Where Is Your Allegiance

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SPEAKER_03 0:52

Welcome back again to Healing Stream Waters Daily Dosage. God is good all the time and all the time. God is good. He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. He declares to end from the beginning. It's nothing that God don't know about. There's no sneak attacks with uh with him. He don't have to do secrets with us. He doesn't have to say hide and seek or peekaboo. If you want to know what God has in store for you, for your life, what's coming up, even in the world, if you really want to know, God will tell you because it's nothing new under the sun. I'm going to be reading today in your hearing from the third chapter of Daniel, starting at the 16th verse through the 18th. And it reads as such Shrach, Meshach, and Abendigo answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us from your hand, O King. But if not, let it be known to you, O King, that we do not serve your guys, nor will we worship the golden, the gold image which you have set up. And the topic that I want to leave with you this afternoon, where is your allegiance? Now we have uh with the constitution of the U.S. where we pledge allegiance, and we state, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We are separated in our beliefs. We don't give liberty to all. And worship, you can't do it to no other god but to what we have in place, and it was something that was put in place because the people knew that Shabbat, Meshach, and Abendigo, they was true, their allegiance were to the true and living God. They know that they couldn't find anything wrong with them other than what that was pertaining to their God. And so when they were brought before the king, they wasn't arrogant, they were sure, they was confident in their God, and they told the king, we're careful how we answer you, but let this be known to you. That was a stance, and I'll tell you that if you stand for God, you can best believe God's gonna stand for you. He said he will go before you, he will be your rear, he will be an enemy to your enemy. God's not gonna make your hope ashamed, he's not gonna let you be caught between and betwixt, he's gonna make a way out of no way, just like he did with Moses at the Red Sea. The Red Sea was in front of them, the Egyptians was behind them. But guess what? God did, He did it through Moses. What's in your hand, Moses? Stretch out your ride, and when he stretched out his ride, God sent the wind to part the Red Sea, and the sea rose up, and the children of Israel was able to walk on through on dry ground. Now, here's this fiery furnace that they told the people whoever didn't abide by this law, they were going to be put in the fiery furnace. But because Sharach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said, You don't fear us, King.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Be it known to you, we're not going to serve no other God.

SPEAKER_03 8:34

Because our commandments said, You should have no other God before me, besides me. There is none, there's none but one. Here, O Israel, our God is one, and sometimes we make a God out of a lot of things. It could be our job, it can be our family, it could be our children, it could be anything that you put before God, please know, my brother and sister, that you're not worthy of God because he will have nothing before him. He's a jealous God, but he will defend you if you stand for him. And so they say, even if God doesn't, we are not even questioning his ability because we know that he can. And if he chooses to, he will, because he's sovereign. Even if he doesn't, I'm satisfied with his answer, I'm satisfied with his results, because father knows best, and because the king wasn't satisfied, he couldn't break them, he decided to have the fiery furnace turn up seven times hotter than it ought to have been. So then that which was made for the Hebrew voice, those that were attached to them and trying to get them into the fiery furnace, those are the ones that got burnt up because they didn't have a shield. God will protect us from the flood, he will protect us from the fire. I see a fourth man that looks like the son of God. Let me tell you, I don't care how hot the fire is turned up. I don't care what the devil brings your way, he can come at you like a woman's contractions, just keep on hammering. But the Bible says that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard. He says, and and and John that uh upon this rock I'm gonna build my church. The church is his people, it's not an edifice, it's not the temple. We are the body of Christ, which is the church. He said, Upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail. He didn't say it won't go, he didn't say it was gonna come at you, he said it will not win. I'm going to build this church and a gate, no matter what hell brings. If you stay setfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, you will be victorious because the battle has already been fought, and a victory has been a one. We have no need to fight in battles because they belong to God. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. It doesn't matter. Encourage someone, encourage a brother, encourage your sister. This too will pass, it won't always be like this. He will perfect that thing that concerneth you sooner or later, it will turn in your favor because he's turning around for me. The Hebrews boy said, Even if he don't, I stand fast in that. And if it's gone, he can make it again. He destroyed the world with Noah, but because from the beginning he said, have dominion, be fruitful, be multiplied, replenish the earth. He was able to do it again. You will not be able to put God in a box because he's God, he's king of kings, he's lord of lords, he's the great I am. The Bible says, Don't fear the one that can kill the body, but fear the one that can kill the body and put the soul in hell. I thank God today that I'm in the Lord, and I can't be plucked out of his hands because he covered me, he'll cover you with his wings. Be blessed today, be prosperous, knowing that we're in good hands. They say we'll all state I say with Jesus Christ, He's my beginning, my ending, he's the first, he's the last, he's everything in between, he's Alpha and the Omega. I who wouldn't serve a God like this. Wind may blow and storm clouds will rise. We will have a lot of things that come up before us, come up against us, but as the Israelites uh had light when it and Goshen when Egypt was full of darkness, God will take care of his own. He said, My sheep know my voice, and a stranger they will not follow. Be blessed today. This is healing stream waters, asking you one simple question. Where is your allegiance? Have you proven what you're testifying to? What you are re-into. Look, you can't do nothing against the word of God. You may try, as the Bible says, if it's of God, you can't overthrow it, and if it's not of God, it will come to null. Stand fast in the liberty where Christ have made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. He who the Son make free is free indeed. Where is your allegiance? Even if he don't heal me, even if he don't turn this thing around for me, it's not his his it's not against his ability, because he can do all things but fail. There's nothing too hard for God, and there's nothing impossible to him that believe. God loves you. I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Go in peace and be blessed of the Lord.