this that the king of heaven rules the kingdoms of men.

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He is the king of kings.

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Every king, every ruler, every government, every form of human activity that has been on the planet is under his rule.

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Let me tell you something about just history.

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In the past 150 years there has been a concerted effort in Western civilization and it has flowed over into the continents of Asia and the continents of Africa that were not exposed to this originally, this concept of humanism where there is no God and we are the highest form of sentient, organized life in the universe.

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Well, that we know of anyway.

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There might be aliens out there that are smarter than us, but who knows?

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I mean, it has this ring to it that we're not.

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You know, god is not God, so we must be God Now.

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They couldn't get away with selling that on day one they had been taken out in the town square and stone, so they just let it.

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Oh, here's a theory about evolution, and here's a theory about alternate forms of economic development, and we'll call it Marxism, we'll call it communism or we'll call it.

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If we get tired of that, we'll call it socialism, or if we get tired of that, we'll call it Nazism, we'll call it communism, or we'll call it.

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If we get tired of that, we'll call it socialism, or if we get tired of that, we'll call it Nazism.

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It's an alternative form to Republican forms of government like we have.

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Amen, are you hearing me?

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This has been a concerted effort.

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This is not just a hodgepodge of different changes.

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This is a concerted effort to get people to challenge the fact that the Most High rules in the kingdoms of men.

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So if the Most High doesn't rule in the kingdoms of men, then men must rule in the kingdoms of men.

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And if men rule in the kingdoms of men, then whoever's the strongest man can depose the next person who is the strongest man, and so on, and so on, and so on.

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Amen, not knowing that what Daniel found out being an excellent spirit was that the most high rules in all of the kingdoms of men was that the most high rules in all of the kingdoms of men, and that when their time is up, when it no longer suits God's purposes, he puts one down and raises up another?

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Do you know this?

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That shortly after Jesus was crucified, pilate was replaced.

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It was his turn to be called back to Italy and they put another guy in his place.

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Okay, did you know that?

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Did you know that the man went crazy?

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He died an imbecile.

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He went stark, raving mad because of one 15 minute conversation he had with Jesus when he asked him who is truth?

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What is truth?

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Are you a king?

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You remember that?

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If you don't think that the risen Christ paid him a house call and said you think you killed me, didn't you?

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Wisdom showed up at a very stupid man's house and the memory of that encounter drove him crazy.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, the king of kings.

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If he is the king of kings and we just sing that all the time, he is the king of kings.

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We love that song, don't we?

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We don't even know what that means.

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If he's the king of kings, that doesn't mean he's the king of gods, although he is.

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He is the great God above all gods, amen.

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But he is the king of all kings.

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There is not one king that can exalt his kingship against the kingdom of heaven.

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Not one, not even Satan and all of his power could do anything about it.

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None of these kings can exalt themselves against God.

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Hallelujah.

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And Daniel knew this.

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Daniel would just look at these guys and go, go ahead, but if you do this kind of stuff, you're just going to shorten your time.

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He told Nebuchadnezzar.

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He said look looky here, king.

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What's going to happen to you is you're going to forget all about the fiery furnace and the Hebrew children.

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You're going to forget all about that, amen.

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And when you forget, god's going to turn you out to pasture.

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There's not going to be anybody to help you.

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Your hair is going to look like grass growing on top of your head.

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You're going to eat grass out of the field.

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Your nails are going to look like the claws of an animal.

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You're going to walk on all fours and nobody's going to be able to come near you.

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And it's going to last for seven years until you know that the king of all kings and the king of heaven rules the kingdoms of men and he chooses whomever he will.

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You shouldn't have forgot, king, but you're going to forget.

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And because you forget, this is going to happen to you.

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Why is this going to happen to you?

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Because God rules.

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We just saw an example of this.

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We had a king that was put out to pasture.

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Trust me, it was not his will that he be put out to pasture.

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But he was put out to pasture.

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But I'm telling you what, if you don't think God rules?

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He rules over people who used to be king.

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He still rules over them and they did what he decided to do.

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This is why Peter said of the Jews and of Pilate they did what God had destined for them to do.

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I don't understand that.

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It's because he's the king of kings they have to obey him.

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They have their whole position because of him.

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They may not know it, they may not recognize it.

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It has absolutely nothing to do with diminishing God's power.

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They're not going to stay.

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Glory to God.

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They're going to stay as long as he sees fit.

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And you know what they're going to be punished and disciplined for the things that they did while they were in there.

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You go well, how can that possibly be?

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If he puts them in there, then how can he judge them for what they do?

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Paul said it this way how can the clay say to the potter why did you make me this way?

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He said.

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When it came to Pharaoh, he said, pharaoh, I've hardened.

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And then I judged him.

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He let my people go and I still judged him.

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If you think these people are going to give lip service to God and expect to get off the hook.

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You got to be joking.

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That's just not happening.

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I can't think of it, I can't think of in this, in the next six months of time.

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I can't think of one more scripture that's more important than that for you to put on your lips.

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This king rules from heaven.

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He rules.

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I mean, he just doesn't have a boat.

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He rules.

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If you don't think this whole thing could disappear in a moment, you've got another thing coming.

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He rules If this church this miserable excuse of a thing that passes for the church, would get off of their blessed assurances and start to seek after God concerning this thing could be wrapped up in a heartbeat.

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God rules.

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I said he rules.

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Hallelujah, praise God, and he gives it to whomever he chooses.

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Are we hearing this today?

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.

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These are three things we have.

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We have a whole.

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I had a whole other thing here, one other big point.

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We'll cover that Wednesday, but this is the one thing, that three things that jump right off the pages at you.

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The Daniel purposed that he was going to keep himself separate and keep himself undefiled.

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So listen, let me tell you some examples of that he worked.

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You think you had a hostile work environment.

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Try being the prophet of God working in the midst of hundreds of world-class astrologers, magicians and soothsayers.

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You know their highest level of accomplishment is going to be summoning up the dead and doing it.

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This is Daniel's work day.

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He goes to work to bring revelation to the king.

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And here's some guy frying toads over here and here's another guy working on new incantations and here's another guy trying to talk to demons.

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And here's that you open up this room and it's just a whole room full of demons.

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They're just waiting to be summoned.

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And he goes oh, close that door.

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And this is how you think you go to work in a bad place.

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We're talking Babylon.

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We're talking magicians.

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We're talking the witchcraft of that day.

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We're talking the best in the world at the time, maybe the best ever.

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Glory to God.

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You think you think you think AI's got something on these guys.

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They could make that stuff appear like that, not only appear just like on a wall or a painting.

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They could make it appear in the atmosphere.

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They could put on panoramic kinds of of of fantastic apparitions to deceive the multitudes.

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Glory, they were not amateurs, folks.

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They can manipulate the weather.

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It is said that they manipulated the course of the river by digging trenches, but where did the water go?

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I'm going to tell you something.

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They had serious enough magicians that they could make that river dry up.

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And this is, this is Daniel's work environment.

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And Daniel said no, thanks, I won't be eating with you all day.

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I'm bringing my own lunch, thank you, I got my thermos bottle of water.

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Glory to God, got some people just brought some Jordan water in for me.

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Hallelujah, he kept himself separate and they, they.

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There's two things about.

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There's two things that are going to happen when you keep yourself separate and undefiled.

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Amen, I can testify.

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They're going to come, they're going to.

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They're going to.

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They're going to give you some respect, because they know you've got power.

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But at the first chance they get, they're going to try to eat your lunch.

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And that was how Daniel's life was.

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You know, when they needed him, they called on him.

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Well, you know, because you remember the one time the king was going to kill all of them because they couldn't interpret the dream, and so they ran and got Daniel Get us out of this.

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Hallelujah, praise God, you want to be the undefiled one.

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You want to be the separated one, amen.

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You're going to get the ire of people who aren't, but when the chips are down, they're going to come find you.

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Because the second point you have learned to seek the wisdom and the understanding of God.

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You don't try, you know.

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You don't try to.

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You don't try to give them something that is yours.

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You try to give them something that's always comes from God, always, always, always, always.

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This is one of the key things about being an excellent spirit.

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You can be an excellent spirit when what you deliver out of your spirit is always Holy Ghost spirit, when what you deliver out of your spirit is always Holy Ghost.

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And then, finally, where we ended up, know that the king rules.

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I think it's the ultimate of wisdom, because if you know that God rules and you know you belong to him, you can go anywhere, be sent anywhere, not be intimidated, not be flustered, not be.

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You know.

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I mean, there are people in this room that have sat with kings, sat with presidents, sat with governors, sat with senators, representatives, mayors, police chiefs.

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You know just a multitude of people that we have been in their presence.

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Amen, not because of who we are, but because of who God is, and we delivered the goods, we delivered the word of God, we delivered the prophetic word of God, we gave them instruction.

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I remember one time, down in Mexico, brother Kelly was down there and his apostles.

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They were organizing a march.

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They did this thing every year March for Jesus.

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They got all the Christians in town and they marched down to the main square in downtown Mexico City, right in front of the National Cathedral, right on the site of the former Pyramid to the Sun, where they sacrificed tens of thousands of people.

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You know, right there I've been there, been there dozens of times Stood right there, cursed all of it, bounded up, you know, did all that kind of stuff.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, I can still see it.

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Anyway, he said well, what are you going to do when you get there?

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Well, we're just going to march.

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Well, what's the purpose?

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Well, we're just going to march, we just want to show people how many we are.

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He said yeah, but what's the purpose?

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Well, there's no purpose, brother, we're just going to march.

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He said let me tell you what to do.

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See, this is wisdom talking.

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I sat with Brother Kelly time after time after time, when he would total, strangers would come up to him and we called it holding court.

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He said find me a place to hold court, gordon.

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I said, okay, and get me a big Diet Coke.

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Okay.

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So I'd find a little corner of the hotel lobby, I'd get him his big Diet Coke and he'd go sit down and that's all he'd do.

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He'd just sit there with his Diet Coke and here they'd come.

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We didn't make appointments, we didn't make arrangements, you know nothing.

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Here they'd come, they'd sit down.

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I'll tell you what you need to do Next.

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Tell you what you need to do Next next.

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And he'd just do this for hours and he was giving them some of the most godly counsel you've ever heard.

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I mean, it was just like pure gold.

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I'm saying this is just so rich.

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You know, my job was just to police the place.

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You know, just make sure they didn't all stumble all over themselves trying to get there, and you know it'll be okay, he'll have time for you.

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You know that kind of stuff he was just going, one after another after another, praise God, hallelujah, giving them the wisdom of God.

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So if you give them the wisdom of God, then somebody will say of you, he's got an excellent spirit.

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You give them your own wisdom.

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You know they don't want to hear that.

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Well, some people do.

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But if you really want something from God, you're going to seek after somebody that has an excellent spirit, somebody that knows that God rules from heaven.

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I believe this is the beginning of the wisdom and the end of wisdom.

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You got to know this, especially in this time.

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You got to know this.

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Your existence depends on it.

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Praise God, they have some stuff cooked up you don't even want to hear about.

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But if your God everybody say my God, if my God rules from heaven, he is not going to forget me, he's not going to overlook me, he's not going to bypass me, he's not going to just brush me out of the way while he's doing something.

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Amen, I am included in all of his plans.

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He has made us part of him.

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So when he rules, guess who else rules?

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And if he rules and we rule, then we cannot be excluded from his protection.

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He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty, I will say of the Lord.

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He is my shelter, my rescue, my place of fleeing to Hallelujah.

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We have made him our hiding place and he has made us his protector, his protected, his beloved.

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Hallelujah.

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You've got to know this.

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You just can't lip service it, you just can't charismatic.

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Believe it, amen.

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You've got to know it so that your life and know it, so that your life hangs in the balance of knowing it.

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Glory to God, praise the name of the Lord, let's stand.