Classes 1 & 4 from this series were used in GCT Episodes 388 & 394, respectively.<\/p>\n
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\naddresses us, Daniel’s friends,
\nresisting the world’s pressures.<\/p>\n
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\nIn you, my dearly beloved
\nbrethren and sisters, and my <\/p>\n
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\ndear young people, in our last,
\nlast study, we saw that tragic <\/p>\n
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\nfigure of Jeremiah who
\nexperienced so much sorrow and <\/p>\n
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\nanguish in his life, but who
\naround him and and around <\/p>\n
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\nJosiah, his great friend and
\nconfident, there accumulated a <\/p>\n
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\nnumber 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 <\/p>\n
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\nhouses.
\nOf the gods of the Babylonians. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they also hand picked.
\nThe cream of Judah’s young men. <\/p>\n
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\nCome to Daniel chapter one,
\nverse 3, And the king <\/p>\n
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\nNebuchadnezzar, that is, spake
\nunto Ashpinaz, the master of his<\/p>\n
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\neunuchs, that he should bring
\ncertain of the children of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael and of the King’s seed,
\nand of the Princess children in <\/p>\n
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\nwhom was no blemish, but well
\nfavoured, and skilful in wisdom <\/p>\n
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\nand cunning, and knowledge and
\nunderstanding science. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd such has had the ability in
\nthem to stand in the King’s <\/p>\n
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\npalace, and whom they might
\nteach 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.
\nAlive. <\/p>\n
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\nWith the word of Yahweh,
\nJeremiah and other prophets had <\/p>\n
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\nstirred them up, and with the
\nexample of Josiah before them, <\/p>\n
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\nthey were enthused to try and
\nturn that nation around. <\/p>\n
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\nBut as soon as Josiah died, as
\nwe saw the other night, all hope<\/p>\n
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\nof that ever happening was lost.
\nThe breath of the nation, as <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah called.
\nHim 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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\nhandpicking 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.
\nSo that 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.
\nTook captive and he. <\/p>\n
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\nBrought some of them into
\nBabylon. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was only part of his
\npolicy. <\/p>\n
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\nThe second part of his policy.
\nWas to hand pick. <\/p>\n
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\nThe intelligentsia of a nation
\nand to train them in the ways of<\/p>\n
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\nBabylon so that they might then
\ninfluence their own people both <\/p>\n
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\nin the land of their captivity
\nand back in their own national <\/p>\n
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\nplace of origin.
\nAnd so we find that this method <\/p>\n
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\nthat Nebuchadnezzar was skilled
\nat using throughout his <\/p>\n
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\ncampaigns and throughout his
\ntime as king was based on 2 <\/p>\n
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\nfundamental principles.
\nThey tried to make those who <\/p>\n
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\nwere taken captive conform to
\nBabylonian. <\/p>\n
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\nThinking and Babylonian
\nbehaviour. <\/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 meet and
\nof the wine which he drank so <\/p>\n
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\nnourishing them three years at
\nthe end thereof they might stand<\/p>\n
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\nbefore 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, while there is some some
\ndispute about the actual meaning<\/p>\n
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\nof some of their Babylonian
\nnames, it’s very interesting to <\/p>\n
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\nsee that every one of the four
\nfriends that we find mentioned <\/p>\n
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\nhere in verses 6 and seven of
\nDaniel, one that is Daniel, <\/p>\n
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\nHannan and I, Mishael and
\nAzariah, all have as part of the<\/p>\n
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\nmeaning of their name, Yahweh or
\nale. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had come from godly
\nfamilies who had so named their.<\/p>\n
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\nChildren to reflect their godly.
\nThinking but the Babylonians <\/p>\n
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\nnamed them, and if you have a
\nlook at the names that are there<\/p>\n
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\non the overhead at the moment,
\nevery single name that they gave<\/p>\n
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\nfor those 4 lads involve the
\nname of 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.
\nI they were put in a exceedingly<\/p>\n
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\ndifficult 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
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\nquite how dangerous and
\ndifficult that was. <\/p>\n
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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
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\nThey were being given everything
\non a plate. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were being treated like
\ngreat Lords walking in as <\/p>\n
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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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\ntutor or that, they got it, and
\neverything that was being done <\/p>\n
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\nto them appealed to their own
\npride, they were being told that<\/p>\n
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\nall they had to do was put their
\nmind to things and they would go<\/p>\n
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\na very long way up the hierarchy
\nof the greatest nation on earth.<\/p>\n
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\nThey could be rulers.
\nThey could be second in the in <\/p>\n
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\nthe realm of the great.
\nAnd mighty Babylon. <\/p>\n
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\nThey could easily have deceived
\nthemselves into thinking young <\/p>\n
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\npeople that, well, it wasn’t of
\ntheir making that got them <\/p>\n
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\nthere.
\nThey’ve been taken into <\/p>\n
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\ncaptivity.
\nThey were put here by God. <\/p>\n
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\nSurely they should make the best
\nof the situation and just do <\/p>\n
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\nwhatever that was asked of them.
\nYou know, our young people today<\/p>\n
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\nare under exactly that same
\npressure. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s an attempt to change
\npersonality. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is an attempt, a very strong
\nattempt, to make our young <\/p>\n
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\npeople conform to Babylon’s
\nlifestyle. <\/p>\n
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\nThe world around us is
\nencouraging by its environment <\/p>\n
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\nand by its education and the two
\nthings that never could, never <\/p>\n
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\nused.
\nIt’s encouraging a broad, <\/p>\n
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\nrounded, balanced education.
\nOh, it sounds very nice, doesn’t<\/p>\n
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\nit?
\nBetter than sisters? <\/p>\n
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\nBut underpinning the.
\nWhole of our education scheme at<\/p>\n
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\nthe moment, and for some years
\nhas it has been the same, is a <\/p>\n
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\nhumanistic base where God has
\nremoved from the realm of <\/p>\n
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\nrational discussion and other
\ngods in fact are substituted for<\/p>\n
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\nthe one true God who created all
\nother gods like success, <\/p>\n
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\nachievement, sport, all
\nsubstituted in place of the one <\/p>\n
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\ntrue God who is the source of
\nall intellectual reasoning and <\/p>\n
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\nwisdom 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. <\/p>\n
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\nAll very reasonable.
\nI don’t see anything wrong with <\/p>\n
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\nwhat’s been told them, it just
\nseems to make sense. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it seems to make sense
\nbecause we’re all made of flesh <\/p>\n
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\nand so are they, and without
\nsome godly external influence in<\/p>\n
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\nBut there’s this this.
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\neducators who are alive.
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\nBut Daniel in this circumstance
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\nHe wasn’t going to partake of
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\nsisters and young people.
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\nTimes better than all of those
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\ndiet of the king.
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\ncounsel to Taste of Babylon’s
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\nbetween Babylon and the truth.
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\nWise choice to do that because
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\ntasted of what Babylon has to
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\nalready things will become.
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\nI wonder whether you’ve ever
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\nthrough Daniel chapter one that
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\nthough we know that it talks
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\nAzariah as well in that chapter.
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\ntalking about Daniel himself.
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\nwould not defile, and he goes to
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\nasked that he might not defile
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\nHe, he, he now we know that the
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\nlikewise right behind Daniel and
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\nlittle later on, but he was the
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\nYou to come to the end.
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\naffairs of the province of
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\nbut now they are. <\/p>\n
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\neven though they were raised to
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\nstill subordinate and we’re
\nstill being called Shadrach, <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s interesting to notice.
\nWe we come to chapter 3 and at <\/p>\n
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\nthis stage those three men,
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\nat this stage. <\/p>\n
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\ndoing, and Nebuchadnezzar in <\/p>\n
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\ntaking another tack. <\/p>\n
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\ntrying to make the young
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\nthinking and its behaviour.
\nYou know, I believe young <\/p>\n
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\nmore relevant and it’s the
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\nto concentrate on Chapter 3.
\nAs opposed to chapter. 1 It’s <\/p>\n
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\nBut Chapter 3, I believe, is
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\nI’ll tell you why. <\/p>\n
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\nis not there. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s important.
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:18,880 –> 00:24:21,960
\nare always mentioned together in
\nChapter 3. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:22,320 –> 00:24:25,760
\nAlways, without exception.
\nThey are never, ever separated. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:25,960 –> 00:24:29,720
\nThere is no clear leader amongst
\nany of those 3. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:29,840 –> 00:24:33,000
\nApart from that, they’re named
\nthe same way each time, but <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:33,000 –> 00:24:36,520
\nthey’re always kept together.
\nAnd here are here we’re <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:36,520 –> 00:24:41,920
\npresented with three ordinary
\nChristadelphian young people. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:43,080 –> 00:24:44,680
\nNow, I think that’s very
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:45,360 –> 00:24:49,200
\nThey had grown up in the truth.
\nThey’re in a strange land where <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:49,200 –> 00:24:52,280
\nthey didn’t really belong and
\nthere’s enormous pressures to <\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:52,280 –> 00:24:54,640
\nconform And when they.
\nFirst got there. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:54,840 –> 00:24:57,000
\nThere was a strong character
\nlike Daniel. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:57,240 –> 00:25:00,520
\nWho influenced them and and?
\nEncouraged them to stand up for <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:00,520 –> 00:25:02,320
\nwhat was right and was talked
\nabout the. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:06,560
\nBible and Jeremiah’s prophecies
\nwith Daniel, and now Daniel’s <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:06,560 –> 00:25:13,520
\nnot there and they’re in their
\nown eyes, just ordinary young <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:13,520 –> 00:25:19,320
\npeople.
\nWhat are they going to do? <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:21,360 –> 00:25:23,040
\nThey’re without the support of a
\nleader. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:24,640 –> 00:25:26,800
\nThey’re without the support of
\ntheir family. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:27,880 –> 00:25:30,000
\nThey’re without the support of
\nthe ecclesia. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:31,120 –> 00:25:35,720
\nThey’re just three young people
\nwho have to make a decision <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:35,840 –> 00:25:41,960
\nthemselves and young people,
\nthat’s the situation that you. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:42,600 –> 00:25:48,200
\nAnd I find ourselves in almost
\nevery day of our lives living in<\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:48,200 –> 00:25:52,160
\nthe middle of Babylon.
\nAnd we don’t. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:52,160 –> 00:25:57,960
\nAlways have a Daniel standing
\nalongside us and we don’t always<\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:57,960 –> 00:26:02,720
\nhave our fathers or mothers or
\nsupport standing alongside us <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:02,960 –> 00:26:06,720
\nevery time a test comes upon it.
\nAnd I believe, young people, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:06,720 –> 00:26:11,200
\nthat Daniel chapter 3 is an
\nessential chapter of the Bible <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:11,200 –> 00:26:14,320
\nfor every young teenager to come
\nto grips with. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:15,040 –> 00:26:17,280
\nIf you don’t know anything.
\nMuch about this and you haven’t <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:17,280 –> 00:26:18,640
\nmarked up some of the
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:18,640 –> 00:26:22,640
\nOut of Daniel chapter 3 make it
\na determination after tonight to<\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:22,640 –> 00:26:27,600
\ndo it because you are fighting.
\nThe exact. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:27,600 –> 00:26:32,360
\nIssues that are in this chapter.
\nThere is a king out there who is<\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:32,360 –> 00:26:34,720
\ndetermined to make you bow the
\nknee. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:34,720 –> 00:26:38,520
\nJust as determined as
\nNebuchadnezzar was in the days <\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:38,520 –> 00:26:41,240
\nwhen Shadrach, Meshach and
\nAbednego stood. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:41,560 –> 00:26:44,080
\nAnd this.
\nChapter is an amazing piece of <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:44,080 –> 00:26:45,920
\nscripture.
\nIt is so. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:45,920 –> 00:26:48,400
\nDifferent from anything else
\nthat appears in the book of <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:48,400 –> 00:26:51,200
\nDaniel.
\nIf you, I guarantee that if I <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:51,200 –> 00:26:53,920
\nasked everyone in this hall
\ntonight just to get a piece of <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:53,920 –> 00:26:58,320
\npaper and for you to write down
\nthe story that’s contained in <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:58,320 –> 00:26:59,960
\nDaniel chapter 3.
\nBecause we’ve just read it and <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:59,960 –> 00:27:02,400
\nwe’ve all known it since we were
\nthis high. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:02,640 –> 00:27:04,960
\nIf we grew up in the truth,
\nwe’ve all heard the story at <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:04,960 –> 00:27:07,000
\nSunday school and we all know
\nit. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:07,000 –> 00:27:09,320
\nOur children love the story.
\nIt’s a dramatic story. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:09,480 –> 00:27:15,200
\nI guarantee that if I asked you
\nto write down on paper the story<\/p>\n
387
\n00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:18,440
\nof this chapter of Daniel and
\nhis three friends in the Fiery <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:18,440 –> 00:27:24,080
\nFurnace, there wouldn’t be.
\nOne single person in this hall <\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:25,600 –> 00:27:30,440
\nwho wrote it down like this.
\nNot one. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:34,520 –> 00:27:39,520
\nI wouldn’t write it like this.
\nThe repetition in this chapter <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:39,680 –> 00:27:44,240
\nis absolutely astounding.
\nAnd on the Bible marking sheet, <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:44,240 –> 00:27:46,480
\nthere’s a list of some of those
\nthings that you can follow <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:46,520 –> 00:27:49,000
\nthrough.
\nBut we’re going to have to read <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:50,680
\ncarefully.
\nYou know, we might must have <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:50,680 –> 00:27:52,720
\nread Daniel Chapter 3 so many
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:52,720 –> 00:27:53,920
\nWe’re so familiar with the
\nstory. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:54,200 –> 00:27:57,160
\nBut when we are familiar.
\nWith things we read straight <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:57,160 –> 00:28:00,080
\nover very important principles
\nand whenever the. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:00,080 –> 00:28:03,680
\nScripture repeats and
\ncontinually repeats over and <\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:03,760 –> 00:28:06,960
\nover and over again, something
\nin very short succession. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:07,400 –> 00:28:12,840
\nWe’ve got to sit up and listen,
\nand the divine mind has recorded<\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:12,840 –> 00:28:16,600
\nsomething in here that’s
\nattempting to make us sit up. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:17,280 –> 00:28:22,080
\nAnd listen very carefully,
\nbecause there’s some essential <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:22,080 –> 00:28:26,600
\nissues of life contained here.
\nLet’s come to verse one. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:27,320 –> 00:28:29,840
\nNebuchadnezzar the King.
\nMade an image. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:29,840 –> 00:28:32,480
\nOf gold, whose height was 3
\nscore cubits, and the breadth <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:32,480 –> 00:28:37,480
\nthereof was 6 cubits.
\nAnd he set it up in the plain of<\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:37,480 –> 00:28:40,520
\nJura, in the province of
\nBabylon, all. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:40,520 –> 00:28:43,040
\nVery interesting.
\nAnd so we start the story. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:48,440
\nBut there are at least three
\nvery clear connections back to <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:48,440 –> 00:28:50,960
\nchapter 1.
\nOne of them is very obvious on <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:50,960 –> 00:28:53,400
\nthe surface.
\nThe other two may not be quite <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:53,400 –> 00:28:55,440
\nso obvious.
\nThe one that’s very obvious is <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:55,440 –> 00:28:58,240
\nthe made an image of gold.
\nThe word image there is exactly <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:58,240 –> 00:29:01,520
\nthe same word that’s used for
\nimage in chapter 2 of the image <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:01,520 –> 00:29:04,480
\nthat Nebuchadnezzar saw.
\nBut this time, it’s all of gold <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:04,640 –> 00:29:06,120
\nand that.
\nHas to be a challenge. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:06,120 –> 00:29:07,640
\nDoesn’t it?
\nBecause the image that <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:07,640 –> 00:29:10,680
\nNebuchadnezzar of all people
\nsaw, and now it’s Nebuchadnezzar<\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:10,680 –> 00:29:13,360
\nsetting up this new one, the one
\nthat Nebuchadnezzar saw, only <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:13,360 –> 00:29:16,240
\nhad a head of gold, and he was
\ntold what that meant. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:18,840
\nNebuchadnezzar, you are the head
\nof gold. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:19,080 –> 00:29:23,920
\nYou are the the the crowning
\npinnacle of the kingdoms of men,<\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:24,280 –> 00:29:27,880
\nbut under you there is an
\ninferior Kingdom that’s going to<\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:27,880 –> 00:29:30,680
\ntake over for you, and you are
\nnot going to keep on going <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:30,680 –> 00:29:32,080
\nforever.
\nThat was a clear. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:32,080 –> 00:29:34,400
\nMessage which was given to him
\nby Daniel. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:34,640 –> 00:29:37,720
\nAnd now, straight after that,
\nNebuchadnezzar sets up an image <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:37,800 –> 00:29:42,360
\nof fewer gold from head to foot.
\nNow, if that wasn’t an open and <\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:42,360 –> 00:29:46,000
\ndirect challenge to the vision
\nwhich he’d already seen and had <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:46,000 –> 00:29:48,600
\ninterpreted for him, I don’t
\nknow what was. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:49,480 –> 00:29:54,200
\nSo it’s set in that setting.
\nBut there’s more to it than <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:54,200 –> 00:29:57,520
\nthat.
\nIt tells us that Nebuchadnezzar.<\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:57,920 –> 00:30:00,840
\nSet it up.
\nIt wasn’t just his counsellors <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:00,840 –> 00:30:03,520
\nor Princess.
\nHe didn’t go and get those who <\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:03,520 –> 00:30:05,760
\nwere over this province of.
\nBabylon to do it. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:06,480 –> 00:30:08,000
\nIt was over the province of
\nBabel. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:12,400
\nWell, the end of chapter 2 says
\nthat Shadrach, Meshach, and <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:16,120
\nAbednego were over the province
\nof Babylon, and now he goes <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:16,120 –> 00:30:20,040
\nstraight over their heads and
\nsets up in the province that <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:20,040 –> 00:30:23,960
\nhe’s given them to rule over.
\nHe sets up this image. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:23,960 –> 00:30:27,800
\nWithout their knowledge.
\nWhy did he do it? <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:27,960 –> 00:30:31,520
\nObviously he knew what they’d
\nthink of because they were <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:31,520 –> 00:30:34,720
\nfriends of Daniel and that is
\nrepeated. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:39,320
\nIf you think that’s unimportant,
\nthat phrase, he Nebuchadnezzar, <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:39,320 –> 00:30:44,120
\nthat is he set it up, occurs 9
\ntimes in this chapter. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:44,800 –> 00:30:46,920
\nNow if we didn’t know after
\nverse one that it was <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:46,920 –> 00:30:51,560
\nNebuchadnezzar that set up.
\nWe’d be rather dull, but we’re <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:51,560 –> 00:30:55,720
\ntold time and time again every
\ntime we meet that image that it.<\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:55,720 –> 00:31:00,000
\nWas the image that
\nNebuchadnezzar had set up, and <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:00,000 –> 00:31:01,520
\nit’s repeated over and over
\nagain. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:31:01,680 –> 00:31:07,200
\nThis is quite clearly a very
\ndirect challenge in the face of <\/p>\n
453
\n00:31:07,200 –> 00:31:10,880
\nthat image, which he’d seen.
\nBut there’s something else that <\/p>\n
454
\n00:31:10,880 –> 00:31:13,680
\nmight not be on the surface.
\nSo amazing. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:19,600
\nThe chapter starts.
\nNebuchadnezzar the king. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:21,720 –> 00:31:24,160
\nDo you know that title?
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:24,240 –> 00:31:31,960
\nThe king doesn’t occur outside
\nof this chapter apart from verse<\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:31,960 –> 00:31:36,880
\n1 of chapter 4 and between verse
\n1 of chapter 3 and verse 1 of <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:36,880 –> 00:31:43,200
\nchapter 4 it occurs. 9 times.
\nIt never occurs outside there. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:43,440 –> 00:31:45,960
\nNever.
\nHave we got Nebuchadnezzar and <\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:45,960 –> 00:31:49,760
\nthe king put together as a
\nformal, pompous, official <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:49,760 –> 00:31:52,960
\npowerful?
\nTitle, but now as if to. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:53,240 –> 00:31:56,160
\nTo.
\nEmphasize that it’s <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:56,160 –> 00:32:00,160
\nNebuchadnezzar, the supreme king
\nof the world. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:32:00,720 –> 00:32:07,320
\nIt’s repeated over over ad
\nnauseam with deliberate intent. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:08,440 –> 00:32:11,200
\nThat’s how this how this starts.
\nAnd if you don’t think that <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:11,200 –> 00:32:14,800
\nthat’s the intention of that
\ntitle, you come to chapter 4 and<\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:17,440
\nverse one, the only other place
\noutside this chapter that it <\/p>\n
469
\n00:32:17,440 –> 00:32:20,080
\noccurs.
\nAnd we read Nebuchadnezzar the <\/p>\n
470
\n00:32:20,080 –> 00:32:23,760
\nking.
\nUnto all people, nations, <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:23,760 –> 00:32:26,520
\nlanguages that dwell on the face
\nof the earth, or in all the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:26,520 –> 00:32:27,960
\nearth, peace be multiplied unto
\nyou. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:27,960 –> 00:32:29,760
\nAnd so.
\nHe goes on and say, so he’s <\/p>\n
474
\n00:32:29,760 –> 00:32:34,320
\ncommanding the attention of the
\nthen known world and drawing <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:34,320 –> 00:32:39,720
\nattention to himself as the
\nSupreme might. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:43,280
\nThat’s exactly what that image
\nwas meant to portray. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:43,480 –> 00:32:47,800
\nHe had that intention to draw
\nthe attention of all the world <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:52,960
\nto his might and his supremacy
\nand get all the world to bow. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:52,960 –> 00:32:56,440
\nDown so it’s a testimony to his
\narrogance and to his self <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:56,440 –> 00:32:59,560
\nimportance.
\nBut we just read read straight <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:59,560 –> 00:33:01,040
\nover a number of other things in
\nchapter. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:05,360
\nIn verse one there for example,
\nthe dimensions of the image and <\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:05,360 –> 00:33:10,360
\nits location.
\nYou see, it was 60 cubits by 6. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:10,920 –> 00:33:14,640
\nCubits anyone that identity
\nabout the Bible would have to <\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:15,200 –> 00:33:17,040
\nimmediately see the connection
\nwith. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:33:17,040 –> 00:33:19,720
\nFlesh.
\nThere. 6 being the number of <\/p>\n
487
\n00:33:19,720 –> 00:33:22,760
\nflesh.
\nBut it’s an impressive image, a <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:22,760 –> 00:33:27,720
\nvery impressive image.
\nAnd this image was 9 stories <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:27,720 –> 00:33:30,200
\nhigh.
\nAnd where did he set it? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:30,440 –> 00:33:33,160
\nIn the middle of all Babylon’s
\nhigh rise. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:34,160 –> 00:33:41,080
\nBuildings no out on the plain of
\nJira where a nine story image <\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:41,080 –> 00:33:44,760
\nwould look amazingly impressive
\nwhen you walked into it from <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:44,760 –> 00:33:45,400
\nmiles.
\nAway. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:50,120
\nYou would see this glistening in
\nthe sun, this gigantic image <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:54,000
\nwhen everyone from all over his
\nprovince was drawn there. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:54,160 –> 00:33:58,720
\nIt was there to impress.
\nImpress the eyes. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:00,560 –> 00:34:04,120
\nNebuchadnezzar was no fool.
\nHe might have been a. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:04,120 –> 00:34:09,120
\nSelfish self-centered man, but
\nhe was no fool and there was the<\/p>\n
499
\n00:34:09,120 –> 00:34:13,880
\nsymbol of flesh to be glorified
\nand worshipped. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:34:14,360 –> 00:34:17,960
\nAnd what a challenge that was to
\nthe might of Yahweh. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:21,600
\nSaid in the plain of Jura, the
\nword Jura means a circle, which <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:21,600 –> 00:34:23,880
\nmeans it really has the idea of
\neternity. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:29,719
\nAnd there he thought he was
\ngoing to set up his Kingdom for <\/p>\n
504
\n00:34:29,719 –> 00:34:32,120
\neternity.
\nAnd look who he called verse 2. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:32,120 –> 00:34:35,280
\nNebuchadnezzar the king sent
\ntogether together the Princess, <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:35,280 –> 00:34:38,480
\nthe governors, the captains, the
\njudges, the treasurers, the <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:38,480 –> 00:34:41,320
\ncouncillors, sheriffs, and all
\nthe provinces, rules of the <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:41,320 –> 00:34:44,000
\nprovinces, to come to the
\ndedication of the image which <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:44,440 –> 00:34:46,920
\nNebuchadnezzar the King had set
\nup. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:48,159 –> 00:34:52,040
\nRepetitious, isn’t it?
\nWhy didn’t he say he gathered? <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:52,040 –> 00:34:55,360
\nTogether, all the intelligence
\nhere, and all the rulers small <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:55,360 –> 00:34:57,640
\nover them, all over his realm.
\nWhy didn’t he say that? <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:59,160 –> 00:35:04,400
\nWell, he mentions them everyone
\nby name, to impress us with just<\/p>\n
514
\n00:35:04,400 –> 00:35:08,680
\nhow many there were and how
\nimportant were all their titles.<\/p>\n
515
\n00:35:08,880 –> 00:35:10,680
\nAnd that from the highest to the
\nlowest of. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:14,000
\nAll his rulers were there, and
\nverse 3 repeats all that same <\/p>\n
517
\n00:35:14,000 –> 00:35:20,160
\nlist again, and tells us that
\nthey all, without exception, <\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:20,440 –> 00:35:25,400
\ncame.
\nThis is very impressive. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:26,440 –> 00:35:32,080
\nEverybody was coming and
\nprepared to conform to the <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:32,080 –> 00:35:36,360
\ninvitation of this great king.
\nWhere the emphasis was on <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:36,360 –> 00:35:39,920
\ngrandeur and pomp and.
\nCeremony to impress the flesh <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:40,560 –> 00:35:43,640
\nand they all stood in front
\nverse 3 right at the end of <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:43,640 –> 00:35:45,920
\nverse 3 we find and they stood
\nbefore the image that <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:45,920 –> 00:35:49,520
\nNebuchadnezzar had set up the
\nword stood before means to stand<\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:52,040
\nin front of and this is where.
\nAll. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:52,040 –> 00:35:56,840
\nOf these, these captains and
\njudges and treasurers stood. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:57,680 –> 00:36:00,040
\nIn the front, right at the foot.
\nOf this image. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:36:00,280 –> 00:36:06,640
\nSo they’re staring up at this
\nnine story high image, a massive<\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:07,000 –> 00:36:12,560
\nstructure, and behind them are
\ncountless millions of people. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:12,640 –> 00:36:15,560
\nThere are hundreds of thousands,
\nprobably of people that had been<\/p>\n
531
\n00:36:15,560 –> 00:36:19,440
\ngathered and called.
\nTo witness this inaugural <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:19,440 –> 00:36:25,080
\nceremony where Nebuchadnezzar
\nhimself was going to be <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:25,080 –> 00:36:27,520
\nworshipped in the image that
\nhe’d made. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:29,640 –> 00:36:36,080
\nAnd just think, Shadrach,
\nMeshach and Abednego are right <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:36,280 –> 00:36:41,760
\ndown the front.
\nWith all of those. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:42,000 –> 00:36:47,560
\nCaptains and judges and
\ntreasurers right in the front. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:47,960 –> 00:36:53,480
\nRow.
\nWhere everybody, no matter where<\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:53,480 –> 00:36:58,960
\nthey stood, could see them and
\nwe find in verse 4 and Harold <\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:58,960 –> 00:37:02,680
\ncried aloud or as the margin
\nsays with might do you. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:37:02,680 –> 00:37:05,320
\nIt’s commanded O people, nations
\nand languages. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:10,520
\nAnd so he goes on to tell them
\nall of the the details of what <\/p>\n
542
\n00:37:10,520 –> 00:37:13,040
\nthey had to do when they heard
\nthe sound of all of these <\/p>\n
543
\n00:37:13,040 –> 00:37:14,480
\ninstruments.
\nThey had to fall down and <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:17,800
\nworship the golden image that
\nNebuchadnezzar had made. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:18,880 –> 00:37:21,440
\nBut it was a command.
\nDid you notice in verse 4? <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:26,320
\nAnd you, it’s commanded.
\nThere wasn’t any option. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:27,000 –> 00:37:30,280
\nThere wasn’t any opportunity for
\nconscientious objection. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:31,160 –> 00:37:33,680
\nAnd I’d like you to notice just
\nin passing, and we’ll come back <\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:33,680 –> 00:37:41,400
\nto this in a moment, who he
\ncommanded that law to says, O <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:41,400 –> 00:37:47,240
\npeople, nations and languages.
\nJust make a mental note of that <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:47,240 –> 00:37:50,600
\nfor the moment.
\nAnd then we find in verse 5 that<\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:50,600 –> 00:37:53,160
\nthis was the command, that at
\nwhat time you hear the sound of <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:53,160 –> 00:37:58,000
\nthe cornet, flute, harp,
\nSackbuck, sultry dulcimer, and <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:58,000 –> 00:38:01,640
\nall kinds of music, you fall
\ndown and worship the golden <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:01,640 –> 00:38:07,560
\nimage that Nebuchadnezzar had
\nset up that goes on and on, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:07,680 –> 00:38:11,720
\nrepeats and.
\nIf they don’t fall down, <\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:11,720 –> 00:38:14,800
\nwhosoever falleth not down and
\nworship the same hour shall be <\/p>\n
558
\n00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:17,360
\ncast in the midst of a burning
\nfiery furnace. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:38:18,560 –> 00:38:22,880
\nSo it’s not only a command,
\nthere’s also real might to this <\/p>\n
560
\n00:38:22,880 –> 00:38:26,600
\nlaw that’s going out.
\nAnd so there was a signal. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:38:27,240 –> 00:38:29,800
\nWhen they were to worship the
\nflesh, there was a. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:32,080
\nSignal, and that signal was
\nmusic. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:32,360 –> 00:38:34,600
\nInstruments.
\nSo you can imagine what kind of <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:36,960
\nmusic it was.
\nIt was there to arouse the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:36,960 –> 00:38:41,600
\nflesh, to incite the flesh to
\nbow down, and to glorify an <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:48,080
\nimage of a man who thought he’d
\nbeen elevated into heaven above <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:48,120 –> 00:38:50,920
\nYahweh in the heavens.
\nThat’s what it was all about. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:51,280 –> 00:38:55,600
\nAnd music is a very, very
\npowerful medium, a very powerful<\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:58,040
\nmedium.
\nAnd it was used on this occasion<\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:58,520 –> 00:39:02,040
\nby Nebuchadnezzar to make all
\npeoples of his realm. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:06,240
\nTo fall down on their knees and
\nworship the flesh. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:10,240 –> 00:39:16,000
\nAnd if they didn’t, If there was
\nno voluntary response? <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:17,120 –> 00:39:22,680
\nThen they would get a little.
\nHelp a little taste of the fiery<\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:22,680 –> 00:39:25,480
\nfurnace.
\nAnd perhaps that might. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:39:25,480 –> 00:39:30,800
\nConvince them to drop onto their
\nknees and for the majority. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:39:30,800 –> 00:39:33,200
\nIf any had stood up, it
\ncertainly would have helped. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:33,880 –> 00:39:36,520
\nAnd did you notice that that
\nfurnace is not? <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:36,520 –> 00:39:37,840
\nJust called a.
\nFurnace. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:38,760 –> 00:39:43,840
\nIt’s called a burning fiery
\nfurnace. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:44,480 –> 00:39:48,800
\nThis was no ordinary furnace.
\nAnd did you notice in the record<\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:48,800 –> 00:39:50,840
\nit’s mentioned?
\n8 times. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:52,200 –> 00:39:55,120
\nThat’s very significant.
\nWe’ll come back to that later, <\/p>\n
583
\n00:39:55,720 –> 00:39:59,560
\nbut it’s mentioned. 8 times.
\nAnd so if a person refused to <\/p>\n
584
\n00:39:59,560 –> 00:40:02,640
\nbow down and worship the flesh,
\nwhat was going to happen? <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:02,960 –> 00:40:07,160
\nThey would be.
\nSacrificed to Babylon’s God of <\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:07,160 –> 00:40:13,680
\nthe Fire and Nebuchadnezzar.
\nWould still be supreme. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:15,480 –> 00:40:20,760
\nHe would not.
\nAllow any challenge he had <\/p>\n
588
\n00:40:20,760 –> 00:40:24,360
\nwithin his hand the power to do
\nanything he wanted. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:40:24,520 –> 00:40:28,880
\nMen’s lives danced on his palm
\nif he said that’s the end. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:40:29,320 –> 00:40:34,200
\nOf you, that was the end.
\nOr so he thought. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:34,200 –> 00:40:38,760
\nAnd.
\nWe find in verse 7, therefore, <\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:39,680 –> 00:40:42,800
\nat that time when all the people
\nheard the sound of the quornet, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:42,800 –> 00:40:44,800
\nthe flute, the heart, the
\nsackpot, the sultry, and all <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:44,800 –> 00:40:47,320
\nkinds of music, see, they’re all
\nrepeated, all six of them <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:47,320 –> 00:40:53,160
\nrepeated again, all underline
\nit, Young people, all the <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:53,160 –> 00:40:57,560
\npeople, the nations and the
\nlanguages, There’s that same <\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:57,560 –> 00:41:02,000
\nphrase, fell down and worshipped
\nthe golden image that <\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:05,240
\nNebuchadnezzar the king had set
\nup. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:05,600 –> 00:41:10,600
\nAll his policies are.
\nAre working 100%. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:12,120 –> 00:41:18,880
\nDebbie could never The thing has
\nnow got everyone on their knees.<\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:18,880 –> 00:41:23,320
\nJust where he wanted them.
\nOr so he thought. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:24,200 –> 00:41:26,000
\nI want you.
\nTo think, young people of <\/p>\n
603
\n00:41:26,000 –> 00:41:35,560
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
\nthey’re in the front row and <\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:35,560 –> 00:41:40,920
\nthey’re standing there with
\neveryone else, and the music <\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:40,920 –> 00:41:49,680
\nstarts and they see all around
\nthem people starting to go down.<\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:50,840 –> 00:41:54,920
\nAnd the music reaches A
\ncrescendo and it’s getting <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:54,920 –> 00:41:58,680
\nlouder and louder.
\nAnd they look out the corner of <\/p>\n
608
\n00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:01,880
\ntheir eye and they can’t see
\nanyone else standing. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:42:03,080 –> 00:42:07,640
\nAnd they look around and there’s
\nno one else anywhere standing. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:09,800 –> 00:42:11,400
\nWhat do you think their knees
\nwere feeling like? <\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:14,280 –> 00:42:19,520
\nEver felt weak in the knees?
\nI guarantee that day they were. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:21,120 –> 00:42:23,000
\nThey could have easily
\nrationalized that. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:26,400 –> 00:42:28,760
\nThey could have said.
\nIn their minds. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:28,760 –> 00:42:33,640
\nWell, really.
\nWe’ve only just been honoured by<\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:33,640 –> 00:42:36,360
\nNebuchadnezzar and we probably
\nshould be thankful for that. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:36,360 –> 00:42:39,760
\nWe ought to offend him, of
\ncourse, if we do. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:39,760 –> 00:42:42,720
\nIf we do bow down at this case,
\nit wouldn’t really mean that. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:44,160 –> 00:42:46,120
\nThat we were.
\nWorshipping his gods, And we <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:46,120 –> 00:42:48,960
\ncould explain that to him
\nafterwards so that he understood<\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:48,960 –> 00:42:50,480
\nthat we weren’t worshiping his
\ngods. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:50,840 –> 00:42:54,280
\nAnd and anyway, what’s the use
\nof really just sacrificing our <\/p>\n
622
\n00:42:54,280 –> 00:42:56,200
\nlives for such a pointless
\nexercise? <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:57,320 –> 00:42:58,920
\nI mean, after all, what would
\nthat really achieve? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:42:58,920 –> 00:43:01,480
\nSurely we’ve got a greater work
\nto do here in Babylon. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:01,600 –> 00:43:03,480
\nSurely we can encourage the
\nyoung captives. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:05,120
\nWe know something about what
\nDaniel said. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:05,520 –> 00:43:10,800
\nSurely let’s just go down and
\nwe’ll explain for everything as <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:10,800 –> 00:43:15,800
\nours.
\nSounds plausible, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:20,320
\nI wonder how many of us would
\nhave taken that line. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:21,960 –> 00:43:28,800
\nThey knew that to go to stand
\nupright young people, they knew <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:29,960 –> 00:43:37,480
\nit meant certain death.
\nAnd remember this, that they <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:37,480 –> 00:43:41,080
\ndidn’t know the end of this
\nstory like we do. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:42,320 –> 00:43:47,120
\nAll they knew was that
\nBabylonians were awfully <\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:47,120 –> 00:43:54,440
\nruthless, Whatever they said
\nthey meant, and it didn’t matter<\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:54,440 –> 00:43:59,960
\nabout men’s lives.
\nLife was awfully cheap in the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:05,200
\nhands of a potentate like
\nNebuchadnezzar, and they’d seen <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:05,200 –> 00:44:06,760
\nthat happen in their own
\ncountry. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:08,320 –> 00:44:11,040
\nAnd with that knowledge, it was
\nnot easy. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:11,680 –> 00:44:15,200
\nTo stand up and be counted.
\nAnd they counted the cost, young<\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:15,200 –> 00:44:21,120
\npeople, they counted the cost.
\nAnd the cost was their lives, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:23,280 –> 00:44:26,560
\nnothing less.
\nIt was their lives. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:27,800 –> 00:44:31,000
\nThere are many other faithfuls
\nthrough many generations who <\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:31,000 –> 00:44:33,760
\nhave faced exactly that same
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:34,520 –> 00:44:38,560
\nThey’ve counted the cough.
\nAnd have lost their lives. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:42,720 –> 00:44:45,360
\nNow they knew that Babylon’s
\ndays were numbered. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:44:45,360 –> 00:44:49,360
\nThey knew that because.
\nThey’d been in touch with <\/p>\n
647
\n00:44:49,360 –> 00:44:52,520
\nJeremiah before they left, and
\nthey knew that Jeremiah had <\/p>\n
648
\n00:44:52,520 –> 00:44:55,080
\nprophesied 70 years and they
\nwould come out of the land. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:55,080 –> 00:45:00,560
\nThey knew Babylon’s days were
\nnumbered, and they based their <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:00,560 –> 00:45:06,760
\ndecision to stand up straight on
\nwhat they knew Jeremiah by the <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:06,760 –> 00:45:12,840
\nword of Yahweh had said, and not
\non what they saw with their eyes<\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:12,840 –> 00:45:16,800
\nand heard with their ears.
\nYoung people. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:17,680 –> 00:45:24,400
\nThat’s what faith is all about,
\nto make decisions in everyday <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:29,440
\nlife that are based on what we
\nknow and believe are right. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:29,880 –> 00:45:33,480
\nDespite what our ears and our
\neyes are telling us. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:34,240 –> 00:45:39,000
\nBecause very often what we see
\nand we hear are very, very <\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:39,000 –> 00:45:44,160
\ndeceiving signals.
\nNow we’re faced and young <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:44,160 –> 00:45:47,640
\npeople, you know that you’re
\nfaced with some very difficult <\/p>\n
659
\n00:45:47,640 –> 00:45:53,200
\nsituations at school, at
\nuniversities and sometimes in <\/p>\n
660
\n00:45:53,200 –> 00:45:56,520
\nthe workplace.
\nYou’re faced with a pressure <\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:56,840 –> 00:46:03,680
\nalmost daily to conform to
\nconform to this age or not, <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:04,440 –> 00:46:07,480
\nthere’s a decision and you’re.
\nAsked to stand up or drop onto <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:07,480 –> 00:46:11,600
\nyour knees.
\nYou’re asked sometimes and have <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:11,600 –> 00:46:15,320
\npressure put on you to go to
\nworldly parties. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:15,320 –> 00:46:19,360
\nWhat do you do?
\nDo you say no or say yes? <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:20,760
\nDo you stand?
\nUp. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:20,760 –> 00:46:24,400
\nWhat do you get on your knees?
\nYou’re faced with the sitting in<\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:24,400 –> 00:46:27,040
\nthe schoolyard to join in with
\nall the crude jokes that are <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:27,040 –> 00:46:32,160
\ngoing around and have a snigger.
\nHave a snigger? <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:32,280 –> 00:46:36,160
\nDo you stay there?
\nDo you stand up or go on your <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:36,160 –> 00:46:40,040
\nknees?
\nWell, learn to stand up and <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:40,120 –> 00:46:44,600
\nthink of Shadrach, Meshach and
\nAbednego before that image with <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:44,600 –> 00:46:46,600
\nhundreds.
\nOf thousands of people behind <\/p>\n
674
\n00:46:46,600 –> 00:46:49,040
\nwatching them.
\nAnd you know. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:46:49,080 –> 00:46:52,640
\nWe we mentioned a moment ago
\nthis little phrase O people, <\/p>\n
676
\n00:46:52,640 –> 00:46:54,560
\nnations and languages, and it
\nwas. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:46:54,760 –> 00:46:57,000
\nAll.
\nThe people, nations and <\/p>\n
678
\n00:46:57,000 –> 00:47:02,480
\nlanguages in verse 7 that had
\nfallen down onto their knees. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:03,800 –> 00:47:07,120
\nYeah, that phrase is used in.
\nRevelation to describe all the <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:07,120 –> 00:47:10,960
\nworld.
\nRevelation 5 without turning to <\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:10,960 –> 00:47:14,960
\nit, and in verse 8 and 9 says
\nand we would and that has <\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:14,960 –> 00:47:20,200
\nredeemed us.
\nOut of every kindred and tongue <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:20,200 –> 00:47:24,320
\nand people and nation, and now
\nwe’ve got all the peoples, <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:24,320 –> 00:47:28,440
\nnations, tongues bowing down and
\nthey’re going to have to stand <\/p>\n
685
\n00:47:28,480 –> 00:47:31,840
\nout of that and.
\nThat who’s that’s who’s God? <\/p>\n
686
\n00:47:31,840 –> 00:47:33,880
\n‘S looking at.
\nBecause in the end. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:47:34,400 –> 00:47:38,840
\nCounted amongst the redeemed are
\nthose who’ve come out of all <\/p>\n
688
\n00:47:38,840 –> 00:47:45,200
\npeoples, nations and tongues who
\ndidn’t fit and didn’t conform to<\/p>\n
689
\n00:47:45,200 –> 00:47:49,720
\nall their ways because they
\nbelong to a society that was <\/p>\n
690
\n00:47:49,720 –> 00:47:54,120
\nvery different and when they
\nwere in the midst of a situation<\/p>\n
691
\n00:47:54,120 –> 00:47:56,040
\nthat they were very
\nuncomfortable with. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:47:56,520 –> 00:48:00,600
\nThey stood.
\nUpright, verse 8. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:48:01,960 –> 00:48:04,840
\nWherefore at that time certain
\ncalled Inans came near, and <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:04,840 –> 00:48:08,040
\naccused the Jews.
\nNotice the term. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:09,160 –> 00:48:13,480
\nThe word accusing the Septuagint
\nis Diablo, from which we get to <\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:13,480 –> 00:48:19,280
\nthe Greek.
\nDiabolos falsely accuse, and out<\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:19,280 –> 00:48:23,200
\nof jealousy they they accused
\nthese Jews before <\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:23,200 –> 00:48:25,560
\nNebuchadnezzar.
\nNebuchadnezzar may not have even<\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:25,560 –> 00:48:29,560
\nknown.
\nWith such a vast crowd, but who <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:29,560 –> 00:48:32,960
\ndid notice were all of those who
\nwere standing alongside and all <\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:32,960 –> 00:48:35,120
\naround.
\nAnd that seemed these three men <\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:35,120 –> 00:48:42,120
\njust raised to great prominence
\novernight, and I hated them and <\/p>\n
703
\n00:48:42,120 –> 00:48:44,440
\nwhat they stood for.
\nAnd the fact that they didn’t, <\/p>\n
704
\n00:48:44,440 –> 00:48:47,520
\nreally.
\nConform to Babylonian ways. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:48:47,800 –> 00:48:50,080
\nLook at the accusations.
\nYou would expect them to go to <\/p>\n
706
\n00:48:50,080 –> 00:48:52,920
\nNebuchadnezzar and say, oh,
\nNebuchadnezzar. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:48:53,200 –> 00:48:55,840
\nThere are three men who are
\nJews. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:48:56,280 –> 00:48:58,080
\nWho didn’t bow down to your
\nimage? <\/p>\n
709
\n00:48:58,360 –> 00:49:00,680
\nYou know, they said two other
\nthings before they said that. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:49:01,400 –> 00:49:03,880
\nNotice what they said in verse
\n12. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:49:04,520 –> 00:49:09,200
\nThe three things are these that
\nthey haven’t regarded the king, <\/p>\n
712
\n00:49:10,960 –> 00:49:12,960
\nthat they have not served the
\nKing’s. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:49:13,080 –> 00:49:16,440
\nGods.
\nSo they’re introducing all these<\/p>\n
714
\n00:49:16,440 –> 00:49:17,920
\nother.
\nThings and then that they <\/p>\n
715
\n00:49:17,960 –> 00:49:21,680
\nworship, not the golden image.
\nAnd it’s very interesting that <\/p>\n
716
\n00:49:21,680 –> 00:49:24,880
\ntheir contemporaries very
\nclearly knew a lot more about <\/p>\n
717
\n00:49:24,880 –> 00:49:27,280
\nthem than what they saw on that
\nday. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:49:27,640 –> 00:49:31,680
\nThey knew that they did not
\nserve Babylonian gods. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:49:31,760 –> 00:49:35,720
\nNow, how did they know that?
\nBecause just them bowing down <\/p>\n
720
\n00:49:35,720 –> 00:49:41,200
\nthere on that day to that image
\nof Nebuchadnezzar was not going <\/p>\n
721
\n00:49:41,200 –> 00:49:47,400
\nto merely tell them that.
\nClearly they had spoken to these<\/p>\n
722
\n00:49:47,400 –> 00:49:51,400
\nothers before.
\nVerse 13 goes on to say then. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:49:51,400 –> 00:49:53,880
\nNebuchadnezzar and his.
\nRage and fury commanded to bring<\/p>\n
724
\n00:49:53,880 –> 00:49:56,680
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
\nand they were, and they brought <\/p>\n
725
\n00:49:56,680 –> 00:49:59,320
\nthese men before the king now.
\nWhy did Nebuchadnezzar even do <\/p>\n
726
\n00:49:59,320 –> 00:50:04,720
\nthat?
\nWhy didn’t he say, Don’t you <\/p>\n
727
\n00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:09,200
\nunderstand?
\nDidn’t say that. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:50:09,480 –> 00:50:11,200
\nSaid.
\nBring him here, even though he <\/p>\n
729
\n00:50:11,200 –> 00:50:13,800
\nis.
\nFurious that anyone should <\/p>\n
730
\n00:50:13,800 –> 00:50:18,800
\npossibly stand up against him.
\nAnd so we find that before this <\/p>\n
731
\n00:50:18,800 –> 00:50:23,640
\nenraged king, we find these
\nthree godly young men, <\/p>\n
732
\n00:50:24,520 –> 00:50:28,120
\nNebuchadnezzar Verse 14 spake
\nand said under them, Is it true,<\/p>\n
733
\n00:50:28,120 –> 00:50:31,400
\nor is it probably more carefully
\nshould be rendered? <\/p>\n
734
\n00:50:31,520 –> 00:50:33,760
\nIs it with design, or is it with
\npurpose? <\/p>\n
735
\n00:50:35,120 –> 00:50:38,520
\nOh, Shadrach, Meshach and
\nAbednego, do ye? <\/p>\n
736
\n00:50:39,640 –> 00:50:44,120
\nDo not ye serve my gods, nor
\nworship the golden image which I<\/p>\n
737
\n00:50:44,120 –> 00:50:46,320
\nhave set up?
\nBut he doesn’t wait for an <\/p>\n
738
\n00:50:46,320 –> 00:50:48,560
\nanswer, he just assumes that it
\nwas. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:50:48,840 –> 00:50:51,160
\nNot on purpose.
\nAnd there in itself is <\/p>\n
740
\n00:50:51,160 –> 00:50:53,880
\npsychological pressure that’s
\nvery difficult to resist. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:50:54,280 –> 00:50:56,920
\nAnd young people, we are faced
\nwith that sort of psychological <\/p>\n
742
\n00:50:56,920 –> 00:51:01,480
\npressure all the time, where
\npeople might throw us a question<\/p>\n
743
\n00:51:01,480 –> 00:51:04,080
\nand not wait for an answer and
\njust go on assuming that we’re <\/p>\n
744
\n00:51:04,080 –> 00:51:07,080
\ngoing to conform.
\nAnd that’s what Nebuchadnezzar <\/p>\n
745
\n00:51:07,080 –> 00:51:09,000
\ndid.
\nVerse 15. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:51:09,880 –> 00:51:13,360
\nPressure is building.
\nNow, if you be ready at that <\/p>\n
747
\n00:51:13,360 –> 00:51:15,960
\ntime you hear the sound of the
\ncornet, flute and harp sack. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:51:15,960 –> 00:51:18,720
\nBut sultry Dolphin was 6 again,
\nand all kinds of music. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:51:19,080 –> 00:51:22,640
\nAnd he fall down and worship the
\nimage which I’ve made. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:51:22,640 –> 00:51:25,960
\nWell, But if not he, shall we
\ncast the same arrow into the <\/p>\n
751
\n00:51:25,960 –> 00:51:27,760
\nmidst of the burning fiery
\nfurnace? <\/p>\n
752
\n00:51:31,000 –> 00:51:33,960
\nThey knew all that.
\nWhy was he giving them a second <\/p>\n
753
\n00:51:33,960 –> 00:51:37,320
\nchance?
\nWell, I believe. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:51:39,240 –> 00:51:43,320
\nHe feared them.
\nAnd he knew in the back of his <\/p>\n
755
\n00:51:43,320 –> 00:51:50,120
\nmind that what he was doing was
\na challenge to Yahweh, and that <\/p>\n
756
\n00:51:50,120 –> 00:51:55,480
\nthese men truly were friends of
\nDaniel and servants of the true <\/p>\n
757
\n00:51:55,480 –> 00:52:00,480
\nGod.
\nAnd as perhaps a sign of a a <\/p>\n
758
\n00:52:00,480 –> 00:52:04,560
\nguilty conscience on the part of
\nNebuchadnezzar starting to <\/p>\n
759
\n00:52:04,560 –> 00:52:07,360
\nemerge then?
\nBut he rides roughshods straight<\/p>\n
760
\n00:52:07,360 –> 00:52:10,000
\nover that, and he doesn’t stop
\nwith just. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:52:10,400 –> 00:52:13,320
\nGiving the previous command, he
\ncontinues and says the end of <\/p>\n
762
\n00:52:13,320 –> 00:52:17,440
\nverse 15.
\nAnd who is that God that shall <\/p>\n
763
\n00:52:17,440 –> 00:52:22,040
\ndeliver you out of my hands.
\nEnd of story. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:52:22,600 –> 00:52:29,400
\nGet back in front of the image.
\nAnd now they’ve been graciously <\/p>\n
765
\n00:52:29,400 –> 00:52:32,160
\ngiven another chance.
\nAnother. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:52:32,160 –> 00:52:34,920
\nOpportunity.
\nBut all it turned out to be <\/p>\n
767
\n00:52:35,400 –> 00:52:39,760
\nyoung people was.
\nAnother real pressure because <\/p>\n
768
\n00:52:39,760 –> 00:52:43,120
\nnow Nebuchadnezzar looks like
\nhe’s the good guy. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:52:43,240 –> 00:52:46,360
\nHe’s the one that’s that’s
\nvirtually saved their lives from<\/p>\n
770
\n00:52:46,360 –> 00:52:48,560
\nthe furnace and said, well, I’m
\ngoing to give you another <\/p>\n
771
\n00:52:48,560 –> 00:52:51,000
\nchance.
\nDon’t you understand my mercy as<\/p>\n
772
\n00:52:51,000 –> 00:52:53,000
\nsuch, that I’m going to give you
\nanother? <\/p>\n
773
\n00:52:53,000 –> 00:52:56,320
\nChance now let’s not have.
\nAny more of this nonsense right <\/p>\n
774
\n00:52:56,360 –> 00:53:04,000
\nback and we’ll try again.
\nHow would you go opening your <\/p>\n
775
\n00:53:04,000 –> 00:53:05,400
\nmouth?
\nIn the face of that. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:53:06,480 –> 00:53:10,000
\nBut you see.
\nThey’d been encouraged because <\/p>\n
777
\n00:53:10,000 –> 00:53:14,240
\nNebuchadnezzar himself had
\nraised the contest to the level <\/p>\n
778
\n00:53:14,240 –> 00:53:20,080
\nof Yahweh versus the gods of
\nBabylon, and there was a <\/p>\n
779
\n00:53:20,080 –> 00:53:25,480
\nstimulus to the faith.
\nWere they going to worry about <\/p>\n
780
\n00:53:26,200 –> 00:53:32,080
\nNebuchadnezzar?
\n‘S fire God, or Yahweh, the <\/p>\n
781
\n00:53:32,080 –> 00:53:36,320
\nmaker of heaven and earth.
\nAnd in their mind there was no <\/p>\n
782
\n00:53:36,320 –> 00:53:40,640
\ndoubt.
\nAnd so in verse 16, Shadrach, <\/p>\n
783
\n00:53:40,720 –> 00:53:46,040
\nMeshach, and Abednego answered
\nand said unto the king, O <\/p>\n
784
\n00:53:46,040 –> 00:53:49,480
\nNebuchadnezzar, we are not
\ncareful to answer thee in this <\/p>\n
785
\n00:53:49,480 –> 00:53:51,160
\nmatter.
\nIt’s a poor translation. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:53:51,480 –> 00:53:56,720
\nIt really means we need not say
\na word in answer to that <\/p>\n
787
\n00:53:56,720 –> 00:54:01,760
\nquestion as another translation
\nhas it, verse 17. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:54:02,960 –> 00:54:04,680
\nIf it be so.
\nOur. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:54:04,680 –> 00:54:09,440
\nGod, whom we serve is able to
\ndeliver us from the burning <\/p>\n
790
\n00:54:09,440 –> 00:54:13,920
\nfiery furnace, and He will
\ndeliver us out of thine hand, O <\/p>\n
791
\n00:54:13,920 –> 00:54:16,960
\nKing.
\nBut if not, be it known unto <\/p>\n
792
\n00:54:16,960 –> 00:54:21,720
\nthee, O King, that we will not
\nserve thy gods, nor worship the <\/p>\n
793
\n00:54:21,720 –> 00:54:25,440
\ngolden image which thou has set
\nup. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:54:26,200 –> 00:54:27,880
\nThey weren’t being arrogant or
\nrude. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:54:29,160 –> 00:54:37,200
\nYoung people, they just had
\ntremendous faith to stand up and<\/p>\n
796
\n00:54:37,200 –> 00:54:40,320
\nto say that they believed that
\nthere was a God. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:54:40,440 –> 00:54:42,800
\nWho could deliver and did you
\nnotice? <\/p>\n
798
\n00:54:42,920 –> 00:54:44,080
\nThey didn’t say he.
\nWould. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:54:45,600 –> 00:54:51,200
\nThey have a God.
\nWhom they serve, who is able to <\/p>\n
800
\n00:54:51,200 –> 00:54:54,520
\ndeliver, And if it was his will,
\nhe could. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:54:55,320 –> 00:54:58,160
\nBut if it wasn’t?
\nThen let him. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:54:58,160 –> 00:55:02,400
\nClearly know that they were.
\nNot under any circumstances <\/p>\n
803
\n00:55:02,400 –> 00:55:08,200
\ngoing to still bow down and
\nworship that image or his gods. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:55:10,000 –> 00:55:14,280
\nNow I believe.
\nIt’s almost written into the <\/p>\n
805
\n00:55:14,280 –> 00:55:19,560
\nrecord here that Shadrach,
\nMeshach and Abednego had <\/p>\n
806
\n00:55:19,560 –> 00:55:24,720
\ndiscussed that situation amongst
\nthemselves before that moment. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:55:25,480 –> 00:55:27,800
\nDid you notice in verse 4, verse
\n7? <\/p>\n
808
\n00:55:27,800 –> 00:55:31,320
\nSorry after we read.
\nFrom verse 4 onwards. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:55:31,320 –> 00:55:36,560
\nAbout what the command was in
\nverse 7, it says Therefore at <\/p>\n
810
\n00:55:36,560 –> 00:55:39,560
\nthat time when all the people
\nheard the sound, so there was. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:55:39,560 –> 00:55:43,160
\nClearly a A.
\nTime lag between when the Herald<\/p>\n
812
\n00:55:43,160 –> 00:55:44,640
\ncame around and told everyone
\nwhat? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:55:44,640 –> 00:55:47,280
\nThey had to do.
\nAnd when the music actually. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:55:47,280 –> 00:55:53,400
\nStarted when the ceremony began
\nand those three faithful young <\/p>\n
815
\n00:55:53,400 –> 00:55:55,000
\nmen.
\nWould have been very. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:55:55,000 –> 00:55:58,240
\nConcerned about the situation
\nthey were in and no doubt had <\/p>\n
817
\n00:55:58,240 –> 00:56:02,920
\ntalked carefully and quickly
\ntogether and had discussed all <\/p>\n
818
\n00:56:02,920 –> 00:56:06,280
\nthe issues involved and had got
\non their knees and prayed to the<\/p>\n
819
\n00:56:06,280 –> 00:56:10,240
\nGod of heaven and earth and
\nassort his guidance in this very<\/p>\n
820
\n00:56:10,240 –> 00:56:16,240
\ndifficult situation and stuck
\ntogether and determined amongst <\/p>\n
821
\n00:56:16,240 –> 00:56:17,280
\nthemselves.
\nThat they would. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:56:17,280 –> 00:56:20,080
\nStay together because they knew
\nit was right. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:56:20,560 –> 00:56:24,600
\nThey’d made-up their minds
\nbefore the situation happened. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:56:27,360 –> 00:56:31,040
\nNow, I believe if they hadn’t
\nmade-up their minds very clearly<\/p>\n
825
\n00:56:31,040 –> 00:56:36,360
\namongst themselves that when it
\ncame and that music began, the <\/p>\n
826
\n00:56:36,360 –> 00:56:38,960
\nwhole emotion of that
\ncircumstance would have weakened<\/p>\n
827
\n00:56:38,960 –> 00:56:41,440
\ntheir knees to such a point
\nwhere they looked around and saw<\/p>\n
828
\n00:56:41,440 –> 00:56:43,120
\nthat everyone else was down.
\nThey too would. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:56:43,120 –> 00:56:47,520
\nHave gone to their knees.
\nYou know, there’s a very <\/p>\n
830
\n00:56:47,520 –> 00:56:52,840
\npowerful lesson in that, young
\npeople, if we allow ourselves to<\/p>\n
831
\n00:56:52,840 –> 00:56:57,800
\nwalk out onto the plain of Juror
\nin full sight of the glory of <\/p>\n
832
\n00:56:57,800 –> 00:57:00,200
\nthe.
\nFlesh of Babylon and all its <\/p>\n
833
\n00:57:00,200 –> 00:57:04,400
\nmight and all its gods.
\nAnd we think that on the spur of<\/p>\n
834
\n00:57:04,400 –> 00:57:06,800
\nthe moment we’re just going to
\nbe able to make the right <\/p>\n
835
\n00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:08,240
\ndecision.
\nIt’s going to be the godly one <\/p>\n
836
\n00:57:08,240 –> 00:57:12,280
\nevery time.
\nWe are fooling ourselves if we <\/p>\n
837
\n00:57:12,280 –> 00:57:14,720
\nwalk out onto that plane of
\njuror, if we have not <\/p>\n
838
\n00:57:14,720 –> 00:57:18,600
\nprayerfully and carefully
\nconsidered the dangers there and<\/p>\n
839
\n00:57:18,600 –> 00:57:22,360
\nwhat we might do if we’re caught
\nin this situation or that, or <\/p>\n
840
\n00:57:22,960 –> 00:57:26,200
\nwhat we might do to flee from
\nthis or that, or how we’ll react<\/p>\n
841
\n00:57:26,200 –> 00:57:28,920
\nto this or that.
\nYoung people will be on our <\/p>\n
842
\n00:57:28,920 –> 00:57:32,160
\nknees before we can, before I
\ncan even think about it. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:57:32,880 –> 00:57:39,600
\nThe power in Babylon’s
\npsychological techniques will <\/p>\n
844
\n00:57:39,600 –> 00:57:42,960
\nhave us on our knees unless we
\nvery carefully prepare. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:57:43,240 –> 00:57:45,960
\nNow what I believe we have to do
\nyoung people with the depth of. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:57:45,960 –> 00:57:47,160
\nWickedness.
\nThat’s in this. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:57:47,160 –> 00:57:51,480
\nWorld is to think carefully
\nabout situations and issues, <\/p>\n
848
\n00:57:51,920 –> 00:57:55,040
\nweigh it up and talk about it
\nwith our friends, our friends <\/p>\n
849
\n00:57:55,040 –> 00:57:58,480
\nwho are godly, who know their
\nBibles and open them together <\/p>\n
850
\n00:57:59,640 –> 00:58:01,840
\nand talk about things, ask each
\nother. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:58:02,000 –> 00:58:03,880
\nWhat do you think God thinks
\nabout this? <\/p>\n
852
\n00:58:04,560 –> 00:58:05,760
\nHow do you think I should handle
\nthis? <\/p>\n
853
\n00:58:05,880 –> 00:58:08,560
\nI came across this situation now
\ntoday, and I didn’t know what to<\/p>\n
854
\n00:58:08,560 –> 00:58:10,640
\ndo.
\nAnd I said yes and listen. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:58:10,680 –> 00:58:12,880
\nAnd afterwards I thought
\nwretched about it. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:58:12,960 –> 00:58:16,000
\nWhat do you think I should do?
\nAsk older brethren, Talk to your<\/p>\n
857
\n00:58:16,000 –> 00:58:20,760
\npeers.
\nOpen your Bibles on your knees <\/p>\n
858
\n00:58:20,760 –> 00:58:24,120
\nin prayer to the Father.
\nThat’s what they did. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:58:24,240 –> 00:58:27,000
\nI believe out on the plain of
\njuror when they had very little <\/p>\n
860
\n00:58:27,000 –> 00:58:29,920
\ntime.
\nIt’s no good our Bibles being <\/p>\n
861
\n00:58:29,920 –> 00:58:31,520
\nshut.
\nIn Nice. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:58:31,520 –> 00:58:36,880
\nCases when we’re outstanding in
\nfront of that image and the <\/p>\n
863
\n00:58:36,880 –> 00:58:41,160
\nmusic starts, a Bible is no good
\nthen. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:58:44,080 –> 00:58:48,440
\nThe Bible is only any good if
\nit’s affected our minds before <\/p>\n
865
\n00:58:48,440 –> 00:58:52,800
\nthat time.
\nNever ever. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:58:52,840 –> 00:58:56,680
\nYoung people never, ever
\nunderestimate the value of good,<\/p>\n
867
\n00:58:57,840 –> 00:59:04,680
\ngodly minded friends.
\nThese three are never separated <\/p>\n
868
\n00:59:04,680 –> 00:59:07,000
\nin this record.
\nHave you noticed that? <\/p>\n
869
\n00:59:07,040 –> 00:59:11,440
\nNever separated.
\nWhen they say something, it says<\/p>\n
870
\n00:59:11,600 –> 00:59:14,080
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:59:14,880 –> 00:59:17,640
\nDoes that mean that they sighted
\nin unison? <\/p>\n
872
\n00:59:18,600 –> 00:59:21,640
\nI don’t think so.
\nBut what it means is that there <\/p>\n
873
\n00:59:21,640 –> 00:59:26,080
\nwas no leader among there.
\nThey were all terrified of that <\/p>\n
874
\n00:59:26,080 –> 00:59:29,480
\nsituation, but they were godly
\nenough to have worked out <\/p>\n
875
\n00:59:29,480 –> 00:59:34,000
\nbetween them what they should
\ndo, and they encouraged each <\/p>\n
876
\n00:59:34,000 –> 00:59:43,560
\nother and stood together upright
\nbecause they had good companions<\/p>\n
877
\n00:59:43,560 –> 00:59:47,840
\nalongside them.
\nYou know, use your companions. <\/p>\n
878
\n00:59:48,640 –> 00:59:52,760
\nThose young people who come from
\na situation where there are <\/p>\n
879
\n00:59:52,920 –> 00:59:56,520
\nother young people in your
\necclesia or in your surrounding,<\/p>\n
880
\n00:59:57,760 –> 01:00:02,840
\nthank God for that.
\nNever underestimate the <\/p>\n
881
\n01:00:02,840 –> 01:00:06,000
\nprivilege and the blessing of
\nthat and use it. <\/p>\n
882
\n01:00:07,640 –> 01:00:12,800
\nVerse 19 with Nebuchadnezzar
\nfull of fury. <\/p>\n
883
\n01:00:15,280 –> 01:00:18,480
\nThen was Nebuchadnezzar sorry,
\nfull of fury, and the form of <\/p>\n
884
\n01:00:18,480 –> 01:00:23,000
\nhis visage was changed against
\nShadrach. <\/p>\n
885
\n01:00:23,240 –> 01:00:26,160
\nHe’s shaken a Bendigo.
\nTherefore he spake and. <\/p>\n
886
\n01:00:26,160 –> 01:00:29,200
\nCommanded that they should heat
\nthe furnace 1\/7 times more than <\/p>\n
887
\n01:00:29,200 –> 01:00:32,680
\nit was, won’t to be heated seven
\ntimes hotter than we’ve ever <\/p>\n
888
\n01:00:32,680 –> 01:00:35,120
\nseen he did before, Rotherham
\nsays. <\/p>\n
889
\n01:00:36,080 –> 01:00:38,080
\nAnd now they had a chance to
\nchange their minds. <\/p>\n
890
\n01:00:38,080 –> 01:00:42,320
\nIf they were quick.
\nIf they were quick because the <\/p>\n
891
\n01:00:42,320 –> 01:00:46,240
\nKing’s face was distorted with
\nrage, as the Hebrew actually <\/p>\n
892
\n01:00:46,240 –> 01:00:50,000
\nmeans.
\nAnd tragically, that last <\/p>\n
893
\n01:00:50,040 –> 01:00:53,800
\nheating of the furnace makes
\nmany young people buckle. <\/p>\n
894
\n01:00:55,440 –> 01:01:00,120
\nThat last seven times heating.
\nVisual impact of that as the <\/p>\n
895
\n01:01:00,120 –> 01:01:03,480
\npressure really comes on from a
\nworld who wants to make them <\/p>\n
896
\n01:01:03,480 –> 01:01:07,040
\nconform often just makes the
\nlittle bit of difference that <\/p>\n
897
\n01:01:07,040 –> 01:01:09,560
\ncrumples their knees and takes
\nthem to the ground. <\/p>\n
898
\n01:01:10,840 –> 01:01:13,640
\nVerse 20 And he commanded the
\nmost mighty men that were in his<\/p>\n
899
\n01:01:13,640 –> 01:01:16,560
\narmy to bind Shadrach, Meshach,
\nand the Bendigo and. <\/p>\n
900
\n01:01:16,560 –> 01:01:19,560
\nCast them into the very.
\nBurning Fiery Furnace. <\/p>\n
901
\n01:01:20,440 –> 01:01:23,360
\nThen these men were bound in
\ntheir coats, their hose, and in <\/p>\n
902
\n01:01:23,360 –> 01:01:25,720
\ntheir hats, and their other
\ngarments were cast in the midst <\/p>\n
903
\n01:01:25,720 –> 01:01:30,520
\nof the burning fiery furnace.
\nTherefore, because of the King’s<\/p>\n
904
\n01:01:30,520 –> 01:01:33,320
\ncommand, because of the King’s
\ncommand was urgent and the <\/p>\n
905
\n01:01:33,320 –> 01:01:37,320
\nfurnace exceeding hot, the flame
\nof the fire slew those men that <\/p>\n
906
\n01:01:37,320 –> 01:01:43,360
\ntook up Shadrach, Meshach and
\nthe Bendigo, and these three <\/p>\n
907
\n01:01:43,360 –> 01:01:46,240
\nmen, Shadrach, Meshach and the
\nBendigo. <\/p>\n
908
\n01:01:47,800 –> 01:01:54,440
\nFell down.
\nNot voluntarily. <\/p>\n
909
\n01:01:55,680 –> 01:01:59,560
\nThey fell down.
\nBound into the midst of the. <\/p>\n
910
\n01:01:59,560 –> 01:02:03,320
\nBurning Fiery Furnace.
\nWhat a frightening spectacle. <\/p>\n
911
\n01:02:04,080 –> 01:02:06,400
\nYou put your yourselves in that
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
912
\n01:02:06,400 –> 01:02:08,560
\nYoung people, they didn’t.
\nKnow what was going to happen. <\/p>\n
913
\n01:02:08,560 –> 01:02:10,880
\nWhen they got in there.
\nIt was certain. <\/p>\n
914
\n01:02:10,880 –> 01:02:14,040
\nDeath for them.
\nThey were powerless, helpless <\/p>\n
915
\n01:02:14,760 –> 01:02:16,920
\nand.
\nAll they could do was pray to <\/p>\n
916
\n01:02:16,920 –> 01:02:21,640
\nthe God of heaven.
\nVerse 24 and 25 tells us that <\/p>\n
917
\n01:02:22,160 –> 01:02:26,520
\nwhen they looked in, they saw
\nthat there was 4. <\/p>\n
918
\n01:02:27,280 –> 01:02:33,160
\nMen walking loose and they’d
\nthrown in three men. <\/p>\n
919
\n01:02:33,280 –> 01:02:38,120
\nThat were bound and there was a
\ngreat enigma here 3 bound had <\/p>\n
920
\n01:02:38,120 –> 01:02:41,240
\ngone into the furnace and now as
\nthey peered through the flames <\/p>\n
921
\n01:02:41,240 –> 01:02:43,600
\nfrom a distance.
\nNebuchadnezzar could see four <\/p>\n
922
\n01:02:43,600 –> 01:02:47,600
\nmen who were loose.
\nAnd they didn’t expect. <\/p>\n
923
\n01:02:48,400 –> 01:02:51,400
\nLet alone Nebuchadnezzar.
\nBut the three friends never, <\/p>\n
924
\n01:02:51,440 –> 01:02:54,560
\never in their wildest dreams
\nexpected an Angel to appear in <\/p>\n
925
\n01:02:54,560 –> 01:02:57,360
\nthat furnace.
\nThey knew, as David had written <\/p>\n
926
\n01:02:57,360 –> 01:03:01,240
\nmany years before in Psalm 34,
\nthat the Angel of Yahweh encamps<\/p>\n
927
\n01:03:01,240 –> 01:03:03,440
\naround them that fears him and
\ndelivers them. <\/p>\n
928
\n01:03:03,560 –> 01:03:06,680
\nBut they didn’t expect that God
\nhad to do a miraculous <\/p>\n
929
\n01:03:06,680 –> 01:03:10,200
\ndeliverance on that day.
\nThey understood by deliverance <\/p>\n
930
\n01:03:10,240 –> 01:03:13,240
\nthat in the end, when it came to
\nthe time of the Kingdom, He <\/p>\n
931
\n01:03:13,240 –> 01:03:16,720
\nwould raise them again and they
\nwould stand with the faithful of<\/p>\n
932
\n01:03:16,720 –> 01:03:19,600
\nall ages.
\nBut now, very literally, the the<\/p>\n
933
\n01:03:19,600 –> 01:03:23,200
\nAngel of Yahweh was camping with
\nthem in the midst of that fire <\/p>\n
934
\n01:03:23,480 –> 01:03:28,120
\nbecause they believed that
\nYahweh could deliver and because<\/p>\n
935
\n01:03:28,120 –> 01:03:31,480
\nthey believed that He could, He
\ndid. <\/p>\n
936
\n01:03:32,520 –> 01:03:36,360
\nYoung people, that’s a powerful
\nlesson because they believed <\/p>\n
937
\n01:03:36,600 –> 01:03:41,800
\nYahweh could deliver.
\nHe actually did, and Yahweh <\/p>\n
938
\n01:03:41,800 –> 01:03:44,400
\ndoesn’t change.
\nIt doesn’t mean that you might <\/p>\n
939
\n01:03:44,400 –> 01:03:47,880
\nget into a situation tomorrow or
\nthe day after and expect some <\/p>\n
940
\n01:03:47,880 –> 01:03:50,440
\nmiraculous deliverance.
\nGod won’t necessarily work like <\/p>\n
941
\n01:03:50,520 –> 01:03:54,120
\nwork like that, but if you
\nbelieve that can deliver you out<\/p>\n
942
\n01:03:54,120 –> 01:03:58,680
\nof circumstances and out of the
\ngrip of Babylon, He will. <\/p>\n
943
\n01:03:59,280 –> 01:04:04,440
\nHe will deliver.
\nHe is able, these friends told <\/p>\n
944
\n01:04:04,440 –> 01:04:08,680
\nNebuchadnezzar.
\nAnd they came forth they came. <\/p>\n
945
\n01:04:08,680 –> 01:04:11,800
\nForth at the beckon of.
\nNebuchadnezzar out of that fire,<\/p>\n
946
\n01:04:12,120 –> 01:04:14,520
\nand notice how he addressed them
\nin verse 26. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:04:15,240 –> 01:04:18,640
\nHe said to them, Shadrach,
\nMeshach and Abednego, ye <\/p>\n
948
\n01:04:18,960 –> 01:04:24,600
\nservants of the Most high God,
\ncome forth and come hit her. <\/p>\n
949
\n01:04:25,520 –> 01:04:27,560
\nAnd he acknowledges in verse 28
\nthe God of. <\/p>\n
950
\n01:04:27,560 –> 01:04:30,600
\nHeaven and Earth and promoted
\nShadrach, Meshach and Abednego <\/p>\n
951
\n01:04:31,120 –> 01:04:35,440
\nto be seen and.
\nRulers over all of the province <\/p>\n
952
\n01:04:35,440 –> 01:04:40,320
\nof Babylon.
\nWell, that’s a very interesting.<\/p>\n
953
\n01:04:40,320 –> 01:04:44,880
\nStory isn’t it?
\nBut it’s not the end in. <\/p>\n
954
\n01:04:56,290 –> 01:05:01,170
\nFact, there’s much, much more in
\nDaniel chapter 3 we’re not going<\/p>\n
955
\n01:05:01,170 –> 01:05:04,770
\nto spend a lot of time on, but
\nthere is a marvellous parallel <\/p>\n
956
\n01:05:05,370 –> 01:05:11,330
\nin this chapter about.
\nWhose servants we really are? <\/p>\n
957
\n01:05:12,370 –> 01:05:16,640
\nVerse 28 holds the key.
\nThen Nebuchadnezzar spake and <\/p>\n
958
\n01:05:16,640 –> 01:05:19,680
\nsaid, blessed be the God of
\nShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,<\/p>\n
959
\n01:05:19,880 –> 01:05:24,120
\nwho hath sent his Angel and
\ndelivered his servants that <\/p>\n
960
\n01:05:24,120 –> 01:05:30,040
\ntrusted in him, and have changed
\nthe King’s word and yielded <\/p>\n
961
\n01:05:30,040 –> 01:05:34,240
\ntheir bodies, that they might
\nnot serve nor worship any God <\/p>\n
962
\n01:05:34,720 –> 01:05:38,200
\nexcept their own God.
\nYou know, there’s the issue <\/p>\n
963
\n01:05:38,520 –> 01:05:40,200
\nthere.
\nIt is, in a nutshell, young <\/p>\n
964
\n01:05:40,200 –> 01:05:44,120
\npeople, and the issue is this.
\nAnd I don’t believe there is a <\/p>\n
965
\n01:05:44,160 –> 01:05:50,240
\nmore important issue for you as
\nyoung people to come to grips <\/p>\n
966
\n01:05:50,240 –> 01:05:56,880
\nwith in your youth.
\nWho are you going to serve? <\/p>\n
967
\n01:05:58,440 –> 01:06:00,160
\nThat was the issue that they
\nwere faced with. <\/p>\n
968
\n01:06:00,480 –> 01:06:05,520
\nIt’s the issue that
\nNebuchadnezzar understood was. <\/p>\n
969
\n01:06:05,520 –> 01:06:07,920
\nBeing played out in that whole
\nincident. <\/p>\n
970
\n01:06:08,240 –> 01:06:11,960
\nYou see, the word servant or
\nservice occurs in verse 12, <\/p>\n
971
\n01:06:11,960 –> 01:06:15,360
\nverse 14, verse 17, verse 18,
\nverse 26, two verse 28. <\/p>\n
972
\n01:06:15,560 –> 01:06:17,640
\nThey’re all on the sheet.
\nCheck them out later. <\/p>\n
973
\n01:06:18,560 –> 01:06:21,120
\nBut Jesus said you cannot serve
\n2 masters. <\/p>\n
974
\n01:06:21,480 –> 01:06:22,960
\nYou’re either hold of the one
\nwho love the other. <\/p>\n
975
\n01:06:23,040 –> 01:06:24,680
\nWhat will be vice versa?
\nYou cannot. <\/p>\n
976
\n01:06:24,680 –> 01:06:29,160
\nIt doesn’t matter who you are,
\nyou can’t serve 2 masters and <\/p>\n
977
\n01:06:29,160 –> 01:06:30,840
\nyou have to make a choice.
\nAnd if you don’t make a choice, <\/p>\n
978
\n01:06:30,840 –> 01:06:34,000
\nit would be made certain.
\nIt’s as simple as that. <\/p>\n
979
\n01:06:34,400 –> 01:06:38,440
\nIn life, you refuse to make a
\nchoice and the choice is already<\/p>\n
980
\n01:06:38,440 –> 01:06:42,120
\nmade.
\nBut you have a choice. <\/p>\n
981
\n01:06:42,920 –> 01:06:46,240
\nIf you want to make it, I’d like
\nyou to hold your hand in Daniel <\/p>\n
982
\n01:06:46,240 –> 01:06:49,800
\nchapter 3 and come across to
\nRomans. 6 because the issue. <\/p>\n
983
\n01:06:49,800 –> 01:06:52,960
\nOf Romans 6 is whose servants
\nare we going to be? <\/p>\n
984
\n01:06:53,160 –> 01:06:59,120
\nAnd we know that Romans 6 speaks
\npredominantly of baptism, but in<\/p>\n
985
\n01:06:59,120 –> 01:07:06,920
\nRomans chapter. 6 And at verse
\n12 here the apostle Paul tells <\/p>\n
986
\n01:07:06,920 –> 01:07:10,760
\nus very clearly.
\nTo let not. <\/p>\n
987
\n01:07:11,640 –> 01:07:15,920
\nKing Sin.
\nParalleled to. <\/p>\n
988
\n01:07:16,480 –> 01:07:21,480
\nKing Nebuchadnezzar, let not
\nKing Sin therefore reign in your<\/p>\n
989
\n01:07:21,480 –> 01:07:26,440
\nmortal body, that you should
\nobey it in the lusts thereof, <\/p>\n
990
\n01:07:26,840 –> 01:07:29,440
\nobeying it in the lusts there of
\nyoung people is. <\/p>\n
991
\n01:07:29,440 –> 01:07:34,080
\nFalling to our knees and doing.
\nWhat it says just as just as <\/p>\n
992
\n01:07:34,080 –> 01:07:36,240
\nBabylon.
\nIn Babylon, the friends were <\/p>\n
993
\n01:07:36,240 –> 01:07:38,680
\nasked to fall to their knees and
\nto worship the image of Nick, <\/p>\n
994
\n01:07:38,680 –> 01:07:41,960
\nKing Nebuchadnezzar.
\nDon’t let King Sin reign. <\/p>\n
995
\n01:07:42,120 –> 01:07:46,160
\nHe will try all sorts of devious
\npersuasions, all sorts of <\/p>\n
996
\n01:07:46,160 –> 01:07:51,640
\ntricks, all sorts of things to
\ntry and get you to obey him, <\/p>\n
997
\n01:07:52,040 –> 01:07:53,840
\njust like Nebuchadnezzar tried
\nto get. <\/p>\n
998
\n01:07:54,160 –> 01:07:59,480
\nThose friends to obey him.
\nBut verse 13 and 14 are even <\/p>\n
999
\n01:07:59,480 –> 01:08:04,280
\nmore interesting.
\nNeither yield ye your members as<\/p>\n
1000
\n01:08:04,280 –> 01:08:06,600
\ninstruments of unrighteousness
\nunder King sin. <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:08:07,040 –> 01:08:12,000
\nBut yield yourself unto God, as
\nthose that are alive from the <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:08:12,000 –> 01:08:13,840
\ndead.
\nNow look at the. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:08:13,840 –> 01:08:16,040
\nLook at the.
\nAllusions here there are back to<\/p>\n
1004
\n01:08:16,040 –> 01:08:19,040
\nthis incident in Daniel chapter
\n3 and your members as <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:08:19,040 –> 01:08:23,080
\ninstruments of righteousness
\nunder God for king, sin shall <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:08:23,080 –> 01:08:27,200
\nnot have dominion over you.
\nHe won’t. <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:08:28,040 –> 01:08:29,520
\nHe doesn’t.
\nHave to have. <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:08:29,520 –> 01:08:32,760
\nDominion over you.
\nIt’s your choice and you just <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:08:32,760 –> 01:08:36,279
\nsee the similarity of language.
\nHold your hand in in Romans and <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:08:36,279 –> 01:08:39,080
\njust turn back to Daniel, which
\nI still hope you’ve got. <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:08:40,200 –> 01:08:47,560
\nAnd look at verse 28 again.
\nIt says that in Nebuchadnezzar’s<\/p>\n
1012
\n01:08:47,560 –> 01:08:49,080
\nwords here.
\nAnd he delivered his servants <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:08:49,080 –> 01:08:52,200
\nthat trusted in him have changed
\nthe King’s word, and yielded <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:08:52,240 –> 01:08:56,880
\ntheir bodies, that they might
\nnot serve nor worship any God <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:08:56,880 –> 01:08:59,760
\nexcept their own God.
\nIt’s the same language that Paul<\/p>\n
1016
\n01:08:59,760 –> 01:09:01,560
\ntakes up about.
\nYou’re about yielding. <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:09:01,560 –> 01:09:06,240
\nOurselves, our members of
\ninstruments of righteousness or <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:09:06,240 –> 01:09:09,359
\nunrighteousness to God.
\nAnd then look at verse 16 back <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:09:09,359 –> 01:09:13,600
\nin Romans, we are now verse 16.
\nHe says no, you’re not that. <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:09:13,600 –> 01:09:14,680
\nTo.
\nWhom? <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:09:14,680 –> 01:09:20,279
\nYe you yourselves servants to
\nobey His. <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:09:20,279 –> 01:09:24,760
\nServants, ye are to whom ye
\nabet, whether sin unto death or <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:09:24,760 –> 01:09:29,600
\nobedience unto righteousness.
\nBut it’s whom you yield yourself<\/p>\n
1024
\n01:09:29,600 –> 01:09:32,240
\nto.
\nThat you’re under the dominion. <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:09:32,319 –> 01:09:35,240
\nOf and that’s very interesting.
\nIt’s not who we. <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:09:35,240 –> 01:09:38,680
\nSay is our master, young people,
\nthat’s what Paul is saying here.<\/p>\n
1027
\n01:09:38,920 –> 01:09:40,920
\nIt’s not whom we say our master
\nis. <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:09:40,920 –> 01:09:42,680
\nThat’s our true master.
\nIt’s. <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:09:42,680 –> 01:09:47,760
\nTo whom we.
\nYield ourselves and our lives. <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:09:48,040 –> 01:09:49,880
\nThat’s the one, that’s our
\nmaster. <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:09:49,880 –> 01:09:52,080
\nAnd it’s.
\nEither sin or it’s gone. <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:09:52,960 –> 01:09:55,040
\nIt’s as simple as that.
\nThere is no black and white. <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:09:55,200 –> 01:09:57,560
\nWe can’t try and grey it out in
\nthe middle. <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:09:57,920 –> 01:10:01,880
\nWe are either servants of God or
\nwe are servants to King Sin. <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:10:01,880 –> 01:10:06,600
\nIt’s as simple as that.
\nAnd King Sin is a very, very <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:10:06,600 –> 01:10:10,560
\npowerful monarch.
\nWhat more powerful parallel <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:10:10,560 –> 01:10:13,480
\ncould you ever offend in
\nScripture because Nebuchadnezzar<\/p>\n
1038
\n01:10:13,480 –> 01:10:17,000
\nwas supreme monarch of the
\nworld? <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:10:18,040 –> 01:10:21,760
\nEverything, he said.
\nWent and he didn’t always have <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:10:21,760 –> 01:10:24,120
\nto use might.
\nHe used a lot of cunning and <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:10:24,120 –> 01:10:26,640
\nsubtle means.
\nHis policy. <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:10:27,280 –> 01:10:30,200
\nForce everyone to bow down and
\nworship the flesh. <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:10:30,280 –> 01:10:31,640
\nThat was Nebuchadnezzar’s
\npolicy. <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:10:31,760 –> 01:10:35,040
\nAnd King Sin has exactly the
\nsame policy. <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:10:35,440 –> 01:10:39,520
\nAnd what was his strategy?
\nNebuchadnezzar used grandeur and<\/p>\n
1046
\n01:10:39,520 –> 01:10:44,440
\nsize and impressive things.
\nAll the majority, the mighty <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:10:44,440 –> 01:10:46,480
\nmen, all came and they all bowed
\ndown. <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:10:46,640 –> 01:10:48,680
\nThat’s a powerful, powerful
\ntool. <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:10:50,120 –> 01:10:54,680
\nPeer pressure, the majority, is
\na powerful tool used by King Sin<\/p>\n
1050
\n01:10:54,680 –> 01:10:58,040
\nto make us bow down.
\nAnd so all the impressive, <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:10:58,760 –> 01:11:01,480
\napparently.
\nPermanent things we see around <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:11:01,480 –> 01:11:04,360
\nus.
\nAll they look so so permanent <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:11:04,600 –> 01:11:07,320
\nthat we think King Sin is
\nenthroned here. <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:11:07,320 –> 01:11:12,320
\nForever.
\nBut it’s all it’s all just in <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:11:12,320 –> 01:11:15,040
\nthe appearances.
\nBut you know, there was another <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:11:15,040 –> 01:11:18,400
\ntool that kings King
\nNebuchadnezzar used, that king <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:11:18,400 –> 01:11:23,160
\nsin also uses young people.
\nAnd it was the music of the <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:11:23,160 –> 01:11:24,920
\nflesh.
\nRemember, there were six <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:11:24,920 –> 01:11:29,640
\ninstruments.
\nMusic has a very powerful <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:11:29,640 –> 01:11:34,640
\nemotional pull and today’s
\ndepraved pop culture. <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:11:35,160 –> 01:11:39,640
\nThat has corrupted millions upon
\nmillions of young minds around <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:11:39,640 –> 01:11:44,960
\nthe world, continues in exactly
\nthe same strategy of King <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:11:44,960 –> 01:11:50,000
\nNebuchadnezzar evolved.
\nToday’s pop culture ridicules <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:11:50,000 –> 01:11:54,560
\nanything that’s decent, holy,
\ngood, and rights and more than <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:11:54,560 –> 01:11:57,880
\nvirtues, those things that are
\nabsolutely abhorrent and <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:11:57,880 –> 01:12:01,000
\ndespicable.
\nI would never counsel you better<\/p>\n
1067
\n01:12:01,000 –> 01:12:04,640
\nthan sisters to go and listen to
\npop music that this world’s <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:12:04,640 –> 01:12:09,640
\nchildren are listening to.
\nIt is horrific to say the least.<\/p>\n
1069
\n01:12:10,160 –> 01:12:13,840
\nI’ve picked up at school
\ncassettes and looked at the <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:12:13,840 –> 01:12:17,040
\nlabels and my eyes have fallen
\nout of my head. <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:12:17,800 –> 01:12:22,440
\nI couldn’t even read.
\nThe labels here tonight have <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:12:22,440 –> 01:12:26,880
\nmade me to see what the titles
\nof the songs are. <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:12:27,520 –> 01:12:33,120
\nLet alone the content.
\nAnd that’s not an isolated piece<\/p>\n
1074
\n01:12:33,120 –> 01:12:38,000
\nof music in today’s younger
\ngeneration pop culture. <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:12:39,440 –> 01:12:47,600
\nIt’s intended to excite, to
\nincite the flesh to rebellion <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:12:47,840 –> 01:12:51,840
\nand free lust.
\nEnd of story. <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:12:53,560 –> 01:12:59,440
\nAnd this world’s advertisers and
\npromoters know exactly that, and<\/p>\n
1078
\n01:12:59,440 –> 01:13:03,760
\nthey’re riding on a multi
\nbillion dollar wave out of the <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:13:03,760 –> 01:13:08,280
\nlives of individual young people
\naround this world who’ve become <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:13:08,280 –> 01:13:13,040
\naddicted to this filthy rubbish
\nNebuchadnezzar tried. <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:13:13,040 –> 01:13:14,560
\nExactly.
\nThe same things. <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:13:14,880 –> 01:13:16,680
\nNo, brother John Carter once.
\nSaid. <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:13:17,560 –> 01:13:22,760
\nThe mind is insensibly affected
\nby the stream of thoughts <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:13:22,760 –> 01:13:26,960
\npassing through it.
\nYou imagine what this filthy <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:13:26,960 –> 01:13:30,800
\nrubbish is doing to the minds of
\nthis generation’s young people <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:13:31,160 –> 01:13:40,280
\nwho have the plug in drug in
\ntheir ears round mesmerized of <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:13:40,280 –> 01:13:43,920
\nevery day.
\nWe have children in their teens <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:13:43,920 –> 01:13:48,520
\ncoming to school plugged in.
\nThey are pulled out when they <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:13:48,520 –> 01:13:52,120
\nget to when they get to school.
\nIf it’s not confiscated, it’s <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:13:52,280 –> 01:13:55,640
\nplugged back in at recess time
\nand then it’s pulled out again <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:13:55,640 –> 01:13:57,480
\nand plugged back in at
\nlunchtime. <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:13:57,720 –> 01:14:00,000
\nIt’s pulled out.
\nIt’s plugged back in in lessons.<\/p>\n
1093
\n01:14:00,160 –> 01:14:03,360
\nIt goes on and on.
\nIt’s addictive. <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:14:04,120 –> 01:14:11,080
\nYoung people, don’t touch it.
\nIt will corrupt your minds. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:14:11,280 –> 01:14:16,720
\nIt’s dulling the intelligence
\nand sensitivity and moral power <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:14:17,000 –> 01:14:20,480
\nof a whole generation that is
\ngetting themselves ready to be <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:14:20,680 –> 01:14:23,200
\ndestroyed by Christ and the
\nSaints. <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:14:23,560 –> 01:14:27,320
\nIt’s that serious.
\nNebuchadnezzar knew what music <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:14:27,320 –> 01:14:31,040
\ncan do, the music of the flesh.
\nHas. <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:14:31,040 –> 01:14:36,800
\nTo be avoided.
\nIt prevents thinking, ah, it’s a<\/p>\n
1101
\n01:14:36,800 –> 01:14:39,560
\nterrible thing.
\nYou know I’ve had young. <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:14:39,560 –> 01:14:46,480
\nPeople tell me both at school
\nand within the ecclesia that <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:14:46,480 –> 01:14:48,880
\nthey’ve tried to get off some of
\nthat stuff. <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:14:51,160 –> 01:14:57,680
\nI had a young lad at school tell
\nme it was three years since he <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:14:57,680 –> 01:15:03,280
\nstopped listening to some
\nhorrendous heavy metal music, <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:15:05,240 –> 01:15:07,320
\nbut he said with almost tears in
\nhis eyes. <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:15:08,120 –> 01:15:11,880
\nIt keeps coming back.
\nI just see all these images all <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:15:11,880 –> 01:15:14,360
\nthe time.
\nI just keep thinking the words <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:15:14,360 –> 01:15:16,560
\nall the time.
\nI just can’t get rid of it. <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:15:17,120 –> 01:15:21,400
\nIt just keeps coming back.
\nHer music’s like that, isn’t. <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:15:22,200 –> 01:15:25,960
\nIt we teach our little.
\nChildren the books of the Bible <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:15:26,120 –> 01:15:30,280
\nto song because it’s easy to
\nlearn and they can just remember<\/p>\n
1113
\n01:15:30,280 –> 01:15:36,960
\nthe tune and it all comes back.
\nAnd this world’s filth is being <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:15:36,960 –> 01:15:41,400
\nfed into the minds of a
\ngeneration of young people and <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:15:41,400 –> 01:15:45,760
\ncorrupting their intelligence
\nand their moral faculties to the<\/p>\n
1116
\n01:15:45,760 –> 01:15:48,320
\npoint where they won’t be able
\nto respond. <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:15:49,040 –> 01:15:53,520
\nWhat a tragedy.
\nA tragedy of the 1st order young<\/p>\n
1118
\n01:15:53,520 –> 01:15:57,520
\npeople.
\nAvoid it like the plague. <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:16:02,800 –> 01:16:10,160
\nMusic changes not only our
\nability to think, but with <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:16:10,160 –> 01:16:15,600
\ncorrupting and degrading
\nsentiments will change our <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:16:15,600 –> 01:16:19,400
\nbehaviour.
\nHow do we get rid of it? <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:16:19,960 –> 01:16:23,000
\nI know this.
\nI know this from talking to some<\/p>\n
1123
\n01:16:23,000 –> 01:16:25,840
\nof our young people.
\nSome of whom are here tonight. <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:16:27,200 –> 01:16:31,360
\nI know that some of them don’t
\nknow how to get off it. <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:16:33,040 –> 01:16:35,320
\nThey want to, but they don’t
\nknow how. <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:16:37,560 –> 01:16:42,080
\nI wonder sometimes how after
\ngoing to a a young people’s <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:16:42,080 –> 01:16:46,600
\nclass and being uplifted by
\nconsideration of some part of <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:16:46,600 –> 01:16:49,640
\nthe word of God and thrilling to
\nthat, and talking amongst <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:16:49,640 –> 01:16:54,960
\nthemselves afterwards can jump
\ninto their car and turn on the <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:16:54,960 –> 01:16:59,280
\nfilth of the world.
\nLeave it off, young people, <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:16:59,880 –> 01:17:03,720
\nleave it off.
\nMake a determination to change <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:17:04,920 –> 01:17:08,480
\nand replace it with something.
\nReplace it with something that’s<\/p>\n
1133
\n01:17:08,480 –> 01:17:13,040
\na bit more elevated, a bit more
\nGod centered. <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:17:13,920 –> 01:17:16,920
\nJust try.
\nEven if you don’t like listening<\/p>\n
1135
\n01:17:16,920 –> 01:17:22,960
\nto something like the massage or
\nMendelssohn’s Elijah, just try. <\/p>\n
1136
\n01:17:23,400 –> 01:17:26,600
\nJust try.
\nFor 15 minutes a day. <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:17:26,760 –> 01:17:28,840
\nJust try it.
\nAnd do it. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:17:28,840 –> 01:17:34,960
\nEvery day for a fortnight.
\nJust try it, and it just might <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:17:34,960 –> 01:17:40,360
\nsurprise you that you actually
\ncan respond to that and it <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:17:40,360 –> 01:17:46,200
\nactually is likable and it is
\nactually elevating as opposed to<\/p>\n
1141
\n01:17:46,520 –> 01:17:51,400
\nthe degrading sentiments of most
\nof today’s pop music. <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:17:53,400 –> 01:17:59,760
\nBut that wasn’t the only other
\nform of strategy that Kings <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:17:59,920 –> 01:18:01,920
\nNebuchadnezzar and Kingston
\nuses. <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:18:03,200 –> 01:18:05,120
\nThere was a herald crying with
\nmight. <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:18:05,480 –> 01:18:06,640
\nWith.
\nMight. <\/p>\n
1146
\n01:18:07,240 –> 01:18:10,600
\nOh, and there’s a mighty strong
\nvoice around that’s not going to<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:18:10,600 –> 01:18:12,680
\ngive up.
\nIt’s not going to give up. <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:18:12,680 –> 01:18:14,560
\nYoung people don’t think it
\nwill. <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:18:15,040 –> 01:18:19,960
\nSaying to you every day, maybe
\nnot in these words, but in <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:18:19,960 –> 01:18:22,880
\naction, in attitude, it’s saying
\nto you. <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:18:24,120 –> 01:18:28,720
\nYou decide what you want to do
\nfor yourself. <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:18:29,160 –> 01:18:32,440
\nAnd if you want to bow down, you
\nbow down. <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:18:33,920 –> 01:18:36,680
\nAnd you stick up for your
\nrights. <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:18:37,160 –> 01:18:40,800
\nAnd don’t let some.
\nAiry fairy, God in the sky, Some<\/p>\n
1155
\n01:18:41,200 –> 01:18:46,240
\nconcept get in the way of what
\nyour body is telling you. <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:18:46,680 –> 01:18:52,040
\nYou should do.
\nYou know, there’s young people. <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:18:52,040 –> 01:18:54,800
\nWithin.
\nOur young people’s circle, <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:18:55,000 –> 01:19:02,080
\nbrethren and sisters who are
\ntalking now about their rights. <\/p>\n
1159
\n01:19:03,920 –> 01:19:06,960
\nWhy haven’t I got the right to
\ndo? <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:19:06,960 –> 01:19:12,120
\nThis or that.
\nThat should ring bells in our <\/p>\n
1161
\n01:19:12,120 –> 01:19:13,480
\nminds.
\nWarning bells. <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:19:14,320 –> 01:19:15,600
\nWhy?
\nCan’t I? <\/p>\n
1163
\n01:19:16,680 –> 01:19:21,360
\nSurely it’s my life and I can
\ndecide for myself what I want to<\/p>\n
1164
\n01:19:21,360 –> 01:19:25,360
\ndo with my life.
\nNow. <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:19:25,360 –> 01:19:27,520
\nIf you open your ears, you’ll
\nhear that around the place. <\/p>\n
1166
\n01:19:27,960 –> 01:19:30,400
\nNot perhaps.
\nQuite as in exaggerated form as <\/p>\n
1167
\n01:19:30,400 –> 01:19:35,120
\nI just said then.
\nBut you’ll also hear my opinion <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:19:35,120 –> 01:19:37,800
\nis just as important as you,
\nyours anyway. <\/p>\n
1169
\n01:19:38,320 –> 01:19:43,920
\nWhat you’re saying is only an
\nopinion anyway, to a brother who<\/p>\n
1170
\n01:19:43,920 –> 01:19:48,880
\nmight have been 60 years in the
\ntruth and has borne the heat and<\/p>\n
1171
\n01:19:48,880 –> 01:19:54,400
\nburden of the day.
\nAll around us there are people <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:19:54,400 –> 01:19:58,040
\non their knees.
\nTheir plans, their ambitions, <\/p>\n
1173
\n01:19:58,080 –> 01:20:01,960
\ntheir activities.
\nAre all centred around <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:20:01,960 –> 01:20:06,040
\nsatisfying the flesh and the
\nworship and. <\/p>\n
1175
\n01:20:06,040 –> 01:20:09,920
\nElevation of it and the King’s
\ncommand is. <\/p>\n
1176
\n01:20:09,960 –> 01:20:12,960
\nEver so simple.
\nEver so simple. <\/p>\n
1177
\n01:20:13,720 –> 01:20:20,160
\nAll the king said was just.
\nLet go, just relax. <\/p>\n
1178
\n01:20:21,080 –> 01:20:23,240
\nCan’t hurt.
\nYou can’t study the Bible all <\/p>\n
1179
\n01:20:23,240 –> 01:20:27,680
\nthe time.
\nJust why don’t we just go out <\/p>\n
1180
\n01:20:27,680 –> 01:20:30,040
\nfor pictures just one night in
\nthe week? <\/p>\n
1181
\n01:20:30,360 –> 01:20:36,600
\nSurely that can’t hurt.
\nDon’t be deceived. <\/p>\n
1182
\n01:20:36,600 –> 01:20:41,040
\nIt’s not easy to do what’s right
\nwhen others are doing wrong. <\/p>\n
1183
\n01:20:41,440 –> 01:20:44,560
\nAnd it’s even harder young
\npeople to do what’s right when <\/p>\n
1184
\n01:20:44,560 –> 01:20:47,800
\nother other young people are
\ndoing wrong. <\/p>\n
1185
\n01:20:48,720 –> 01:20:52,760
\nBut stand up straight.
\nYou can as. <\/p>\n
1186
\n01:20:52,760 –> 01:20:56,800
\nEasily, brethren and sisters, as
\nwell, assess the effects that <\/p>\n
1187
\n01:20:56,800 –> 01:21:00,840
\nKing’s seen as having on us by
\nwhat we do with our time, what <\/p>\n
1188
\n01:21:00,840 –> 01:21:02,720
\nwe do with our money, what we do
\nwith our. <\/p>\n
1189
\n01:21:04,440 –> 01:21:11,360
\nWhere we go, I’m not trying to
\nunderestimate the pressures that<\/p>\n
1190
\n01:21:11,360 –> 01:21:12,560
\nare.
\nFalling on our young people <\/p>\n
1191
\n01:21:12,560 –> 01:21:14,560
\ntoday they’re they’re quite
\nenormous and the. <\/p>\n
1192
\n01:21:14,560 –> 01:21:17,280
\nWhole of the advertising.
\nIndustry is focusing on young, <\/p>\n
1193
\n01:21:17,520 –> 01:21:20,240
\non youth, because they have.
\nDisposable income. <\/p>\n
1194
\n01:21:20,960 –> 01:21:23,800
\nAnd they’ll target them for
\ndress and, and young people feel<\/p>\n
1195
\n01:21:24,000 –> 01:21:28,720
\nas though they have to have
\nbrand names and particular <\/p>\n
1196
\n01:21:28,920 –> 01:21:34,400
\ntrendy hairstyles that they have
\nto see this movie or go there or<\/p>\n
1197
\n01:21:34,400 –> 01:21:38,680
\ntry this or experiment with
\ndrugs or experiment with sex. <\/p>\n
1198
\n01:21:39,360 –> 01:21:42,000
\nWe’ve got to make up our minds,
\nyoung people, before we go out <\/p>\n
1199
\n01:21:42,000 –> 01:21:44,800
\non the plane of Bureau.
\nWhose servants are we? <\/p>\n
1200
\n01:21:45,800 –> 01:21:50,000
\nIssue and young people, I can
\ntell you this, that decision has<\/p>\n
1201
\n01:21:50,000 –> 01:21:56,640
\nto be made very often before
\nyou’re baptized, because at 1314<\/p>\n
1202
\n01:21:56,640 –> 01:22:01,240
\nyou’re going to be expected to
\nknow whose servants you are. <\/p>\n
1203
\n01:22:02,720 –> 01:22:04,640
\nAnd that’s an.
\nAwful responsibility that’s <\/p>\n
1204
\n01:22:04,640 –> 01:22:07,520
\nfalling on the shoulders.
\nOf our children and parents, <\/p>\n
1205
\n01:22:07,640 –> 01:22:11,000
\nhelp them to bear that.
\nBut we have. <\/p>\n
1206
\n01:22:11,000 –> 01:22:13,600
\nThis assurance, young people,
\nI’d like you to come to 1st of <\/p>\n
1207
\n01:22:13,600 –> 01:22:21,640
\nPeter Chapter 3, first Peter
\nchapter 3 and at verse 12 we <\/p>\n
1208
\n01:22:21,640 –> 01:22:28,400
\nhave this assurance.
\nFor the eyes of the Lord are <\/p>\n
1209
\n01:22:28,400 –> 01:22:32,120
\nover the righteous.
\nIt is ears are open under their <\/p>\n
1210
\n01:22:32,120 –> 01:22:36,040
\nprayers, but in the face of the
\nLord, but the face of the Lord <\/p>\n
1211
\n01:22:36,040 –> 01:22:39,520
\nis against them that do evil.
\nAnd who is he that will harm <\/p>\n
1212
\n01:22:39,520 –> 01:22:41,840
\nyou?
\nIf you be followers of that <\/p>\n
1213
\n01:22:41,840 –> 01:22:45,840
\nwhich is good, who is there?
\nAnd if you suffer for <\/p>\n
1214
\n01:22:45,840 –> 01:22:47,200
\nrighteousness sake, happy are
\nyou. <\/p>\n
1215
\n01:22:47,200 –> 01:22:49,920
\nBut be not afraid of their
\nterror, neither be troubled. <\/p>\n
1216
\n01:22:50,320 –> 01:22:53,880
\nBut sanctify the Lord God in
\nyour hearts. <\/p>\n
1217
\n01:22:53,920 –> 01:22:57,400
\nLet me retreat that to you from
\nthe RSV it says, but sanctify <\/p>\n
1218
\n01:22:57,480 –> 01:23:01,800
\nthe Lord as Christ, Christ as
\nLord in your hearts. <\/p>\n
1219
\n01:23:03,360 –> 01:23:06,040
\nAnd be ready to give an answer
\nto every man that asketh you a <\/p>\n
1220
\n01:23:06,040 –> 01:23:09,280
\nreason of the hope that is
\nwithin you, with meekness and <\/p>\n
1221
\n01:23:09,280 –> 01:23:11,840
\nfear, having a good conscience.
\nThat whereas they speak. <\/p>\n
1222
\n01:23:11,840 –> 01:23:16,440
\nEvil of you as evil doers, they
\nmay be ashamed that falsely <\/p>\n
1223
\n01:23:16,440 –> 01:23:19,320
\naccuse your good conversation in
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
1224
\n01:23:19,600 –> 01:23:23,280
\nYou see, the key is this, young
\npeople, to sanctify Christ as <\/p>\n
1225
\n01:23:23,280 –> 01:23:27,480
\nLord, not king sin.
\nTo sanctify in your heart Christ<\/p>\n
1226
\n01:23:27,720 –> 01:23:36,560
\nas Lord, and let not king sin
\nreign, and prepare for the day <\/p>\n
1227
\n01:23:36,560 –> 01:23:39,680
\nthat you go out into the into
\nthe plain of juror. <\/p>\n
1228
\n01:23:39,760 –> 01:23:42,880
\nAnd be ready with a hope that’s.
\nWithin you, not in your Bible. <\/p>\n
1229
\n01:23:43,400 –> 01:23:46,160
\nIt’s in there for sure, but it’s
\nnot going to do any good unless <\/p>\n
1230
\n01:23:46,160 –> 01:23:49,160
\nit’s in you and you’ll be able
\nto stand. <\/p>\n
1231
\n01:23:49,720 –> 01:23:53,560
\nBut when you make a stand, young
\npeople, brethren and sisters of <\/p>\n
1232
\n01:23:53,600 –> 01:23:57,680
\nage and experience know this
\nonly too well, that when we make<\/p>\n
1233
\n01:23:57,680 –> 01:24:01,160
\na stand, the pressure won’t
\ndecrease. <\/p>\n
1234
\n01:24:01,880 –> 01:24:04,880
\nIt will often increase just as
\nit did in those days when <\/p>\n
1235
\n01:24:04,880 –> 01:24:08,280
\nNebuchadnezzar stirred up that
\nfurnace until it was 7 times <\/p>\n
1236
\n01:24:08,280 –> 01:24:10,440
\nhotter than it had ever been
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
1237
\n01:24:12,240 –> 01:24:13,360
\nYou know what the Apostle Paul
\nsaid? <\/p>\n
1238
\n01:24:13,360 –> 01:24:18,680
\nHe said let all that, all that
\nlive godly, that live. <\/p>\n
1239
\n01:24:18,800 –> 01:24:21,840
\nGodly, not profess, but live
\ngodly in Christ Jesus shall <\/p>\n
1240
\n01:24:21,840 –> 01:24:24,560
\nsuffer persecution.
\nAnd it’s a lot of all the <\/p>\n
1241
\n01:24:24,560 –> 01:24:26,880
\nfaithful, as we’ve seen from a
\ncouple of other studies. <\/p>\n
1242
\n01:24:27,560 –> 01:24:30,200
\nThe lot of all God’s faithful
\nservants. <\/p>\n
1243
\n01:24:30,200 –> 01:24:32,400
\nAre going to have to.
\nWalk this path where there’s <\/p>\n
1244
\n01:24:32,400 –> 01:24:34,440
\npressure, but no pressure has a
\npurpose. <\/p>\n
1245
\n01:24:35,360 –> 01:24:38,000
\nAnd here it’s so beautifully
\nexplained. <\/p>\n
1246
\n01:24:38,360 –> 01:24:39,440
\nWe’re going to finish on this
\ntonight. <\/p>\n
1247
\n01:24:39,440 –> 01:24:44,400
\nIt is absolutely beautifully
\nillustrated in this little <\/p>\n
1248
\n01:24:44,400 –> 01:24:49,920
\nparable.
\nYou see those three young men? <\/p>\n
1249
\n01:24:50,440 –> 01:24:56,600
\nWere bound.
\nBy King Sin, and thrown into a <\/p>\n
1250
\n01:24:56,600 –> 01:25:03,960
\nfurnace, and when they came, and
\nwhen they came, when they got <\/p>\n
1251
\n01:25:03,960 –> 01:25:05,480
\ninto that furnace.
\nYou know what? <\/p>\n
1252
\n01:25:05,480 –> 01:25:11,320
\nHappened, the ropes burnt off,
\nthey were freed and they. <\/p>\n
1253
\n01:25:11,320 –> 01:25:14,800
\nCame out and were elevated.
\nTo the top of the. <\/p>\n
1254
\n01:25:14,800 –> 01:25:18,000
\nKingdom.
\nNow we’re in First of Peter. <\/p>\n
1255
\n01:25:18,000 –> 01:25:23,560
\nIf you turn back a page the
\nFirst of Peter chapter 1 and <\/p>\n
1256
\n01:25:23,560 –> 01:25:27,080
\nthese are words we must have
\nread hundreds of times, but you <\/p>\n
1257
\n01:25:27,080 –> 01:25:30,200
\nthink of them in this context
\nfirst of Peter one. <\/p>\n
1258
\n01:25:31,360 –> 01:25:35,000
\nIt’s talking about our lively
\nhope in verse 3 verse 6, wherein<\/p>\n
1259
\n01:25:35,000 –> 01:25:37,240
\nyou greatly rejoice, though now
\nfor a season. <\/p>\n
1260
\n01:25:37,240 –> 01:25:40,040
\nIf need be your in heaviness
\nthrough manifold temptations, <\/p>\n
1261
\n01:25:40,920 –> 01:25:46,320
\nthat the tribe trial of your
\nfaith, being much more precious <\/p>\n
1262
\n01:25:46,320 –> 01:25:53,000
\nthan of gold that perisheth,
\nthough it be tried with fire, <\/p>\n
1263
\n01:25:53,760 –> 01:25:59,320
\nmight be found unto praise and
\nhonour at the appearing of Jesus<\/p>\n
1264
\n01:25:59,320 –> 01:26:02,880
\nChrist.
\nWhat interesting words. <\/p>\n
1265
\n01:26:03,160 –> 01:26:07,960
\nHere faith and gold are put
\nalongside each other, and it’s <\/p>\n
1266
\n01:26:08,000 –> 01:26:12,480
\ngold which perishes.
\nAnd there was a golden image on <\/p>\n
1267
\n01:26:12,480 –> 01:26:15,600
\nthe plain of Juror, and it’s
\nmatched against faith. <\/p>\n
1268
\n01:26:17,280 –> 01:26:20,040
\nAnd he says.
\nThe trial of your faith is much <\/p>\n
1269
\n01:26:20,040 –> 01:26:23,400
\nmore precious than gold that’s
\ngoing to perish, even though <\/p>\n
1270
\n01:26:23,400 –> 01:26:27,080
\nthat faith is going to be tried
\nin the fire and that faith is <\/p>\n
1271
\n01:26:27,080 –> 01:26:30,200
\ngoing to go into the fire and
\nwhat’s going to happen to it <\/p>\n
1272
\n01:26:30,200 –> 01:26:31,080
\nwhen?
\nIt comes into the. <\/p>\n
1273
\n01:26:31,080 –> 01:26:32,960
\nFire.
\nIt’s going to be found under <\/p>\n
1274
\n01:26:32,960 –> 01:26:37,720
\npraise and honour at the hearing
\nof our Lord Jesus Christ and <\/p>\n
1275
\n01:26:37,720 –> 01:26:41,080
\nit’s going to have its bounds
\nfreed and it’s going to be <\/p>\n
1276
\n01:26:41,080 –> 01:26:45,680
\nelevated into glory.
\nFaith is going to do that, and <\/p>\n
1277
\n01:26:45,680 –> 01:26:46,640
\nin that little.
\nParable. <\/p>\n
1278
\n01:26:46,640 –> 01:26:49,080
\nThat’s exactly what it saw it.
\nIt says the. <\/p>\n
1279
\n01:26:49,080 –> 01:26:54,600
\nFire of trial is going to free
\nus residents, sisters and young <\/p>\n
1280
\n01:26:54,600 –> 01:26:57,560
\npeople of the bondage of king
\nsin. <\/p>\n
1281
\n01:26:58,600 –> 01:27:01,560
\nThink of that verse 8 whom he
\nsays. <\/p>\n
1282
\n01:27:02,440 –> 01:27:05,320
\nTalking of Christ, having not
\nseen ye love, and in whom, <\/p>\n
1283
\n01:27:05,320 –> 01:27:09,280
\nthough ye now see Him not yet
\nbelieving, ye rejoice with joy <\/p>\n
1284
\n01:27:09,280 –> 01:27:12,560
\nunspeakable and full of glory,
\nreceiving the end of your faith,<\/p>\n
1285
\n01:27:12,760 –> 01:27:14,720
\neven the salvation of your
\nsouls. <\/p>\n
1286
\n01:27:15,000 –> 01:27:16,320
\nAnd so.
\nThat. <\/p>\n
1287
\n01:27:16,320 –> 01:27:18,480
\nReally is the essence of faith,
\nisn’t not. <\/p>\n
1288
\n01:27:18,720 –> 01:27:21,400
\nSeeing the unseen, though, we
\ndon’t see. <\/p>\n
1289
\n01:27:21,400 –> 01:27:25,240
\nNow, yet believing and
\nrejoicing. <\/p>\n
1290
\n01:27:25,240 –> 01:27:28,640
\nWith full of.
\nGlory that one day we’ll stand <\/p>\n
1291
\n01:27:28,840 –> 01:27:35,680
\ndelivered, freed.
\nSaved through the power of a <\/p>\n
1292
\n01:27:35,680 –> 01:27:39,040
\ntried faith.
\nWhat have we seen? <\/p>\n
1293
\n01:27:53,500 –> 01:27:57,860
\nThat the world will always try
\nto force conformity in its <\/p>\n
1294
\n01:27:57,900 –> 01:27:59,660
\nthinking, in its ways and
\nbehaviour. <\/p>\n
1295
\n01:28:00,500 –> 01:28:03,420
\nWhilst we’re in Babylon, we’re
\ngodly. <\/p>\n
1296
\n01:28:03,420 –> 01:28:07,580
\nTrial will always be inevitable,
\nbut we’ve got to learn to stand <\/p>\n
1297
\n01:28:07,580 –> 01:28:12,020
\nup and do what’s right despite
\nwhat the majority are doing. <\/p>\n
1298
\n01:28:13,120 –> 01:28:15,240
\nWe are His servants to whom we
\nobey. <\/p>\n
1299
\n01:28:16,040 –> 01:28:19,640
\nWe have the choice and God is
\nable to deliver. <\/p>\n
1300
\n01:28:21,040 –> 01:28:25,800
\nIf we believe He can, He will.
\nDeliverance requires faith, <\/p>\n
1301
\n01:28:25,960 –> 01:28:28,080
\ncourage, and determination by
\nsoul. <\/p>\n
1302
\n01:28:29,440 –> 01:28:32,520
\nLet’s always be be ready.
\nTo give an answer of the hope <\/p>\n
1303
\n01:28:32,520 –> 01:28:36,000
\nthat’s.
\nWithin us and to make good youth<\/p>\n
1304
\n01:28:36,880 –> 01:28:40,640
\nand thank God for the companions
\nthat he has given us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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