1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,780 in a world that's far from God. 2 00:00:01,780 --> 00:00:04,380 It's a thing true in a world that's far from God. 3 00:00:04,380 --> 00:00:09,380 And this is really a story about Daniel, the prophet. 4 00:00:09,380 --> 00:00:13,020 And I think it's been a really good series so far. 5 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:17,320 We talked about Prayer the last time we did this series. 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:22,320 Now we're in this idea of speaking the truth boldly. 7 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,740 There is a movie that recently came out 8 00:00:24,740 --> 00:00:27,440 in the last couple of years about Winston Churchill. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,380 And it's a great, I love, 10 00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:31,900 who likes history, I love history. 11 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:35,760 And Churchill is an amazing, amazing figure. 12 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,660 On June 4th, and the movie actually depicts this, 13 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:43,500 on June 4th, Winston Churchill had been the prime minister 14 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:47,420 for about a month and stood before the House of Commons 15 00:00:47,420 --> 00:00:51,300 delivering what he became the best known speech of his life. 16 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,780 He declared, we shall fight on the beaches. 17 00:00:54,780 --> 00:00:57,140 We shall fight on the landing grounds. 18 00:00:57,140 --> 00:00:59,820 We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. 19 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:01,140 We shall fight in the hills. 20 00:01:01,140 --> 00:01:03,180 We shall never surrender. 21 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:05,500 Did you like my delivery? 22 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,260 That was pretty good. 23 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:08,660 I could probably do better. 24 00:01:08,660 --> 00:01:13,180 One man said, what just happened? 25 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:15,580 And I think someone had made this quote on it. 26 00:01:15,580 --> 00:01:17,780 And in the movie they say it like right after the speech, 27 00:01:17,780 --> 00:01:19,420 I think someone wrote this. 28 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:21,620 They said that, what happened? 29 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:26,260 He said that he called to arms the English language 30 00:01:26,260 --> 00:01:28,900 and said it to war or something like that. 31 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:30,180 Basically talking about that speech, 32 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:32,460 how that speech impacted. 33 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:34,180 There was a bunch of people who were pacifists 34 00:01:34,180 --> 00:01:36,260 that wanted to pacify Hitler. 35 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:37,260 And then there were people that knew 36 00:01:37,260 --> 00:01:38,820 that they needed to go to war. 37 00:01:38,820 --> 00:01:42,860 And that speech was instrumental in doing that. 38 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:45,660 But we tend to forget that this speech was delivered 39 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:48,240 after France had fallen to the Nazis. 40 00:01:49,420 --> 00:01:52,820 And over 300,000 Allied soldiers were evacuated 41 00:01:52,820 --> 00:01:54,660 from Dunkirk. 42 00:01:54,660 --> 00:01:57,060 Churchill knew that the morale in Britain 43 00:01:57,060 --> 00:02:00,300 was at an all time low and that the population 44 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:04,420 was celebrating because of the success of the retreat. 45 00:02:04,420 --> 00:02:06,420 He had to help the nation remember 46 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:09,140 that they had not experienced victory 47 00:02:09,140 --> 00:02:12,380 and that there was still much pain and suffering 48 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:14,700 and discouragement on the horizon. 49 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:18,440 He had the task of delivering truth 50 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:23,440 when truth was not necessarily what the people wanted to hear. 51 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,700 Have you ever had to deliver bad news? 52 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,440 Have you ever had the unfortunate responsibility 53 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,600 of holding up a mirror to somebody and saying, 54 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,520 this is what is, I'm not talking about a literal mirror, 55 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,160 but in the sense going, hey, this is what's going on 56 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,800 in your life and you have that phrase 57 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,840 that we all have used from time to time, 58 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,080 please don't shoot the messenger, right? 59 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,680 Where you have to speak the truth 60 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,000 and you speak it boldly and sometimes 61 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,200 that's not what people want to hear. 62 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,680 In a similar way, hey, don't get worried, 63 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,200 I'm not gonna do that to you tonight. 64 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,240 But in a similar way, Christians are called to stand for truth, 65 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,320 not just in practice, but verbally. 66 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,360 We're called to speak. 67 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,320 You know, it's one thing people talk about 68 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,360 like lifestyle evangelism. 69 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,080 And I'm all for lifestyle evangelism. 70 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,040 I think your lifestyle should support your evangelism, right? 71 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,920 I think that when you say what you say 72 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:32,920 that if people were to examine your life, 73 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:37,920 that your life should match what you're trying to say. 74 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:41,320 That being said, none of us do that perfectly, right? 75 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,480 All of us mess up in some way. 76 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,560 Here's a good news, part of our message 77 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,680 is that we're sinners, right? 78 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,680 And so that's part of what we teach people. 79 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,680 So when people talk about lifestyle evangelism, 80 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,440 there's this tendency to think that, 81 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,720 and it was kind of a popular idea at one time. 82 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,320 Hey, I should just live a certain way 83 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,800 and then if I live a certain way, 84 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,280 people will notice that I'm different 85 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,920 and they'll come talk to me and ask me about, 86 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,820 like, what do you have that I don't have? 87 00:04:14,820 --> 00:04:17,160 And I'm sure that's happened at some point, 88 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,960 but for the most part, it's probably rare. 89 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,480 Here's what I want you to know. 90 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,680 To be faithful and to stay true for God 91 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,240 in a world that's far from God, 92 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,040 we've got to speak up for God. 93 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,320 We got to talk about the truth. 94 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,720 We got to speak the truth, as Ephesians 4 says, in love. 95 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,200 That's what we have to do. 96 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,860 This is what witnesses for Jesus do. 97 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:49,160 We testify about who God is and what he said, 98 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,280 regardless of how popular that message is. 99 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:54,120 And you know what? 100 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,880 Sometimes they do shoot the messenger, right? 101 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,880 Tonight, I want us to look at this idea 102 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,080 of speaking the truth boldly. 103 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,280 Would you give me the next slide? 104 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:12,800 It gives us our objective statement. 105 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:13,800 Oh, here's a good question. 106 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,200 When have you really appreciated someone's honesty? 107 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,440 Anybody ever get home and you look in the mirror 108 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,720 and you realize that a piece of the salad 109 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,920 that you had at lunch is still in your teeth? 110 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,840 Has that ever happened to anybody? 111 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:32,320 Yeah, and you're like, 112 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,200 Corey Kirschner talked to me all afternoon 113 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,720 and he didn't say one thing about the asparagus 114 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,400 sticking out of my mouth, you know? 115 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,640 We want, yeah. 116 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:44,880 So it's really good sometimes. 117 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,040 Hey, you got something in your teeth. 118 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,000 That's a helpful thing. 119 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,480 Here's the objective statement. 120 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,800 Next slide. 121 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,640 Being a bold witness for God sometimes means 122 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,140 speaking hard truth. 123 00:05:58,220 --> 00:06:02,160 Sometimes you share the gospel with people 124 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,240 and they're so open to it, it's not hard. 125 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,840 This past Saturday, I got to share the gospel with the lady 126 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:09,640 and she was ready for it. 127 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:10,480 She was excited. 128 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,440 Pastor, I want to learn what the Bible has to say. 129 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,800 Hey, I was pumped to give her the word of God. 130 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,040 That was an amazing thing. 131 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,400 Sometimes though, you're talking to people 132 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,000 and they don't want to hear it. 133 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,440 Does that mean that you don't say something to them? 134 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,920 No, we still have to be bold in our witness for God. 135 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,840 Tonight, we're going to see a situation where Daniel 136 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:36,880 has a situation where he may have been tempted 137 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,880 to not speak boldly but in staying true as a witness, 138 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:43,320 where is Daniel at? 139 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,240 Let's rehearse the context. 140 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,240 Daniel is one of the Hebrew children 141 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,760 who's living in Babylon. 142 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,240 He's been taken away from his homeland. 143 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,440 He's been brought to this foreign land 144 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,840 that we learned in the first week 145 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:02,560 that they wanted to change his lifestyle. 146 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,120 They wanted to change his dress. 147 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,120 They wanted to change the way he ate. 148 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,160 They wanted to impact his education. 149 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,640 They wanted to transform him. 150 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,280 And we say, and what we said in that first week is, 151 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,680 we got to make sure that we don't compromise 152 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,760 on the important things even when we're in a culture 153 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,280 that's far from God. 154 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,640 Brother Gentry talked to us about being prayerful 155 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:28,240 and how that Daniel was known as a person of prayer 156 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,320 when he's trying to stay true for God. 157 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,800 Tonight, we're going to see that Daniel has this example 158 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,480 of speaking hard truth, even when it would have been 159 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,040 very difficult for him to do that. 160 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,760 Now, let's go to Daniel chapter five, like I've told you, 161 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,920 and let's look at what is happening here. 162 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,720 It says in verse one, 163 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,200 Belchazar, the king made a great feast 164 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,080 to a thousand of his lords 165 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,360 and drank wine before the thousand. 166 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,000 Belchazar, while he tasted the wine, 167 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,400 commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels 168 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,320 which his father Nebuchadnezzar 169 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,840 had taken out of the temple, which was in Jerusalem, 170 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,040 and the king and his princes, his wives, 171 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,160 and his concubines might drink their end. 172 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,200 Let's just pause here. 173 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,320 Belchazar followed Nebuchadnezzar 174 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,560 as the next ruler in Babylon. 175 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,600 There was a leader change, 176 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,600 and Daniel now has this new king. 177 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,000 And in part of this scenario, 178 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,160 Belchachazar throws a party, 179 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,920 and it's not a very godly party. 180 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,880 This is a very pagan kind of party. 181 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,120 They are doing what people and parties in our day do. 182 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:42,800 They're drinking. 183 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:44,600 You guys see that in verse one? 184 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,360 They're drinking. 185 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,860 Wine, thousands of people there. 186 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,040 It says that part of what they did is they took 187 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,880 the priestly utensils that were used in the temple 188 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:01,640 that had been stolen and brought 189 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,160 as part of the booty of war, brought to Babylon, 190 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,520 and they're starting to party with the things 191 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,040 that would have been very sacred to the Jewish people. 192 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,480 Verse three, then they brought the golden vessels 193 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:15,320 that were taken out of the temple. 194 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:16,840 That's what we just read. 195 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,360 Verse four, they drank wine and praised the gods of gold 196 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:26,360 and of silver and of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 197 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,720 Somebody explained to me why that was, 198 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,220 what were they doing? 199 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,680 Those utensils, you're exactly right. 200 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:42,920 Doran said they were enjoying the spoilers 201 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,560 of what they had gotten, right? 202 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,920 What were the temple utensils made out of? 203 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,400 Gold, right? 204 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,040 So they took these utensils, these things that were used 205 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,680 to worship the God of the Bible. 206 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:02,040 You with me? 207 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,360 They brought them to this drunken party, 208 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:10,360 and now as they're drinking, they're using these elements 209 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,040 to worship what? 210 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,600 False gods. 211 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,360 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold 212 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,040 and of silver, of brass, iron, wood, and of stone. 213 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,040 Is this a serious infraction? 214 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,760 Is this an offensive thing both to the Jewish people 215 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,760 and to Jehovah God? 216 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,400 It absolutely is. 217 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,960 Verse five, in the same hour came forth fingers 218 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,240 of a man's hand. 219 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,480 You say, Pastor Ben, what did this look like? 220 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,680 It looks like fingers. 221 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,680 What was the Adam's family, the thing? 222 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,080 I was a call thing? 223 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,640 Whatever it was, that's kind of what I imagined. 224 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,360 It's just like fingers, and maybe not the whole hand, 225 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:08,880 but it starts writing. 226 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,200 Verse five, and wrote over against the candlestick 227 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,720 upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, 228 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,640 and the king saw the part of the hand that rose 229 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,640 out, and I'm sure he goes, I'm reading between the lines, 230 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,440 what is in my drink? 231 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:28,520 Right? 232 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,040 There's fingers writing on the wall. 233 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,040 Now I don't think that this is a hallucination. 234 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,000 That's not what's indicated here, 235 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,760 because more than one person saw it and understood it. 236 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,440 Verse six, in the king's countenance was changed. 237 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,480 What was his countenance before? 238 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,200 He's partying, he's drinking, 239 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,440 he's got all of his people there. 240 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,000 It's a big drunken party, 241 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,080 and they are praising their gods. 242 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,960 I think that part of what they're thinking is, 243 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,480 we're so much better than all these other gods. 244 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,560 Who are the gods of the Jews? 245 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:05,040 It's just part of what they're doing, 246 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,840 and then all of a sudden there's this writing on the wall, 247 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:11,560 and he goes from party into... 248 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:16,560 You ever have sirens, lights, 249 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,840 police lights in your rear view mirror? 250 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,440 Does that ever happen to you? 251 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,440 And what happens to your heart goes to your stomach, right? 252 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,280 It's like, oh, I think that's what's going on here. 253 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,040 He's like, what in the world? 254 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,600 Verse seven, the king cried aloud 255 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,880 to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, 256 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,840 and the Seussayers, and the kings spake, 257 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,720 and said to the wise men of Babylon, 258 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,760 whosoever shall read this writing 259 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,360 and show me the interpretation thereof, 260 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,880 shall be clothed with scarlet 261 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,960 and have a chain of gold around his neck, 262 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,520 and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. 263 00:12:57,060 --> 00:13:00,960 So apparently there's writing on the wall that he does it, 264 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,040 it's in a different language, he doesn't understand it. 265 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,680 What is it that he's saying? 266 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,560 And so he calls in all the people 267 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:10,240 that should know such things, 268 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,240 and says, promotion available if you figure this out. 269 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,760 So verse eight, then king, all the kings, wise men, 270 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,360 but they could not read the writing 271 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,240 nor make known of the interpretation thereof. 272 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:29,240 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, 273 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,400 and his countess was changed in him. 274 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,120 It got even worse, it went from like, 275 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:35,600 okay, what does that mean? 276 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,160 Oh no, like now he's angry, 277 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,320 and his lords were astonished. 278 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,000 Verse 10, now the queen, 279 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,400 by reason of the words of the king, 280 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,800 and his lords came into the banquet house, 281 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,240 and the queen spake and said, 282 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,520 oh king, live forever, let not thy thoughts trouble thee, 283 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:51,880 nor let thy countess be changed. 284 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:53,960 There's a man in the kingdom, 285 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,100 in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, 286 00:13:57,100 --> 00:13:58,920 and in the days of thy father light, 287 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,240 and understanding, and wisdom, 288 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,880 like the wisdom of the gods, 289 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,240 were found in him whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, 290 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,080 thy father, the king, I say, 291 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,960 the father, thy father, made master of the magicians, 292 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:13,480 astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers. 293 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,280 For as much as an excellent spirit, 294 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,680 and knowledge, and understanding, 295 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:22,760 interpreting dreams, and showing of hard sentences, 296 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,240 and dissolving of doubts, 297 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,240 were found in the same, who is it? 298 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,960 Daniel. 299 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,280 Now let Daniel be called, 300 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:36,280 and he will show the interpretation. 301 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,400 Now, what's interesting about this, 302 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,120 is that as they were talking here 303 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,600 about three aspects of our witness, right? 304 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,080 He's, there's been this message that's come, 305 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,240 revelation from God has been written on the wall. 306 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,080 Okay, that's what we're about to see. 307 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,680 Nobody can figure it out. 308 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,400 All the wisest people in the kingdom can't figure it out. 309 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,760 So they call Daniel, why? 310 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Because Daniel had a reputation, who's with me? 311 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,400 Daniel had a reputation. 312 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,560 There was someone that said, hey, this guy walks with, 313 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,280 and she says, is her theology right? 314 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,200 Her theology is not right. 315 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,040 What does she say? 316 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,560 Yeah, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods? 317 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:32,480 You know what that is? 318 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,920 That's her trying to explain what his reputation is, 319 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:37,760 and her language. 320 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,080 She doesn't, she believes that there's a bunch of gods. 321 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,320 You know, can I tell you, 322 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,520 I'm listening to missionaries this week. 323 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,960 I just came back from a pastoral, 324 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,840 the Baptist Church Ministry Network National Meeting. 325 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,360 That was this week, and I talk into missionaries. 326 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,040 You guys might remember Russ Turner. 327 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,280 He came a few months ago, or within the last year, 328 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,040 and we took him on for support. 329 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,440 And he was talking about all of the idol worship 330 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,000 that goes on in the jungles. 331 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,800 He goes into the jungles, 332 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,160 and there's all kinds of idol worship 333 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:11,160 that goes on in those jungles, 334 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,320 and there's all kinds of supernatural, weird, 335 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,120 spiritual activity that happens in there, 336 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,280 according to him, or at least things 337 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,160 that people perceive that way. 338 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,520 And so much of, in the Bible, 339 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,720 it talks about how that, a lot of times, 340 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,400 what's behind the idol worship is demons, right? 341 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,280 And so this is what they know, 342 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,920 this is what they've been deceived by, 343 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,680 but she knows that Daniel has been used by God before, 344 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,080 verse 13. 345 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,320 So then was Daniel brought in before the king, 346 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,920 and the king spake and said, 347 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,720 unto Daniel, art thou Daniel, 348 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,960 which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, 349 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,760 whom the king, my father, brought out of Jewry. 350 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,880 Here's the first thing I wanna show you 351 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,240 about being bold and speaking for the Lord. 352 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,760 Number one, the walk behind your witness. 353 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,320 The walk behind your witness. 354 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,800 When you live the way God wants you to live, 355 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,040 when you are growing the way God wants you to grow, 356 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,600 when you get into the word, until the word gets into you 357 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,000 and begins to transform you, 358 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,960 then when you have the opportunity to witness, 359 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,760 you're gonna be more bold and witnessing 360 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,720 because your walk matches your witness. 361 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,000 Because there's not some reason for you not to speak up 362 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,240 because you're already walking with the Lord 363 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,880 and God's already indwelling you and empowering you. 364 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,880 So here you have Daniel, and in verse 13, 365 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,240 the reputation has gone from his queen to the king. 366 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,160 He's saying, hey, are you this Daniel, everybody? 367 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,280 Verse 14, I've even heard of thee, 368 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:54,840 that the spirit of the God is in thee 369 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:55,960 and that the light and understanding 370 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:57,480 and excellent wisdom is found in thee. 371 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,720 And now the wise men, the astrologers, 372 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,560 have been brought in before me 373 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,040 that they should read this writing 374 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,960 and make known unto me the interpretation thereof, 375 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,880 but they could not show the interpretation of the thing. 376 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:11,760 Now, one of the things that's really important, 377 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,160 I don't wanna mishandle the word of God. 378 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,160 A narrative is there because it's teaching a story. 379 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,000 It's telling, it's giving you history. 380 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,760 This is what happened. 381 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,120 This passage is giving us an account 382 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:28,600 of something that actually happened. 383 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,120 I believe that this is history. 384 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,800 I believe that this actually happened 385 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,440 because I believe the Bible is the word of God 386 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,720 and that's how it's teaching it. 387 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,240 Does anybody here agree with me about that? 388 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,600 Okay, but let's look at the principles 389 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,200 and the application here, okay? 390 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,320 The principle that I wanna show you 391 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,880 is that there is this walk behind Daniel's witness. 392 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,300 He wasn't invited to the party. 393 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:55,200 He wasn't out there drinking. 394 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,280 He wasn't doing what he shouldn't have done. 395 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:03,280 He was even in some senses kind of a part of the people 396 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,560 that they were making fun of. 397 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,760 As they're drinking out of the temple, 398 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,320 does that make sense? 399 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,880 He's saying, aren't you the people that we brought captive? 400 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:15,720 Right? 401 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,480 And here's what's interesting. 402 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,200 When it came down to it, all the people that he thought 403 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,160 that they respected in their culture, 404 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,800 the astrologers, the idolaters, they didn't have any answers. 405 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,120 And can I tell you it's the same in our culture? 406 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,480 There's a whole lot of people that say 407 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,680 that they're offering answers and at the end of the day, 408 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,400 the answers don't work because they ain't true. 409 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,040 Not good grammar, but it's true, right? 410 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,480 When it comes down to, okay, I need to know what's true. 411 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,400 Now they go get a man of Jehovah God 412 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,520 and they bring him in. 413 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:56,960 Okay, let's keep going. 414 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,160 Now the wise man, they couldn't do it. 415 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,560 Verse 16, I have heard of thee 416 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,300 that thou canst make interpretations, dissolve doubts. 417 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:06,020 Now if those can't read their writing 418 00:20:06,020 --> 00:20:09,240 and make known to me the interpretation thereof, 419 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,320 thou shalt be clothed with scarlet. 420 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,440 Scarlet actually read the other day about this scarlet. 421 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,760 There was a certain kind of snail worm 422 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,320 that they would crush the worm, 423 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,120 which isn't really interesting. 424 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,000 We'll talk about that later. 425 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,320 Okay, but that's where they would get the color for the dye, 426 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,160 right, that then they would make into robes, 427 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,360 which made you have to have a bunch of these snails. 428 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,820 You don't grow snails, right? 429 00:20:52,820 --> 00:20:56,800 I mean, not like crops, you gotta go find them. 430 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,680 And so it was really expensive to dye, 431 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,680 like something like this, super expensive 432 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,840 because the only way to get that 433 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,920 is to have this really difficult process. 434 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,160 So to give somebody a scarlet robe, 435 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,880 that's like something that only royalty would have, right? 436 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,880 Kind of a similar principle as with who remembers Joseph 437 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,040 and the code of many colors, right? 438 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,640 Like when you're surviving every day 439 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:25,720 and that's how you do life 440 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,960 is just give us this day our daily bread. 441 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:32,400 You don't really have the resources to think about style. 442 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,480 Are you with me? 443 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,040 Think about style. 444 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,800 Some of you think more about it than others, right? 445 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,280 I don't even get a chuckle from some of you, come on. 446 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,000 Right, but my point is, this is an expensive thing. 447 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,960 So you're saying if you can figure this out, 448 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,240 we'll give you scarlet, you'll give you gold, 449 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,800 you'll be the third ruler in the kingdom. 450 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,720 I love this, verse 17. 451 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,440 So you've got the politics going on. 452 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:06,040 This is the king, there's political revolt. 453 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,120 Then you have a party and you got the profit. 454 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,280 We've covered all of that. 455 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,680 Now let's look at number two, 456 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,680 not just the weight behind your witness, 457 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,040 now let's look at the words in your witness, okay? 458 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,400 Now we got to how do we actually talk? 459 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,720 Look at verse number 17. 460 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,040 Then Daniel answered and said, 461 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,760 before the king, let thy gifts be to thyself 462 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,280 and give thy rewards to another, 463 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,320 yet I will read the writing unto the king 464 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,120 and make known unto him the interpretation. 465 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,120 What was he saying? 466 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Keep the scarlet, keep the gold, I don't need a promotion. 467 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,920 I'll just tell you what it says, huh? 468 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,920 He wants to give God the glory in it for sure. 469 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,080 And then the other part of it is, 470 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,520 I don't know, maybe this is part of it, 471 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,560 how quickly they, well, we'll see. 472 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,040 Go down to now, now go to verse, 473 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,840 we'll just keep reading, 474 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,480 O thou king the most high God gave never conceder, 475 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,800 thy father a kingdom, and majesty and glory and honor. 476 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,400 And for the majesty that he gave him, 477 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,760 all people, nations, language, 478 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,080 trembled and feared before him, 479 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,200 whom he would he slew. 480 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:24,920 What is he saying? 481 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:25,760 Whom he would he slew? 482 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:26,800 If he wanted to kill somebody, he did. 483 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,320 Whom he would he would keep alive? 484 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,280 And whom he would he set up and whom he would he put down? 485 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,600 But when his heart was lifted up, 486 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,920 and his mind hardened in pride, 487 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,080 he was deposed from his kingly throne, 488 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,920 and they took his glory from him. 489 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,680 What's that saying? 490 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,600 When he thought he was the man, 491 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,280 that's when he became the beast, 492 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,400 and we know what happened there. 493 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,080 And he was driven from the sons of men, 494 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,000 and his heart was made like the beast, 495 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,760 and his dwelling was with the wild asses. 496 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,840 They fed him with grass like oxen, 497 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,200 and his body was wet with dew of heaven, 498 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,480 till he knew that the most high God, 499 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,280 here it is, what was the point of him going through all that? 500 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,360 Till he knew that the most high God 501 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,880 ruled in the kingdom of men, 502 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,640 and that he appointed over it whosoever he will. 503 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,840 What is he saying? 504 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,880 The king who came before you had to learn a lesson. 505 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,960 The lesson he had to learn was that he's not better 506 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,720 than the one and only true God. 507 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,520 It might be that he said, 508 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,200 you don't have to promote me or give anything 509 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,040 because you're not gonna like what I have to say. 510 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,200 Right, after this I don't think 511 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,560 I'm gonna get any kind of promotion. 512 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,720 Look at verse 22. 513 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,760 And thou his son Obel Shazzar has not humbled thine heart, 514 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,400 though thou newest all this. 515 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:51,280 What is he saying? 516 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,800 This isn't a new story I'm telling you. 517 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,760 You knew this, but yet you're being prideful. 518 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,720 But you lifted up verse 23, 519 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,640 thyself against the Lord of heaven, 520 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,360 and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, 521 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,360 and thou and thy lords, thy wives, 522 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,480 and thy concubines have drunk wine in them. 523 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,600 Now has praised the gods of silver and gold 524 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,320 and a brass iron wooden stone, 525 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,680 which see not nor hear nor know. 526 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,080 What is he saying? 527 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,600 You're praying to false gods. 528 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,400 You're praying to made up gods. 529 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,400 And whose are all thy ways hath thou not glorified? 530 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,480 And the God in whose hands thy breath is, 531 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:35,520 what is he saying? 532 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,280 The God that's giving you life, 533 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,480 the God that's sustaining your life. 534 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,280 You're praising gods that don't even exist 535 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,400 with utensils and utensils and utensils and utensils. 536 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,680 And even exist with utensils that were used 537 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,400 to worship the God who's holding the very breath 538 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,520 that you breathe in you. 539 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,680 You're prideful, you're arrogant. 540 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,040 This is what you're doing. 541 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,720 Then was the part of the hand, 542 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,840 then was the part of the hand sent from him, 543 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,320 and the writing was written. 544 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:13,320 Here he has to give the king really bad news. 545 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,840 Now probably what was true of Nebuchadnezzar 546 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,360 was also true of Balthasar. 547 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,000 What was true of Nebuchadnezzar before he was humbled? 548 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,120 What did it say? 549 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,800 Who he wanted to kill, he killed. 550 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,060 Who he wanted to keep alive, he kept alive. 551 00:26:37,060 --> 00:26:38,960 That was part of Daniel's answer to him. 552 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,740 He says, I think Balthasar, if he's in the same position, 553 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,760 he could do the same thing. 554 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,200 Who thinks maybe Daniel would have been tempted 555 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,580 even a little bit to kind of sugarcoat what he said? 556 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,560 Anybody think that could happen? 557 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,000 Did he sugarcoat what he said? 558 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,160 Not even a little bit. 559 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,440 He just was plain. 560 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,840 And I think we have to be wise as serpents 561 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,200 and harmless as doves. 562 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,160 But I think people need to know the truth. 563 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,440 Are you with me? 564 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:21,440 I think we need to speak the truth in love. 565 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,140 Are you with me? 566 00:27:24,140 --> 00:27:25,680 That's what needs to happen. 567 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,040 So now we look, not just at the words of our witness, 568 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,840 now let's look at the weight of your witness, 569 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,760 the weight of our witness. 570 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,280 Here's where he gets to it. 571 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,800 Now he has the interpretation, verse 25. 572 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,680 And this is the writing that was written, 573 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,880 Meanie, Meanie, Techo, Eupharston. 574 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,760 I may not have said that exactly right, 575 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,080 but we'll read it. 576 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:00,080 This is the interpretation, verse 26, of the thing. 577 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,920 Meanie, God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. 578 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,720 Techo, thou art weighed in the balances 579 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,200 and art found wanting. 580 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,280 Perez, thy kingdom is divided 581 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,640 and given to the Medes and to the Persians. 582 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,160 Then commande Belshazzar, and they, 583 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,360 this is amazing, what do they do? 584 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,960 Then commande Belshazzar and they clothe Daniel with scarlet 585 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,400 and put a chain of gold around his neck 586 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,320 and made a proclamation concerning him 587 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,440 that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 588 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,920 And that night was Belshazzar, 589 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,320 the king of the Chaldeans slain. 590 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,400 Pretty amazing. 591 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,040 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, 592 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,160 being about three score and two years old. 593 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,240 Daniel gave the interpretation, 594 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,680 he told him straight, he says, this is what God has done. 595 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,080 Meanie, Meanie is a verb meaning numbered or appointed. 596 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,640 It emphasizes a final and full count. 597 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,840 He's saying, you have been numbered. 598 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,880 Techo is referred to weighing metal on a balance scale. 599 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,280 So he's saying, you're supposed to weigh this much, 600 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,880 but you don't weigh that much. 601 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,880 You don't weigh that much, king. 602 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,040 You're supposed to be substantive. 603 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:27,880 You're not. 604 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,000 And so because of that, you've been found wanting. 605 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,840 This is, you farsen as the plural form of Perez, 606 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,080 which refers to something being broken apart 607 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,080 and shared, it's being divided. 608 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,240 What's Daniel doing? 609 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 He's getting the interpretation from God, 610 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,920 but he's declaring what God has said and 611 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,280 what's the result? 612 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,560 What God said is what happened. 613 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:03,160 Daniel's promoted and Balthasar is slain. 614 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,560 Kind of crazy in it. 615 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,560 Now, very similar word for all have sinned 616 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,840 and come short of the glory of God. 617 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,560 How many of you guys ever heard that? 618 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,160 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 619 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,760 We kind of have a similar message to tell people. 620 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,280 You've been weighed and found wanting. 621 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,800 The wages of sin is death. 622 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,720 There was an attorney that spoke last night at our meeting 623 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:46,280 and he said, how are you gonna continue to do evangelism 624 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,000 in the coming days? 625 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,520 This is just what he said. 626 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,520 I don't know if I agree with his evaluation totally, 627 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:57,760 but this is what he said 628 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,360 and I don't know that he's totally wrong either. 629 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,880 He said, there's a lot of people depending on live streaming 630 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,360 on getting stuff out there, social media. 631 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,880 And he said, guys, that's going away. 632 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,200 Not that social media is going away, 633 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,720 not that podcasting is going away, 634 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,880 not that YouTube is going away, 635 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,880 but if you speak the truth, even if you do it in love, 636 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,160 his thing is eventually they're gonna get all the haters 637 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,000 and the bigots off of social media. 638 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,120 You're saying, wait a minute, I'm not a hater or a bigot. 639 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,240 Do you believe there's only one way to God? 640 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,520 Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the only way? 641 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,800 There's people that think that's hateful and bigoted. 642 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:51,520 Do you believe that there's some things God calls sin 643 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,360 and that we don't get to compromise 644 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,400 about what God calls sin, 645 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,080 that whatever God calls sin is sin? 646 00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,360 Yeah. 647 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,440 And our message has to be 648 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,480 that whatever God says, we believe. 649 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,280 And if God says it, then we ought to believe it 650 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,000 and we ought to declare it to people. 651 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,960 Which doctor do you wanna go to? 652 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,560 The doctor that finds the mass 653 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,800 and when you go say what is this mass mean, 654 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,960 he goes, it'll be fine. 655 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,360 Or do you want the doctor that's like, 656 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,600 you've got a mass and it's gonna kill you? 657 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,160 But here's what you have to do. 658 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,920 Who wants the second doctor? 659 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,320 I don't want the doctor that ignores 660 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,920 and doesn't give me bad news 661 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,000 because he's worried about how I'm gonna react. 662 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,440 I want the doctor who's gonna tell me straight, 663 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,280 give me the best, do you agree with me? 664 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,480 If that's true in the physical world, 665 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,680 isn't that true in the spiritual realm? 666 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,880 If I die physically, that's one thing, 667 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,960 but if I die spiritually, that's a whole other thing. 668 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,080 It's appointed on the men, 669 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,800 wants to die and after this the judgment. 670 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,800 All have sin and come short of the glory of God. 671 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,000 And sometimes even with believers, it's hard. 672 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,960 Go real quick, Galatian. 673 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,760 I'm gonna show you a couple things. 674 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:44,920 Go to Matthew chapter 18 verse 15. 675 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,920 Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, 676 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,520 go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone, 677 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:59,600 if he shall hear thee that has gained thy brother. 678 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,280 But if you will not hear thee, 679 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,680 then take with thee one or two more 680 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,920 that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, 681 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,360 every word may be established. 682 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,520 And if he neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church, 683 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,120 but if you neglect to hear the church, 684 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,800 let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican. 685 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,480 Now, couple questions. 686 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,920 What kind of sin is the kind of sin 687 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,400 that makes us respond in this? 688 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,560 Do you guys see the process in these verses first? 689 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,200 Do you see a process here? 690 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,200 If someone's overtaken in a fault, 691 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,800 you go between you and him alone. 692 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,760 That's the first step. 693 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,280 Then the second step is you take two or three with you. 694 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,880 Why do you go to step two? 695 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,880 I would say it did work. 696 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:03,320 And why I say it does work 697 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,320 is because sometimes we have sin. 698 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,280 Here's my issue. 699 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,080 I know I'm confusing you. 700 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,080 No, I don't want to confuse you. 701 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,560 There's not certain sins that are a part of what we, 702 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,080 because it's this sin we do this process. 703 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,160 Are you with me? 704 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,480 It's any sin. 705 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,040 It's any sin. 706 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:26,760 What's the issue? 707 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,880 The issue is not what sin it is. 708 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,400 The issue is having a heart that lacks repentance. 709 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,040 That when someone holds the mirror 710 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,800 of the word of God up to us, right? 711 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,840 That if there's something that's there, 712 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,480 we say, you know what? 713 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,440 I am gonna submit to what God says 714 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,200 and I'm gonna respond to it. 715 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,000 Does that make sense? 716 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,400 Now, there's also sometimes 717 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,920 that when you have a relationship with somebody 718 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,840 and it looks like they're doing wrong, 719 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,240 you go talk to them and you say, 720 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:06,920 hey, this is what looks like going on in your life 721 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,680 and you do it. 722 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,720 The reason why you do it alone is because you might find out 723 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,520 that what you perceive as sin wasn't sin at all. 724 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Does that make sense? 725 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,400 Can that happen? 726 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,480 And I'm really struggling because this person, 727 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,280 that seems like that we're at odds, 728 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,560 so I'm gonna go talk to him. 729 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,240 And the reason why it's so important to go 730 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,480 between you and him alone is because if you start going 731 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:35,480 to seven other people, it's called gossip. 732 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,640 You're creating more problems. 733 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,400 Then you go over to this other person and you find out, 734 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,200 oh, even if they were wrong, you get it right, 735 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,280 but now six other people are offended for you. 736 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,120 Do you get it? 737 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,660 The issue though, isn't what sin it is. 738 00:36:48,660 --> 00:36:52,120 The issue is, do we repent of sin? 739 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,800 And this isn't like day one, day two, day three. 740 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,840 This is there's a season of us like we're trying to 741 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,080 deal with this and then we go on to two or three. 742 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,480 They don't hear it, then you take it to the church. 743 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,160 But the point is, instead of everybody thinking about it 744 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,360 and everybody talking about it, what's the loving thing 745 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,200 to do? 746 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,840 The loving thing to do is, I care about you, I love you. 747 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,900 And the whole point of this is not to beat you over the head 748 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:18,840 with what you did, the point of it is, 749 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,200 so that we would be restored so that we could gain our brother 750 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,960 or our sister. 751 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,440 Another verse, are you with me? 752 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,680 Go to Galatians chapter six. 753 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,680 Galatians chapter six, verse number one. 754 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,080 Verse one, brethren. 755 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,500 Why is he using the word brethren? 756 00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:00,500 It is right, who's writing? 757 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:01,460 Who's writing? 758 00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:03,520 Paul, who is he writing to? 759 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,680 The church of Galatia. 760 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,680 He says, brethren, you know, if God is my father 761 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,080 and Jesus is God's son and I'm gonna join here with Christ 762 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,080 and he's my big brother and if you guys are sons and daughters 763 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,080 of God then you're my brothers and sisters. 764 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:23,920 Are you with me? 765 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,360 So he's talking to Christians. 766 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,360 Brethren, if a person, let's see, back to it. 767 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,360 If a man be overtaken in a fault, 768 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,560 does that sound like Matthew 18? 769 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,360 If there's something that's wrong, 770 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,360 overtaken means they're taken down. 771 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,800 They've done something, their life is not working 772 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,240 like it ought to, they're not right with God, 773 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,200 they're broken in their relationships. 774 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,880 Galatians six one says, if a brother be overtaken in a fault, 775 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,440 ye who are spiritual? 776 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,520 Now here's a question, how do you know if someone's spiritual? 777 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,040 Save for sure. 778 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,900 Good job, Matt, high five, Matt, nice. 779 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,800 Can I submit that Galatians five, verse 22, 780 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,820 just four or five verses beforehand, 781 00:39:14,820 --> 00:39:16,420 might indicate who's spiritual. 782 00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:21,420 But the fruit of the spirit is, what's the first one? 783 00:39:23,020 --> 00:39:28,180 But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, 784 00:39:28,180 --> 00:39:29,900 long suffering, generalist goodness, faith, 785 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,020 meaning the temperance. 786 00:39:31,020 --> 00:39:33,380 Wait, who's not spiritual? 787 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:36,420 People who are still in the flesh, who's in the flesh? 788 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:39,500 Can I submit to you that you go back to verse 16? 789 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,980 Look at Galatians five, 16. 790 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:43,540 This I say then, walk in the spirit 791 00:39:43,540 --> 00:39:45,100 and you should not fulfill the loss to the flesh. 792 00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:49,460 Loss to the spirit, the spirit against the flesh. 793 00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:52,620 Verse 19, now the works of the flesh are manifest, 794 00:39:52,620 --> 00:39:55,620 which are these adultery, fornication, uncleanness, 795 00:39:55,620 --> 00:39:59,740 lasciviousness, adultery, witchcraft, hatred, variance, 796 00:39:59,740 --> 00:40:02,260 emulations, wrath, strife, sedition, 797 00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:05,260 terraces, envies, murderings, drunkenness, 798 00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:06,700 revelings and such like. 799 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,300 Okay, so when he says in Galatians six one, 800 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:15,740 he who are spiritual, he's already defined who's spiritual. 801 00:40:15,740 --> 00:40:17,380 Right? 802 00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:20,420 If someone's overtaken in a fault, what kind of fault? 803 00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:22,940 The faults described as the loss of the flesh. 804 00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:26,380 Anybody here ever do the loss of the flesh? 805 00:40:28,420 --> 00:40:30,340 Okay, everyone's that's not raising their hand 806 00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:31,700 is in the flesh right now. 807 00:40:32,820 --> 00:40:34,900 We all do it. 808 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:37,260 We all do it after you're saved. 809 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:38,100 Yes! 810 00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:40,300 Maybe that's where I came up with a dessert idea. 811 00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:41,140 I don't know. 812 00:40:42,140 --> 00:40:43,140 Are you with me? 813 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,140 He says, if someone's overtaken in a fault 814 00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:51,300 and they're not functioning the way they ought to, 815 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:52,940 do the awkward thing. 816 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:58,940 Speak the truth boldly, but do it as a spiritual person. 817 00:41:01,820 --> 00:41:04,180 What's the first fruit of the spirit? 818 00:41:04,180 --> 00:41:05,020 Love! 819 00:41:05,020 --> 00:41:08,220 I'm not coming over and beating you over the head 820 00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:09,780 with the Bible. 821 00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:11,260 I'm coming with love. 822 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:13,220 Restore such a one. 823 00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:16,340 There's a passage in Matthew chapter four. 824 00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:20,820 Remember when Jesus is calling the disciples? 825 00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:25,820 He says, follow me and I'll make you to become fishers and men. 826 00:41:25,820 --> 00:41:27,420 If you read Matthew chapter four, 827 00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:30,020 he talks to two guys, Peter and Andrew, 828 00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:32,020 and it says that they were cast into the world 829 00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:35,220 and they were fishing. 830 00:41:35,220 --> 00:41:38,420 It says that he said, follow me, I'll make you fishers and men. 831 00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:43,420 The next two verses, he says that John and James and John, 832 00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:49,820 the sons of thunder, that they were mending their nets. 833 00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:54,820 The word for mending is the same exact word in the Greek 834 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:57,420 as the word restore in Galatians six. 835 00:41:57,420 --> 00:42:01,220 You can't catch fish with broken nets. 836 00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:07,220 If the nets don't work, you're not gonna catch many fish. 837 00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:11,220 And the job of loving people who are exhibiting 838 00:42:11,220 --> 00:42:16,220 the fruit of the spirit is to have some awkward conversations 839 00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:19,420 and to love someone enough to go, 840 00:42:19,420 --> 00:42:22,820 it seems like you're hurting, it seems like you're not functioning. 841 00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:24,820 It seems like something's not going well. 842 00:42:24,820 --> 00:42:27,820 You're not functioning, it seems like something's not going right. 843 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:31,620 And I care about you and I love you and I may be wrong. 844 00:42:31,620 --> 00:42:32,620 How do you do it? 845 00:42:32,620 --> 00:42:37,620 In a spirit of meekness, considering yourself 846 00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:39,220 lest you also be tempted. 847 00:42:39,220 --> 00:42:42,520 So this isn't like, let me tell you how I'm so much better 848 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:43,620 than you at this. 849 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,720 No, it's, man, I've struggled with this too. 850 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,120 Or maybe I don't struggle with this, 851 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,520 but I struggle with this, this, this and this. 852 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,320 But I'm here to help and I'm here to love you 853 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,320 and not to destroy you. 854 00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:58,520 Does that make sense? 855 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,320 One more spot, Ephesians chapter four. 856 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:02,720 You guys have your Bibles? 857 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:07,720 Galatians, Ephesians chapter four. 858 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,920 Verse 11, and he gave some apostles and some prophets, 859 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,720 some evangelists, some pastors and teachers 860 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:26,520 for the perfecting of the saints. 861 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,920 The word for perfecting there is catartizmos. 862 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,120 The word for mending and the word for restore are catartizo. 863 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,120 So these are from the same word. 864 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,720 It's just a different form of the same word. 865 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:45,720 The word for perfecting is maturing, equipping, restoring, 866 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:50,420 growing, furnishing. 867 00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:55,420 Does that sound like they're helping? 868 00:43:55,420 --> 00:43:58,020 Are you with me? 869 00:43:59,020 --> 00:44:04,020 He gave leaders in the church who gave us the word of God 870 00:44:05,020 --> 00:44:08,520 and talking about apostles and prophets. 871 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:13,520 The Bible, the leader takes the revelation of God. 872 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,420 I don't have any special revelation from God 873 00:44:18,420 --> 00:44:19,820 that you don't have. 874 00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:21,120 I got the same Bible you do. 875 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:22,120 Are you with me? 876 00:44:23,020 --> 00:44:27,220 But they take that word and they use the word verse 11 877 00:44:27,220 --> 00:44:30,120 for the perfecting of the saints. 878 00:44:31,220 --> 00:44:32,620 Who does the work of the ministry? 879 00:44:32,620 --> 00:44:34,020 For the work of the ministry. 880 00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:36,320 Is the work of the ministry just the pastor? 881 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:37,820 It's for the saints. 882 00:44:37,820 --> 00:44:38,820 Who are the saints? 883 00:44:39,820 --> 00:44:41,820 Saints mean sanctified one. 884 00:44:41,820 --> 00:44:44,320 If you're saved, you've been sanctified. 885 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,320 If you're saved, you've been set apart. 886 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:47,320 You're not going to hell. 887 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:48,820 You're going to heaven. 888 00:44:49,820 --> 00:44:50,820 Are you with me? 889 00:44:51,820 --> 00:44:52,820 You're not. 890 00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:56,320 If you're saved, you've been sealed by the Holy Spirit. 891 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,820 You're endowed by the Holy Spirit. 892 00:44:58,820 --> 00:44:59,820 You're a saint. 893 00:45:00,820 --> 00:45:03,320 And he says the perfecting of the saints, 894 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,320 the maturing of the saints for the work of ministry, 895 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,320 for the ever fighting in the body of Christ, 896 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,320 that we henceforth, what does it say? 897 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,320 Until we all come to the unity of the faith, 898 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,320 knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, 899 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,320 under the measure of the stature, where am I at? 900 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,320 I'm just quoting. 901 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,820 Measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, verse 14, 902 00:45:20,820 --> 00:45:23,320 that we henceforth be no more children, 903 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,820 tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine 904 00:45:26,820 --> 00:45:29,320 by the slate of men and cutting craftiness, 905 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,820 whereby they lie and wait to deceive. 906 00:45:31,820 --> 00:45:34,320 One of the marks of an immature, 907 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,320 one of the marks of an immature believer 908 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,320 is that they're blown about. 909 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,320 They don't know what the Bible says. 910 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,820 There's false teachers that are giving them lies 911 00:45:42,820 --> 00:45:44,320 and they're going back and forth 912 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,320 and believing this person and that person. 913 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,320 And it's like, you don't need to be gullible. 914 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:50,820 You need to be grown up into the measure 915 00:45:50,820 --> 00:45:52,320 of the stature of the fullness of Christ. 916 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,320 He says, you don't need to be like that. 917 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,320 The perfecting is for, verse 15, 918 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,320 speaking the truth in, okay, I messed you up here. 919 00:46:06,820 --> 00:46:10,320 Verse 15, what does a mature ministry look like? 920 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,320 What does a spiritually mature, 921 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,320 someone who's perfected for the work of the ministry, 922 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:15,320 what does that look like? 923 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,320 Verse 15, but speaking the truth in love 924 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,320 may grow up into him in all things, 925 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,820 who is the head, even Christ. 926 00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:27,320 The point of the sermon is this, 927 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:31,820 that God wants us to speak the truth boldly. 928 00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:34,820 Do you get the theme? 929 00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:36,820 Do you get the theme of the sermon? 930 00:46:36,820 --> 00:46:37,820 Okay. 931 00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:41,820 If we're gonna be, if we're gonna stay true to God 932 00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:43,820 in a world that's far from him, 933 00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:45,820 we gotta know what he said 934 00:46:46,820 --> 00:46:51,820 and then we've gotta have the Holy Spirit filling us 935 00:46:51,820 --> 00:46:54,820 and equipping us as we're in the Word of God and know it 936 00:46:54,820 --> 00:46:57,820 and he's changing us from the inside out. 937 00:46:57,820 --> 00:47:02,820 As that happens, there's gonna be times with lost people 938 00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:04,820 where we're gonna have to speak truth to lost people 939 00:47:04,820 --> 00:47:06,320 that they don't wanna hear. 940 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,820 If you can't get them lost, then they can't get saved. 941 00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:13,320 If they don't believe they're sinners, 942 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:14,820 what do I need to be saved from? 943 00:47:15,820 --> 00:47:16,820 Are you guys with me? 944 00:47:17,820 --> 00:47:22,320 So if you're gonna be used by God and be effective for God 945 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,320 and stay true to God and someone who's been saved, 946 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,820 you have to be able to look at a person that doesn't know Jesus 947 00:47:28,820 --> 00:47:33,820 and say, God loves you, but you're his enemy 948 00:47:33,820 --> 00:47:36,820 because God loves his enemies. 949 00:47:36,820 --> 00:47:38,820 Your sin has made you an enemy of God. 950 00:47:42,820 --> 00:47:44,820 We've all fallen short of the glory of God. 951 00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:47,820 You have been weighed and found wanting, right? 952 00:47:47,820 --> 00:47:49,820 So you have to do that with lost people. 953 00:47:49,820 --> 00:47:54,320 But for people who are saved, all of us, 954 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,820 if you don't raise your hand on this, you don't get it. 955 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,320 Do any of us need to ever be confronted about our sin? 956 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:04,820 We all do. 957 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:11,320 One of the dangers of being a pastor, can I just tell you? 958 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:17,320 Is that not people don't always want to confront the pastor 959 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:20,820 when he's done something wrong. 960 00:48:20,820 --> 00:48:22,820 And I can tell you, you guys already know this. 961 00:48:22,820 --> 00:48:24,320 I'm a sinner. 962 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,320 I mess up. 963 00:48:30,820 --> 00:48:32,820 I don't want to get too personal, but there's been times 964 00:48:32,820 --> 00:48:36,320 in the last week that I had to, with tears, 965 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,320 ask my wife to forgive me. 966 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,320 Because I'm a dude. 967 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,820 I'm a husband. 968 00:48:44,820 --> 00:48:45,820 We mess up. 969 00:48:46,820 --> 00:48:48,820 I messed up at church. 970 00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:51,820 You send in the church? 971 00:48:51,820 --> 00:48:52,820 Yeah. 972 00:48:53,820 --> 00:48:55,820 Because I'm here all the time. 973 00:48:58,820 --> 00:49:01,820 It's bound to happen, right? 974 00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:06,820 And my wife confronted me about it in a godly way 975 00:49:06,820 --> 00:49:08,820 with a spirit of meekness. 976 00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:11,820 I know she loves me, right? 977 00:49:11,820 --> 00:49:15,820 And I had to, I had to, I need that. 978 00:49:15,820 --> 00:49:17,820 You need that. 979 00:49:17,820 --> 00:49:19,820 And if we're going to be a healthy church, 980 00:49:19,820 --> 00:49:23,820 we can't crucify each other when we mess up. 981 00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:29,820 We have to speak the truth in love. 982 00:49:29,820 --> 00:49:32,820 We have to speak the truth with a spirit of meekness 983 00:49:32,820 --> 00:49:35,820 considering ourselves, lest we also be tempted 984 00:49:35,820 --> 00:49:37,820 because we mess up. 985 00:49:37,820 --> 00:49:39,820 Does that make sense? 986 00:49:40,820 --> 00:49:45,820 And the whole goal is not to make them feel bad. 987 00:49:45,820 --> 00:49:47,820 The goal is what? 988 00:49:47,820 --> 00:49:49,820 Restoration. 989 00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:54,820 The goal is you're not functioning the way that God's 990 00:49:54,820 --> 00:49:56,820 wanting you to function. 991 00:49:56,820 --> 00:49:58,820 God called you to be a fisher or a man, 992 00:49:58,820 --> 00:50:00,820 and you got a broken net. 993 00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:04,820 Let's help mend the nets to bring you back to full function. 994 00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:10,820 So that you can be the parent and the husband and the wife 995 00:50:10,820 --> 00:50:16,820 and the Christian and the employee, 996 00:50:16,820 --> 00:50:20,820 the Sunday school teacher, the I want a leader, 997 00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:26,820 the D group that you need to be because this world is dying 998 00:50:26,820 --> 00:50:28,820 and going to hell. 999 00:50:28,820 --> 00:50:33,820 And we need every Christian we can functioning for the Lord 1000 00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:38,820 because we have a world that is not staying true to God. 1001 00:50:38,820 --> 00:50:41,820 And there needs to be some people that have a weight to their 1002 00:50:41,820 --> 00:50:46,820 witness that are willing to look people in the eye and say, 1003 00:50:48,820 --> 00:50:50,820 I love you. 1004 00:50:50,820 --> 00:50:52,820 I care about you. 1005 00:50:52,820 --> 00:50:54,820 But this is what the truth of God's word says. 1006 00:50:54,820 --> 00:50:58,820 And I can't be the doctor that ignores your tumor. 1007 00:50:58,820 --> 00:51:05,820 I can't be the person that ignores what's going to kill you. 1008 00:51:05,820 --> 00:51:07,820 You get it? 1009 00:51:07,820 --> 00:51:09,820 We got to speak the truth. 1010 00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:11,820 We got to speak it in love. 1011 00:51:11,820 --> 00:51:14,820 God help us to be that. 1012 00:51:14,820 --> 00:51:29,820 Help us to be that.