1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:38,480 Let's get into it. A few weeks ago we started a 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,600 series mid-day, mid midweek called. 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,560 Anybody know what it's called? Oh, OK. 11 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,080 They put it up there for you. Amen. 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,040 Somebody say thanks a day. Thanks a day. 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,800 Really appreciate you. Amen. 14 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,600 There you go. All right, they gonna hand out 15 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:05,080 all the answers tonight, OK? Foes, faith and family or faith, 16 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,600 foes and family. And we've understood that your 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,160 your your family. Bible says that your family will 18 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,440 be your foes. Some of the hardest people to 19 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,120 please is going to be family. Some of the great offenses are 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,960 going to come through family and So what I understand is this 21 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,360 reason is because covenant is under attack. 22 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,880 Write it down. Covenant is under attack. 23 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,000 The the enemy don't want none of y'all to have real real God 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,120 centered covenantal relationships. 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,040 He want us to do relationship and love. 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:50,440 How the world does it. All feelings, all emotions, and 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:58,920 all transactional. And so family, the house, the 28 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:03,160 attack has to start at the house because whatever I can shape at 29 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,440 the house, I can bleed into the world. 30 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,720 So whatever you learn at the house, you're going you're going 31 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,560 to take it out into the world. And so we began to talk about 32 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,920 faith, foes and family because we started a series on Sunday 33 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:26,000 called What You Beat Day to it, Good Family Matters. 34 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,960 And then last week, anybody remember what we talked about? 35 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:34,360 What was the title subtitle to this Faith under Fire, Faith 36 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,200 under fire. And we looked at Shadrach, 37 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,880 Meshach and Abednego and hopefully you learned a few 38 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:45,000 things. And we're looking through the 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,760 lens. Anybody remember the three 40 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,960 lenses we're looking through when we preach? 41 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,440 Expose, equip and excite. Expose So you can look for that. 42 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,320 You can look for us to expose some things, equip you and 43 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,120 excite you. Tonight we're going to deal with 44 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:14,000 the same family, faith and foes, but from the subtitle of Faith 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,960 that refuses to bow, a faith that refuses to bow, the faith 46 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,760 that refuses to bow. Everybody got faith until they 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,480 get in the fiery furnace. Everybody love God till it's 48 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,400 actually time to represent Him. Everybody love you until it's 49 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,600 actually time to fight offense. A faith that refuses to bow. 50 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,520 Somebody say refuse. Come on, you got to have some 51 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,080 stubborn faith. Not pride, but stubborn faith. 52 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,760 You have to refuse to what? Bow, you have to refuse Bow we 53 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,800 we learned last week that the war that started in Eden or we 54 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,120 weren't born in the comfort, we were born into a war. 55 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:01,120 The war that started in Eden does not end in defeat. 56 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,800 So here in the beginning, I just want to give you all some good 57 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,320 news, OK, a few, few few bars of some good news. 58 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,240 The war that started in Eden, it does not end in defeat. 59 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,839 It ends in Dominion for the for those that don't understand what 60 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,920 dominion is it you, you domination is going to be 61 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,040 restored, right? There should come a point where 62 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,200 you dominate in your life. Your your soul is under 63 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,800 submission to the word of God. There comes a time where you 64 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,840 should be winning in every area of your life. 65 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,320 Your family may have battles. Your house may feel pressure, 66 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,960 your obedience may provoke tension, but the promise stands. 67 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:57,960 The promise still stands. God did not start this war to 68 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,880 lose it. That's a good word right there. 69 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:06,920 I speak over you that the enemy does not get our children, the 70 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,600 enemy does not get our marriages, the enemy does not 71 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,200 get our bloodline. It's not going to come up on the 72 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,040 TV and the enemy does not get our legacy. 73 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,040 I'll speak that again for those that was looking for it to pop 74 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,960 up on the screen instead of be printed on your heart. 75 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,440 The enemy does not get our children, the enemy does not get 76 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,400 our marriages, The enemy does not get our bloodline, and the 77 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:39,920 enemy does not get our legacy. In the name of Jesus, what's 78 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,600 interrupted today will not be stolen tomorrow. 79 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,600 There is enmity because there is destiny. 80 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,720 There is an enemy because there is a destiny. 81 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,280 There is enmity because you, God, has a plan for you. 82 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,200 There is a battle because you're a threat. 83 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,040 There is resistance because you are advancing. 84 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,720 There is conflict because there is a calling on your life and 85 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,920 there is resistance because there is an inheritance. 86 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:26,040 We are not shocked by warfare, no, but we are strengthened by 87 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,200 revelation. This is not about surviving the 88 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,440 fight, It is about winning the legacy. 89 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,040 You were not born into comfort, you were born into Covenant. 90 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,760 Covenant families fight different. 91 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,440 They fight just a little bit different. 92 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,400 Somebody say a little bit different. 93 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,760 Covenant families fight a little bit different. 94 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:01,080 We do not fight each other, we fight for each other. 95 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:07,840 We do not surrender at tension. We press into faith and we do 96 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:13,080 not fracture under pressure. We form legacy under pressure. 97 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,880 I think I'm going to read that one more time. 98 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,400 For a few people, For a few people. 99 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,520 Covenant families fight different. 100 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,560 We do not fight each other. We fight for each other. 101 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:34,040 We do not surrender at tension. We press into faith and we do 102 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,960 not fracture under pressure. We form legacy under pressure. 103 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,400 This is not about surviving the fight, you guys. 104 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,400 It is about winning the legacy. There's legacy on the line 105 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,800 Sunday and tonight go together like who's going to say enough 106 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,080 is enough and change things in their bloodline? 107 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,640 Who's going to say that? This may have ran in my family, 108 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,840 but it stops here, Stops here with me, right? 109 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,960 You got all kind of people that like to fight. 110 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,640 You got people that talk big mess, but don't talk big mess to 111 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,800 the enemy. Your, your, your mind is 112 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,560 unhealthy. Your, your, your, your thinking 113 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,440 is toxic. Your relationships suck, but you 114 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,120 think you tougher than everybody. 115 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,240 You don't know how to fight. You know how to be angry, you 116 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,120 know how to try to intimidate people, you know how to back 117 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,280 people up off of you, but you don't know how to fight for 118 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,679 what's really matters. And that's legacy. 119 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,960 That is the sanity of your bloodline. 120 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,280 That is the purity of your bloodline. 121 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,520 That is the wealth of your bloodline. 122 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,720 That is the faith of your bloodline. 123 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,080 Fight for something that matters We over there's a lot of people 124 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,200 in the church even in this room. You bicker over stuff every day. 125 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:59,400 When last time you bickered over the fact that some you need your 126 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,200 mental health. When you fought for your mental 127 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,640 health. When have you fought for your 128 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,120 friends mental health? When have you said we not going 129 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,440 to talk like that because that does not contribute to your 130 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,480 health. We know how to fight. 131 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,480 We know how to fight. Fighting ain't the issue. 132 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,160 We know how to fight. We just don't know what the 133 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:22,680 what's really worth the fight. Last week we stood in Babylon. 134 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,240 We we, we stood in the fiery furnace. 135 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:30,480 We watched three young men refuse to bow before the golden 136 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,800 image. The furnace was heated 7 times 137 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:41,320 hotter, but the fire revealed something powerful. 138 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,040 God does not always remove the fire. 139 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,080 Just recap, just a little recap. Is that OK? 140 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,160 God does not always remove the fire. 141 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,840 How many people be praying for the fire to leave? 142 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,760 Huh? Yeah. 143 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,520 I mean, even one, like two people, three people have 144 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,080 prayed. God removed the fire like Paul 145 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:16,320 removed the thorn in my side. Yeah, God does not always remove 146 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,160 the fire. Sometimes he just joins you in 147 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,440 it. All right? 148 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,920 He joins you in it. He joins you in it. 149 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,080 When's the last time you prayed? Lord, keep me in the fire. 150 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,360 Just join me. I mean, anybody ever pray that 151 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,240 prayer? But, but ain't that more 152 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,320 biblical? You know, I'm not talking about 153 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,920 let's model our prayer after someone who was afraid in the 154 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,280 Bible. What about modeling our prayer 155 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,400 about how God responded? He moves. 156 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,160 I love a good Wednesday crowd. Amen. 157 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,680 The fire burned their ropes. It did not burn their faith. 158 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,640 Well, let's go a little bit deeper. 159 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,560 Watch this. The furnace story did not happen 160 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:13,480 in isolation. It happened inside a very larger 161 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,600 story. It's a story about a man whose 162 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,920 faith formed the environment that produced those three men. 163 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,600 We often look at Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, but where 164 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,680 did they even learn to have such faith? 165 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,320 Anybody know that man name Daniel? 166 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,440 Three Hebrew boys were Daniel's companions. 167 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:50,120 They were raised in the same exile, formed under the same 168 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,880 covenant convictions, shaped by the same loyalty to Yahweh. 169 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,840 Daniel is not the furnace narrative. 170 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:03,360 He's not in it. Now we can see some prophetic 171 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,520 signs in the Old Testament. There are shadows and types. 172 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,560 So we can see as tight as Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach and 173 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:15,120 Abednego was, him not being there that day shows us 174 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,360 something like the disciples in Jesus. 175 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,960 There was a couple instances his boys was in trouble, He wasn't 176 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,160 there. But by walking with Jesus, they 177 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,000 should have known how to respond. 178 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,840 Number one, they should have known how to respond #2 He 179 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,040 wanted to join them and it is in that moment that you understand 180 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,960 who he is better than if he wasn't under pressure. 181 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,480 When is the last time you prayed for your furnace moment? 182 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,480 No, we don't pray for furnace moments. 183 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,480 We wanted as cool and comfy as possible. 184 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,240 Faith like that does not appear overnight. 185 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,800 It grows in houses and families where covenant loyalty is 186 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:20,760 normal. Covenant has to be normal, not 187 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,880 subscribe to when pressure comes. 188 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,880 You can't like and subscribe to the Kingdom when you're in 189 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:36,800 trouble. It was cultivated conviction. 190 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,880 Say it again, What we saw in the furnace was not spontaneous 191 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,200 bravery. It was cultivated conviction. 192 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:53,800 The same faith that stood in the furnace we're about to see it 193 00:13:53,800 --> 00:14:01,440 will stand in the den. Daniel 6 verse 3 says Then this 194 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:07,600 Daniel, because of the extraordinary spirit within him, 195 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:13,600 extraordinary spirit within him, began distinguishing himself 196 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:19,320 among the commissioners and the SAT traps, and the king planned 197 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,560 to anoint him over the entire realm. 198 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,520 Then the other two commissioners and the SAT traps began trying 199 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,080 to find a reason to bring a complaint against Daniel 200 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,400 concerning administration of the Kingdom. 201 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:41,240 Watch this. They tried to find a reason to 202 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,760 bring a complaint against him. Watch this very important. 203 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:49,840 But they could not find no reason for an accusation or 204 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:57,440 evidence of corruption because he was faithful or a faithful 205 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,840 man, a man of high moral character and personal 206 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:07,200 integrity, and no negligence or corruption of any kind was found 207 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,960 in him. Then these men said, watch this. 208 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,360 We will not find any basis for an accusation against this 209 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,480 Daniel unless we find something against him, connection with the 210 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:25,360 law of his God. We will not find anything to 211 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,920 accuse him for except connection with his God. 212 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:35,280 Please pay attention. They searched for dirt on 213 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,160 Daniel. They looked for corruption. 214 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,640 They looked for compromise. The only charge they could bring 215 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,920 was that he refused to break covenant with his God. 216 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,760 But the only charge they can bring on Daniel was he was 217 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,600 faithful and he wouldn't budget. The only charge that they can 218 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,520 bring on Daniel is he would not compromise. 219 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:16,200 A life aligned with God leaves very little for the enemy to 220 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,840 accuse. A life aligned with God leaves 221 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,440 very little for the enemy to accuse, he says. 222 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:32,920 But they could find no reason for an accusation or evidence of 223 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:39,480 corruption. They found no foothold, so they 224 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:48,960 created a loophole. This idea of thinking just 225 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,720 because you do everything right, the enemy will not bother you. 226 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,920 Daniel is not presented as sinless here, guys. 227 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:08,040 He is presented as faithful. Every human falls. 228 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,040 The Bible tells us every human falls short of the glory of God. 229 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,440 Is that is that not right? If not, you can see that at 230 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:19,200 Romans 323, Every human. So this is not a scripture that 231 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,560 is trying to show Daniel as sinless. 232 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,599 It is trying to show Daniel as faithful. 233 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:32,680 Daniel represents a life aligned with covenant. 234 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,080 Daniel represents a life aligned with covenants. 235 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:42,000 Very if if you read your words, you can already see our walk, 236 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,720 our covenant with Jesus, and when we are aligned with the 237 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:52,240 blood of Jesus and we can see what's possible for our walk. 238 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,440 Daniel represents a life aligned with covenant. 239 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,960 We see it says Daniel 6. Corruption could not be found in 240 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,440 Daniel. Daniel we see a shadow of 241 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,680 something greater, a life so aligned with God that the only 242 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:14,600 accusation possible is devotion. So now you have to attack my 243 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,920 devotion. See, you hear this in our church 244 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,320 in churches today. Not our church, but in churches 245 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,040 today. Oh, they do too much. 246 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,840 Oh now you persecuting because we do too much? 247 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,600 What does do too much mean? You mean we faithful? 248 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,200 Am I? Are we more faithful than 249 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,680 Daniel? Are we more faithful than Paul? 250 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,240 Isn't The whole point is to find men and women like Paul and find 251 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,680 men and women like the apostles and the disciples. 252 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,720 So when you are attacked because you serve too much, say thank 253 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,280 you that that's a star on your helmet. 254 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,680 That is a stripe. That is something to be proud of 255 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,120 because now you're being persecuted because you are 256 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,680 faithful. Watch this. 257 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,880 The people that are accusing you for being too busy for God 258 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,720 aren't asking you to be less busy. 259 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,400 They just want you to put your energy over there. 260 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,280 They want you to put your time into what they think is 261 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,680 important. So because they couldn't find 262 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,720 anything, they're attacking His devotion. 263 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,800 This is not perfection through effort, guys, but righteousness 264 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,040 through covenant. This is not perfection through 265 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,920 effort, but righteousness through covenant. 266 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,800 We way back in Daniel, but we are New Testament believers. 267 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,560 This is a model, a shadow, and a type. 268 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:36,680 This was speaking to today. Everything we're about to read 269 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,280 is because He is aligned with the righteousness of God, not 270 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:48,120 because He is sinless. What if I told you half of the 271 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,720 battle was won with alignment, not perfection? 272 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,720 A lot of people life is hell because they out of alignment, 273 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,160 not because they insane. It's because they're out of 274 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,760 alignment. And if your focus was alignment, 275 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,120 watch this. If your focus is alignment in 276 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:08,480 your car, you might go get a wheel alignment, you might get 277 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,080 new tires, you get it fixed the focus in. 278 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,560 If you need a new wheel in alignment in your car, the focus 279 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,160 is not to keep the steering wheel straight. 280 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,440 Your forearm's going to cramp up after a while. 281 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,120 You got to keep doing this. That's somebody say that's 282 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,800 ghetto. That is ghetto. 283 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,040 So instead of spending the money to get it straight, you just 284 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,000 going to keep it straight all the days of your life. 285 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,480 You going to keep and this is how people do their lives. 286 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,000 Your life get out of bounds. You just start trying to 287 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,160 straighten it yourself. You just straighten it yourself 288 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,920 and in the spirit realm, some of y'all forearm, one of your 289 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,240 forearms is way bigger than the other one because you just you 290 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,840 just keep on trying to do this. And when are you going to say 291 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,560 enough is enough? Like that's not how life's 292 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,120 supposed to be. That's called control. 293 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,480 That's called pride. That's called stubbornness. 294 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,120 You just the only way your life going to look straight is if you 295 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:05,920 hold the wheel. All right, so we're going to 296 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,360 expose somebody, say expose immature. 297 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,480 Faith collapses under pressure. Immature faith collapses under 298 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,120 pressure. Immature faith collapses under 299 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:19,800 pressure. Many believers love, promise. 300 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,520 Few embrace process. Pressure often comes because 301 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,200 faith is visible. Pressure often comes because 302 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:36,600 faith is visible. Watch this Daniel Bible says 303 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,080 Daniel distinguished himself. Daniel distinguished himself. 304 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,160 Did y'all read the same thing? If you haven't read it or 305 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,560 listened yet, it's right up there at the top on the on the 306 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,360 right hand corner. Daniel distinguished yourself. 307 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:51,840 Daniel said then this Daniel distinguished himself and he how 308 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,080 did he do it? An exceptional spirit was in 309 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,200 him. Exceptional spirit was in him. 310 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,520 He worked on that. How many people work on having 311 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:05,280 an exceptional spirit? His integrity was consistent. 312 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,480 It wasn't just he didn't just have integrity when he wanted a 313 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,520 job, right? You ever have integrity to get 314 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,160 something, but you lost integrity to keep it? 315 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:23,760 His loyalty to God was visible. His loyalty to God was visible. 316 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,680 Because of this, opposition had to become strategic. 317 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:35,000 Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. Watch this. 318 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,640 Alignment just makes the enemy have to be smarter. 319 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,280 Alignment does not, does not exempt you from warfare, but 320 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,960 alignment makes, makes makes the Harvard demons have to come up. 321 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,680 Then you can't. No, no, no, no, no. 322 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,800 Dumb demons can't mess with you because you're aligned and so 323 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,600 they got to be more strategic in their attack. 324 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,800 Watch this. Some of y'all got to be tired of 325 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,400 being easy to get out of alignment. 326 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,120 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of y'all focus is so all 327 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,600 over the place. You are so easy to get mad, so 328 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,600 easy to get distracted. So like like the enemy. 329 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,440 The only sometimes the only thing that's covering you is who 330 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,760 you connected with. God said get aligned with the 331 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,600 elders until you can get aligned with me. 332 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,840 Come on, somebody talk. Sometimes you got to get aligned 333 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,960 with people who aligned until you know how to get aligned with 334 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,480 God and but the moment watch this, the moment that child or 335 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,640 that that that that that that protege gets from under 336 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,880 alignment. Any crazy how is horoscope it 337 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,480 start going wild because you like I'm ready to go out and be 338 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,040 in the world and do my own thing. 339 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,480 I'm ready to start my own church. 340 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,360 I'm ready to do you didn't realize how much blessing was on 341 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:46,280 you because who you was aligned with. 342 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,240 You thought you was ready because you got discipline. 343 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,800 You read your devotion every day. 344 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,720 No, reading your devotion don't mean your heart is aligned with 345 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,880 God. I've been there, done that 346 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,000 before. I've been there, done that 347 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,240 before. Sometimes you have to get 348 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,760 aligned with the right people that will show you how to be 349 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:12,840 aligned with the only God. This is why the enemy loves 350 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,320 getting you away from accountability and away from 351 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:20,640 people who align and love you hanging around trash because you 352 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,000 think the best thing for you is to get around people where you 353 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,920 can cuss with them. You can talk trash, you can talk 354 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,080 about the duck, you can talk about all kind of crazy stuff. 355 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,440 Then my real friends, you don't understand. 356 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:34,680 Then my real friends. OK, OK, it's your real God too. 357 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,720 Because it is. Opposition had to become 358 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,360 strategic. I remember. 359 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,840 I don't even think the devil got me that it wasn't the devil 360 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,640 fault put me in the club. The devil didn't make me smoke 361 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,040 weed. I swear the devil didn't have to 362 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,800 do nothing. My trauma, my emotions was 363 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,200 leading my life. Some of the a lot of the stuff 364 00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,720 we blame on the devil, it ain't him. 365 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:06,040 It's alignment. Watch this even some of your 366 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,720 little favorite pastors and, and, and YouTube people you 367 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:13,040 watch keeps you out of alignment because a lot of us don't we, 368 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,640 we, we, we treat YouTube like supplements, right? 369 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,120 I didn't hear what I want to hear. 370 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,680 Let me go find a pastor that's preaching what I want to hear. 371 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,600 Let me go find, let me go Google a message on this, because this 372 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,920 what I'm interested in, right? Watch this every time you leave 373 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,760 away. You don't want to listen to the, 374 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,640 the, the message God sent for you and you Google your message. 375 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,440 You're trying to take control over your destiny. 376 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,800 You're watch this and you're obeying a word that's out of 377 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:47,120 season for you and you think just because somebody preaching 378 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:53,720 it is for you. This is so dangerous. 379 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,880 And the, the, the social media platform has given us, it's 380 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:04,760 dangerous because it has watered down the local church. 381 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,640 It has watered down the voice of the prophet. 382 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,640 It has watered down our, our, our clarity of who God has sent. 383 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,600 He sends pastors after his own heart, his own heart, not yours. 384 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,320 Then we'll leave church. And then all week instead of 385 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,400 studying the message that was in our house, we go watch 100 386 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,960 different clips. There are no context. 387 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,400 Watch this every pastor you go watch he has a word for his 388 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,880 sheep. And if you think you want to his 389 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,080 sheep, guess where you should go his church because you in the 390 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:56,100 wrong pastor. We then, then these men said we 391 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:01,700 will not find any basis for an accusation against this Daniel 392 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,560 unless we find something against him in connection with the law 393 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,960 of his God. This is crazy. 394 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,400 They could not find corruption, so they targeted his devotion. 395 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,760 They watch this. They changed the law to trap his 396 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:24,200 faith. They could not accuse his 397 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:31,160 character, so they criminalized his faith and a decree was 398 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:38,280 issued. You like what decree, Pastor? 399 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,480 I'm about to read it all the commissioners of the Kingdom, 400 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,280 the prefects and the SAT traps, the counselors and the governors 401 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:53,560 have consulted and agreed together, right? 402 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,240 You always got to find agreement, right? 403 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:05,800 Wolves running packs and agreed together that the King should 404 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,200 establish a royal statue and enforce an injunction that 405 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:17,280 anyone who petitions or prays to any God or man beside you, O 406 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:23,160 King, during the next 30 days shall be thrown into the den of 407 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,160 lions. You see this, they took his 408 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,800 devotion and made a law around his devotion because they 409 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,760 couldn't find nothing on his character. 410 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,880 So they created a law. They were like this man like he 411 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:40,440 loves to pray. So we going to make a law around 412 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,880 prayer and anybody that prayed to any other God, bow to any 413 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,520 other God in the next 30 days they going to be thrown into the 414 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,080 lion's den. Watch this covenant. 415 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,160 Faith cannot pause allegiance. Watch this. 416 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,240 How many days did they say right? 417 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,120 Somebody now. Now when the enemy announced 418 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,400 itself in your life, you don't realize he only he only can be 419 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,800 he can only be on your head for a short amount of time. 420 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,880 OK, that's good news right there for somebody. 421 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,040 But but normally when the enemy comes into your life, doesn't it 422 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,840 feel like forever? And you watch this, you start 423 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,720 panicking, you start getting angsters, you start doing your 424 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,000 own thing, you start, you start getting out of alignment. 425 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,720 But this was just a small compromise. 426 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,240 They asked. Just temporary silence. 427 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,520 That's all they asked. I just need you to be quiet for 428 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:38,880 30 days. There's a group of people in 429 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,000 here who understand what I'm saying. 430 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,880 And there's a group of people in here who ain't never been 431 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,800 through nothing. Promise you, if you ain't never 432 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,880 been through nothing, good for you. 433 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,040 But you're going to go through something and you're going to 434 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,240 have an opportunity to work this out. 435 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,000 All of the devil's plans are very temporary. 436 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,160 He has, he has no, he has no right to keep the believer. 437 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,320 If you are a believer, he can only oppress you. 438 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:11,320 He cannot own you. So when you decide to get a 439 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:16,680 line, he got to let you go because he has no legal right to 440 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,240 hold on to you. OK. 441 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,960 You got to know your rights if you're going to win. 442 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,920 You got to know your rights if you're going to win. 443 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,800 Endurance is built before crisis. 444 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,000 Endurance is built before crisis. 445 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,960 Endurance is built before crisis. 446 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,720 This is what I tell you, young people. 447 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,880 This is what I tell, tell, tell, tell, tell you single people. 448 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,120 This is what I tell you people who this is. 449 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:49,040 I tell all you people, right? If you, if you are blessed to 450 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,880 not have to grow up fast, don't grow up fast. 451 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,520 Grow up in the Lord fast because promise you, it is waiting for 452 00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,760 you. So what you should be doing in 453 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,440 the meantime, if it's not war right now, what you should be 454 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,720 doing in the meantime is building your muscle. 455 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,800 Because once you're in the furnace, promise you, you can't 456 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:16,400 build muscle in the furnace. You go in the furnace built. 457 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:24,240 You go in the storm built. Endurance is built before 458 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,200 crisis. Daniel 6 watch it now. 459 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,120 When Daniel knew that the document was signed. 460 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,080 Daniel knew that the document was signed. 461 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,760 Daniel knew they hate it. Daniel knew they made their 462 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,920 decision to try to find something wrong with him. 463 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,440 Daniel knew they was going to accuse him for something. 464 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,120 Daniel knew. Somebody say Daniel knew. 465 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,160 Once he knew it was signed, waited for it to be signed. 466 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,240 He went into his house. In his roof chamber. 467 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,200 His windows were open toward Jerusalem. 468 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,080 He continued to get down on his knees three times a day, 469 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,360 praying, giving thanks before his God. 470 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,800 Here it is, as he had been doing previously. 471 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:19,280 Watch this, he continued, as he had been doing previously. 472 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,480 Pressure didn't did not produce devotion. 473 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,880 Pressure did not produce devotion. 474 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,880 Oh, there's a lot of people who are devoted to God. 475 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,520 When things go bad, you want to pray, you want to get back to 476 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,480 church, You want to start your devotion. 477 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,720 You want to turn on worship music. 478 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,600 You want to clean your eyes, Your, your, your, your playlist 479 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,120 out. You all of a sudden super 480 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:50,040 Christian now this was not pressure produced devotion. 481 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,800 Pressure came, Law was written, accusations was made. 482 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,440 He went right back to do what he'd been doing. 483 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,480 The enemy comes to try and provoke you to a point to switch 484 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:09,680 allegiance. Faith under pressure survives 485 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,040 because habits were formed before pressure. 486 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,800 Faith under pressure survives because habits were formed 487 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:24,000 before pressure. Endurance is not built in 488 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,800 crises. Endurance is built in 489 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:34,500 consistency. Prayer shaped his courage, 490 00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:39,740 Worship shaped his loyalty and covenant shaped his identity. 491 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,720 Prayer shaped his courage. He was the the fervent and 492 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,080 effectual prayers of the righteous make tremendous power 493 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,120 available. You fainted under pressure 494 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,440 because you have no prayer life. No, you watch this some of y'all 495 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,440 pray sometime you don't have a prayer life when you actually 496 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:05,120 have a prayer life. Prayer consumes your life. 497 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,040 It does not mean a prayer life does not mean that you always 498 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,840 pull over the car and close your eyes and pray. 499 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,600 It does not mean you always get on your knees at work. 500 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:22,000 It does not mean that is not. This is a constant communication 501 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,040 with God, a constant availability to God. 502 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,080 I might be running late to work. Therefore watch this God. 503 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,840 If you running late for work, God will not mind if you skip 504 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,360 your 6:00 AM prayer time so you won't be late to work. 505 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,280 Wow, OK, I want you to try it this week. 506 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,600 If you running late to work, do your prayer time And then when 507 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,800 you get to work and you have to tell your your boss while you 508 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,360 was late, I want you to tell them because I have to pray. 509 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,040 I, I just want you to, I want, I want, I want to see how that 510 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,840 works for you. See in your mind you think, Oh 511 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,920 my, my one hour. No, you make room for God in 512 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,520 your life. And there's a lot of people who 513 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,880 got a prayer time, but not a prayer life. 514 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,480 No, we, we, we need prayer times. 515 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,720 We need a time set apart from God and we need consistency. 516 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,240 But let me tell you something I have been so freed from If I 517 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,640 don't pray first thing when I wake up, then God ain't 518 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,400 listening in the afternoon. God don't. 519 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,800 God don't do silent treatment. God don't ignore you when you 520 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,920 call later because you didn't call him earlier. 521 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,200 When you pray at 3:00 PM. God don't be like why you 522 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:46,640 didn't, why you didn't call alone me at six, because God 523 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,600 never says bye and God never clicks over. 524 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:55,120 God is always online. We don't want to disconnect. 525 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:01,600 He never gets disconnected. The den was meant to silence 526 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,120 faith. They threw him in the den to 527 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,400 silence him. Watch this more than kill him. 528 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,840 All they wanted to do is frighten him. 529 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,240 When we go through stuff sometime we like oh the devil is 530 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:18,920 a lie he trying to kill me. No, no, no. 531 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,480 He just trying to silence you. And sometimes watch this here 532 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:29,200 silence is not mute silence. Write it down is changing my 533 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,160 confession. He just trying to get you to 534 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,800 shut up faith so I switched what I'm I was believing for my 535 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,720 healing. Now I'm like Lord, well let it 536 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,800 be your will. What no, no, no, don't change 537 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,920 your confession. No, my family is coming out of 538 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,560 this all the enemy wants you to be like well Lord, if it be your 539 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,480 will, it is his will. It is is in his word. 540 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,840 It's in his word. It is his will stop the cop out 541 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,800 prayer. Well, Lord, if it's if it's 542 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:07,120 meant to be now show me, show me that and show me meant to be in 543 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,680 the word. Show me meant to be in the word. 544 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,840 So, so watch this. You can be talking, but the 545 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,640 enemies come to change your confession. 546 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,560 He's come to shut your faith up, not your mouth up. 547 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,160 Quite frankly, the enemy love you speaking, not faith. 548 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,360 He love Yabba dabba doers, he loved y'all he loved, he loved, 549 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,240 he loved the people and some of y'all in here. 550 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,440 He love you. When you go to church and you be 551 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,160 confessing everything the pastors say say and you be 552 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,520 coming here singing your worship songs and then watch this, watch 553 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,560 this, watch this. Even what you type came out your 554 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,000 heart. So don't think because you 555 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 didn't say it, it don't impact you. 556 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,320 Even what you type in your DMS came out your heart. 557 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,160 Even what you type in your text messages come out of your heart. 558 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,080 So don't think because you didn't say it, it don't got no 559 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,600 power because whatever you typed, you have to look at and 560 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:09,640 guess what your eyes are a gate. Oh, we crazy out here then the 561 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:15,640 den was meant to silence faith. Daniel 616 Then the king gave a 562 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,080 command. He gave a command and Daniel was 563 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:22,560 brought to the to brought and thrown into the den of lions. 564 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,480 So he saw him praying. This brother is being thrown in 565 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:35,410 the den because he prayed. The king said to Daniel, May 566 00:38:35,410 --> 00:38:38,290 your God, whom you constantly serve, see. 567 00:38:38,290 --> 00:38:40,770 The king knew what was up. You don't think people not 568 00:38:40,770 --> 00:38:51,980 watching your devotion, whom you constantly serve, rescue you 569 00:38:51,980 --> 00:38:54,340 himself. Don't mind if I do. 570 00:38:54,780 --> 00:38:58,480 My God can. May your God, whom you 571 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,520 constantly serve, rescue you himself. 572 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,040 Say he will say, don't tempt my God. 573 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,480 Don't tempt my God. Don't try my God. 574 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,240 He will rescue me and my whole household. 575 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,080 Keep on messing with me and watch what God do. 576 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,400 Come on, try to say that. Keep on messing with me and 577 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:22,680 watch what God do. Yeah, See, that's that talk 578 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:28,120 right there. Lions were used to eliminate. 579 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,360 They were used to eliminate enemies of the state. 580 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,600 This wasn't like no no no, close and personal safari. 581 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:48,520 They put this brother in the lion's den to totally produce 582 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:54,800 fear and chaos in his mind. One simple intention here was 583 00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:00,760 the silence, Covenant loyalty. I've been there. 584 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:06,160 I've done that. And once you understand that, 585 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,760 the enemy comes to discourage you. 586 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:18,160 He, he, he comes to silence you. He comes to accuse you. 587 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,240 He comes to try and make you justify yourself, prove 588 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,960 yourself. So if I can get you trying to 589 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,240 communicate your worth to me because I've somehow made you, 590 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,160 made you feel insecure because I don't validate you, then I've 591 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,160 silenced your faith about you. I've silenced your confidence 592 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:46,600 about you. The king recognized Daniel's 593 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,520 pattern. He recognized that it was not an 594 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,240 occasional devotion, it was continual devotion. 595 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,120 The enemy recognizes continual devotion. 596 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,560 The enemy recognizes continual devotion. 597 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,800 And guess what else? He recognized flaky devotion. 598 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,400 He recognized folks that come to church and you just be a big 599 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,920 talking Christian. You just a talker. 600 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,320 You are just a talker. A demon. 601 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,640 Come on your porch. You going to run? 602 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,200 Hey man, Hallelujah. Shouldn't no demons come on say 603 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,400 this with me? Shouldn't no demon feel 604 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,960 comfortable around me now? How many of y'all can really say 605 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,080 that with faith? God defends covenant loyalty. 606 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,280 You got to get it. God defends covenant loyalty. 607 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:37,320 Daniel 619 Then the king arose at dawn at the break of day, and 608 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:41,880 hurried to the den of lions. When he had come near the den, 609 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,040 he called out to Daniel with a troubled voice. 610 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,840 The king said to Daniel, Oh, Daniel, servant of the living 611 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:54,280 God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to 612 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,360 rescue you from the lions? He had look, he had a vision 613 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,560 after this dream. Watch this. 614 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,960 And he panicked and he came and he said, you still in there 615 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,680 because I think I messed with the wrong one. 616 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,880 See, see, see. Your faithfulness to God will 617 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:20,360 cause your enemies to tremble. Been able to rescue you from the 618 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,400 lions. My God has watched Daniel's 619 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,360 response. My God has sent his Angel and 620 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,400 has shut the mouths of the lions so that they have not hurt me, 621 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:38,000 because I was found innocent before him and also before you, 622 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,080 O King, I have committed no crime. 623 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,120 Watch this. He was found innocent before 624 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,760 man, but the first thing he says he rescued me because I was 625 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:52,760 found innocent before him. He did not say I was sinless. 626 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,000 This is pointing to a day and time that we're in. 627 00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:01,200 The enemy actually has no power. Every lion's mouth got to be 628 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:01,880 shut. Why? 629 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,480 Because of the blood of Jesus before God. 630 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,560 We have been found innocent before God. 631 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:14,000 This is the good news, right? I was found innocent before God 632 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,880 because I am a New Testament believer. 633 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,000 So no matter how many times I fail, no matter how bad I fail, 634 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:23,120 I do not have to wait in line again. 635 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:28,880 The moment I get realigned, I am right back where I was found. 636 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:36,480 I was found innocent before Him. So God shut the lion's mouth. 637 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,200 Let him talk. He going to shut they mouth. 638 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:43,080 Let them talk. I've seen it. 639 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,720 People put your mouth on you and all of a sudden they lose their 640 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,200 peace. Oh, I've seen it. 641 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,040 Stressed out mental health shot. Keep talking about me. 642 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,920 Keep talking about my mom. Keep talking about my my family. 643 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,040 Keep talking about my Turkey on talking. 644 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:02,120 God, go shut your mouth because I've been found innocent before 645 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:02,480 him. Yeah. 646 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,040 See, we've been trying to prove ourselves versus staying 647 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,680 aligned. Faithfulness talks for you. 648 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:23,560 Faithfulness fights for you. Some people are busy trying to 649 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,600 prove their self because they're not faithful, so they got to let 650 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,040 their mouths do the work. But when you are found faithful, 651 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,600 the Lord says vengeance is mines. 652 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,640 Watch this. When you're calm, the enemy is 653 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,240 anxious. You, you want to make the enemy 654 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:42,240 anxious, Be calm. Be calm. 655 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,840 Be calm. You want to make the enemy 656 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,240 anxious, Be calm. Somebody say be calm. 657 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,560 You want to make you want to make the enemy anxious, Be calm. 658 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,200 Watch this. There are religions who practice 659 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,480 calm. Why Christians? 660 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,280 Why are we so anxious? And so why are we so ghetto? 661 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,480 Why are we so? Why are we just so all over the 662 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,840 place? Why are we the emotional 663 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:10,960 religion? And there's whole religions that 664 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,640 can sit quiet. Watch this. 665 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,680 Not quiet and distracted because we get a lot of people here 666 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,520 quiet, but they twiddling their thumbs, they text, and in church 667 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:20,880 they're doing all kinds of stuff. 668 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,200 Now, I'm not talking about that quiet because I got to be quiet. 669 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,840 No, I'm talking about they can keep focus in meditating for an 670 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,120 hour. Thousands of people in one room 671 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:34,600 quiet, still watch this crisscross applesauce for hours. 672 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,240 Are we anxious? Can you can feel it in the room 673 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,040 when you come to church Sunday. I just want you to watch the 674 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,040 anxiety in the room. We can't sit still. 675 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,920 We got to talk to our we got to talk. 676 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,400 We got to move. We just all and then we leave 677 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,960 church supposed to be the place of peace. 678 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,480 Look at us online. We we all over the place. 679 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,000 We watch 1000 sermon clips. No sermon context. 680 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,040 Watch this. If you can watch one sermon a 681 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:10,120 day, you probably wouldn't be able to watch 100 clips because 682 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,320 you actually paused in one sermon taking notes. 683 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,760 Oh, what that word mean? But we just like, oh, that was 684 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:26,560 that was fire. But you have no context, which 685 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,680 is all over the place. And what threatens the enemy the 686 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,120 most is a child of God that harnesses peace. 687 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,920 We talked about that in the Peace series. 688 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,280 Look at that. I don't know which one you are. 689 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,520 I know in my life, I just want to this is the enemy right here 690 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,760 in my life. But if you was honest with 691 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,360 yourself, which one is you? Watch this. 692 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,920 This is not saying I don't care. This is not passive aggressive. 693 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,840 This is faith in the spirit realm. 694 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,840 God did not remove Daniel from the den. 695 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:11,920 He preserved him inside the den. Come on, He He preserved Daniel 696 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,200 inside the den. Here's the thing about 697 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,160 anxiousness. Anxiousness will run us out of 698 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,400 where God wants to deal with our enemies. 699 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,480 And I remember I had somebody one time that wanted deliverance 700 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,200 and they was trying to schedule their deliverance. 701 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,200 And I remember, OK, we're going. That was fine. 702 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,480 I get it. There's people who do do quiet, 703 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:38,240 they do private little whatever. But then when you go on and tell 704 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:43,320 me how you want to be delivered, watch this. 705 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,320 I had a young, I had, I had, I had a person, I had a person. 706 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,480 They didn't just do it to me. They did it to my wife. 707 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,000 They did it to the elders. I remember. 708 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:53,440 I remember. You remember the time they told 709 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:54,280 that? No, No, no, no. 710 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:55,160 Nobody. No, no, nobody. 711 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:55,480 No. What? 712 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,400 Don't text my wife either. Don't text my wife either. 713 00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:58,960 Here. They told you what? 714 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,160 What song to play? But. 715 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,760 But watch. Watch this. 716 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,040 I am not laughing. I'm putting demons on blast. 717 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,040 Look, watch this Now. Elder John can sing, OK? 718 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,800 He can sing OK. But when? 719 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,480 When someone is asking for deliverance and they tell you 720 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:21,240 what song to sing. Does someone ask you to deliver 721 00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,240 them and they tell you to be aggressive with them? 722 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,160 What they're trying to do, what they're trying to do is they're 723 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,120 trying to build something where the enemy has his way. 724 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,640 They're trying to get you into manipulation. 725 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,360 They're trying to get you out of the spirit into manipulation. 726 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:52,640 God often proves his power within the threat, not by 727 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:57,760 eliminating the threat. Somebody say in the threat. 728 00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,360 Yeah, He often proves. He often proves. 729 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,160 He often proves his power in the threat. 730 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,880 In the storm in the middle of the Red Sea, in the lion's den. 731 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,280 Right, right there, right there, right in the middle of it. 732 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:18,240 He will step in here. It is just like them furnace 733 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:21,600 boys. Fire did not destroy them Boys 734 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,480 watch this. And the lions did not devour. 735 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:29,400 Daniel Little artwork up there for you. 736 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,040 Little cute, cute. Let's see 3 cute boys watch 737 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,720 this. Watch this. 738 00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,120 Here's the crazy part. Here's the here's the enemy. 739 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,640 But here's what you see in all you hear. 740 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:47,240 You don't realize Behind the lion's roar is a nervous devil. 741 00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:56,700 Watch this. Daniel's piece put the lions to 742 00:49:56,700 --> 00:50:03,220 sleep. It's almost like the lion said 743 00:50:03,220 --> 00:50:05,020 I'm tired of I'm tired of trying to scare you. 744 00:50:06,380 --> 00:50:08,820 This boring. Watch this. 745 00:50:08,820 --> 00:50:11,460 Sometimes the kids will mess with mess with my wife and 746 00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:13,820 they'll do stuff because they like her response. 747 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,720 Hey, watch this. What if I told you that the 748 00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:23,520 enemy knows he can't have your family, but he loved your 749 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,520 response because your response is a witness. 750 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,720 People watching you be anxious people, people listening to how 751 00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:32,760 you respond verbally to that situation. 752 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:34,920 Yeah, I know I can't have your family. 753 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,520 I know I'm defeated. But let me stir you up and get 754 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,920 that response. I love when you, when you, when 755 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:41,760 you talk back. I love when you get spicy. 756 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,400 I love when you cuss people. I love it. 757 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,320 So let me get your response and let me use you to turn people 758 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:53,560 away from him. Nah, Nah, Nah. 759 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,440 I know I can't have your family. I know it's only a matter of 760 00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,160 time before I completely have to let you alone. 761 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,760 So let me get you be a gossiper. Let me let me get you to be 762 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,080 messy. Let me let me do that. 763 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,560 I'm going to dictate your responses in life. 764 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,480 Because what you don't realize is that that is witnessing to 765 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:15,560 somebody and keeping them further away from God, just like 766 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,840 them furnace boys. And the devil won't take you out 767 00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,440 either. The devil cannot take you out 768 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,440 either. God proves His faithfulness in 769 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,560 the place designed to destroy His people. 770 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,520 God proves His faithfulness in the exact place that was 771 00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,880 designed for your destruction. The miracle did not create 772 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,400 Daniel's witness. You got to get it. 773 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,760 The miracle did not create Daniel's witness. 774 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,120 His consistent devotion created the expectation for a miracle. 775 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,480 The miracle did not create Daniel's witness. 776 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,840 Daniel did not become faithful because God was faithful. 777 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,800 Watch this. Daniel did not become faithful 778 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,640 because God rescued him. That's transactional faith. 779 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,920 I remember that prayer, Lord of you, because I thought I smoked 780 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,560 too. I thought I was way too high. 781 00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,240 So I thought I got so high. I was like, whoa, I want to wake 782 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:14,720 up tomorrow. Lord, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 783 00:52:14,720 --> 00:52:16,920 Lord, forgive me, Lord, Lord, forgive me, sober me up. 784 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,240 Make help me make it through the night. 785 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,560 I'm talking about I threw the I threw the weed away. 786 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,600 I threw the bong away in the trash can. 787 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:28,800 I was like, I'm done. Looked up to the sky, did all 788 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:33,560 the stuff to me and you got this Sunday, I'm going back to 789 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,280 church. I'm returning to the Lord. 790 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:40,120 And a week later, after I found out, oh, I was just really high, 791 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,080 started smoking yourself. I'm going to smoke a little less 792 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:46,480 and you get right back into heaven. 793 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,720 Once you found out that you wasn't going to hell, you was 794 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:52,960 like, let me sleep with him again. 795 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,960 Let me, let me, let me, let me do that again. 796 00:52:55,960 --> 00:53:02,040 Because grace. No, the miracle did not create 797 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,120 Daniel's witness. His consistent devotion created 798 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,320 the expectation or miracle. Daniel did not suddenly become 799 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:15,760 spiritual in crisis. He had a pattern of loyalty long 800 00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:24,210 before the lions appeared. Biblically, watch this, this is 801 00:53:24,210 --> 00:53:25,770 this is this. Bless you. 802 00:53:25,770 --> 00:53:29,810 Biblically, miracles often follow consistent, consistent 803 00:53:29,810 --> 00:53:32,370 obedience, not occasional desperation. 804 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:41,240 God governs creation through both direct power and delegated 805 00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:44,680 agents. Angels often appear in scripture 806 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,440 to watch. This is so important. 807 00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,920 Angels appear to protect covenant purpose. 808 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,600 They don't appear because you spiritual. 809 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,120 They don't appear because you want us. 810 00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:01,040 You're interested in angels. Angels appear to protect 811 00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,520 covenant. So when you ask him for divine 812 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:10,800 rescue and you are where you are because of your choice, God will 813 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,320 use your pig pen to call you back to realignment. 814 00:54:21,660 --> 00:54:24,380 Watch this. He will use purpose. 815 00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:30,660 He will he will delegate angelic assistance when you're doing 816 00:54:30,660 --> 00:54:35,020 purpose. Let's look in the New Testament 817 00:54:35,020 --> 00:54:38,860 to see that proof. Second Timothy 4 says, But the 818 00:54:38,860 --> 00:54:44,520 Lord stood by me and strengthen and empowered me, so that 819 00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:50,040 through me the gospel message might be fully proclaimed, and 820 00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:51,920 that all the Gentiles might hear it. 821 00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,960 And I was rescued from the mouth of the lion. 822 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,320 I don't know who this is for, but what did God rescue you 823 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,360 from? For what? 824 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,880 What did God rescue you from for? 825 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,960 What did he heal your body from for? 826 00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:23,630 Guess we do. Sunday the lion den becomes a 827 00:55:23,630 --> 00:55:30,670 courtroom right before our eyes. Daniel was accused, but God 828 00:55:30,670 --> 00:55:34,230 issued A verdict. Endurance produces Kingdom 829 00:55:34,230 --> 00:55:37,510 witness. Endurance produces Kingdom 830 00:55:37,510 --> 00:55:41,630 witness. And what we see here at the end 831 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:49,920 is the king makes a new decree. The king says, I issue a decree 832 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,360 that in all dominion of my Kingdom, men are to reverently 833 00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:58,000 fear and tremble before the God of Daniel, for he is the living 834 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,320 God. Our our idols are dead, but 835 00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,640 Daniel serves the one and true living God. 836 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,840 Do do people look at your life and say, whoa, they God is 837 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,480 alive, they God doing something. They God is running things. 838 00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,480 Their God is powerful, enduring His steadfastness forever, and 839 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:20,000 His Kingdom is 1 which will not be destroyed, and His dominion 840 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,640 will be forever. Faithfulness under pressure 841 00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:28,440 becomes public testimony. Faithfulness under pressure 842 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:34,840 becomes public testimony. Legacy expands because one man 843 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:39,520 refused to bow. Legacy expanded because one man 844 00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:44,160 refused to bow. Same God covered Daniel, same 845 00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,840 God dispatch angels is the same God that's going to intervene in 846 00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,880 your life. Somebody shout out same God, 847 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,400 Hebrews tells us. By one offering, the one 848 00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:00,200 offering he has perfected forever and completely cleanse 849 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,960 those who are being sanctified. Bringing each believer to 850 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,800 spiritual completion and maturity by one offering. 851 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:16,400 So we understand covenant calls us forward again, New Testament 852 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:20,400 believer, through Christ, we become people whose lives 853 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,600 increasingly align with the Kingdom of God. 854 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:39,180 So the real question is, will you walk in alignment with the 855 00:57:39,180 --> 00:57:43,180 righteousness that has been prescribed for you, with the 856 00:57:43,180 --> 00:57:46,880 Kingdom that is yours, with the God that has saved you? 857 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,840 Is alignment a priority for you? So you might say, well, when do 858 00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,960 I get aligned today? Watch this. 859 00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,520 Picking up your cross daily is making sure you stay aligned 860 00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,120 daily. The cross is there daily to make 861 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:10,840 sure you stay aligned daily. It's a choice and every person 862 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:15,560 watch this, I came I can't align for you like I can't do your 863 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,600 alignment right. If you driving down the street 864 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,640 and somebody cars keep going across the lines because they 865 00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,200 cars alignment. My car going straight is for my 866 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,840 car. Me going straight ain't 867 00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,800 necessarily going to help your car go straight. 868 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,520 You got to go put your car in the shop. 869 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,880 In order to put your car in the shop, guess what you got to do? 870 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:43,480 You got to stop for a few days. Realignment costs just like 871 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:53,090 getting out of alignment costs. Laura, we thank you. 872 00:58:56,490 --> 00:59:06,960 We bless you, Lord. I know there's a few people that 873 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:12,800 are determined to make sure that as they become the interruption 874 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:20,320 in areas in their bloodline, that they model a legacy of 875 00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:26,800 faith that does not bow, a faith that does not quit, a faith that 876 00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:33,800 does not give up. A heart that exemplifies the 877 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:41,040 fruit of repentance. Always moving forward, always 878 00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:46,840 growing. A life led by the Spirit, a life 879 00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:52,880 who is really grateful for the grace that you have shown us, 880 00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:55,280 the grace that you have given us. 881 01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:02,840 Lord Jesus, we say build your church. 882 01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,480 And may your church respond to your hands. 883 01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,400 May your church respond to your word. 884 01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:19,720 Lord, build your church. And whatever part I play, 885 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:24,440 whatever part we play, Lord. Not by my, not by power, but by 886 01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,360 your spirit. We say yes, Lord, build your 887 01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:35,810 church. Lord, we're where we are tired 888 01:00:35,810 --> 01:00:37,770 and weary. We thank you for a second wind. 889 01:00:40,370 --> 01:00:41,930 Yeah. Who are these crazy people that 890 01:00:41,930 --> 01:00:44,010 come week after week and week after week? 891 01:00:44,010 --> 01:00:49,410 Who are these people that come to do church saying listen to 892 01:00:49,410 --> 01:00:51,570 word, take notes? Who does that every week? 893 01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,240 Well, those that are aligned, those that believe that this is 894 01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,120 the only way, the truth and the life. 895 01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:05,320 It is by your spirit, Lord, that what we will do, We will do all 896 01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,800 that you've called us to do. Lord. 897 01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:15,400 Lastly, I pray that we do our part to kill the familiar spirit 898 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,120 in our church, Those that just show up on Wednesdays and it's 899 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,320 just casual and the hunger is bland and thirst is dry. 900 01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:30,280 Lord, I ask that you will help us help ourselves kill that. 901 01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:34,640 That we don't waste a night without leaning in with 902 01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:38,360 expectation. That understanding, every time 903 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:43,200 we gather together, it is an opportunity to shift everything. 904 01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,640 Every time we gather together, Lord God, it is contributing to 905 01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,440 a great harvest that you have planned to send. 906 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,800 Every time we gather together, it is a sacrifice, an 907 01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,720 opportunity to see revival in families. 908 01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:04,080 So may we kill the familiarity. Lord Godfather, we get together 909 01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,880 in your house, we get together in your temple. 910 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,640 We get to sing worship songs with clean lips. 911 01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:15,080 Lord God, we get to no matter how much we have fallen. 912 01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:19,360 Lord, you are a gracious God and when we sing in this fallen 913 01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:22,800 state, Lord, we are your children and you still hear us. 914 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:26,600 May we not take grace for granted, May we not take mercy 915 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,160 for granted. Lord God, may we not take being 916 01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:33,280 able to worship you and read your word in public without 917 01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,040 being killed. Lord God, we thank you for the 918 01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:43,080 opportunity and we get to worship in a safe place. 919 01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,720 Daniel's life was threatened because someone saw him. 920 01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,120 Pray. Lord, thank you that we don't 921 01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,920 have to be put in prison because we somebody saw us pray. 922 01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,040 Watch this. Everybody lift your heads up 923 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:11,440 really quickly. This country, somebody say this 924 01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:20,520 country, it's not crazy public. But right now there is a policy 925 01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:26,920 on the table in your government that certain, soon, certain, 926 01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:33,280 certain scriptures cannot be read or they will be called hate 927 01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,000 speech. And that pastor or that preacher 928 01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,560 or that teacher, or you, if you brave enough, can be put in 929 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,680 prison because you read a scripture. 930 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,120 Oh, Canada, old Canada, watch this. 931 01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:52,400 And the government doesn't mind because Canada has not proven as 932 01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:56,160 a church we can unite and fight for anything except open the 933 01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,800 doors during COVID. And so you see, in other 934 01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,280 countries, they know how to unite in injustice. 935 01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,480 They know how to come together. But the church, the church we so 936 01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:09,080 divided and so passive. There's this law that's being 937 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,600 passed right up under our nose.