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for a sec. Okay. Yay. All right. We are live. Let me. Hi, Jill.

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Hi. How was everybody's weekend?

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So good. Went cross-country skiing in the sunshine yesterday. Oh, it was just

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beautiful. I imagine. That is awesome. And the sun is so good for you. I mean,

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in Florida you get it all the time, but up north here, you know, we gotta go out even in wintertime.

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Where are you from, Ingrid? Ohio. It's actually snowy today. So beautiful.

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We were driving around in the snow the whole afternoon. Nice.

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We had shorts and t-shirts on.

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Check on you. Yeah. That's the life. In Saskatchewan, shorts and t-shirts at plus one.

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It's still so, you know, like I still get like, I just still live here. You know,

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like we walked out of the store and it's like, we're looking at palm trees. This is so good.

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So, all right. Well, happy Sunday night. This is day eight and we're in Matthew 5-8. So I thought

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that's kind of cool. It could be that. I don't know. We're like, I like the number eight. It's

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a new beginnings number. And so I just think like, you know, God's been taking us pretty deep.

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And can you guys hear me? I'm just going to mute you, Ingrid. Yes. Sorry. Excuse us.

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Oh, it's Devin. Oh, sorry about that. It was Devin. No problem. Sorry. I thought it was Ingrid.

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Um, no problem at all. No, no problem. Um, so I just think like, you know, we've taken two weeks

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just diving deep into the foundation of this Beatitudes upon which we'll see everything else

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in the Sermon on the Mount is built. And one thing he's showing us just as he's showing us,

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I mean, I know this is Devin's third. I think it's my mom's fourth Sweet Secrets deep dive.

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And, um, and we've never done this in the book of Daniel yet. We've never, um, paralleled it this

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way. Every single time is different. And what he's showing us is that these are the Sweet

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Secrets of success for everyone for all time for him. And, um, they're just surefire failproof

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ways, principles, um, word of God. So I'm really super excited about tonight because

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who doesn't want purity of heart and the fact that, well, why don't I pray and then we'll just

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go read the scriptures and go deep. Okay. Yay. Hi, Carrie. And hi, Devin behind your, your deep.

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Your deep. Okay. Oh, Father, thank you so much. So much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you that

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you're good. You're glorious. Everything you may. I mean, you tell us that you understood that

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everything you made was good. Good. Good. Good. It was so good. It was very, very good.

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And, and you are good. And you invite us to taste and see your goodness.

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Everything you declare that you do is good. Even, even the

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Friday, even the Friday of the Passover lamb,

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your Passover lamb sacrifice, Jesus on the cross,

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we know it to be good Friday

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because of what you and he got to do that day

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to make things good for all of us who just couldn't.

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Couldn't, couldn't find good, couldn't do good,

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couldn't reach good, couldn't think good.

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You're perfect and you're pure

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and you make us your offspring and we welcome you.

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We welcome you King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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We welcome you beloved.

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We welcome you to preside.

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We welcome you Holy Spirit to help our hearts connect

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in gratitude with this living word

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that you may bring it to life in us.

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And we welcome you Father, Heavenly Father,

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that you may teach us how to see your face.

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Bring glory to your name.

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Bring us into a whole new place today.

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We're hungry for the so much more of God in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Hello mama.

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Okay.

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Okay, let me share my screen.

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I don't know, I have such an excitement today.

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So I am filled with anticipation for what God will do today.

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And let me share.

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And I so wish I could see you all.

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Oh, I wish I could put it on my computer, my Mac book.

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We'll try and fix that tomorrow.

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Sorry that there was a whole mix up in timing

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and so Michael couldn't get there Friday.

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Okay.

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Alrighty, here we are.

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Sweet secrets, sweet, sweet, sweet secrets of success

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from the Sermon on the Mount.

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Okay, who would like to read Matthew 5, 8?

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I will, because I cannot read the other one.

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It's too small on my phone.

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I'm like, yeah, my old eyes.

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Blessed, happy, enviably fortunate,

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and spiritually prosperous.

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Possessing the happiness produced

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by the experience of God's favor

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and especially conditioned by the revelation of his grace

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regardless of their outward conditions

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are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

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Couldn't you just weep for they shall see God.

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And so, how is it talk about a success principle?

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They shall see God.

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And it's one thing to lay eyes on the most high.

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Which we all desire to do, right?

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Prove it to me, right?

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Show me some signs.

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I need to experience this for myself.

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Show me.

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Happy, enviably fortunate, spiritually prosperous,

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possessing a happiness produced

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by the experience of God's favor

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and especially conditioned by the revelation of his grace

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regardless of their outward conditions

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are the pure in heart because they see God.

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in themselves. They see what he's doing. They see God in his word.

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We can watch birds fly and snow fall and waves crash on the shore and see God.

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We can see God in others, in the kind things they do, or even down deep underneath, beneath

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the unkind things that they do. There's something that happens to our eyes,

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the eyes of our spirit, when our hearts are purified by his blood.

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We can see God when we wake up in the miracle of a new day, new mercies, new opportunity

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to go see him, new years. Even at the end of the day, when we can practice

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just giving him thanks for those things that we couldn't have done on our own or that he

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empowered us to accomplish. There are so many good reasons to give thanks.

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As we go through this lesson, I am asking him to challenge us in that definition of

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seeing God, because he does want us to see him, but he wants us to recognize him.

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That's what happens at the tree of life. What was it like for Adam and Eve to hear

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the Lord coming? What did that sound like? How could they tell he was near?

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Just recently, I read something else. Lord, help me remember. I forgot all about it, but

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it was the same. It was like the same scripture, some other part. It was like they could hear

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him coming. Oh, yeah. It may have been Ezekiel or it may have been Daniel, actually, later

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in the chapter. Anyway, one of them was by the river when the Lord showed up with a revelation

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and none of the others could see the vision, the angel that had presented himself, but

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they could hear. They could hear that he was there and they went and hid themselves just

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like in the Garden of Eden. Isn't that something? Daniel's purity of heart, I think it was in

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Daniel. I'm sure we'll find out. His purity of heart allowed him to see and not flee.

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The others who did not have the same purity of heart could sense that God was there and

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ran and hid themselves just like in the Garden of Eden when they no longer had purity of

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heart, had eaten from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, denying

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God, agreeing with some lack in him. That shows an impurity of heart because there is

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no lack in him. We have a lot of Daniel to read. I've taken from pieces of this chapter

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six because it so struck me. Even two verses from now, this will be also appropriate, but

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I just loved how the story of how Daniel had a purity of heart which gave him an excellent

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spirit which nobody could find fault with, which gave him favor and so many visions and

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so much humility of heart to seek God. But it also impacted the sovereignty over him.

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And in between Belteshazzar and King Darius was Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar.

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in between Nebuchadnezzar and Darius. So there was Nebuchadnezzar's son who was

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Belshazzar, who did not have purity of heart, and he was put in the balance.

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And he had a huge fear when he saw that, you know, many

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tackled, you know, just sorry for the misquote, the writing on the wall. I don't remember what

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it was. But like the life, the stability, he was completely devoid of any strength or confidence.

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He was filled with fear. And he had no relationship with Daniel. And we find out from that

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when his wife approached him and tells him about Daniel. So he calls on Daniel first time ever

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since he had begun serving and said, my wife tells me this. And Daniel is pretty sharp with him.

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And he said, your father experienced this and you knew that. And then he said, you've been,

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you know, he gives the translation of the vision. And then he said, you have been placed

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in the balance and found wanting. You don't measure up. So the kingdom is taken from you.

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That night he's murdered. Darius becomes king. Darius is sensitive like Nebuchadnezzar was

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to the spirit of the Lord inside Daniel. And Daniel has an impact on Darius, which gives him,

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because of that, he just has this pure heart toward Daniel and the God of Daniel. So this

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is really awesome. So this will take two pages. So, you know, one person can read this part and

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then, and I've kind of, you know, pieced together verses. So we're skipping over some of the details,

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but, and then we will go and have the same amount to finish up the chapter of six. So

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whoever would like to start reading here, that would be awesome. I can see it on my phone.

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Oh, great. Awesome. Tell me when to stop. Just read that, read everything you can see under Daniel.

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It pleased King Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps who should be in charge throughout

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all the kingdom and over them three presidents of whom Daniel was one so that the king should have

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no loss or damage. Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the

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satraps because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

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Then the presidents and the satraps sought to bring accusations against Daniel concerning the

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kingdom, but they could find no fault for he was faithful, nor was there any error in him.

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Found in him. Then these presidents and satraps came maliciously together to the king and said

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to him, King Darius live forever. All the leaders of your kingdom have consulted and agreed

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that the king should establish a firm royal decree that whoever shall petition any god or man

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for 30 days except you, oh king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

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Now, oh king, establish the decree and sign the writing that it may not be changed

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according to the law of Medes and the Persians which cannot be altered.

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So King Darius signed the writing and the decree.

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When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, opened the windows in the

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times of the day as he was accustomed. Oh, and he went for a sup mom, I mean one lineup.

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Oh, opened the windows in his chamber.

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In this chamber toward, oh sorry, toward Jerusalem. I moved it too quickly. Toward

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Jerusalem, he opened his windows in his chamber toward Jerusalem.

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Toward Jerusalem, as he had done every day. Got down on his knees to pray and give thanks before

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God three times a day as he was accustomed. Then these men came thronging and found Daniel

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praying before his God. And they said to the king, Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah,

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does not regard you, oh king. When the king heard these words, he was much distressed

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over what he had done and set his mind to deliver Daniel, laboring until the sun went down to rescue

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him.

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These same men came thronging to the king saying,

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no, O king, that it is the law of Medes and Persians

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that no decree of statute which the king establishes

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may be changed or repealed.

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So the king commanded, and Daniel

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was cast into the den of lions.

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The king said to Daniel, may your God,

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whom you are serving continually, deliver you.

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Amen.

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OK, going down.

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All right, who wants to continue here?

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Sorry, I didn't change that title up there.

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And a stone was brought and laid upon the moth of the den.

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And the king sealed it with his own signet

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and with the signet of his lords that there

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might be no change of purpose concerning Daniel.

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Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting.

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Neither were instruments of music or dancing girls

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brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.

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King Darius arose very early in the morning

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and went in haste to the den of lions.

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When he came to the den and to Daniel,

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he cried out in a voice of anguish,

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O Daniel, servant of the living God,

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is your God, whom you serve continually,

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able to deliver you from the lions?

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Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.

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My God has sent his angel and has shut the lions' mouths

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so they have not hurt me because I

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was found innocent and blameless before him and also before you.

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O king, as you very well know, I have done no harm or wrong.

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King Darius was exceedingly glad and commanded

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that Daniel should be taken up out of the den.

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So Daniel was taken up out of the den,

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and no hurt of any kind was found on him

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because he believed in and relied on,

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adhered to, and trusted in his God.

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And the king commanded, and those

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men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast

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into the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives.

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Before they ever reached the bottom of the den,

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the lions had overpowered them and had

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broken their bones in pieces.

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Then King Darius wrote to all peoples, nations,

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and languages in his realm that dwelt in all the earth.

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May peace be multiplied to you.

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I make a decree that in all my royal dominion,

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men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel

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for he is the living God, enduring and steadfast forever.

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And his kingdom shall not be destroyed,

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and his dominion shall be even to the end of the world.

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He is a savior and deliverer, and he

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works signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.

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He who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

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So this man Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius

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and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

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Praise God.

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So we're going to go on to the other scriptures,

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but this way I can see everyone's faces.

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And just one thing that's been so stunning for all of us

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from day one as God has brought us into this Sermon

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on the Mount, into these Beatitudes

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through the story of Daniel, is the shocking contrast

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between Daniel's circumstances, which really

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can't be compared to our circumstances, right?

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And the life that he lives because his heart

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is humble and pure before God and penitent and filled

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with the fear of the Lord.

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I'm sure he was a student, a continuous student

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of the Proverbs.

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I'm sure.

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He knew them all by heart.

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And I just think about like,

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when our world is defined by our outward circumstances,

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when our attitudes, our thoughts, our speech,

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our identity, our worldview, our conversations

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are marked and laced and defined by politics,

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by history, by the longings and desires of our heart,

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by there's just this center right here,

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this entitlement that I have to feel the things

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I want to feel, say the things I want to say

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and blame it on the president, blame it on my spouse,

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blame it on where I live, blame it on the times,

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blame it on, I mean, you name it, the media, right?

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And what impact am I having except to perpetuate,

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I'm feeding from that same tree

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of the knowledge of good and evil.

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And I totally miss the fragrance of heaven,

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our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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Let your name be exalted, let your name stand out,

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let your name be kept holy

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and all that I think, say and do, your kingdom come.

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I'm in me, I'm through me,

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your will be done in me and through me.

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You give me this day, what I need for today,

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this daily bread, your daily bread.

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Give me forgiveness, let me bring forgiveness,

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let me bring daily bread.

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Keep me, protect me from the wiles of the wicked one.

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I don't want to engage, I don't want to reflect,

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I don't want to be taken under,

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I don't want to take up his warfare

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or his weapons or his wiles or anything else.

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Lord, let it be about you, yours is the kingdom,

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yours is the power, yours is the glory,

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the dominion forever and ever.

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And so that's what keeps like jumping out at me

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in this process is I am where I am,

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just like Mordecai said to Esther who was like,

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cousin, if I go say something to the king,

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I might have no head tomorrow.

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I mean, that's like the end, I can't say anything

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because he kills people that show up in front of him

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without being summoned, that's his defense.

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And Mordecai says, you're looking in the wrong direction.

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You're not there because of the king

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or because of what the king does or because of the culture

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or because of the ways of this kingdom.

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You're here, you're here because they don't know God.

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You're there, you're here because there's a God in heaven

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who has a plan for his people and a will for his people.

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He is enthroned, he is high and lifted up,

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seated on the throne.

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And if you do nothing, God will find a way,

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he will find another, but make no mistake,

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if you do nothing, you're not protecting your life.

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You're here for such a dangerous,

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unpleasant, horrifying time as this.

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And that's the life Daniel lived.

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He didn't fight with the culture, he didn't mouth off.

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I mean, he did his warfare, but not with the devil's weapon.

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He fell into no traps that were set for him. I mean, definitely a Jesus, you know, like

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a foreshadowing, an image of Christ, a Christ-like character who lived entirely for what God

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could do where he was. He placed no blame on God. He totally, with all of those who

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had fallen, no fault could be found in him, but he took everything, he took everything

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to God. What do you guys think before we move on to the scriptures? How is this resonating

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with any of you? He was a wise man. Godly wisdom. Godly wisdom. Matthew 5 in Amplified

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says that the pure in heart, those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character will see

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God and he seemed to have it all. He had integrity, clearly. He had courage, like crazy, and a

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godly character. And it doesn't even talk about him being worried or him being second-guessing

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or him praying about it, you know, at least with Esther, it did say, well, she was a little

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scared and, you know, I mean, of course, you know, and she was like debating, is this the

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best move? There was no debate with him. He just knew right off the bat, this is what

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needs to be done. And he planned it. He knew he was violating it from the get-go. So he

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was even, I mean, he knew he was going to be in trouble and he still did it. He didn't

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have to do it. He could have sidestepped the whole thing. Without demeaning anything from

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his incredible character. I didn't realize till the other night's discussion, biologically

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and chemically speaking, there's a component there that made this somehow more possible

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that he was a castrati, he and the boys. And I wondered, because you read things and say

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how in the world, but having that, maybe that one component of the testosterone, yet

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not saying that he wasn't already a man of God, loved God, would have done anything for

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him. But I said, that's a nasty thought, isn't it? But not really. It might have been a godsend

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to him in a very mean way. That that was one component that made it a little more possible

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to be so genuinely focused. But again, I don't want to take an iota away from the man that

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we see and hear about for all those years.

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I was just going to say, I think regardless of the hormones that he had or didn't have,

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he has what we have. And he has thoughts and he had beliefs, right? And his were so deeply

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rooted in, so he didn't have limiting beliefs in other in the sense that everything was

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limited to, this is who my God is. This is who I know him to be. This is how he's behaved

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in my life. I mean, I just, like you would think like that. I mean, like we get caught

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up in, you know, think of all the limiting beliefs that we come from and that we carry

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with us. And the only like this, that renewing of the mind to be so, I mean, cause like Daniel

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from the, like his entire life was like challenging that, right? He's into captivity. Like he

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had all like way more difficult circumstances than, than I would on a day-to-day basis.

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But he has been so submersed in the goodness of the Lord that he would get an edict like

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that and just continue to live his life. Like he always did. Right. No change. And he opened

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the windows, like, see me, right? Like, I see your injunction. Slams open the windows

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and gets on his knees and come on.

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Like the men of faith, though, like Paul, and oh, go ahead, Karen, go ahead.

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It's like Paul and Joseph and Daniel, they're like extraordinary men of God because the

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average human being just doesn't act like that, but they were so faithful.

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Like Paul was Saul, once he became Saul, or Paul, he never turned back, I mean, he had

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a brutal life, like brutal, and Daniel, like you say, Karen, had no walk in the park, Joseph

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had no walk in the park, Moses was in the desert for 40 years to be refined.

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I'm kind of curious, like if Daniel had any refining time.

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Well, you know, leading up to the exile was that whole tense time, that whole time of

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Jeremiah, and the stress of like, and the threats, and of course, you know, Israel was

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already in captivity, and so they were very aware of that, and these threats came, and

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he was from the royal seed, because it says that Nebuchadnezzar ordered that those, you

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know, of the royal descendants, those who, in whom could be found no flaw, in whom, you

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know, all of this intelligent, so there was this like, this tension for those who would

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idolize God, that, that, you know, this king kept pursuing ungodly counsel, kept defiling

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God, kept bringing the nation closer and closer to these warnings that had been issued by

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Jeremiah, and indeed, you know, it came.

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So there were those, those tests of like, who are you going to believe, you know, you're

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growing up in this place, so you're either going to please the king, or you're going to

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please God, and so when he had come into the Babylonian land, he had already purposed in

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his heart, he would not defile himself against God, like that had to have happened through

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that, that didn't come cheap. So whatever it was that, you know, came to that process, as

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young men were growing up in the court, he already had, that already had to have been

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established in him, in whatever way, I mean, we'll find out, you know, who the grandmother

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was, or who the, you know, you know, what, what led to that, and what were the, the

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pressures that caused him to make that decision? Because once that decision was made, it

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wasn't about a daily meal, he had, he was now coming up to, he understood he was heading

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into exile, and he wonders, he understood this was the righteous decree of God, and that

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it was his people that had not obeyed God. And this was promised from the Pentateuch.

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Like this was promised during the giving of the law. You know, obey, hear all the blessings,

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don't obey, you're following after these ways, you're, you're, you're in the law of sin and

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death, that's your, your consequence is going to be that this is going to happen, you know, and

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it even said, this will happen to your children, this will happen to your young men. So, you

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know, and, and to, to Carrie's point, too, is like, you know, I didn't even think of that, like,

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I, I don't have that measure of testosterone. But the fear of man sure has played in my life,

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where I'm trying to protect myself. And there's compromise. Right?

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Well, and I hope and I hope this I mean, when I say this, I'm in the back of my mind, I'm

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thinking that's like arrogance. But my hope is that, like Daniel and Paul, aren't these men that

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are on some sort of pedestal out there that we can't attain? I don't, I don't believe that at

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all. Right? I hope not, because then that means it's not attainable for me. And I don't hope that

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that's not the reason the word was given us like this. I think I, my hope is that this is what your

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life could be. Right? Because it's a dis I mean, they they made decisions, we all make those

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decisions, right? And, and they all have thoughts. They just took their thoughts captive, or maybe I

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haven't. Right? Very early on.

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Right. And that's that's

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Excellent. That's exactly the point is here are the sweet

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secrets of success. So they're, they're free. They're here. I

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mean, they're, they cost Jesus, everything cost us nothing. But

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to choose them, they're offered to us free, they cost us

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everything. I mean, I gotta give up my lying. I gotta give up my

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selfishness. I gotta give up my tantrums. I gotta give up my

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greed and my gluttony, like that easy, cost me everything.

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But like, that's why we're walking through this process in

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encounter. Because we can fill our, you know, reasoning

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intelligent mind with all this information and say, Oh, he

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could do it, I could do it. And then and then get triggered and

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find out I'm still in kindergarten. Why is that? So,

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you know, that's, that's just like, you know, but I love that

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you brought that up, mom, because it allows us to say,

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like, is there something different for this person,

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Daniel, or for any other person that that where this can't apply

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to me? And the answer is Carrie saying has to be no, there is

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one spirit, one faith, one mind, one God and Father of us all one

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baptism, right? For the for the forgiveness of sins. And so

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that's the good news. And the more we take, like the more we

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allow conviction, to be on the distinction, what's the gap

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between my life and Daniel's? Well, you know, much in many

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ways, yet. Yet I have a lot in common. I have the Word of God

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and yet I have a new and better covenant. I have the Spirit of

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God living in me, I have the blood of Jesus and I already

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know the sacrifice. This is like, you know, I don't even

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have to draw these lines in the sand. I can go and throw myself

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at his mercy, connect with his love and the line in the sand

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is, I, there is no other way. And so to cry out for those

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experiences, because I do believe that Daniel has had many

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experiences with God. I mean, we can see that. And no, go ahead,

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Carrie,

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I was just gonna say, although to Betsy's point, if I'm a man,

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in that time of life in that years, and I was castrated, I've

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got this part of my life that has been eliminated, right?

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Because he knows, like, I'm not having a family, and I'm not

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having children. So that's been something that's been

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eliminated. And it's like, if we decided, well, I don't drink, so

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it just never comes up anymore, because we've decided in our

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minds that that's just not something I have to worry about.

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So he's had this part of his life, that is a distraction from

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the Lord, that for him, this has been eliminated.

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Right, I totally see that. I mean, I get mom's point. And I,

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the only thing is, is that he was one of many. And, and he was

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the one. And then he influenced the other three in his subset.

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And, and they all decided that's a better way. We're going to

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choose that way, because they still would have, you know,

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selfish desires, they'd still want to make something of their

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life. And either it's through the knowledge of good and evil,

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or it's, it's knowing the one true God. And, and so that's

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where, like, you know, I think, yeah, he didn't, he didn't have

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that. But that could also contribute to a humongous amount

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of bitterness, and resentment, and entitlement, and anger, and,

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you know, and separation from God, that wouldn't endear a lot

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of people to God, being castrated.

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No, I can't.

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So, so he had to have, he had to determine, no matter what, it

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isn't about me.

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Obviously, he was practiced in the traditions, the fasting,

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this amount of food, this or this kind of food, this,

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whatever, these, all of these things that at a very young age,

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I'm not saying made any of it easier, but it just might have

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removed a component that made it certainly not easier. But again,

445
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I didn't have to think.

446
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think about those things, I can focus on my job before God, and

447
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to maintain and never budge from what I know is true, which is a

448
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wonderful thing to have found out at a young age.

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Well, I've just again, like in that totally could be true, but

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he was one of like, again, how many were brought over, and all

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in the same condition, all from the same line of David, all from

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all from Jerusalem, all from the choice young men that were

453
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being trained up in the ways of the Hebrews, they were all the

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same. And only Daniel and then the three that he initially

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impacted, excelled above all others, because they had decided

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we're not going to defile ourselves. And everyone else

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enjoyed the feast of the king, everyone else chose the food of

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the king, the wine of the king, the fancy meats, the delicacies.

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So I'm just saying like, you know, we all have these same

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opportunities. And what's cool too is Nebuchadnezzar had already

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been, I mean, he had a brutal reputation. The Chaldeans had a

462
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horrific reputation, horrific, and hated the Jews. But Daniel

463
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had this impact. And then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

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had this impact on the king, where his heart was softened,

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and God favored him. It was almost like this exile was a

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gift to Nebuchadnezzar. And then that was the point Daniel made

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to his son, Belshazzar, was you knew these things. You heeded

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them not. You defiled what your father understood. Everything is

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taken from you. It's over for you. And then he says these

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things. And a purple robe is put on him, a chain is put on him,

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like, like, I mean, that's like the fear of the Lord, you know.

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And then Darius is that night, he's killed Darius is king and,

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and, and Daniel is once again, exalted. So Daniel never wavered

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nebuchadnezzar recognized it, son did not. Daniel wasn't even

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called upon until that last day of his reign. And then Darius

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recognized it. And, you know, so it went. So I love that you

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brought this up, because it just gives us the opportunity to say,

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Hey, is there any reason why Jesus is sweet secrets of

479
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success? He's introducing us into? Is there any reason why I

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I'm disqualified? Is there any reason why someone else has a

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better chance than I? And the answer is no, there's, there's

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one spirit. There's one God one sacrifice. This is one word.

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And, you know, I do recognize that some people have this.

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Well, we have these different gifts. And some people just have

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an incredible, I don't know, there's this tenderness of heart

486
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and other others of us like just but I think it's selfishness. I

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mean, that's what God told me. Hillary, where's your

488
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selfishness that led you into victimhood?

489
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Well, the wider it's the wider versus the narrow path, right?

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It says all this time and it happens. Like across any

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variation of life, you know, like wherever you insert

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yourself, you can insert yourself in the business world,

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you can insert yourself in the church world. And even in the

494
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church world, the same, there's the wide and there's the narrow

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path.

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So good. Oh, oh, I was gonna say, I think it's just so

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inspiring how self sacrificing they were like, I'm just picking

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up on on that so much. And I think of the scripture, he must

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increase and I must decrease. And it's a process for us. And

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just even hearing what you're saying, helps us to know what

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our goal, more of what our goal, like, of course, it's surrender.

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But just hearing what you're saying about him, brings that

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out so much more in that should be, that should be all of us.

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Yeah, yeah. And the good news is like, I mean, if he's saying

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it. Just like he said to Mary, like Mary highly favored of the

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Lord. The Holy Spirit is going to come upon you. And you shall

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be with child, you shall bring forth a son and you shall name

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as you shall call him Jesus, for he shall save his people from

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their sin. I mean, she could, she could not spend any time on

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her qualifications to, to be able to fulfill such a word.

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She could in no way afford to think about I mean, she did, she

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did say, like, I haven't known a man yet. So I don't know how

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that can, how I can do that. And they're like, God's got it. And

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then she says, then be it done unto me, according to his word.

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That's that purity of heart. Like even Moses was like, I

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don't know, God, like, I stutter. I'm out here in the

517
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wilderness, right? So he looks at himself. And each time, you

518
00:51:20.120 --> 00:51:24.400
know, someone comes to that place where they'll go ahead and

519
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:31.480
just cry out to God for who he is. Like, I don't even, it's not

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00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:40.760
even about my needs anymore. I, I've got to know you. And, and

521
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they have this encounter with God, like it changes

522
00:51:43.520 --> 00:51:51.640
everything. Isaiah, right? John, Daniel, like each time

523
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there's this, and it's not everybody. Everybody saw Jesus

524
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when he was walking the earth. But only the pure in heart could

525
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see God in him. So that's the thing we cry out to like, you

526
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know, cleanse my heart. Oh, God. Right. So okay. So let's go

527
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back to the scriptures. I so appreciate this conversation.

528
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And, you know, these are important questions to ask.

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Because each of us has this opportunity right where we are

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to ask God to help us to see him in the morning, in his word, in

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the mirror. In the mirror is so key. Because until we can see

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him in us, we won't believe him. Until we've got that love alive

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in us, we can't trust him. Right? And then how do we love

534
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:31.760
others? That part has to be set. My life is not like how many

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kids I have. My life is not how much money I have. My life is

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not in which country I live. My life is not any of these. It's

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not the sum of anything. There is a one who wanted me. And from

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the dreams of his own heart, he breathed me into life. He knew

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about me from before the foundation of the world. And I

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exist because he wants me. And then he sent his son to die on

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the cross, so that I wouldn't be lost to him forever. And I could

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know him. And that's all his idea. And that takes away so

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much of the contest. Hey, Joe, that takes away so much of the

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contest. So much of the jockeying, so much of the

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proving, so much of the fear, so much of what I've lost, so much

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anything on the outside. If his presence is the fullness of joy,

547
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that's my goal.

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green again, and we'll keep reading scriptures. Okay. All

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right, left column, starting with Proverbs 2211. I love this

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verse, I put it first, because there I was in Proverbs 22 today

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and felt like I was reading in one verse, the story of Daniel

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and Darius. And I thought that was so cool. So whoever wants to

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read, go for it, just just jump in. I might interrupt because of

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what's jumping out at me, or you can, but let's read these

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verses.

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He loves purity and the pure heart because of the grace of

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his lips. Will he have the king for his for his friend? Beloved

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we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet

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appeared but we know that when he appears we shall be like him

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because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who hopes in

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him purifies himself as he is pure. Pray to me a clean heart

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Oh God and renew a right spirit within me.

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So good. Okay, thank you, Karen. So first, Daniel loved purity

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because he loved God, he honored God, he feared God. And he

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didn't want to be separated at all from God. And so he loved

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also the pure in heart. And being pure in heart, of course,

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as a man thinketh in his heart, like so is he out of the

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abundance of the heart, a man speaks. And, and that purity of

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heart led him to say things that the king highly esteemed, because

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he had a heart that that could be touched by wisdom by truth by

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grace. And and he recognized that Daniel, he recognized it

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was beneficial to him to have Daniel, right? Didn't the

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scripture say that, so that he would have no loss? This is how

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he appointed those who were leading and, and Daniel was to

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be the greatest of all because he esteemed that what Daniel

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carried was best for him and his kingdom. And if all these

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people, all these leaders, these say traps and governors and, and

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lords and and and presidents and how they, you know, kind of that

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hierarchy, that was a lot of treasure. Those were a lot of

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decisions being made. Those were a lot of projects being rolled

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out a lot of taxes to account for a lot of and and so overall,

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he would place Daniel so that none of it would be lost to him.

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That came from Daniel's purity of heart, he could trust Daniel

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above any other. And, and then this, like, realizing so here I

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see this in this first john three, two and three is just he

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understood that he came from God. And, and that God being pure

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God being only good, only righteous, only holy, was that

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he would also not want to defile himself because their Heavenly

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Father so holy, he knew the scriptures. So he would make

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himself he would he would carve out for himself what made his

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life pure. And we know from his prayers and from his fasting,

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and, and, and, and from his times of supplication, that he

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cried out to God for those things. He cried out to God for

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forgiveness, he cried out to God for purity of heart. And, and

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that we see in David right here in Psalm 51. When he was in

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significant, you know, sin, and found in significant sin, and

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Psalm 51, he has no way to purge himself from his sin, and cries

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out to God, you know, clean me with hyssop, hyssop is how they

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applied the blood over the door at Passover, and created me a

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clean heart, make my heart pure, renew a right spirit in me, he

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could not do it. So he depended on God for that. Okay, Matthew

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25. This is just a

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piece of this long outcry of God to the stewards of the faith

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who had defiled it so. And so somebody can read Matthew 25

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these portions, this is just a little bit of what he was saying.

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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you

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01:00:25.200 --> 01:00:28.360
clean the outside of the cup and the plate but inside there full

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of greed and self-indulgence, you blind Pharisee. First clean

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the inside of the cup and the plate that the outside also

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might be clean. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,

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hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly

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appear beautiful but within are full of dead people's bones and

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all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to

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others but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate, abandoned and left

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destitute of God's help. For I declare to you, you will not see

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me again until you say, Blessed, magnified and worshiped, adored

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and exalted is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Thank you, Jill. So like, I mean, if you know Matthew 25 on

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and on, woe to you and he's just crying out because of the

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devastation of the ways of these religious people. So impure of

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heart, so corrupt in heart, so defiling the Word of God, so

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imprisoning the people of God, right? You make your followers

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01:01:41.800 --> 01:01:47.200
twice as fit for hell as you are to yourself. Woe, you vipers!

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01:01:48.160 --> 01:01:53.880
You brood of vipers. And so he's telling them, you have this

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01:01:53.920 --> 01:02:02.000
outward appearance that looks pure. But you are not hiding who

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you really are on the inside. You're dead on the inside. And

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he, he wants them to see it. You're hypocrites. You're

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totally unclean, completely impure. You appear righteous,

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but you're lawless and full of hypocrisy. You look and act and

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tell everyone that you carry the favor of God and they don't

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because they're sinners born in sin, as if you're not. But you

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are absolutely, actually abandoned and left desolate with

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God's help. You help yourselves. You approach not God. You

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represent not God. You recognize not God. And so, seeing as you

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01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:08.560
see not God here, neither will you see me. Until you say,

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Blessed be the Lord. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the

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Lord. So I know he's also talking about his entrance into

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Jerusalem, and they're just as corrupt there. But this whole

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idea that if we don't take the business of our heart, and

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cleanse our heart and purify our heart and let him heal our

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01:03:36.640 --> 01:03:42.080
heart, he so longs to heal our heart. This is what Jesus was

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getting at. You are lost. How many times could he tell them?

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You're blind guides. And so, this is just a reminder that we

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never should be focused on the behavior. We should always be

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focused on the heart of the matter. And then just like

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Daniel, just stick with that heart of the matter. Okay, he

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was already known as excellent. They could find nothing in him.

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No error. So they knew he would not defile God. So they had to

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make a law he could defile because they knew he'd be

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faithful to God. So I guess that's that question. Would you

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01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:42.240
be guilty? Would I be guilty in a court of law of prioritizing

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God, even if it meant my death? Okay, Psalm 24, the first six

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verses.

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Anybody who wants to read? Go ahead, John.

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Psalm 24, 1 to 6, a Psalm of David.

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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it.

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The world and they who dwell in it.

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Or he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the currents and the rivers, who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place.

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He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false or sworn deceitfully.

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He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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This is the generation description.

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I could have taken that out.

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It's just the Amplified. Yeah.

665
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:57.000
This is the description of those who seek him, who seek your face, Jacob.

666
01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:00.000
Sorry, I'm not sure how to read those.

667
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:05.000
So the Amplified takes the words and expands upon it.

668
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:19.000
So here's the generation or the description of those who seek him, who inquire of and for him, and of necessity require him who seek your face, O God of Jacob.

669
01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:22.000
So, yeah, that's that.

670
01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:28.000
There's a lot of words in the Amplified, but it helps kind of pull out like an accordion, you know.

671
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:30.000
Here's what we're talking about.

672
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.000
Like here, you know, everything is the Lord's.

673
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:35.000
The earth is the Lord's.

674
01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.000
We keep, you know, talking about that.

675
01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:38.000
Like it's all about God.

676
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:39.000
It's all his.

677
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:40.000
It's all his plans, program.

678
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.000
I'm not the center of the world.

679
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:46.000
I'm not even the center of my own life and situation.

680
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.000
And I'm not the purpose of it.

681
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.000
He created everything for us.

682
01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:54.000
But it's all because he's good.

683
01:06:54.000 --> 01:07:05.000
And there's this humility that says, I totally acknowledge you.

684
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:06.000
And so show me the right way.

685
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:08.000
Show me the right way to approach you.

686
01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:10.000
Show me the right way to pray.

687
01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.000
Lord, show me the right way to honor you.

688
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.000
Show me the right way to meditate on your word.

689
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.000
Show me the right way to relate to others.

690
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.000
Show me the right way to think.

691
01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:23.000
Show me the right way to speak.

692
01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:24.000
Right?

693
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:28.000
Even Jesus wouldn't allow himself his own opinions or judgments.

694
01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:32.000
It was, it was, father, what, what, what do you think?

695
01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:36.000
Teach me how to respond to the situation.

696
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:41.000
To this trap, to this family matter, to, to these, these Pharisees.

697
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:47.000
So here, all things he admits, all things are about God.

698
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:52.000
And then he's saying, wow, who, who can even go up to the Lord to see him,

699
01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:55.000
to stand before him.

700
01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:59.000
And then he says he has clean hands. I forgot to bold this part.

701
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:02.000
He who has clean hands and a pure heart.

702
01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:06.000
In other words, who from his heart toward God.

703
01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.000
Who has pure works for God.

704
01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:15.000
And who has not lifted himself up to falsehood, to lies, to, to,

705
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.000
to swear deceitfully.

706
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.000
He shall receive blessings from the Lord. God has a way.

707
01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:25.000
There is a way.

708
01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:29.000
To pray, but he invites us to find out it's not.

709
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:33.000
You know, there is a way to think there is a way to speak.

710
01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:36.000
He keeps it not a secret.

711
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:42.000
He, he wants us to know we have, we have so much scripture.

712
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:53.000
Okay. Hebrews 10, 19 through 22.

713
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:55.000
And therefore,

714
01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:58.000
brethren since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the

715
01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:02.000
Holy of Holies by the power and virtue in the blood of Jesus.

716
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.000
By this fresh new and living way, which he initiated.

717
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.000
Dedicated open for us through the veil, separating curtains.

718
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:13.000
The Holy of Holies that is through his flesh.

719
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:17.000
And since we have such a great and wonderful and noble priest.

720
01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:19.000
Who rules over the house of God.

721
01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:21.000
We have been drawn near with food.

722
01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:25.000
Honest and sincere hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute

723
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:26.000
conviction.

724
01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:27.000
And gendered by faith.

725
01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:31.000
That leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust

726
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:35.000
and confidence in his power, wisdom, and goodness.

727
01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:38.000
Having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty or evil

728
01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:39.000
conscience.

729
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.000
And our bodies cleansed with pure water.

730
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:45.000
I love that.

731
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:48.000
The way is not something I have to earn.

732
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:51.000
It's not something I can perform. Thank you, Jill.

733
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:55.000
It's not something that I need to be born into.

734
01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:58.000
It's not something I need to have been taught.

735
01:09:58.000 --> 01:09:59.000
It's my dependence.

736
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.400
on God. It's the blood that he shed that never loses its power

737
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:09.640
that washes me clean. It's it's it's the new and living way to

738
01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:14.320
come behind the veil into the Holy Holies. It's through his

739
01:10:14.320 --> 01:10:19.520
flesh. It's through his blood. It's through his sacrifice that

740
01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:25.280
I pass from death into life. It's that lamb that was

741
01:10:25.280 --> 01:10:30.440
sacrificed for me, that Passover lamb, so that I can

742
01:10:30.440 --> 01:10:37.560
come and draw near in in in true, sincere heartedness with

743
01:10:37.600 --> 01:10:41.800
unqualified assurance. What's my assurance? Like, am I saying

744
01:10:41.800 --> 01:10:45.520
God, you have to prove it to me? Is it God? What about this? What

745
01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:48.880
about that? No unqualified assurance. I am totally,

746
01:10:49.280 --> 01:10:54.320
completely convinced that your sacrifice was more than enough.

747
01:10:55.160 --> 01:11:03.080
And, and that I am leaning my entire human personality on you

748
01:11:03.080 --> 01:11:06.920
God with absolute trust and confidence that all the power,

749
01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:11.600
wisdom and goodness is yours to be able to sprinkle my heart

750
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.600
with blood and purify even my conscience with the washing of

751
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:23.200
the water of your word. It's in his hands. He can do it. And I

752
01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:27.960
come in poverty of spirit, he gives me that kingdom within me.

753
01:11:28.080 --> 01:11:34.040
And if I come with with sorrow for sin, he comforts me that I

754
01:11:34.040 --> 01:11:40.400
am set free. And if I come with purity of heart, I can see him

755
01:11:42.280 --> 01:11:45.920
hungering and thirsting for righteousness. This is such good

756
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:51.400
news. So once again, we find that there is no person who can

757
01:11:51.400 --> 01:11:57.080
qualify more for this than anyone else, apart from faith,

758
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:08.720
so that no one can boast. It is the work of God. That's success.

759
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:16.080
It's, it's up to him. I just can agree and say, I doubt every

760
01:12:16.080 --> 01:12:19.600
doubt. I disagree with myself. I don't want to agree with myself

761
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:24.360
anymore. I'm done agreeing with myself. Okay, Hebrews 12, one and

762
01:12:24.360 --> 01:12:27.240
two. And if you have any comments or questions, like

763
01:12:27.240 --> 01:12:30.400
please feel free to jump in.

764
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:37.800
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about the so great a

765
01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:43.520
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin

766
01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:48.480
which so easily besets us. And let us run with patience, the

767
01:12:48.480 --> 01:12:54.160
race that is set before us, looking into Jesus, the author

768
01:12:54.160 --> 01:12:58.000
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before

769
01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:03.000
him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at

770
01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:08.520
the right hand of the throne of God. Follow peace with all men

771
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:14.080
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord, looking

772
01:13:14.080 --> 01:13:19.520
diligently, lest any man fail, of the grace of God, lest any

773
01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:25.160
root of bitterness, springing up trouble you, and thereby, many,

774
01:13:25.360 --> 01:13:27.080
many be defiled.

775
01:13:28.280 --> 01:13:34.920
It's just one piece of good news after another. Like, you know,

776
01:13:35.200 --> 01:13:38.520
here we are, we're talking about all the witnesses that we have.

777
01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:42.440
We've mentioned Daniel, like countless times, we've mentioned

778
01:13:42.440 --> 01:13:47.280
Paul and Moses and Joseph and Isaiah and Jeremiah. And, and,

779
01:13:47.320 --> 01:13:52.480
you know, so many, there are so many to testify to us, his word

780
01:13:52.480 --> 01:13:57.120
is true. His word is true. His word is true. His spirit is

781
01:13:57.120 --> 01:14:02.040
right. His love is real. He can do it. His holiness is not in

782
01:14:02.040 --> 01:14:05.880
your face to tell you that you can't make it. His holiness is

783
01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:14.880
given to you. Be holy, as I am holy, enter into the joy of the

784
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:20.240
Lord. And so go ahead and lay off. Like go ahead and like, no,

785
01:14:20.240 --> 01:14:23.880
I don't need that anymore. I don't need that selfishness. I

786
01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.160
don't need that anger. I don't need that frustration. I don't,

787
01:14:27.440 --> 01:14:31.840
I don't, I don't need the bitterness. And what is the race

788
01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:35.320
before me, each of us have this, like we were talking when we

789
01:14:35.320 --> 01:14:39.120
first got on here, where everybody is, well, like,

790
01:14:39.160 --> 01:14:44.160
there's a race, we have a race, a set of circumstances, in the

791
01:14:44.160 --> 01:14:47.080
city we live in, in the family we live in, in the, in the

792
01:14:47.080 --> 01:14:51.080
neighborhood we live in, in the home we live in, in the, in the

793
01:14:51.080 --> 01:14:55.440
generation we live in, in the industry we work in, we have a

794
01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:57.280
race set before us.

795
01:14:59.000 --> 01:14:59.600
That's

796
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:05.000
That's where Jesus's opportunity to bring his kingdom

797
01:15:05.360 --> 01:15:09.760
in that unique expression and series of circumstances

798
01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:11.880
in which we find ourselves.

799
01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:16.040
But we can look unto Jesus who also we know

800
01:15:16.040 --> 01:15:20.280
had a series of circumstances that just sucked.

801
01:15:20.280 --> 01:15:24.280
I mean, like from the time he was born,

802
01:15:24.280 --> 01:15:27.080
his family had to be on the run.

803
01:15:28.040 --> 01:15:33.040
He was lying in a feeding trough in the hay for animals,

804
01:15:36.320 --> 01:15:41.160
food, they eat that food and he's laid there.

805
01:15:42.040 --> 01:15:43.720
That's where he was born.

806
01:15:44.600 --> 01:15:48.640
Like, you know, I mean,

807
01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:53.640
and immediately the king wants to kill him.

808
01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:56.840
Immediately they have to run to Egypt,

809
01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:02.840
immediately and his life is all about the satisfying

810
01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:06.160
of scripture, the satisfying of the father

811
01:16:06.160 --> 01:16:09.800
in step after step, situation after situation

812
01:16:09.800 --> 01:16:14.800
with incredible amounts of oppression, slavery, sin.

813
01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:17.480
Who can he talk to?

814
01:16:17.480 --> 01:16:21.120
He can't even go talk to the men of God

815
01:16:21.120 --> 01:16:24.160
about these things weighing upon him,

816
01:16:24.160 --> 01:16:26.560
about these things that are in him.

817
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:28.080
He cannot go to them.

818
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:32.280
There is no counselor for him.

819
01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:37.640
There's one person who recognizes him, John the Baptist

820
01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:39.920
and he gets taken away and then says,

821
01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:44.040
hey, are you the one or are we looking for another?

822
01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:49.360
Knowing he saw it, knowing he was sent to witness him,

823
01:16:49.360 --> 01:16:52.840
knowing God saw him, knowing he saw the Holy Spirit,

824
01:16:52.840 --> 01:16:55.840
knowing he baptized him, but still like,

825
01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:59.000
there wasn't one person who could validate Jesus.

826
01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:02.120
You know, his mother held these things in her heart

827
01:17:02.120 --> 01:17:04.000
and shared with him.

828
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:08.240
Joseph, while he was alive, had that testimony of the Lord,

829
01:17:08.240 --> 01:17:09.400
but they were human.

830
01:17:11.040 --> 01:17:13.240
He had to depend upon God.

831
01:17:13.240 --> 01:17:17.360
Nobody else could give him assurance

832
01:17:17.360 --> 01:17:19.840
that he was who he said he was.

833
01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:23.200
Even his disciples continuously bickered.

834
01:17:23.200 --> 01:17:26.760
He was, his life was threatened continuously.

835
01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:30.680
Like looking unto Jesus,

836
01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:34.560
he had to alter and perfect this faith

837
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:38.320
because he had nowhere else to get such assurance.

838
01:17:38.320 --> 01:17:42.120
Like we can come together and feed one another

839
01:17:42.120 --> 01:17:45.880
and uplift one another and invite one another

840
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:47.560
and share with one another.

841
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:48.760
He didn't have that.

842
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:55.080
He had no human fellowship that could assure him.

843
01:17:55.080 --> 01:17:56.840
Even his brothers mocked him.

844
01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:04.640
Who for the joy that was set before him, results,

845
01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:07.840
he was only gonna be moved by results,

846
01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:12.000
not day in, not day out, not time and time,

847
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:13.800
not decision after decision.

848
01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:18.760
He endured the cross, the cross,

849
01:18:20.360 --> 01:18:23.240
despising its shame.

850
01:18:23.240 --> 01:18:26.480
I've despised so much that I've walked through.

851
01:18:27.320 --> 01:18:32.200
I have not, as the next verse says, which isn't in here,

852
01:18:32.200 --> 01:18:34.800
I have not shed my blood for sin,

853
01:18:37.400 --> 01:18:38.640
but I've complained.

854
01:18:39.240 --> 01:18:42.760
And so he sat down now at the right hand

855
01:18:42.760 --> 01:18:43.600
of the throne of God.

856
01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:46.840
He did everything he did for God.

857
01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:51.840
And so now, now we are invited into this life.

858
01:18:52.200 --> 01:18:55.320
We have the witnesses, we have the testimonies,

859
01:18:55.320 --> 01:18:58.640
we have the Holy Spirit, we have the faith,

860
01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:01.960
we have the finish, we've got the promises.

861
01:19:03.200 --> 01:19:05.640
Therefore follow peace with all men.

862
01:19:05.640 --> 01:19:07.440
Be not concerned with the flesh,

863
01:19:08.160 --> 01:19:12.120
be not contentious, pursue holiness

864
01:19:12.120 --> 01:19:15.240
without which no one can see the Lord.

865
01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:21.720
Looking diligently, lest any man fail the grace of God,

866
01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:25.240
lest any root of bitterness bring up and trouble you

867
01:19:25.240 --> 01:19:27.240
and thereby many are defiled.

868
01:19:28.440 --> 01:19:32.320
What I bring influences and impacts the world around me.

869
01:19:33.320 --> 01:19:35.880
So is it his breath?

870
01:19:35.880 --> 01:19:37.960
Is it his grace?

871
01:19:37.960 --> 01:19:39.720
Is it his good news?

872
01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:41.480
Is it his invitation?

873
01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:46.480
Is it the same peace like Paul writes?

874
01:19:46.480 --> 01:19:48.760
If you have received comfort,

875
01:19:48.760 --> 01:19:52.120
if at all you've been comforted with Christ,

876
01:19:53.440 --> 01:19:56.720
then comfort others.

877
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.000
And so we can lay aside everything that has snared us.

878
01:20:05.740 --> 01:20:07.060
We can do that now.

879
01:20:07.060 --> 01:20:11.820
We'll walk into time with the Lord,

880
01:20:11.820 --> 01:20:16.820
but these secrets of success are so liberating.

881
01:20:20.380 --> 01:20:25.380
We are set free today from our past,

882
01:20:25.940 --> 01:20:30.940
from our circumstances, from our broken hearts,

883
01:20:31.660 --> 01:20:34.820
from everything, because we can bring it all to Him.

884
01:20:34.820 --> 01:20:36.540
The testimonies are there.

885
01:20:37.400 --> 01:20:41.300
If you place your faith instead in God and live for Him,

886
01:20:41.300 --> 01:20:43.780
there's a whole hall of fame of faith.

887
01:20:43.780 --> 01:20:45.180
You will be honored.

888
01:20:45.180 --> 01:20:46.780
You will be rewarded.

889
01:20:46.780 --> 01:20:48.540
It really is success.

890
01:20:48.540 --> 01:20:53.100
Jesus has finished it for you, authored and finished it.

891
01:20:53.100 --> 01:20:57.220
Okay, Ezekiel 36, 24 through 29,

892
01:20:57.220 --> 01:21:02.220
and then we will encounter the Lord, 22, 22.

893
01:21:03.580 --> 01:21:05.820
For I will take you from among the nations

894
01:21:05.820 --> 01:21:08.620
and gather you out of all countries

895
01:21:08.620 --> 01:21:11.300
and bring you into your own land.

896
01:21:11.300 --> 01:21:14.460
Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you

897
01:21:14.460 --> 01:21:17.260
and you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness

898
01:21:17.260 --> 01:21:18.680
and from all your idols.

899
01:21:18.680 --> 01:21:20.180
I will cleanse you.

900
01:21:20.180 --> 01:21:22.100
A new heart I will give you

901
01:21:22.100 --> 01:21:24.540
and a new spirit I will put within you.

902
01:21:24.540 --> 01:21:27.100
And I'll take away the stony heart out of your flesh

903
01:21:27.100 --> 01:21:31.180
and give you a heart of flesh.

904
01:21:31.180 --> 01:21:32.860
And I will put my spirit within you

905
01:21:32.860 --> 01:21:35.360
and cause you to walk in my statues.

906
01:21:35.360 --> 01:21:38.620
And you shall heed my ordinances and do them.

907
01:21:38.620 --> 01:21:42.180
And you shall dwell in the land that I gave your fathers

908
01:21:42.180 --> 01:21:45.540
and you shall be my people and I will be your God.

909
01:21:45.540 --> 01:21:48.460
I will also save you from all your uncleanliness

910
01:21:49.460 --> 01:21:53.740
and I will call forth the grain and make it abundant

911
01:21:53.740 --> 01:21:55.620
and lay no famine on you.

912
01:21:59.580 --> 01:22:04.580
Lord, you've known all along

913
01:22:06.340 --> 01:22:10.180
how we have needed our hearts healed.

914
01:22:13.420 --> 01:22:16.500
You have known all along

915
01:22:17.340 --> 01:22:20.980
how we would require your forgiveness,

916
01:22:21.900 --> 01:22:25.780
how we would not know how to respond

917
01:22:25.780 --> 01:22:29.340
to the traumas of life,

918
01:22:30.740 --> 01:22:34.180
how we would not know how to distinguish

919
01:22:34.180 --> 01:22:38.260
between your voice and the voice of the liar,

920
01:22:38.260 --> 01:22:42.840
of the accuser, of the condemner, of the abuser.

921
01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:48.840
You knew all along we could neither save ourselves,

922
01:22:52.360 --> 01:22:55.760
heal ourselves, cleanse ourselves,

923
01:22:56.920 --> 01:23:00.920
make ourselves fit for you ever.

924
01:23:02.200 --> 01:23:04.800
You knew what it would cost

925
01:23:06.040 --> 01:23:11.040
and you determined in advance, having counted the cost,

926
01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:16.860
that you would pay the full price.

927
01:23:18.680 --> 01:23:23.680
Just so that when we do finally turn to you

928
01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:28.980
and you have been there our whole lives,

929
01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:34.820
that when we do turn to you,

930
01:23:36.480 --> 01:23:41.480
we could partake of all that would make us holy,

931
01:23:42.320 --> 01:23:45.040
all that would give us a godly life,

932
01:23:46.280 --> 01:23:50.760
all things pertaining to life and godliness,

933
01:23:50.760 --> 01:23:55.160
every spiritual blessing in heavenly places

934
01:23:55.160 --> 01:23:59.760
to give us a whole new heart, a whole new spirit,

935
01:23:59.760 --> 01:24:02.560
to make us a whole new creation

936
01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:08.800
so that we could live for all that you declare as good,

937
01:24:09.640 --> 01:24:14.040
for all those great desires in your heart

938
01:24:14.040 --> 01:24:15.540
for why you made us.

939
01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:20.960
And I thank you that all of us are still here.

940
01:24:20.960 --> 01:24:24.980
I think each one of us could attest to the fact

941
01:24:24.980 --> 01:24:29.980
that there are many reasons why we could not be here

942
01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:33.960
had it not been for your mercy and goodness

943
01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:35.920
throughout our lives.

944
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:44.520
And so, Lord, we, like Daniel, like David,

945
01:24:50.280 --> 01:24:54.060
like we saw that the Pharisees would not do,

946
01:24:57.100 --> 01:25:00.240
we come to you with open hearts.

947
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.000
asking you to heal our hearts.

948
01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:12.760
And we first, all of us, each offer you thanks that we can.

949
01:25:14.440 --> 01:25:16.080
Thank you for this lesson.

950
01:25:16.080 --> 01:25:21.080
Thank you, you still, no matter how long we've been saved

951
01:25:22.080 --> 01:25:23.920
or known you or known your word

952
01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:26.160
and however long it's taken us,

953
01:25:26.160 --> 01:25:28.880
you still want us to know

954
01:25:30.120 --> 01:25:34.960
how to enjoy and succeed in the life you've given us.

955
01:25:36.040 --> 01:25:37.680
It's just not too late.

956
01:25:40.200 --> 01:25:43.540
It's never been something you've asked us to perform.

957
01:25:45.680 --> 01:25:49.820
It's always been something that you have finished,

958
01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:52.200
that you authored.

959
01:25:54.120 --> 01:25:58.240
And I love that you've given us all of these,

960
01:25:58.240 --> 01:26:03.240
these witnesses who decided to lay down their own lives

961
01:26:09.360 --> 01:26:14.280
and to come and pursue your word, your holiness,

962
01:26:14.280 --> 01:26:19.280
your faith, your presence, your pleasure, your way.

963
01:26:19.280 --> 01:26:24.280
Lord, if there's anything on our hearts today

964
01:26:33.240 --> 01:26:36.200
that would keep us from connecting with you now,

965
01:26:37.400 --> 01:26:39.800
would you please reveal that

966
01:26:44.680 --> 01:26:48.360
so that we could bring it to you and you could cleanse us?

967
01:26:49.280 --> 01:26:50.120
Thank you.

968
01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:16.840
Lord, in these areas we thank you

969
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:20.720
that we can bring these thoughts, these mindsets,

970
01:27:20.720 --> 01:27:23.660
these memories, whatever it is we can bring to you,

971
01:27:25.120 --> 01:27:29.160
fully persuaded that you're well able

972
01:27:29.160 --> 01:27:33.440
to keep all that we commit unto you against that day.

973
01:27:35.160 --> 01:27:40.160
And so we commit shortcomings, guilt,

974
01:27:40.160 --> 01:27:45.160
things we've held on to, compromise.

975
01:27:53.160 --> 01:27:55.840
Whatever, Lord, you're bringing up,

976
01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:58.240
we're committing it to you,

977
01:27:58.240 --> 01:28:00.920
believing it will not be held against us

978
01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:05.120
and that right now you cleanse us

979
01:28:06.240 --> 01:28:08.640
by the blood of your son, Jesus.

980
01:28:11.160 --> 01:28:15.240
You cleanse our consciences from dead works,

981
01:28:17.360 --> 01:28:20.320
that you even rebuke the devourer

982
01:28:22.160 --> 01:28:27.160
and all his part in how we were led astray to this point.

983
01:28:29.320 --> 01:28:34.320
And we confess the ways we've agreed with a lie

984
01:28:34.320 --> 01:28:39.320
with a lie rather than the truth of your word.

985
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.600
Lord, would you also take the veil,

986
01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:51.240
remove the veil like we heard about in scriptures

987
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:57.360
that separates us from the holy of holies.

988
01:29:00.480 --> 01:29:02.640
And we plead the blood of Jesus

989
01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:05.320
that makes that entrance possible

990
01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:10.880
so that no ungodly thoughts,

991
01:29:13.480 --> 01:29:16.340
no ungodly beliefs,

992
01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:23.000
no ungodly mindsets or habits can come in here

993
01:29:24.620 --> 01:29:27.280
that you are cleansing us by your blood

994
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:32.560
and bringing us into your presence

995
01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:38.040
by virtue of your sacrifice and our faith in your sacrifice

996
01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:44.680
to set us apart to meet with you.

997
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:50.680
Beloved Jesus,

998
01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:55.680
we are like the Shulamite.

999
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:08.840
you see things wrong with us. But in your eyes, we see acceptance. In your word, we

1000
01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:27.600
hear an invitation. In your heart, we find a welcome home. And so we believe you. Lord,

1001
01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:35.400
would you show us how you see us? Who am I to you, Lord?

1002
01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:17.600
Lord, would you show us how you see us? Who am I to you, Lord?

1003
01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:54.880
Bless our eyes and ears and hearts with your Shalom. To be able to receive what you're

1004
01:31:54.880 --> 01:32:07.960
saying to us. Give us that, that pure heart to see you. Help us to come gratefully to

1005
01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:30.480
you believing that you always respond to our requests when they are your requests. I have

1006
01:32:30.480 --> 01:32:52.240
nothing to prove to you, God. I believe you love me. I believe you see yourself in me. I believe

1007
01:32:52.240 --> 01:33:04.800
you see the one you've always wanted. The one you've saved. The one you hold.

1008
01:33:22.240 --> 01:33:40.840
Lord, what would it look like for me to give you my heart? To not take possession of it

1009
01:33:40.840 --> 01:34:07.680
any longer? You would be the king and the keeper and the defender and the owner of my heart. What

1010
01:34:07.720 --> 01:34:24.000
would it look like if I was no longer in possession of my heart, but you were? And that I could come

1011
01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:33.600
to you with all requests and you would protect my heart and my mind with your Shalom and the thoughts

1012
01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:55.000
of all your excellence, all your virtue, all your purity in heart. Lord,

1013
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:16.000
Help me give it all to you, to trust you with all the painful parts, the questioning parts,

1014
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:36.000
the happy parts, successful parts, the humiliated parts.

1015
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:51.000
Be fully persuaded that my heart is better in your possession than in mine.

1016
01:35:51.000 --> 01:36:05.000
And Lord, what would it look like for you to give me your heart, that new heart you told about in Scripture?

1017
01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:13.000
What would it look like for us to share your heart?

1018
01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:23.000
Amen.

1019
01:36:51.000 --> 01:37:19.000
Amen.

1020
01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:49.000
Lord, I don't want to leave here without a pure heart.

1021
01:37:49.000 --> 01:38:17.000
How is it you want me to know that it's finished?

1022
01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:45.000
What do I do with that?

1023
01:38:45.000 --> 01:39:05.000
Thank you.

1024
01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:29.000
Lord, Jesus, thank you for reminding us that this is a living, breathing intimacy with you.

1025
01:39:29.000 --> 01:39:33.000
It's just the beginning.

1026
01:39:33.000 --> 01:39:38.000
There's really so much more.

1027
01:39:38.000 --> 01:40:00.000
And that it's impossible not to have a pure heart when we're near you, when we depend upon you and look to you, not about you, not to talk about you.

1028
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:23.120
about you or think about you or read about you, but actually with you, in you? What does

1029
01:40:23.120 --> 01:40:34.360
it look like about how close we are when I give you my art and you give me yours? What

1030
01:40:34.360 --> 01:41:00.600
does that look like practically?

1031
01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:29.640
Jesus, thank you. Thank you.

1032
01:41:29.640 --> 01:41:43.760
Would you show me one thing that you want to do, that you want us to do or that you

1033
01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:53.240
want to do in my life right now or in one of the situations I'm in or one of the questions

1034
01:41:53.240 --> 01:42:13.240
in my heart? What's something you want to show me or you want me to see or say or believe

1035
01:42:13.240 --> 01:42:16.280
or hope or trust you in?

1036
01:43:43.240 --> 01:44:11.280
Thank you.

1037
01:44:14.240 --> 01:44:29.240
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for showing us that you are the

1038
01:44:29.280 --> 01:44:48.280
pure heart, the new pure heart you've always longed to give us. That's always been the

1039
01:44:48.280 --> 01:44:57.320
key. A new day, a new life, a new way.

1040
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:19.040
How grateful you are that we will give you our hearts full of so many, and receive your

1041
01:45:19.040 --> 01:45:38.920
heart so completely pure, so excellent, so virtuous, so full of hope and love and kindness

1042
01:45:38.920 --> 01:46:01.200
and patience, so gentle and tender and forgiving, so able to be still, to pray, to trust, so

1043
01:46:01.200 --> 01:46:31.000
at peace, so full of faith, so rejoicing, so close to the Father.

1044
01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:51.000
Lord, is there any part of me that doesn't want to make this exchange, that is not sure,

1045
01:46:52.000 --> 01:46:58.000
yet?

1046
01:47:03.000 --> 01:47:16.000
Jesus, would you go to that part, that doubting part, that hurting part, that cynical part?

1047
01:47:22.000 --> 01:47:32.000
I just call in those parts. I just say, come. This is for you, too.

1048
01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:41.000
Nobody may have told you that Jesus's heart is for you.

1049
01:47:43.000 --> 01:47:49.000
But today I want you to hear that this is for you, too.

1050
01:47:51.000 --> 01:48:02.000
Every part, every part of your heart, of your mind, of your soul, of your body,

1051
01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:12.000
every part is invited this day to give Jesus everything.

1052
01:48:13.000 --> 01:48:22.000
Everything that has been, everything that's uncertain, everything unfinished, everything broken,

1053
01:48:25.000 --> 01:48:31.000
every accusation, all condemnation, everything.

1054
01:48:32.000 --> 01:48:46.000
And let him see you. Holy Spirit, would you help us to see all this go on to Jesus

1055
01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:55.000
as we give our permission to say, take it all. Take all the trauma, the abandonment,

1056
01:48:56.000 --> 01:49:03.000
the abuse, the heavy weights. Take all the fear and the crying and the pain,

1057
01:49:05.000 --> 01:49:12.000
the uncleanness, the humiliation, the vulgarity. Take it all.

1058
01:49:13.000 --> 01:49:16.000
Take it all, Jesus, and everything I don't know how to reach.

1059
01:49:17.000 --> 01:49:22.000
You can have it this day. I trust you. I trust you.

1060
01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:27.000
I trust you.

1061
01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:33.000
You can have it all.

1062
01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:41.000
Thank you for suffering all that suffering on the cross.

1063
01:49:42.000 --> 01:49:50.000
I see that, Lord. I choose to see that it's really been you who has protected me.

1064
01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:59.000
It's really been you who has loved me. It's really been you who has pursued me and helped me.

1065
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:09.600
It hasn't been me. It's really been you. I give you all my

1066
01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:14.480
weariness, all my self-righteousness and my

1067
01:50:14.480 --> 01:50:22.400
struggling and my worry. I give it all to you. It's only been

1068
01:50:22.400 --> 01:50:29.760
your heart that's pure, not mine. Thank you for having it

1069
01:50:29.760 --> 01:50:43.600
all. Passing me through that cross with you to purify me and

1070
01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:50.320
give me the heart of your resurrection. The heart of the

1071
01:50:50.320 --> 01:50:57.440
King of Kings, the Lord of Lords and the Savior of all so that I

1072
01:50:57.440 --> 01:51:04.320
can now be here on my father's business, seeing what you've

1073
01:51:04.320 --> 01:51:13.520
done to take care of all my business on the cross. All the

1074
01:51:13.520 --> 01:51:18.720
people are yours. All the days are yours. All the

1075
01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:27.040
circumstances are yours. I am yours and you are mine and we're

1076
01:51:27.040 --> 01:51:31.840
never separated again.

1077
01:51:32.960 --> 01:51:36.960
Lord, what would you like me to know

1078
01:51:37.200 --> 01:51:40.720
or have right here?

1079
01:51:48.720 --> 01:51:53.680
Lord, what would you like me to know or have right here?

1080
01:52:18.720 --> 01:52:45.600
Lord, what would you like me to know or have right here?

1081
01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:54.640
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for sealing all this in your

1082
01:52:54.640 --> 01:53:03.960
precious blood. Holy Spirit, thank you for filling us. Thank you for filling us. Thank

1083
01:53:03.960 --> 01:53:10.680
you for making us new, making us the holy temple of God in every place, every nook,

1084
01:53:10.680 --> 01:53:22.480
every cranny, every crevice. Thank you Lord. Thank you that you're the source for everything,

1085
01:53:22.480 --> 01:53:29.880
everything we really desire, all joy, all peace, all wisdom, all pleasure, all fun,

1086
01:53:29.880 --> 01:53:41.320
all answers. And I thank you that no person can handle what's just happened. No, none

1087
01:53:41.320 --> 01:53:53.880
of us can sustain it. It is not by might, nor is it by our power, but it is by your

1088
01:53:53.880 --> 01:54:10.240
Holy Spirit that we are made new this evening. We are made new. Our minds are being renewed.

1089
01:54:10.240 --> 01:54:21.880
We have new relational neurons firing in our connection with you and with your pure heart.

1090
01:54:21.880 --> 01:54:32.600
You're giving us new memories about how we have the pure heart of God because your word

1091
01:54:32.600 --> 01:54:42.600
says so. You've taken out our stony, bitter heart. You took it upon yourself and were

1092
01:54:42.600 --> 01:54:54.520
crucified and we were hidden in you and brought through, passed through death in you, made new

1093
01:54:54.520 --> 01:54:59.960
at the heart of Christ, living and breathing.

1094
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:17.920
with you. That's just the truth. One, indistinguishable, indivisible, with liberty and justice for

1095
01:55:17.920 --> 01:55:33.640
all. Thank you, Abba. I ask you to give us dreams that help solidify this in our consciousness.

1096
01:55:33.640 --> 01:55:45.120
And I thank you for helping us, Lord. I feel like we've just come out of surgery. We just

1097
01:55:45.120 --> 01:55:58.160
have to agree it's finished and how to live with our new heart. And that's moment by moment,

1098
01:55:58.160 --> 01:56:09.480
day by day, breath by breath. Give us a hunger and a thirst for your word and your presence

1099
01:56:09.480 --> 01:56:35.760
every day. In Jesus' name, Amen. Wow. Wow. Thanks for sticking it out, ladies. Let me

1100
01:56:35.760 --> 01:56:48.600
see if everybody's on Facebook here. It's just us. Yeah, anything you want to share?

1101
01:56:48.600 --> 01:56:56.200
No, I'm, I'm going to listen to this. The last one I listened three and a half times.

1102
01:56:56.200 --> 01:57:00.840
And the one before three times, and I'm going to listen to this one again, too. That that

1103
01:57:00.840 --> 01:57:12.160
heart surgery, that was good. Yeah. I got rid of some things. I know. Gave the ministry

1104
01:57:12.160 --> 01:57:26.400
to the Lord. Yeah. It's good. It's it's it's hard healing. Yeah. Yeah, this is really brilliant.

1105
01:57:27.000 --> 01:57:40.280
That I never saw this before that. He's the pure in heart. It's, you know, he's not waiting for us

1106
01:57:41.800 --> 01:57:46.120
to become pure in heart. It's his heart that's pure. And that's why we can see him

1107
01:57:46.720 --> 01:57:58.400
and align with him. Because it's his heart. And now. Yeah. Wow. Thank you.

1108
01:58:00.160 --> 01:58:04.400
I didn't know if I'd open my eyes and anybody would be there. I appreciate you.

1109
01:58:04.440 --> 01:58:11.400
Hey, I am not gonna miss out on that one.

1110
01:58:13.960 --> 01:58:24.040
I just was like, I had to. I really felt like there was some laboring in there. Like,

1111
01:58:24.040 --> 01:58:31.880
you know, there was some things to overcome some things to pass through some, some things to,

1112
01:58:31.920 --> 01:58:39.040
to, to find assurance in and I just, yeah, I couldn't leave it unfinished.

1113
01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:47.520
Amen. We're blessed to have you. And it's working out for me. It's working out nice.

1114
01:58:48.080 --> 01:58:52.160
The schedule that we have actually have a little break in between sometimes that we could

1115
01:58:52.160 --> 01:58:59.200
listen to it again. And work through it and make sure we get it. So yeah.

1116
01:59:00.040 --> 01:59:05.720
Good. Thank you, Jill. How are you doing, my friend? Good.

1117
01:59:08.920 --> 01:59:12.440
Yeah, thanks. That was so beautiful. So beautiful.

1118
01:59:14.200 --> 01:59:21.480
Wow. All right. Well, I won't keep you guys. It's almost tomorrow here and for Ingrid too,

1119
01:59:21.480 --> 01:59:25.480
right? Are you Eastern Ingrid? What time is it your time, Hillary?

1120
01:59:25.560 --> 01:59:32.840
It's 11. Yeah. So we're just an hour ahead of you until.

1121
01:59:35.000 --> 01:59:39.640
So it's 10 o'clock at your place? Yeah. That was one.

1122
01:59:40.520 --> 01:59:47.640
Yeah. When we do daylight, then we're two hours ahead of, of Jill. But right now, yeah, we're an

1123
01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:53.720
hour ahead of Karen and John. So. All right. I'll let you go in case you want to catch up with your

1124
01:59:53.720 --> 01:59:59.800
mom. Well, actually, I'm gonna go make. Mama might be asleep. I'm not sure.

1125
02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:03.000
So, I have to go. Oh, there you are.

1126
02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:04.000
Yes.

1127
02:00:04.000 --> 02:00:07.000
Upside down. We see her.

1128
02:00:07.000 --> 02:00:14.000
She's been waiting for you. That's a mom's heart.

1129
02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:17.000
All right.

1130
02:00:17.000 --> 02:00:20.000
You're muted mom. Love you ladies.

1131
02:00:20.000 --> 02:00:22.000
Love you too. Bye.

1132
02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:26.000
I just had to go where I could plug in the phone because it was dying.

1133
02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:28.000
Oh, okay.

1134
02:00:28.000 --> 02:00:31.000
Oh!

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Mom?

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Did it die? Your phone might have died.

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All right. Love you. Bye y'all.