1 00:00:08,180 --> 00:00:13,620 Title of this morning's message is to pray is to believe in the 2 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:16,620 impossible. To pray is to believe in the 3 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:21,420 impossible. In our series and Daniel, it's 4 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:23,580 actually a series. We're using Daniel. 5 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:28,740 Daniel is teaching us how to live as a Christian in a fallen 6 00:00:28,740 --> 00:00:30,660 world. We're learning from a Hebrew 7 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:36,960 teenager, if you're here today and you're 17 or 18 years of 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,600 just raise your hand. If you're 17 or 18 years of age, 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,280 1718, yes, great. We've got a few of those couple 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:45,480 of people know you put your hands down. 11 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:47,240 You guys have to put your hands up and anything like that. 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,760 Welcome back to the newlyweds, Mr and Missus. 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:01:02,280 Good, good to see you. The events of Chapter 2 occur 14 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,400 that the end of the three year course. 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,040 Remember Daniel and his three Hebrew teenage friends taken 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:17,600 aged 15 to 16, seized their home is demolished in Jerusalem, 17 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,160 they've seen war, they've travelled 1500 kilometres, about 18 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,720 four to five months journey arrive in the most Pagan, evil, 19 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:36,160 powerful empire of the world, ruled by the first world, truly 20 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:42,200 world dictator fellow called Nebuchadnezzar Babylon. 21 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,960 And I've done three years now of training. 22 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,800 They've changed their names, given them Babylonian names. 23 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,040 I've learnt the language, learnt the customs. 24 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:02,320 And so we pick up in chapter 2 after this three years and 25 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:07,440 they're in the King's service. It was officially the second 26 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,320 year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. 27 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,640 It says you go, how can that be with three years? 28 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:16,240 Because in the first year he Co he was a Co Regent with his 29 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,880 father. So Daniel chapter 2 verse one 30 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,760 says now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, 31 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,600 Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and his spirit was troubled that his 32 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:36,280 sleep left him. The king had dreams, plural, it 33 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:41,240 says, and he was troubled and unable to go back to sleep, 34 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,760 disturbed deeply. The Hebrew word troubled. 35 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,640 Actually the first part of Daniel is in Aramaic and then it 36 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,680 transfers, goes, changes into Hebrew. 37 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,000 If you wonder what Aramaic is, when the Passion of the Christ 38 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,760 came out, all the language, I remember going to the movies and 39 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:06,120 you think, hey, it's subtitles. We didn't know that, but all the 40 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,240 language that they spoke in the Passion of the Christ was 41 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Aramaic, and so the Hebrew word he had troubled means a deep 42 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,160 disturbance inducing or bringing on apprehension. 43 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:28,240 It means to thrust, to impel, to push, but it means to beat 44 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,680 persistently. In other words, the dream just 45 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:36,440 hounded the king and he woke. He couldn't sleep anymore. 46 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:42,280 This was no ordinary dream. We know God gave him this dream. 47 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,680 So we read verse 2 to 13, chapter 1. 48 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,080 Sorry, chapter 2. Let's read now. 49 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:49,920 In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, 50 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,760 Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and his spirit was troubled. 51 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,000 Then his his sleep left him. Then the king gave the command 52 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,960 to all the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and 53 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,680 the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. 54 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,000 So they came and stood before the king, and the king said to 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,680 them, I have a dream, had a dream. 56 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,360 My spirit is anxious to know the dream. 57 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:13,800 I really need to know what's going on. 58 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,360 And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic notice, Oh, 59 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,000 King, live forever. They're pretty confident. 60 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,240 Oh King, live forever. Yes. 61 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,680 Tell your servants the dream, We'll give you the 62 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,720 interpretation. We're just no worries, Just tell 63 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:27,720 us what's going on. King. 64 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,000 The King Hanson said to the Chaldeans, My decision is firm, 65 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,960 if you do not make known the dream to me and it's 66 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:44,320 interpretation, I'll cut you in pieces, your house shall be made 67 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,240 an ash heap. However, if you tell the dream 68 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,520 and its interpretation, you'll get from me gifts, rewards, a 69 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,520 great honour. Therefore tell me the dream and 70 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,960 its interpretation. They answered again and said, 71 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,200 Oh, let the King tell his servants the dream and we'll 72 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,760 give you the interrupt. Just tell us the dream. 73 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,320 We'll, we'll, we'll give you the interpretation. 74 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:13,000 No probs, the king answered and said, I know for certain that 75 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,800 you're just thawing game time, because you see that my decision 76 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,200 is firm. If you do not make known the 77 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,960 dream to me, there is only one decree for you. 78 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,880 For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before 79 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:37,280 me till the time has changed. Therefore, tell me the dream and 80 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:39,880 I shall know that you can give me this interpretation. 81 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,280 The Chaldeans answered the king and said there is no no man on 82 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:47,760 earth who can tell the King's matter. 83 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,760 Therefore, no king, Lord or ruler has ever asked such things 84 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,080 of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. 85 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,360 Oh, no one else gets asked this. It's tough. 86 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,920 It's a difficult thing that the king requests. 87 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,120 There is no other who can tell it to the king, except the gods, 88 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,120 whose dwelling is not with flesh. 89 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,600 And for this reason the king was angry, very furious, and gave 90 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,760 the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 91 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,280 So the decree went out and they began killing the wise men, and 92 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,440 they sought Daniel and his companions to kill them as well. 93 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,200 The king has this dream. He's he's troubled because this 94 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,440 is no ordinary dream. And he calls in his dream 95 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,920 interpreters, his wise men. Now I'm being summoned. 96 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,880 You can imagine these guys all hang out together. 97 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,880 They go to the same coffee shop. They dress well, They're in an 98 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,800 employee with the king. They drive nice cars, you know, 99 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,760 and all this sort of stuff because they're in a job that is 100 00:06:53,760 --> 00:07:00,240 just like elite. So they strut in confidently to 101 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,720 the King's courts, rubbing their hands. 102 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,760 They're dressed in their Armani suits with Italian shoes. 103 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,600 On you go, Keith, is that true? I'm just embellishing. 104 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,400 And you know, you know, what a great job they have. 105 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:19,000 Seriously, They make up stuff. They get paid to make up stuff. 106 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:26,520 Remember Y2K, You know, the WA Police at the time spent $6 107 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,320 million on wise men to make up stuff. 108 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,000 Nothing changed. We had all these meetings and 109 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,920 all these councils, all the government, because you remember 110 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,600 what UK everything was shut down. 111 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,680 All the police cars we're going to stop and all the police, you 112 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,760 know, calls and everything's going to fall apart. 113 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,160 Please, we're going to fall out the sky. 114 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,720 Chaldeans, they're everywhere. So what a great job. 115 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,240 They roll in, you know, they hey, hey, Charlie, you know, we 116 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,000 have another dream. King's going to give us a dream, 117 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,120 which is like some hot things I want to tell him be reading, you 118 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:09,640 know, new stuff. And so they waltz in. 119 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,840 It's interesting. Helen was doing her master's in 120 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,880 education. She was studying anthropology at 121 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,840 the time and she was given this thing to do like a thesis on 122 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,000 cartoons and their effect upon and their impact upon modern 123 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 society. So how I watched Scooby Doo. 124 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:37,760 I hate Scooby Doo. It's a terrible car though Only 125 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,520 I'm a Looney Tunes fan, the old original Looney Tunes. 126 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,680 And so we watched this thing and and Helen was taking notes right 127 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,240 now and we just put Scooby Doo represented this one and each 128 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,680 one of these other people that were around Scooby Doo, they 129 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,880 represented certain parts of community and how they reacted 130 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,160 socially and it was all make up stuff. 131 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,240 She got an eye. Excellent or outstanding. 132 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,000 Yes, I can see that person different and that and the way 133 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,400 the dog reacts to and how. Oh, wow, beautifully done. 134 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,920 And so the wise men arrive and they confidently say to the 135 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,640 king, no problem, king, we're here. 136 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:26,400 Just tell us your dream. Oh, king, live forever. 137 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,280 So they come in. Oh, king, live forever. 138 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,600 Tell your service the dream. We'll give you the 139 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,080 interpretation. Got a list of them? 140 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,240 What are we talking? But this time things are 141 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,920 different. No, you guys tell me what I 142 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:48,920 drink first and you can picture the blood draining from this 143 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:54,760 gathered of smart suited, adorned wealth, blinged 144 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,280 counsellors, wise men. What? 145 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,200 But the king doesn't stop there as this dream is so troubled. 146 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,520 So he adds in verse 5, he says, by the way, if you don't make 147 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:13,040 known to me the dream and it's interpretation, I'm going to cut 148 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,160 every one of you up in pieces. And your houses, the rich houses 149 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,000 that you live in that I pay for, they're all going to be burned 150 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,680 to the ground, turned into manure heaps. 151 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,800 You will die if you fail. Furthermore, no more, you know, 152 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:33,040 flash place that I'm paying for bulldozers, a lot of them. 153 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,760 The wise men have to finally front up that they cannot tell 154 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:44,400 or no such things. There is no man on earth. 155 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,840 They say in verse 10 who can tell the kings matter. 156 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,600 Listen, will you hear that You know, people study astrology, 157 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,680 the stars, your day by the stars and they have it on TV and oh, 158 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:57,320 what month are you? Where were you born? 159 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:01,280 And Saturn's moving over to here and and and this is how, Oh 160 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,720 yeah, that's how I'm reacting at this time because the the tides 161 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,240 are in and my brain, which is half, you know, water, it's, 162 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,000 it's getting sucked to this side. 163 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,000 And this is how I'm reacting. And that's why we call people 164 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,600 lunatics because of the Luna, you know, the the impact. 165 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,680 The police say that the police guys go, yeah, full moon 166 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:24,240 lunatics were out tonight. That's just that I can see 167 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:30,280 what's going on as they stealing magicians, translation of the 168 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,000 Hebrew word meaning stylus or pen. 169 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,760 The magicians were not, oh, pull a rabbit out the hat and here we 170 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,440 go. Bibbidi Bobbidi, Boo. 171 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,280 Not those magicians. These magicians used writing and 172 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,880 words. They were word people that if 173 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:51,560 you speak this word, it can come into being. 174 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,360 It's funny how that infiltrated the church a few years back. 175 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,680 The power of your word. Don't say you're a little devil 176 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:02,200 to your kids because they'll turn into a proper devil and and 177 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,800 and don't know and all these people were well, be careful of 178 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,560 your words. You know what you say because 179 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,560 you know well happened. Well, that was the the 180 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,360 magicians. And then there were the 181 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,760 astrologers who studied the stars to predict, you know, 182 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,280 where Jupiter is lining up with with the planets and things. 183 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,400 And this is causing this and that and the Chaldeans that were 184 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,480 just the wise men that were just the wise ones in Isaiah chapter 185 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,200 46, verse 9. You need to know this verse. 186 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:35,600 God says, remember the things I have done in the past, for I 187 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,560 alone am God. Hear that? 188 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,000 There's no other God, no Allah, no Buddha. 189 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,200 Buddhists don't even have a God anyway. 190 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,640 They're just looking for nothing. 191 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,600 There's no other God but the God of Israel, the God of the Bible. 192 00:12:54,760 --> 00:13:00,480 He says I alone am God, and there is none like me. 193 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:06,000 Now He goes on to say verse 10, Only I can tell you the future 194 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,480 before it ever happens. Everything I plan will come to 195 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:18,960 pass, for I do whatever I wish. And so the executions begin of 196 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,880 the wise men. The decree went out, Verse 13, 197 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,200 that began killing the wise men, and they went looking for Daniel 198 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:28,640 because he was part of that crew, a counsellor. 199 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:33,000 So now Daniel becomes aware of all that's happening, and he 200 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,520 asked Arioch, the captain of the King's guard, who is also, 201 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,680 however, the chief executioner, why the wise men were being 202 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,920 executed. Verse 14, Look at it. 203 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,080 Then with counsel and wisdom, Daniel answered, Arioch, the 204 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,680 captain of the King's guard, had gone out to kill the wise men of 205 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,920 Babylon. He answered and said to Arioch, 206 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,840 the King's captain, why is the decree from the king so urgent 207 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,160 that Arioch made the decision made known to Daniel? 208 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,280 So he tells him this is what's going on. 209 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,520 He's called him in, he's had a dream, but he said you got to 210 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:11,680 tell him the dream and the interpretation. 211 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:19,640 And so everyone's just panicked. So, Daniel, what does Daniel do? 212 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:27,800 The Hebrew teenager, when he finds out his head is on the 213 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,520 death list? He's part of the list of 214 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,040 executions as well as the three Hebrew friends. 215 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,480 Does Daniel panic? Oh no, this is whoa, what's 216 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:45,160 going on? Does Daniel seek to work out how 217 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:46,680 to run away? I'm going to run away. 218 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,960 I've got to escape, save my life. 219 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:54,080 But to where does Daniel cursed God? 220 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,040 You go to God. Oh, man. 221 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,360 After all, my house is destroyed, my family's gone. 222 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,200 I'm here in a Pagan country. I'm serving this Pagan king. 223 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,640 And now I'm going to be killed because he he he has a bad 224 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:07,480 dream. God. 225 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,120 Why? Why? 226 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,360 Why? Why is this happening in my 227 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:16,000 life? No, and it doesn't do that. 228 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,080 How do you react when the hammer comes down? 229 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,520 How do you react? You know, you bump into speed 230 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,880 bumps on the road. If you've ever have a drink, 231 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,840 coffee or something in your car and you hit a speed bump goes 232 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,560 everywhere. Well, when you hit a speed bump 233 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,840 and God will bring a speed bump in your life so that you've got 234 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,760 to go over it. You can't go around and you hit 235 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,520 it and what comes out of you at the time that you hit the speed 236 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,080 bump, God is revealing to you what's inside you. 237 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,760 The way you react, the way you panic, you way you shout out, 238 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,840 that's not fair. The way you will try and work 239 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,280 out, I'm going to get out of here. 240 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,120 I'm not, I'm not doing, I'm not doing church anymore. 241 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:07,240 Tried it didn't work. Now, you see, Daniel is going to 242 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:13,320 teach you and I how to live as a Christian in a fallen, violent, 243 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:18,880 ungodly world. And listen to this. 244 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,600 Daniel is working in a secular job. 245 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,880 He doesn't. He doesn't work at a Christian 246 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,600 School or a Christian college or in a church. 247 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:35,480 He's working in a secular job. He's even been given a, a Pagan 248 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,960 name. He's working in the palace of 249 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,640 the king, a Pagan king. You know, remember so many 250 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,320 Christians when they become a Christian or you, you believers. 251 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,600 And I think all the best thing I can do is get a job in a 252 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,960 Christian environment. So I just want to do want to 253 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,040 work in a church or just a completely Christian School or a 254 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,680 Christian workplace where there's just Christians, you 255 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,560 know? No, I think you need to work 256 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,200 where God puts you, where God wants you. 257 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:16,280 And here Daniel is working a secular job, yet he shows us how 258 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,880 to live as a man of God even though he's a teenager. 259 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:26,960 When trouble comes, big trouble. Definitely trouble. 260 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,640 In verse 16, Daniel seeks permission from the king for 261 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,720 some more time. So Daniel went in and asked the 262 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,120 king to give him time that he might tell the king the 263 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,040 interpretation. Notice that. 264 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,640 What in the world is extra time going to achieve? 265 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,600 It's just going to delay the obvious, isn't it? 266 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,920 We're going to die. You could think that. 267 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,080 Is that how you often think? Well, you know, why even bother 268 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,120 going to church and praying and bringing it to the law? 269 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:05,440 Yeah. What's that going to achieve? 270 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,040 The The bill's still there. The illness is still there. 271 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,280 The news from the doctor is still the same. 272 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,280 The relationship is still broken. 273 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,160 Why bother? That could have been the 274 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,720 thoughts behind this request. We'll just at least we get 275 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:26,760 another day. Another day alive, Daniel says 276 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,360 to the king through Arioch that he would bring the dream. 277 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:34,720 I'll, I'll bring the dream and the interpretation to the 278 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,160 troubled king. Verse 17. 279 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:39,720 So then Daniel went to his house. 280 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:44,160 So he lived in a house, and he makes the decision known to 281 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:50,520 Hananiah, Michelle, and Azariah, his three Hebrew teenage 282 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,360 friends. Godly Hebrew teenage friends. 283 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,800 If you're a teenager here today, I want to ask you, do you have 284 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:05,320 some godly teenage friends? Well, that's why I'm in church. 285 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,680 That's why we have youth. That's why we have Calvary kids. 286 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,040 That's why you're here today. You need to find someone who 287 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:18,640 loves the Lord as well as you. Friendship, Youth gathering, 288 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,800 young adults this coming Saturday, important for you to 289 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:27,640 connect with those. And so as Daniel tells his three 290 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,000 friends, and by the way, guys, this is what's going on. 291 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,920 King's killing everyone. Harriot's doing the job. 292 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,960 Our names are on the list because we've got to come up 293 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,640 with a dream that the king had. Then the interpretation, What 294 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,600 are we going to do, Daniel? Did they all shout out that what 295 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,960 are we going to do? Why are you telling us this? 296 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,240 We're all going to die. I could have done that. 297 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,560 No. Verse 18 Look at it. 298 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,640 That they might seek mercies from the God of heaven 299 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:10,400 concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might 300 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:16,080 not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon that were to 301 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,920 be different. They seek mercies from the God 302 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,880 of heaven. Literally. 303 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,680 They seek mercy from the God of mercy. 304 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,120 I don't know what you think about God, whether you think 305 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,160 he's hard and he's cruel. God is not that because that's 306 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:33,960 not his character. The Bible doesn't say that. 307 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,520 The Bible says that God is love. The Bible tells us that he is a 308 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,200 God of mercy. The Bible tells us he gives you 309 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:46,760 an eye what we don't deserve. He's not like you or me. 310 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,200 Well, when you know what they need, you know what they should 311 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,520 get for doing that. They should get this. 312 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:59,120 Well, God doesn't do that to us. Daniel and his three friends go 313 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:05,240 to God in prayer concerning what was unknown Mission Impossible. 314 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:14,840 In James chapter 5 verse 16, James says the effectual fervent 315 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,280 prayer of a righteous man avails much. 316 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,800 In other words, it goes on to say there about prayer. 317 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:30,360 It says Elijah verse 17 was a man just like you and I, flesh 318 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:34,880 and blood, ordinary guy, just as we are. 319 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,960 Yet when he prayed it stopped raining. 320 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:47,440 The question is, why did Daniel and his three friends even 321 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,560 bother to pray? I mean, why pray? 322 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,800 Why bother? Here's the the answers. 323 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:05,080 Because they believed sincerely that God can do the impossible. 324 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:11,000 That's why you pray that God could do the impossible. 325 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,960 He had already shown that to them and revealed that to them 326 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:20,120 already back in chapter 1 when they said king to the head of 327 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,680 the eunuchs. We we can't eat this stuff that 328 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,640 you've given to us this the King's meat and the wine and 329 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,200 stuff. It's not on. 330 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,120 It's not kosher. Let us eat what we know we 331 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:38,800 should eat vegetables and pulse grains mixed up and in 10 days, 332 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,400 you know you, you tell us whether we're doing good or 333 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,520 what. And you know what happened after 334 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,840 10 days that were that were the the freshest, cleanest, 335 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:54,800 strongest. And so they knew God worked 336 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:59,960 already. Secondly, they each knew and 337 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:05,200 believed that God does not only hear their prayers but He also 338 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,840 answers them as well. Otherwise why would they even 339 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,120 bother to pray? In Daniel chapter 2, verse 19, 340 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:20,120 it says then notice the word then then because they prayed, 341 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:25,760 then the secret was revealed. You see you and I often we just 342 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,640 hang about in 18. We haven't prayed, we haven't 343 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,360 considered it. We just got it. 344 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:32,880 We haven't even gotten to verse 18. 345 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,720 We don't come to a verse 19 in our lives, but then and we're 346 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,200 miserable. We're we're fighting, we're 347 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,480 screaming God, how come, why and all this we're complaining. 348 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,920 Look what we're we're I'm I'm in a foreign land already. 349 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,600 I've had to travel all this way. I've lost my family. 350 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,720 I no one around me, you know, and we, we hang about in that 351 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,840 area, there are so many unhappy people going to church. 352 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,400 You know that they go to church unhappy and they leave unhappy. 353 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,760 You know why? Because God, he hasn't come 354 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,160 through. It's because you're living back 355 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,400 here and you haven't prayed. You won't find out until you do 356 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:16,280 verse 18 and then you will get to verse 19 because then it says 357 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,560 then the secret was revealed. So many, I think 75% of most 358 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,040 congregations hang about verse 16. 359 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,680 And you go on up here and what's that? 360 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,920 This has happened. I got this and lost my job and 361 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,920 my marriage that we're struggling and one of our sons, 362 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,640 he's off doing this now. I don't know what's going to 363 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,520 happen with him. And my daughter's, she's doing 364 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,640 this and I don't know. I'm myself, I'm, I'm anxious, 365 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,240 you know, I don't know what's going on. 366 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,240 You're back at verse 16. You live there. 367 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:56,640 You're living in a place where God says if you'll just come the 368 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:01,640 next two steps. You see, Christianity is for 369 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:06,200 overcomers. It's not for we surrender. 370 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,040 Oh, Jesus, come back soon because I can't last much 371 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:15,560 longer. Then the secret was revealed to 372 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:20,440 Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of 373 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,120 heaven. Daniel offers God and the 374 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,280 commentators say this is a hymn of praise. 375 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,440 And if you read through the Psalms, as I did many of the 376 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,760 Psalms, Daniel, because he's a man of the Scriptures, a 377 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,520 teenager of the Scriptures. You teenagers here, do you know 378 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:42,480 your Bible should do seeing kids now in our because of the way 379 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,480 we've changed our our junior church, our kid. 380 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:50,200 I tell you, our kids know are learning the word of God. 381 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,320 Parents, you need to be the leading in that way. 382 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,000 The church should be supporting that way, not driving it. 383 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,920 We should be complimenting what's already happening at 384 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,040 home. So Daniel offers a hymn of 385 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,880 praise. If there had been no prayer, 386 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,000 there would have been 4 dead young teenage Hebrews in a far 387 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,400 off land. Go on. 388 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:20,760 Simply a matter of prayer. Prayer can change your life. 389 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:26,200 Prayer can save your life. Even though they were still 390 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:34,400 teens, these young Hebrew youth, you what most Christian adults 391 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,600 neglect because they don't believe. 392 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,840 We got to change our thinking. That's why we had the structure 393 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,680 in the junior church or the way it's set up. 394 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,840 It's set up like this now so that when the kids transition 395 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,160 from out there and they're sitting down like that, they're 396 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,080 learning to sit. You're hearing someone teach the 397 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,880 Bible, then they come into this transition here, they get 398 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,240 exactly the same. It's not like I've gone from 399 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,520 kicking a ball around in a room and drawing on the wall to come. 400 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:00,880 I've got to sit here and do what? 401 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:06,400 Listen to this bloke gab on. You see, that's why we've 402 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:13,600 changed the structure. You and I are also parents. 403 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:19,840 We need to stop dumbing down our kids because of their age, in 404 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,480 their knowledge of the word of God, the reading of the Word of 405 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,080 God. They're living for Christ and 406 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,960 they're serving Christ. Helen tells me that over $200 407 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,960 was given through the junior church for missions for, for, 408 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,680 for Fiji. Have you ever spoken to your 409 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,920 kids how much they enjoy giving for, for the work in Fiji, How 410 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,560 it how it impacts their hearts, how they love, you know, we're 411 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:50,440 helping with Pastor Charles. Don't dumb down Christianity. 412 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,880 Well, when they get, you know, serious when they come into here 413 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,360 and then we'll get serious. It's serious from the moment 414 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:00,320 they come into your life, your children, from the moment you 415 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,440 have them in your hands, from the moment we dedicate them 416 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,680 here, they are in the ministry of God. 417 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,560 And your role as a parent is to raise them to be the men and 418 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,400 women of God. You may have a Samuel, you may 419 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,400 have a David, you may have Jonah. 420 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,080 I'm not going to anywhere near with any fish. 421 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,040 Even though they were still teens, these Hebrew young youth 422 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,400 knew what most Christian adults neglect because they don't 423 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,880 believe that God answers prayers, that prayer changes 424 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,360 things, that God can do the impossible. 425 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,320 You know what the word impossible means in the 426 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,240 Webster's Dictionary? It means incapable of being done 427 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,160 or of occurring enormously difficult. 428 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,880 When something like that happens in your life, in your home, in 429 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,160 your child's life, in your marriage, as a father, as a 430 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,960 mother or whatever, do you go, well, this is what are we going 431 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:09,600 to do about this? It's what separates us when we 432 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,760 take that impossible and give it to God, believing he can make 433 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,960 all things possible. It's what separates us as 434 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,360 believers from the rest of the sad world who lives in a world 435 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,600 just doing what everyone else is doing and eventually dying and 436 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,080 going to hell. Well, this is what it is ran 437 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:30,760 around. I'll go. 438 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,600 We believe in a powerful almighty God, the only true 439 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,400 powerful almighty God who hears us and he loves us. 440 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,120 How much does he loveth? He gave his Son to die on the 441 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,360 cross for us. If you've been to a church a few 442 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,720 times that teaches the word of God, you would have heard the 443 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080 statement that just shall live by faith. 444 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,240 It's in Romans and an inhabitant. 445 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,360 When was the last time you asked God to do the impossible? 446 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,440 When was the last time you asked God to do the impossible and 447 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:11,000 believed that he could do it? When was the last time you asked 448 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:23,950 God to do the impossible? Because if you do, you live by 449 00:30:23,950 --> 00:30:28,270 faith. If you have, you've prayed in 450 00:30:28,270 --> 00:30:30,750 faith. Otherwise, why bother praying? 451 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,360 But if you are a believer, a Christian, this morning in 452 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:42,120 Almighty God, the first thing you do, the first thing you do 453 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,880 when a storm hits, when the earth shakes, when the lightning 454 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,840 strikes, when you receive the troubling news, is to get on 455 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,600 your knees and pray. And I tell you, I sense in my 456 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,840 spirit, I sense where we are at now in this world that we live. 457 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,440 And we as a church, we are heading to troubled times. 458 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,440 You think things are difficult now. 459 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,400 Things are only going to get worse. 460 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:15,800 I mean, Peter Ford, he's the guy that goes on the news in the 461 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,800 mornings on the radio and talks about, you know, who's marrying 462 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,440 who in Hollywood and all this sort of stuff. 463 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,480 Some of you, most of you know Peter Ford anyway, he does this, 464 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,560 He's leaving Melbourne. He can't live in Melbourne. 465 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,280 Anytime his house has been broken in that many times, he 466 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,360 says I can't live here anymore. He's getting out of Melbourne 467 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:38,960 because of the crime rate. Chris Judd, Is it Chris Judd? 468 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,320 You just play for the Eagles. His wife, Rebecca Judd, she 469 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,320 struggles to live where they live because their house gets 470 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:51,400 broken into so many times. Our world is changing, you know 471 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,120 that. But when the trouble comes in 472 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,280 your life, the first thing you are to do is to get on your 473 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,960 knees and pray. If you are a believer, fathers, 474 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,960 gather your wife with you. When news hits your family, 475 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,160 gather your children. And then dad, there's your role. 476 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,320 You take the role, you're the spiritual head. 477 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,800 Let's pray about this. Grandma's sick. 478 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,040 Let's pray about this. Dad's lost his job. 479 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,960 Let's pray about this. This is happening. 480 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,400 We had a difficult teacher at school with so and so. 481 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:31,400 Let's pray about this. Let's gather the family for this 482 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,760 is how you live as an overcomer. So many people will say, oh, I 483 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,840 want counselling about how to do this and how to do it. 484 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:43,040 Read the Bible, learn from the Bible. 485 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:49,080 That's why Daniel is my mentor. He teaches me how to live as a 486 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,800 man of God. This is how you live as an 487 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,240 overcomer in a fallen, sinful, wicked world that is against you 488 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:01,120 and all that is ungodly. When trouble strikes, you don't 489 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,400 first do the figures. Oh, well, if they close this 490 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,360 down and how much money we got in the bank, What about our 491 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,560 savings? Can we can we cut the Netflix 492 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,680 off? Can we cut that down? 493 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,960 You don't. First go to Google. 494 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,880 Let's see what Google says about this matter. 495 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,640 Maybe AI will tell us what to do. 496 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,960 You don't make a list of the pros and cons. 497 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,480 Well, OK, we've got that, that, that that's a good thing. 498 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,400 And we got these, these, they're the bad things. 499 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,800 You can do all that later if you want to, but the very first 500 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:32,920 action we take that defines our faith, that defines our 501 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,920 Christianity, that defines our trust in God, that reveals we 502 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,160 are really Christians, really Christ's disciples. 503 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,560 When we are faced with a trial, a storm, a battle, is to put it 504 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,680 immediately into the hands of God. 505 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,720 God, there's a problem. You got to sort it out. 506 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:58,200 I like that first thing. So these four young Hebrew teens 507 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,120 prayed and God answered. Wow. 508 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,080 Daniel chapter 2 verse 20 Daniel answers said blessed be the name 509 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,480 of God forever and ever for wisdom and might are his. 510 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,760 Daniel now gives thanks after God answers their prayers. 511 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,639 Or how many blessings does God have that you have not received 512 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:29,280 simply because you have not asked or prayed James chapter 4 513 00:34:29,679 --> 00:34:31,960 yet? You do not have because you do 514 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:36,639 not ask. You ask and do not receive 515 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,639 because you ask a miss that you may spend it on your pleasures. 516 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,560 It says that God answered Daniel in a night vision. 517 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,560 This will be the first time we'll see Daniel receiving a 518 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,880 vision. God will speak to Daniel again 519 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,639 and again in this way. Why? 520 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,520 Because he was a praying man. Well, God never speaks to me. 521 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,960 That's because you never pray. Well, God never speaks to me. 522 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,400 That's because you don't read the Bible. 523 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,760 So as soon as their prayers were answered, they bolted out the 524 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,600 door to rush and see the king with the news. 525 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,080 King we got, we got it, we got it. 526 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:18,200 No, they didn't do that. And here is our next and main 527 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,560 point. Praying people are thankful and 528 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:27,240 worshipping people. Thanksgiving, worship are linked 529 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,920 and changed, connected, joined, hinged to prayer. 530 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,840 If you aren't a prayer, I can guarantee you're not a thankful 531 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,120 person to God, nor are you worship. 532 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,520 You struggle with being thankful, you struggle with 533 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:41,880 worship. You come and stand here. 534 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:49,560 How many more songs we got to go or I'll just go out to the 535 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,200 toilet, 3 songs to go and I'll be back. 536 00:35:53,600 --> 00:36:01,160 We and people do that. But people who are prayers have 537 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,760 received who got answered. Because you believe in God, 538 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,200 that's why you pray. You believe He hears your 539 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,280 prayers, you believe He will answer them. 540 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,080 And as He does, your heart overflows with gratitude and 541 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,920 worship, giving you more and more reason to praise Him. 542 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,760 You. You're full of it. 543 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,480 If you find it hard to thank God, it may be because you're 544 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,040 not truly taking time to sit quietly at His feet and thank 545 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:34,680 Him perceively, audibly. That often reveals A deeper 546 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,160 issue, that you're not truly a person of prayer. 547 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,640 Neglecting prayer shows a lack of belief in power and 548 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,320 ultimately in the greatness of God. 549 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,800 That's why you don't bother because you know, what good does 550 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,680 it do? Such a life then becomes 551 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:51,840 religious. You come and go. 552 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,800 You come and go to Calvary Chapel, come and go. 553 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,920 You don't pray. You say the same. 554 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,360 You're just miserable all the time. 555 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,040 People are miserable coming to church. 556 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,120 It's the sinners in the world. They're not miserable. 557 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,600 They're happy, singing, sinning. It's people who who are, you 558 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,680 know, coming to church, trying to be religious, but don't pray 559 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,360 and don't read the word of God. They're the most miserable 560 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:15,280 people in the world and such a life becomes religious, but 561 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,440 powerless. And that's the problem with 562 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,800 Christianity Today. It's powerless. 563 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,200 We have all the words, we've got all the actions, just got no 564 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,520 passion because we've got no prayer. 565 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,840 There's no power. A Christian life that looks no 566 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,320 different from your neighbours rather than one filled with the 567 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,320 power and presence of God. When a when a next door 568 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,800 neighbour or something tells you an issue or tells you, well, 569 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,000 this is what I'm troubling about this. 570 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,480 You say, let me you know I'm a person of faith. 571 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,720 You can introduce them. I know you're not maybe not be, 572 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,520 but I'm a person of faith. I want to pray for you. 573 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,280 I was walking down the beach, you know, a little while ago and 574 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,160 guy used to see surfing. I hadn't seen him for a while. 575 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,560 I said, how you going mate? I don't know his name used to 576 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,600 lives around the corner from us and he would walk down check the 577 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,160 beach. I said you got a haircut. 578 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,120 What's going on? So I'm like cancer, just getting 579 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,320 through cancer. I'm like chemo. 580 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,040 I went wow, my sister had it and someone else has got it. 581 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,640 That's why I haven't been so. So I said I'm a person of faith. 582 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,560 You don't know my name. I'm going to pray for you, if 583 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,320 you don't mind. What's is he going to say? 584 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:31,760 No, he's on chemo. If you're on chemo, you take 585 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,880 anything. So I pray for him. 586 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,080 Daniel, he knows God. He lives for God. 587 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,360 He puts his life in God's hands and God's power rests on 588 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,320 Daniel's life. So Daniel blesses God after he 589 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:59,440 answers their prayers. I want this too. 590 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,840 I want God's power in my life. This is the second thing that 591 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,280 many Christian adults forget to do to stop and thank God. 592 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:13,440 Question when was the last time you audibly stopped and thank 593 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,280 God for all that he's done and is doing for you. 594 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,120 First thing you could do is thank thank God that you're 595 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,560 alive because you have no control over this little thing 596 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:30,880 pounding away in here. Daniel verse 20 said blessed be 597 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,920 the name of God forever and ever for wisdom and might are his. 598 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,240 I love this. I want to be a wise man as a 599 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:43,200 husband, as a father. We don't really have what it 600 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,920 takes to make difficult decisions. 601 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,360 I don't. We don't have all the 602 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,600 information. We get bits and pieces. 603 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,120 We're going to make a decision. We don't know the future. 604 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,960 We don't know the impact if I make the wrong decision today of 605 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,760 how it'll impact us in the future. 606 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,320 What will be the outcome if we go this way? 607 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:06,840 But God does. I also struggle with being 608 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,040 powerless in certain situations. I cannot take the illness of a 609 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,560 child or a grandchild upon myself. 610 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:17,120 I can't exchange places. Neither can I take the pressures 611 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,960 at times of life, all the challenges it throws up. 612 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,480 But Almighty God can sustain, sustain me through the fire, 613 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,360 through the storm, and he can lift me up out of the miry clay. 614 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,560 And he placed my feet on rock when I'm sinking. 615 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,760 Verse 21 And this God, he thanks. 616 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,920 He changes the times and the seasons. 617 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,080 He removes kings, raises up kings. 618 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:47,680 He gives wisdom to the wise and he changes the times and the 619 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,360 seasons. Why? 620 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,800 Why even bother reading this? The God of Daniel is not bound 621 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,920 by the laws of physics as we are. 622 00:40:55,720 --> 00:41:00,320 Think about that. Joshua needed more time as he's 623 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,720 fighting Joshua chapter 10 praise. 624 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,320 Just keep the sun for a bit, no worries. 625 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,760 And the sun stopped. The children of Israel arrive at 626 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,800 the sea, Pharaoh's armies behind them, charging and when, when, 627 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,480 what are we going to do now? Moses prays. 628 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,760 The ocean opens up and they cross on dry land. 629 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,360 They crossed over dry land when they went across the Jordan. 630 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,880 He can take a small shepherd boy with a sling and a few stones 631 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,160 and beat the most powerful, largest soldier in the world and 632 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,440 kill him. He removes kings and raises up 633 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,200 kings. You know, governments, 634 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,400 presidents, prime ministers, kings, dictators are all God's 635 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,280 pawns to fulfil this. This is the only thing that 636 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,960 keeps me sane without government knowing that they aren't running 637 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,080 the show. I think they are, but they're 638 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:08,480 just, you know, socks. Psalm 2 white on the nation's 639 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,240 rage, and the people plot a vain thing. 640 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,800 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rules take 641 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,720 counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, 642 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:19,240 saying, Let us break their bonds and pieces, castaway their cords 643 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:21,360 from us. He who sits in the heavens shall 644 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,440 laugh. This is God. 645 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,880 The Lord shall hold them in derision. 646 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,360 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath and distress them in 647 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,880 his deep displeasure. Verse 21 Daniel and knowledge to 648 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,720 those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret 649 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,000 things. He knows what is the darkness 650 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,800 and light dwells with him. He gives knowledge. 651 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,360 God gives us knowledge. I know what's going to happen 652 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,320 when I die. My brother is dying. 653 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,680 Well, he's not well. He's in a home now and we 654 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,720 thought he so we prepared his funeral. 655 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:56,400 He's going OK, I should rephrase that, but we are all dying. 656 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,800 All of us are. We're all terminal. 657 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,960 And I, I've told him, Doug, this is what happens when you die. 658 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,680 This is what's happening. This is who you see. 659 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,760 This is what you, you, you, what will happen to you at the moment 660 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,240 your body stops. This is what's going to happen. 661 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,520 I know what every other believer will see. 662 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,200 Why? Because the Bible has given me 663 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,040 knowledge. God has given me knowledge of 664 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,160 what's on the other side of this life. 665 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:26,240 I know the world as we see it today, what it's heading into, 666 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,160 what will happen with Israel. There's got to be wars. 667 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,080 God has told me all these things that were and are a mystery to 668 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,160 all those who don't know the word of God and light dwells 669 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:41,400 with him. Daniel says I thank you and 670 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,160 praise you or God of my Father's. 671 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,360 You've given me wisdom and might and how now you have made known 672 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,920 to me what we asked for. You have made known to us the 673 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:55,680 King's demand. Daniel heads out now to see the 674 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,600 king with both the dream and the interpretation. 675 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,840 The impossible has happened. He sees the Arioch in verse 25 676 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,920 and now we find Daniel before the king, verse 26. 677 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,080 The king Hanson said to Daniel, whose name was Belteschezza. 678 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:16,400 Are you able King's gone really you got, you know, the dream 679 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,560 because King's what's going to do like this? 680 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,800 You're able to make another dream, which I've seen, and it's 681 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,280 interpretation what it means. You believe the king is 682 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,560 surprised. But what Daniel says, I believe 683 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,840 Daniel answered in the presence of the king. 684 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,800 Look at he says, the secret which the king has demanded. 685 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,000 The wise men, the astrologers, the magicians and the suicides 686 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,600 cannot be clear to the king. The world can't give you this, 687 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,880 oh great king. No man is able to do what only 688 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,400 God can do. He alone is God. 689 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,720 He alone knows the future. So Daniel has gone from this 690 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,360 crisis where he's going to be killed, receives the answer, and 691 00:44:55,360 --> 00:45:01,280 now he's witnessing in the court to the king of the God of 692 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,960 Israel. How sharp is this guy? 693 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,920 He's gone from, oh, we're going to kill us too. 694 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,720 Now let me tell you about the God I serve, that I love, who 695 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,520 answers. How good is this? 696 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,880 He can speak about God in confidence, but there is a God 697 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,120 in heaven who reveals secrets and he has made known to King 698 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,320 Nebuchadnezzar. And notice these words. 699 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,560 What will be in the latter days, the last days? 700 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,080 Church, we are not children of darkness, you and I sitting here 701 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,160 today. We are children of light. 702 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:39,760 We are living in the last days and our world is being prepared 703 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,560 for the most amazing and cataclysmic events this world 704 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,760 has ever experienced. Christ is coming through His 705 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,480 church. The next thing in Bible prophecy 706 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,080 is the rapture of the church. Judgement is coming to this 707 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,440 world. Seven years of tribulation. 708 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:02,960 Half of the world's population is about to perish. 4 billion 709 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,480 people will die by the time we get to Revelation Chapter 9. 710 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,680 Half, one and every two of the world's population will be gone, 711 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:16,520 and Christ will return at the end of that seven years, not to 712 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:21,160 be crucified, but to judge the world with righteousness. 713 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:31,160 We shall see these things, Daniel Lynn says. 714 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,920 But As for me, this secret has not been revealed to me, because 715 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,520 I have more wisdom than anyone living. 716 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,400 But for our sakes, who made known the interpretation to the 717 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,440 king? Why was this given? 718 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,160 He tells For our sakes, who make known the interpretation to you, 719 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:55,360 the king, and that you, King Nebuchadnezzar, may know the 720 00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:02,320 thoughts of your heart. Today our world is filled with 721 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:07,120 troubled Nebuchadnezzar's people disturb, they can't sleep. 722 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:11,160 Insomnia. Insomnia is is is rampant. 723 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:13,920 People taking pills to sleep. Why? 724 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,480 What's happening in Israel? What's going to happen with the 725 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,440 government? You know, they're planning to do 726 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,760 this. They're going to cut off gas. 727 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:21,880 We're going to cut off oil. How are we going to have the 728 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,880 power to do this? We're running out of money. 729 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,800 We're in trillions of dollars debt. 730 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,400 What's what's America going to do? 731 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,160 What's happening with Russia? What are they going to do? 732 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,560 What about China? China can invade us. 733 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:41,920 We have enough military might to hold off for 12 hours. 734 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:50,680 That's it, we're done. We have 8 ships, three of which 735 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:58,400 need are all being serviced. Stop. 736 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,120 Go. Get away from here. 737 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,760 You can't come here. Told you. 738 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,360 Have you read the Book of Revelation? 739 00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,840 You know the message that Paul gave to the Thessalonians and 740 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,080 being with him, He was with him for three weeks. 741 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,560 Let me read it to you. Verse 9, chapter 2. 742 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,280 Thessalonians. Second, the coming of the 743 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,600 lawless 1 is according to the working of Satan, the 744 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,840 Antichrist, all power signs and lying wonders, and with all 745 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,880 unrighteousness, deception among those who perish because they 746 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,880 did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 747 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,000 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that 748 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,200 they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned 749 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,800 who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure and 750 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,320 righteousness. But we are bound to give thanks 751 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,760 to God always For you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God 752 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,920 from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification 753 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,720 by the Spirit, and belief in the truth to which he called you by 754 00:48:56,720 --> 00:49:00,240 our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus 755 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,680 Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast. 756 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,280 Hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or 757 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,200 by letter. Everything that God says is 758 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,520 going to happen, and Daniel's going to ally to Nebuchadnezzar. 759 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,880 We'll get to that next week. It's going to happen. 760 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,120 One Corinthians chapter 2, verse 13 says these, says this. 761 00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,880 Paul says these things also. We speak not in words which 762 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,600 man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, 763 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,080 comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 764 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,240 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit 765 00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:41,560 of God, the unsaved person, for they are foolishness to him, nor 766 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,080 can we know them because they are spiritually discerned. 767 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,120 Are you troubled this morning? I mean, look at Israel. 768 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:50,960 Are you troubled? What's going to happen with 769 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,720 Gaza, Taiwan, China? What's going to happen? 770 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,120 What's going to happen with Australia? 771 00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:58,520 Where we at? You think the protests going to 772 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,040 stop because they've signed a peace tree? 773 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,680 No. Do you pray you bother to pray, 774 00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,240 you believe in the impossible? Where do you fit in this story 775 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:14,200 this morning? Are you with the wise men? 776 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,200 You're looking to the the wisdom of the world because that can't 777 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,400 help you. Are you with the king? 778 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:22,600 You're troubled, just don't know what to do about it. 779 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,960 You just think wish someone would tell me what's going on. 780 00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,960 Or are you with Daniel? You know the God of Israel. 781 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,320 God has revealed the future to you. 782 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,320 Our world is changing. It's being prepared before our 783 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,560 eyes for the events of the great tribulation today. 784 00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:48,800 Are you living like Daniel? Are you standing out like Daniel 785 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:55,880 and his three friends, different to the world Because you can in 786 00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,080 Daniel chapter 3 verse 20, as the worship team comes forward, 787 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,200 let me read verse 30. Daniel chapter 2, verse 30 says 788 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,800 this. But As for me, the secret has 789 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,680 not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone 790 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,000 living. But for our sakes who make known 791 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,720 the interpretations to the king that you may know the thoughts 792 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:20,360 of your heart. You see you were here this 793 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:21,360 morning. You know why? 794 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:27,360 Because God says, I want to tell you what's going to happen. 795 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:32,400 The reason you're hearing this is only for one purpose, so that 796 00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:38,200 you may know what's coming down the line, what's ahead, Where do 797 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,640 you stand? You know Christ well, I'm not 798 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,400 sure. If you're not sure, you need to 799 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,960 get get short today. Are you a prayer? 800 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,800 I pray you do too. If you're not a worshipper, 801 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,680 you're not Thanksgiving, then you're not praying. 802 00:51:53,520 --> 00:52:00,400 God does the impossible every time we hold a little baby and 803 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:06,960 we dedicate that child. That child never existed nine 804 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,320 months previous. Before that there was no 805 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:15,760 heartbeat, no person moving, no personality, no plans or steps. 806 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:26,920 And God says life, the world is changing. 807 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,480 Can you live like Daniel? Yes you can.