{"id":1462,"date":"2026-04-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/394-andrew-johns-daniels-friends-resisting-the-worlds-pressures-in-youth\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:49:02","slug":"394-andrew-johns-daniels-friends-resisting-the-worlds-pressures-in-youth","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/394-andrew-johns-daniels-friends-resisting-the-worlds-pressures-in-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"394: Andrew Johns – Daniel’s Friends: Resisting the World’s Pressures in Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is from a series by Brother Andrew Johns titled “Examples of Youth in Service and Action,” which was given in 1994. This is class 4, “Daniel’s Friends: Resisting the World’s Pressures in Youth,” and GCT episode 388 was the first class in this series.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Christadelphian
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\nweek on this podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nbeforehand as a personalized
\nrecommendation to you on why we <\/p>\n

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\nare sharing the talk.
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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHello everyone, this is Simon. <\/p>\n

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\nBack in episode 388, we had a
\ntalk by our brother Andrew Johns<\/p>\n

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\non Joseph.
\nAnd I’ve since found out that <\/p>\n

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\nthis is actually part of a
\nseries that was done in 1994 <\/p>\n

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\nwith the main theme to be
\nexamples of youth in service and<\/p>\n

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\naction.
\nI found all these talks to be <\/p>\n

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\nvery challenging but very
\nencouraging and very <\/p>\n

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\nexhortational as well.
\nBrother Andrew covered Joseph, <\/p>\n

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\nSampson, Jeremiah, Daniel’s
\nfriends Mary and Timothy. <\/p>\n

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\nThis full series will be on the
\nextended podcast and I strongly <\/p>\n

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\nencourage you to go listen to
\nthem all. <\/p>\n

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\nSo I chose for this week’s talk
\nthe 4th study on Daniel’s <\/p>\n

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\nfriends resisting the world’s
\npressures in youth. <\/p>\n

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\nI find the story of Daniel and
\nhis friends to be so relevant to<\/p>\n

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\nus today as the world around
\njust changes and can demand us <\/p>\n

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\nto conform to it.
\nIt’s a reminder that we need to <\/p>\n

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\ncontinually study and read God,
\nread God’s Word and to help each<\/p>\n

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\nother on our walk to the Kingdom
\nand to keep God’s truth close to<\/p>\n

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\nour hearts.
\nTo be ready to make a stand for <\/p>\n

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\nwhat is right whenever we need
\nto. <\/p>\n

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\nSo here is our brother Andrew on
\nDaniel’s friends resisting the <\/p>\n

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\nworld’s pressures in youth.
\nMy dearly beloved brethren and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters and my dear young
\npeople, in our last, last study <\/p>\n

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\nwe saw that tragic figure of
\nJeremiah who experienced so much<\/p>\n

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\nsorrow and anguish in his life,
\nbut who around him and and <\/p>\n

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\naround Josiah, his great friend
\nand confident, there accumulated<\/p>\n

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\na number of younger men who were
\non fire with the word of Yahweh.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd three years after the death
\nof Josiah, when Jeremiah was <\/p>\n

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\nabout 40, his word was
\nvindicated as being right, <\/p>\n

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\ndespite all the cries around him
\nthat Babylon would never come <\/p>\n

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\ndown and never touch that city.
\nBut the mighty Babylonian war <\/p>\n

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\nmachine was on the move three
\nyears after Josiah died and <\/p>\n

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\nNebuchadnezzar moved in and at
\nthe battle of Khakimish head on <\/p>\n

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\nhit Egypt and defeated Pharaoh
\nNico and moved straight down <\/p>\n

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\ninto the coastal plain heading
\nfor Jerusalem and sieged it. <\/p>\n

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\nJehoiakim at the time was a
\npuppet to Egypt, and very <\/p>\n

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\nquickly he changed allegiance
\nand was put under tribute to <\/p>\n

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\nBabylon.
\nBut that was not where it ended.<\/p>\n

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\nThe temple was ransacked by
\nNebuchadnezzar’s offices. <\/p>\n

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\nThey took everything of value.
\nAll the vessels of the House of <\/p>\n

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\nYahweh were carted off to
\nBabylon and placed in the houses<\/p>\n

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\nof the gods of the Babylonians,
\nbut they also hand picked the <\/p>\n

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\ncream of Judah’s young men.
\nCome to Daniel chapter one, <\/p>\n

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\nverse 3.
\nAnd the king Nebuchadnezzar, <\/p>\n

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\nthat is, spake unto Ashpinaz,
\nthe master of his eunuchs, that <\/p>\n

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\nhe should bring certain of the
\nchildren of Israel, and of the <\/p>\n

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\nKing’s seed, and of the
\nPrincess. <\/p>\n

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\nChildren in whom was no blemish,
\nbut well favoured, and skillful <\/p>\n

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\nin wisdom, and cunning, and
\nknowledge and understanding <\/p>\n

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\nscience, and such as had the
\nability in them to stand in the <\/p>\n

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\nKing’s palace, and whom they
\nmight teach the learning and the<\/p>\n

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\ntongue of the Chaldeans.
\nThere must young people and <\/p>\n

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\nbrethren and sisters.
\nThere must have been in that <\/p>\n

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\ncohort.
\nThey were handpicked at that <\/p>\n

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\ntime from, did you notice the
\nKing’s seed and the Princess? <\/p>\n

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\nThere must have been some who
\nwere very strongly influenced by<\/p>\n

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\nJosiah.
\nJosiah had only been dead for <\/p>\n

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\nthree years, and in his court in
\nJerusalem there was growing up a<\/p>\n

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\nyouth group who were alive with
\nthe word of Yahweh. <\/p>\n

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\nJeremiah and other prophets had
\nstirred them up, and with the <\/p>\n

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\nexample of Josiah before them,
\nthey were enthused to try and <\/p>\n

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\nturn that nation around.
\nBut as soon as Josiah died, as <\/p>\n

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\nwe saw the other night, all hope
\nof that ever happening was lost.<\/p>\n

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\nThe breath of the nation, as
\nJeremiah called him, was gone. <\/p>\n

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\nThe nation was a corpse, just
\nrotting and rotting and rotting <\/p>\n

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\nuntil Nebuchadnezzar finally
\nfinished it off a few years <\/p>\n

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\nlater.
\nBut here we find Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n

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\nhand picking individual young
\nmen. <\/p>\n

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\nLook at how they’re described in
\nverse four. <\/p>\n

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\nWell favoured, intelligent, able
\nto stand in the King’s palace, <\/p>\n

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\nhe was after the cream of that
\nnation. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd these are called in verse 4,
\nthe start of verse four, <\/p>\n

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\nchildren.
\nThe word is used in the <\/p>\n

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\nscriptures of anything from
\nchildren to youths to young men,<\/p>\n

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\nand it probably refers to
\nteenagers, those in their late <\/p>\n

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\nteens.
\nAnd so these children, whom he <\/p>\n

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\npicked in the prime of their
\nlife at around 18 or 19, were <\/p>\n

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\ncarted off into Babylon.
\nBabylon had a very clearly <\/p>\n

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\nenunciated policy of integration
\nand assimilation. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were very, very cunning
\npsychologists, and they figured <\/p>\n

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\nthat if you were ever going to
\nkeep nations under subjection, <\/p>\n

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\nwhat you had to do when you took
\nthem over is to mix up their <\/p>\n

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\npeople with yours, Mix them and
\nhave a good influence of <\/p>\n

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\nBabylonian ways in there, so
\nthat they forgot about their <\/p>\n

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\ngods, they forgot about their
\nculture, and they became <\/p>\n

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\nBabylonians, whether they were
\nin the lands that had been taken<\/p>\n

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\nover captive or whatever.
\nAnd he put Babylonians into the <\/p>\n

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\nlands that he took captive, and
\nhe brought some of them into <\/p>\n

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\nBabylon.
\nThat was only part of his <\/p>\n

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\npolicy.
\nThe second part of his policy <\/p>\n

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\nwas to hand pick the
\nintelligentsia of a nation and <\/p>\n

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\nto train them in the ways of
\nBabylon so that they might then <\/p>\n

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\ninfluence their own people both
\nin the land of their captivity <\/p>\n

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\nand back in their own national
\nplace of origin. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so we find that this method
\nthat Nebuchadnezzar was skilled <\/p>\n

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\nat using throughout his
\ncampaigns and throughout his <\/p>\n

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\ntime as king was based on 2
\nfundamental principles. <\/p>\n

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\nThey tried to make those who
\nwere taken captive conform to <\/p>\n

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\nBabylonian thinking and
\nBabylonian behaviour. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we’ve we know exactly what
\nhappens here in verse 5. <\/p>\n

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\nThe king at once those young
\ncaptives were brought into the <\/p>\n

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\nrealm.
\nThe king appointed them a daily <\/p>\n

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\nprovision of the King’s meats
\nand of the wine which he drank <\/p>\n

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\nso nourishing them three years
\nat the end thereof, they might <\/p>\n

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\nstand before the king.
\nIt was his clear intention to <\/p>\n

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\nhave these as the the prime
\nyoung councillors around him <\/p>\n

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\nthat had been so indoctrinated
\nby Babylonian ways. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’d been given absolutely
\neverything they could ever want.<\/p>\n

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\nThey’d come from a from a
\ncountry that just did not have <\/p>\n

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\neverything that it wanted
\nbecause it was in, in tribute to<\/p>\n

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\nother countries, to Egypt at the
\ntime, in case of Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nBut they were given the very,
\nvery best, the most appealing <\/p>\n

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\nfood, drink, access to Babylon’s
\nuniversities and all the wisdom <\/p>\n

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\nand learning was at their feet.
\nAll they had to do was to soak <\/p>\n

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\nit up.
\nBut that wasn’t all. <\/p>\n

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\nThey not only had their diet
\nchanged, they had their dress <\/p>\n

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\nchanged, they had their language
\nchanged, they had their <\/p>\n

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\nenvironment changed, they had
\nthe source of their education <\/p>\n

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\nchanged, and to top it all off,
\nthey even changed their names in<\/p>\n

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\norder that their personalities
\nmight never be the same as they <\/p>\n

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\nwere before.
\nAnd it’s very interesting to <\/p>\n

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\nsee.
\nWhile there is some some dispute<\/p>\n

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\nabout the actual meaning of some
\nof their Babylonian names, it’s <\/p>\n

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\nvery interesting to see.
\nThat’s every one of the four <\/p>\n

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\nfriends that we find mentioned
\nhere in verses 6 and seven of <\/p>\n

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\nDaniel.
\nOne, that is Daniel, Hannan, I, <\/p>\n

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\nMishael, and Azariah all have as
\npart of the meaning of their <\/p>\n

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\nname Yahweh or Ail.
\nThey had come from godly <\/p>\n

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\nfamilies who had so named their
\nchildren to reflect their godly <\/p>\n

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\nthinking.
\nBut the Babylonians named them. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd if you have a look at the
\nnames that are there on the <\/p>\n

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\noverhead at the moment, every
\nsingle name that they gave for <\/p>\n

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\nthose 4 lands involved the name
\nof one of Babylon’s gods. <\/p>\n

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\nThere was a distinct and
\ndeliberate policy here to wipe <\/p>\n

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\nout any cultural link, any link
\nat all with the religion and <\/p>\n

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\nlife and behaviour of the
\nnations from which these men <\/p>\n

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\ncame.
\nThey, they were put in a <\/p>\n

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\nexceedingly difficult situation.
\nI, I don’t think that just <\/p>\n

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\nreading Daniel chapter one, we,
\nwe perhaps at times understand <\/p>\n

148
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\nquite how dangerous and
\ndifficult that was. <\/p>\n

149
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\nDaniel certainly understood, and
\nso did his friends come to <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand that just how
\ndangerous it was. <\/p>\n

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\nYou see, everything that was
\nbeing done for them, they were. <\/p>\n

152
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\nThey were being being given
\neverything on a plate. <\/p>\n

153
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\nThey were being treated like
\ngreat Lords walking in as <\/p>\n

154
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\nPrincess of a realm that just
\nhad absolutely anything they <\/p>\n

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\nwanted at the click of their
\nfingers. <\/p>\n

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\nIf they said they wanted this
\nfood or that they wanted this <\/p>\n

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\nTudor or that they got it.
\nAnd everything that was being <\/p>\n

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\ndone to them appealed to their
\nown pride. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were being told that all
\nthey had to do was put their <\/p>\n

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\nmind to things and they would go
\na very long way up the hierarchy<\/p>\n

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\nof the greatest nation on earth.
\nThey could be rulers. <\/p>\n

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\nThey could be second in the in
\nthe realm of the great and <\/p>\n

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\nmighty Babylon.
\nThey could easily have deceived <\/p>\n

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\nthemselves into thinking young
\npeople that, well, it wasn’t of <\/p>\n

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\ntheir making that got them
\nthere. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’ve been taken into
\ncaptivity. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were put here by God.
\nSurely they should make the best<\/p>\n

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\nof the situation and just do
\nwhatever that was asked of them.<\/p>\n

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\nYou know, our young people today
\nare under exactly that same <\/p>\n

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\npressure.
\nThere’s an attempt to change <\/p>\n

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\npersonality.
\nIt is an attempt, a very strong <\/p>\n

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\nattempt, to make our young
\npeople conform to Babylon’s <\/p>\n

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\nlifestyle.
\nThe world around us is <\/p>\n

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\nencouraging by its environment
\nand by its education and the two<\/p>\n

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\nthings that never could, never
\nused. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s encouraging a broad,
\nrounded, balanced education. <\/p>\n

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\nOh, it sounds very nice, doesn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

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\nBetter than sisters, but
\nunderpinning whole of our <\/p>\n

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\neducation scheme at the moment
\nand for some years has it has <\/p>\n

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\nbeen the same, is a humanistic
\nbase where God has removed from <\/p>\n

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\nthe realm of rational discussion
\nand other gods in fact are <\/p>\n

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\nsubstituted for the one true God
\nwho created all other gods like <\/p>\n

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\nsuccess, achievement, sport.
\nAll substituted in place of the <\/p>\n

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\none true God who is the source
\nof all intellectual reasoning <\/p>\n

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\nand wisdom and moral might.
\nAnd the whole of our education <\/p>\n

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\nsystem that our children are
\nimmersed in day by day is man <\/p>\n

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\ncentred, not God centred.
\nAnd especially is that true in <\/p>\n

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\nthe realm of the social areas,
\nthe social sciences. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there’s many things that our
\nchildren come up against every <\/p>\n

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\nday of their lives when they’re
\n5678910. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it sounds to them all very
\nplausible, all very reasonable. <\/p>\n

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\nThat isn’t anything wrong with
\nwhat’s been told them. <\/p>\n

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\nIt just seems to make sense.
\nBut it seems to make sense <\/p>\n

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\nbecause we’re all made of flesh
\nand so are they, and without <\/p>\n

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\nsome godly external influence in
\ntheir minds, it just all makes <\/p>\n

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\nsense.
\nYou know, the consequences of of<\/p>\n

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\nthe underpinning of humanism in
\nall of our education. <\/p>\n

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\nSociety is bringing the whole of
\nthe Western world to its knees. <\/p>\n

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\nThere is no question of that.
\nThe consequences of this form of<\/p>\n

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\nthinking, brethren and sisters
\nand young people, and take note <\/p>\n

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\nof this, is a push for personal
\nrights. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s where that’s coming from.
\nThe importance of the individual<\/p>\n

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\nand what they themselves think.
\nThe equality of opportunity for <\/p>\n

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\nwomen with men.
\nEverybody’s opinion is just as <\/p>\n

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\nimportant as everybody else’s.
\nOur children at 456 are having <\/p>\n

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\nthat drummed into their heads.
\nAnd if you can’t see that coming<\/p>\n

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\nout in your children at school,
\nbe thankful because there’s an <\/p>\n

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\nawful lot of our children in our
\nyoung people’s groups and in our<\/p>\n

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\nSunday schools are already
\nreflecting their thinking. <\/p>\n

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\nMake no mistake.
\nAnd democracy is supreme. <\/p>\n

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\nThe God of this world,
\neverything relies on democracy. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the be all and end all, the
\nvoice of the people. <\/p>\n

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\nBut there’s this, this spirit of
\nmadness, as it’s termed in <\/p>\n

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\nRevelation 16, that’s driving
\nthe nations and bringing them to<\/p>\n

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\nArmageddon.
\nAnd one day that spirit is going<\/p>\n

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\nto be on the opposite side to
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

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\nThere is a very deliberate
\ndesign, very deliberate design <\/p>\n

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\nin the education system of this
\nworld that is challenging with <\/p>\n

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\nan attempt to eradicate biblical
\nmorality. <\/p>\n

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\nYou might think that’s an
\noverstatement. <\/p>\n

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\nThere are writers around and
\neducators who are alive in this <\/p>\n

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\nstate who will openly state
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s in our workplaces, it’s
\nin our schools, it’s in our <\/p>\n

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\nuniversities.
\nAnd it’s incredibly important <\/p>\n

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\nfor our young people, incredibly
\nimportant for our young people <\/p>\n

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\nthat are going off to a
\nuniversity in these days to know<\/p>\n

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\nwhere they’re going before they
\ngo, to have sorted out their <\/p>\n

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\nlives and set a direction so
\nthat they clearly understand the<\/p>\n

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\nissues of life before they’re
\nthrown in to that evil <\/p>\n

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\nenvironment.
\nThere may be, it may be <\/p>\n

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\nnecessary for some of our young
\npeople in terms of their jobs or<\/p>\n

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\nwhatever to go on to tertiary
\nstudy. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd perhaps what’s happening in
\nsociety is becoming increasingly<\/p>\n

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\nso for some of our young people.
\nBut it’s also becoming <\/p>\n

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\nincreasingly important that our
\nyoung people think seriously <\/p>\n

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\nyounger and younger about the
\nissues of life. <\/p>\n

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\nLook at verse 8.
\nBut Daniel in this circumstance,<\/p>\n

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\npurposed in his heart that he
\nwould not defile himself with a <\/p>\n

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\nportion of the King’s meat, nor
\nwith the wine which he drank. <\/p>\n

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\nTherefore he made a request to
\nthe Prince of eunuch, the <\/p>\n

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\neunuchs, that he might not
\ndefile himself. <\/p>\n

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\nThat word purpose there is
\ntranslated elsewhere as <\/p>\n

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\nrehearsed.
\nHe rehearsed in his heart that <\/p>\n

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\nhe would not defile himself with
\nthe King’s meat. <\/p>\n

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\nHe told himself over and over
\nagain and reinforced in his own <\/p>\n

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\nmind what was right and that he
\ncouldn’t be defiled with the <\/p>\n

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\nKing’s mate.
\nHe wasn’t going to partake of <\/p>\n

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\nall that this society that he’d
\njust been lobbed into was there <\/p>\n

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\nto offer, you know, brilliant
\nsisters and young people. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat he didn’t say isn’t that
\ninteresting to notice. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat he didn’t say as well as
\nwhat he did, he didn’t say. <\/p>\n

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\nOh well, I’ll give it a go,
\ncan’t really. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we’ll have a look at and
\ncompare at the end what <\/p>\n

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\nabsolutely folly that would have
\nbeen. <\/p>\n

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\nHe purposed in his heart when he
\nsaw the policy, he saw what <\/p>\n

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\nBabylon was out to do.
\nAnd he said, I am not going to <\/p>\n

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\ndo it.
\nAnd he made requests <\/p>\n

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\nrespectfully to the Prince of
\nthe eunuchs, who in fact, as we <\/p>\n

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\nknow, accepted his request and
\nturned out that he proved <\/p>\n

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\nhimself and his friends to be 10
\ntimes better than all of those <\/p>\n

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\nthat have been on the official
\ndiet of the king. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, it’s never, ever wise
\ncounsel to Taste of Babylon’s <\/p>\n

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\nfood in order to make a choice
\nbetween Babylon and the truth. <\/p>\n

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\nNever is it a wise choice to do
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause young people, as soon as
\nwe’ve tasted of what Babylon has<\/p>\n

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\nto offer, we’ve already in a
\nposition where we won’t be able <\/p>\n

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\nto make a choice anymore.
\nAlready things will become <\/p>\n

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\ncrowded.
\nIt’s never ever a good idea to <\/p>\n

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\ntaste of Babylon first in order
\nthat we might make a choice, But<\/p>\n

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\nI wonder whether you’ve ever
\nnoticed in Daniel, as we read <\/p>\n

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\nthrough Daniel chapter one, that
\nDaniel himself as an individual,<\/p>\n

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\nThough we know that it talks
\nabout Hananiah, Mishael, and <\/p>\n

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\nAzariah as well in that chapter.
\nHow many of you have noticed <\/p>\n

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\nthat Daniel is very dominant in
\nthat chapter? <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, that verse we just
\nread, verse 8, it’s talking <\/p>\n

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\nabout Daniel himself.
\nHe purposed in his heart that he<\/p>\n

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\nwould not defile, and he goes to
\nthe Prince of the eunuchs and <\/p>\n

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\nasked that he might not defile
\nhimself. <\/p>\n

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\nHe, he, he.
\nNow we know that the other <\/p>\n

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\nfriends of Daniel were likewise
\nright behind Daniel and <\/p>\n

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\nsupporting everything he did.
\nBut it was just like that with <\/p>\n

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\nDaniel out the front and his
\nfriends supporting him. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you read through all of
\nDaniel chapter 1 and you’ll find<\/p>\n

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\nthat that’s in fact the picture
\nthat we get. <\/p>\n

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\nDaniel is obviously a leader, a
\nvery intelligent and capable <\/p>\n

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\nyoung man who knew exactly where
\nhe was going. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, it’s not to not to deny
\nthat the other three friends who<\/p>\n

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\nwere around him and supported
\nhim were not also faithful young<\/p>\n

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\nmen.
\nOf course they were. <\/p>\n

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\nWe know that and it’s proved a
\nlittle later on, but he was the <\/p>\n

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\nspokesman.
\nIn fact, in verse 8, verse 9, <\/p>\n

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\nverse 10, verse 11, verse 17,
\nand verse 21, Daniel stands out <\/p>\n

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\nin front of all the others.
\nAnd the other thing to notice <\/p>\n

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\nbefore we move on is that Daniel
\nchapter one really concentrates <\/p>\n

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\non all of these four young men
\nand only calls them by their <\/p>\n

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\nHebrew names, apart from telling
\nus that they had their names <\/p>\n

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\nchanged by the Babylonians.
\nOn all other occasions it uses <\/p>\n

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\ntheir Hebrew names.
\nAnd then we come to chapter 2 <\/p>\n

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\nwith the dream of
\nNebuchadnezzar, and we know that<\/p>\n

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\nvery well.
\nAnd what happened. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd Daniel as a result was
\nelevated because of his <\/p>\n

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\ninterpretation of that dream.
\nAnd again, it’s Daniel, not the <\/p>\n

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\nothers.
\nIt’s Daniel who was in that <\/p>\n

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\nposition.
\nI’d like you to come to the end <\/p>\n

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\nof Daniel chapter 2, verse 48
\nand read this very carefully. <\/p>\n

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\nThen the king made Daniel a
\ngreat man and gave him many <\/p>\n

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\ngifts and made him rule over the
\nwhole province of Babylon and <\/p>\n

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\nchief of the governors over all
\nthe wise men of Babylon. <\/p>\n

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\nThen Daniel requested of the
\nking and he set set Shadrach, <\/p>\n

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\nMeshach and Abednego over the
\naffairs of the province of <\/p>\n

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\nBabylon.
\nBut Daniel sat in the gate of <\/p>\n

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\nthe king.
\nIf you read that quickly, you <\/p>\n

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\nmissed the point.
\nDid you notice Daniel still <\/p>\n

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\ncalled by his Hebrew name?
\nBut Shadrach, Meshach, and <\/p>\n

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\nAbednego have got their
\nBabylonian names. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were not called by their
\nBabylonian names in chapter 1, <\/p>\n

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\nbut now they are, and all the
\nway through chapter 3 they have <\/p>\n

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\nBabylonian names without
\nexception. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat’s that saying?
\nWell, it appears that Daniel had<\/p>\n

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\nrisen to such an important post
\nthat no one could tell him what <\/p>\n

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\nhis name was going to be, and he
\nretained his name as his <\/p>\n

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\noriginal Hebrew name.
\nBut the other three friends, <\/p>\n

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\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
\neven though they were raised to <\/p>\n

324
\n00:23:30,680 –> 00:23:36,440
\na position of importance, were
\nstill subordinate and were still<\/p>\n

325
\n00:23:36,440 –> 00:23:40,760
\nbeing called Shadrach, Meshach,
\nand Abednego by Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n

326
\n00:23:40,760 –> 00:23:44,120
\nhimself.
\nThat’s interesting to notice. <\/p>\n

327
\n00:23:44,800 –> 00:23:50,040
\nWe we come to chapter 3 and at
\nthis stage those three men, <\/p>\n

328
\n00:23:50,040 –> 00:23:54,680
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
\nwere probably in their early 20s<\/p>\n

329
\n00:23:54,680 –> 00:23:58,920
\nat this stage.
\nAnd Daniel is not even mentioned<\/p>\n

330
\n00:23:59,120 –> 00:24:03,320
\nin Daniel chapter 3.
\nThey are always, as we said, <\/p>\n

331
\n00:24:03,320 –> 00:24:05,680
\nmentioned by their Babylonian
\nnames. <\/p>\n

332
\n00:24:06,840 –> 00:24:13,400
\nNebuchadnezzar clearly had not
\ngiven up on his original policy <\/p>\n

333
\n00:24:13,640 –> 00:24:18,720
\nof integration and conformity.
\nYou see, the changing of those <\/p>\n

334
\n00:24:18,720 –> 00:24:23,480
\nnames were meant to reflect a
\ndifferent personality and but <\/p>\n

335
\n00:24:23,480 –> 00:24:27,000
\nNebuchadnezzar was not going to
\ngive up easily on that. <\/p>\n

336
\n00:24:27,120 –> 00:24:31,320
\nHe hadn’t even tried to to
\npersist with that with Daniel. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:24:31,480 –> 00:24:34,320
\nBut now there’s psychological
\nwarfare. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:24:35,000 –> 00:24:38,160
\nNebuchadnezzar doesn’t have to
\ngo browbeating them all the <\/p>\n

339
\n00:24:38,160 –> 00:24:40,120
\ntime.
\nAll he has to do is keep on <\/p>\n

340
\n00:24:40,120 –> 00:24:46,400
\ncalling them by their Babylonian
\nnames as a part as opposed to <\/p>\n

341
\n00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:51,240
\ntheir Hebrew names.
\nAnd really what Babylon was <\/p>\n

342
\n00:24:51,240 –> 00:24:55,240
\ndoing, and Nebuchadnezzar in
\nparticular, young people, he was<\/p>\n

343
\n00:24:55,240 –> 00:25:01,800
\ntaking another tack.
\nThey had been proved in their <\/p>\n

344
\n00:25:01,800 –> 00:25:05,960
\nintegrity in chapter 1 to be 10
\ntimes better than anything else,<\/p>\n

345
\n00:25:06,240 –> 00:25:08,440
\nany of the others that had been
\nunder that test. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:25:10,520 –> 00:25:15,800
\nBut the world doesn’t give up
\nthat easily in trying to make <\/p>\n

347
\n00:25:16,840 –> 00:25:22,280
\nthe young intellectuals conform
\nto it’s thinking and it’s <\/p>\n

348
\n00:25:22,280 –> 00:25:26,320
\nbehaviour.
\nYou know, I believe young people<\/p>\n

349
\n00:25:26,320 –> 00:25:31,960
\nthat the events of Chapter 3 of
\nDaniel are even more relevant, <\/p>\n

350
\n00:25:32,680 –> 00:25:36,000
\nand it’s the reason that we’ve
\nchosen tonight to concentrate on<\/p>\n

351
\n00:25:36,000 –> 00:25:39,080
\nChapter 3 as opposed to Chapter
\n1. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:25:39,520 –> 00:25:42,040
\nIt’s not that there are no
\nlessons in Chapter 1 for young <\/p>\n

353
\n00:25:42,040 –> 00:25:43,200
\npeople.
\nThere certainly are. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:25:43,200 –> 00:25:47,520
\nThere’s lessons for us all.
\nBut Chapter 3, I believe, is <\/p>\n

355
\n00:25:47,520 –> 00:25:51,200
\neven more relevant to young
\npeople generally. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:25:51,200 –> 00:25:56,280
\nI’ll tell you why.
\nWe find in Chapter 3 that Daniel<\/p>\n

357
\n00:25:56,280 –> 00:26:00,160
\nis not there.
\nIn other words, the leader is <\/p>\n

358
\n00:26:00,160 –> 00:26:03,040
\nnot present.
\nNow that’s important. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:26:03,880 –> 00:26:08,120
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
\nare always mentioned together in<\/p>\n

360
\n00:26:08,120 –> 00:26:10,800
\nChapter 3.
\nAlways, without exception. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:26:10,800 –> 00:26:14,960
\nThey are never, ever separated.
\nThere is no clear leader amongst<\/p>\n

362
\n00:26:15,160 –> 00:26:18,000
\nany of those 3.
\nApart from that, they’re named <\/p>\n

363
\n00:26:18,000 –> 00:26:21,520
\nthe same way each time, but
\nthey’re always kept together. <\/p>\n

364
\n00:26:22,040 –> 00:26:25,920
\nAnd here are here we’re
\npresented with three ordinary <\/p>\n

365
\n00:26:26,560 –> 00:26:30,880
\nChristadelphian young people.
\nNow, I think that’s very <\/p>\n

366
\n00:26:30,880 –> 00:26:33,880
\nimportant.
\nThey had grown up in the truth. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:26:34,600 –> 00:26:37,600
\nThey’re in a strange land where
\nthey didn’t really belong, and <\/p>\n

368
\n00:26:37,600 –> 00:26:39,800
\nthere’s enormous pressures to
\nconform. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:26:40,080 –> 00:26:43,160
\nAnd when they first got there,
\nthere was a strong character <\/p>\n

370
\n00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:47,080
\nlike Daniel who influenced them
\nand and encouraged them to stand<\/p>\n

371
\n00:26:47,080 –> 00:26:50,640
\nup for what was right and talked
\nabout the Bible and Jeremiah’s <\/p>\n

372
\n00:26:50,640 –> 00:26:56,960
\nprophecies with Daniel.
\nAnd now Daniel’s not there and <\/p>\n

373
\n00:26:56,960 –> 00:27:00,960
\nthey’re, in their own eyes, just
\nordinary young people. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:27:05,120 –> 00:27:09,400
\nWhat are they going to do?
\nThey’re without the support of a<\/p>\n

375
\n00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:12,840
\nleader.
\nThey’re without the support of <\/p>\n

376
\n00:27:12,840 –> 00:27:15,960
\ntheir family.
\nThey’re without the support of <\/p>\n

377
\n00:27:15,960 –> 00:27:20,280
\nthe ecclesia.
\nThey’re just three young people <\/p>\n

378
\n00:27:20,720 –> 00:27:23,760
\nwho have to make a decision
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:27:25,440 –> 00:27:30,200
\nAnd young people, that’s the
\nsituation that you and I find <\/p>\n

380
\n00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:35,560
\nourselves in almost every day of
\nour lives, living in the middle <\/p>\n

381
\n00:27:36,240 –> 00:27:39,760
\nof Babylon.
\nAnd we don’t always have a <\/p>\n

382
\n00:27:39,760 –> 00:27:45,360
\nDaniel standing alongside us.
\nAnd we don’t always have our <\/p>\n

383
\n00:27:45,360 –> 00:27:50,520
\nfathers or mothers or support
\nstanding alongside us every time<\/p>\n

384
\n00:27:51,080 –> 00:27:53,560
\na test comes upon it.
\nAnd I believe, young people, <\/p>\n

385
\n00:27:53,560 –> 00:27:58,040
\nthat Daniel chapter 3 is an
\nessential chapter of the Bible <\/p>\n

386
\n00:27:58,040 –> 00:28:01,120
\nfor every young teenager to come
\nto grips with. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:28:01,840 –> 00:28:04,080
\nIf you don’t know anything much
\nabout this and you haven’t <\/p>\n

388
\n00:28:04,080 –> 00:28:07,760
\nmarked up some of the principles
\nout of Daniel chapter 3, make it<\/p>\n

389
\n00:28:07,760 –> 00:28:13,040
\na determination after tonight to
\ndo it because you are fighting <\/p>\n

390
\n00:28:13,280 –> 00:28:15,880
\nthe exact issues that are in
\nthis chapter. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:28:16,680 –> 00:28:21,160
\nThere is a king out there who is
\ndetermined to make you bow the <\/p>\n

392
\n00:28:21,160 –> 00:28:25,360
\nknee, just as determined as
\nNebuchadnezzar was in the days <\/p>\n

393
\n00:28:25,360 –> 00:28:28,040
\nwhen Shadrach, Meshach, and
\nAbednego stood. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:28:28,360 –> 00:28:31,400
\nAnd this chapter is an amazing
\npiece of scripture. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:28:31,960 –> 00:28:35,200
\nIt is so different from anything
\nelse that appears in the book of<\/p>\n

396
\n00:28:35,200 –> 00:28:38,000
\nDaniel.
\nIf you, I guarantee that if I <\/p>\n

397
\n00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:40,720
\nasked everyone in this hall
\ntonight just to get a piece of <\/p>\n

398
\n00:28:40,720 –> 00:28:45,160
\npaper and for you to write down
\nthe story that’s contained in <\/p>\n

399
\n00:28:45,160 –> 00:28:47,520
\nDaniel Chapter 3, because we’ve
\njust read it and we’ve all known<\/p>\n

400
\n00:28:47,520 –> 00:28:50,520
\nit since we were this high.
\nIf we grew up in the truth. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:28:50,520 –> 00:28:53,680
\nWe’ve all heard the story at
\nSunday school and we all know <\/p>\n

402
\n00:28:53,680 –> 00:28:56,160
\nour children love the story.
\nIt’s a dramatic story. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:28:56,320 –> 00:29:02,040
\nI guarantee that if I asked you
\nto write down on paper the story<\/p>\n

404
\n00:29:02,040 –> 00:29:05,280
\nof this chapter of Daniel and
\nhis three friends in the fiery <\/p>\n

405
\n00:29:05,280 –> 00:29:12,680
\nfurnace, there wouldn’t be one
\nsingle person in this hall who <\/p>\n

406
\n00:29:12,680 –> 00:29:17,280
\nwrote it down like this.
\nNot one. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:29:21,360 –> 00:29:26,360
\nI wouldn’t write it like this.
\nThe repetition in this chapter <\/p>\n

408
\n00:29:26,480 –> 00:29:31,040
\nis absolutely astounding.
\nAnd on the Bible marking sheet, <\/p>\n

409
\n00:29:31,040 –> 00:29:33,320
\nthere’s a list of some of those
\nthings that you can follow <\/p>\n

410
\n00:29:33,360 –> 00:29:35,840
\nthrough.
\nBut we’re going to have to read <\/p>\n

411
\n00:29:35,840 –> 00:29:37,480
\ncarefully.
\nYou know, we might must have <\/p>\n

412
\n00:29:37,480 –> 00:29:39,520
\nread Daniel chapter 3 so many
\ntimes. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:29:39,520 –> 00:29:40,760
\nWe’re so familiar with the
\nstory. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:29:41,000 –> 00:29:44,480
\nBut when we are familiar with
\nthings, we read straight over <\/p>\n

415
\n00:29:44,480 –> 00:29:47,560
\nvery important principles.
\nAnd whenever the Scripture <\/p>\n

416
\n00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:51,760
\nrepeats and continually repeats
\nover and over and over again, <\/p>\n

417
\n00:29:51,760 –> 00:29:55,320
\nsomething in very short
\nsuccession, we’ve got to sit up <\/p>\n

418
\n00:29:55,320 –> 00:29:59,080
\nand listen.
\nAnd the divined mind has <\/p>\n

419
\n00:29:59,080 –> 00:30:03,120
\nrecorded something in here
\nthat’s attempting to make us sit<\/p>\n

420
\n00:30:03,120 –> 00:30:08,920
\nup and listen very carefully
\nbecause there’s some essential <\/p>\n

421
\n00:30:08,920 –> 00:30:13,440
\nissues of life contained here.
\nLet’s come to verse one. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:30:14,120 –> 00:30:17,680
\nNebuchadnezzar, the king, made
\nan image of gold whose height <\/p>\n

423
\n00:30:17,680 –> 00:30:20,440
\nwas 3 score cubits and the
\nbreadth thereof was 6 cubits. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:26,200
\nAnd he set it up in the plain of
\nJura in the province of Babylon.<\/p>\n

425
\n00:30:27,080 –> 00:30:31,400
\nAll very interesting.
\nAnd so we start the story, but <\/p>\n

426
\n00:30:31,400 –> 00:30:35,280
\nthere are at least three very
\nclear connections back to <\/p>\n

427
\n00:30:35,280 –> 00:30:37,760
\nchapter 1.
\nOne of them is very obvious on <\/p>\n

428
\n00:30:37,760 –> 00:30:40,240
\nthe surface.
\nThe other two may not be quite <\/p>\n

429
\n00:30:40,240 –> 00:30:42,240
\nso obvious.
\nThe one that’s very obvious is <\/p>\n

430
\n00:30:42,240 –> 00:30:45,040
\nthe made an image of gold.
\nThe word image there is exactly <\/p>\n

431
\n00:30:45,040 –> 00:30:48,360
\nthe same word that’s used for
\nimage in chapter 2 of the image <\/p>\n

432
\n00:30:48,360 –> 00:30:51,320
\nthat Nebuchadnezzar saw.
\nBut this time it’s all of gold. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:30:51,440 –> 00:30:53,360
\nAnd that has to be a challenge,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n

434
\n00:30:53,520 –> 00:30:56,120
\nBecause the image that
\nNebuchadnezzar of all people <\/p>\n

435
\n00:30:56,120 –> 00:30:59,000
\nsaw, and now it’s Nebuchadnezzar
\nsetting up this new one, the one<\/p>\n

436
\n00:30:59,000 –> 00:31:01,360
\nthat Nebuchadnezzar saw only had
\na head of gold. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:31:01,560 –> 00:31:04,920
\nAnd he was told what that meant.
\nNebuchadnezzar, you are the head<\/p>\n

438
\n00:31:04,920 –> 00:31:08,760
\nof gold.
\nYou are the, the, the crowning <\/p>\n

439
\n00:31:08,760 –> 00:31:13,280
\npinnacle of the kingdoms of men.
\nBut under you there’s an <\/p>\n

440
\n00:31:13,280 –> 00:31:16,040
\ninferior Kingdom that’s going to
\ntake over for you, and you are <\/p>\n

441
\n00:31:16,040 –> 00:31:17,880
\nnot going to keep on going
\nforever. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:31:17,880 –> 00:31:21,200
\nThat was a clear message which
\nwas given to him by Daniel. <\/p>\n

443
\n00:31:21,440 –> 00:31:24,520
\nAnd now straight after that,
\nNebuchadnezzar sets up an image <\/p>\n

444
\n00:31:24,560 –> 00:31:29,200
\nof pure gold from head to foot.
\nNow, if that wasn’t an open and <\/p>\n

445
\n00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:32,800
\ndirect challenge to the vision
\nwhich he’d already seen and had <\/p>\n

446
\n00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,440
\ninterpreted for him, I don’t
\nknow what was. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:31:36,280 –> 00:31:41,280
\nSo it’s set in that setting, but
\nthere’s more to it than that. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:31:41,840 –> 00:31:45,440
\nIt tells us that Nebuchadnezzar
\nset it up. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:48,480
\nIt wasn’t just his counsellors
\nor Princess. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:31:48,640 –> 00:31:51,840
\nHe didn’t go and get those who
\nwere over this province of <\/p>\n

451
\n00:31:51,840 –> 00:31:53,800
\nBabylon to do it.
\nDo you know who was over the <\/p>\n

452
\n00:31:53,800 –> 00:31:57,720
\nprovince of Babylon?
\nWell, the end of chapter 2 says <\/p>\n

453
\n00:31:57,840 –> 00:32:00,760
\nthat Shadrach, Meshach, and
\nAbednego were over the province <\/p>\n

454
\n00:32:00,760 –> 00:32:03,880
\nof Babylon.
\nAnd now he goes straight over <\/p>\n

455
\n00:32:03,880 –> 00:32:08,000
\ntheir heads and sets up in the
\nprovince that he’s given them to<\/p>\n

456
\n00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:11,280
\nrule over.
\nHe sets up this image without <\/p>\n

457
\n00:32:11,280 –> 00:32:14,640
\ntheir knowledge.
\nWhy did he do it? <\/p>\n

458
\n00:32:14,760 –> 00:32:18,360
\nObviously he knew what they’d
\nthink of because they were <\/p>\n

459
\n00:32:18,360 –> 00:32:21,520
\nfriends of Daniel.
\nAnd that is repeated. <\/p>\n

460
\n00:32:21,520 –> 00:32:26,120
\nIf you think that’s unimportant,
\nthat phrase, he Nebuchadnezzar, <\/p>\n

461
\n00:32:26,120 –> 00:32:30,960
\nthat is, he set it up, occurs 9
\ntimes in this chapter. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:33,720
\nNow if we didn’t know after
\nverse one that it was <\/p>\n

463
\n00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:37,440
\nNebuchadnezzar that set up, we’d
\nbe rather dull. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:32:37,840 –> 00:32:41,760
\nBut we’re told time and time
\nagain every time we meet that <\/p>\n

465
\n00:32:41,760 –> 00:32:45,960
\nimage that it was the image that
\nNebuchadnezzar had set up. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:32:46,640 –> 00:32:48,320
\nAnd it’s repeated over and over
\nagain. <\/p>\n

467
\n00:32:48,480 –> 00:32:54,040
\nThis is quite clearly a very
\ndirect challenge in the face of <\/p>\n

468
\n00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:57,680
\nthat image, which he’d seen.
\nBut there’s something else that <\/p>\n

469
\n00:32:57,680 –> 00:33:00,560
\nmight not be on the surface so
\namazing. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:33:02,200 –> 00:33:06,440
\nThe chapter starts,
\nNebuchadnezzar the King. <\/p>\n

471
\n00:33:08,520 –> 00:33:13,920
\nDo you know that title
\nNebuchadnezzar the King doesn’t <\/p>\n

472
\n00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:20,000
\noccur outside of this chapter
\napart from verse 1 of chapter 4 <\/p>\n

473
\n00:33:21,240 –> 00:33:24,320
\nand between verse 1 of chapter 3
\nand verse 1 of chapter 4? <\/p>\n

474
\n00:33:24,320 –> 00:33:30,000
\nIt occurs 9 times.
\nIt never occurs outside there. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:33:30,280 –> 00:33:34,440
\nNever have we got Nebuchadnezzar
\nand the King put together as a <\/p>\n

476
\n00:33:34,440 –> 00:33:37,720
\nformal, pompous, official,
\npowerful title. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:33:38,600 –> 00:33:44,440
\nBut now, as if to to emphasize
\nthat it’s Nebuchadnezzar, the <\/p>\n

478
\n00:33:44,440 –> 00:33:51,240
\nsupreme king of the world, it’s
\nrepeated over over ad nauseam <\/p>\n

479
\n00:33:52,280 –> 00:33:56,800
\nwith deliberate intent.
\nThat’s how this how this starts.<\/p>\n

480
\n00:33:57,120 –> 00:33:59,760
\nAnd if you don’t think that
\nthat’s the intention of that <\/p>\n

481
\n00:33:59,760 –> 00:34:02,960
\ntitle, you’re going to chapter 4
\nand verse one, the only other <\/p>\n

482
\n00:34:02,960 –> 00:34:04,880
\nplace outside this chapter that
\nit occurs. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:34:05,160 –> 00:34:09,719
\nAnd we read Nebuchadnezzar, the
\nking, and to all people, <\/p>\n

484
\n00:34:09,840 –> 00:34:13,239
\nnations, languages that dwell on
\nthe face of the earth, or in all<\/p>\n

485
\n00:34:13,239 –> 00:34:14,760
\nthe earth, peace be multiplied
\nunto you. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:34:14,760 –> 00:34:18,840
\nAnd so he goes on and say, so
\nhe’s commanding the attention of<\/p>\n

487
\n00:34:18,840 –> 00:34:24,199
\nthe then known world and drawing
\nattention to himself as the <\/p>\n

488
\n00:34:24,199 –> 00:34:28,960
\nsupreme might.
\nThat’s exactly what that image <\/p>\n

489
\n00:34:28,960 –> 00:34:32,520
\nwas meant to portray.
\nHe had that intention to draw <\/p>\n

490
\n00:34:32,560 –> 00:34:38,440
\nthe attention of all the world
\nto his might and his supremacy <\/p>\n

491
\n00:34:38,679 –> 00:34:40,159
\nand get all the world to bow
\ndown. <\/p>\n

492
\n00:34:40,840 –> 00:34:43,280
\nSo it’s a testimony to his
\narrogance and to his self <\/p>\n

493
\n00:34:43,280 –> 00:34:46,360
\nimportance.
\nBut we just read, read straight <\/p>\n

494
\n00:34:46,400 –> 00:34:49,239
\nover a number of other things in
\nchapter, in verse one there, for<\/p>\n

495
\n00:34:49,239 –> 00:34:53,120
\nexample, the dimensions of the
\nimage and its location. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:34:53,920 –> 00:34:58,480
\nYou see, it was 60 cubits by 6
\ncubits. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:34:58,760 –> 00:35:02,960
\nAnyone that identity about the
\nBible would have to immediately <\/p>\n

498
\n00:35:02,960 –> 00:35:06,560
\nsee the connection with flesh
\nthere, 6 being the number of <\/p>\n

499
\n00:35:06,560 –> 00:35:09,600
\nflesh.
\nBut it’s an impressive image, a <\/p>\n

500
\n00:35:09,600 –> 00:35:14,520
\nvery impressive image.
\nAnd this image was 9 stories <\/p>\n

501
\n00:35:14,520 –> 00:35:17,040
\nhigh.
\nAnd where did he set it? <\/p>\n

502
\n00:35:17,280 –> 00:35:19,480
\nIn the middle.
\nMiddle of all Babylon’s high <\/p>\n

503
\n00:35:19,480 –> 00:35:25,440
\nrise buildings?
\nNo, out on the plain of Jura, <\/p>\n

504
\n00:35:25,640 –> 00:35:30,440
\nwhere a nine Storey image would
\nlook amazingly impressive when <\/p>\n

505
\n00:35:30,440 –> 00:35:33,600
\nyou walked into it from miles
\naway you would see this <\/p>\n

506
\n00:35:33,600 –> 00:35:38,640
\nglistening in the sun, this
\ngigantic image when everyone <\/p>\n

507
\n00:35:38,640 –> 00:35:40,800
\nfrom all over his province was
\ndrawn there. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:35:40,960 –> 00:35:45,560
\nIt was there to impress.
\nImpress the ice. <\/p>\n

509
\n00:35:47,360 –> 00:35:51,400
\nNebuchadnezzar was no fool.
\nHe might have been a selfish <\/p>\n

510
\n00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:53,440
\nself-centered man, but he was no
\nfool. <\/p>\n

511
\n00:35:54,440 –> 00:36:00,080
\nAnd there was the symbol of
\nflesh to be glorified and <\/p>\n

512
\n00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:03,080
\nworshipped.
\nAnd what a challenge that was to<\/p>\n

513
\n00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:06,520
\nthe might of Yahweh said in the
\nplain of Jura. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:36:06,760 –> 00:36:09,960
\nThe word Jura means a circle
\nwhich really has the idea of <\/p>\n

515
\n00:36:09,960 –> 00:36:13,800
\neternity.
\nAnd there he thought he was <\/p>\n

516
\n00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:17,200
\ngoing to set up his Kingdom for
\neternity. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:18,920
\nAnd look who he called.
\nVerse 2. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:36:18,920 –> 00:36:22,080
\nNebuchadnezzar the king sent
\ntogether together the Princess, <\/p>\n

519
\n00:36:22,080 –> 00:36:25,320
\nthe governors, the captains, the
\njudges, the treasurers, the <\/p>\n

520
\n00:36:25,320 –> 00:36:28,160
\ncounselors, sheriffs, and all
\nthe provinces, rules of the <\/p>\n

521
\n00:36:28,160 –> 00:36:30,800
\nprovinces, to come to the
\ndedication of the image which <\/p>\n

522
\n00:36:31,240 –> 00:36:33,760
\nNebuchadnezzar the king had set
\nup. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:38,880
\nRepetitious, isn’t it?
\nWhy didn’t he say he gathered <\/p>\n

524
\n00:36:38,880 –> 00:36:42,440
\ntogether all the intelligentsia
\nand all the rulers from all over<\/p>\n

525
\n00:36:42,560 –> 00:36:44,440
\nthem, all over his realm?
\nWhy didn’t he say that? <\/p>\n

526
\n00:36:45,960 –> 00:36:51,240
\nWell, he mentions them everyone
\nby name, to impress us with just<\/p>\n

527
\n00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:55,520
\nhow many there were and how
\nimportant were all their titles,<\/p>\n

528
\n00:36:55,720 –> 00:36:58,520
\nand that from the highest to the
\nlowest of all his rulers were <\/p>\n

529
\n00:36:58,520 –> 00:37:00,480
\nthere.
\nAnd verse 3 repeats all that <\/p>\n

530
\n00:37:00,480 –> 00:37:06,040
\nsame list again and tells us
\nthat they all, without <\/p>\n

531
\n00:37:06,040 –> 00:37:12,240
\nexception, came.
\nThis is very impressive. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:37:13,280 –> 00:37:18,920
\nEverybody was coming and
\nprepared to conform to the <\/p>\n

533
\n00:37:18,920 –> 00:37:23,200
\ninvitation of this great king
\nwhere the emphasis was on <\/p>\n

534
\n00:37:23,200 –> 00:37:26,760
\ngrandeur and pomp and ceremony
\nto impress the flesh. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:37:27,360 –> 00:37:30,480
\nAnd they all stood in front
\nverse 3, right at the end of <\/p>\n

536
\n00:37:30,480 –> 00:37:32,760
\nverse 3, we find and they stood
\nbefore the image that <\/p>\n

537
\n00:37:32,760 –> 00:37:35,840
\nNebuchadnezzar had set up.
\nThe word stood before means to <\/p>\n

538
\n00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:39,480
\nstand in front of.
\nAnd this is where all of these <\/p>\n

539
\n00:37:39,800 –> 00:37:44,600
\nthese captains and judges and
\ntreasurers stood right down the <\/p>\n

540
\n00:37:44,640 –> 00:37:46,840
\nfront, right at the foot of this
\nimage. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:37:47,120 –> 00:37:53,440
\nSo they’re staring up at this
\nnine story high image, a massive<\/p>\n

542
\n00:37:53,760 –> 00:37:57,920
\nstructure.
\nAnd behind them are countless <\/p>\n

543
\n00:37:58,240 –> 00:38:00,720
\nmillions of people.
\nThere are hundreds of thousands,<\/p>\n

544
\n00:38:00,720 –> 00:38:04,600
\nprobably of people that had been
\ngathered and called to witness <\/p>\n

545
\n00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:11,640
\nthis inaugural ceremony where
\nNebuchadnezzar himself was going<\/p>\n

546
\n00:38:11,640 –> 00:38:14,360
\nto be worshipped in the image
\nthat he’d made. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:22,920
\nAnd just think, Shadrach,
\nMeshach and Abednego are right <\/p>\n

548
\n00:38:23,120 –> 00:38:30,120
\ndown the front with all of those
\ncaptains and judges and <\/p>\n

549
\n00:38:30,120 –> 00:38:39,960
\ntreasurers right in the front
\nrow where everybody, no matter <\/p>\n

550
\n00:38:39,960 –> 00:38:41,920
\nwhere they stood, could see
\nthem. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:38:41,920 –> 00:38:47,280
\nAnd we find in verse 4 and
\nHarold cried aloud or as the <\/p>\n

552
\n00:38:47,280 –> 00:38:51,320
\nmargin says with might do you,
\nit’s commanded O people, nations<\/p>\n

553
\n00:38:51,320 –> 00:38:53,800
\nand languages.
\nAnd so he goes on to tell them <\/p>\n

554
\n00:38:53,800 –> 00:38:58,400
\nall of the the details of what
\nthey had to do when they heard <\/p>\n

555
\n00:38:58,400 –> 00:39:00,320
\nthe sound of all of these
\ninstruments. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:39:00,320 –> 00:39:02,360
\nThey had to fall down and
\nworship the golden image that <\/p>\n

557
\n00:39:02,360 –> 00:39:06,600
\nNebuchadnezzar had made.
\nBut it was a command. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:10,560
\nDid you notice in verse 4?
\nAnd you, it’s commanded. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:39:11,800 –> 00:39:15,560
\nThere wasn’t any option.
\nThere wasn’t any opportunity for<\/p>\n

560
\n00:39:15,560 –> 00:39:19,400
\nconscientious objection.
\nAnd I’d like you to notice just <\/p>\n

561
\n00:39:19,400 –> 00:39:23,640
\nin passing, and we’ll come back
\nto this in a moment, who he <\/p>\n

562
\n00:39:23,640 –> 00:39:31,880
\ncommanded that law to says, O
\npeople, nations and languages. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:39:31,880 –> 00:39:34,640
\nJust make a mental note of that
\nfor the moment. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:39:36,000 –> 00:39:38,560
\nAnd then we find in verse 5 that
\nthis was with the command that <\/p>\n

565
\n00:39:38,560 –> 00:39:42,680
\nat what time you hear the sound
\nof a cornet, flute, harp, <\/p>\n

566
\n00:39:42,680 –> 00:39:47,160
\nsackbuck, sultry dulcimer, and
\nall kinds of music, you fall <\/p>\n

567
\n00:39:47,160 –> 00:39:51,440
\ndown and worship the golden
\nimage that Nebuchadnezzar had <\/p>\n

568
\n00:39:51,440 –> 00:39:55,360
\nset up.
\nThat goes on and on, repeats. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:39:56,520 –> 00:40:00,080
\nAnd if they don’t fall down,
\nwhoseover falleth not down, and <\/p>\n

570
\n00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:03,240
\nworship the same hour shall be
\ncast in the midst of a burning <\/p>\n

571
\n00:40:03,240 –> 00:40:06,640
\nfiery furnace.
\nSo it’s not only a command, <\/p>\n

572
\n00:40:06,640 –> 00:40:11,280
\nthere’s also real might to this
\nlaw that’s going out. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:40:12,080 –> 00:40:16,000
\nAnd so there was a signal when
\nthey were to worship the flesh, <\/p>\n

574
\n00:40:16,240 –> 00:40:19,960
\nthere was a signal, and that
\nsignal was music, 6 instruments.<\/p>\n

575
\n00:40:20,120 –> 00:40:22,080
\nSo you can imagine what kind of
\nmusic it was. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:40:22,240 –> 00:40:25,560
\nIt was there to arouse the
\nflesh, to incite the flesh to <\/p>\n

577
\n00:40:25,560 –> 00:40:31,520
\nbow down, and to glorify an
\nimage of a man who thought he’d <\/p>\n

578
\n00:40:31,520 –> 00:40:36,320
\nbeen elevated into heaven above
\nYahweh in the heavens. <\/p>\n

579
\n00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,920
\nThat’s what it was all about.
\nAnd music is a very, very <\/p>\n

580
\n00:40:39,920 –> 00:40:42,840
\npowerful medium, a very powerful
\nmedium. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:40:43,080 –> 00:40:47,280
\nAnd it was used on this occasion
\nby Nebuchadnezzar to make all <\/p>\n

582
\n00:40:47,280 –> 00:40:51,920
\npeoples of his realm to fall
\ndown on their knees and worship <\/p>\n

583
\n00:40:52,000 –> 00:41:00,880
\nthe flesh.
\nAnd if they didn’t, if there was<\/p>\n

584
\n00:41:00,880 –> 00:41:07,560
\nno voluntary response, then they
\nwould get a little help, a <\/p>\n

585
\n00:41:07,560 –> 00:41:12,320
\nlittle taste of the fiery
\nfurnace, and perhaps that might <\/p>\n

586
\n00:41:12,320 –> 00:41:16,080
\nconvince them to drop onto their
\nknees. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:41:16,560 –> 00:41:19,400
\nAnd for the majority, if any had
\nstood up, it certainly would <\/p>\n

588
\n00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:22,440
\nhave helped.
\nAnd did you notice that that <\/p>\n

589
\n00:41:22,440 –> 00:41:27,960
\nfurnace is not just called a
\nfurnace, It’s called a burning <\/p>\n

590
\n00:41:28,560 –> 00:41:33,600
\nfiery furnace.
\nThis was no ordinary furnace. <\/p>\n

591
\n00:41:34,320 –> 00:41:37,920
\nAnd did you notice in the record
\nit’s mentioned 8 times. <\/p>\n

592
\n00:41:39,000 –> 00:41:41,920
\nThat’s very significant.
\nWe’ll come back to that later. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:41:42,480 –> 00:41:46,320
\nBut it’s mentioned 8 times.
\nAnd so if a person refused to <\/p>\n

594
\n00:41:46,320 –> 00:41:49,440
\nbow down and worship the flesh,
\nwhat was going to happen? <\/p>\n

595
\n00:41:49,760 –> 00:41:56,080
\nThey would be sacrificed to
\nBabylon’s God of the fire, and <\/p>\n

596
\n00:41:56,080 –> 00:42:00,520
\nNebuchadnezzar would still be
\nsupreme. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:42:02,280 –> 00:42:09,480
\nHe would not allow any challenge
\nhe had within his hand the power<\/p>\n

598
\n00:42:09,480 –> 00:42:13,800
\nto do anything he wanted.
\nMen’s lives danced on his palm. <\/p>\n

599
\n00:42:14,000 –> 00:42:20,800
\nIf he said that’s the end of
\nyou, that was the end, or so he <\/p>\n

600
\n00:42:20,800 –> 00:42:24,440
\nthought.
\nAnd we find in verse 7, <\/p>\n

601
\n00:42:24,720 –> 00:42:29,000
\ntherefore, at that time when all
\nthe people heard the sound of <\/p>\n

602
\n00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:31,360
\nthe quornet, the flute, the
\nheart, the sackpot, the sultry, <\/p>\n

603
\n00:42:31,360 –> 00:42:33,840
\nand all kinds of music, see,
\nthey’re all repeated, all six of<\/p>\n

604
\n00:42:33,840 –> 00:42:39,760
\nthem repeated again, all
\nunderline it, Young people, all <\/p>\n

605
\n00:42:39,760 –> 00:42:43,520
\nthe people, the nations and the
\nlanguages. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:42:43,520 –> 00:42:48,200
\nThere’s that same phrase fell
\ndown and worshipped the golden <\/p>\n

607
\n00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:52,040
\nimage that Nebuchadnezzar the
\nking had set up. <\/p>\n

608
\n00:42:52,400 –> 00:42:57,400
\nAll his policies are are working
\n100%. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:42:58,920 –> 00:43:04,520
\nDebbie could never.
\nThe thing has now got everyone <\/p>\n

610
\n00:43:04,520 –> 00:43:07,640
\non their knees just where he
\nwanted them. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:43:09,200 –> 00:43:12,440
\nOr so he thought.
\nI want you to think young people<\/p>\n

612
\n00:43:12,680 –> 00:43:18,440
\nof Shadrach, Meshach and
\nAbednego, they’re in the front <\/p>\n

613
\n00:43:18,520 –> 00:43:24,640
\nrow and they’re standing there
\nwith everyone else. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:43:26,680 –> 00:43:35,360
\nAnd the music starts and they
\nsee all around them people <\/p>\n

615
\n00:43:35,360 –> 00:43:38,840
\nstarting to go down.
\nAnd the music reaches A <\/p>\n

616
\n00:43:38,840 –> 00:43:43,080
\ncrescendo and it’s getting
\nlouder and louder. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:47,720
\nAnd they look at the corner of
\ntheir eye and they can’t see <\/p>\n

618
\n00:43:47,720 –> 00:43:51,600
\nanyone else standing.
\nAnd they look around and there’s<\/p>\n

619
\n00:43:51,600 –> 00:43:57,520
\nno one else anywhere standing.
\nWhat do you think their knees <\/p>\n

620
\n00:43:57,520 –> 00:44:02,800
\nwere feeling like?
\nEver felt weak in the knees? <\/p>\n

621
\n00:44:04,880 –> 00:44:08,880
\nI guarantee that day they were.
\nThey could have easily <\/p>\n

622
\n00:44:08,880 –> 00:44:11,080
\nrationalized that.
\nEasily rationalized. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:44:13,200 –> 00:44:19,040
\nThey could have said in their
\nminds, well, really we’ve only <\/p>\n

624
\n00:44:19,040 –> 00:44:22,200
\njust been honoured by
\nNebuchadnezzar and we probably <\/p>\n

625
\n00:44:22,200 –> 00:44:25,000
\nshould be thankful for that.
\nWe ought to offend him, of <\/p>\n

626
\n00:44:25,440 –> 00:44:28,520
\ncourse, if we do, if we do bow
\ndown at this case, it wouldn’t <\/p>\n

627
\n00:44:28,520 –> 00:44:32,680
\nreally mean that that we were
\nworshipping his gods. <\/p>\n

628
\n00:44:32,680 –> 00:44:35,800
\nAnd we could explain that to him
\nafterwards so that he understood<\/p>\n

629
\n00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:37,280
\nthat we weren’t worshiping his
\ngods. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:44:37,640 –> 00:44:41,080
\nAnd and anyway, what’s the use
\nof really just sacrificing our <\/p>\n

631
\n00:44:41,080 –> 00:44:43,000
\nlives for such a pointless
\nexercise? <\/p>\n

632
\n00:44:44,120 –> 00:44:45,720
\nI mean, after all, what would
\nthat really achieve? <\/p>\n

633
\n00:44:45,720 –> 00:44:48,280
\nSurely we’ve got a greater work
\nto do here in Babylon. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:44:48,400 –> 00:44:50,280
\nSurely we can encourage the
\nyoung captives. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:44:50,280 –> 00:44:51,920
\nWe know something about what
\nDaniel said. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:44:52,320 –> 00:44:57,480
\nSurely Let’s just go down and
\nwe’ll explain them. <\/p>\n

637
\n00:44:57,560 –> 00:45:02,720
\nEverything.
\nSounds plausible, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

638
\n00:45:05,200 –> 00:45:07,120
\nI wonder how many of us would
\nhave taken that line. <\/p>\n

639
\n00:45:08,800 –> 00:45:15,640
\nThey knew that to go to stand
\nupright young people, they knew <\/p>\n

640
\n00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:24,320
\nit meant certain death.
\nAnd remember this, that they <\/p>\n

641
\n00:45:24,320 –> 00:45:27,920
\ndidn’t know the end of this
\nstory like we do. <\/p>\n

642
\n00:45:29,160 –> 00:45:33,920
\nAll they knew was that
\nBabylonians were awfully <\/p>\n

643
\n00:45:33,920 –> 00:45:38,960
\nruthless, Whatever they said
\nthey meant. <\/p>\n

644
\n00:45:40,040 –> 00:45:42,560
\nAnd it didn’t matter about men’s
\nlives. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:45:44,120 –> 00:45:49,040
\nLife was awfully cheap in the
\nhands of a potentate like <\/p>\n

646
\n00:45:49,040 –> 00:45:53,040
\nNebuchadnezzar, and they’d seen
\nthat happen in their own <\/p>\n

647
\n00:45:53,040 –> 00:45:57,000
\ncountry.
\nAnd with that knowledge, it was <\/p>\n

648
\n00:45:57,000 –> 00:46:00,120
\nnot easy to stand up and be
\ncounted. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:46:00,120 –> 00:46:02,360
\nAnd they counted the cost, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:46:02,400 –> 00:46:07,920
\nThey counted the cost.
\nAnd the cost was their lives, <\/p>\n

651
\n00:46:10,080 –> 00:46:13,720
\nnothing less.
\nIt was their lives. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:46:14,600 –> 00:46:16,920
\nAnd there are many other
\nfaithfuls through many <\/p>\n

653
\n00:46:16,920 –> 00:46:20,600
\ngenerations who’ve faced exactly
\nthat same situation. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:46:21,360 –> 00:46:25,400
\nThey’ve counted the cough and
\nhave lost their lives. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:46:29,520 –> 00:46:31,760
\nYeah.
\nThey knew that Babylon’s days <\/p>\n

656
\n00:46:31,760 –> 00:46:35,280
\nwere numbered.
\nThey knew that because they’d <\/p>\n

657
\n00:46:35,280 –> 00:46:38,600
\nbeen in touch with Jeremiah
\nbefore they left, and they knew <\/p>\n

658
\n00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:41,360
\nthat Jeremiah had prophesied in
\n70 years and they would come out<\/p>\n

659
\n00:46:41,360 –> 00:46:43,640
\nof the land.
\nThey knew Babylon’s days were <\/p>\n

660
\n00:46:43,640 –> 00:46:51,360
\nnumbered, and they based their
\ndecision to stand up straight on<\/p>\n

661
\n00:46:51,360 –> 00:46:57,400
\nwhat they knew Jeremiah by the
\nword of Yahweh had said, and not<\/p>\n

662
\n00:46:57,720 –> 00:47:01,840
\non what they saw with their eyes
\nand heard with their ears. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:10,280
\nYoung people, that’s what faith
\nis all about, to make decisions <\/p>\n

664
\n00:47:10,440 –> 00:47:15,520
\nin everyday life that are based
\non what we know and believe are <\/p>\n

665
\n00:47:15,520 –> 00:47:20,360
\nright, despite what our ears and
\nour eyes are telling us. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:47:21,080 –> 00:47:25,840
\nBecause very often what we see
\nand we hear are very, very <\/p>\n

667
\n00:47:25,840 –> 00:47:30,960
\ndeceiving signals.
\nNow we’re faced and young <\/p>\n

668
\n00:47:30,960 –> 00:47:34,480
\npeople, you know that you’re
\nfaced with some very difficult <\/p>\n

669
\n00:47:34,480 –> 00:47:40,000
\nsituations at school, at
\nuniversities and sometimes in <\/p>\n

670
\n00:47:40,000 –> 00:47:43,360
\nthe workplace.
\nYou’re faced with the pressure <\/p>\n

671
\n00:47:43,680 –> 00:47:50,480
\nalmost daily to conform, to
\nconform to this age or not. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:47:51,280 –> 00:47:54,320
\nThere’s a decision and you’re
\nasked to stand up or drop onto <\/p>\n

673
\n00:47:54,320 –> 00:47:58,440
\nyour knees.
\nYou’re asked sometimes and have <\/p>\n

674
\n00:47:58,440 –> 00:48:02,160
\npressure put on you to go to
\nworldly parties. <\/p>\n

675
\n00:48:02,160 –> 00:48:06,200
\nWhat do you do?
\nDo you say no or say yes? <\/p>\n

676
\n00:48:06,880 –> 00:48:09,080
\nDo you stand up or do you get on
\nyour knees? <\/p>\n

677
\n00:48:10,040 –> 00:48:12,600
\nYou’re faced with the city in
\nthe schoolyard to join in with <\/p>\n

678
\n00:48:12,600 –> 00:48:15,880
\nall the crude jokes that are
\ngoing around and have a snigger.<\/p>\n

679
\n00:48:18,200 –> 00:48:20,280
\nHave a snigger.
\nDo you stay there? <\/p>\n

680
\n00:48:21,720 –> 00:48:23,720
\nDo you stand up or go on your
\nknees? <\/p>\n

681
\n00:48:25,120 –> 00:48:29,000
\nWell, learn to stand up and
\nthink of Shadrach, Meshach and <\/p>\n

682
\n00:48:29,000 –> 00:48:33,040
\nAbednego before that image with
\nhundreds of thousands of people <\/p>\n

683
\n00:48:33,040 –> 00:48:36,840
\nbehind watching them.
\nAnd you know, we we mentioned a <\/p>\n

684
\n00:48:36,840 –> 00:48:40,920
\nmoment ago this little phrase, O
\npeople, nations and languages. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:48:40,920 –> 00:48:45,120
\nAnd it was all the people,
\nnations and languages in verse 7<\/p>\n

686
\n00:48:45,280 –> 00:48:49,400
\nthat had fallen down onto their
\nknees. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:53,920
\nYeah, that phrase is used in
\nRevelation to describe all the <\/p>\n

688
\n00:48:53,920 –> 00:48:57,880
\nworld Revelation 5 without
\nturning to it. <\/p>\n

689
\n00:48:57,880 –> 00:49:00,440
\nAnd in verse 8 and 9 says and we
\nwould. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:49:00,880 –> 00:49:07,160
\nAnd that has redeemed us out of
\nevery kindred and tongue and <\/p>\n

691
\n00:49:07,160 –> 00:49:10,480
\npeople and nation.
\nAnd now we’ve got all the <\/p>\n

692
\n00:49:10,480 –> 00:49:14,760
\npeople’s nations tongues bowing
\ndown and they’re going to have <\/p>\n

693
\n00:49:14,760 –> 00:49:18,480
\nto stand out of that.
\nAnd that who’s that’s who’s <\/p>\n

694
\n00:49:18,480 –> 00:49:21,680
\nGod’s looking at?
\nBecause in the end, I counted <\/p>\n

695
\n00:49:21,680 –> 00:49:26,240
\namongst the redeemed are those
\nwho’ve come out of all peoples, <\/p>\n

696
\n00:49:26,280 –> 00:49:32,200
\nnations and tongues who didn’t
\nfit and didn’t conform to all <\/p>\n

697
\n00:49:32,200 –> 00:49:36,800
\ntheir ways because they belong
\nto a society that was very <\/p>\n

698
\n00:49:36,800 –> 00:49:39,480
\ndifferent.
\nAnd when they were in the midst <\/p>\n

699
\n00:49:39,480 –> 00:49:43,520
\nof a situation that they were
\nvery uncomfortable with, they <\/p>\n

700
\n00:49:43,520 –> 00:49:47,440
\nstood upright.
\nVerse 8. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:49:48,800 –> 00:49:51,640
\nWherefore at that time certain
\ncalled ines came near and <\/p>\n

702
\n00:49:51,640 –> 00:49:56,680
\naccused the Jews.
\nNotice the term, The word accuse<\/p>\n

703
\n00:49:56,680 –> 00:50:00,760
\nin the Septuagint is diabolo,
\nfrom which we get to the Greek <\/p>\n

704
\n00:50:00,760 –> 00:50:08,600
\nDiabolos falsely accuse and out
\nof jealousy they they accused <\/p>\n

705
\n00:50:08,600 –> 00:50:10,840
\nthese Jews before
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:50:11,040 –> 00:50:15,400
\nNebuchadnezzar may not have even
\nknown with such a vast crowd, <\/p>\n

707
\n00:50:15,640 –> 00:50:18,880
\nbut who did notice were all of
\nthose who were standing <\/p>\n

708
\n00:50:18,880 –> 00:50:21,920
\nalongside and all around.
\nAnd that seemed these three men <\/p>\n

709
\n00:50:21,920 –> 00:50:25,080
\njust raised to great prominence
\novernight. <\/p>\n

710
\n00:50:26,680 –> 00:50:30,800
\nAnd I hated them and what they
\nstood for and the fact that they<\/p>\n

711
\n00:50:30,800 –> 00:50:34,320
\ndidn’t really conform to
\nBabylonian ways. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:50:34,560 –> 00:50:36,920
\nLook at the accusations.
\nYou would expect them to go to <\/p>\n

713
\n00:50:36,920 –> 00:50:40,720
\nNebuchadnezzar and say, oh,
\nNebuchadnezzar, there are three <\/p>\n

714
\n00:50:40,720 –> 00:50:44,880
\nmen who are Jews who didn’t bow
\ndown to your image. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:50:45,160 –> 00:50:47,480
\nYou know, they said two other
\nthings before they said that. <\/p>\n

716
\n00:50:48,160 –> 00:50:50,680
\nNotice what they said in verse
\n12. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:50:51,280 –> 00:50:55,960
\nThe three things are these, that
\nthey haven’t regarded the king, <\/p>\n

718
\n00:50:57,720 –> 00:51:00,520
\nthat they have not served the
\nKing’s gods. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:51:01,840 –> 00:51:04,720
\nSo they’re introducing all these
\nother things and then that they <\/p>\n

720
\n00:51:04,720 –> 00:51:08,480
\nworship not the golden image.
\nAnd it’s very interesting that <\/p>\n

721
\n00:51:08,480 –> 00:51:11,680
\ntheir contemporaries very
\nclearly knew a lot more about <\/p>\n

722
\n00:51:11,680 –> 00:51:14,080
\nthem than what they saw on that
\nday. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:51:14,440 –> 00:51:18,480
\nThey knew that they did not
\nserve Babylonian gods. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:51:18,560 –> 00:51:22,520
\nNow, how did they know that?
\nBecause just them bowing down <\/p>\n

725
\n00:51:22,520 –> 00:51:28,000
\nthere on that day to that image
\nof Nebuchadnezzar was not going <\/p>\n

726
\n00:51:28,000 –> 00:51:34,760
\nto merely tell them that clearly
\nthey had spoken to these others <\/p>\n

727
\n00:51:34,960 –> 00:51:37,120
\nbefore.
\nAnd verse 13 goes on to say, <\/p>\n

728
\n00:51:38,040 –> 00:51:40,680
\nthen Nebuchadnezzar and his rage
\nand fury commanded to bring <\/p>\n

729
\n00:51:40,680 –> 00:51:42,720
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
\nand they were. <\/p>\n

730
\n00:51:42,920 –> 00:51:44,440
\nAnd they brought these men
\nbefore the king. <\/p>\n

731
\n00:51:44,440 –> 00:51:46,360
\nNow why did Nebuchadnezzar even
\nget it? <\/p>\n

732
\n00:51:46,480 –> 00:51:50,160
\nWhy didn’t he say no, type them
\nin the furnaces? <\/p>\n

733
\n00:51:51,320 –> 00:51:57,240
\nDon’t you understand?
\nDidn’t say that said bring him <\/p>\n

734
\n00:51:57,240 –> 00:52:01,080
\nhere even though he is furious
\nthat anyone should possibly <\/p>\n

735
\n00:52:01,080 –> 00:52:05,600
\nstand up against him.
\nAnd so we find that before this <\/p>\n

736
\n00:52:05,600 –> 00:52:11,960
\nenraged king we find these three
\ngodly young men Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n

737
\n00:52:11,960 –> 00:52:13,400
\nverse 14 spake and said under
\nthem. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:52:14,160 –> 00:52:17,840
\nIs it true or is it probably
\nmore carefully should be <\/p>\n

739
\n00:52:17,840 –> 00:52:19,640
\nrendered?
\nIs it with design or is it with <\/p>\n

740
\n00:52:19,640 –> 00:52:23,320
\npurpose?
\nOh, Shadrach, Meshach and <\/p>\n

741
\n00:52:23,320 –> 00:52:28,960
\nAbednego, do you do not ye serve
\nmy gods, nor worship the golden <\/p>\n

742
\n00:52:28,960 –> 00:52:33,200
\nimage which I have set up.
\nBut he doesn’t wait for an <\/p>\n

743
\n00:52:33,200 –> 00:52:35,920
\nanswer.
\nHe just assumes that it was not <\/p>\n

744
\n00:52:35,920 –> 00:52:37,960
\non purpose.
\nAnd there in itself is <\/p>\n

745
\n00:52:37,960 –> 00:52:40,680
\npsychological pressure that’s
\nvery difficult to resist. <\/p>\n

746
\n00:52:41,120 –> 00:52:43,760
\nAnd young people, we are faced
\nwith that sort of psychological <\/p>\n

747
\n00:52:43,760 –> 00:52:48,320
\npressure all the time, where
\npeople might throw us a question<\/p>\n

748
\n00:52:48,320 –> 00:52:50,920
\nand not wait for an answer and
\njust go on assuming that we’re <\/p>\n

749
\n00:52:50,920 –> 00:52:53,920
\ngoing to conform.
\nAnd that’s what Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n

750
\n00:52:53,920 –> 00:52:57,640
\ndid.
\nVerse 15 Pressure is building. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:52:58,960 –> 00:53:01,480
\nNow if you be ready at that time
\nyou hear the sound of the <\/p>\n

752
\n00:53:01,480 –> 00:53:04,400
\ncornet, flute and harp sack.
\nBut sultry dolphin was 6 again, <\/p>\n

753
\n00:53:04,400 –> 00:53:08,440
\nand all kinds of music.
\nAnd ye fall down and worship the<\/p>\n

754
\n00:53:08,440 –> 00:53:11,920
\nimage which I’ve made Well.
\nBut if not, ye shall we cast the<\/p>\n

755
\n00:53:11,920 –> 00:53:14,600
\nsame arrow into the midst of the
\nburning fiery furnace? <\/p>\n

756
\n00:53:17,800 –> 00:53:20,800
\nThey knew all that.
\nWhy was he giving them a second <\/p>\n

757
\n00:53:20,800 –> 00:53:26,880
\nchance?
\nWell, I believe he feared them <\/p>\n

758
\n00:53:28,600 –> 00:53:34,160
\nand he knew in the back of his
\nmind that what he was doing was <\/p>\n

759
\n00:53:34,160 –> 00:53:39,360
\na challenge to Yahweh and that
\nthese men truly were friends of <\/p>\n

760
\n00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:42,880
\nDaniel and servants of the true
\nGod. <\/p>\n

761
\n00:53:44,160 –> 00:53:49,920
\nAnd as perhaps a sign of a a
\nguilty conscience on the part of<\/p>\n

762
\n00:53:49,920 –> 00:53:53,200
\nNebuchadnezzar starting to
\nemerge then, but he rides <\/p>\n

763
\n00:53:53,200 –> 00:53:56,840
\nroughshods straight over that
\nand he doesn’t stop with just <\/p>\n

764
\n00:53:57,160 –> 00:54:00,080
\ngiving the previous command.
\nHe continues and says the end of<\/p>\n

765
\n00:54:00,080 –> 00:54:06,400
\nverse 15 and who is that God
\nthat shall deliver you out of my<\/p>\n

766
\n00:54:06,400 –> 00:54:08,840
\nhands.
\nEnd of story. <\/p>\n

767
\n00:54:09,400 –> 00:54:16,160
\nGet back in front of the image.
\nAnd now they’ve been graciously <\/p>\n

768
\n00:54:16,160 –> 00:54:19,760
\ngiven another chance, another
\nopportunity. <\/p>\n

769
\n00:54:19,920 –> 00:54:25,280
\nBut all it turned out to be
\nyoung people was another real <\/p>\n

770
\n00:54:25,280 –> 00:54:28,640
\npressure.
\nBecause now Nebuchadnezzar looks<\/p>\n

771
\n00:54:28,640 –> 00:54:31,600
\nlike he’s the good guy.
\nHe’s the one that’s that’s <\/p>\n

772
\n00:54:31,600 –> 00:54:34,280
\nvirtually saved their lives from
\nthe furnace and said, well, I’m <\/p>\n

773
\n00:54:34,280 –> 00:54:36,040
\ngoing to give you another
\nchance. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:54:36,040 –> 00:54:39,240
\nDon’t you understand, my mercy
\nas such that I’m going to give <\/p>\n

775
\n00:54:39,240 –> 00:54:41,760
\nyou another chance.
\nNow let’s not have any more of <\/p>\n

776
\n00:54:41,760 –> 00:54:45,520
\nthis nonsense right back, and
\nwe’ll try again. <\/p>\n

777
\n00:54:48,240 –> 00:54:52,240
\nHow would you go opening your
\nmouth in the face of that? <\/p>\n

778
\n00:54:53,320 –> 00:54:56,840
\nBut you see, they’d been
\nencouraged because <\/p>\n

779
\n00:54:56,840 –> 00:55:01,080
\nNebuchadnezzar himself had
\nraised the contest to the level <\/p>\n

780
\n00:55:01,080 –> 00:55:06,920
\nof Yahweh versus the gods of
\nBabylon, and there was a <\/p>\n

781
\n00:55:06,920 –> 00:55:12,320
\nstimulus to the faith.
\nWere they going to worry about <\/p>\n

782
\n00:55:13,080 –> 00:55:20,360
\nNebuchadnezzar’s fire God, or
\nYahweh, the maker of heaven and <\/p>\n

783
\n00:55:20,360 –> 00:55:23,120
\nearth?
\nAnd in their mind there was no <\/p>\n

784
\n00:55:23,120 –> 00:55:27,440
\ndoubt.
\nAnd so in verse 16, Shadrach, <\/p>\n

785
\n00:55:27,520 –> 00:55:32,840
\nMeshach, and Abednego answered
\nand said unto the king, O <\/p>\n

786
\n00:55:32,840 –> 00:55:36,320
\nNebuchadnezzar, we are not
\ncareful to answer thee in this <\/p>\n

787
\n00:55:36,320 –> 00:55:37,960
\nmatter.
\nIt’s a poor translation. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:55:38,280 –> 00:55:43,520
\nIt really means we need not say
\na word in answer to that <\/p>\n

789
\n00:55:43,520 –> 00:55:48,640
\nquestion, as another translation
\nhas it verse 17. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:55:49,760 –> 00:55:55,320
\nIf it be so, our God, whom we
\nserve, is able to deliver us <\/p>\n

791
\n00:55:55,320 –> 00:56:00,040
\nfrom the burning fiery furnace,
\nand he will deliver us out of <\/p>\n

792
\n00:56:00,040 –> 00:56:03,760
\nthine hand, O King.
\nBut if not, be it known unto <\/p>\n

793
\n00:56:03,760 –> 00:56:08,560
\nthee, O King, that we will not
\nserve thy gods, nor worship the <\/p>\n

794
\n00:56:08,560 –> 00:56:14,240
\ngolden image which thou has set
\nup, that we’re being arrogant or<\/p>\n

795
\n00:56:14,240 –> 00:56:18,920
\nrude.
\nYoung people, they just had <\/p>\n

796
\n00:56:18,920 –> 00:56:26,280
\ntremendous faith to stand up and
\nto say that they believed that <\/p>\n

797
\n00:56:26,280 –> 00:56:28,760
\nthere was a God who could
\ndeliver. <\/p>\n

798
\n00:56:28,760 –> 00:56:30,880
\nAnd did you notice?
\nThey didn’t say he would. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:56:32,400 –> 00:56:38,520
\nThey have a God whom they serve
\nwho is able to deliver. <\/p>\n

800
\n00:56:39,200 –> 00:56:44,400
\nAnd if it was his will, he
\ncould, but if it wasn’t, then <\/p>\n

801
\n00:56:44,400 –> 00:56:48,160
\nlet him clearly know that they
\nwere not under any <\/p>\n

802
\n00:56:48,160 –> 00:56:52,800
\ncircumstances, going to still
\nbow down and worship that image <\/p>\n

803
\n00:56:53,600 –> 00:56:59,800
\nor his gods.
\nNow, I believe it’s almost <\/p>\n

804
\n00:57:00,280 –> 00:57:04,520
\nwritten into the record here
\nthat Shadrach, Meshach and <\/p>\n

805
\n00:57:04,520 –> 00:57:10,440
\nAbednego had discussed that
\nsituation amongst themselves <\/p>\n

806
\n00:57:10,440 –> 00:57:14,080
\nbefore that moment.
\nDid you notice in verse 4, verse<\/p>\n

807
\n00:57:14,080 –> 00:57:17,720
\n7, Sorry.
\nAfter we read from verse 4 <\/p>\n

808
\n00:57:17,720 –> 00:57:21,960
\nonwards about what the command
\nwas in verse 7, it says <\/p>\n

809
\n00:57:22,120 –> 00:57:25,720
\ntherefore at that time when all
\nthe people heard the sound. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:57:25,880 –> 00:57:30,200
\nSo there was clearly a time lag
\nbetween when the Herald came <\/p>\n

811
\n00:57:30,200 –> 00:57:33,240
\naround and told everyone what
\nthey had to do and when the <\/p>\n

812
\n00:57:33,240 –> 00:57:36,200
\nmusic actually started, when the
\nceremony began. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:57:37,880 –> 00:57:41,800
\nAnd those three faithful young
\nmen would have been very <\/p>\n

814
\n00:57:41,800 –> 00:57:44,120
\nconcerned about the situation
\nthey were in. <\/p>\n

815
\n00:57:44,280 –> 00:57:47,600
\nAnd no doubt had talked
\ncarefully and quickly together <\/p>\n

816
\n00:57:48,120 –> 00:57:51,800
\nand had discussed all the issues
\ninvolved and had got on their <\/p>\n

817
\n00:57:51,800 –> 00:57:55,800
\nknees and prayed to the God of
\nheaven and earth and assort his <\/p>\n

818
\n00:57:55,800 –> 00:57:58,680
\nguidance in this very difficult
\nsituation. <\/p>\n

819
\n00:58:00,240 –> 00:58:03,680
\nAnd stuck together and
\ndetermined amongst themselves <\/p>\n

820
\n00:58:03,680 –> 00:58:06,840
\nthat they would stay together
\nbecause they knew it was right. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:58:06,840 –> 00:58:11,520
\nThey’d made-up their minds
\nbefore the situation happened. <\/p>\n

822
\n00:58:14,160 –> 00:58:17,840
\nNow, I believe if they hadn’t
\nmade-up their minds very clearly<\/p>\n

823
\n00:58:17,840 –> 00:58:23,160
\namongst themselves that when it
\ncame and that music began, the <\/p>\n

824
\n00:58:23,160 –> 00:58:25,800
\nwhole emotion of that
\ncircumstance would have weakened<\/p>\n

825
\n00:58:25,800 –> 00:58:28,240
\ntheir knees to such a point
\nwhere they looked around and saw<\/p>\n

826
\n00:58:28,240 –> 00:58:30,320
\nthat everyone else was down.
\nThey too would have gone to <\/p>\n

827
\n00:58:30,320 –> 00:58:34,360
\ntheir knees.
\nYou know, there’s a very <\/p>\n

828
\n00:58:34,360 –> 00:58:39,640
\npowerful lesson in that, young
\npeople, if we allow ourselves to<\/p>\n

829
\n00:58:39,640 –> 00:58:44,600
\nwalk out onto the plain of Jura
\nin full sight of the glory of <\/p>\n

830
\n00:58:44,600 –> 00:58:49,280
\nthe flesh of Babylon and all its
\nmight and all its gods, and we <\/p>\n

831
\n00:58:49,280 –> 00:58:52,840
\nthink that on the spur of the
\nmoment we’re just going to be <\/p>\n

832
\n00:58:52,840 –> 00:58:55,040
\nable to make the right decision.
\nIt’s going to be the godly one <\/p>\n

833
\n00:58:55,040 –> 00:58:59,080
\nevery time.
\nWe are fooling ourselves if we <\/p>\n

834
\n00:58:59,080 –> 00:59:02,320
\nwalk out onto that plane of
\nJira, if we have not prayerfully<\/p>\n

835
\n00:59:02,320 –> 00:59:06,280
\nand carefully considered the
\ndangers there and what we might <\/p>\n

836
\n00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:10,280
\ndo if we’re caught in this
\nsituation or that, or what we <\/p>\n

837
\n00:59:10,280 –> 00:59:13,480
\nmight do to flee from this or
\nthat or how we react to this or <\/p>\n

838
\n00:59:13,480 –> 00:59:15,680
\nthat.
\nYoung people will be on our <\/p>\n

839
\n00:59:15,680 –> 00:59:18,960
\nknees before we can, before I
\ncan answer, think about it. <\/p>\n

840
\n00:59:19,680 –> 00:59:26,400
\nThe power in Babylon’s
\npsychological techniques will <\/p>\n

841
\n00:59:26,400 –> 00:59:29,800
\nhave us on our knees unless we
\nvery carefully prepare. <\/p>\n

842
\n00:59:30,080 –> 00:59:32,680
\nNow what I believe we have to
\ndo, young people with the depth <\/p>\n

843
\n00:59:32,680 –> 00:59:36,160
\nof wickedness that’s in this
\nworld, is to think carefully <\/p>\n

844
\n00:59:36,160 –> 00:59:40,600
\nabout situations and issues,
\nweigh it up and talk about it <\/p>\n

845
\n00:59:40,680 –> 00:59:42,680
\nwith our friends.
\nOur friends who are godly, who <\/p>\n

846
\n00:59:42,720 –> 00:59:47,600
\nknow their Bibles and open them
\ntogether and talk about things, <\/p>\n

847
\n00:59:47,800 –> 00:59:50,800
\nask each other, What do you
\nthink God thinks about this? <\/p>\n

848
\n00:59:51,400 –> 00:59:52,600
\nHow do you think I should handle
\nthis? <\/p>\n

849
\n00:59:52,720 –> 00:59:54,480
\nI came across this situation the
\nother day. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:59:54,480 –> 00:59:58,640
\nI didn’t know what to do, and I
\nsaid yes to this, and afterwards<\/p>\n

851
\n00:59:58,640 –> 01:00:00,920
\nI thought wretched about it.
\nWhat do you think I should do? <\/p>\n

852
\n01:00:01,240 –> 01:00:03,720
\nAsk older brethren, Talk to your
\npeers. <\/p>\n

853
\n01:00:04,600 –> 01:00:08,960
\nOpen your Bibles on your knees
\nin prayer to the Father. <\/p>\n

854
\n01:00:09,720 –> 01:00:13,040
\nThat’s what they did, I believe,
\nout on the plain of Jira when <\/p>\n

855
\n01:00:13,040 –> 01:00:15,680
\nthey had very little time.
\nIt’s no good. <\/p>\n

856
\n01:00:15,680 –> 01:00:22,640
\nOur Bible’s being shut in nice
\ncases when we’re out standing in<\/p>\n

857
\n01:00:22,640 –> 01:00:25,120
\nfront of that image and the
\nmusic starts. <\/p>\n

858
\n01:00:25,400 –> 01:00:33,000
\nA Bible is no good then.
\nThe Bible is only any good if <\/p>\n

859
\n01:00:33,000 –> 01:00:36,000
\nit’s affected our minds before
\nthat time. <\/p>\n

860
\n01:00:37,880 –> 01:00:41,120
\nNo, never, ever.
\nYoung people never, ever <\/p>\n

861
\n01:00:41,120 –> 01:00:46,280
\nunderestimate the value of good,
\ngodly minded friends. <\/p>\n

862
\n01:00:49,280 –> 01:00:53,560
\nThese three are never separated
\nin this record, if you notice <\/p>\n

863
\n01:00:53,560 –> 01:00:54,800
\nthat.
\nNever separate. <\/p>\n

864
\n01:00:56,360 –> 01:01:00,480
\nWhen they say something, it says
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego <\/p>\n

865
\n01:01:00,480 –> 01:01:03,560
\nsaid.
\nDoes that mean that they sighted<\/p>\n

866
\n01:01:03,560 –> 01:01:06,360
\nin unison?
\nI don’t think so. <\/p>\n

867
\n01:01:06,960 –> 01:01:10,680
\nBut what it means is that there
\nwas no leader among them. <\/p>\n

868
\n01:01:11,320 –> 01:01:15,280
\nThey were all terrified of that
\nsituation, but they were godly <\/p>\n

869
\n01:01:15,280 –> 01:01:17,440
\nenough to have worked out
\nbetween them what they should <\/p>\n

870
\n01:01:17,440 –> 01:01:25,720
\ndo, and they encouraged each
\nother and stood together upright<\/p>\n

871
\n01:01:28,720 –> 01:01:31,120
\nbecause they had good companions
\nalongside them. <\/p>\n

872
\n01:01:33,120 –> 01:01:37,040
\nYou know, use your companions,
\nthose young people who come from<\/p>\n

873
\n01:01:37,040 –> 01:01:41,240
\na situation where there are
\nother young people in your <\/p>\n

874
\n01:01:41,240 –> 01:01:45,800
\necclesia or in your surrounding.
\nThank God for that. <\/p>\n

875
\n01:01:48,400 –> 01:01:50,800
\nNever underestimate the
\nprivilege and the blessing of <\/p>\n

876
\n01:01:50,800 –> 01:01:58,080
\nthat, and use it.
\nVerse 19 with Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n

877
\n01:01:58,640 –> 01:02:03,440
\nfull of fury.
\nThen was Nebuchadnezzar sorry, <\/p>\n

878
\n01:02:03,440 –> 01:02:09,280
\nfull of fury, and the form of
\nhis visage was changed against <\/p>\n

879
\n01:02:09,280 –> 01:02:13,360
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
\nTherefore he spake and commanded<\/p>\n

880
\n01:02:13,360 –> 01:02:16,080
\nthat they should heat the
\nfurnace 1\/7 times more than it <\/p>\n

881
\n01:02:16,080 –> 01:02:19,760
\nwas want to be heated. 7 times
\nhotter than we’ve ever seen <\/p>\n

882
\n01:02:19,760 –> 01:02:24,240
\nheated before, Rotherham says.
\nAnd now they had a chance to <\/p>\n

883
\n01:02:24,240 –> 01:02:26,520
\nchange their minds if they were
\nquick. <\/p>\n

884
\n01:02:26,520 –> 01:02:31,360
\nIf they were quick because the
\nKing’s face was distorted with <\/p>\n

885
\n01:02:31,360 –> 01:02:33,480
\nrage, as the Hebrew actually
\nmeans. <\/p>\n

886
\n01:02:34,040 –> 01:02:39,000
\nAnd tragically, that last
\nheating of the furnace makes <\/p>\n

887
\n01:02:39,000 –> 01:02:44,760
\nmany young people buckle.
\nThat last seven times heating, <\/p>\n

888
\n01:02:44,920 –> 01:02:49,080
\nthe visual impact of that as the
\npressure really comes on from a <\/p>\n

889
\n01:02:49,080 –> 01:02:52,560
\nworld who wants to make them
\nconform, often just makes the <\/p>\n

890
\n01:02:52,560 –> 01:02:55,440
\nlittle bit of difference that
\ncrumples their knees and takes <\/p>\n

891
\n01:02:55,440 –> 01:02:58,280
\nthem to the ground.
\nVerse 20. <\/p>\n

892
\n01:02:58,280 –> 01:03:01,680
\nAnd he commanded the most mighty
\nmen that were in his army to <\/p>\n

893
\n01:03:01,680 –> 01:03:04,120
\nbind Shadrach, Meshach and the
\nBendigo, and it cast them into <\/p>\n

894
\n01:03:04,120 –> 01:03:08,800
\nthe very burning fiery furnace.
\nThen these men were bound in <\/p>\n

895
\n01:03:08,800 –> 01:03:11,120
\ntheir coats, their hose, and in
\ntheir hats, and their other <\/p>\n

896
\n01:03:11,120 –> 01:03:13,680
\ngarments were cast in the midst
\nof the burning fiery furnace. <\/p>\n

897
\n01:03:14,840 –> 01:03:18,680
\nTherefore, because of the King’s
\ncommand, because of the King’s <\/p>\n

898
\n01:03:18,680 –> 01:03:22,520
\ncommand was urgent and the
\nfurnace exceeding hot, the flame<\/p>\n

899
\n01:03:22,520 –> 01:03:25,960
\nof the fire slew those men that
\ntook up Shadrach, Meshach and <\/p>\n

900
\n01:03:25,960 –> 01:03:31,360
\nthe Bendigo.
\nAnd these three men, Shadrach, <\/p>\n

901
\n01:03:31,520 –> 01:03:41,280
\nMeshach and the Bendigo, fell
\ndown not voluntarily. <\/p>\n

902
\n01:03:42,440 –> 01:03:47,480
\nThey fell down, bound into the
\nmidst of the burning, fiery <\/p>\n

903
\n01:03:47,480 –> 01:03:50,120
\nfurnace.
\nWhat a frightening spectacle. <\/p>\n

904
\n01:03:50,880 –> 01:03:53,200
\nYou put your yourselves in that
\nsituation. <\/p>\n

905
\n01:03:53,200 –> 01:03:55,560
\nYoung people, they didn’t know
\nwhat was going to happen when <\/p>\n

906
\n01:03:55,560 –> 01:03:58,480
\nthey got in there.
\nIt was certain death for them. <\/p>\n

907
\n01:03:59,000 –> 01:04:03,560
\nThey were powerless, helpless,
\nand all they could do was pray <\/p>\n

908
\n01:04:03,560 –> 01:04:08,440
\nto the God of heaven.
\nVerse 24 and 25 tells us that <\/p>\n

909
\n01:04:08,960 –> 01:04:15,960
\nwhen they looked in, they saw
\nthat there was four men walking <\/p>\n

910
\n01:04:15,960 –> 01:04:21,240
\nloose, and they’d thrown in
\nthree men that were bound. <\/p>\n

911
\n01:04:21,520 –> 01:04:25,560
\nAnd there was a great enigma
\nhere. 3 Bound had gone into the <\/p>\n

912
\n01:04:25,560 –> 01:04:28,240
\nfurnace, and now as they peered
\nthrough the flames, from a <\/p>\n

913
\n01:04:28,240 –> 01:04:33,000
\ndistance, Nebuchadnezzar could
\nsee four men who were loose, and<\/p>\n

914
\n01:04:33,000 –> 01:04:36,560
\nthey didn’t expect, let alone
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n

915
\n01:04:36,680 –> 01:04:40,520
\nBut the three friends never ever
\nin their wildest dreams expected<\/p>\n

916
\n01:04:40,520 –> 01:04:42,080
\nan Angel to appear in that
\nfurnace. <\/p>\n

917
\n01:04:42,760 –> 01:04:46,160
\nThey knew, as David had written
\nmany years before in Psalm 34, <\/p>\n

918
\n01:04:46,320 –> 01:04:49,720
\nthat the Angel of Yahweh encamps
\naround them that fears him and <\/p>\n

919
\n01:04:49,720 –> 01:04:52,200
\ndelivers them.
\nBut they didn’t expect that God <\/p>\n

920
\n01:04:52,200 –> 01:04:54,960
\nhad to do a miraculous
\ndeliverance on that day. <\/p>\n

921
\n01:04:55,400 –> 01:04:59,000
\nThey understood by deliverance
\nthat in the end, when it came to<\/p>\n

922
\n01:04:59,000 –> 01:05:01,640
\nthe time of the Kingdom, He
\nwould raise them again and they <\/p>\n

923
\n01:05:01,640 –> 01:05:04,120
\nwould stand with the faithful of
\nall ages. <\/p>\n

924
\n01:05:04,240 –> 01:05:08,200
\nBut now, very literally, the the
\nAngel of Yahweh was camping with<\/p>\n

925
\n01:05:08,200 –> 01:05:11,720
\nthem in the midst of that fire
\nbecause they believed that <\/p>\n

926
\n01:05:11,720 –> 01:05:15,880
\nYahweh could deliver.
\nAnd because they believed that <\/p>\n

927
\n01:05:15,880 –> 01:05:20,920
\nHe could, He did.
\nYoung people, that’s a powerful <\/p>\n

928
\n01:05:20,960 –> 01:05:24,600
\nlesson because they believed
\nYahweh could deliver. <\/p>\n

929
\n01:05:25,040 –> 01:05:29,680
\nHe actually did.
\nAnd Yahweh doesn’t change. <\/p>\n

930
\n01:05:29,920 –> 01:05:32,800
\nIt doesn’t mean that you might
\nget into a situation tomorrow or<\/p>\n

931
\n01:05:32,800 –> 01:05:35,800
\nthe day after and expect some
\nmiraculous deliverance. <\/p>\n

932
\n01:05:35,800 –> 01:05:38,880
\nGod won’t necessarily work like
\nwork like that, but if you <\/p>\n

933
\n01:05:38,880 –> 01:05:43,120
\nbelieve this can deliver you out
\nof circumstances and out of the <\/p>\n

934
\n01:05:43,120 –> 01:05:47,320
\ngrip of Babylon, He will.
\nHe will deliver. <\/p>\n

935
\n01:05:48,400 –> 01:05:54,000
\nHe is able, these friends told
\nNebuchadnezzar, and they came <\/p>\n

936
\n01:05:54,000 –> 01:05:57,040
\nforth.
\nThey came forth at the beckon of<\/p>\n

937
\n01:05:57,040 –> 01:06:00,120
\nNebuchadnezzar out of that fire.
\nAnd notice how he addressed them<\/p>\n

938
\n01:06:00,120 –> 01:06:04,120
\nin verse 26.
\nHe said to them, Shadrach, <\/p>\n

939
\n01:06:04,120 –> 01:06:08,760
\nMeshach, and Abednego, ye
\nservants of the Most High God, <\/p>\n

940
\n01:06:09,520 –> 01:06:13,880
\ncome forth and come hit her.
\nAnd he acknowledges in verse 28 <\/p>\n

941
\n01:06:13,880 –> 01:06:16,920
\nthe God of heaven and earth and
\npromoted Shadrach, Meshach and <\/p>\n

942
\n01:06:16,920 –> 01:06:22,360
\nAbednego to be seen and rulers
\nover all of the province of <\/p>\n

943
\n01:06:22,360 –> 01:06:27,160
\nBabylon.
\nWell, that’s a very interesting <\/p>\n

944
\n01:06:27,160 –> 01:06:31,720
\nstory, isn’t it?
\nBut it’s not the end <\/p>\n

945
\n01:06:43,040 –> 01:06:45,720
\nfact.
\nThere’s much, much more in <\/p>\n

946
\n01:06:45,720 –> 01:06:49,880
\nDaniel chapter 3 we’re not going
\nto spend a lot of time on, but <\/p>\n

947
\n01:06:49,880 –> 01:06:56,600
\nthere is a marvellous paragraph
\nin this chapter about whose <\/p>\n

948
\n01:06:56,600 –> 01:07:00,800
\nservants we really are.
\nVerse 28 holds the key. <\/p>\n

949
\n01:07:02,120 –> 01:07:05,320
\nThen Nebuchadnezzar spake and
\nsaid, blessed be the God of <\/p>\n

950
\n01:07:05,320 –> 01:07:08,080
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
\nwho hath sent his Angel and <\/p>\n

951
\n01:07:08,080 –> 01:07:14,040
\ndelivered his servants that
\ntrusted in him, and have changed<\/p>\n

952
\n01:07:14,040 –> 01:07:18,760
\nthe King’s word and yielded
\ntheir bodies, that they might <\/p>\n

953
\n01:07:18,760 –> 01:07:23,400
\nnot serve nor worship any God
\nexcept their own God. <\/p>\n

954
\n01:07:23,880 –> 01:07:25,720
\nYou know, there’s the issue
\nthere. <\/p>\n

955
\n01:07:25,720 –> 01:07:27,400
\nIt is in a nutshell, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n

956
\n01:07:27,680 –> 01:07:30,920
\nAnd the issue is this.
\nAnd I don’t believe there is a <\/p>\n

957
\n01:07:30,960 –> 01:07:37,040
\nmore important issue for you as
\nyoung people to come to grips <\/p>\n

958
\n01:07:37,040 –> 01:07:43,760
\nwith in your youth.
\nWho are you going to serve? <\/p>\n

959
\n01:07:45,240 –> 01:07:46,960
\nThat was the issue that they
\nwere faced with. <\/p>\n

960
\n01:07:47,280 –> 01:07:52,320
\nIt’s the issue that
\nNebuchadnezzar understood was <\/p>\n

961
\n01:07:52,320 –> 01:07:54,680
\nbeing played out in that whole
\nincident. <\/p>\n

962
\n01:07:55,080 –> 01:07:58,800
\nYou see the word servant or
\nservice occurs in verse 12, <\/p>\n

963
\n01:07:58,800 –> 01:08:02,200
\nverse 14, verse 17, verse 18,
\nverse 26, two, verse 28. <\/p>\n

964
\n01:08:02,400 –> 01:08:04,480
\nThey’re all on the sheet.
\nCheck them out later. <\/p>\n

965
\n01:08:05,360 –> 01:08:08,000
\nBut Jesus said you cannot serve
\n2 masters. <\/p>\n

966
\n01:08:08,320 –> 01:08:09,800
\nYou’re either hold of the one
\nwho love the other. <\/p>\n

967
\n01:08:09,880 –> 01:08:11,520
\nWhat will be vice versa?
\nYou cannot. <\/p>\n

968
\n01:08:11,520 –> 01:08:16,000
\nIt doesn’t matter who you are,
\nyou can’t serve 2 masters and <\/p>\n

969
\n01:08:16,000 –> 01:08:18,479
\nyou have to make a choice.
\nAnd if you don’t make a choice, <\/p>\n

970
\n01:08:18,479 –> 01:08:20,880
\nit would be made certain.
\nIt’s as simple as that. <\/p>\n

971
\n01:08:21,200 –> 01:08:24,600
\nIn life you refuse to make a
\nchoice, and the choice is <\/p>\n

972
\n01:08:24,640 –> 01:08:30,680
\nalready made, but you have a
\nchoice if you want to make it. <\/p>\n

973
\n01:08:31,640 –> 01:08:34,200
\nI’d like you to hold your hand
\nin Daniel chapter 3 and come <\/p>\n

974
\n01:08:34,200 –> 01:08:38,399
\nacross to Romans 6 because the
\nissue of Romans 6 is whose <\/p>\n

975
\n01:08:38,479 –> 01:08:42,399
\nservants are we going to be?
\nAnd we know that Romans 6 speaks<\/p>\n

976
\n01:08:42,399 –> 01:08:47,439
\npredominantly of baptism.
\nBut in Romans chapter 6 and at <\/p>\n

977
\n01:08:47,439 –> 01:08:57,560
\nverse 12 here, the apostle Paul
\ntells us very clearly to let not<\/p>\n

978
\n01:08:58,439 –> 01:09:04,479
\nking sin paralleled to King
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n

979
\n01:09:05,279 –> 01:09:09,680
\nLet not King Sin therefore reign
\nin your mortal body, that you <\/p>\n

980
\n01:09:09,680 –> 01:09:15,200
\nshould obey it in the lusts
\nthereof, obeying it in the lusts<\/p>\n

981
\n01:09:15,200 –> 01:09:17,000
\nthereof.
\nYoung people is falling to our <\/p>\n

982
\n01:09:17,000 –> 01:09:21,680
\nknees and doing what it says,
\njust as just as Babylon in <\/p>\n

983
\n01:09:21,680 –> 01:09:24,359
\nBabylon that friends were asked
\nto fall to their knees and to <\/p>\n

984
\n01:09:24,359 –> 01:09:26,399
\nworship the image of Nick King
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n

985
\n01:09:26,640 –> 01:09:31,120
\nDon’t let King Sin reign.
\nHe will try all sorts of devious<\/p>\n

986
\n01:09:31,120 –> 01:09:35,399
\npersuasions, all sorts of
\ntricks, all sorts of things to <\/p>\n

987
\n01:09:35,399 –> 01:09:40,240
\ntry and get you to obey him,
\njust like Nebuchadnezzar tried <\/p>\n

988
\n01:09:40,240 –> 01:09:43,000
\nto get those friends to obey
\nhim. <\/p>\n

989
\n01:09:43,439 –> 01:09:47,120
\nBut verse 13 and 14 are even
\nmore interesting. <\/p>\n

990
\n01:09:48,120 –> 01:09:52,600
\nNeither yield ye your members as
\ninstruments of unrighteousness <\/p>\n

991
\n01:09:52,600 –> 01:09:57,160
\nunder king sin, but yield
\nyourself under God as those that<\/p>\n

992
\n01:09:57,160 –> 01:10:01,400
\nare alive from the dead.
\nNow look at the look at the <\/p>\n

993
\n01:10:01,400 –> 01:10:03,520
\nallusions here.
\nThere are back to this incident <\/p>\n

994
\n01:10:03,520 –> 01:10:06,680
\nin Daniel chapter 3 and your
\nmembers as instruments of <\/p>\n

995
\n01:10:06,680 –> 01:10:11,880
\nrighteousness under God for king
\nsin shall not have dominion over<\/p>\n

996
\n01:10:11,880 –> 01:10:14,040
\nyou.
\nHe won’t. <\/p>\n

997
\n01:10:14,880 –> 01:10:17,240
\nHe doesn’t have to have dominion
\nover you. <\/p>\n

998
\n01:10:17,720 –> 01:10:21,320
\nIt’s your choice and you just
\nsee the similarity of language. <\/p>\n

999
\n01:10:21,440 –> 01:10:24,480
\nHold your hand in in Romans and
\njust turn back to Daniel, which <\/p>\n

1000
\n01:10:24,480 –> 01:10:28,880
\nI still hope you’ve got.
\nAnd look at verse 28 again. <\/p>\n

1001
\n01:10:29,760 –> 01:10:34,880
\nIt says that in Nebuchadnezzar’s
\nwords here. <\/p>\n

1002
\n01:10:34,880 –> 01:10:37,160
\nAnd he delivered his servants
\nthat trusted in him have changed<\/p>\n

1003
\n01:10:37,160 –> 01:10:42,000
\nthe King’s word and yielded
\ntheir bodies that they might not<\/p>\n

1004
\n01:10:42,000 –> 01:10:44,840
\nserve nor worship any God except
\ntheir own God. <\/p>\n

1005
\n01:10:44,840 –> 01:10:47,800
\nIt’s the same language that Paul
\ntakes up about you’re about <\/p>\n

1006
\n01:10:47,800 –> 01:10:52,920
\nyielding ourselves, our members
\nof instruments of righteousness <\/p>\n

1007
\n01:10:52,920 –> 01:10:56,200
\nor unrighteousness to God.
\nAnd then look at verse 16 back <\/p>\n

1008
\n01:10:56,200 –> 01:10:58,160
\nin Romans.
\nWe are now verse 16. <\/p>\n

1009
\n01:10:58,320 –> 01:11:04,960
\nHe says, no, you’re not that to
\nwhom ye you yourselves servants <\/p>\n

1010
\n01:11:04,960 –> 01:11:09,360
\nto obey.
\nHis servants ye are to whom ye <\/p>\n

1011
\n01:11:09,360 –> 01:11:12,800
\nobey, whether sin under death or
\nobedience under righteousness, <\/p>\n

1012
\n01:11:13,120 –> 01:11:18,560
\nBut it’s whom you yield yourself
\nto that you’re under the <\/p>\n

1013
\n01:11:18,560 –> 01:11:21,120
\ndominion of.
\nAnd that’s very interesting. <\/p>\n

1014
\n01:11:21,120 –> 01:11:24,360
\nIt’s not who we say is our
\nmaster, young people, that’s <\/p>\n

1015
\n01:11:24,360 –> 01:11:27,560
\nwhat Paul is saying here.
\nIt’s not whom we say our master <\/p>\n

1016
\n01:11:27,560 –> 01:11:28,880
\nis.
\nThat’s our true master. <\/p>\n

1017
\n01:11:29,160 –> 01:11:34,600
\nIt’s to whom we yield ourselves
\nand our lives. <\/p>\n

1018
\n01:11:34,840 –> 01:11:36,680
\nThat’s the one.
\nThat’s our master. <\/p>\n

1019
\n01:11:36,680 –> 01:11:38,880
\nAnd it’s either sin or it’s
\ngone. <\/p>\n

1020
\n01:11:39,760 –> 01:11:41,840
\nIt’s as simple as that.
\nThere is no black and white. <\/p>\n

1021
\n01:11:42,000 –> 01:11:44,360
\nWe can’t try and Gray it out in
\nthe middle. <\/p>\n

1022
\n01:11:44,720 –> 01:11:48,680
\nWe are either servants of God or
\nwe are servants to King Sin. <\/p>\n

1023
\n01:11:48,680 –> 01:11:53,400
\nIt’s as simple as that.
\nAnd King Sin is a very, very <\/p>\n

1024
\n01:11:53,400 –> 01:11:57,360
\npowerful monarch.
\nWhat more powerful parallel <\/p>\n

1025
\n01:11:57,360 –> 01:11:58,880
\ncould you ever have found in
\nscripture? <\/p>\n

1026
\n01:11:59,080 –> 01:12:03,800
\nBecause Nebuchadnezzar was
\nsupreme monarch of the world. <\/p>\n

1027
\n01:12:04,840 –> 01:12:09,280
\nEverything he said went and he
\ndid noise have to use might. <\/p>\n

1028
\n01:12:09,280 –> 01:12:12,040
\nHe used a lot of cunning and
\nsubtle means. <\/p>\n

1029
\n01:12:12,520 –> 01:12:17,000
\nHis policy forced everyone to
\nbow down and worship the flesh. <\/p>\n

1030
\n01:12:17,080 –> 01:12:18,440
\nThat was Nebuchadnezzar’s
\npolicy. <\/p>\n

1031
\n01:12:18,560 –> 01:12:21,840
\nAnd King Sin has exactly the
\nsame policy. <\/p>\n

1032
\n01:12:22,240 –> 01:12:26,320
\nAnd what was his strategy?
\nNebuchadnezzar used grandeur and<\/p>\n

1033
\n01:12:26,320 –> 01:12:31,240
\nsize and impressive things.
\nAll the majority, the mighty <\/p>\n

1034
\n01:12:31,240 –> 01:12:33,280
\nmen, all came and they all bowed
\ndown. <\/p>\n

1035
\n01:12:33,440 –> 01:12:35,520
\nThat’s a powerful, powerful
\ntool. <\/p>\n

1036
\n01:12:36,920 –> 01:12:40,560
\nPeer pressure.
\nThe majority is a powerful tool <\/p>\n

1037
\n01:12:40,560 –> 01:12:42,560
\nused by King Sin to make us bow
\ndown. <\/p>\n

1038
\n01:12:43,160 –> 01:12:47,640
\nAnd so all the impressive,
\napparently permanent things we <\/p>\n

1039
\n01:12:47,640 –> 01:12:52,240
\nsee around us all, they look so,
\nso permanent that we think King <\/p>\n

1040
\n01:12:52,240 –> 01:12:59,120
\nSin is enthroned here forever.
\nBut it’s all it’s all just in <\/p>\n

1041
\n01:12:59,120 –> 01:13:01,840
\nthe appearances.
\nBut you know, there was another <\/p>\n

1042
\n01:13:01,840 –> 01:13:05,200
\ntool that Kings, King
\nNebuchadnezzar used, that King <\/p>\n

1043
\n01:13:05,200 –> 01:13:09,960
\nSin also uses young people.
\nAnd it was the music of the <\/p>\n

1044
\n01:13:09,960 –> 01:13:11,720
\nflesh.
\nRemember, there were six <\/p>\n

1045
\n01:13:11,720 –> 01:13:16,440
\ninstruments.
\nA music has a very powerful <\/p>\n

1046
\n01:13:16,440 –> 01:13:21,400
\nemotional pull.
\nAnd today’s depraved pop culture<\/p>\n

1047
\n01:13:21,960 –> 01:13:26,440
\nthat has corrupted millions upon
\nmillions of young minds around <\/p>\n

1048
\n01:13:26,440 –> 01:13:31,720
\nthe world continues in exactly
\nthe same strategy of King <\/p>\n

1049
\n01:13:31,720 –> 01:13:36,760
\nNebuchadnezzar evolved.
\nToday’s pop culture ridicules <\/p>\n

1050
\n01:13:36,800 –> 01:13:41,360
\nanything that’s decent, holy,
\ngood and rights and more than <\/p>\n

1051
\n01:13:41,400 –> 01:13:44,680
\nvirtues, those things that are
\nabsolutely abhorrent and <\/p>\n

1052
\n01:13:44,680 –> 01:13:47,800
\ndespicable.
\nI would never counsel you better<\/p>\n

1053
\n01:13:47,800 –> 01:13:51,440
\nthan sisters to go and listen to
\npop music that this world’s <\/p>\n

1054
\n01:13:51,440 –> 01:13:56,440
\nchildren are listening to.
\nIt is horrific to say the least.<\/p>\n

1055
\n01:13:56,960 –> 01:14:00,640
\nI’ve picked up at school
\ncassettes and looked at the <\/p>\n

1056
\n01:14:00,640 –> 01:14:03,840
\nlabels and my eyes have fallen
\nout of my head. <\/p>\n

1057
\n01:14:04,600 –> 01:14:11,200
\nI couldn’t even rid the labels
\nhere tonight have made me to see<\/p>\n

1058
\n01:14:11,240 –> 01:14:15,800
\nwhat the titles of the songs
\nare, let alone the content. <\/p>\n

1059
\n01:14:17,800 –> 01:14:22,800
\nAnd that’s not an isolated piece
\nof music in today’s younger <\/p>\n

1060
\n01:14:22,800 –> 01:14:30,040
\ngeneration pop culture.
\nIt’s intended to excite, to <\/p>\n

1061
\n01:14:30,280 –> 01:14:36,160
\nincite the flesh to rebellion
\nand free lust. <\/p>\n

1062
\n01:14:37,480 –> 01:14:43,200
\nEnd of story.
\nAnd this world’s advertisers and<\/p>\n

1063
\n01:14:43,200 –> 01:14:47,840
\npromoters know exactly that and
\nthey’re riding on a multi <\/p>\n

1064
\n01:14:48,200 –> 01:14:53,080
\nbillion dollar wage out of the
\nlives of individual young people<\/p>\n

1065
\n01:14:53,080 –> 01:14:57,600
\naround this world who’ve become
\naddicted to this filthy rubbish.<\/p>\n

1066
\n01:14:58,800 –> 01:15:01,400
\nMaybe could never try exactly
\nthe same things. <\/p>\n

1067
\n01:15:01,680 –> 01:15:06,760
\nNo, Brother John Carter once
\nsaid, the mind is insensibly <\/p>\n

1068
\n01:15:06,840 –> 01:15:10,680
\naffected by the stream of
\nthoughts passing through it. <\/p>\n

1069
\n01:15:11,680 –> 01:15:15,680
\nYou imagine what this filthy
\nrubbish is doing to the minds of<\/p>\n

1070
\n01:15:15,680 –> 01:15:19,840
\nthis generation’s young people
\nwho have the plug in drug in <\/p>\n

1071
\n01:15:19,840 –> 01:15:27,920
\ntheir ears round mesmerized of
\nevery day. <\/p>\n

1072
\n01:15:28,600 –> 01:15:33,360
\nWe have children in their teens
\ncoming to school plugged in. <\/p>\n

1073
\n01:15:33,560 –> 01:15:36,960
\nThey have pulled out when they
\nget it, when they get to school.<\/p>\n

1074
\n01:15:37,120 –> 01:15:40,960
\nIf it’s not confiscated, it’s
\nplugged back in at recess time <\/p>\n

1075
\n01:15:41,200 –> 01:15:43,640
\nand then it’s pulled out again
\nand plugged back in at <\/p>\n

1076
\n01:15:43,640 –> 01:15:45,280
\nlunchtime.
\nIt’s pulled out. <\/p>\n

1077
\n01:15:45,280 –> 01:15:48,360
\nIt’s plugged back in in lessons.
\nIt goes on and on. <\/p>\n

1078
\n01:15:48,880 –> 01:15:53,520
\nIt’s addictive.
\nYoung people, don’t touch it. <\/p>\n

1079
\n01:15:55,880 –> 01:15:59,960
\nIt will corrupt your minds.
\nIt’s dulling the intelligence <\/p>\n

1080
\n01:16:00,040 –> 01:16:05,800
\nand sensitivity and moral power
\nof a whole generation that is <\/p>\n

1081
\n01:16:05,800 –> 01:16:09,240
\ngetting themselves ready to be
\ndestroyed by Christ and the <\/p>\n

1082
\n01:16:09,240 –> 01:16:11,880
\nSaints.
\nIt’s that serious. <\/p>\n

1083
\n01:16:12,400 –> 01:16:14,760
\nNever could, never knew what
\nmusic can do. <\/p>\n

1084
\n01:16:15,040 –> 01:16:18,880
\nThe music of the flesh has to be
\navoided. <\/p>\n

1085
\n01:16:20,120 –> 01:16:24,480
\nIt prevents thinking.
\nAh, it’s a terrible thing. <\/p>\n

1086
\n01:16:25,600 –> 01:16:29,680
\nYou know, I’ve had young people
\ntell me both at school and <\/p>\n

1087
\n01:16:29,680 –> 01:16:35,240
\nwithin the ecclesia that they’ve
\ntried to get off some of that <\/p>\n

1088
\n01:16:35,240 –> 01:16:39,640
\nstuff.
\nI had a young lad at school tell<\/p>\n

1089
\n01:16:39,640 –> 01:16:45,920
\nme it was three years since he
\nstopped listening to some <\/p>\n

1090
\n01:16:47,040 –> 01:16:53,440
\nhorrendous heavy metal music.
\nBut he said with almost tears in<\/p>\n

1091
\n01:16:53,440 –> 01:16:56,080
\nhis eyes.
\nIt keeps coming back. <\/p>\n

1092
\n01:16:57,360 –> 01:16:59,200
\nI just see all these images all
\nthe time. <\/p>\n

1093
\n01:16:59,800 –> 01:17:01,800
\nI just keep thinking the words
\nall the time. <\/p>\n

1094
\n01:17:02,240 –> 01:17:05,120
\nI just can’t get rid of it.
\nIt just keeps coming back. <\/p>\n

1095
\n01:17:07,000 –> 01:17:11,800
\nHer music’s like that, isn’t it?
\nWe teach our little children the<\/p>\n

1096
\n01:17:11,800 –> 01:17:16,080
\nbooks of the Bible to song
\nbecause it’s easy to learn and <\/p>\n

1097
\n01:17:16,080 –> 01:17:18,600
\nthey can just remember the tune
\nand it all comes back. <\/p>\n

1098
\n01:17:20,680 –> 01:17:25,880
\nAnd this world’s filth is being
\nfed into the minds of a <\/p>\n

1099
\n01:17:25,880 –> 01:17:30,320
\ngeneration of young people and
\ncorrupting their intelligence <\/p>\n

1100
\n01:17:30,960 –> 01:17:34,360
\nand their moral faculties to the
\npoint where they won’t be able <\/p>\n

1101
\n01:17:34,360 –> 01:17:37,160
\nto respond.
\nWhat a tragedy. <\/p>\n

1102
\n01:17:37,520 –> 01:17:43,600
\nA tragedy of the 1st order.
\nYoung people avoid it like the <\/p>\n

1103
\n01:17:43,600 –> 01:17:53,480
\nplague.
\nMusic changes not only our <\/p>\n

1104
\n01:17:53,480 –> 01:17:59,600
\nability to think, but with
\ncorrupting and degrading <\/p>\n

1105
\n01:17:59,600 –> 01:18:03,080
\nsentiments will change our
\nbehaviour. <\/p>\n

1106
\n01:18:05,400 –> 01:18:07,520
\nHow do we get rid of it?
\nI know this. <\/p>\n

1107
\n01:18:08,440 –> 01:18:11,760
\nI know this from talking to some
\nof our young people, some of <\/p>\n

1108
\n01:18:11,760 –> 01:18:16,040
\nwhom are here tonight.
\nI know that some of them don’t <\/p>\n

1109
\n01:18:16,040 –> 01:18:21,560
\nknow how to get off it.
\nThey want to, but they don’t <\/p>\n

1110
\n01:18:21,560 –> 01:18:27,280
\nknow how.
\nI wonder sometimes how, after <\/p>\n

1111
\n01:18:27,280 –> 01:18:31,760
\ngoing to a a young people’s
\nclass and being uplifted by <\/p>\n

1112
\n01:18:31,920 –> 01:18:35,120
\nconsideration of some part of
\nthe Word of God and thrilling to<\/p>\n

1113
\n01:18:35,120 –> 01:18:38,520
\nthat, and talking amongst
\nthemselves afterwards, can jump <\/p>\n

1114
\n01:18:38,520 –> 01:18:42,880
\ninto their car and turn on the
\nfilth of the world. <\/p>\n

1115
\n01:18:44,800 –> 01:18:47,360
\nLeave it off, young people,
\nleave it off. <\/p>\n

1116
\n01:18:48,760 –> 01:18:52,920
\nMake a determination to change
\nand replace it with something. <\/p>\n

1117
\n01:18:53,400 –> 01:18:58,160
\nReplace it with something that’s
\na bit more elevated, a bit more <\/p>\n

1118
\n01:18:59,040 –> 01:19:01,560
\nGod centered.
\nJust try. <\/p>\n

1119
\n01:19:01,760 –> 01:19:07,600
\nEven if you don’t like listening
\nto something like the massage or<\/p>\n

1120
\n01:19:07,600 –> 01:19:13,440
\nMendelssohn’s Elijah, just try.
\nJust try for 15 minutes a day. <\/p>\n

1121
\n01:19:13,600 –> 01:19:18,880
\nJust try it and do it every day
\nfor a fortnight. <\/p>\n

1122
\n01:19:18,880 –> 01:19:25,040
\nJust try it, and it just might
\nsurprise you that you actually <\/p>\n

1123
\n01:19:25,240 –> 01:19:30,360
\ncan respond to that and it
\nactually is likeable and it is <\/p>\n

1124
\n01:19:30,360 –> 01:19:36,280
\nactually elevating as opposed to
\nthe degrading sentiments of most<\/p>\n

1125
\n01:19:36,280 –> 01:19:42,360
\nof today’s pop music.
\nBut that wasn’t the only other <\/p>\n

1126
\n01:19:42,560 –> 01:19:48,120
\nform of strategy that Kings,
\nNebuchadnezzar and Kingston <\/p>\n

1127
\n01:19:48,120 –> 01:19:51,400
\nuses.
\nThere was a herald crying with <\/p>\n

1128
\n01:19:51,400 –> 01:19:55,360
\nmight, with might.
\nOh, and there’s a mighty strong <\/p>\n

1129
\n01:19:55,360 –> 01:19:57,800
\nvoice around that’s not going to
\ngive up. <\/p>\n

1130
\n01:19:58,160 –> 01:20:00,920
\nIt’s not going to give up.
\nYoung people don’t think it <\/p>\n

1131
\n01:20:00,920 –> 01:20:05,040
\nwill.
\nSaying to you every day, Maybe <\/p>\n

1132
\n01:20:05,040 –> 01:20:09,240
\nnot in these words, but in
\naction, in attitude, it’s saying<\/p>\n

1133
\n01:20:09,240 –> 01:20:13,880
\nto you.
\nYou decide what you want to do <\/p>\n

1134
\n01:20:14,120 –> 01:20:19,240
\nfor yourself, and if you want to
\nbow down, you bow down. <\/p>\n

1135
\n01:20:20,720 –> 01:20:25,880
\nAnd you stick up for your rights
\nand don’t let some airy fairy <\/p>\n

1136
\n01:20:25,880 –> 01:20:32,040
\nGod in the sky, some concept,
\nget in the way of what your body<\/p>\n

1137
\n01:20:32,040 –> 01:20:38,880
\nis telling you you should do.
\nYou know, there’s young people <\/p>\n

1138
\n01:20:38,880 –> 01:20:42,880
\nwithin our young people’s
\ncircle, brethren and sisters, <\/p>\n

1139
\n01:20:43,800 –> 01:20:48,880
\nwho are talking now about their
\nrights. <\/p>\n

1140
\n01:20:50,760 –> 01:20:54,800
\nWhy haven’t I got the right to
\ndo this or that? <\/p>\n

1141
\n01:20:57,040 –> 01:21:00,320
\nThat should ring bells in our
\nminds, warning bells. <\/p>\n

1142
\n01:21:01,120 –> 01:21:05,600
\nWhy can’t I?
\nSurely it’s my life and I can <\/p>\n

1143
\n01:21:05,600 –> 01:21:09,600
\ndecide for myself what I want to
\ndo with my life. <\/p>\n

1144
\n01:21:12,080 –> 01:21:13,960
\nNow, if you open your ears,
\nyou’ll hear that around the <\/p>\n

1145
\n01:21:13,960 –> 01:21:16,240
\nplace.
\nNot perhaps quite as in <\/p>\n

1146
\n01:21:16,240 –> 01:21:21,600
\nexaggerated form as I just said
\nthen, but you’ll also hear my <\/p>\n

1147
\n01:21:21,600 –> 01:21:24,600
\nopinion is just as important as
\nyou, yours anyway. <\/p>\n

1148
\n01:21:25,120 –> 01:21:30,720
\nWhat you’re saying is only an
\nopinion anyway, to a brother who<\/p>\n

1149
\n01:21:30,720 –> 01:21:35,680
\nmight have been 60 years in the
\ntruth and has borne the heat and<\/p>\n

1150
\n01:21:35,680 –> 01:21:41,200
\nburden of the day.
\nAll around us there are people <\/p>\n

1151
\n01:21:41,200 –> 01:21:44,880
\non their knees.
\nTheir plans, their ambitions, <\/p>\n

1152
\n01:21:44,920 –> 01:21:50,840
\ntheir activities are all centred
\naround satisfying the flesh and <\/p>\n

1153
\n01:21:50,840 –> 01:21:57,200
\nthe worship and elevation of it.
\nAnd the King’s command is ever <\/p>\n

1154
\n01:21:57,200 –> 01:22:04,560
\nso simple, ever so simple.
\nAll the king said was just let <\/p>\n

1155
\n01:22:04,920 –> 01:22:08,520
\ngo, just relax.
\nCan’t hurt you. <\/p>\n

1156
\n01:22:08,520 –> 01:22:10,560
\nYou can’t study the Bible all
\nthe time. <\/p>\n

1157
\n01:22:11,680 –> 01:22:16,280
\nJust why don’t we just go out
\nfor pictures just one night in <\/p>\n

1158
\n01:22:16,280 –> 01:22:18,800
\nthe week?
\nSurely that can’t hurt. <\/p>\n

1159
\n01:22:22,400 –> 01:22:26,560
\nDon’t be deceived.
\nIt’s not easy to do what’s right<\/p>\n

1160
\n01:22:26,560 –> 01:22:29,480
\nwhen others are doing wrong.
\nAnd it’s even harder young <\/p>\n

1161
\n01:22:29,480 –> 01:22:33,840
\npeople to do what’s right when
\nother other young people are <\/p>\n

1162
\n01:22:33,840 –> 01:22:39,400
\ndoing wrong.
\nBut stand up straight, you can <\/p>\n

1163
\n01:22:39,400 –> 01:22:43,600
\nas easily, brethren and sisters
\nas well, assess the effects that<\/p>\n

1164
\n01:22:43,600 –> 01:22:47,640
\nKing’s seen as having on us by
\nwhat we do with our time, what <\/p>\n

1165
\n01:22:47,640 –> 01:22:52,040
\nwe do with our money, what we do
\nwith our where we go. <\/p>\n

1166
\n01:22:56,200 –> 01:22:58,720
\nI’m not trying to underestimate
\nthe pressures that are falling <\/p>\n

1167
\n01:22:58,720 –> 01:23:01,120
\non our young people today.
\nThey’re they’re quite enormous. <\/p>\n

1168
\n01:23:01,120 –> 01:23:04,120
\nAnd the whole of the advertising
\nindustry is focusing on young, <\/p>\n

1169
\n01:23:04,320 –> 01:23:08,040
\non youth, because they have
\ndisposable income and they’ll <\/p>\n

1170
\n01:23:08,040 –> 01:23:10,960
\ntarget them for dress.
\nAnd, and young people feel as <\/p>\n

1171
\n01:23:10,960 –> 01:23:16,160
\nthough they have to have brand
\nnames and particular trendy <\/p>\n

1172
\n01:23:16,160 –> 01:23:21,600
\nhairstyles that they have to see
\nthis movie or go there or try <\/p>\n

1173
\n01:23:21,600 –> 01:23:25,480
\nthis or experiment with drugs or
\nexperiment with sex. <\/p>\n

1174
\n01:23:26,240 –> 01:23:28,840
\nWe’ve got to make up our minds,
\nyoung people, before we go out <\/p>\n

1175
\n01:23:28,840 –> 01:23:31,680
\non the plane of Urah, whose
\nservants are we? <\/p>\n

1176
\n01:23:31,680 –> 01:23:35,120
\nThat’s the issue.
\nAnd young people, I can tell you<\/p>\n

1177
\n01:23:35,120 –> 01:23:39,160
\nthis, that decision has to be
\nmade very often before you’re <\/p>\n

1178
\n01:23:39,160 –> 01:23:45,920
\nbaptized because at 1314 you’re
\ngoing to be expected to know <\/p>\n

1179
\n01:23:46,040 –> 01:23:50,360
\nwhose servants you are.
\nAnd that’s an awful <\/p>\n

1180
\n01:23:50,360 –> 01:23:53,440
\nresponsibility that’s falling on
\nthe shoulders of our children <\/p>\n

1181
\n01:23:53,640 –> 01:23:55,960
\nand parents help them to bear
\nthat. <\/p>\n

1182
\n01:23:57,240 –> 01:23:59,600
\nBut we have this assurance,
\nYoung people, I’d like you to <\/p>\n

1183
\n01:23:59,600 –> 01:24:04,480
\ncome to 1st of Peter chapter 3,
\nfirst Peter chapter 3. <\/p>\n

1184
\n01:24:05,040 –> 01:24:14,640
\nAnd at verse 12 we have this
\nassurance, for the eyes of the <\/p>\n

1185
\n01:24:14,640 –> 01:24:18,880
\nLord are over the righteous.
\nIt is ears are open under their <\/p>\n

1186
\n01:24:18,880 –> 01:24:21,920
\nprayers, but in the face of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n

1187
\n01:24:22,000 –> 01:24:24,080
\nBut the face of the Lord is
\nagainst them that do evil. <\/p>\n

1188
\n01:24:24,360 –> 01:24:26,480
\nAnd who is he that will harm
\nyou? <\/p>\n

1189
\n01:24:27,320 –> 01:24:30,800
\nIf you be followers of that
\nwhich is good, who is there? <\/p>\n

1190
\n01:24:31,760 –> 01:24:33,880
\nAnd if you suffer for
\nrighteousness sake, happy are <\/p>\n

1191
\n01:24:33,880 –> 01:24:35,440
\nyou.
\nBut be not afraid of their <\/p>\n

1192
\n01:24:35,440 –> 01:24:40,400
\nterror, neither be troubled, but
\nsanctify the Lord God in your <\/p>\n

1193
\n01:24:40,400 –> 01:24:41,760
\nhearts.
\nLet me reach you, that to you <\/p>\n

1194
\n01:24:41,760 –> 01:24:46,120
\nfrom the RSV it says.
\nBut sanctify the Lord as Christ,<\/p>\n

1195
\n01:24:46,400 –> 01:24:51,640
\nChrist as Lord in your hearts.
\nAnd be ready to give an answer <\/p>\n

1196
\n01:24:51,640 –> 01:24:54,000
\nto every man that asketh you a
\nreason of the hope that is <\/p>\n

1197
\n01:24:54,000 –> 01:24:57,760
\nwithin you, with meekness and
\nfear, having a good conscience, <\/p>\n

1198
\n01:24:57,760 –> 01:25:02,160
\nthat whereas they speak evil of
\nyou as evil doers, they may be <\/p>\n

1199
\n01:25:02,160 –> 01:25:06,120
\nashamed that falsely accuse your
\ngood conversation in Christ. <\/p>\n

1200
\n01:25:06,360 –> 01:25:10,080
\nYou see, the key is this, young
\npeople, to sanctify Christ as <\/p>\n

1201
\n01:25:10,080 –> 01:25:14,320
\nLord, not king sin.
\nTo sanctify in your heart Christ<\/p>\n

1202
\n01:25:14,520 –> 01:25:20,640
\nas Lord, and let not king sin
\nreign. <\/p>\n

1203
\n01:25:21,160 –> 01:25:26,040
\nAnd prepare for the day that you
\ngo out into the into the plain <\/p>\n

1204
\n01:25:26,040 –> 01:25:29,120
\nof Jura, and be ready with a
\nhope that’s within you, not in <\/p>\n

1205
\n01:25:29,120 –> 01:25:31,800
\nyour Bible.
\nIt’s in there for sure, but it’s<\/p>\n

1206
\n01:25:31,800 –> 01:25:35,320
\nnot going to do any good unless
\nit’s in you and you’ll be able <\/p>\n

1207
\n01:25:35,320 –> 01:25:37,920
\nto stand.
\nBut when you make a stand, young<\/p>\n

1208
\n01:25:37,920 –> 01:25:41,840
\npeople, brethren and sisters of
\nage and experience know this <\/p>\n

1209
\n01:25:41,920 –> 01:25:46,920
\nonly too well, that when we make
\na stand, the pressure won’t <\/p>\n

1210
\n01:25:47,000 –> 01:25:50,320
\ndecrease.
\nIt will often increase just as <\/p>\n

1211
\n01:25:50,320 –> 01:25:53,320
\nit did in those days when
\nNebuchadnezzar stirred up that <\/p>\n

1212
\n01:25:53,320 –> 01:25:56,520
\nfurnace until it was 7 times
\nhotter than it had ever been <\/p>\n

1213
\n01:25:56,520 –> 01:26:00,000
\nbefore.
\nYou know what the apostle Paul <\/p>\n

1214
\n01:26:00,000 –> 01:26:03,000
\nsaid?
\nHe said let all that all that <\/p>\n

1215
\n01:26:03,000 –> 01:26:07,760
\nlive godly, that live godly, not
\nprofess, but live godly in <\/p>\n

1216
\n01:26:07,760 –> 01:26:09,760
\nChrist Jesus shall suffer
\npersecution. <\/p>\n

1217
\n01:26:10,400 –> 01:26:12,560
\nAnd it’s a lot of all the
\nfaithful, as we’ve seen from a <\/p>\n

1218
\n01:26:12,560 –> 01:26:17,000
\ncouple of other studies, the lot
\nof all God’s faithful servants <\/p>\n

1219
\n01:26:17,000 –> 01:26:19,520
\nare going to have to walk this
\npath where there’s pressure. <\/p>\n

1220
\n01:26:19,720 –> 01:26:21,240
\nBut, you know, pressure has a
\npurpose. <\/p>\n

1221
\n01:26:22,160 –> 01:26:24,800
\nAnd here it’s so beautifully
\nexplained. <\/p>\n

1222
\n01:26:25,160 –> 01:26:26,360
\nWe’re going to finish on this
\ntonight. <\/p>\n

1223
\n01:26:27,520 –> 01:26:31,200
\nIt is absolutely beautifully
\nillustrated in this little <\/p>\n

1224
\n01:26:31,200 –> 01:26:36,760
\nparable.
\nYou see those three young men <\/p>\n

1225
\n01:26:37,240 –> 01:26:47,080
\nwere bound by King Sin and
\nthrown into a furnace, and when <\/p>\n

1226
\n01:26:47,080 –> 01:26:51,720
\nthey came and when they came,
\nwhen they got into that furnace,<\/p>\n

1227
\n01:26:51,960 –> 01:26:54,880
\nyou know what happened?
\nThe ropes burnt off. <\/p>\n

1228
\n01:26:56,040 –> 01:27:00,720
\nThey were freed and they came
\nout and were elevated to the top<\/p>\n

1229
\n01:27:01,240 –> 01:27:04,880
\nof the Kingdom.
\nNow we’re in First of Peter. <\/p>\n

1230
\n01:27:04,880 –> 01:27:10,560
\nYou turn back a page the First
\nof Peter Chapter 1, and these <\/p>\n

1231
\n01:27:10,560 –> 01:27:14,120
\nare words we must have read
\nhundreds of times, but you think<\/p>\n

1232
\n01:27:14,120 –> 01:27:18,960
\nof them in this context.
\nFirst of Peter one talking about<\/p>\n

1233
\n01:27:18,960 –> 01:27:22,360
\nour lively hope in verse 3,
\nverse 6, wherein you greatly <\/p>\n

1234
\n01:27:22,360 –> 01:27:24,040
\nrejoice, though now for a
\nseason. <\/p>\n

1235
\n01:27:24,040 –> 01:27:26,840
\nIf need be your inhibitors
\nthrough manifold temptations, <\/p>\n

1236
\n01:27:27,720 –> 01:27:33,120
\nthat the tribe trial of your
\nfame, being much more precious <\/p>\n

1237
\n01:27:33,120 –> 01:27:39,920
\nthan of gold that perisheth,
\nthough it be tried with fire, <\/p>\n

1238
\n01:27:40,600 –> 01:27:46,120
\nmight be found unto praise and
\nhonour at the appearing of Jesus<\/p>\n

1239
\n01:27:46,120 –> 01:27:50,360
\nChrist.
\nWhat interesting words here. <\/p>\n

1240
\n01:27:50,480 –> 01:27:55,680
\nFaith and gold are put alongside
\neach other and it’s gold which <\/p>\n

1241
\n01:27:55,680 –> 01:28:00,600
\nperishes and there is a golden
\nimage on the plane of juror and <\/p>\n

1242
\n01:28:00,600 –> 01:28:05,960
\nit’s matched against faith.
\nAnd he says the trial of your <\/p>\n

1243
\n01:28:05,960 –> 01:28:09,320
\nfaith is much more precious than
\ngold that’s going to perish, <\/p>\n

1244
\n01:28:09,600 –> 01:28:13,440
\neven though that faith is going
\nto be tried in the fire and that<\/p>\n

1245
\n01:28:13,440 –> 01:28:16,800
\nfaith is going to go into the
\nfire and what’s going to happen <\/p>\n

1246
\n01:28:16,800 –> 01:28:18,240
\nto it when it comes into the
\nfire? <\/p>\n

1247
\n01:28:18,480 –> 01:28:22,200
\nIt’s going to be found under
\npraise and honour at the hearing<\/p>\n

1248
\n01:28:22,200 –> 01:28:26,080
\nof our Lord Jesus Christ and
\nit’s going to have its bounds <\/p>\n

1249
\n01:28:26,080 –> 01:28:29,440
\nfreed and it’s going to be
\nelevated into glory. <\/p>\n

1250
\n01:28:30,200 –> 01:28:33,680
\nFaith is going to do that and in
\nthat little parable, that’s <\/p>\n

1251
\n01:28:33,680 –> 01:28:38,240
\nexactly what it saw it.
\nIt says the fire of trial is <\/p>\n

1252
\n01:28:38,240 –> 01:28:42,480
\ngoing to free us residents,
\nsisters and young people of the <\/p>\n

1253
\n01:28:42,520 –> 01:28:47,880
\nbondage of King sin.
\nThink of that verse 8 whom he <\/p>\n

1254
\n01:28:47,880 –> 01:28:52,120
\nsays, talking of Christ, having
\nnot seen ye love, and in whom, <\/p>\n

1255
\n01:28:52,120 –> 01:28:56,080
\nthough ye now see him not yet
\nbelieving, ye rejoice with joy <\/p>\n

1256
\n01:28:56,080 –> 01:28:59,360
\nunspeakable and full of glory,
\nreceiving the end of your faith,<\/p>\n

1257
\n01:28:59,560 –> 01:29:01,520
\neven the salvation of your
\nsouls. <\/p>\n

1258
\n01:29:01,800 –> 01:29:05,280
\nAnd so that really is the
\nessence of faith, isn’t not <\/p>\n

1259
\n01:29:05,520 –> 01:29:11,360
\nseeing the unseen, though we
\ndon’t see now, yet believing and<\/p>\n

1260
\n01:29:11,360 –> 01:29:15,440
\nrejoicing with full of glory
\nthat one day we’ll stand <\/p>\n

1261
\n01:29:15,640 –> 01:29:23,360
\ndelivered, freed, saved through
\nthe power of a tried faith. <\/p>\n

1262
\n01:29:23,360 –> 01:29:41,950
\nWhat have we seen?
\nThat the world will always try <\/p>\n

1263
\n01:29:41,950 –> 01:29:45,910
\nto force conformity in its
\nthinking, in its ways and <\/p>\n

1264
\n01:29:45,910 –> 01:29:49,790
\nbehaviour.
\nWhilst we’re in Babylon, We’re <\/p>\n

1265
\n01:29:49,790 –> 01:29:52,270
\ngodly.
\nTrial will always be inevitable,<\/p>\n

1266
\n01:29:53,200 –> 01:29:57,520
\nbut we’ve got to learn to stand
\nup and do what’s right despite <\/p>\n

1267
\n01:29:57,520 –> 01:30:01,600
\nwhat the majority are doing.
\nWe are His servants to whom we <\/p>\n

1268
\n01:30:01,600 –> 01:30:05,640
\nobey.
\nWe have the choice and God is <\/p>\n

1269
\n01:30:05,640 –> 01:30:09,800
\nable to deliver.
\nIf we believe He can, He will. <\/p>\n

1270
\n01:30:11,160 –> 01:30:14,480
\nDeliverance requires faith,
\ncourage and determination by <\/p>\n

1271
\n01:30:14,480 –> 01:30:18,400
\nsoul.
\nLet’s always be be ready to give<\/p>\n

1272
\n01:30:18,400 –> 01:30:22,800
\nan answer of the hope that’s
\nwithin us and to make good use <\/p>\n

1273
\n01:30:23,680 –> 01:30:27,480
\nand thank God for the companions
\nthat He has given us. <\/p>\n

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\n01:30:42,680 –> 01:30:44,800
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394: Andrew Johns – Daniel’s Friends: Resisting the World’s Pressures in Youth<\/a><\/blockquote>