 Because Jesus, my heart's alive. Adventure, get ready to experience thrills, laughter and excitement at the Pace Family Fest. Step right up and join us on the evenings of November 3rd, 4th and 5th for a spectacular family-oriented fair atmosphere that will leave you with memories to last a lifetime. From heart-pounding fair rides to classic fair food, we've got something for everyone. And for the little ones, we've prepared a wonderland of excitement with blow-up slides, interactive games, and other attractions designed just for kids. We've got toe-tapping live music that will have you dancing the night away. And for those seeking a true thrill, you won't want to miss the incredible bullriding action and the awe-inspiring Paul Bunyan Lumberjack show, where you'll see amazing feats of skill that will create memories for you and your children. And don't forget to capture those unforgettable moments. We've set up fun photo opportunities throughout the festival so you can snap the perfect family picture to cherish forever. So mark your calendars for November 3rd, 4th and 5th, and bring your whole family to Pace Family Fest, where the fun never ends. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. See you there. Adventure, get ready to experience laughter and excitement at the Pace Family Fest. Step right up and join us on the evenings of November 3rd, 4th and 5th for a spectacular family-oriented fair atmosphere that will leave you with memories to last a lifetime. From heart-pounding fair rides to classic fair food, we've got something for everyone. And for the little ones, we've prepared a wonderland of excitement with blow-up slides, interactive games, and other attractions designed just for kids. We've got toe-tapping live music that will have you dancing the night away. And for those seeking a true thrill, you won't want to miss the incredible bullriding action and the awe-inspiring Paul Bunyan Lumberjack show, where you'll see amazing feats of skill that will create memories for you and your children. And don't forget to capture those unforgettable moments. We've set up fun photo opportunities throughout the festival so you can snap the perfect family picture to cherish forever. So mark your calendars for November 3rd, 4th and 5th and bring your whole family to Pace Family Fest, where the fun never ends. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. See you there. Hello everyone and welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. We're glad that you've joined us today. I have been talking to you over the past few weeks about the Rapture Ready Indicators, the setup for the take-up. And we described about three or four things the last time we were together in this briefing concerning the signs that are showing us that we're Rapture Ready. One is the vacuum of leadership that we talked to you about. Two is the global system that's taking place with the gathering of the UN and the World Economic Forum and other entities and elites across the globe to make one government, one structure, that certainly will be used by the Antichrist. And then we also talked to you about the absolute power that is being taken by the governments of this world instead of the Almighty God. And now on the horizon, we're watching as the potential climate lockdowns, much like the pandemic. Now it's about the climate and all that is taking place in the environment that will potentially be something used for locking down society, much like the pandemic. Today, I want to share with you, and this is something that you're hearing a lot about in the news right now, and that is the artificial intelligence deception, AI, and how that is reaching the ability to have the intelligence of humans, according to the article. And there is one that is out there now that has literally put together the AI Jesus that you can consult with for your problems, your situations, so you can feed it into the AI and it will return back to you what AI says Jesus would say. Well, I don't have to look to AI, I can take the Bible and find out very clearly what it's all about. And many people are dealing with the issues and talking about the issues of AI on the horizon, some in just the past 24 hours that I was watching a program that was describing AI, I can assure you that is far more advanced than what the average human being is really understanding. It is reaching to such a level of human reasoning and human calculations that are far beyond the human's ability to do and to process. In the coming weeks from now, you're gonna see more and more advertisement on a brand new movie coming out, all designed around AI and the taking over of the world, but what was intriguing to me was the title. It is called The Creator. My friends, we are seeing the actual conflagration that is coming together between God and man's human ability and knowledge in AI that is wanting to take over and much like Lucifer in the beginning, rising and saying, I will ascend the throne, I will take over, I will be seated in that position where God is. And I'm telling you, my friends, there is still a sovereign God in heaven who has already outlined for this world the end and what it's going to be. I wanna take you to the book of Luke very quickly, where Luke says in Luke 21 and 8, take heed that you be not deceived. This is what AI is bringing upon our society. And while there may be good things that comes out of it, I can assure you that the Antichrist will certainly tap into the power of AI globally and all the way down to individuals like you and me. The recent unveiling of the chat GPT is absolutely stunning and it is now has the ability to write the thesis and whatever that it may be for a sermon that was delivered in churches. It is being consulted and information is being asked of chat GPT and others just like it concerning world issues and world peace about countries and alignments and borders and so forth. And AI is very much involved in the decision-making process in our world today in every way, both economically and our banking system, financially, of course, all the way down to your personal bank accounts globally in the interest of the elites, global elites that are trying to decide what to do with society, with the climate change that's going on, every aspect of our life is being fed into AI for these decisions. That's the reason why Jesus said in Luke 21 and 8, take heed that you be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near, go ye not therefore after them. According to the book of 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 13, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived. According to Matthew 24, 11 and 12, and many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. And because iniquity, the very intense of the heart of man, iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Matthew 24, 24 says this too, for there shall rise false Christ, false anointings and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in so much if it were possible that it should deceive the very elect. My friends, we are on the edge of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I showed you from the articles today and there's so many, I don't have time to show you them all, dealing with AI, with artificial intelligence, I wanna let you know that you need to bypass the artificial intelligence and go straight to divine intelligence. God and the mind of God can be known through the word of God and direct your path according to the power of the Holy Spirit. Today's the day to lift up your eyes towards God and recognize that our redemption is drawing nigh. The signs are all around us for a rapture-ready group of people called the bride of Christ. Are you ready? If you're not, today's the day of salvation. Give your life to Jesus Christ and be ready because I believe Jesus Christ is coming soon. Amen, hallelujah. Do you believe that? Do you believe this could be the day? Come on, let's lift it. Come in here expecting and bringing him glory, honor, and praise today. Amen. Amen. I want you to let's believe God together for all of the needs that are on this prayer list. They're counting on your prayers. Some that are not on this list, I wanna mention to you very quickly this morning, I want you to be sure to add to this list. Jan Lowry on your prayer as well as Summer Johnson who is in the hospital, hopefully gonna be out tomorrow. I know God is able to touch her body and give her strength and healing. I want you to be sure to be praying for Will's grandmother who went to the hospital. She's in the hospital ICU with a possible stroke and heart attack. I want you to make sure that you're lifting her up. Her name is Betty Wiggins. She may be watching right now. Sister Betty, we want you to know we're praying for you. Believe in God for you and everyone that is watching as well online that needs a miracle. How many of you know at one time in your life or another the Lord has done a healing in your life? Let me see your hand. Look at all those hands right there. Now all you gotta do is just put that together with faith because how many of you recognize, watch this, how many of you recognize you're not the healer? I lost a few hands. A few moments ago you said you got a healing from the Lord. How many of you know you're not the healer? Now throw that other hand up in the air right now and let's ask God to heal somebody and let's believe that he can and that he will. Father, in the name of Jesus, for names that we've listed here this morning and the host of people that are watching online, we believe that you're the healer, the same yesterday, today and forever. Lord, send your healing power, your word, to wherever people are watching in this auditorium this morning. Let the anointing of God break every yoke and set captive people free. We believe you to walk through the halls of the hospitals and inside of the homes where people are watching and let the delivering power of God be made real right where they are. We give you glory right now. We don't have to wait for it. You're the God who promised it. You're the same yesterday, today and forever and we thank God for it. In Jesus' name, everybody believes that Shad a great big amen. We have faith about 10 foot, 13 foot tall in here this morning. Tell them I'm glad you're here. Glad you're here. You'd be seated in the presence of the Lord. Praise God. What a wonderful atmosphere of God's presence. I've learned after COVID, it don't take everybody, just somebody who wants to be here. It's pretty obvious to me the wanna be here crowd is here this morning. Amen. I want us to take an opportunity. We've been doing this since the beginning of the year and I'm loving every minute of it. I had the privilege of being able to deliver one of the Bibles to one of our veterans a few days ago and do his home for the Jack Lloyd. They're watching this morning and someone here this morning is gonna get a Bible. So wherever that is, let's get the Bible and get it where it's going. You're looking under your seat, whatever. I do believe that right over to my left is where it's at. Just go ahead and deliver it to her right now. There it is, God bless you. Thank you so much. Praise God, come on, give God praise for that. Let me tell you, I know this is kind of a little, maybe this is a little senior church way of doing handing out the Bible, but for those of you that are looking for a Bible, you don't have a Bible, pray. I'm thrilled to give out Bibles. I'm thrilled that we've put Bibles in Kenya and all around the world, as a matter of fact. There's places right now you have no idea that we've already planted Bibles, amen? Well, we welcome all of you for that our first-time guests with us this morning. We're so glad to have you join us. If you are a first-time guest, just slip your hand up real quick. We wanna acknowledge you, praise God. Those of you that are watching online, we are so glad that you're joining us as well. Come on, give all of our online guests a wonderful round of applause. I'm gonna do a shout-out this morning to Alex, who is Faze and Son-in-law. I'm gonna get it out in a minute. And their daughter is here this morning with their grandchild up from Fort Lauderdale. Her husband, Alex, is on the road going to Alaska. He is out-processing from the United States Military Weapon Branch Army. He's leaving out of the Army, going into civilian life, but they've been watching in Fort Lauderdale online every week. Alex, we're praying for you, your travels, and I know that God is gonna touch their life. Come on, give God praise for them. And we're glad that all of you are here. If you're a first-time guest, I want you to make sure that you, when you're exiting out of the building on the left-hand side, there is Guest Central that is available there for all of our first-time guests. We've got a special gift for you, and those of you that are watching online, we want to hear from where you're watching from. It's always a blessing to be able to know where people are watching from around the world. And many of our regular folks that are watching in the Philippines this morning, isn't an amazing fulfillment of Bible prophecy that we are here, and the gospel is going around the world simultaneously. Come on, give God praise for that. That's good. That's a good thing, amen. I want to mention to you very quickly, all of those that are in time, in time, in touch seniors, please know, in time seniors, in touch seniors, whatever. Your lunch this week that you normally would have has been postponed, so make sure that you take note of that. If you do show up here on Tuesday for lunch, bring a chicken leg with you, and I'll be joining you. Also want to mention to you all the pace young adults, don't forget after service today, next Sunday I should say, it's pretty obvious that Pastor T's not here, he would do this right. After Sunday service, next week all the pace young adults, be sure to be looking for that inside of your announcements and online. You can register online as well. You're going to meet for lunch at Chili's after service next Sunday for a time of fellowship. It'd be a great time. And then you heard a little bit of prophecy files briefing. How many of you have been catching that on Tuesdays? I hope that you have. If you haven't, go online, share it out. We're seeing a whole lot more folks that are joining us for prophecy file briefing, just bringing you up to date on what's taking place in our world as it relates to the imminent return of Jesus Christ. I can tell you what I've spoke about on this one this morning about AI and its advancement and how it's going to affect the church in the days that are ahead. If I told you, I told my wife last night, it's dangerous for me to be studying in that area before I go to sleep on Saturday night. As a matter of fact, I didn't get no sleep. So I'm just, I'm ready. I'm ready to go here this morning. But there are so many things that are happening in our world that are pointing to war, the return of Jesus. It's shocking to me how that people can look past it or not even address it. I had a person call me this past week and said, pastor, the only way I know about Bible prophecy, our pastor won't deal with it at all. He won't teach you on the book of Revelation. And I'm not trying to slam anybody, but I'm just telling you, if you don't know about what is two thirds of your Bible in Bible prophecy, then what are you reading all the time? I mean, there's only so many times you can read Jesus wept. You gotta come up out of that and read some melds, right? Judas hung himself. All right, let's move along, right? That's all in the Bible. For all of you that don't know, read your Bible. I'm just telling you that it is critical. And I want you to be praying. I want you to be believing for the upcoming prophecy files conference that's coming up in September. The information is available for you. There is registration that is now available. There's a $10 registration for lunch that will be provided for you. Sandwich, all that's going on there so that you won't have to leave the campus. We'll have it all right here. And the conference itself, we are offering it free. We will receive offerings during the conference on Saturday and Sunday. And I will just tell you, it will be one that you will not want to miss. I want you to help us get the word out. There'll be a mail out coming but it's already on social media, it's on our website. Just grab it and post it up and let folks know about this upcoming prophecy conference. A lot of things that are taking place this past week, we sat down with staff and went through the calendar between now and the end of the year and we'll be getting that out to you in the coming weeks so you can be aware and make plans to be with us. A number of announcements that are there that you can just take a look at and we appreciate you doing that. Before we receive this offering this morning, I mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago how important that it was that if you were able and God was blessing your life that you could give over and above, we have seen a number of different items of great expense that has been hit on the campus, both here and over at the daycare by lightning and we are now tracking last Wednesday night. I didn't have any idea about it this past Wednesday night after the service was over, they came and told me that apparently the air conditioning system up on the roof over the youth center over at night, student ministries got hit and took it out in the middle of service. I don't know what the status of it is right now but that's one of many. So I'm just saying if you are inclined, the Lord lays it upon your heart to give over and above, let the Lord bless your life in doing that and we're gonna receive that offering in just a moment but I've got two prayer needs that I wanna bring to your attention. I don't often do this but I need to solicit your prayers on two things for this coming week. Are you ready? Two things, one, we are, we've had since December and our wonderful team here and leaders and board members that have been working diligently to help it come to pass is brand new buildings and classrooms that are over at the daycare that we've had on campus since December. They've been working through the process of getting all the permitting and all that's going on and we've had a real lock up down unfortunately at the county on that and I need you to be praying that this week, whatever happens, the Holy Ghost will walk right in those offices wherever that's needed, take that paper by the hand and release it. We need to get those classrooms up and running before school starts and we need them right now. So I need you to be praying about that. The second thing I need you to be praying about, well that also includes a permit back here for our new generator. Well a few weeks ago when you were in the sanctuary and I had to preach with a bullhorn, first of all you know that I'm not gonna stop preaching even if I don't have a bullhorn if in the middle of the service like that and the fact that it was drowning frogs and rain outside, you weren't leaving so it was perfect, it was a captive audience, I love that. The only other place I've preached like that has been in some prison somewhere where nobody could leave so you're in good shape right there. But we have a generator that took us a year to be able to get on campus and your regular tithe and offering paid for that, about $63,000 that we needed in a 150K generator that in three seconds that transfers which back there can flip that over and we could run this building and keep run on moving, we need it for disaster purposes, all kinds of stuff. And so it's sitting there. This past week they were able to get all the gas lines hooked up and that permit is sitting down at the county. God bless our county. We need that released and we need it this week. So will you pray with me about those two things? I said to, I need to add one more to you. Y'all all right out there, you gonna help me this week? I'm asking you to help me because this coming Thursday you will know that it's been now two and a half years, since we've been able to have the use of the 6,000 building our classrooms upstairs. No activity going on up there. That breaks my heart. We need the facilities and our wonderful contractors and the leadership of the Atchison's and Phoenix Coating, they have done an incredible job for us in getting everything up to the place where we needed. The problem comes in, as you well know, and I've been trying to keep you informed on this, is that our insurance company has not yet paid the full amount to help. Your regular ties and offerings in many cases is what's kept things moving, along with the gracious acts of Phoenix Coating to get it to the place where we've had to stop. We can't do anything else. We can't put flooring down. We can't paint up there. We can't do anything until after this coming Thursday, my prayer is, this is the prayer knee. Thursday, myself, Brother Atchison, and our attorney, the church's attorney, Mr. Ed Fleming, will go into mediation this coming Thursday. That mediation, I don't know how long it will last, but I'm supposed to be there about 7.30 in the morning, and it will be, I pray, until we get done. The leaders of the insurance company that we've been paying insurance to now for years will be flying from Chicago, as I understand it, to meet with us here in Pensacola. My prayer is, is that we can get this thing settled, that they will stroke the check that we've been paying for for so long so we can complete the project and get those classrooms back open. In the future, I'm expecting to open a school here, a Christian school, and we need help. We need it right now. Amen? So I need you to be praying with me about that this week. You'll understand more in just a few moments whenever I preach this message to you, because I'm going to be in there. I know all the, on the other side of the table, the insurance company representatives and leaders will be there, but I'm going to have to sit in the room. Only those that are allowed to be in the room, I'm going to be there. Our attorney is going to be there. Brother Atchison representing the company is going to be there. I'm going to tell you who else is going to be there. I can tell you he's able to mediate this thing better than we can. Amen? So let's believe God. I need your prayers this week that God would give us grace and we walk humbly before him and we ask him to help us. Amen? So let's receive this morning's tithe and offering. Are you glad to be able to give? Amen. That was the poorest. Amen. I've heard a long time. Oh, I like for our ushers. I mean, our robber, I mean, our ushers to come. I'm just kidding. We're not taking an offering. We're receiving the gladness of the blessings of the Lord upon your heart. How many of you are glad to be a giver in the kingdom of God? I want you to get ready to give our ushers are standing by just stand by fellas. We're just hold tight. We'll hold tight. I'm getting all the card ahead of the horse. Your faithfulness in giving is what causes this ministry to continue during the summertime. It's often very, very difficult. And it is. But I'm going to tell you this church is a giving church. And I want to boast in your faithfulness in giving. And in doing so today, you've got the opportunity. Is it on over there? You go. You can scan the QR code. It will take you directly to the portal so that you can give or all the other ways that you can do that. The buckets will be available in the back of the auditorium as you're leaving. And I pray that God will bless your life. Father, in the name of Jesus, well, we thank you for the abundant blessings of God that makes rich and adds no sorrow. Today, mighty God, as we take the privilege of being able to show you where our heart is at, I pray that you would just receive this, watch over it, put your hand upon it and do what you did with that small boy's lunch and just multiply it to exceed the need. I thank you now in advance, Lord, because I know that you're the God who is always abundantly supplying your people and touching our lives. And we give you the glory for it today in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody believes it, shout a great big amen. Amen. I'm going to turn them loose, but I just want to acknowledge this this morning because this gift comes to you every week, every week and throughout the middle of the week to prepare for, uh, services and over on my right are affectionately we call him Poo, his name is William Purvis. Today is his 37th birthday. Would you let, would you let Will Purvis know how much you love and appreciate him on his 37th? What a blessing. Happy birthday, sir. Looking good. Some of you might want to bless him and his family. He's the proud owner of three boys. And I'm telling you, everyone of them eat. You know what I'm talking about? So you might want a blessing today and I know that God is going to continue to use him for the glory of God. We appreciate Will, don't we? Amen. I want everybody to stand this morning. Let's enter into worship this morning before this word comes today. I'm starting a brand new series. This brand new series is Faith on Trial. And I believe God's going to speak to our hearts today. Amen. Come on, throw those hands up right now and say in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, let it be done. I'll be shaken in the name of Jesus. Enemies defeated and we will shout it out. Shout it out of Jesus. Enemies defeated. You are facing the impossible. Let me tell you what God has said. He said with men it may be impossible, but with God all things are possible. The line in that song that stood out to me says, I have the final say. Nobody else speaks the last word over you because I am your God. I am God and I change not. I said I am God and I change not. That's what he said. So it does not matter your circumstance. Forget that. Roll it on to the God that is above it all. Roll it on to his big shoulders today. He can carry it. I feel you moving in this place right now. I feel you setting somebody up for a breakthrough today. I feel you positioning somebody today for a mighty victory, for change to come to a situation that's long been stagnant. You're going to bring life. You're going to do it today. You have the final say. For you are God. Here's the key. And with my word, you are God. It's a blessing this morning. You're God and God alone. God is still there no matter what you're going through. I want you to take your Bibles this morning and stand with me all over this building. Those of you that are watching online, join us in the book of Daniel chapter number three. Daniel chapter number three. Blessed be God. What a wonderful atmosphere of God's presence. It's in this atmosphere God can do anything. Anybody believe that this morning? Daniel chapter number three. Thank you Jesus. We bless the name of the Lord. We're ready for the word this morning. Say a good amen. In Daniel three, it's the entirety of the chapter. I won't read all of it. I encourage you to go back and read it all. I'm going to summarize some of it for you. I want you to pick up with me and read. I'll jump around a little bit. But verse number one begins like this. Nebuchadnezzar. The king made an image of gold. There's the first problem. His height was three score. Cubics and breadth thereof. Six cubits and he set up in the plains of Dura. In the providence province of Babylon. The same measurements of the antichrist spirit. 666. Then Nebuchadnezzar. The king sent together together the princes. The governors. The captains. The judges. The treasures. The counselors. The sheriffs and all the rulers of the province. The republicans. The democrats. The independents. The liberals. The conservatives. To come to the dedication of the image. Which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Verse four. Then a herald cried. To you it is commanded. Oh people. Nations and languages. So it is said that there is supposedly. All of the nations that Nebuchadnezzar had conquered. That are represented here in the plains of Dura. That at what time you hear the sound of the. Coronet flute harp sac but sultry dulcimer. And all kind of music. You fall down and worship fall down. And worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar. The king and set up. And who so ever fall or who so falleth not down. And worship it. Shall the same hour be cast into the midst. Of a burning fiery furnace. The bible says that they. Went through this. Exhibition of idol worship. And there were a few fellows that decided. We're not bending. We're not bowing. We're not going to worship. And we're not going to burn. Verse eight. Wherefore at the time certain caldians. These are leaders. Leaders in the. Babylonian government. I want you to hear this. This is. This is. This is too good. To pass by because these are leaders. Who are accusing other leaders. The Jews. Specifically the three boys. Name Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. And they spake into the king. Nebuchadnezzar and they brought the accusation said. Now all king is made a. Decree. Verse 10 that every man that hears the sound of the. Coronet flute harp sac but sultry and dulcimer. All kinds of music should fall down and worship the golden image. And whosoever falls now down and worship it. That he should be cast in the midst of the fiery furnace. The burning fiery furnace. In other words you passed a law. King. And we're here to remind you of that law. That you passed. But there's some law breakers. There are certain Jews. Whom thou has said over the affairs of the province of Babylon. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. They're Babylonian names. These middle king have not regarded thee. They serve not thy gods. Nor worship the golden image which thou has set up. The Nebuchadnezzar. In his rage. And fury commanded to bring Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. And they brought these men before the king. And the Nebuchadnezzar spake and said into them. Is it true. Well there's a time to opt out if you're going to. Is it true. Oh Shadrach Meshach and Abednego do you don't serve my gods. Nor worship the golden image which I've set up. And here's a reprieve he gives for him. Now verse 15. Now if you be ready now the next time we do this. The next time we command you to do what we tell you to do. By the order of the government. When you hear the sound of that music. You better fall down and worship. If you don't we're going to throw you into the fiery furnace. And I love verse 16 17 and 18. That's where I want to focus right here. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego answered and said. And to the king. Oh Nebuchadnezzar. We are not careful to answer the in this manner. In other words. In other words. We thought about it before we got here. And we already have our answer. So we're not having to stand here and lie to you. We already know what we're going to say. Before we ever got here. Verse 17. If it be so God our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of that hand. Okay. But if you don't underline anything I want you to get the next three words because you're going to need to live on this in the days that are ahead. Verse 18. But if not look at your neighbor and tell them but if not be known unto the old king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou has set up. Now I'm just telling you whenever situations in government officials make these laws and then they want to break their own laws because he said the next time we do this if you will bow down and worship but they didn't give him the next time. As a matter of fact it made him so mad that fury come up in his face and he was so distorted that his whole face changed. He said heat up that fiery furnace. These boys are going in it right now we're not going to play another song. And from there you may or may not know the story but today my assignment is to bring this to you faith under fire from Daniel chapter three the beginning of this series. I believe God's going to bless us today. Can you say a man father in the name of Jesus I pray that you would give me the kind of anointing that makes it easy to preach the kind of anointing that opens up every ear of the hearers let those that have an ear to hear let them hear what the spirit would say to the church and you said in your word that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God if we ever needed people of faith Lord who will receive the word of God and act upon it less we do damage to our forefathers who stood the test and the trial of their faith and prove to us that you are a faithful God open the heavens and show us your glory today we pray in Jesus name and everybody believes it shout a great big amen look at somebody tell them it's faith under fire that's what it is maybe seated in the past 24 hours these are the headlines that are specifically directed and connected to Christians around the world I want to share some of them with you Christians are living in constant fear in Africa the UK reports religious dimensions of violence taking place in Manipur young tribal next article young tribal Christian beheaded India's top court demands report from man of Manipur government Iraqi Christians fear presidents revocation of decree places them in harm's way isn't that I didn't see that till just now in the very place of Iraq where we're preaching and reading to you from the book of Daniel today Christians are in fear of the president of that country flipping his decree this is the title of the are you all with me here this morning I'm already gone changing his mind that puts Christians in harm's way Lord Jesus Dr. David Jeremiah said apostasy among pastors as a sign of the great falling away ahead of the end times another article communist harass Christian on cafe protesters hold signs reading God is a expletive democratic Republican this is just an add-on for because of the fact that we support the nation of Israel a democratic representative in Congress made this statement at a leftist conference we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state here's another one for Christians Christians arrested for blasphemy in Pakistan over Facebook post he denies sharing Muslims and Christians parents are protesting the school district in Maryland requiring their students to adhere and participate in LGBT lessons students allegedly submit suspended underwent restorative justice for misgendering the teacher and the UN the UN experts argue that religious beliefs must change in order to accommodate the LGBT ideology these are just a few in the past 24 hours that have come to the surface to show us that we're not living in the world where people respect God any longer and the bottom line is none of it has caught God by surprise if you know your Bible you already know that these are just the signs of the imminent return of Jesus Christ and while I'm not preaching on that this morning this scripture is full of that and I believe that this passage of scripture is that I'm bringing you today is so vital for you to be able to stand in the evil day that we're in that I want you to make sure you got a pen and paper you can write some things down the Bible says that God orders the steps of the righteous in other words there's nothing that's catching God by surprise because God's faith in us is unlimited faith then in and of itself has the capacity to expect far beyond what our eyes can see it is a process of the perfecting of our faith in other words faith that goes on trial that proves to us that we actually have faith some things that we attribute to the devil is not the devil at all it's God proving our faith and the bottom line is when we get into those situations sometimes we feel like that that we begin to question God Lord did you actually say this is just is this just me or is this is this just something I feel or am I supposed to be doing it'll make you question God it'll make you question your own ideas and your own plans and your own agenda and your own thoughts what is that doing it's trying to undermine your faith with what I call the gospel today from the pulpit the gospel of accommodation that is to say we're going to preach to you whatever makes you feel good and it's relevant for the day never challenging you and never all by no means offending anyone but you better read this book because Jesus said in the last days one of the signs would be that many would be offended because of his word and Jesus made it clear he said he said they hated me they're going to hate you I'm just going to tell you I don't have to run out and find haters all I got to do is something like put prophecy file briefing out there and I'll get many acts that will type and write all kinds of stuff that they don't even understand the Bible cuss me out everything else that's happened in the past week read my face I don't care I know the Bible is right and somebody's wrong come on say amen in the times of the trials of our faith it's then that you'll know your God in what the Bible calls the furnace of affliction in the time we're living and I am I am so agreeing with Dr. David Jeremiah an incredible teacher preacher pastor when he says that there's a great falling away and we're watching that take place right now the Bible calls it apostasy where the constant persecution and pressure that's taking place to comply to other things other than what God said in his word in the Bible says in Luke chapter 18 verse number eight Jesus speaks these words he says that there's going to things are going to be taking care of but in this world as I'm coming back but this is what he says I want to know will there will I find faith when I come again in other words will I still find someone who is still believing that I died on the cross for their sins that I was buried in rose again it was there still going to be faith in the earth I'm just going to tell you as you're watching things collapse all around us I was reading this past week of how the Catholic Church is extremely concerned along with the Presbyterians and Episcopal churches because their membership is shrinking so drastically that some of the largest cathedrals in the United States of America namely those of in New York where they were speaking of specifically they're considering selling those properties off because it's impossible to maintain them because there's no one there what are we watching we're watching the fact that the pressure is being applied in society where people are ready to give up their faith in Jesus Christ so that they don't have to suffer up underneath the pressure and the persecution now my friends when you read the Bible I can tell you from Genesis all the way to the time that we're in right now pressure and persecution is part and parcel of the believers life so if you're not up for that somebody said you know I signed up for the military but now they put a gun in my hand put me on a C-130 and flew me overseas I don't know why I'm over here I just got in for an education well you missed it because the first priority is to defend this nation and whatever that that may be I want you to know believers you signed up when you said yes to Jesus Christ you signed up and this is what you signed up for not the yellow brick road to heaven but Jesus said you when you signed up you signed up and persecution is going to come and pressure is going to come and the and the thrust to try to get you to comply or compromise in your belief is going to come but those that will endure to the end the same shall be saved what I'm finding out is that not many people are wanting to endure in their faith even in the time we're living especially through the pandemic it was almost like the colander was shaken and the holes were big enough that many went right through they don't come back to church they say well it doesn't matter and now as I mentioned to you AI is setting itself up to be the end all listen to me the reason why many people don't want to believe Jesus is because they don't want to take time to know him and if you don't know him then whenever you pray and you don't get an answer back like you've just driven through the Wendy's drive through line and get your burger and pick it up in 10 seconds or less is because you don't know your God and today man is going to create the AI God hear me now so that whenever you plug your answer in this is what is on the horizon when you plug in your question to AI Jesus you'll get back an instant five second answer on what you're supposed to do and suddenly now the God who is invisible is not the God we worship this one I always get an answer from I want to let you know something you always get an answer from Jehovah God but God is not a machine God is not some software God is not some artificial intelligence he is the divine intelligence the power of the Holy Spirit in our life and ladies and gentlemen I want you to know if anybody's worth waiting on our God is worth waiting on the Bible says in Hebrews 13 and 7 remember them that have the rule over you who have spoken into you the word of God listen whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation whose faith follow if you're going to follow somebody in faith you better find somebody who's been through the fire and not somebody who's looking for the easy route out living by faith in this culture is not for cowards if you're going to be a believer the life that God calls us to live as believers requires us to trust him no matter what our feelings are saying why am I preaching this to you this morning why am I bringing this series to you because you're going to face the trial of your faith in the days that are ahead trust me when school starts and the agenda of this world is pressed upon your children and upon you in the workplace some of you are going to have to say you know what the contract isn't worth giving up my faith some of you are going to say you know why my kids are not worth being put on the altar of sacrifice come on out and I'll home school you ain't talking to me you're going to have to make some hard decisions in the trial of your faith in the days ahead but I promise you the moment you make the decision based upon the word of God God's got you back look at your neighbor and tell him God's got you back what circumstances might change what enemies might threaten you it makes no difference if you'll be willing to trust God on the face of every fiery trial and I'm just going to tell you whenever you read and we'd like to read the Bible and and we see these characters that are coming out and they're all through the Bible and I see people in this building testimonies even this morning of what God is doing in the lives of people it inspires us to persevere through the fiery trial it was not easy for Bible heroes to trust God in their faith they had to prove it through a genuine encounter in the furnace of their trial you read the book of Hebrews chapter number eleven and every one of them by faith able by faith Noah by faith Moses I want you to know that as a believer suffering is not an option but misery is a choice I don't know why I'm in the middle of this could it be that your life is supposed to be the testimony that people are going to look at maybe even read about in the days ahead and give them strength to be able to persevere as a believer your faith is based on the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ and God knew that if you're going to live a life of faith sometimes a trial of your faith would be necessary in order to prove it why did I have to go through this pastor why did I why did I lose this why did I lose them why did this relationship why did they leave I want to know God's not concerned over his public relations policy your questions are not going to disturb him and neither are the questions of a world that want to accuse God and say there is no God he is so confident in his plan written from the dawn of time ladies and gentlemen that he formed it before the world began and he hasn't changed it seeking man's approval the trial of your faith will come and I want you to know some trials by faith will come because Satan attacks he's the easy target we can identify him some came if it comes from the devil we're going to rebuke the devil but what if this trial of faith comes by God see I don't need you to tell me how to bless the Lord when I just got the blessing I need somebody to tell me how to bless the Lord when the blessing hasn't come and I don't see the promise of it on the horizon come on somebody this is important for us to get a hold of because some trials come by the devil God allowed some of them come by God and some of them come by the flesh or the world that we live in right now we're fighting on these three fronts in many cases sometimes it's a good fight of faith sometimes it's a fight with Satan and sometimes the world is coming out of simply because we live in a fallen world and culture sometimes people get diverted from their faith because of what people do or don't do well I thought they were a Christian and look what they did well if you're following someone else you better make sure that you don't put them on a pedestal come on have we not learned anything the question that God is is requiring of us to answer is what are you going to do with your faith when your trial comes and thus we come to Daniel chapter 3 where Daniel is recording the story apparently he's been out of town Daniel was when this occurrence happened and there were three of his friends that were brought with thousands of others from Judah in the captivity of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar coming into that particular area and making captives of some 10,000 Jews Jehoachim was the king at the time and Nebuchadnezzar comes in according to the prophets Isaiah Jeremiah and others that if you don't repent Judah you're going to be turned over to the Babylonians they're coming they didn't repent the Babylonians come in and King Jehoachim who was a water-backed lily-livered king who makes packs with anybody that he can to keep himself from being attacked or somehow put under the pressure he shakes hands with Nebuchadnezzar and allows him to take off the golden vessels out of the temple of God and 10,000 Jewish elect and elite young boys and teenagers from this society in Judah and these three young men step into a totally different culture they had no real idea of what they were entering into and they had to be able to adapt but not adopt the culture as I was preparing for this particular message I had several other thoughts in mind and and while I tried to be able to move in a different direction God kept bringing me back to this so so I don't know I'm not preaching to everybody this morning I'm just preaching to somebody who needs to take this and put it in your pouch and trust God because the Bible says here that these three young men made up their mind and I won't I won't do justice to exegete every part of the scripture here I'm not running it down verse by verse so I'm gonna grab some things that the Lord gave to me to give to you today and one of them is this is that there's some things that these three Hebrew boys are trying to help us to learn in the time we're in right now God allowed these three Hebrew boys to go through what they went through so that when we have to stand up before the magistrate or before the school board or before the county commissioners or before our friends or before our boss or before any evil that is coming our way we will stand just as sure as three these three young men dead because there is a confident faith on the inside of our heart I'm just gonna give you a few things and I'm gonna get out of your way this morning because if there's ever a lesson to be learned for the time we're in right now with the with the attack the accusations it's right now here's some things that I want to give to you that we need to learn that I believe these fellows are saying first of all you need to learn how to feed yourself the word and the ways of God you need to learn how to feed yourself you need to learn how to walk with God yourself another words the Holy Ghost inspired my heart to say don't be so lazy that you can't lift up your own fork to your mouth if you're waiting to get your word on that when you arrive on Sunday or Wednesday you're not getting enough to feed you and your faith for the hour that we're in you better learn how to sit down and eat this word until you find out that it's fed me and I'm full and I can assure you the next day the next day you're gonna need some more daily bread when I was a child somebody else fed me but at some point the hunger pains became so much and necessity demanded that I can't wait on you to bring me my food because of the timing of your convenience I'm so hungry that I listen I've watched my grandchildren we got this snack counter at our house it's all kind of snacks and cookies and mess it's all for them none for me but all of it is up there and I've watched that little boy we stayed over the house the other night I laid down beside him to be able to help him go to sleep because he was fidgety as a I don't know what flipping like a pancake and I laid down beside him he looked at me after we'd already ate the meal and everything else he said he said Pa I'm hungry have you ever had a son before if you've had a son you know there is a bottomless pit that is there I don't care if they just ate they're gonna eat again in about 30 minutes and snack in between come on somebody well when you get hungry enough for the word I don't have time to wait on and let me just say this to you and I don't it's not some kind of threat and it's not some Debbie down I just want to tell you this right here excuse me Debbie I know you're in the service this morning I just want to say to you this morning ladies and gentlemen there may come a time when you're not able to gather up in this sanctuary we've already seen that through the pandemic so what is the Hebrew boys saying you better learn how to pick this Bible up and know your God and the hour that we're in in fact that's the second thing they want us to learn here it is I'm moving fast you better know him look at somebody tell him you better know him you better know him you better know him I'm not talking about knowing about him you better know him if you don't know your God like these three Hebrew boys did then your time of testing and your trial is going to come and then you're going to start scratching your head and wondering God where are you they did that after 9 11 they've done it every time afterwards the world doesn't know God they can't know him because they can't receive the spirit but Jesus said you know him at least you're supposed to know him the same Christ who dwells on the inside of you is the one who confirms to you that the Word of God is true and all Paul said oh that I may know him in the power and the fellowship of his suffering in the power of his resurrection there's so many I'm telling you God is scratching his head this morning when people talk about well my God wouldn't do this let me tell you something you don't have a God that's a fake God you got well my God wouldn't judge this you got a fake God you got a strong hole built up in your head you don't know God read this book right here listen ladies and gentlemen in the hour that we're in we're in forms and all kinds of floods and everything else and people are saying well that's always the way it is and the other crowd that's saying well that wouldn't be that's not God he don't do that you better read that book right there and furthermore I call to the witness stand Noah who stood right there and God said I want you to know him on flood the whole place and I want you to know you better do what I'm telling you to do now we've got nowhere to you that the word of God is true that God said I'm going to put a bow in the sky to remind you that I'll never flood the earth again so I don't care what happened this week in Pensacola and surrounding areas and the storm is going to come in at three o'clock this afternoon it may flood up on the highways but because God made a promise I'll never flood the earth again that water is going right back out there to the Gulf of Mexico ladies and gentlemen God is a God you're a thousand generation you better know your God how am I supposed to know him pastor well you got to learn how to pray I said you better learn how to pray you better learn how to pray because the first thing the enemy attacks in your life is your prayer life how many of you got down to pray and you fell instantly asleep well some of that's not so bad but if you only get in the Lord's prayer our father isn't amazing you can stay up for the whole three and a half hour movie but as soon as you got on your knees and said our father would you you better learn how to pray because the owner wise why does the enemy attack prayer because he's attacking to cut off your communication between you and God 1963 Madeline Muriel here comes up and what do we do in America it was the first step towards a godless America when they outlawed prayer and Bible reading in school I don't know I know whenever I start doing this people go well I wish you wouldn't reminisce so hard but I'm just going to tell you I remember the day when the big red Bible was sitting on the teacher's desk and the first thing that happened was they opened it up and she'd read a Bible story out of it now are you hearing what I'm saying she'd read a story to all of us because it was principles that would be able to keep it now and that ladies and gentlemen I want you to know there was a time in that classroom in fact my folks would offer my hide on the first day of school just to say whip him if you need to and whenever he'd tell us when you do it and when he gets home he'll get another one and I just want you to know there wasn't no lying there wasn't no stealing there wasn't no cheating there wasn't no disorder in the classroom kids wouldn't be sitting down all this kind of stuff that's going on today you know why because we tossed God out of the classroom and we brought the devil and drag queens inside there's a liar you better wrap your family up and say God we're going to you in prayer get down on your knees and let your kids talk to God why do we need to talk to God because he's the only one who hears and he's the only one who answers come on somebody godly behavior these three young boys took that relationship with God in prayer into Babylon and they did not abandon their prayer life in Babylon just because the culture of Babylon was one way they did not abandon their faith in the middle of a godless culture I'm talking to somebody you know what they remembered they remember what God said thou shall have no other gods before me they remembered you will not have any engraved image that will be made you're not going to worship any other god and they took that command serious because they knew God I'm just telling you some of you may be going through some things here this morning and those of you that are watching online I don't know how I don't know when I don't know where and I don't even know if God is going to do it the way that I think he's going to do it but here's what I know I know God so I don't care when how or if I've got to walk through it I know God come on somebody when you know your God they that know their God shall do exploits here's the third thing the Holy Ghost said expect trials to come expect trials to come the Bible says think it not strange think it not strange that you're into this fiery trial as if some strange thing has come upon you are you kidding me did you sign up for Christianity did you say yes to Jesus Christ and now you're crying tears and sucking your thumb because somebody said something about you on Facebook come on church expect trials to come these boys were POWs in a foreign land in Babylon their kingdom in Judah is different than the kingdom in Babylon let me say it like this the citizenship that you have in America is different than the citizenship you have in heaven I'm a citizen of two different worlds and I'm telling you the more that this one down here gets godless and all kind of trash that's going on the more I'm looking for Jesus to pick me up and take me to his kingdom I think an illustrated sermon is coming why am I saying that because we're living in a godless culture now I never thought I'd see it I can take you to the place on Beale Street in Fort Walton Beach I'm driving down the road we were pastoring in Destin at the time and I'm driving down there I'm listening to Dr. James Dobson on Focus on the Family one day he said this and this was 25, 30 years ago he said if I had a child in the public school system I would take them out right now I thought doctor what in the world are you saying and now here we are where Christians and Muslims I just read it to you Christians and Muslims are standing together in front of the school board to say our children are not going to eat your ponds and propaganda to learn the Karika listen here let me make it plain let me make it plain if you want to be a hormunger, a sinner a drunk whatever you know a meth addict all that kind of stuff you can do whatever you want to and guess what God will let you he didn't create us AI robots he created you with a free moral agent you can make up your mind what you want to do and how you want to do it but you cannot impose upon my life without someone standing up for the faith and saying wait a minute not over here at my house and not in this location if we do not stand for the faith in the hour that we're in it will not be you and I adults that will be dealing with it it'll be those kids that are out there that will inherit a place and you know what they're going to do they're going to look at you mom and daddy and Pa and Mimi and they're going to say where were you on the day that they flipped this whole thing over and we now don't know whether we're a boy or a girl the devil is a liar these young men right here said we know our God and we expect the trial to come come on devil we're ready for you I got an answer come on now light and darkness I already knew their answer before the trial came if we're going to stand we better know our God and have an answer I want you to note this they knew their God in Judah that was thousands of miles away from Babylon they said we don't care if we're in Judah or we're in Babylon we serve Jehovah God the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob you better hear what I'm saying I'll be playing to you I don't care if it's in pace or in Washington DC our God is the same here as he is right there what he's against he's against in what he's for he's for and it's for me in my house we're going to serve the Lord and know the trial is going to come but I'm ready with the word here's the fourth thing the Holy Ghost gave me I'm moving along only the faith of a few will endure in this scripture that there was a whole group of people that were standing at that particular time but only three ladies and gentlemen listen carefully to me you better get ready to stand out from the crowd Jesus said many will take the broad road and few will take the narrow road my question are you in the few let me teach you a restaurant example just because there's a lot of cars at the restaurant don't mean they got good food every Wednesday night to my I had to get over it before I came here I drove past a restaurant that now is closed the cars wrapped around the buildings as people decided we're going to go do this instead of going to church whatever only to find out that in the soy sauce was meth pastor you can't promise that that's not going to happen let me tell you something if you've never prayed over your food when you go out to eat somewhere you better start right away I'm with the Jewish people I will pray as a Gentile before I eat and then I will pray like a Jew after I eat and as a matter of fact if anything wiggles and is not supposed to I'll pray in the middle come on somebody you know what you're going to have to choose in the days that are ahead in this few or many category you're going to have to choose who your real friends are and who are not watch what I'm telling you how can two walk together unless they agree you're not going to convince someone who is has a whole different agenda you're going to have to let the Holy Ghost do that but what is going to make the defense where you stand or are you going to bow down I'm not talking about you got to be ugly I'm talking about making your stand and making it known can you imagine if these three fellows are going hey you know what maybe God wouldn't care if we just bowed for 10 minutes we'll just give them 10 we'll count ready 10 9 8 7 the moment they bent the knee Jack God would have left them to be crispy critters inside of that fiery furnace but because they stood for God and His principles and His laws God stood with them are you hearing what I'm saying the trial of our faith is actually going to weed out and that's what it's done recently is weed out the faith fakers I call them people that say they're a faith oh yes I have faith always like to ask a question what's your pastor's name oh man let's see I know that guy no you don't let me give you some Bible on that if you don't believe the one you see Jesus said how are you going to believe the one you can't see come on somebody if you won't go to His house here on this earth what makes you think He's going to take you to His house in heaven that's for the real Holy Ghost field the trial of your faith is going to weed out people in your life those that want to compromise or make a mixture I want you to know God said I hate a mixture He told that church at Pergamus in Revelation He said listen the Nicoladians doctrine has gotten a mixture inside of the camp right here and He said I hate that I don't want you trying to mix the world and me and calling it God are you hearing me Jesus said and He's called in Revelation 22 faithful and true don't say that with me faithful and true Jesus is faithful and He's true come on somebody they're teaching us not everyone will stand in the evil day that's what these Hebrews are teaching us the Hebrews are teaching us here what to believe in the trial of our faith let me just tell you something these Hebrew boys were convicted before they were convicted have you got convictions do you have any I don't know pastor I just tell you I just kind of go along to get along I just kind of up and down I don't know if they want to go along only when you want it when you want something watch what I'm telling you everybody in this building is going to get on one side of the other as soon as we say amen and you hit that car because here's what's going to happen I want chicken I want this I want that suddenly everybody's parsed out now everybody don't they're not compromising I don't care what we eat these Hebrew boys said I want you to know this he said we have convictions before the devil ever convicted us can you be found guilty of your faith here's what they said I love this God help me in the hour of my faith to be able to get out of this we are not careful to answer you okay we're not standing here trying to think how we can get out of this or find a loophole in the system if I had a good lawyer we get a loophole and I go over here and I wouldn't have we could just crouch but we wouldn't bow all the way down come on somebody this is what they believe here's what you better believe here's three things for you to believe that they want us to know they said to the king we're not careful we've already decided we already know we're already standing he said we believe in the power of God over your power our God is able to deliver us and he will deliver us but this is the one but if not have you got a but if not in your lingo in your language for God in other words what if God doesn't answer the way you thought you know what they were saying we believe in the power of God over your power king Nebuchadnezzar and we want you to know as we stand here in front of you the only three out of this massive crowd our God is in control I want to say to Mr. Putin to President Biden I want to say to Mr. Macron I want to say to the leaders of Canada the leaders of Mexico all the world leaders world economic forum the UN and everybody else God Jehovah God the God of this Bible is in control of all things don't you worry about it I don't care what kind of playing you God I don't care you tell us we can't eat meat I don't I don't care if you tell us we can't drive cars and all that our God is in control if he's gonna fly it in on the Ravens Beach our God because I know my God my God is in control you know what they were saying to him the power of God is greater than he that is in the world here's what the Bible said once God has spoken twice have I heard it the power belongeth to God Psalm 62 and 11 Matthew 28 18 says all powers given to me Jesus said in heaven and in earth he turned around to Luke chapter 10 verse 19 and Jesus said behold I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and nothing of will harm you no weapon formed against you will prosper acts chapter number one he said you want to know what that power is you don't have to worry about it it's not all in me I want you to know that I will behold all power is given to me and I'm gonna give to you power but you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon did you understand what kind of power you got the power that caused the Hebrew boys to stand up in the plains of Dura is the same power that's working in this building to cause you and me to stand in the hour that we're in here's number two we believe in the providence of God over your proclamation friends in recent years we've had proclamations all over us you will take this you will do this you will shut this down pandemics and viruses and everything else and I gotta ask myself this question where in the world did COVID go that's like where's Waldo I mean you mean to tell me you mean to tell me that this thing just went away somewhere or have you renamed it waiting for something else to come out since we can't perpetuate things like we have we're gonna have to wait for something else and believe me have you heard more noise in recent days about climate control and the flooding and this and that and other sure you have God's in control what's the next lockdown climate control they told us the other day all of you that have got gas ranges at your house we're gonna outlaw them really how many of y'all got gas ranges at your house six of you really how about gas heater it must not affect all of y'all you're all driving EVs stay at the house for three days so we can get the climate control under control this past week the climate czar was put on the stand at the capital and ask the question why are you flying on a private plane burning up all this carbon footprint telling the rest of us not to burn up all of our carbon footprint watch this question anybody got a plane in here now see I got a consensus on that one I was having trouble this calls us to stand up for our faith in this hour they said our God will deliver but if not you better have this one deeply put it in your heart but if not we're still not gonna bow to your image this is an absolute announcement to the king a clear answer not a shady gray one today we have been conditioned to be cautious about everything we say for fear of being cancelled, scandalized or scrutinized or called out on it I mean, I'm telling you I was raised in an environment I think many of you were my parents caused me to respect my elders both male and female so whenever I responded to mom and daddy it was like this yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir no sir the other day I am talking to someone doing some business with someone and I caught myself reserving for concern that I might not be speaking the proper pronoun and then I slapped myself I'm just curious does anybody in this building ever try to slap your own self into reality before I'm among a few friends the rest of your lives I'm just telling you right now there will come a time when the culture will press on in you so much that suddenly you'll feel like oh what did I do I did something wrong wait just a minute if you don't know this book right here you'll fall into the quagmire of mess and never know who you are you gotta be able to say lord I trust you whether they burn me or not God calls us to stand up for our faith before he moves on our behalf your mouth speaks what your heart believes have you ever spoken and wondered God did you say that have you ever spoken and said did I say that now you're wondering God are you going to back this up or not you should be here even though we know what the word says the question comes into our hearts will this work for me I mean we just sang it up here the Lord is our healer we believe we believe but when it comes right down to it it's not what's coming out of your mouth it's the position of standing at that moment no matter if there's a what if in your spirit are you hearing me what if God answers waits for an answer I tell you what God this is what we do we hunt down a prophet to say in 24 hours there's going to be a turnaround if you'll sell a thousand dollar seed in 24 hours all we got was divoted a thousand dollars out of our bank account and God ain't there because it was a man's word I'm not against prophecy I'm just telling you you better know your God and know what he says God will not be handled God will not be manipulated and sometimes ladies and gentlemen I know this may be a shock to some of you you may have to walk through the fire and through the flood but I want to remind you of the book of Isaiah he said it like this when you walk through not if when you walk through the fire it will not kindle upon you walk through the flood you will not be overcome ladies and gentlemen if you know your God it won't make any difference what the devil does no weapon formed against you I'm telling you in the days ahead I'm trying to teach preach this I'm telling you in the days ahead the pressure even now to compromise to comply so that you're comfortable is going to be out there can you handle God's unknowns that's what these guys are saying but if not we're still not going to bow we believe our God will we believe he shall but if he doesn't do it the way I thought I'm still not going to bow come on church I want to have somebody here to preach to next week because this coming week you're going to run up against some things there's going to be pressure for you to comply on what's going on to compromise something you got to make up your mind Lord if you're sending me through this fire then find a dandy no matter what it is I'm still going to serve you I wish I had somebody in here who would wave your hand at God and say Lord you can count on me but if not I'm still not going to bow what if God does something else God's unpredictable sometimes well pastor you said yeah but God is sovereign and God's time clock and our time clock is not the same one if you're a clock watcher you would have never survived the fiery furnace okay I'll be in for a minute but God you better come up in here and get me come on some of you are there right now cooking you are cooking you're on hold you're listening to the on hold music God will be with you momentarily if you have a prayer need dial one if you're in distress dial two huh have you ever been there before have you ever been put on hold by God you thought he was going to answer within the next few moments and you found out it's now a week it's a month it's a year and you're still waiting on your children to get saved come on somebody what am I going to do but if not I'm still going to serve you you better learn this our friends in Kenya right now and other countries that are watching us right now are under great persecution and here's what happened Acts chapter number 12 the pastor of the church James is killed by Herod the next thing they do is incarcerate the pastor Simon Peter and put him in jail and he goes to sleep the unpredictable of God let me say this to you quickly before I close we don't have to be delivered to be faithful I'm a hurry and we believe in the presence of God that's what these Hebrew boys were telling us King gets enraged because they told him we're not going bow to your God and the king got mad the king did not even follow his own word he had just told them now listen now listen y'all I know you want to be good Christians and all that kind of stuff I know y'all want to be you're supposed to be law-abiding and we agree with that and I do all that kind of stuff and serve your God so so if you're ready when we play this music again and you bow down like the law says close your church don't sing those songs don't sing about the power in the blood don't talk about Jesus you can talk about God but don't talk about Jesus I'm going to talk about Jesus more in these last days and you've ever heard in your life as a matter of fact two more billboards just went up on Hamilton Bridge it's got Jesus right there yesterday, today, and forever on both sides of the sign can I just tell you ladies and gentlemen you better lift Jesus up in this last hour and if you'll stand for Jesus believe me he will stand for you I gotta hurry I gotta hurry you better learn how to stand even if you have to stand alone now this is not the end of my message this is an illustration and if you'll give me five minutes I'll be done I want everybody in this building to stand up everybody in this building everybody everybody everybody stand everybody stand it'll be alright push yourself out of that chair okay look at there some of y'all stretching and everything here we go will come on that keyboard real quick here we go I want you you and you here's what happened everybody bow down everybody sit down but you you and you everybody sit down that's what happened that's what happened everybody sit down everybody sit down except for these three everybody sit down except you can sit down now these three look you're here listen to me church listen to me listen to me there were 10,000 Jewish captives that came from Judah into Babylon 10,000 and when all of them got out there on the plane they were so ready to bow to comply but only three stood up out of the whole crowd what kind of intimidation is going on now I mean I don't know I have all kinds of things playing in my ear grab her grab her arm right here come on bow down can you see somebody on both sides hey what are you doing what are you going to get thrown into the fiery furnace are you kidding me come on you don't have to be radical and extreme they just made up their mind we're going to stand get this everything I say here this morning get this just stand and keep on standing just stand and keep on standing thank y'all three people out of 10,000 at least 10,000 we know there were hundreds of thousands of people on that plane they could have gotten lost here's the problem these Nebuchadnezzar have put in charge I'm almost done one comes these Chaldeans now they were the influentials of Babylon and they all bow down now you can call them what you want to when you preach you can call them what you want to when you preach when I call them leaders in the FBI and the attorney general's office who brought accusation y'all I know you think I'm making this stuff up ladies and gentlemen but there were Christians that went on trial against school boards in Maryland and other locations and those that were accusing them were the officials of our own government saying you cannot do this and they put them in jail I read this past week from the January 6th riot insurrection that a pastor and his son were simply trying to find a bathroom to go to the bathroom in the middle of that crowd someone brought them into the bathroom and now they've been brought up on charges of insurrection friends we've lost our minds in America because we've tossed God out and I wonder stand up y'all I wonder who's gonna be standing while everybody else is bowing be seated I'm almost done here's what they said I'm almost done that's my third almost done you may not be talked out of your faith but you could be mocked out of your faith in the days ahead all of you students, college students all that when you go to college college is the number one location where children, students lose their faith sitting up underneath a godless professor or whoever that it is when you go on that campus you better take the Bible you've got you better go ahead and pray you learn and educate but that's fine and dandy but whatever you do don't turn loose to the Word of God because I'm concerned I'm concerned that the pulpit has watered it down so much that we have not prepared our congregations and the people of God to stand in the evil day and ladies and gentlemen whenever the LGBT crowd chanting this past week we're coming after your children I don't know what it's gonna take this last hour to shake themselves and wake up and say I'm not gonna go down I'm gonna keep on standing for the next generation behind me everybody stand they accuse these guys they said listen whatever you do they broke your law Nebuchadnezzar what are you gonna do they said they don't have any respect for you as king they don't have respect for the God you worship well of course not not only that but they're not gonna bow they said they're not gonna bow to your golden image what are you gonna do the pressure to comply here's what you better do you better fear God over the fear of the fire have to hand it to Nebuchadnezzar he did exactly what he said he was gonna do heat it up seven times hotter and throw those guys in into the fire they were killed I don't know how that works I guess they must have had a stronger fire around them than there was inside of the fiery furnace now I gotta get this to you while you're standing he threw them into the fire three of them he turns to walk away and according according to the writings I believe it is of Josephus he records that king Nebuchadnezzar didn't get a few steps away before this is what caused him to turn around and look again in the fiery furnace this writing said he didn't get a few steps away because he heard singing coming from the furnace where is my 12 o'clock crowd in here I need somebody to help me he heard singing don't you worry about standing for the Lord he'll stand for you I think the Lord heard singing because the Bible says he inhabits the praises of those so he caught in the fire with them if you don't know the story it's the fourth man it's the fourth man Nebuchadnezzar flips around and said didn't we throw three in here didn't we throw three behold I see them loose and walking around and I see the fourth man now I don't know if Shadrach, Meshach, and Abigo knew that that the epiphany of Jesus was in the fiery furnace or not the image of Christ walking around I know Jesus feet weren't get burned because the book of Revelation said his feet are like brass and his eyes are like fire can I give you a little something right here before we go he was the fourth man in the fire right why four because four in the Hebrew numerics means authority and government and rule and dominion the most holy name of God has four letters on the fourth day of creation God spoke the creation of existence and the sun, moon, and the stars created times and systems and seasons and so God is in control of all things the same one who stepped into the fire are you hearing what I'm saying there's four garments on the priest the fourth branch of the menorah is in the center representing Jesus Christ Judah was the fourth son of his father and the scepter in his hand to rule you ain't talking to me the fourth spirit of God is the Ruach Adonai, the fullness of the Holy Spirit the fourth feast is Pentecost and the fourth piece of furniture under the covering of the Tabernacle was the Ark of the Covenant I'm saying when the fourth man stepped into the fiery furnace all of that came in with him he is the fourth man in the fire I want you to put that statement up on the wall for me there's a few people there's a few people very few during World War II that when things started getting hot that they stood all the way to their death Bonhoeffer was one of them Hitler hated it in the coming weeks when I bring you some prophecy files in here I'll tell you that Hitler's ecological climate changing program mirrors the one of today where animals become more important than humans but I found this statement from Martin Niemeler he was a pastor at the time he was not on the right side of things necessarily with the Jewish people and others were not they were actually anti-Semitic for the longest he eventually changed his mind after he saw what was happening in the atrocities taking place in the concentration camps and one of the worst things in my mind is the fact that when we knew in America what was taking place in the concentration camps we did not act fast enough where we are and I captured this statement for you to see today because I believe it is a capsule of where we are the calm meditative days of Christianity are over in other words you can forget about it oh I just want to go back to normal normal is not coming back you better recognize in this hour that your existence as a believer is now going to be put on trial and you cannot have some mediocre relationship with God you better be able to stand in the evil day so that others can read your story and hear your words say it like this but not God help me as a pastor of this church to have a but if not no matter what takes place I don't know what tomorrow next month next year is going to hold but I can tell you I'm trusting in the arm of God who has all things under control every head bowed every eye closed I'm going to open up this altar right now to anyone who says today I need to receive Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior I'm away from the faith I'm away from God I need him today I'm just telling you God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son for you that whosoever would believe in him would not perish that have everlasting life this is the greatest invitation that you'll ever have you could have invitations to go and see the king the president but you'll never have one like this to meet the king of kings and the lord of lords face to face if today pastor you say pastor I don't know Jesus but I want him to be the lord of my life slip that hand up right where you are would you do it come on all around this building all around this building all online I want to pray this prayer with you just in case there might be somebody that's watching online today Jesus is your savior now's the time today's the day of salvation you need to get a but if not on the inside no matter what I'm gonna stand pray this prayer with me right out loud dear heavenly father I come to you in Jesus name I'm a sinner in need of the savior and you are that savior Jesus I believe you died on the cross for me I believe you were buried in your rose again on the third day I believe you're coming back forgive me of my sin Lord Jesus come into my heart today make me brand new I want to be ready when you come I want to be ready to stand in this evil day give me faith to stand in Jesus name in Jesus name how many of you would say this morning pastor I believe my faith I'm able to stand in this evil day let me see your hand throw the other hand up right now would you do that I don't want you to thank God that demons are subject to you I want you to thank God your name is written in the lambs book of life and he's giving you confidence open your mouth and praise him right now come on open your mouth and give him glory father we thank you right now that I was once a center but now I'm found I pray in this hour Lord that you would give me strength to stand my friend who's standing next to me right now no matter what the persecution no matter what the trial no matter Lord on their job where they're where they are pressured to compromise give them strength and stamina in the faith to be able to go ahead and say yes to Jesus and go to this world I thank you God for the example of these three Hebrew boys one day we're going to see them face to face one day we're going to testify to them and them to us we stood the test we made it through the trial we went through the fiery furnace and nothing has come upon us we don't even smell like smoke because God is our God and beside him there is no other I give you glory for it right now if you believe it shut a great big amen if you're ready to meet the challenge by faith of this week put your hands together and give the Lord of lords of the king of king the ovation of the morning come on and do it right now shake hands with somebody let them know how much you love them tell them whatever you do just stand just stand