WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:06.120 I wanted to let you know that this word was 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.519 stirring in my heart. This word was stirring in my 3 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:17.000 heart recently when we started the fast, and I was 4 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:21.559 speaking to Pastor about it, and so I don't know, 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.839 like I feel like the Lord wanted to release this 6 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.719 word over the body of Jesus Christ. Of course, Pastor 7 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.280 also heard from the Lord that I was the one 8 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:31.839 to deliver it, and so. 9 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:36.439 I don't know. I don't know. 10 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.280 There is an impartation that's taking place today, and I 11 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.799 don't want you to miss it. That's that's what I'm 12 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.439 telling you. I don't want to I don't want you 13 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.079 to take the words lightly because I feel like if 14 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.640 you miss it, then you're going to miss a big 15 00:00:54.679 --> 00:01:00.320 portion and in the future coming years of you could 16 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.240 have got it today. That's what I'm trying to tell you. 17 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:05.799 So don't miss it, Okay, get ready to grab it. 18 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:06.680 Okay. 19 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:13.400 So this this sermon message is called Daniel's weapon. We're 20 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.599 talking about the fast, right, we've been fasting. We are 21 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.439 in fasting. I'm in fasting, A bunch of you are 22 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:26.079 in fasting. But there is a special weapon that Daniel employs. 23 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.200 In the Book of Daniel that I think is not 24 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:38.640 actually spoken of or taught necessarily. And that's what revelation means. 25 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.159 Revelation knowledge of Jesus Christ, right, and the Lord just 26 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:44.799 bringing a new, fresh word and a new understanding to 27 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.280 the Book of Daniel, because a lot of the Old Testament. 28 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.000 Sometimes we end up we end up taking the Old 29 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.359 Testament for granted. We think, because it's in the past, 30 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:55.319 it no longer applies to the New Testament sometimes, you know, 31 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:02.079 and that's that's a fallacy sometimes, right. But but God 32 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:05.680 has granted to us access to this word today. 33 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.879 Amen. So it's the year six hundred and five BC. 34 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.520 Daniel as a teenage boy, he's about thirteen or fourteen 35 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:20.240 years old, and he's taken captive into Babylon. Okay, Daniel, 36 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.560 it says in the Word in chapter one of Daniel. 37 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:32.919 Let's go to verse three. Let's start at verse three. 38 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.960 Then the king instructed Ashpirnaz, the master of the eunuchs, 39 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:38.680 to bring some of the children of Israel and some 40 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.960 of the king's descendants and some of the nobles, young 41 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.039 men in whom there was no blemish, but good looking, 42 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.439 gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge, and quick to understand 43 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.800 who had ability to serve in the king's palace, and 44 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:55.919 whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans. 45 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.080 And the king appointed for them daily provision of the 46 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:02.520 king's delicacies and of the choice wine which he drank, 47 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:05.879 and three years training for them, so that at the 48 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.759 end of their time they might serve before the King. 49 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.439 Now from among the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Michael, 50 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:16.680 and Azariah. 51 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.360 To them the chief Unich gave names. He gave Daniel 52 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:20.879 the name. 53 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:24.520 Built Ti Jazar, and Hananiah Shaderaq, to Michel Mishak, and 54 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:30.159 to Azariah Abennigo. But Daniel purposed in his heart that 55 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.960 he would not defile himself with the portion of the 56 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:37.479 king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore 57 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.039 he requested of the Chief of the eunuchs that he 58 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.280 might not defile himself. 59 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:48.039 Now, God, so he started. The last word started. But Daniel. 60 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.319 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor in the 61 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.000 goodwill of the Chief of the Eunuchs. 62 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:55.520 Pause. 63 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:02.840 Let's pause there. I want you to get this picture. 64 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.639 You're thirteen and fourteen years old, and you know the 65 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:11.400 scriptures it said in verse four that he was wise already. 66 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.479 He had known the scriptures, he had the Torah, he 67 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:18.439 had the prophets. He understood two things from the Old Testament. 68 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.879 He understood that Isaiah had prophesied one hundred and fifty 69 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:26.279 years ago. Well, it would have been at this point. 70 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:28.560 It would have been about eighty something years ago. Eighty 71 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.720 something years ago. Isaiah prophesies that there is coming a 72 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.160 king named Cyrus, who is to deliver the people of Judea, 73 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.000 which is Israel. Right at this moment, those that are 74 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.839 were taken captive. He is a son of Judah, He's 75 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.079 from the tribe of Judah. So himself being captured that 76 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.720 he prophesied that Tires would come and free them at 77 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.839 some point seventy years down. 78 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.319 The road, because he also knew. 79 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.439 About the prophet Jeremiah saying that their captivity would be 80 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.680 for seventy years. Imagine you're that old, and you know 81 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:09.160 you have a seventy year sentence saying in over your head, what. 82 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:10.360 Do you do? Now? 83 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.319 Do you forsake the Lord because you feel forsaken? Do 84 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:22.079 what Daniel does, which he says that he purposed within 85 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:28.399 himself verse eight again, but Daniel purposed in his heart 86 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.959 that he would not defile himself with the portion of 87 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:32.120 the king's delicacies. 88 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:40.079 What do you do at that point in time? Right, 89 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:41.680 It says. 90 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.040 That the reason why in the Old Testament, the reason 91 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.439 why they even went into captivity. It says that the 92 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.639 remnant would not escape this captivity, that even they would 93 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.000 be punished because they were drawn away by an. 94 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.319 Evil king named Vanessa. 95 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.360 Manessa even ended up sacrificing his own son and made 96 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:05.480 him pass through the fire. 97 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.600 It says he was wicked. 98 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.279 He built astra poles inside of the courts of the 99 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:18.040 Temple of Solomon, and they did heinous things, heinous acts. 100 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.879 They built and erected all kinds of idols inside of 101 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.519 the temple, and they desecrated the house of the Lord. 102 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:31.040 So he said, not even my remnant would escape. Sounds 103 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.480 sounds like they were in trouble, right, They were being 104 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:40.680 put in a position where Daniel he's like, he's probably 105 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.839 thinking in his head, He's like, I'm thirteen, fourteen years old, 106 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.480 I'm filled with wisdom. I know the Gospel, right, I 107 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.839 know the Torah, I know the prophets. And then all 108 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.399 of the sudden, at once, He's like, Okay, this is 109 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:57.199 that fulfillment of time. Now I got seven years to go. 110 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:03.560 What do I do? Purposes that he will not defile himself. Now, 111 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:05.680 I want you to look at this. This is where 112 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:12.560 he begins as fast. Right in verse seventeen. Let's go 113 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.560 to verse seventeen. As for these young men, God gave 114 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.720 them knowledge and skill in literature and all wisdom, and 115 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:22.160 Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. Now, at 116 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:24.040 the end of the days, when the king had said 117 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.040 that they should be brought in, the chief of the 118 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.959 eunuchs brought them in before Nebuconezzer. Then the king interviewed them, 119 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.879 and among them all, among them all, none was found 120 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.959 like Daniel, Hannonaiah, Michel Azariah. Therefore they served before the king, 121 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.000 and in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which 122 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.480 the King examined them, he found them ten times better 123 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:51.240 than all the magicians astrologers who were in all his realm. 124 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:56.160 Thus Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus. 125 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:05.120 This is something that I found out, that means his 126 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:08.920 fast began at the beginning of Nebukanezer and ended at 127 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:12.720 the first year of King Cyrus. He fasted seventy years. 128 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:26.040 That takes faithfulness. He chose faithfulness that resulted. 129 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.360 In him in him leading. 130 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.480 A life that said, I have the favor of God 131 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:37.399 in my life, and therefore the king also recognizes the 132 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.200 favor that he has on me, and so he has 133 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.879 favor before the king. And it says that these men 134 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:48.519 served the king continually in the word. In other translations, 135 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.240 it says that they served before the king continually all 136 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.519 the time. This is the same kingdom, mind you. That 137 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.320 also the same kingdom that also made the law that 138 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.960 said that not even the queen could stand before the 139 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:09.480 king lest she be what killed for walking into his 140 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:15.120 presence without being first called. That's the type of favor 141 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.000 that God created. 142 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:22.440 For these four men. That's favor outwardly. 143 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.519 This king saw something amazing in these four young men, 144 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.639 because he said that not only were they beautiful, they 145 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.559 also saw wisdom in them, and that they had understanding 146 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:38.320 and were quick to learn. There was something outwardly recognizable 147 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.720 and different among all of the children who. 148 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:42.480 They took captive. 149 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.559 Because see, this king didn't just want the wealth of 150 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.879 this nation Israel, nor the gold out of the temple, 151 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.919 nor to destroy it, nor to make them serve him. 152 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.480 He also wanted. 153 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:00.759 The best of the best for himself, and he found 154 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:04.399 that in the wisdom of God through these young men. 155 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:13.360 He said, whatever you got, I need. And so he 156 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.759 thinks he's calling them in because they're special. But guess what, 157 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:22.759 God sent them there because it was his calling. In 158 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:27.639 Seven Mountain Theology, we're taught that we understand that everything 159 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.879 has a purpose, like there's the mountain of government, right 160 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.759 in this case, Daniel was sent to the mountain of 161 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.639 governance over Babylon that he would be the one who 162 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.919 influences and oversees all the kings that were coming after 163 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:47.080 nebukan Nezzer and Nebukanezzer all the way until King Cyrus. 164 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:52.679 See the writer Josephis actually tells us what that that 165 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:57.480 he believes that Daniel directly spoke with King Cyrus upon 166 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.559 his arrival, when he spoke to him and told him. 167 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:04.799 You have been prophesied over by Isaiah one hundred and 168 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:08.519 fifty years ago that you would come and that you 169 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:13.639 would free Jerusalem. Now is your opportunity to walk in 170 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:16.799 the manner that the Lord has already carved out for you. 171 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.840 It's your choice as a king to make the decision 172 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.600 that you need to make. That is what the body 173 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.720 of Jesus Christ should be doing continually before the leaders 174 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:32.679 of the nations, that we should tell them right now 175 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:35.519 there is a fullness of time that has come and 176 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.399 you have a decision to make, whether it is good 177 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:39.440 or evil. 178 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.759 Choose for yourself. But God has declared it over your life. 179 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.960 Where is the people of God in this time to 180 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:50.679 be able to speak to the leaders of the nations. 181 00:11:50.399 --> 00:12:00.360 In the world. So he has to come station. 182 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:09.399 And suddenly Ezra writes, another prophet, another leader of Israel writes, 183 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:16.200 and he says, thus says King Cyrus, that he is 184 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:21.679 going to rebuild the temple of God, and he is 185 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:26.360 the only God, and he will make him his dwelling in. 186 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:32.120 Not Babylon, Jerusalem. 187 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.360 And so he hands them the papers, and then Ezra 188 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.080 and Nehemiah go to build. 189 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:39.840 Who stays behind. 190 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.279 The one who had the call originally that he would 191 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:48.240 be sent to a nation and to the mountain of government. 192 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.919 Daniel stayed behind to make sure that he oversaw the 193 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:58.840 kings of Babylon because they were still most likely I 194 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.120 believe some people say he might have been too old 195 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.480 to make the trek but I believe that that was 196 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:10.639 his call, so he remains. And then in chapter ten 197 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:14.519 he writes about the third year now of King Cyrus. 198 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.759 So between the first year of King Cyrus and the 199 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:20.960 third year of King Cyrus, I believe it says that 200 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:25.200 he continued his fast, but then he stopped right, So 201 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.559 he stops his fast for about two years. But in 202 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:35.200 chapter ten he does something interesting. He reignites the fast. 203 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:42.120 He starts it again, and then war breaks out in 204 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:49.279 the heavens because he is behind the lines of another 205 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.879 principality in Babylon. 206 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:53.799 Now he needs. 207 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.919 Gabriel to deliver the message. Gabriel shows up twenty one 208 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:02.039 days later. He tells him, Oh, Daniel, you're so highly esteemed. 209 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:08.240 He has favor before God. Remember this, you are highly esteemed. 210 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.159 I heard you from day one, but the Prince of 211 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:16.759 Persia withheld me for these days. And so then he said, 212 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:24.080 so Michael came to wrestle with the Prince of Persia 213 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:27.639 so that I could deliver to you the message. This 214 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:35.200 man's prayer, through his unwavering faith and dedication to the Lord, 215 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:39.480 he did not stop believing all the way until then 216 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.000 he said, I'm gonna reignite the thing that I know 217 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:44.799 that gets me all of these things answered, because his 218 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.799 vision is disturbing me, and I need to pray and 219 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.960 fast so that I know that I'm moving heaven and 220 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.879 earth on this earth, right here, right now, on earth, 221 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.720 as it is in heaven. So then he says, now, Daniel, 222 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:02.240 I must leave you, because I'm going to go and 223 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:08.919 take down what Prince of Persia, because the Prince of 224 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:16.279 Greece must surely come. He set in motion, through his 225 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:21.519 fasting and his praying the events that would eventually lead 226 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.120 to Xerxes and all of the other kings that were 227 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:29.440 coming after, including Alexander the Great, and then all of 228 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:33.919 what needed to take place till the Roman Empire shows 229 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:41.039 up on that place and thus brings what the time 230 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.240 of what the four hundred years of silence, and then 231 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:53.039 all of the sudden, the Spirit of Elijah proceeds in 232 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:54.240 fore runs. 233 00:15:55.519 --> 00:16:03.639 The Messiah. There's a specific call. 234 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.960 And a reason for every single person in the body 235 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.159 of Jesus Christ, and you don't even yet know, like. 236 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:13.519 This is just the iceberg. 237 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.240 You're at the tip of the iceberg for your own life. 238 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:23.240 You don't know the events that are going to lead 239 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.600 up into the future or the million soul billion soul 240 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.200 harvests that we need to have in our nation to 241 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:40.279 bring about preparing the way of the Lord. Daniel gives 242 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.559 us an early picture of the church and the position 243 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:47.679 that it should be taking. Daniel gives us a great 244 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:53.840 depiction of what we are to be like. Even to 245 00:16:53.960 --> 00:17:01.039 this day. You think Daniel's weapon is fasting. Some of 246 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:10.920 you perceived that Daniel's weapon is abstaining from things right now. 247 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:13.720 Some of you may think that Daniel's weapon may be prayer. 248 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.440 But there's something else that God wants to give us, 249 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.440 and we're gonna go into that. Outwardly, it looks like 250 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.279 he has a life of consecration. Outwardly, it looks like 251 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.119 he has a life of chastisement. Outwardly, it looks like 252 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:28.559 he has a life of sacrifice. 253 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:36.000 He just gave up all this bomb food, all these pastries, 254 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:42.480 all this sugar, the best wine. 255 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.279 And you know it was the best. 256 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.680 Nebuknezzar was at the apex of Neo Babylonion. 257 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:49.720 He was at the apex. 258 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.200 This man would have You wouldn't have made it long 259 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.000 or far had you brought bad food into the court, 260 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:01.519 or bad wine or bad anything into that court, you 261 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:04.880 wouldn't have made it far. Okay, So he gave up 262 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:06.880 the best of the best for something better. 263 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:09.400 And then the manner. 264 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.160 Of which he did it is what God wants us 265 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:19.279 to see, Okay, a life. 266 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:24.680 Of rest. 267 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.440 Through the Holy Spirit. We are actually able to walk 268 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:33.920 in obedience to God. We're able to do the works 269 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.960 of God through it. But what are the works of God? 270 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.920 Jesus painted it to us like this, They said, what 271 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:41.839 are the works of God? 272 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.559 That we may work? The works of God? Right? 273 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.119 He said, here's the work of God that you would 274 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:55.759 believe in, the one whom he sent. How how do 275 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:00.920 we go from working? But then it's just all about belief, right, 276 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.039 But there's a manner that God is unlocking to us 277 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:09.319 that he wants us to do that in that is beyond. 278 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:13.279 What we're We're always about work. We're always about toil. 279 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:17.359 We're always about moving and grooving, trying to get the 280 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.720 next dollar. We're trying to get this, we're trying to 281 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.519 get to that. We're trying to get the next item 282 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.799 that we want on our checklist, you know, And that's 283 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.680 you know what, that's that's in this world? We have needs, right, 284 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.839 But there's a manner in which God is opening up 285 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.160 to us that we should proceed moving forward in those 286 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.440 areas of influence in life that he wants us to do. 287 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.799 Okay, mm hmm. 288 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:50.359 Daniel partners with the call of God in his life. 289 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.960 This is what yields him the results that he gets. Okay, 290 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.480 the results are of course powerful, as I've already expressed 291 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.759 to you right that He's moving heaven and earth in 292 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.279 order to make God's will come to pass in that 293 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.119 nation and for the nation of Israel. 294 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.119 Right m hm. 295 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:14.720 He has an unwavering love of God. I pay attention 296 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.640 to this. He has an unwavering love of God, and 297 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:25.200 he desires to be intimate with the Father and be 298 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:32.400 brought and be brought into God's rest that God promises 299 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:38.759 to David, the writer of Hebrews, opens this up. 300 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:42.160 And this is what God again is desiring that we 301 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:42.839 should have today. 302 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:46.480 Because Jesus said, come to me, all you who are 303 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:50.400 what heavy laden, take my yoke upon you. 304 00:20:51.839 --> 00:21:01.880 Right, My burden is what light. Okay, let's go to 305 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:08.559 verse eight and go from there. 306 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:12.640 I'm gonna just give you the meat of this one. 307 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:16.480 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not 308 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:21.039 afterwards have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a 309 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.000 rest for the people of God. That's you and me 310 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:30.039 in Jesus Christ. For he who has entered his rest 311 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.960 has himself also ceased from his work, as God did 312 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:34.319 from his. 313 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:36.880 Let us therefore be diligent. 314 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:47.319 This word diligent means spidazzo, meaning to labor. We're gonna labor, okay, 315 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:53.160 We're laboring to enter into rest lest anyone fall according 316 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.920 to the same example of what disobedience for the Word 317 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.000 of God is living in powerful and sharper than any 318 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:01.200 two edged sword, peers even to the division of the 319 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.000 soul in the spirit and the joints in the marrow, 320 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.000 and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of 321 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:09.920 what the heart. And there is no creature hidden from 322 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.319 his sight, but all things are naked and open to 323 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:21.519 the eyes of Him, to whom we must give account 324 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:26.440 if we are to work at all or endeavor for 325 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:31.279 anything pertaining to holiness. In this season, it's going to 326 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:35.599 be to labor to enter into his rest. God is 327 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:40.480 bringing reformation to the church. God is bringing a new 328 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:45.720 discovery in his word to us right now, right sacrifice. 329 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:47.519 He did not ask for from the new bride. 330 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.079 Why, because the fullness of the sacrifice has already been 331 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:52.200 made in Jesus Christ. 332 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.079 Therefore, what is there left to do? For our great 333 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:58.960 high priest. 334 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.440 Said that after he had made the sacrifice, that he 335 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:06.519 walks in to what the throne, and he sits him 336 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:07.279 down at the. 337 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:09.160 Right hand of what the Father. 338 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:11.960 In the scriptures, we are told that we are to 339 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.160 what that we are actually what seated in heavenly places 340 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:20.240 in Christ Jesus. That sounds great if I express that 341 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:25.400 to you, But let me tell you something about that verse. See, 342 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:31.240 priests would have to sacrifice morning and evening, and the 343 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:34.759 fire could never go out once it was lit on 344 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.920 the altar and in the temple or on the lampstand. 345 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:43.759 It had to perpetually be fed all the time. But 346 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:50.000 Jesus made sacrifice once and for all, and has sat 347 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:56.680 down in the only seat available inside of the temple. 348 00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:59.559 It is the mercy seat. 349 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:04.680 When you are seated in heavenly places, you're actually seated 350 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.720 in heavenly places. In the place that John saw the 351 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:13.000 same lamb that was slain, and Moses saw the vision 352 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:16.279 of what the tabernacle would look like, he saw the 353 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:19.000 same exact seats and said, oh wow. 354 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:21.039 And John goes, oh wow. 355 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:24.839 The Lamb of God, who was slain before the foundations 356 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:29.759 of the earth, is now seated right here on this throne, 357 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:34.720 and all the elders are bowing around him. And he 358 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:38.480 says to us, the Holy Spirit expresses to us, you 359 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:42.319 are seated in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus. 360 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:45.039 And there's only one place where he sits. 361 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:50.559 Therefore, it says in Hebrews, now we are able to 362 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:55.960 come to the throne of Grace boldly. So we make 363 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.240 our decrease from heaven, and we're seated in heavenly place. 364 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:10.680 And that that is where Daniel was living from. 365 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:22.279 Daniel's weapon was was rest in God. One thing David said, 366 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:23.519 I have desired. 367 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:29.279 One thing I've asked for that I would remain in 368 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:31.839 the presence of my God forever. 369 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.920 He knew this, and so. 370 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.039 When Daniel goes into Babylon, one thing I asked for 371 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.240 one thing I desire that I would be always in 372 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:48.559 your presence. And the only key, the key to rest, 373 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:52.079 and the only key that is found and the only 374 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:56.119 door that is found for Daniel was to walk through 375 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:06.599 the door of obedience. He didn't it says in the 376 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:13.200 Word that sacrifices he didn't ask for, and obedience is 377 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:18.240 greater than what sacrifice. He didn't ask Daniel to give 378 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:24.119 those up. He asked them to just follow him, no 379 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.119 matter where you go, no matter where you were going. 380 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:31.279 Mm hmm. 381 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:35.119 How do we know this? How can we make this argument? 382 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:40.440 How can we make this argument? Zach It says in 383 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:43.559 the Word, Paul tells us expressedly that we should make 384 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:47.839 our bodies a living sacrifice wholly and pleasing to God. 385 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:51.680 Did he not? So? Can two things be true in 386 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:52.440 the Word of God? 387 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:00.200 Certainly, even though they seemingly are opposites. I believe that yes, 388 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:05.000 it can, because we know that Christ has fulfilled the 389 00:27:05.079 --> 00:27:06.640 perfect sacrifice already. 390 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.119 Right, we no longer have to make sacrifices. Right, Okay? 391 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.559 So can it also be true that we can make 392 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:18.279 a sacrifice of praise to God, much like David did 393 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.359 when he brings the Arc of the Covenant into Jerusalem 394 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:26.279 and it rests inside the tabernacle of David. Yes, Yes, 395 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:31.319 two things appear again to be opposite, but they are 396 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:40.039 all equally. Yes, and amen, we get to also make 397 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.880 sacrifices of praise. We get to we don't got to. 398 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:49.720 It used to be, we got to. Now we get to. Okay, 399 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:52.559 we don't do it from a place of needing to, 400 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:57.160 but getting to. And we no longer sacrifice because we 401 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:00.279