WEBVTT 00:00:00.662 --> 00:00:10.512 the treasured design unleashed and we want to read from the book of John, 16, verse 7 to 15. 00:00:10.512 --> 00:00:13.207 We are reading a very interesting passage. 00:00:13.207 --> 00:00:21.170 It is Jesus about to leave the sin and so he is introducing the Holy Spirit to the disciples. 00:00:21.170 --> 00:00:28.748 The Bible says in verse 7, but very truly, I tell you, it is for your good that I'm going away. 00:00:28.748 --> 00:00:33.771 Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come. 00:00:33.771 --> 00:00:37.069 But if I go, I will send him to you. 00:00:37.069 --> 00:00:42.438 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong. 00:00:42.518 --> 00:00:48.000 About sin and righteousness and judgment about sin, because people do not believe in me. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:53.829 About righteousness, because I'm going to the Father, where you can see me no longer. 00:00:53.829 --> 00:00:57.850 And about judgment, because the Prince of this world now stands condemned. 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:02.746 I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 00:01:02.746 --> 00:01:07.787 But when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. 00:01:07.787 --> 00:01:09.980 He will not speak on his own. 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:15.710 He will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is here to come. 00:01:15.710 --> 00:01:23.266 He will glorify me, because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.959 Verse 15, all that belongs to the Father is mine. 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:34.668 That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you. 00:01:34.668 --> 00:01:36.284 This is the word of God. 00:01:36.284 --> 00:01:41.826 And God said please we may be seated in God's house. 00:01:41.826 --> 00:02:02.364 Shall we pray, father, what a blessing to be in God's house, to have worshipped, to have praised, to have prayed, to have given and now to receive your word and Holy Spirit. 00:02:02.364 --> 00:02:03.709 This is your servant, ambrose. 00:02:03.709 --> 00:02:09.588 Open his mouth and speak through him what you want us to receive. 00:02:09.588 --> 00:02:17.000 The Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:22.826 So, lord, let this treasured design become a reality to us today. 00:02:22.826 --> 00:02:27.979 All glory goes back to you because we have prayed in Jesus' name. 00:02:28.883 --> 00:02:47.000 And God's people say as I start, I just want to make this statement Don't try too hard. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.837 So tell your neighbor, don't try too hard, don't try too hard. 00:02:52.837 --> 00:02:58.635 Tell the other neighbor don't try too hard, don't try too hard. 00:02:58.635 --> 00:03:01.427 And then tell the neighbor who ignored you. 00:03:01.427 --> 00:03:09.592 Tell them don't try too hard to ignore me, don't try too hard. 00:03:09.592 --> 00:03:19.665 You know, one of the things we don't want to have is Christians who are trying so hard that they are missing the point. 00:03:19.665 --> 00:03:22.043 They are trying so hard. 00:03:22.043 --> 00:03:27.264 They have been given standards to meet and they are not meeting them. 00:03:27.264 --> 00:03:35.000 They are trying too hard and I want to say, in Jesus' name God did not save you to try too hard. 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.467 God did not save you to do what? 00:03:37.467 --> 00:03:39.425 To try too hard? 00:03:40.521 --> 00:03:48.167 I think this religious mindset that we have been given sometimes make us really struggle and we don't enjoy our Christianity. 00:03:48.167 --> 00:03:55.806 Let me tell you this Jesus did not save you so that you could enjoy your salvation in heaven. 00:03:55.806 --> 00:03:59.167 Let me speak to some people on this side. 00:03:59.167 --> 00:04:04.771 Jesus did not save you so that you could enjoy your salvation in heaven. 00:04:04.771 --> 00:04:08.990 You are supposed to enjoy your salvation in heaven. 00:04:08.990 --> 00:04:11.848 The Bible says that the kingdom will come. 00:04:11.848 --> 00:04:15.000 They will be done on as it is in heaven. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:30.721 And so today, just as I talk about the Holy Spirit and the reason why he was given, he was given to us so that we don't try too hard, because he is our helper, even a helper. 00:04:30.721 --> 00:04:36.923 You don't decide that you are going to play very hard and do your best, and yet he is there. 00:04:36.923 --> 00:04:42.242 Many times also, we have a very religious mindset about the Holy Spirit. 00:04:42.242 --> 00:04:46.663 Let me tell you this the Holy Spirit is just like Jesus. 00:04:46.663 --> 00:04:48.088 Amen. 00:04:48.088 --> 00:04:50.983 It's like who Like Jesus. 00:04:50.983 --> 00:04:53.685 And so Jesus has come. 00:04:53.685 --> 00:04:59.447 But Jesus is saying I will pray the Father, he'll give you another counselor. 00:05:00.060 --> 00:05:02.067 So let me read these verses in the amplified version. 00:05:02.067 --> 00:05:04.333 But let me read from John 14. 00:05:04.333 --> 00:05:06.504 I read from John 16. 00:05:06.504 --> 00:05:07.709 Let me read from 14. 00:05:07.709 --> 00:05:12.206 The Bible says this One more time tell your neighbor, don't try too hard. 00:05:12.206 --> 00:05:15.644 The Bible says he will. 00:05:15.644 --> 00:05:17.521 Chapla 14,. 00:05:18.062 --> 00:05:20.870 I want to start around verse 14. 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:22.766 John 14, 14. 00:05:22.766 --> 00:05:24.305 Let's pick it from there. 00:05:24.305 --> 00:05:29.846 The Bible says if you ask me anything in my name, as my representative, I will do it. 00:05:29.846 --> 00:05:33.970 If you really love me, you will keep and obey my commandments. 00:05:33.970 --> 00:05:38.865 And then he says and I will ask the Father and he will give you what. 00:05:38.865 --> 00:05:41.024 Another helper. 00:05:41.024 --> 00:05:45.826 Now this helper, the word helper, comes from the word paracletus. 00:05:45.826 --> 00:05:55.226 Paracletus is a Greek word, paracletus Broken in two words Para and cletus. 00:05:55.226 --> 00:06:00.716 So tell your neighbor he's saying para and cletus, paracletus. 00:06:00.716 --> 00:06:05.086 Hallelujah, I hope if you're from Murangah you can say the words. 00:06:05.086 --> 00:06:11.110 Well, paracletus. 00:06:13.225 --> 00:06:22.468 Para means alongside, alongside, alongside Cletus is a Greek word. 00:06:22.468 --> 00:06:25.086 That in another way, we say kaleo. 00:06:25.086 --> 00:06:30.504 Now, kaleo is not a Kalinjin word, but a Greek word. 00:06:30.504 --> 00:06:39.809 Kaleo simply meaning to call, and so in English the way we write it is C-A-L-L to call. 00:06:39.809 --> 00:06:44.509 In Greek they say K-A-L-E-O. 00:06:44.509 --> 00:06:50.567 Kaleo it means to call, so you have para, kaleo. 00:06:50.567 --> 00:06:56.589 So when you bring the two words, it's to call alongside. 00:06:56.589 --> 00:07:10.387 That's why in mathematics, when you have two parallel lines, para means alongside, lel means a line, so it is a line that is called alongside another line. 00:07:14.822 --> 00:07:21.000 I'm helping some people who failed mathematics, not because you did not understand. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:26.798 Your teacher did not know how to explain One, as if you were parallel. 00:07:26.798 --> 00:07:30.569 Now, another word for para is the word parachute. 00:07:30.569 --> 00:07:45.411 Parachute, a chute is that thing that covers you, parachute, and so para chute is that parachute. 00:07:45.411 --> 00:07:56.985 You know that when you jump out of a plane, as you are coming out, you pull it out and it comes alongside you and brings you safely on earth. 00:08:00.456 --> 00:08:01.257 Are we neatering this? 00:08:01.257 --> 00:08:06.329 Neatering is a Hebrew word that means to catch Right. 00:08:06.329 --> 00:08:12.324 So parash, parakleo, because I want you to understand these Greek words, because sometimes we read the Bible and we just see helper. 00:08:12.324 --> 00:08:20.362 But that helper means the one who was called alongside you and I will ask the father and he will give you another helper. 00:08:20.362 --> 00:08:26.800 I'll not talk about another, because another is another Greek word which is very key. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:28.764 It's the word alos. 00:08:28.764 --> 00:08:31.595 Alos, because you have two words. 00:08:31.595 --> 00:08:34.100 You have heteros and alos. 00:08:34.100 --> 00:08:35.702 Are we together? 00:08:35.702 --> 00:08:44.187 Hetero means another of a different kind, alos means another of the same kind. 00:08:44.187 --> 00:08:50.962 So Jesus is saying I am going to give you another helper like me, exactly like me. 00:08:51.764 --> 00:08:52.346 Are we together? 00:08:52.346 --> 00:09:01.625 And so when you have the Holy Spirit, it's like having who, it's like having Jesus, and sometimes we say, oh, I wish Jesus was with us, I wish he was the one. 00:09:01.625 --> 00:09:01.886 Here. 00:09:01.886 --> 00:09:08.940 You have the Holy Spirit, jesus, and now the word parakleo in the amplified is expanded. 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:26.186 These are the words, and I will pray the father and he will give you another helper, and he's also called Camphorta, advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener, stand by. 00:09:26.186 --> 00:09:28.451 It's like standby generators. 00:09:28.451 --> 00:09:29.693 Are we together? 00:09:29.693 --> 00:09:34.070 And so when electricity goes off from the main line, the generator kicks in. 00:09:34.070 --> 00:09:38.207 I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is your standby generator. 00:09:38.207 --> 00:09:41.520 He is your strengthener, he's your helper. 00:09:41.520 --> 00:09:44.892 And I'm saying this Don't try too hard. 00:09:44.892 --> 00:09:48.039 Your helper is alongside you. 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.924 Are we together? 00:09:49.924 --> 00:09:55.659 Enjoy, enjoy your salvation here on this planet, enjoy it. 00:09:56.041 --> 00:09:58.850 Don't fight the devil on your own, hallelujah. 00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:00.778 Don't fight the devil on your own. 00:10:00.778 --> 00:10:03.129 The Holy Spirit is with you, alongside you. 00:10:03.129 --> 00:10:05.360 He knows where the Holy Spirit will come from. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:14.840 You know many times again in our religious mindset, when we are fighting with the devil, and you know you hear how people pray during the Kesha's father. 00:10:27.610 --> 00:10:32.839 Of course, the person who is laughing at you is the devil, because, number one, you cannot put him in a gunia. 00:10:32.839 --> 00:10:40.140 He's a spirit, and so the Holy Spirit knows which direction is coming from and he will help you. 00:10:40.140 --> 00:10:41.083 You don't have to struggle. 00:10:41.083 --> 00:10:43.182 You don't have to struggle in your marriage. 00:10:43.182 --> 00:10:44.850 The Holy Spirit is there. 00:10:44.850 --> 00:10:46.798 You don't have to struggle in your finances. 00:10:46.798 --> 00:10:49.525 The Holy Spirit will show you what to do. 00:10:49.525 --> 00:10:53.602 He'll give you ideas, innovative ideas. 00:10:53.602 --> 00:10:54.865 He's the creator. 00:10:54.865 --> 00:10:56.355 He was there in the beginning. 00:10:56.517 --> 00:11:01.321 The Bible says the Spirit hovered upon the waters and God said let there be light, and there was light. 00:11:01.321 --> 00:11:07.784 So what we are saying is this Allow the Holy Spirit to be our helper Again in our religious minds. 00:11:07.784 --> 00:11:16.664 And I'm just reminding us, you know, some of us have a very funny idea about the Holy Spirit, and it's because of some churches you have gone to and places you have gone to. 00:11:16.664 --> 00:11:19.801 You don't realize the Holy Spirit is actually a person. 00:11:19.801 --> 00:11:26.482 He hears, he talks, he counsels, he strengthens, he is your advocate. 00:11:26.482 --> 00:11:28.897 He will speak for you when there is a case. 00:11:28.897 --> 00:11:30.582 Are we together? 00:11:31.667 --> 00:11:56.076 So don't forget that picture you have of those churches where people are hitting drums and suddenly somewhere a lady says and somebody says I'm a fika, holy Spirit, I'm a fika, the Holy Spirit is here, my friend. 00:11:56.076 --> 00:12:05.315 That's not the Holy Spirit, that is just a lady who is over excited, hello. 00:12:05.315 --> 00:12:10.384 And that is why especially men do not want to receive the Spirit. 00:12:10.384 --> 00:12:20.778 Anytime you hear a Pastambra saying now we are going to invite the Holy Spirit, men especially. 00:12:20.778 --> 00:12:30.826 See, I'm okay, now, see, piggy, my way, hello. 00:12:31.868 --> 00:12:33.552 But that's the wrong idea of the Holy Spirit. 00:12:33.552 --> 00:12:37.481 The men are the people who need the Holy Spirit most. 00:12:37.481 --> 00:12:42.980 Why are you laughing? 00:12:42.980 --> 00:12:52.714 Men need a helper More than the one the Bible says. 00:12:52.714 --> 00:12:54.197 It is not good for man to be alone. 00:12:54.197 --> 00:12:58.370 I'll give him a suitable helper. 00:12:58.370 --> 00:12:59.475 We need the Holy Spirit. 00:12:59.575 --> 00:13:00.938 And let me not say about men only. 00:13:00.938 --> 00:13:05.110 I'm saying all of us, all of us, all of us. 00:13:05.110 --> 00:13:07.720 And that's why Jesus was praying. 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:09.467 I will pray the Father. 00:13:09.467 --> 00:13:14.601 He'll give you the Advocate, that's strength enough, so don't try too hard. 00:13:14.601 --> 00:13:17.067 Now, why? 00:13:17.067 --> 00:13:18.008 Why, this counselor. 00:13:18.008 --> 00:13:20.861 The Bible says he will lead you into all truth. 00:13:20.861 --> 00:13:22.746 What is this truth? 00:13:22.746 --> 00:13:35.561 The truth is that God has a treasured design and God wants to design it, but the person who is actually going to build that design is the Holy Spirit. 00:13:35.561 --> 00:13:45.586 Architects put things down, they know everything, but there's a builder, there's a contractor who comes and puts that picture into reality. 00:13:45.586 --> 00:13:53.727 And I want to say, the person who's going to put a picture of the design of God into reality is none other than the Holy Spirit. 00:13:53.727 --> 00:14:04.273 Now let me go and then go to the next step here and let you tell you this this treasure is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:14:04.273 --> 00:14:06.759 Tell your neighbor that treasure is Jesus Christ. 00:14:09.186 --> 00:14:11.672 Let me read Colossians 2, verse 3. 00:14:11.672 --> 00:14:14.821 The Bible says this, colossians 2 3. 00:14:14.821 --> 00:14:16.245 Very wonderful verse. 00:14:16.245 --> 00:14:26.424 Here it says in whom, that is, christ, are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 00:14:26.424 --> 00:14:33.461 In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and what and knowledge. 00:14:35.245 --> 00:14:37.677 Let me read another verse John, chapter 1, verse 16. 00:14:37.677 --> 00:14:42.144 The Bible said that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and then the word was God. 00:14:42.144 --> 00:14:44.316 And then the Bible says this in verse 16. 00:14:44.316 --> 00:14:55.561 Out of His fullness, out of this treasure, we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 00:14:55.561 --> 00:14:57.846 Now let me read this verse in the amplified version. 00:14:57.846 --> 00:14:59.277 It comes out so well. 00:14:59.277 --> 00:15:08.397 It says this For, out of His fullness, the abundance of His grace and truth. 00:15:08.397 --> 00:15:24.000 We have all received grace upon grace, spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor and gift heaped upon gift. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:35.587 In other words, jesus has so much treasure, he is so rich and God is saying now you have received of this treasure. 00:15:35.587 --> 00:15:46.389 So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you are rich, because that treasure is where Is it? 00:15:46.389 --> 00:15:46.855 In heaven? 00:15:46.855 --> 00:15:48.438 Where is it? 00:15:48.438 --> 00:15:50.162 It's inside you. 00:15:50.162 --> 00:15:54.719 Now let me read this so that I can prove to you the way that treasure is. 00:15:54.778 --> 00:15:57.205 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 7. 00:15:57.205 --> 00:16:00.419 The Bible says this 2nd Corinthians 4, 7. 00:16:00.419 --> 00:16:21.524 But we have this precious treasure the good news about salvation in an Anwadi, aten vessels of human frailty, so that the grandeur and the surpassing greatness of the power will be shown to be from God and His sufficiency and not from ourselves. 00:16:21.524 --> 00:16:25.224 Now let me read that in the NIV it will come out smoothly, kidogo. 00:16:25.224 --> 00:16:39.875 Here it says this but we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. 00:16:39.875 --> 00:16:48.136 And that is why it goes on to say this we are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed. 00:16:48.136 --> 00:16:51.764 Perplexed but not in despair. 00:16:51.764 --> 00:16:54.812 Persecuted but not abandoned. 00:16:54.812 --> 00:16:57.370 Struck down but not destroyed. 00:16:57.370 --> 00:17:05.203 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 00:17:05.382 --> 00:17:16.617 Now look at your neighbor one more time and tell your neighbor I am rich, I have God's treasure in me and I want you to believe that. 00:17:16.617 --> 00:17:24.782 Even though you don't feel it, I want you to believe it, even though you're not experiencing it, I want you to believe it and I want to use the life of Daniel to show you three things. 00:17:24.782 --> 00:17:26.936 So let me put that on the screen for you. 00:17:26.936 --> 00:17:32.358 These are the three things that the Holy Spirit is trying to release and unleash in your life. 00:17:32.358 --> 00:17:35.386 Number one kingdom excellence. 00:17:35.386 --> 00:17:39.297 Number two supernatural encounters. 00:17:39.297 --> 00:17:42.384 And number three unstoppable favor. 00:17:42.384 --> 00:17:46.440 Number one these are the treasures Kingdom excellence. 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.566 Number two supernatural encounters. 00:17:49.566 --> 00:17:52.025 And number three unstoppable favor. 00:17:52.025 --> 00:17:54.201 So one more time, look at your neighbor. 00:17:54.201 --> 00:17:56.721 Tell your neighbor I have kingdom excellence. 00:17:56.721 --> 00:18:02.679 Tell your neighbor, in me supernatural encounters are happening. 00:18:02.679 --> 00:18:08.655 And then tell your neighbor I have unstoppable favor. 00:18:11.181 --> 00:18:15.208 Now, daniel is kind of a picture of what God is trying to say. 00:18:15.208 --> 00:18:20.298 So giving us an Old Testament picture to tell us that in the New Testament we can have that experience. 00:18:20.298 --> 00:18:22.887 So it's not about just the Old Testament. 00:18:22.887 --> 00:18:26.538 God is saying look at this and then look at this. 00:18:26.538 --> 00:18:28.442 See what I did then. 00:18:28.442 --> 00:18:30.586 Now see what I can do now. 00:18:32.817 --> 00:18:34.280 Daniel was a very interesting person. 00:18:34.280 --> 00:18:35.625 He was a young man. 00:18:35.625 --> 00:18:39.244 Shadrach Misha Kandabednego were his friends. 00:18:39.244 --> 00:18:49.135 They were relocated from Israel and they were transported to Babylon, and they stayed in Babylon for nearly 70 years. 00:18:49.135 --> 00:19:01.061 And while they're in Babylon, they had four regimes Nebuchadnezzar, belshazzar, darius and Cyrus. 00:19:01.061 --> 00:19:08.077 And while in Babylon, though, they wished they could go back to Israel. 00:19:08.077 --> 00:19:12.295 God put them in Babylon for a purpose I want you to know. 00:19:12.935 --> 00:19:19.645 Today, israel can be the church and Babylon can be the marketplace. 00:19:19.645 --> 00:19:29.596 And after this service, when you pass through that gate, you will have left Israel and gone to Babylon. 00:19:29.596 --> 00:19:33.564 In Israel, they are hallelujahs. 00:19:33.564 --> 00:19:38.101 In Babylon, there are no hallelujahs. 00:19:38.101 --> 00:19:54.364 The marketplace does not care whether you say hallelujah, and many times we know how to live our Christianity in church, but after we pass that gate, we don't know how to live our Christian life. 00:19:55.714 --> 00:20:02.163 Monday, for some people, is a very difficult day Because they don't know how to live in the marketplace. 00:20:02.163 --> 00:20:05.565 They don't know how to bring their Christianity into the marketplace. 00:20:05.565 --> 00:20:26.567 But God is saying you have to live in the marketplace, you have to be in Babylon and you need to let your light shine in Babylon, but not everywhere, and so these men were brought into Babylon, and they spent their lives with the Babylonians who never knew God, who worshipped idols, but they still let their light shine. 00:20:26.567 --> 00:20:34.603 The Holy Spirit is, then, the one who is able to help you here, and you don't have to try too hard. 00:20:34.603 --> 00:20:38.042 Don't try too hard to convince people to get saved. 00:20:38.042 --> 00:20:42.625 Don't try too hard to let your light shine, just let it shine. 00:20:42.625 --> 00:20:46.365 One has fewer, just let it shine. 00:20:46.365 --> 00:20:56.634 Of course, the environment is not conducive, but let me tell you this the Holy Spirit is able to work in you exceedingly, abundantly, above what you ask for in the image. 00:20:56.634 --> 00:20:58.003 So let me give you some examples. 00:20:58.003 --> 00:20:59.654 How Daniel managed to do that. 00:20:59.654 --> 00:21:03.262 Number one he had kingdom excellence in him. 00:21:06.096 --> 00:21:16.615 After Nebuchadnezzar, there was a son of Nebuchadnezzar called the Shaza, who really didn't care about the things of God, and so his story is in Daniel, chapter 5. 00:21:16.615 --> 00:21:19.423 So let me read a few verses in Daniel, chapter 5. 00:21:19.423 --> 00:21:21.740 This was a man of the world. 00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:26.058 No, hallelujahs, he did not care. 00:21:26.058 --> 00:21:32.280 Now listen to this story, very nice, beginning with verse one, please, daniel 5, 1. 00:21:33.497 --> 00:21:42.161 It says King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 00:21:42.161 --> 00:21:54.205 So let me repeat that again for us Tell your neighbor wine is not orange juice and tell your neighbor wine is not ribena. 00:21:54.205 --> 00:21:57.489 Now go back. 00:21:57.489 --> 00:22:00.501 Remember, this is not a church person, this is a person of the world. 00:22:00.501 --> 00:22:09.343 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them In brackets. 00:22:09.343 --> 00:22:18.239 When you're talking about wine in brackets, just put there whiskey and cognac and the rest. 00:22:18.239 --> 00:22:24.349 Now don't look at your neighbor innocently, hello. 00:22:24.349 --> 00:22:31.603 So this is a man of the world and remember, daniel is working in that government, he's working in that environment. 00:22:32.076 --> 00:22:44.121 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from where the temple in Jerusalem. 00:22:44.121 --> 00:22:53.607 In other words, this guy just didn't care about the things of God so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 00:22:53.607 --> 00:23:04.906 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. 00:23:04.906 --> 00:23:13.654 God decides he's going to intervene in this party, party and he's going to say party. 00:23:13.654 --> 00:23:15.057 God shows up. 00:23:15.057 --> 00:23:18.604 As they drank the wine. 00:23:18.604 --> 00:23:27.282 They praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. 00:23:27.282 --> 00:23:29.387 Can you imagine how do you talk to people like that? 00:23:29.387 --> 00:23:31.099 Suddenly? 00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:31.642 Tell your neighbor. 00:23:31.682 --> 00:23:47.963 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall near the lamp stand in the royal palace and the king Belshazzar got so shocked. 00:23:47.963 --> 00:23:50.279 The king watched the hand. 00:23:50.279 --> 00:24:00.064 Now the hand is not a Nobody's standing there, they just hand back a hapaivi and it is writing something the Bible says. 00:24:00.064 --> 00:24:04.583 He got so shocked I think he felt maybe I've drunk too much wine. 00:24:04.583 --> 00:24:11.654 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking. 00:24:11.654 --> 00:24:14.221 The king summoned the enchanters. 00:24:14.221 --> 00:24:18.654 Now these are the people who surround him Enchanters, astrologers, diviners. 00:24:18.654 --> 00:24:50.462 Then he said to this wise man of Babylon whoever reads this writing Now he didn't say the way I'm saying it Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means to be clothed what animal is that? 00:24:50.462 --> 00:25:04.986 Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain in place around his neck and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom. 00:25:05.654 --> 00:25:10.626 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant. 00:25:10.626 --> 00:25:15.426 So king Belshazzar became even more terrified and his first group more pale. 00:25:15.426 --> 00:25:17.603 His nobles were baffled. 00:25:17.603 --> 00:25:21.625 Then, thank God for the queen, tell your neighbor, thank God for the queen. 00:25:21.625 --> 00:25:27.546 Now, this queen was the mother of Belshazzar, the wife of Nebuchadnezzar. 00:25:27.546 --> 00:25:28.488 This is what she says. 00:25:29.076 --> 00:25:32.654 The queen, hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. 00:25:32.654 --> 00:25:34.654 May the king live forever. 00:25:34.654 --> 00:25:39.426 She said don't be alarmed, don't look so pale. 00:25:39.426 --> 00:25:41.634 Then he said something that is so important. 00:25:41.634 --> 00:25:44.804 There is a man in your kingdom. 00:25:44.804 --> 00:25:50.287 Oh, we are in the marketplace, but there is a man in your kingdom. 00:25:50.287 --> 00:25:55.967 Oh, your working place is so terrible, but there is a man in your kingdom. 00:25:55.967 --> 00:26:02.666 Yes, in your social setting, things are top stuffy, everything is upside down, but there is a man. 00:26:02.666 --> 00:26:11.345 I pray that somebody in that marketplace can testify and say we are going through such a big challenge, but in this organization there is a man. 00:26:11.345 --> 00:26:12.898 There is a woman. 00:26:12.898 --> 00:26:14.545 Listen to what he says. 00:26:14.545 --> 00:26:18.964 There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. 00:26:20.694 --> 00:26:27.195 In the time of your father, he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom, like that of the gods. 00:26:27.195 --> 00:26:31.546 Your father, king Nebuchadnezzar, pointed him chief of the magicians. 00:26:31.546 --> 00:26:32.126 Can you imagine? 00:26:32.126 --> 00:26:37.105 He was chief over these astrologers, magicians, enchanters, astrologers. 00:26:37.105 --> 00:26:42.805 You know he did this because Daniel, whom the king called Belshazzar, was found to have a keen mind. 00:26:42.805 --> 00:26:47.770 A keen mind, go back, go back, go back there. 00:26:47.770 --> 00:26:48.634 A keen mind. 00:26:48.634 --> 00:26:59.233 He had a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams and explain riddles and solve difficult problems. 00:26:59.253 --> 00:26:59.634 Call for who? 00:26:59.634 --> 00:27:03.566 I pray that somebody can call for you. 00:27:03.566 --> 00:27:26.654 I pray that the United Nations can call for you, I pray that this government can call for you and say there is a man, there is a woman who has a kingdom, excellent spirit in them, and let me tell you this the Holy Spirit, who is a treasure in you, he will make it happen for you if you give Him the chance, oh, if you give Him the chance. 00:27:26.654 --> 00:27:29.670 Listen, it goes on to say this and he will tell you what the writing means. 00:27:29.670 --> 00:27:32.744 This is the queen testify. 00:27:32.744 --> 00:27:34.634 The next farmer says this. 00:27:35.877 --> 00:27:44.289 So Daniel was brought before the king and the king said to him are you, daniel, one of the exiles my father, the king, brought from Judah? 00:27:44.289 --> 00:27:45.654 He's looking down on him. 00:27:45.654 --> 00:27:51.227 I have heard that the spirit of the God is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom. 00:27:51.227 --> 00:27:57.567 And the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it. 00:27:57.567 --> 00:28:02.654 Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. 00:28:02.654 --> 00:28:15.307 If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you'll be clothed in purple and have gold, a gold chain, around your neck, and you'll be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom. 00:28:16.135 --> 00:28:20.945 Then Daniel answered the king you may keep your gifts for yourself. 00:28:20.945 --> 00:28:32.546 If it was me, I thank God I'm not Daniel. 00:28:32.546 --> 00:28:37.575 You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. 00:28:37.575 --> 00:28:39.634 Nevertheless, look at his attitude. 00:28:39.634 --> 00:28:44.866 I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means. 00:28:44.866 --> 00:28:51.207 Your majesty, the most high God gave your father and his sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. 00:28:52.155 --> 00:28:57.905 And then he goes on to tell him the story, but at the end of the day, he interprets the dream. 00:28:57.905 --> 00:29:08.105 He had a kingdom excellence in his heart, and I believe that where you are, where you sit, don't look down on yourself. 00:29:08.105 --> 00:29:10.240 There is treasure in you. 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:13.019 I'm saying there is treasure in you. 00:29:13.019 --> 00:29:21.244 There's a kingdom spirit in you, hallelujah, and you're able to solve riddles, things that are challenging others. 00:29:21.244 --> 00:29:27.866 If you ask the Holy Spirit, jesus says the Holy Spirit will take what is mine and give it to you. 00:29:27.866 --> 00:29:29.880 He will reveal it to you. 00:29:30.775 --> 00:29:40.325 Remember the verse that says I has not seen, ear has not heard, the heart has not conceived what God has prepared for those who love him. 00:29:40.325 --> 00:29:45.386 And then he says and he has prepared and he has revealed them to us by his spirit. 00:29:45.386 --> 00:29:52.323 But many times we want to do things ourselves, we want to find understanding by our own. 00:29:52.323 --> 00:29:59.123 But let me tell you this God wants you to allow the Holy Spirit to help you know what you have. 00:29:59.123 --> 00:30:01.953 You have more than what it takes. 00:30:01.953 --> 00:30:05.661 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I have treasure in me. 00:30:05.661 --> 00:30:12.159 You see, god wants you to showcase the heavenly treasure that is inside you. 00:30:12.159 --> 00:30:19.119 You have an excellent spirit, but very quickly, these guys in Babylon also had supernatural encounters. 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:32.134 And I want to tell you this in this season and in this world, there are people in the marketplace that cannot just understand the gospel just by you telling them Jesus came, he died, he rose again. 00:30:32.134 --> 00:30:33.258 Now you need to get saved. 00:30:34.509 --> 00:30:36.693 There are people in the marketplace who don't care about that. 00:30:36.693 --> 00:30:40.582 These people have experienced supernatural encounters. 00:30:40.582 --> 00:30:56.083 There are people in the marketplace who have in their offices big snakes and they feed the snakes and they talk to those snakes and those snakes become doorways to spiritual encounters. 00:30:56.083 --> 00:31:02.803 They go to which doctors they have seen their sicknesses healed by which doctors? 00:31:02.803 --> 00:31:07.417 Of course, in the process of going there they are seriously embarrassed. 00:31:07.417 --> 00:31:14.336 Ask some of the witch doctors, some of their clients. 00:31:14.336 --> 00:31:24.509 You find that some of their clients are bishops, because their bishops have lived a life without supernatural encounters and they want something to happen in their church. 00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:28.490 They want their congregants to grow, they want money to build buildings. 00:31:28.490 --> 00:31:46.845 They go to Amuganga, to this witch doctor and they are told now the power will come, but bring this black chicken, black goat, and come shed blood, walk naked, a whole bishop. 00:31:46.845 --> 00:31:55.321 And in the process they experience some supernatural. 00:31:55.321 --> 00:31:56.262 Things begin to happen. 00:31:58.330 --> 00:32:02.739 But let me tell you this it's because we have denied the greater supernatural. 00:32:02.739 --> 00:32:14.509 There is a greater supernatural and Shadrach, meshach and Abednego encountered a spiritual encounter, supernatural encounter in the land of Babylon. 00:32:14.509 --> 00:32:16.755 That is found in chapter 3 of Daniel. 00:32:16.755 --> 00:32:19.942 So let me go to Daniel, chapter 3, very quickly. 00:32:19.942 --> 00:32:27.782 Because Nebuchadnezzar wanted to be worshiped and a decree was sent out that nobody should be worshiped, but Nebuchadnezzar. 00:32:27.782 --> 00:32:30.493 And Shadrach, meshach and Abednego refused. 00:32:30.493 --> 00:32:34.760 Now listen to us Daniel 3.16,. 00:32:35.221 --> 00:32:39.193 The Bible says this Shadrach, meshach and Abednego replied to him. 00:32:39.193 --> 00:32:44.482 King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 00:32:44.482 --> 00:32:53.963 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it. 00:32:53.963 --> 00:32:55.753 Can I hear an amen? 00:32:55.753 --> 00:32:57.971 Amen, you see, god is able. 00:32:57.971 --> 00:33:01.881 These were three boys who understood the God of the supernatural. 00:33:01.881 --> 00:33:09.403 And then he says that if we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will do all. 00:33:09.403 --> 00:33:14.039 He will deliver us from your majesty's hand, but look at verse 18. 00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:25.045 But even if he does not, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of God, of God you have set up. 00:33:25.810 --> 00:33:31.202 Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, meshach and Abednego and his attitude towards them changed. 00:33:31.202 --> 00:33:43.673 He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. 00:33:43.673 --> 00:33:50.223 So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. 00:33:50.223 --> 00:34:03.490 The king's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, meshach and Abednego, and these three men, family tied, fell into the blazing furnace. 00:34:03.490 --> 00:34:07.039 Then King Nebuchadnezzar saw something supernatural. 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:15.510 He leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisors weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire? 00:34:15.510 --> 00:34:30.657 They replied suddenly, your majesty, he said look, I see four men walking around in the fire and bound and harmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods. 00:34:31.438 --> 00:34:34.264 I'm telling somebody here, the fourth man is with you. 00:34:34.264 --> 00:34:38.119 I'm saying there's a fourth man in your life. 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:46.224 And even when you're thrown into a fiery finance of financial challenges, the fourth man is in the furnace. 00:34:46.224 --> 00:34:48.514 Fourth man is in the furnace. 00:34:48.514 --> 00:34:54.449 When your deal that was so key falls down and doesn't come through, there's a fourth man. 00:34:54.449 --> 00:35:00.510 When the debts are piling up until you do not know what to do and they are choking you, there is a fourth man in the furnace. 00:35:00.510 --> 00:35:03.797 Hallelujah, there is a fourth man. 00:35:03.797 --> 00:35:05.382 I'm saying there's a fourth man. 00:35:05.382 --> 00:35:07.998 And you know we say number four stands for what? 00:35:07.998 --> 00:35:10.818 Four stands for what? 00:35:10.818 --> 00:35:15.358 Mesaau, four, number four stands for what? 00:35:15.358 --> 00:35:25.440 Let me tell you a door, door, door. 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:33.282 The alphabet, aleph, beth, gimel, the let. 00:35:33.282 --> 00:35:37.559 The fourth alphabet means the door. 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:39.202 There is an open door. 00:35:40.213 --> 00:35:42.182 The Bible says no temptation has overtaken you. 00:35:42.182 --> 00:35:43.510 That is not common to man. 00:35:43.510 --> 00:35:44.735 God is faithful. 00:35:44.735 --> 00:35:57.331 He will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with that temptation he will provide a way of escape that you may be able to do what To endure it? 00:35:57.331 --> 00:35:58.614 There is a fourth man. 00:35:58.614 --> 00:36:00.619 Tell your neighbor, there is a fourth man. 00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:03.815 That fourth man is what Jesus said. 00:36:03.815 --> 00:36:06.402 I will send you another counselor, another comforter. 00:36:06.402 --> 00:36:11.922 He will find ways to get you out of very difficult situations and circumstances. 00:36:11.922 --> 00:36:20.621 B'anas, if you will, let me finish that Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted Shadrach Meshach Nebeno, the most high. 00:36:23.090 --> 00:36:24.293 Now he is the one who testified. 00:36:24.293 --> 00:36:31.463 He is the one saying Savants, I pray that somebody in the marketplace will testify about you. 00:36:31.463 --> 00:36:35.594 Come on, let's give God a big hand. 00:36:35.594 --> 00:36:49.135 Right now, the marketplace is the one making comedy, for over us In the marketplace, the church, are the comedians. 00:36:49.135 --> 00:36:53.503 Hello, because we are not letting our light shine. 00:36:53.503 --> 00:36:57.139 Nobody in the marketplace sees believers as serious people. 00:36:57.139 --> 00:37:12.014 They don't have excellence and they have never experienced supernatural encounters, and they are the comedians around the city, around the estate, but let me tell you this, not those from Parkland Baptist Church. 00:37:13.449 --> 00:37:14.351 You are a different breed. 00:37:14.351 --> 00:37:16.472 I'm saying you're a different breed. 00:37:16.472 --> 00:37:19.152 I'm hoping you are a different breed. 00:37:19.152 --> 00:37:21.550 I believe you are a different breed. 00:37:21.550 --> 00:37:24.391 By the way, do you believe you are a different breed? 00:37:24.391 --> 00:37:26.972 Can you say it with confidence? 00:37:26.972 --> 00:37:31.235 The world is waiting for your light to shine. 00:37:31.235 --> 00:37:34.112 The world is waiting for you to be the salt of the earth. 00:37:34.112 --> 00:37:38.434 Let me tell you this May God give you supernatural encounters. 00:37:38.434 --> 00:37:42.596 May you see God beyond just black and white papers. 00:37:42.596 --> 00:37:44.429 May you see God. 00:37:44.429 --> 00:37:52.737 I'm saying may you see God, may you see God. 00:37:54.447 --> 00:37:56.634 I remember one time a lady came and she called. 00:37:56.634 --> 00:38:07.336