1 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:13,200 Daniel Chapter 10. Please turn there. 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:21,120 The title of this morning's message is Behind Bondi. 3 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:28,880 We have Daniel from Menorah, the reef at Bondi and Bondi Beach. 4 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,160 Let's read Daniel 10 in the third year of Cyrus, King of 5 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,320 Persia. A message was revealed to 6 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,920 Daniel. His name was called 7 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,320 Belthashazzar. The message was true but the 8 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:51,120 appointed time was long. He understood the message and an 9 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,920 understanding of the vision. In those days I, Daniel was 10 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,760 mourning 3-4 weeks. Question, why was Daniel 11 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,400 mourning? First thing we want to know why 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,720 was he mourning? I ate no pleasant food, no meat 13 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,640 or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all till 14 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,280 three whole weeks were fulfilled. 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,320 He was mourning, praying and fasting. 16 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:22,320 Question is, why now? On the 24th day of the first 17 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,680 month, as I was by the side of the great river that is the 18 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,600 Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked. 19 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,960 Behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded 20 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,640 gold of euphaz. His body was like Beryl, his 21 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,640 face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches 22 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:45,120 of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in colour, and 23 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,760 the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. 24 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,600 It sounds like Jesus, but it's not. 25 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,120 And I, Daniel alone saw the vision. 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:02,160 For the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,240 terror fell upon them, so they fled to hide themselves. 28 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,039 So there's a vision. The men that were with Daniel 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,720 took off. They ran. 30 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,600 Only Daniel was left. Therefore, I was left alone. 31 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,800 When I saw this great vision, no strength remained in me. 32 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,000 He's hit with shock for my vigour was turned to frailty in 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,640 me. I retain no strength, yet I 34 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,320 heard the sound of his words. That is the messenger. 35 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,720 While I heard the sound of his words, I was in a deep sleep on 36 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,160 my face with my face to the ground. 37 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,200 So he's kind of knocked out by the presence of this. 38 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,640 This being. Suddenly a hand touched me, 39 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,280 which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my 40 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,360 hand. So he, he's trying to get up and 41 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,120 he said to me, Oh, Daniel, man, first thing, notice greatly 42 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,520 beloved. That's the first thing that God 43 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:07,200 always wants to remind you, beloved, greatly under. 44 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,720 Now secondly, why the messenger understand the words that I 45 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,160 speak to you? I'm not just going to give you 46 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,000 things that you won't. Well, what's that all about? 47 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,600 I've got no idea. Prophecy is given to us to 48 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:26,760 understand and to know. Stand upright Daniel, for I've 49 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:31,000 now been sent to you. So who sent him? 50 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,360 God sent this messenger while he was speaking this word to me. 51 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,040 I stood but his knees and knocking. 52 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:44,880 Then the messenger said to me, Do not fear, Daniel. 53 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:53,640 For from the first day that you set your heart to understand, to 54 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,000 humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. 55 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:06,160 From the first moment you began to pray, from the first word, 56 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,920 your words were heard. And I have, and I have come. 57 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,480 Why? Because of your words, I am here 58 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:22,520 because of your prayer. But the Prince of the Kingdom of 59 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:28,680 Persia, remember Babylonian rule. 60 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,480 What was to follow? The needs in the Persians who 61 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,400 followed them? The Grecians, all part of God's 62 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,000 plan. We know that. 63 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,480 But the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, someone trying to stop 64 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:48,560 God's plan, withstood me. How many days? 65 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,400 21 days? The battle raged in heaven, in 66 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,720 the heavenlies. And then behold, Michael. 67 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,840 Michael. Who's Michael? 68 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,480 The Archangel, One of the chief Princess came to help me. 69 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,360 That's why this is not the Lord. Because the Lord doesn't need an 70 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:14,680 Angel to come and help. It's a messenger under the rank 71 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:20,320 of an Archangel because Michael came to help this messenger, for 72 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,040 I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. 73 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,680 Notice plural. Now he's fighting on many 74 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,480 fronts. Now I have come to make you why? 75 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,680 Why is the Angel come to understand? 76 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,200 You have your Bible open. You're here today. 77 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,840 Why? God wants you to understand 78 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:45,160 what's going on and what will happen to your people, the Jews, 79 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,520 Israel, when? In the latter days, in the last 80 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,680 days, the time in which you and I live. 81 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,280 For the vision refers to many days yet to come. 82 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,520 When he had spoken such words to me, I turned my face toward the 83 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,520 ground and became speechless. It seems as if Daniel's gone. 84 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,680 He's overwhelmed. Suddenly one having the likeness 85 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,080 of the sons of men touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and 86 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,680 spoke, saying to him who stood before me, My Lord, because of 87 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,880 the vision my sorrows have overwhelming. 88 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,120 What's he sorrowful about Daniel? 89 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,720 Why is he? Why is he mourning? 90 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,680 And I have retained no strength. The sorrow has burnt out his 91 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,720 strength. Well, how can the servant of my 92 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,520 Lord talk with you, my Lord? As for me, no strength remains 93 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,240 in me now, nor is any breath left in me. 94 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,840 Then again, the one having the likeness of a man touched me, 95 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,800 strengthened me, and said, Oh man greatly beloved, fear not 96 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,880 notice. He said that before, didn't he? 97 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,960 You're loved. Don't fear peace. 98 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,120 Peace is the answer to mourning. Peace is the answer to grieving. 99 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,480 Peace be to you now be strong. Yes, he repeats it. 100 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,680 Be strong, Daniel. So when he spoke to me, I was 101 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,680 strengthened and said, let my Lord speak, for you have 102 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,840 strengthened me. God's word when spoken to you 103 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:28,240 strengthens you. If you're weak in the things of 104 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,760 the Lord, it's because you're not in the Word. 105 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,400 When you in the Word, God strengthens your inner man. 106 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,800 Then he said, do you know why I've come to you? 107 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:46,160 And now I must return, what to do to fight with the Prince of 108 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,040 Persia again. And I, when I've gone forth, 109 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,960 indeed the Prince of Greece will come. 110 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,720 But I'll tell you what is noted in the scripture of truth. 111 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,600 No one upholds me against these except Michael, your Prince. 112 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,440 Michael is the Archangel over Israel. 113 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,920 He's the Angel in charge of the battles of Israel. 114 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,760 The messenger came. Daniel, I want you to understand 115 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,600 the words that I speak to you. That's why you have your Bible 116 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:32,240 open in front of you. The Prince of the Kingdom of 117 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,760 Persia withstood me. But from the first day, the 118 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,799 first word that you spoke 3 weeks ago, I was sent the 119 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:44,560 vision. It's for the latter days. 120 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,760 You and I are living in the latter days. 121 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,400 Be strong, but I've got to go and fight another battle on the 122 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,160 way back. It's not over. 123 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,520 It's the third year of Cyrus, King of Persia's rule. 124 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:07,400 Daniel is now 90 years of age. Daniel is mourning. 125 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:16,480 He's burdened. Why Daniel is fasting, Why he is 126 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:21,600 serious in this time of prayer, man, he's gone to pray and he's 127 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,640 set aside eating and he's mourning and that's what's 128 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,600 driven him to pray. Daniel needs an answer. 129 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,760 That's why you fast and pray. You're seeking God. 130 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,400 God help me, and I want to. I want you to answer me now. 131 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,280 For three weeks so far, Daniel has been seeking praying, 132 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,360 fasting, not washing, and it's been a battle for him 133 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,920 spiritually, and it's taken its toll on him physically as well. 134 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:06,320 He's weak. You and I live in a world that 135 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,480 has another dimension besides that which we see with our 136 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,600 physical eyes. There's a spiritual world. 137 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:24,400 Australians at the moment are grasping at straws to somehow 138 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:29,520 try and deal with the massacre and that's what it was. 139 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:35,680 The murders that what they were, the cold blooded assassinations 140 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,080 that occurred last Sunday at Bondi Beach as Jewish believers 141 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,480 gathered together, as Jewish families gathered together to 142 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,400 celebrate Hanukkah. We had discussed Hanukkah 143 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,760 before, remember, Remember what it was about. 144 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:58,160 Remember Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the temple. 145 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:07,480 Then the Maccabeans LED to revolt, overthrow Antiochus, but 146 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:12,840 Antiochus had slaughtered a a pig in the temple and spread the 147 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,880 blood everywhere around it, stopped all worship. 148 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:23,280 The Temple was denigrated, and under the Maccabees came the 149 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:28,600 revolt. The Temple was cleansed and they 150 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,920 lit a candle, the menorah, but they only had enough oil and 151 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,160 there's needs to be a special oil to light the menorah. 152 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,800 There only can be enough. There was only enough prepared 153 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:43,720 oil for one day and the menorah kept on burning. 154 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:51,040 Miraculously, the festival of lights, Hanukkah, it's still 155 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,200 underway and they light a candle each day. 156 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,360 In Australia it's from the 14th of December to the 22nd of 157 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,440 December. That's what they were 158 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,680 celebrating, the restoration of the temple in Israel. 159 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:15,560 Politicians and rulers have since ducked, weaved and sought 160 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:22,640 not to mention the elephant in the room, anti Semitism for two 161 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,120 years. And back in August, Benjamin 162 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,120 Netanyahu wrote to our Prime Minister and said trouble, 163 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,320 there's going to be real trouble. 164 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,080 The Mossad, they have, they have the Intel, they know what's 165 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,200 going on. There's trouble. 166 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,480 And our government ignored and in fact in that time recognised 167 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:53,920 Palestine. We've received 3000 visas, more 168 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,920 than any other country from Gaza. 169 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:03,400 We've spent $25 million, sent it to Gaza. 170 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:17,080 Radical Islam is the problem. And instead they came out and 171 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,320 said ban guns. Guns are the problem. 172 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:32,640 It's a political deflection to draw the attention away from the 173 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:38,200 elephant in the room this morning. 174 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:45,240 We're not as the church to follow our politicians lead. 175 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,200 The Bible says we are to pray for our leaders. 176 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,920 We must do that. It commands us to do that, but 177 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,960 it does not tell us to look to them for redemption. 178 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,360 And many of us are going well. What we need, this is what we 179 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:10,160 need. Whatever changes they seek to 180 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,680 bring in. And the gun buyback is going to 181 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:19,360 be one of those. Whatever changes they seek to 182 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:25,360 bring in after those 15 innocent lives that have been viciously 183 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,560 taken, it's too late for these families. 184 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,560 Too late. I said to Helen yesterday, 185 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,040 because this Bondi thing has really troubled me. 186 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:50,160 I said if we were a Jewish family living in Australia, I 187 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:56,160 would now seriously consider gathering all our family, paying 188 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,800 for all of our kids, all of our grandkids, to do what? 189 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,200 To go to Israel, to leave Australia. 190 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,440 Why? Because at least we can defend 191 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:16,560 ourselves in Israel, and at least in Israel we can be 192 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,680 assured that our government and our leaders will protect us 193 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,360 making new laws, for example, on hate speech. 194 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:36,360 Watch this space. Do you think this will really be 195 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:43,960 accepted and adhered to by those whose religious belief sees the 196 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,120 death of a non believer as the path to heaven? 197 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,960 Oh yeah, of course we won't say anything. 198 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:00,600 What new hate speech laws will do? 199 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,720 They will seek to strangle the preaching of the word of God. 200 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:15,320 Watch, Watch. Changing and bringing in new 201 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:22,520 laws are only applying band aid solutions to what are in fact 202 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:29,920 gaping wounds. In Proverbs 11/14 it says 203 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:38,760 without wise leadership a nation falls as believers, as those who 204 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,880 take the word of God seriously, literally as we have read in 205 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:48,320 Daniel chapter 10. Can you and I see the real 206 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,800 issue? The Who? 207 00:16:53,280 --> 00:17:00,440 The PM has come out and started mentioning ISIS, who is the real 208 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,160 who? That really sits behind the 209 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:09,880 Bondi massacre, the murder of innocent Jewish families. 210 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,640 The same who was behind the Bondi massacre have done this 211 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:24,920 before. In verse 13, Daniel is told by 212 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,800 the messenger sent from God. But the Prince of the Kingdom of 213 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:34,680 Persia withstood me 21 days. And behold, Michael, one of the 214 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:40,080 chief Princess, came to help me, for I had been left alone there 215 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:45,560 with the kings of Persia. The Prince of the King Kingdom 216 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,880 of Persia. Who or what is this Prince? 217 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:56,040 There are fallen angels who Satan has designated to specific 218 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:02,200 countries. This powerful fallen Angel from 219 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:07,560 Persia over Persia did not want Daniel to hear or know God's 220 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,320 plan for his people of Israel. There would be the Babylonians, 221 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:18,680 the Medes and the Persians, the Grecians, the Romans, and then 222 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:23,880 later a revived Roman Empire, all involving what's going to 223 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:30,960 happen to the nation Israel. The powerful Angel did not want 224 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,600 Daniel to hear or know God's plan for Israel because this is 225 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:43,360 what had driven Daniel to mourning, praying, and fasting 226 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,880 his people. Why specifically? 227 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,320 We'll get to that. I believe according to the 228 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,840 Scriptures there is one of those powerful fallen angels placed by 229 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:04,440 Satan over this nation, over Australia, powerful ones over 230 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:13,120 NSW, over Sydney and this Angel has a host of lower ranking 231 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:21,920 fallen angels in their army. There are demonic spirits today 232 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:28,320 who do not want anyone to know God's plan for Israel, the 233 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:35,040 church, the nation's, or for you or for your children. 234 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,600 God has a plan for your child, you know that. 235 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,560 Train up a child the way he should go and not depart from 236 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,920 it. We see that Michael the 237 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,880 Archangel, one of the chief Princess, verse 21, has been a 238 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,240 sign to protect and fight for Israel. 239 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,920 By the way, that's more proof to you and I that God has not 240 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,840 rejected the Jews. Many churches today, sadly 241 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,160 meeting this morning are saying God's finished with Israel 242 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:09,560 because they've done this and done that. 243 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:17,800 That makes me a little bit angry, this great spiritual 244 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,400 battle in another dimension that you and I can't see. 245 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:28,040 Was the reason for the delay to Daniel's prayers three weeks 246 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:35,160 Daniel had fasted and prayed and sought the Lord. 3 weeks as 247 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,560 Daniel is praying, there in another dimension is a massive 248 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,040 battle going on. A fight. 249 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,680 And the battle had raged. We read that from the very first 250 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,960 day of Daniel's prayer that God sent his Angel to answer him. 251 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,320 Verse 12 Do not fear Daniel, for from the first day that you set 252 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,840 your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, 253 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:07,440 your words were heard. And I have come because of your 254 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,320 words. It was Michael who came and the 255 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:18,520 battle was won. Sadly I see the church today and 256 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,280 I can only speak of Australia. Sadly, I see the church today 257 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,200 powerless. I mean, what do churches talk 258 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,240 about now? Look at the advertising. 259 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,240 What what, what we have what churches advertise. 260 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:45,800 Now I see the church today, powerless, beaten, subdued and 261 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,800 as a result the same ravages that are tearing non believing 262 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:57,320 Australian homes, marriages, families, relationships tearing 263 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,440 them apart are happening to those who name the name of 264 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:06,480 Christ as well. Same rate of divorce outside the 265 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,560 church is now the same inside the church. 266 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:20,240 This should not be Our nation is suffering because of a weak 267 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,400 church that has been missing in action. 268 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:33,320 In Amos chapter 8 verse 11, the prophet said behold the days are 269 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:38,720 coming, says the Lord God, that I'll send a famine on the land, 270 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,280 not a famine of bread. We have everything in this 271 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,000 country. We're the third most wealthiest 272 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,920 people in the world in Australia, not a famine of bread 273 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:58,200 nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 274 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:03,440 You know we have kids now in classes that have never ever 275 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:12,840 heard of Jesus Christ never heard of him back when I went to 276 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:19,520 school, we had religious education during school wasn't 277 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,160 banned then prayed on Friday the Lord's Prayer as we had our 278 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:29,680 assembly stood up and sang God save the Queen went to we've 279 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,920 we've been to pastors have been to 4 graduations were presented 280 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,960 awards on behalf the church and the schools went to one the 281 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,920 other day. It was the same I senior 282 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,960 students stood up to sing the national anthem. 283 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,640 You know who sang it? Me and two politicians. 284 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:06,280 Our nation is lost. Our nation is lost. 285 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,520 Why was Daniel morning? Daniel was fasting and praying 286 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:19,080 because two years had now passed since the 70 year period of 287 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,720 exile spoken of by Jeremiah. The prophet had passed for the 288 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,760 children of Israel and their captivity in Babylon to be over. 289 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,200 Cyrus, the Persian ruler has issued A decree permitting the 290 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:40,600 Israelites to return home. Remember the 14th March, 445 BC? 291 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:49,400 But out of all the 12 tribes, the thousands taken captive, 292 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,000 marched off that weren't slaughtered, marched off the 293 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:00,640 Babylon, only 49,697 had returned to Israel. 294 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,000 The others didn't want to go. Zeke, Ezra chapter 2. 295 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,560 Why were they staying? Yeah, Babylon's. 296 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,240 Babylon's all right. You can live in Babylon. 297 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,040 You don't have to do the temple stuff. 298 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,800 You don't have to do any God stuff. 299 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,600 You can do what you like. We're making money in Babylon. 300 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,200 Besides, we go back to Israel, go back to Jerusalem. 301 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,040 What's going to happen again? Unbelief. 302 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:39,160 So they stayed to Daniel. This was heartbreaking, so much 303 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,600 so that he is overwhelmed with grief for his people and their 304 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,200 lack of desire to return back to their home. 305 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,040 You can be sure that over our nation, Australia, over our 306 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,440 states, over our communities and down to our families, there are 307 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:59,200 designated powers, fallen angels whose job is to dare tear down 308 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:04,120 and destroy that which God seeks to save and redeem. 309 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,960 Ranks of angels from the most powerful, those over nations 310 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,400 like the Prince of Persia and on down. 311 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,240 But there was a second reason for Daniel's grief. 312 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,000 Those faithful servants had returned to Jerusalem. 313 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:26,960 The 49,000 were struggling, struggling under the opposition 314 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,760 that we're getting there. Their adversaries, the people in 315 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,960 opposition to the returning exiles, Pastor Israel's teaching 316 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,880 on at a Nehemiah, have even written a letter to the king 317 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,400 saying all these Jews that have come back, they're just going to 318 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,000 rebel. They're not going to pay taxes. 319 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,640 You watch, there's going to be trouble. 320 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:56,800 Ezra chapter 4 says that prayer is not something God makes you 321 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,760 do. Prayer is a battleground. 322 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,200 The Living Bible says this Ephesians 6, verse 10. 323 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,440 Last of all, Paul says, I want to remind you that your strength 324 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,360 must come from the Lord's mighty power within you. 325 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Put on all of God's armour so that you will be able to stand 326 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,920 safe against all strategies and tricks of Satan. 327 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,960 For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, 328 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,760 but against persons without bodies, the evil rulers of the 329 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:53,120 unseen world, those mighty satanic beings, great evil 330 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:57,840 Princess of darkness, who rule this world, and against huge 331 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,040 numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world. 332 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,160 Verse 10. Last of all, I want to remind 333 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,720 you that your strength must come from the Lord's mighty power 334 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,920 within you. Many of you and I understand are 335 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,640 struggling with what happened at Bondi. 336 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:27,320 It's really hit me you are saddened, you're angry, but many 337 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:36,800 are looking to politicians, laws, frail humanity to fix the 338 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:43,120 problem. Psalm 121 says verse 2. 339 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,320 From whence comes my help? Where does my help come from? 340 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,960 My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. 341 00:28:53,640 --> 00:29:00,400 Psalm 42, verse 5 David says to himself, Why my soul are you 342 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,400 cast down? Why you down? 343 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:11,120 Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, Daniel 344 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,680 tells himself, For I will yet praise him, my Saviour, Oh my 345 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:26,360 God, your strength must come from the Lord's mighty power 346 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,440 within you. In Ephesians chapter 3 verse 20, 347 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:36,520 Paul wrote now to him who is able to do exceedingly 348 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,160 abundantly above all that we ask or think. 349 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,680 That covers everything, doesn't it? 350 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:51,480 And beyond, according to the power that works in US, what is 351 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,440 this power? This is the same power that 352 00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:01,320 raised Jesus from the dead. And that power is now available 353 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:07,360 to you and I as Christians. How the Holy Spirit has come to 354 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:12,720 take residency within you. And he, the power of the Holy 355 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,440 Spirit within you, releases this power to us. 356 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,840 You will keep. Well, what's the problem then? 357 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,880 How come we're not seeing that? OK, good question. 358 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,240 But many Christians in Australia have been cut off from this 359 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,520 power. How's that happened? 360 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:37,160 Through unbelief. We don't go to God. 361 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,120 We don't look to God. We're running our families. 362 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,000 We're sorting our problems out. We're raising our kids our way. 363 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,680 We fit in God when we can. But you know, I go, oh, I'm 364 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:53,440 busy, I have things to do today. Sunday churches should be packed 365 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,480 with believers, don't you think? Throughout Australia, everyone 366 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,320 who names the name of Christ should be in church today. 367 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:10,080 That's my opinion. We cut off, we have unbelief, 368 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,040 we've unconfessed sin. Remember when Daniel began to 369 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,280 pray in Daniel 9? Now we look at Daniel's life and 370 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,640 go, man, I like to be like Daniel. 371 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,800 How godly is he? Man prays 3 times a day, stands 372 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,640 up for the Lord and Daniel says and he clues himself, God 373 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,760 forgive me for my sins and my people. 374 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,440 He puts himself in there. When was the last time you as a 375 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,240 believer came to God and said, God, forgive me, God, cleanse 376 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,800 me, Lord, search my heart, see if there'd be any wickedness 377 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,760 within me. God, I need to repent today 378 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,160 before you. What was the last time you did 379 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,880 that? If you haven't done that, you'll 380 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,160 cut off from the power of God. Why? 381 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,640 Because any sin separates us from the love of God, separates 382 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,040 us from the power of God. Careless living. 383 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,000 That's all right. It doesn't really matter. 384 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:12,360 Worldliness 1. John tells us you cannot love 385 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:18,440 the world and love the Lord. Jesus says you can only serve 386 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,360 one of two masters. You'll hate 1 and love the 387 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,520 other. There's no such thing of sitting 388 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,520 on the fence. Jesus said you're either with me 389 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:36,400 or you're against me. Worldliness in our actions. 390 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,840 Oh yeah, but I'm pretty worldliness in our attitudes. 391 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,800 And a Christian robbed of power cannot be used by God. 392 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,360 A Christian robbed of power cannot be used by God. 393 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:58,160 John chapter 15, verse 5, Jesus said I am the vine, you are the 394 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:04,560 branches. He who abides in me and I am 395 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:13,400 him, that's fellowship bears much fruit, for without me you 396 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,240 can do nothing. Many of us are busy doing stuff. 397 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,840 You know what you're doing? Nothing. 398 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,320 Nothing. What I'm doing when I do it 399 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,960 myself, I'm doing nothing this morning. 400 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,640 You can get your hands on your spiritual wealth by opening your 401 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:42,400 heart to the Holy Spirit and praying with Paul for strength, 402 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,080 for the inner man, for a new depth of love. 403 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,600 James says you have not. Why? 404 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,600 You haven't even asked for it. How often parents do we say that 405 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,000 to kids? You know, I would have paid for 406 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,120 that. I would have covered that. 407 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,800 You have not because you have not asked. 408 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,440 You know we, many of us have no answers. 409 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,320 You know why we have no answers? We simply haven't asked at all. 410 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,239 We are wasting our time and our emotions, being upset with 411 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:28,400 people and I, I've been through that, upset with our government, 412 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,280 upset with our political leaders, upset with this, upset 413 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:45,420 with that, wasting my time, wasting my emotions when we 414 00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:51,580 ought to be fighting the real enemy, the real enemy of our 415 00:34:51,580 --> 00:34:58,180 souls and of our nation who seeks to control people and make 416 00:34:58,180 --> 00:35:03,240 them oppose the work of God. We only have to ask Job how 417 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:07,320 powerful Satan is. He's pretty powerful and what he 418 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:08,800 can do to a family. Ask Job. 419 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:15,080 A very real spiritual battle is going on in our world and in the 420 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,280 sphere of the heavenlies. It's funny how people get busy 421 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,560 at Christmas, so busy they miss Christ at Christmas. 422 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,800 A very real spiritual battle is going on in our world and in the 423 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,800 sphere of the heavenlies, and you and I are part of the 424 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,280 struggle of this battle. Even if you don't think you are, 425 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:46,440 you are. We're in a fight. 2 Corinthians 426 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:53,800 10, verse 4, Paul tells us for the weapons of our warfare. 427 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800 You know what that means? We're in a fight. 428 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:06,160 The weapons of our warfare, not carnal, Almighty in God. 429 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,600 What for? For pulling down strongholds, 430 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:16,280 For pulling down those powers that seek to tear your marriage 431 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,680 apart, that seek to break your relationship with your son, with 432 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,080 your daughter. You're fighting the wrong battle 433 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:28,320 and you're losing when your weapons are carnal. 434 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:34,600 In Ephesians 6, Paul commands us to put on our spiritual armour. 435 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,280 Why? We're soldiers, we're in a 436 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,920 battle, you know, it's a one off command. 437 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,080 It means when you put on your armour, you never take it off. 438 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,560 When Daniel Day Lewis trained for one of my favourite movies, 439 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,160 The Last the Mohicans, the musket that he carried during 440 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,760 his training for that movie, he carried that musket with him 441 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:58,840 wherever he went for the whole duration of that film and the 442 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,840 making of when he wasn't filming he was still carrying the 443 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,040 musket. Paul says put on the armour, 444 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:15,000 don't ever take it off. The Bible tells us we who are 445 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,760 followers of Christ are soldiers. 446 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,520 We are in a constant battle to Timothy 2 verse three. 447 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,240 You therefore must endure hardship. 448 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:30,720 Paul wrote to Timothy what how as a good soldier of Jesus 449 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:37,080 Christ, the next verse, no one engaged in warfare that's us 450 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,720 entangles himself with the affairs of this life. 451 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:49,840 Would you to really note that busy parents, busy believers 452 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,200 entangled in the affairs of this life. 453 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,720 Jesus said that that seed of the when the seed falls into that 454 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:04,360 heart, it gets choked by the cares of the world that he may 455 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:09,000 please him who enlisted him as a soldier, You know, enlisted as 456 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:14,200 as as as anything but a soldier. There's a him and I love this 457 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:20,120 him as like as a kid Onward Christian soldiers marching as 458 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:25,600 to war with the cross of Jesus going on before Christ the royal 459 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,080 master leads against the foe forward into battle. 460 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:36,040 See his banner go on with Christian soldiers marching as 461 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,280 to war with the cross of Jesus going on before. 462 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,880 What a great song. That's the truth of our life. 463 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:49,800 A soldier, Paul says, and avoids entanglement in non military 464 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:55,960 matters in seeking financial gain. 465 00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:02,280 But Christ's soldier has his or her heart set on rather pleasing 466 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,520 their commanding officer. There'd been resistance to 467 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,200 Daniel's prayer. The Prince of Persia battled 468 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,760 against the messenger sent by God, and the Angel had another 469 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,640 battle waiting for him. The Prince of Grecia, the Medo 470 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,720 Persian Empire, had 200 years yet to run before the rise of 471 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,600 Greece. I think that Satan was out to 472 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,240 fight what God wanted to do. God had given the plan. 473 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:31,840 This is what's going to happen. And no, the Angel said, no, 474 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,280 we're not getting the Grecians, the no, the Medes and the 475 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:35,360 Persians, they're not. They're not. 476 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,600 And and that's where this conflict was on, because the 477 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:45,560 enemy wants to stop God's plan. He wants to deny His word and 478 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,680 deny His will being done on earth as it is in heaven. 479 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,800 These are words that speak of battle. 480 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,560 Conflict and prayer is where we go to battle. 481 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,360 It's the place where we fight, and it's the only place where 482 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,440 you win. It's the only place where you 483 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,960 win. But fighting in a battle? 484 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,000 Is wearying. I've been praying for my son, 485 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,240 been praying for my brother, praying for my dad, been praying 486 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:17,120 for my husband for so long, even for Daniel. 487 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:23,160 Our nation is dying before the eyes of the church and we are 488 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,560 watching. Oh yes, we are heartbroken. 489 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,960 Absolutely. We're angry. 490 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:37,520 My, my word, we're angry, but we're not praying, so we do 491 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:44,640 nothing in one Samuel 12 verse 23, Samuel said, moreover, is 492 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,960 for me. Far be it from me that I should 493 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,560 sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. 494 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:59,280 Our human weakness is something that often causes us to give up. 495 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,840 Our lack of perseverance in prayer, our waiting on God to 496 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,400 answer. Many times people just give up 497 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,920 in prayer. Well, I, I pray nothing 498 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:16,320 happened. No, when we pray something 499 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,400 always happens. It's a battle. 500 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:30,680 God is listening and hearing our praying and God will answer your 501 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,320 prayer. Don't give up. 502 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,360 Daniel Chapter 9. Hear Daniel's words through that 503 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,160 prayer, that wonderful prayer. Learn it. 504 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,160 Daniel Chapter 9, verse 17 Now therefore our God, hear the 505 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,840 prayer of your servant. I do that, God, hear me verse 18 506 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,720 Oh my God, incline your ear. Listen to me. 507 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,840 Come close and hear me. Verse 19. 508 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,040 Oh Lord, hear. Oh Lord, forgive. 509 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:04,080 Oh Lord, listen and act. Do not deny for your own sake, 510 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:10,400 my God, That's how you pray. God sent an Angel to help Daniel 511 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,480 and he came to strengthen him, to tell him not to quit. 512 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:19,280 God is in control still. The things in Bondi, yes, but 513 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,440 you know what? God's still ruling. 514 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:29,200 This touch that Daniel received is available for all, for every 515 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,640 believer in Christ who like Daniel, you set your heart to 516 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,440 understand, to seek God. You want to know your turn 517 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,080 within your heart. Your kids want to know mums, 518 00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,040 dads, your teenagers, especially a younger one. 519 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,520 They want to know what's going on. 520 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,000 How dangerous is it? Why do these people get killed? 521 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:51,080 Tell them, take them to the word, talk to them, let pray 522 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,560 about it. Let their energies, their their 523 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,560 anguish, their, their fears and drive them into prayers to 524 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:04,080 heaven. Paul prayed in Ephesians 3 verse 525 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,520 14. These wonderful words for you 526 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,760 and I, he said for this reason I bow my knees to the Father of 527 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,280 our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and 528 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,640 earth is named, that he would grant you according to the 529 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,240 riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through 530 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:28,280 his Spirit in the inner man. Don't be weak. 531 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,160 But Keith, I'm fearful about the future for the one I'm praying 532 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:41,040 for you remember back in the book of Genesis on the very same 533 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:45,120 day it says Noah and Noah's sons, Shem Ham and Japheth and 534 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,120 Noah's wife, 3 wives of his sons and with them they entered the 535 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,320 ark. God said go in 120 years, Noah 536 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:58,720 had preached 120 years. They'd seen a symbol of a family 537 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:08,120 that loved God building, soaring, hammering. 120 years to 538 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,480 you who are struggling today, as I have been all this week since 539 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:16,320 the Bondi news broke, as we read and we study God's word even now 540 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:21,520 this morning, God's goal as it is with this Angel, as it was 541 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:26,080 with the Angel to Daniel by the Tigris River is to help you 542 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:33,080 today, help you understand. So you can't I know what's going 543 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,080 on. No, you, you can understand 544 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,680 today. I can know what will happen to 545 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,600 your people. He said to Daniel in the latter 546 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,160 days for the vision refers to many days to come. 547 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,680 Verse 14 what's going to happen in Australia? 548 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,600 I know what's going to happen to Australia. 549 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,360 God knows our weaknesses. He knows what I'm going to 550 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,760 struggle with. This is why this morning He's 551 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:03,840 reaching out to you to touch you with His Word, to strengthen you 552 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:09,320 with His word and redirect your emotions, your grief, your 553 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:19,120 anger, your mourning, to pray like you've never prayed before. 554 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,320 I would like to tell you that the events in Bondi are a one 555 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,120 off. I'd like to say that my opinion, 556 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,320 they already had seven men. They pulled over. 557 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:42,920 They let them go. Watch Christmas, watch Jesus 558 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,560 says the rumours. Watch. 559 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:51,520 We're in a war front. Garden Island. 560 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,920 What's happening there? U.S. troops coming here. 561 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:02,400 Hey, wake up. The world is ready for war. 562 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:13,040 Russia, NATO, the US 70 attacks just yesterday in Syria. 563 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,960 If you can just go about your business and roll on to the 564 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,320 coffee shop and, and just carry on and think your kids are going 565 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,520 to grow up and everything's going to be fine. 566 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:30,080 Oh my goodness. Because when Noah and his family 567 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,880 went into the door and went into the ark, God shut the door. 568 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:45,120 It's the Lord shut the door because the events are only 569 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,480 going to get worse. Daniel says Daniel 10 verse 20 570 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,800 tells us, do you know I've come to you and now I must return. 571 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,680 What for? Everything's good now, No, to 572 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,640 fight with the Prince of Persia. And when I've gone forth and 573 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,840 indeed the Prince of Greece will come. 574 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:11,640 The Angel was going back to battle once again, again with 575 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,080 the Prince of Persia and also with the Prince of Greece. 576 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,920 The battle is not yet over. We're living in the last days, 577 00:47:25,630 --> 00:47:28,990 Paul wrote in One Corinthians 15. 578 00:47:30,270 --> 00:47:36,990 Brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor 579 00:47:36,990 --> 00:47:38,950 does corruption inherit incorruption. 580 00:47:38,950 --> 00:47:43,790 Behold, I tell you a mystery, something that's now revealed. 581 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:51,440 We shall not all sleep, in other words, we shall not all die, but 582 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:58,680 we shall all be changed. How quickly, in a moment, how 583 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,040 fast. In the twinkling. 584 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:07,880 Not the not the blinking, the twinkling of an eye at the last 585 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:12,920 trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the 586 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:18,000 dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be 587 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,200 changed. Genesis 713. 588 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,800 On the same day Noah and Noah's son, Shem, Ham and Japheth, 589 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,680 Noah's wife, and three wives of his sons, then entered the ark. 590 00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,560 The 16th. So those that entered, male and 591 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,280 female of all flesh went in as God had commanded them, and the 592 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:42,120 Lord shut him in. Jesus said Matthew 2438. 593 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,600 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating, 594 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:53,160 drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah 595 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,800 entered the ark. You watch the day of the 596 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,560 rapture. People will be in the coffee 597 00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,760 shop, people will be running, walking their dogs, going about 598 00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,320 their business, attending weddings, going about their 599 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,800 thing. And you know what? 600 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:14,520 A thief will come. Keith, you really believe all 601 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:20,400 this? Really. 602 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:29,080 There was a guy who died. He was in hell, and opposite him 603 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,920 was Abraham. And the dead guy said you got to 604 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,200 send someone back to tell my brothers the truth so they don't 605 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:41,120 come where I am. And here's what he said. 606 00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:50,480 If they don't hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they 607 00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:55,600 persuaded, although one come back from the dead. 608 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:05,720 You want to sign 2000 years ago on a cross, a man died three 609 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:11,400 days later, he writes. Well, Keith, do you believe all 610 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:17,640 this other stuff Jesus said? The guy who died, the guy who 611 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:22,880 rose said Daniel was a prophet. He said these things are going 612 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,800 to happen. These are the last days. 613 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:37,160 Your prayers matter. God sent an Angel. 614 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,920 Why? Because the pause of Daniel's 615 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:46,040 prayer, Daniel's prayer, genuinely made a difference. 616 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:52,840 If Daniel had not prayed, the Angel would not have been sent. 617 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:01,640 We're going to celebrate Christmas. 618 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,920 We're going to gather. We're going to pray for our 619 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,680 unsaved loved ones, for our families. 620 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,640 When a problem comes our way, we're going to pray and seek 621 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,920 God. When we're angry and anxious 622 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,280 about our country, we're going to pray and seek God. 623 00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,360 We're going to call on God. We're going to say, God, hear 624 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,560 me, God, listen to me, answer my prayer. 625 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:24,840 And you know what God's going to do? 626 00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,320 He'll do all that you ask.