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Say what a joy it's been to be 
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Appreciate so very much the 
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Appreciate your pastor, 
appreciate your faithfulness, 

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appreciate this church, 
appreciate your stand starting 

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to see what God is doing. 
Thank you for the hospitalities.

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Williams. 
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We love staying with you guys 
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Amen. 
What a blessing. 

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Everything's always first class.
Appreciate all the meals and 

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fellowship and the, and the 
history tours and everything, 

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Amen, Amen. 
Thank you, brother, Brother 

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Lewis for that tremendous 
message just now. 

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I sit there as I, as I listen to
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And of course we talked earlier 
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preaching on. 
I told you at the house, God was

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changing my message. 
I had no idea how together the 

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God was going to put these two 
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What a tremendous part of the 
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We get uncomfortable when 
they're suffering, but God has a

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reason and it has a purpose for 
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And I wouldn't be where I'm at 
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difficult times. 
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heartbreak, things that are life
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make you sit down and weep and 
crawl on the floor and beg God 

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for help and strength. 
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really, really draws you closer 
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So hey, when, when, when you're 
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Just just cherish it. 
It will pass, but you'll be a 

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better person. 
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a result of it, I can promise 
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Daniel chapter 1. 
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chapter that has been on my 
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asking God if He would help me 
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And I really want to challenge 
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It's not just the young people, 
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including the preachers. 
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And so when you find your place,
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Daniel chapter #1 The Bible says
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them a daily provision of the 
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which he drank, so nourishing 
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end thereof they might stand 
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The Bible says in verse 8. 
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that he would not defile himself
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meat, nor with the wine which he
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Therefore he requested of the 
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might not defile himself. 
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favor and tender love with the 
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And the Prince of the eunuch 
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Lord the king, who hath 
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drink, For why should he see 
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children which are of your sort?
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danger, my head to the king. 
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thought. 
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compromisers, refusing to 
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Lord, I pray that you'd take the
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I pray that you'd work in 
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Lord, I sense a a more serious 
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service tonight. 
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when it's quiet and when folks 
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Spirit of God is speaking and 
working and moving. 

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And Lord, I pray that you would 
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started in our hearts from the 
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I pray that you'd put it all 
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Glory is our prayer in Jesus 
name, Amen. 

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Thank you for standing. 
You can be seated as I read this

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story. 
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of Scripture. 
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length of time, you've you know 
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you've read it, you've heard it 
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preacher for any length of time 
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There's just so many applicable 
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we could glean from. 
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just ask God, maybe get it, make
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fresh that would help you in 
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Before I get into the 
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that we are living in a day of 
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If you if you do not see that, 
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your head in the sand. 
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amongst ourselves, talking about
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and demise. 
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churches that stood for what was
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Many of them for years, decades,
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preached all over the country 
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God has given them a tremendous 
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influence and many of them 
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Many of them sowed into our 
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Many of them were used by God 
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encourage us and challenge us. 
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to, I look, I look now and I'm 
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They have, they have radically 
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once preached on and stood on. 
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And, and I mean, I'm an older 
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my position and, and I don't 
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people, but I, I know what it 
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I know what it does to my mind 
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imagine what effect it might 
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newer convert or even young 
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your pastor preaches one way and
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these things. 
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guy that's got this great 
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maybe bigger, bigger platform. 
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something that doesn't, that 
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be some questions. 
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your soul as to who's right and,
and, and where should I stand on

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all of this? 
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positions. 
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the side effects of seeing this,
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decay and, and even in some 
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leads to apostasy. 
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brother said a moment ago, 
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progressives not progressing, 
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They're going backwards. 
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on truth. 
They're walking away from light 

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that they've received and the 
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compromise and that compromise 
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just a fallout of pasta sizing 
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And, and I'm just going to be 
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nothing to do with that. 
I don't want to run with people 

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that are backing up. 
I don't want to hang out with 

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people that are changing on, on,
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and and, and out my whole life. 
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think night before last or maybe
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veg in a round hole. 
I've always been a stick in the 

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mud from the time I was a kid. 
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was preparing me for such a time
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more of a stick in the mud than 
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statement, I said my greatest 
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the from the drugs drug addicts.
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dealers. 
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store owners or as we would say,
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My greatest opposition, believe 
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independent Baptist pastors. 
That's my greatest thorn in the 

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flesh. 
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flesh to them as well, because 
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They're compromising. 
They they've reached one way for

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decades all over the country. 
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think, what in the world are you
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I'll tell you what they're 
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They won't admit to it. 
They won't cop to it, but 

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they're compromising. 
That's what's happening and it 

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bothers them when somebody calls
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That's. 
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Yeah, really. 
Bothers them when somebody says,

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but you've always said this and 
this and this and this is wrong,

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and now you're doing this and 
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How do you rectify that? 
How do you justify that? 

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They look at you, they say, but 
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I've asked them myself, I've 
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I say you're changing. 
Why are you changing? 

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And they say to me, I have not 
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I'm like, you have changed. 
You're unrecognizable from what 

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you used to be. 
And it's a problem and it's 

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becoming more and more of a 
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And what's happening is, is, is 
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preaching about. 
People are in fear of rejection,

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in fear of having to have 
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members walk away or losing 
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case might be. 
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They're conforming with 
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They're hanging out with 
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with compromisers, they're 
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And I just want to tell you 
tonight on the, on the, on the 

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authority of the Word of God, 
that God can give you and I the 

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strength and the ability and the
courage to refuse to conform 

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with compromisers. 
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On the battlefield. 
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I don't want to die having 
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My wife and I both grew up in, 
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I've said it before, my parents 
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We were like one light bulb away
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I mean my parents would they 
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Was a sin. 
We grew up, everything was 

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wrong. 
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breathing and eating if they can
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I mean, everything was wrong. 
That was the home I grew up in. 

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We grew up under sound solid 
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We grew up with a with a love 
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I was taught to memorize the 
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scripture. 
I was taught to stand for what 

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was right from the time I was a 
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And now here I'm in my 50s with 
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the pressure that is, it's 
coming to compromise. 

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It's not coming from the world. 
It's coming from from, from 

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independent Baptist preachers. 
By the way, when you used to 

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call yourself an independent 
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something. 
For those of you that are newer 

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Christians, you're, you're new 
to this thing. 

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I'm a fifth generation 
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Baptist preacher. 
So if I can't call it out and I 

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can't say something about it, 
nobody can. 

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I've been in it my whole life 
and I'm just telling you, you 

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used to, when you say you was an
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people automatically knew what 
you believed and where you 

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stood. 
Now you have no, it means 

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nothing. 
Even they don't know what it 

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means. 
And so we have to be very, we 

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have to be very clear tonight 
that we, we must refuse to 

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conform with compromises. 
Amen. 

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Now you can relax. 
I'm not going to call names. 

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I just want to preach the text 
out of Daniel chapter #1 not 

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that I think that here it would 
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Let your pastor do that. 
Amen. 

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I'm going to kick the can down 
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wants to, get more personal. 
But I want to deal with this 

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principle in Daniel chapter #1 
and first thing, I was looking 

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at a couple of things about wave
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All right, my introduction is 
longer than my message, but you 

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got the comparison. 
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comparison by way of 
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I've got three things I want to 
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You've got a group of young men 
here, the Bible tells us in 

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verse #1 and following, there's 
a group of men here, and there's

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some things that they all have 
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They the one thing they have in 
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pedigree. 
Write that down in verse #3 

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they've got a prestigious 
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The Bible tells us that the 
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master of his eunuchs, that he 
should bring certain of the sea,

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certain of the children of 
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and of the Princess. 
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a very prestigious pedigree 
among these young men that had 

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been carried away by the king 
here all right, taken away and, 

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and, and stolen into captivity 
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And the Bible tells us that they
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Israel and of the King's seed. 
All right, the King's seed, 

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meaning they were, they were of 
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These were these were the sons 
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day possibly even be the king. 
They were, they were, they had 

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been brought up in a very 
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brought up in a very different 
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They had access to an education,
they had access to inside 

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information. 
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things that a lot of the other 
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And so we see there was a 
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They were the king scene and of 
the Princess. 

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All right, let me just make a 
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By the way, whenever I preach, I
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to where we're at, All right? 
Can I say it? 

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One of the things that we have 
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that we're a child of the king, 
Amen. 

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And then, and we ought to live 
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We ought to act like it when 
when the world sees us, we ought

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to see somebody different. 
There ought to be something 

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about us, and not because of who
we are and not because of where 

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we come from. 
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When you look across this room, 
I'm guarantee we've all come 

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from every possible background 
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Brother Louis and I group about 
as opposite of a background as 

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you can get, Amen. 
A best kid growing up in the 

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inner city of Chicago and me 
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South Georgia growing up in a 
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And and my daddy was called to 
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and grew up in a pastor's home. 
My wife grew up in a pastor's 

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home. 
I mean, that's about as opposite

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the background as you can get. 
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together in in the same service.
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that, that, that, that when you 
when you get saved, you become a

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child of the king, not because 
of who we we are, but God has 

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looked down on us. 
There's been favor poured out 

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upon us and we're responsible 
for what we've received and what

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we've been taught. 
Great accountability to whom 

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much is given, much shall be 
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If you're here tonight and 
you're saved, you're a child the

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king, Amen. 
You're the King's seed. 

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You're Princess or even kings of
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So we see their prestigious 
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They had that in common. 
And then we see in verse 4 their

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promising potential, promising 
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The Bible says children in whom 
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and skillful in all wisdom and 
cunning, in knowledge and 

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understanding science, and such 
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in the King's palace. 
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whom they might teach the 
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Chaldeans. 
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understand these children were 
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There was no blemish. 
I mean, they was when you to 

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look at them, there was no, 
there was no, no kind of defect.

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I mean, they didn't have, if I 
understand that correctly, they 

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didn't have like big birthmarks 
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I mean, these kids, you look at 
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They were on the outside. 
Their parents say they was 

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perfect. 
The Bible says they're very 

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intelligent, very smart and, 
and, and well favored and 

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skillful and all wisdom and 
cunning and knowledge and 

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understanding science. 
I remember when I was in school,

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I struggled with science. 
I loved history, loved English. 

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I know you can't tell that 
listen to me preach, but I 

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actually did pretty good. 
And but science, man, I 

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struggled with science. 
I just, I never could quite 

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figure out all those things. 
I didn't know that H2O was a 

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glass of water and H1 O was a 
half a glass of water. 

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I didn't know that such as had a
built in them to stand in the 

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King's palace. 
They had composure. 

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They handled themselves well. 
They presented themselves well. 

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I mean, just looking at them, 
you think, boy, this young man 

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right here is going to be able 
one day to stand in front of the

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king. 
He's going to be able to advise 

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the king. 
He'll be a counsellor to the 

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king. 
He'll be able to contribute to 

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the decision making process. 
And they were so smart and they 

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were so capable that they 
planned to teach them the 

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learnings and the tongue of the 
Chaldeans. 

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And so, man, when you read verse
#4 you see, man, there's a whole

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lot of promising potential with 
these young men. 

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And then thirdly, you see they 
all had the same prohibited 

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provision in verse #5 the king 
appointed them a daily 

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provision. 
Watch this of the King's me and 

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of the wine which he drank. 
So they were all given the same 

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food. 
They were given the same daily 

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provision of of King's meat and 
of the wine. 

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Now, I don't have time to go 
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and show you all the dietary 
laws that these children of 

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Israel were commanded to live 
under back in those days. 

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By the way, I'm thankful we're 
not under those dietary laws 

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today. 
Hallelujah. 

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I love good old barbecue and 
pork chops. 

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Hallelujah, and bacon and 
sausage and catfish. 

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Can I get a witness? 
But there was things they were 

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strictly forbidden to eat and to
drink in the Old Testament. 

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As children of Israel. 
God wanted them to have a 

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completely separate diet, and 
yet here they were because 

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they've been taken into 
captivity. 

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They were appointed King's meat 
and the King's wine, and it's 

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obvious from verse #8 that it 
was what they were not supposed 

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to eat. 
It was forbidden for them to eat

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and drink of these things. 
And you say they all had the 

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same prohibited provision that 
was, can I say it, can I say it?

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That was being forced upon them,
that was being given to them in 

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verse #5 humanly speaking, we 
can say they didn't have a 

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choice. 
Sounds like a lot of Baptist 

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Church members that I that I 
deal with as a preacher. 

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I didn't have no choice. 
I couldn't go to the meeting. 

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I had to go to work. 
I didn't have a choice. 

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But it's funny, whenever 
something else comes along that 

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they want to do, they can have 
no problem asking all taking off

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work. 
I don't have a choice. 

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I can't tell. 
I got, I got bills. 

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I don't have a choice. 
I can't get involved in 

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missions. 
That's another message for 

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another time. 
But they, I mean, humanly 

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speaking, we could say in verse 
#5 they've been kidnapped. 

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They're taken to a foreign 
country. 

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They're now being enslaved by 
this king. 

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He's putting food in front of 
them. 

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Can we say it? 
It was being forced upon them. 

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Humanly speaking, they didn't 
have a choice. 

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They all had the same prohibited
provision. 

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They were looking for an 
opportunity to eat it. 

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They had it, but they were 
looking for an excuse to eat and

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drink what they were not 
supposed to eat and drink. 

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Now is the opportunity to say, 
hey, I don't know, I didn't ask 

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for this. 
I don't have a choice as being 

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forced upon me. 
So we see the comparison, but 

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then we see the contrast. 
Something about Daniel made him 

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different Bible. 
Tells us in verse #8 It starts 

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with but but Daniel, but Daniel.
Three things I want you to 

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notice about the contrast 
between Daniel and the rest of 

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these young men that were taken 
into captivity. 

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They did not all have the same 
principled purpose. 

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It says in verse 8, but Daniel 
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Heart. 
He purposed in his heart. 

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They did not all have the same 
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There was something inside of 
him that was different from all 

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the rest of them. 
Now let me, let me just, let me 

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just explain where this message 
came from. 

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It came from verse #10 it came 
in verse #10 when the Prince of 

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the eunuch said to Daniel, I 
fear my Lord, the king who has 

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appointed your meat and your 
drink, for why should he see 

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your faces worse liking. 
Now watch this. 

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I got this underline in my 
Bible. 

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He didn't say, why do you insist
on being different from the 

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Chaldeans? 
We would understand immediately 

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why he insisted on being 
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That is not what this Prince 
said. 

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The Prince said We don't 
understand. 

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You got to explain to me why you
insist on being different from 

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the children of your own sort. 
You're the only one in this 

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whole crowd got a problem with 
this. 

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Something inside of his heart 
would not allow him to go along 

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with it. 
Something inside of him urged 

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him and motivated him to push 
back against what everybody else

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was doing. 
We see the they were not the 

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same when it came to principal 
purpose. 

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And let me just expand on this 
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We got a group of people today 
that is more loyal to 

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personalities than they are the 
principals. 

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Come on. 
Preacher. 

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Preach. 
This is what I'm telling you. 

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I mean, if so and so does it, it
don't matter what he does. 

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They're loyal to him. 
He can change. 

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He can rewrite his entire 
ministry. 

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He could take the last 30 years,
throw it in the trash and hit a 

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reset button, start over and go 
another direction. 

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And because of what he did for 
the last 30 years, there will be

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people that will follow him over
a Cliff into compromise, even 

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though he has changed everything
he said he believed. 

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They're not standing on 
principle. 

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They're standing with 
personalities. 

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You see, not only were they not 
the same in their principal 

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purpose, but secondly, they were
not the same in their personal 

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purity. 
The Bible says in verse 8 Daniel

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purpose in his heart and he 
would not defile himself. 

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He wasn't really worried about 
what everybody else was doing, 

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but he knew that he was not 
about to eat and drink what had 

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been forbidden, because doing so
he would defile himself. 

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There's going to come a day when
you're going to have to look in 

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the mirror and you're going to 
ask yourself the question, am I 

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going to do what everybody else 
is doing? 

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Knowing that by doing it you're 
lowering your own personal 

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standards in your life. 
That by opening up this door and

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bringing this into your life, 
you are now subjecting yourself 

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to sin. 
And to shame and to unbiblical 

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lifestyles and and patterns of 
behavior that you know down 

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deep. 
In your heart is wrong. 

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He said I will not defile myself
and the, the, the powerful 

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statement to me is in if he, if 
we were being honest and if we 

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were being devil's advocate and 
if we were there advising Daniel

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there's youth bachelors across 
this country would say, Daniel, 

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you don't have a choice. 
We know if you had your choice, 

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if you had your preferences, 
you'd be back home eating the 

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right kind of food and drinking 
the right kind of drink. 

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But you're here. 
You was right here against your 

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will. 
You don't have any say. 

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Nobody's asking to take your 
order. 

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They're putting the food in 
front of you. 

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You're a slave. 
You're a, you're a, you're a, 

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you're a slave and a, and a 
prisoner. 

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This king. 
You don't have a choice. 

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But Daniel said I do have a 
choice. 

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The moment I eat that, I am 
defiling myself. 

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He didn't say he refused to be 
defiled. 

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It said he refused to defile 
himself. 

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He purposed in his heart that he
would not defile himself. 

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And can I tell you something, 
young people, Mamas and daddies,

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nobody can defile you but you. 
Yeah, Come on. 

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Nobody can cause you to lower 
your standards but you. 

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Nobody can make you back up on 
God but you. 

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You can stand for what's right. 
Nobody can make you do it. 

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They were not the same when it 
came to their principal purpose.

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They were not the same when it 
came to personal purity. 

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And thirdly, they were not the 
same when it came to peer 

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pressure. 
Obviously, all the rest of these

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young men in verse #3 and four 
had a lot going for them. 

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They had the prestigious 
pedigree. 

451
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,760
They had promising potential. 
But you know one thing that they

452
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,560
did not have the ability to 
resist peer pressure. 

453
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,080
They all looked at the one 
another. 

454
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,760
So like, guess that's what we're
having for supper. 

455
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,160
They all look to one another. 
So like, guess this is what 

456
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,800
we're going to eat from now on. 
And Daniel said, you know what, 

457
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:23,880
I don't care. 
If I'm the only. 

458
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,280
One here, I'm not doing it. 
That's what made them different.

459
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,320
He refused to comply. 
He refused to cave. 

460
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,920
He refused to give in and go 
along with peer pressure to do 

461
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:38,240
wrong. 
Yeah. 

462
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,480
Amen. 
Amazed at people today that do 

463
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,640
not have the spiritual walk with
God or the intestinal fortitude.

464
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,800
That's a fancy word for guts. 
They do not have the intestinal 

465
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,720
fortitude to stand for what's 
right. 

466
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:59,280
And I feel sorry for people that
are so weak, so carnal, so 

467
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,800
ungrounded that they cannot 
resist pressure to go along with

468
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,840
people that they know is wrong. 
Good. 

469
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,960
Can I make a? 
Can I make an application an 

470
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,240
illustration? 
We. 

471
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,840
We. 
We toured a History Museum today

472
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,560
over there on the river. 
What's the name of that museum? 

473
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,800
It was a Civil War Museum. 
Is that the name of it? 

474
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,080
I thought it was something 
faster than that, but it was a 

475
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,960
Civil War Museum and man, there 
was just exhibits. 

476
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,160
I mean, there was a maze of 
exhibits and Civil War 

477
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,280
memorabilia and posters and 
little quotes and, and man, it 

478
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,520
was amazing. 
It was amazing. 

479
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,560
It was heartbreaking. 
It was, it was fascinating, all 

480
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,200
these words. 
And I'm standing here, I'm 

481
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,240
standing, I'm walking through 
this Civil War Museum and a lot 

482
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,680
of it was about slaves and 
slavery and the whole 

483
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,800
abolitionist crowd and, and, and
the Harriet Beecher stove book, 

484
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,520
book on the, on the Uncle Tom's 
Cabin and, and the Underground 

485
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,960
Railroad and, and, and all this 
stuff. 

486
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,200
And I'm privileged to go through
there and and and get. 

487
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,440
A perspective from this brother 
right here. 

488
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,200
And as we're going through 
there, we're just talking. 

489
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:16,960
And we're looking at all this 
stuff. 

490
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:17,920
And I'm just. 
I'm just. 

491
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,360
I'm amazed at how many people 
went along with something that 

492
00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:26,880
they didn't even agree with. 
Yeah, that's right. 

493
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,720
Because of where they were from.
Come on, ma'am, don't get 

494
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,360
nervous. 
We're not going to have a race 

495
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:34,720
ride in here. 
We're just talking. 

496
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,640
All right? 
We're just talking. 

497
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,720
I thought was going to race 
right when he backed into that 

498
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,080
Ku Klux Klan, the guy over 
there, I said, you are not turn 

499
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,520
around. 
He turned around and go, oh, my 

500
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,520
goodness, what in the world? 
I said, you don't want to look 

501
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,520
at that. 
He's like, I wonder what would 

502
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,280
happen if I showed up at church 
in this outfit. 

503
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,160
I said I'd love a video of that 
right there. 

504
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,680
Now we just had a good time. 
But I mean, as we're looking at 

505
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,320
the history of our nation, we 
just kept saying, I don't 

506
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,400
understand how so many people 
that could say I'm against this.

507
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,920
Could go along with it. 
And the only way that that whole

508
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,240
thing got turned around is there
was some people that was willing

509
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,680
to be a stick in the mud and 
say, this isn't right, This 

510
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,360
isn't just, this isn't fair. 
We can't continue to do this. 

511
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,320
Somebody had to say. 
And so I wonder if I can't just 

512
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,880
jump right into my message 
because I got three points I 

513
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,520
want to give you tonight. 
Is everybody OK? 

514
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,480
He said. 
I do not understand why you will

515
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,440
not comply while you will not 
conform to the people from your 

516
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,400
own sort. 
And it's like, Daniel, look at 

517
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,440
this unit and said I can't 
conform with a bunch of 

518
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,760
compromisers. 
These guys are all dropping 

519
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,760
their standards. 
These guys are all lowering 

520
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,640
their their, their, their 
lifestyle in order to go along 

521
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,560
with whatever you say they got 
to do. 

522
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,240
But I am not conforming to these
compromisers. 

523
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:09,000
When you refuse to fit in, when 
you refuse to conform with 

524
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,400
compromisers #1 it'll be 
obvious, because you'll be more 

525
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:14,600
vocal. 
Write that down. 

526
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,600
You will be more vocal. 
The Bible tells us in verse #8 

527
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,880
that he purpose in his heart He 
would not defile himself with 

528
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,680
abortion of the King's meat, nor
with the wine which he drank. 

529
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,440
Therefore I got that word 
circle. 

530
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,920
Therefore, therefore, he 
requested. 

531
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,560
Of the Princess, of the eunuchs,
that he might not defile 

532
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,880
himself. 
You know what he had to do. 

533
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,840
He was confronted with 
compromise. 

534
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,800
He was being backed up in the 
corner. 

535
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,920
He was being forced to re 
evaluate everything that he had 

536
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,800
been taught, everything he knew 
about God, everything he knew 

537
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,000
about the word of God. 
And I don't know who taught him.

538
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,760
I don't know his parents. 
I don't know much about his, 

539
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,720
where he came from. 
But there's one thing that's 

540
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,240
crystal clear to me. 
He knew clearly what was right 

541
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,680
and what was wrong when it came 
to die. 

542
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,480
That that that's that's crystal 
clear to me. 

543
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,200
And so when he's in this 
position where everybody else 

544
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,520
said we don't have a choice. 
We just got to go with the flow.

545
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,320
It's a it's a new world, it's a 
new day. 

546
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,240
It's a new age. 
We got to be relevant. 

547
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,240
I'm so sick of hearing that 
word. 

548
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,720
Hey, when you're when you're in 
wrong, do as the Romans do they 

549
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,160
take the words of the apostle 
Paul become all things to all 

550
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,040
men that I might win some. 
You going to become a drunkard 

551
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,120
to win a drunkard? 
You're going to get high to win 

552
00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:32,160
a dope head, huh? 
You're going to get pregnant out

553
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,960
of wedlock so you can witness to
all the women in the abortion 

554
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,200
clinic? 
Come on y'all. 

555
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,080
Where are you going? 
To draw the line on this, Daniel

556
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,160
said I refuse to go along with 
this. 

557
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,560
And he got to the point to where
it got so personal to him and 

558
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,760
there was so much pressure to do
wrong that he had to say 

559
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:53,320
something. 
He had to open his mouth and say

560
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,880
something knowing that the 
minute he opened his mouth he 

561
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,600
was going to be rubbing the cat 
the wrong way. 

562
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,720
He requested of the unit, I 
don't want to eat this. 

563
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,800
I don't know how long he sat 
there and thought about it. 

564
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,080
I don't know if he watched him 
cook it. 

565
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,720
I don't know if he smelt it in 
the kitchen. 

566
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,080
I don't know if he thought about
it while he was standing in line

567
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,120
outside the cafeteria. 
I don't know when and how this 

568
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,640
happened, but at some point 
before. 

569
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,960
He put the food in his mouth. 
He finally looked at this man 

570
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,680
and he says, I can't do this. 
Please. 

571
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,360
I'm asking you don't make me do 
this. 

572
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,520
I don't want to do this. 
He wasn't a jerk. 

573
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,200
He didn't threaten to kill 
everybody. 

574
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,920
He didn't threaten to burn the 
place down. 

575
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,320
He requested. 
So the Bible says he requested. 

576
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,840
There was some humility in his 
stand. 

577
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,360
But make no mistake, he was 
taking a stand. 

578
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:57,840
Not only not only was he 
endangering his own life, but 

579
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,880
apparently he was endangering 
the life of the Prince of the 

580
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,600
eunuchs by asking him to let him
do it. 

581
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,840
In fact, the Prince of the 
eunuchs said, do you realize in 

582
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,240
verse #10 do you realize you're 
in danger in my head to the 

583
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,120
king? 
And I can hear Daniel said, I 

584
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,560
don't want to endanger your 
head. 

585
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,880
But one thing I know I don't 
want to endanger is my 

586
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,720
testimony. 
And if we have to choose between

587
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,360
my testimony or your head, I'd 
rather be your head. 

588
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,840
Come on. 
This is where we're living in 

589
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:33,240
2026. 
How important is it to you to 

590
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,880
live right and do right, even if
you're in the vast minority? 

591
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,440
There's a lot of great 
leadership quotes out there, and

592
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,120
you can get on the Internet and 
you can look up definitions of 

593
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,880
leadership, and there's hundreds
of them down through the years 

594
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,800
of great leaders and generals 
and presidents. 

595
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,600
Here's my definition of 
leadership. 

596
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,080
There's been this definition 
been 25. 

597
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,480
Years or 30 years, It's because 
I've been preaching and teaching

598
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,160
young people. 
My definition of leadership is a

599
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,240
person that is willing to do the
right thing, even if you have to

600
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,000
do it all by yourself. 
You see that consistent 

601
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,840
throughout the Scriptures. 
Nearly every great man in the 

602
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,720
Bible was willing to be all by 
themselves if they had to, to do

603
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:17,760
the right thing. 
By the way, and I love this 

604
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,280
because he was vocal. 
He wasn't by himself. 

605
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,560
Somewhere along the way, these 
other three young men said we 

606
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,800
feel the same way. 
We feel the same way. 

607
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,320
We were sitting here trying to 
figure out how we was going to 

608
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,720
deal with this. 
We were sitting here trying to 

609
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,200
figure out what we was going to 
do. 

610
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,200
We realized we got our back 
against the wall. 

611
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,280
We realized that people all 
around us are caving and 

612
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,960
capitulating and compromising to
the demands of the world, eating

613
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,960
what they tell us to eat and 
drinking what they tell us to 

614
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,600
drink. 
Tell us we don't have a choice. 

615
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,680
We were sitting here trying to 
figure out what to say. 

616
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,040
And all of a sudden, David 
Daniel requested that he did not

617
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,520
eat the meat. 
And the next thing you know, 

618
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,880
he's got three more young men 
beside him saying, hey, we're 

619
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,640
the same way. 
We feel the same way. 

620
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,720
As a pastor, I can tell you I 
have been encouraged. 

621
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,400
I have been, I have been 
edified. 

622
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,440
I've been strengthened by the 
people that call me, e-mail me, 

623
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,160
text me. 
I get messages every day of my 

624
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,080
life. 
Things like Pastor Shifflin, we 

625
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,880
appreciate you taking a stand. 
What you were praying for, you 

626
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,200
praying for your church. 
And I remember Lewis, you had 

627
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,880
the same thing, especially 
during COVID. 

628
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,040
I know those people reached out 
to you telling you thank you. 

629
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,880
In fact, we started texting and 
calling one another during COVID

630
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,880
because we were both in the news
about resisting this, this, 

631
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,920
this, this government tyranny 
and this overreach and, and 

632
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,880
people was like, hey, I feel the
same way. 

633
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,600
Maybe they're just waiting on 
somebody to say something. 

634
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,200
I'm talking from the young 
people and whatever conversation

635
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,640
you're having in the parking lot
after church and somebody says 

636
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,040
something's not right, 
Somebody's got to say, hey, hey,

637
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,000
that ain't right. 
We're not talking about that. 

638
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,920
You heard about this movie, you 
heard about this singing group, 

639
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,360
you've heard about this song. 
And somebody, somebody, 

640
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,720
somebody's got to say hey. 
We talking about that. 

641
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,200
I won't be a part of this. 
Start telling dirty jokes, off 

642
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,040
color jokes. 
You say, hey, I'm not laughing 

643
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,880
at that. 
You're not be doing that. 

644
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,200
Somebody has got to say 
something. 

645
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,520
We're talking about refusing to 
conform with compromisers. 

646
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,040
Good. 
You got to be more vocal. 

647
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,000
At some point. 
At some point you got to say 

648
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,240
something. 
That's right, Sir. 

649
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,160
I'm amazed at how many people 
won't say anything. 

650
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,280
They think it. 
And in their heart, they know 

651
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,280
what they should say, they know 
what they should do, but they 

652
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,360
are afraid to be that stick in 
the mud. 

653
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,560
They're afraid to say it. 
Hey, I don't know what everybody

654
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,040
else thinks. 
And I don't really care what 

655
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,040
anybody else thinks, but this is
what I think. 

656
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:42,400
This right here ain't right. 
It's amazing how many people see

657
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,960
things that are wrong and say 
nothing. 

658
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,440
And you gave the quote 
yesterday. 

659
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,480
Last night, brother, you gave 
the quote Evan Burke. 

660
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,680
I think it was a said the best 
way for evil to prevail is when 

661
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:01,000
good men do nothing and good men
say nothing. 

662
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,080
Well, I'm just going to keep my 
head down. 

663
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,880
Heard a very well known preacher
say last week on a podcast. 

664
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,440
I'm just going to keep my head 
down. 

665
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,760
I'm going to do me and you do 
you. 

666
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,120
I'm going to stay out of the 
fray. 

667
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,040
I told my church. 
I said I don't want to live 

668
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,000
above the fray. 
I don't want to be right in the 

669
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,719
middle of the fray. 
In fact, I don't want to be 

670
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,239
leading the charge into the 
fray. 

671
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,480
How can you be a soldier of 
Jesus Christ? 

672
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:23,880
Why have armor? 
Why, why, why? 

673
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,199
How can you say you fought the 
good fight when you spent your 

674
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:28,120
whole life dodging the fray? 
That's right, brother. 

675
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,120
That doesn't even make sense to 
me. 

676
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,360
And while I'm at, let me just 
say this. 

677
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,480
I'm so sick of these news 
commentators saying I don't, I 

678
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,080
don't agree with this war over 
there in Iran. 

679
00:34:41,159 --> 00:34:43,400
We're putting our soldiers in 
harm's way. 

680
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,800
They signed up to get into 
harm's way. 

681
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,239
That's what they trained for. 
That's what they live and 

682
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,000
breathe is to get over there and
fight. 

683
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,400
We're putting them in harm's 
way. 

684
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,800
This is not a kindergarten field
trip. 

685
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,200
This is warriors. 
These are soldiers, Amen. 

686
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,320
Trained to kill and maim and 
destroy stuff and blow stuff up.

687
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,440
That's right. 
Amen. 

688
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,960
And we got Christians are like, 
I just don't want to get in 

689
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,720
harm's way. 
You're a soldier, Amen. 

690
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,840
You're a soldier, Amen. 
You're a hey Father, good fight 

691
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:14,480
of faith. 
Amen. 

692
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,240
Be vocal #2 Not only will you be
more vocal, but when you refuse 

693
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,320
to conform with compromises, 
you'll be more visible. 

694
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,360
Bible says in verse 11. 
Then said Daniel the Melzar, 

695
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,760
whom the Ritz of the Munich has 
said over Daniel, Hananiah, 

696
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,960
Mishiel, and Azariah, verse 12 
Prove thy servants, I beseech 

697
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,680
thee 10 days, and let them give 
us pulse to eat and water to 

698
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,360
drink. 
Look at verse 13. 

699
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,440
Then let our account that says 
be looked upon. 

700
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,400
We're willing to subject 
ourselves to a more intense 

701
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:59,320
scrutiny because we know that 
that's part of taking a stand. 

702
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,840
We know the minute we buck the 
system, the minute we point out 

703
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,640
the compromise, the minute we 
alienate ourselves from the 

704
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,880
children of our own sort, we 
know all of a sudden it's going 

705
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,800
to put us out of the microscope.
And all we can say is bring it 

706
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,480
on, bring it on. 
Pull up my messages and listen 

707
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,440
to them. 
See if you can find something in

708
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,000
there to get me with. 
Go through my social media with 

709
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,280
a fine tooth comb, see if you 
can find some inconsistencies, 

710
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,520
or see if you can find something
in there to use against me. 

711
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,920
Go ahead. 
I'm perfectly OK with being more

712
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,840
visible. 
Most people want to fly under 

713
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,440
the radar. 
Most people don't want to be 

714
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:42,920
noticed. 
Most people don't even want 

715
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,680
nobody. 
Nobody even know they exist. 

716
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,920
But if you're going to take a 
stand, you can mark this down. 

717
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,720
They're going to pull the 
magnifying glass out. 

718
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,240
And he said, hey, 10 days from 
now, let our countenances be 

719
00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,760
looked upon. 
And we know that you're going to

720
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,840
look at us harder than you can 
look at everybody else. 

721
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,360
We know that you're going to 
inspect us. 

722
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,880
You're going to look for one 
reason, just one reason to deny 

723
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,200
our request. 
We know you're going to look for

724
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,520
something in our life that's 
going to completely invalidate 

725
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,520
our desire to not compromise. 
We know that and we're OK with 

726
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,000
it, that our countless has be 
looked upon. 

727
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,680
We're not going, we're not going
to hide, Amen. 

728
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,560
We're not hiding, we're not 
backing down. 

729
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,040
Let's keep reading. 
And he says and, and and and 

730
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,720
that our countless would be 
looked upon before thee. 

731
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,240
Verse 13 The countless of the 
children that eat of the portion

732
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,480
of the King's meat, look at 
them, look at us. 

733
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,680
And as thou. 
Seest deal with our servants. 

734
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,520
Whatever you see, deal with it. 
What it said. 

735
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,640
Look at them, look at us. 
Look at us. 

736
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,680
They scrutinize us, check us out
and inspect us because they're 

737
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:55,920
going to be eating the wrong 
stuff. 

738
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,880
We're over here. 
Trying to eat the right thing. 

739
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,200
And so we'll just tell you what 
we'll do. 

740
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,440
We'll make it easy on you. 
We won't even be picky about 

741
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,240
what we eat. 
We'll just take beans and water 

742
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,840
because we know nobody else is 
eating that. 

743
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,160
We'll take pots and water for 10
days. 

744
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,720
By the way, 10 in the Bible is 
the number. 

745
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,920
If you're interested in biblical
mathematics, 10 is the number 

746
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,080
for testimony. 
You got the 10 commandments. 

747
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,400
It's a testimony of God where 
you got OL EE S or took those 10

748
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,480
camels to go find Isaac a bride.
The testimony of the riches and 

749
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,280
the wealth of his master. 
I love biblical mathematics. 

750
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,880
You can get on a tangent if 
you're not careful with that 

751
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,880
number 10. 
That number 10 is testimony. 

752
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,240
Give us 10 days to establish a 
testimony and then I want you to

753
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:41,960
just check us out. 
Look us over real good and you 

754
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,480
tell me, you tell me why we 
can't do this. 

755
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,520
What are you saying? 
We're going to prove to you. 

756
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,120
That we're different. 
I don't think y'all are getting 

757
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,400
this. 
It takes a while to establish a 

758
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:01,320
testimony. 
It takes a while for people to 

759
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,440
realize there's something 
different about you. 

760
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,840
It's going to take more than 
doing the right thing one time. 

761
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,680
You got to do the right thing 
consistently. 

762
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,960
We're going to eat, pulse and 
drink water every meal, every 

763
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,520
day for 10 days. 
Check us out, see what you 

764
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,440
think. 
Look us over real good. 

765
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:29,160
Look us over real good. 
I'm finding out that adults are 

766
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,080
almost as bad as teenagers about
wanting to fly under the radar. 

767
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,880
Most teenagers that even the 
ones that love the Lord, they 

768
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,160
don't like attention. 
They don't like attention about 

769
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,720
spiritual things. 
They love attention that they're

770
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:42,240
playing basketball. 
They want everybody to see them 

771
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:43,480
try to dunk even though they 
can't. 

772
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,880
They want to see everybody, to 
see them try to shoot even 

773
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,480
though they miss. 
If it's something. 

774
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:50,920
Carnal. 
They want people to watch them, 

775
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,520
but when it's spiritual, they 
want to be invisible. 

776
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,920
They're going through that stage
where they're not a child 

777
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,160
anymore, they're not yet an 
adult. 

778
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,600
They're in that middle stage and
it's awkward for them trying to 

779
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,840
figure out who they are, and 
they're not comfortable being 

780
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,960
inspected. 
But these young men right here 

781
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,000
were comfortable being inspected
for doing the right thing. 

782
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,840
Well, they're different, no 
question about it. 

783
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,480
And that, that, that, that 
eunuch, he said, I don't 

784
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,240
understand you. 
I don't understand you. 

785
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,960
Why you, why you want to be 
different from the children of 

786
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,360
your own sort? 
Why can't you just do what they 

787
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,480
do? 
Why can't you eat what they eat?

788
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,600
They're not saying anything. 
They're not complaining about 

789
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,080
it. 
And I don't even want to 

790
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,120
speculate. 
There might have been a couple 

791
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,240
of those old boys that was glad 
to be able to eat some bacon and

792
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:44,280
pork chops. 
Just saying. 

793
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,920
There might have been a couple 
of more boys. 

794
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,880
I'm serious. 
There might have been a couple 

795
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,160
of more boys than man, we got 
some BBQ. 

796
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,760
Hallelujah. 
Heard about this Jewish rabbi 

797
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,440
that was craving BBQ, want a 
BBQ, but he wasn't supposed to 

798
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,120
eat it. 
So he drove like an hour out of 

799
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,880
town and found his barbecue 
joint and he went in there, sit 

800
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,320
in the back corner and the 
waiter said, what can I get? 

801
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,880
You said I want the biggest 
piece of BBQ, biggest piece of 

802
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,080
pork you got. 
And they said, well, we got this

803
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,840
little baby pig that we serve. 
He said I'll take it. 

804
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000
So about 30 minutes later they 
come in there and they had that 

805
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,320
baby pig sitting on the table 
and it had, it had all kinds of 

806
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,880
greenery around it. 
They had an apple in its mouth. 

807
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,320
And boy's mouth starts with 
water, and he grabs his fork in 

808
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,480
his knife and looked up, and 
there come a family from his 

809
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:34,360
synagogue that walked in there, 
and they wanted to. 

810
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,840
Said rabbi, What are you doing? 
He said. 

811
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,760
Man, these bunch of 
uncircumcised gentiles that I 

812
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,920
ordered an apple and look how 
they brought it to me. 

813
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:49,360
There might have been a few of 
those old boys that was looking 

814
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,560
forward to getting some wine. 
They might have been looking 

815
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,400
forward to getting something 
they weren't supposed to eat. 

816
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,000
But there was probably some of 
them that down deep in their 

817
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,960
side. 
Inside they knew it wasn't right

818
00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,920
and it was making them 
miserable, but they didn't have 

819
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:04,800
the courage to push back and so 
it was easier for them to just 

820
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,040
go. 
Along to get along, like the 

821
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,920
preacher just preached about. 
They knew that by saying 

822
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,640
something, they was opening up a
door for a whole lot of 

823
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,440
suffering, and they didn't want 
to suffer. 

824
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,520
But when you take a stand, trust
me, you're going to put yourself

825
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,680
under a microscope. 
People's going to be watching 

826
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,480
you, waiting for you to fall, 
waiting for you to mess up, 

827
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,080
waiting for you to say something
wrong, wait for you to do 

828
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,440
something contrary to what you 
said you believed. 

829
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,840
Now they can run with people 
that's going back on everything 

830
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,160
they've ever said they believe, 
and they'll defend them all the 

831
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,000
way to the end. 
But if you do one thing 

832
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,160
different from what you say you 
believe, they're going to stick 

833
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,560
it in your face. 
Adds a lot of pressure, more 

834
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,920
vocal, more visible. 
But thirdly, write this down. 

835
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,160
When you refuse to fit in, 
you'll be more valuable. 

836
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,400
The Bible says in verse 14, so 
we can send it to them in this 

837
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,440
manner and prove them 10 days. 
At the end of the 10 days their 

838
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,080
countenances appeared fairer and
fatter in flesh. 

839
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,040
I feel like that after three 
days of hanging out with your 

840
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,560
preacher and all this eating 
out, Amen. 

841
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,880
My, my countenances has appeared
fatter in flesh. 

842
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,720
By the way, I figured out the 
other day the first person in 

843
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:17,880
the Bible to have Mel's palsy 
was Cain. 

844
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,360
After he killed his brother. 
God let him and said, Why hast 

845
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:28,360
thou countenance fallen? 
That might not have been what 

846
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,440
he's talking about. 
Let's keep reading verse 15 at 

847
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,800
the end of 10 days their 
countenances appeared fair and 

848
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,760
fatter in fleshed and all the 
children which did eat the 

849
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,640
portion of the kings meat. 
What about that? 

850
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:41,680
Thus males are took away the 
portion of their meat and the 

851
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,600
wine that they should drink and 
gave them pulse. 

852
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:48,880
Look at verse #17 As for these 
four children, God gave the own 

853
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,880
knowledge and skill and all 
learning. 

854
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,400
Now this is what's amazing. 
I got this online in my Bible 

855
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:59,160
because in verse #4 they already
had knowledge and wisdom and 

856
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,480
cunning and understanding, but 
God gave them more. 

857
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,200
In verse 17, God gave them 
knowledge and skill and all 

858
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,320
learning and wisdom and Daniel 
had understanding and all 

859
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,240
visions and dreams. 
God gave Daniel something that 

860
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:19,400
nobody else had. 
Now at the end of the days that 

861
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,920
the king had said he should 
bring them in, then the Prince 

862
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,360
of the eunuch brought them in 
before Nebuchadnezzar. 

863
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,120
Don't know how many times I read
this story and heard this 

864
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,680
message preached before I caught
that at the end of the days that

865
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,840
the king had said he should 
bring them in, these boys didn't

866
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,040
eat pulse and drink water for 10
days. 

867
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,240
They ate pulse and drunk water 
for three years. 

868
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:45,200
That's what it says in verse #5 
S nourishing them three years 

869
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,240
that, that at the end thereof 
they might stand before the 

870
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:49,440
king. 
They was willing to do it. 

871
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,480
For 10 days for a trial period. 
But after they found out it 

872
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,600
worked and the and the eunuch 
said you can do it. 

873
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,800
They ate pulse and drunk water 
for three years, every day for 

874
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:03,440
three years. 
Now that's commitment. 

875
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:06,800
Man in my church told me, he 
said. 

876
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,120
He said, man, I'm taking this, 
I'm doing this carnivore diet. 

877
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,000
He said I lost 25 lbs. 
I said well tell me about it. 

878
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,520
He said just eat meat, Just eat 
meat, all the meat you want. 

879
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:19,960
I said I am down. 
I am sign me up buddy. 

880
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,920
My wife, we start the freezer 
with, I mean steak and chicken. 

881
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,400
I mean every morning breakfast 
it was just eggs and bacon and 

882
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,840
and sausages. 
This steak and eggs. 

883
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:38,960
I mean, it was unreal for about 
a week, and then I got so sick 

884
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,720
of meat. 
That's hard to imagine, ain't 

885
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,280
it? 
No bread, no vegetables, no 

886
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,760
fruit, just just just carnivore,
man. 

887
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,960
I was craving, I was craving 
vegetables. 

888
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,000
I was craving a bowl of green 
beans. 

889
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,200
Anything. 
Anything besides me. 

890
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:58,720
I ate meat. 
Every kind of. 

891
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,280
Way you can cook it. 
I'm. 

892
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,240
Talking chicken fried, bald 
grilled, steak grilled. 

893
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:08,560
I mean, I I ate it all and after
about a week and a half, two 

894
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,160
weeks that I told Grace, I said 
I can't. 

895
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,520
I can't believe how sick I am of
meat and. 

896
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,480
I did it for five weeks and only
lost 8 lbs. 

897
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,680
I'm still mad at that man in my 
church. 

898
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:27,040
Tell me about it, but could you 
imagine eating beans ports 3 

899
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,480
times a day and drinking water 
three times a day 365 days a 

900
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,640
year for three years? 
I wonder if they ever looked 

901
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,560
over there at what their mother 
guys was eating and said boy I 

902
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,960
will ought to have some of that.
You know they did come on y'all 

903
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,800
you know they did. 
But they was committed to doing 

904
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,320
what was right, and at the end 
of the days the Bible says that 

905
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,400
they should be brought in. 
The Prince of the. 

906
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,920
Eunuchs brought them in before 
Nebuchadnezzar, verse 19. 

907
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,400
The king communed with them, and
among them all was found none. 

908
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,880
Like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishiel 
and Azariah, wherefore therefore

909
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:08,520
stood day before the king, and 
in all matters of wisdom and 

910
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,680
understanding that the king 
inquired of them, he found them 

911
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,280
10 times better. 
There's that number 10 again, 

912
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,280
the 10 days of testimony. 
The 10 days to establish a 

913
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:23,880
testimony 3 years later found 
them 10 times better than all 

914
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:31,920
the compromisers in the country 
put together. 10 times better 

915
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,440
than all the magicians and 
astrologers that ran all of his 

916
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,480
round. 
And Daniel continued even to the

917
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,680
first year. 
The King Cyrus, he served under 

918
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:45,520
4 kings. 
Daniel served under 4. 

919
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,480
Kings Nebuchadnezzar and Beltis,
Hazzard and Darius inside Tyrus.

920
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,120
He served under 4 kings. 
Why? 

921
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,280
Because way back, as a young 
man, he was willing to say. 

922
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,160
Excuse me just a second. 
This ain't right. 

923
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,680
I'm sorry, but I can't go along 
with this. 

924
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,160
I don't care if everybody else 
does. 

925
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,600
I don't care if all my my 
kinfolk, my brothers, all my 

926
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,480
they were all king seed. 
Can we, can we go out on a limb 

927
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,040
and assume that they might have 
been family? 

928
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,280
You just preached about that 
being ostracized by your family,

929
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,280
being being laughed and made fun
of by your friends and your 

930
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,960
family. 
And those are the closest to 

931
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,440
you, Daniel said. 
I'm not responsible for them. 

932
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:26,880
I'm not. 
I don't worry about them. 

933
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,720
I know I cannot define myself. 
I got to say something. 

934
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:31,920
I got to go against this. 
I cannot go along with this. 

935
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:38,600
And he served under 4 kings, 10 
times more valuable than 

936
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,440
everybody else. 
Can I tell you something that 

937
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,440
this is not going to end well? 
These compromisers, they might 

938
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,840
look good on social media, they 
might have really nice 

939
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,280
presentations, and they might 
have pretty suits and nice 

940
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,560
hairdos and pretty teeth. 
But can I tell you something? 

941
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,080
This ain't going to end well 
when you take an entire 

942
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,040
generation of young people and 
you turn them toward the world 

943
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,080
and you tell them it's OK for 
them to listen to that kind of 

944
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,160
music and dress that way and 
look that way and act that way. 

945
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:07,520
There's an independent Baptist 
pastor. 

946
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,200
I'm not going to call his name. 
I'm not going to tell you what 

947
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,560
state he's from. 
He put on Twitter, stick a 

948
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,520
selfie with his wife and his 
baby sitting at the theater. 

949
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,880
He said, I just watched, just 
watched The Top Gun, too. 

950
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,280
And he said it's the greatest 
movie I've seen in a long time. 

951
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,440
The thing is full of cussing and
filth. 

952
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,520
And you tell me how in the world
you got any credibility with 

953
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,400
your young people when the 
pastor is promoting that kind of

954
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,240
garbage. 
You can preach on Sandy, you're 

955
00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:36,600
blue in the face. 
You can preach on holiness of 

956
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,360
living right? 
And it's going to go in one or 

957
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,920
not the other. 
You've established no boundaries

958
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,560
whatsoever. 
It ain't going to end well. 

959
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:49,280
It's already not ending well. 
Walking away from the King James

960
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:50,600
Bible. 
They laughed at us because we're

961
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,120
King James. 
It got my daddy in my 

962
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,600
granddaddy, in my great 
granddaddy, and my great, great 

963
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,040
granddaddy used to preach that 
thing all over Georgia and 

964
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,160
Alabama. 
Why in the world would I change 

965
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,200
now? 
He couldn't even read. 

966
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,600
He couldn't even read. 
But he didn't have no problem 

967
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:09,800
with the V's and the valves. 
He. 

968
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,600
Understood it perfectly. 
Come on y'all. 

969
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,120
His wife was a full blooded 
Cherokee Indian. 

970
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,040
He had a beard down to here and 
she would read the verses and he

971
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,840
would preach it and people would
get saved and revival would 

972
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,600
break out. 
And he traveled all around the 

973
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,720
country had bricks in the in the
floorboard that she had worn by 

974
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,160
the fire to keep his feet warm. 
So he traveled around from 

975
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,960
church to Church of Reach and 
people got saved and there's 

976
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,960
newspaper articles about him and
he reached out that King James 

977
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,760
Bible and now all of a sudden we
got guys with more degrees in a 

978
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,760
thermometer. 
They can understand the King 

979
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,280
James Bible. 
So, you know, their response is 

980
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,160
let's go back to the Greek in 
the Hebrew. 

981
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:48,440
Or if you can't understand the 
King James, you sure ain't going

982
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:49,800
to understand the Greek in the 
Hebrew. 

983
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,800
A bunch of idiots professing 
themselves to be wise. 

984
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,360
They became fools. 
And we're learning, but never 

985
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:57,800
able to come to the knowledge of
the truth. 

986
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,720
Changing the Bibles and changing
the music and dropping all the 

987
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:02,600
standards. 
And it ain't going to work out. 

988
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,960
And I'm telling you right now, 
you need to learn to resist the 

989
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,560
urge and the call to run with 
compromisers. 

990
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:08,960
Yes, Sir. 
Amen. 

991
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,000
Look, I don't say I might be the
only one. 

992
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,080
I don't care if we are of the 
same sort. 

993
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,200
I don't care if we all did go to
the same college. 

994
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,240
I don't care if we did also in 
the same preachers. 

995
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,040
I don't care if we all do call 
ourself by the same thing. 

996
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,560
That ain't right. 
And I ain't doing it from the 

997
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,080
young people all the way up to 
the oldest preacher in here. 

998
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:29,640
I ain't doing. 
I'm not going that way. 

999
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,040
Hey, man, I say like my daddy, I
was born in the fire and smoke 

1000
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,240
bothers me. 
I ain't changing strings in the 

1001
00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:40,200
middle of the horse. 
I mean, I ain't changing horses 

1002
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,520
in the middle of the strain. 
I think it didn't sound right. 

1003
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,120
Too close to the other side to 
swap horses. 

1004
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,040
Amen. 
Amen. 

1005
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,360
As I used to say back in the 
day, I'm going to dance with the

1006
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,840
one that brung me. 
Amen. 

1007
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,920
I'm I'm I'm going to hang with 
the one that saved my soul and 

1008
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,240
deliver me from hell. 
I'm going to walk with him. 

1009
00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:03,120
I don't care if it's out of 
stick with everybody else. 

1010
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,080
I'm going to stick with God. 
Amen. 

1011
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,840
I don't want to compromise. 
I want to challenge you. 

1012
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:15,560
This church right here is rare. 
This church is rare and you can.

1013
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,440
Compromise if you want to, but 
then you'll just be like all the

1014
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:21,280
rest of them. 
I say stay old fashioned so that

1015
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:22,880
when those people get sick of 
that may as they'll have 

1016
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,800
somewhere to go. 
That's what I said about our 

1017
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,160
church. 
I said we want to be different 

1018
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,480
so when all them people that are
starving to death and get ready 

1019
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,120
for some food, they know where 
to go when their marriages fall 

1020
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,000
apart and what they got ain't 
working for and then go 

1021
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,280
somewhere. 
And get some help. 

1022
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:39,840
Amen. 
Lord, we love you tonight. 

1023
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,840
Thank you for liberty to preach.
Thank you for this pastor. 

1024
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,200
Thank you for this church. 
Thank you for the testimony that

1025
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,320
they've got in this community. 
May they never, ever wobble. 

1026
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,920
May they never waver. 
May they stay true. 

1027
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:51,960
May they do what you'd have them
to do, Father, even if they're 

1028
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,320
the only church in the county 
doing it. 

1029
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,560
And I don't know who they are. 
They might not be, I don't know.

1030
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,360
But Lord, I know this, that 
churches that are taking a stand

1031
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,760
and not compromising are far and
few between. 

1032
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,240
Pray God you help us not to cave
and give in and go along to get 

1033
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,360
along with things that are not 
biblical, not right. 

1034
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,360
I pray that we'll always do 
what's right because it honors 

1035
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,640
and glorifies you. 
They will not defile ourselves, 

1036
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,840
defile our churches, defile our 
youth group with things that we 

1037
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,440
know is wrong in Jesus name 
preacher.