I want to look here in chapter number 1 at verse number 4 here in Daniel chapter 1.
The Bible says about Babylon and at this time the king is looking for children, it
says in verse 4, children in whom was no blemish but well favored and skillful in
all wisdom and cunning in knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability
in them to stand in the king's palace and whom they might teach the learning
in the tongue of the Chaldeans. According to the scripture the Babylonian king had
captured many individuals from all over the world and brought them back to
his kingdom and essentially he's taking the best and the brightest of
every area and he's making them his servants. Some of those individuals were
children of Israel. Of the children of Israel we learn that it's Daniel and
Hananiah and Azariah and they are coming and basically being brought into this
situation where their children who are decided to be having no blemish, well
favored, they're skillful, they have knowledge, they have understanding and
that they would essentially become servants of the king of Babylon and
this is what he's looking for. But notice in verse 5 it says and the king
appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which
he drank so nourishing them three years that at the end thereof they might
stand before the king. So the king wants them to have good food and good
drink in his mind at least in order for them to be nourished and to be
capable of serving him and it's a three-year provision. Now the Bible
says in verse 8 but Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile
himself with the portion of the king's meat nor with the wine which he drank
therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile
himself. Now the Bible doesn't go into great detail as far as why
Daniel did not want to partake in the king's meat but it'd be very clear
that there's something sinful about this particular request and notice that
the Bible says that he didn't want to defile himself. There's several ways
that this could be interpreted. When it comes to meat the children of Israel
had strict dietary laws in the Old Testament so it perhaps was you know
animal flesh that it was not right. He couldn't eat swine's flesh or he
couldn't eat certain animals that didn't chew the cud or didn't part
the hoof, divide the hoof correctly and so perhaps it was meat that didn't
meet that particular requirement. When it comes to drink perhaps this is an
alcoholic beverage perhaps it's some kind of a beverage that is intoxicating
that he was offering under these children. It's not exactly clear but what
is for certain is that Daniel saw this as somehow sinful as somehow
gonna defile him as somehow being wrong and he purposed in his heart
that he did not want to partake in this king's provision and the title of
my sermon comes from this idea of Daniel standing against the grain or
going against the grain and there's even a great hymn written that's called
Dare to be a Daniel and I want to preach on the idea of daring to be a
Daniel and I want to challenge you to dare to be a Daniel and what that
means is essentially you're not going to go with the flow of the world
you're not going to necessarily just accept what's offered to you but
you're rather going to decide is this right is this what God would have me do
and you're going to try to make the decision that would please God not the
world not the king not what the peer pressure would be but rather you're
going to do as God would have you you are following his commandments
regardless of how that may affect your circumstance or your worldview or you
know these particular children are captives they're not even necessarily
free and since they are prisoners there they're slaves even maybe is the right
word to use in this particular context and for him to go against the
king he may be risking his life and we don't know exactly what kind of
pressure is on these children but when he tells the master of the eunuchs that
he doesn't want to partake in this provision he's worried that he would
die not feeding them the correct kind of food so his life is on the line it
makes me believe that these children's lives would also potentially be on the
line by going against the king and his command but what I want to point
out from this particular passage is that Daniel wants to keep himself sure
he wants to keep himself sure and we as God's people should strive to keep
ourselves pure and not to be defiled with the king's meat not to be defiled by
the king's drink and not to be defiled by this world God wants us to
be pure and you know this message to me is really important for you children
to pay attention to because Daniel notice what it the Bible says in verse
children Daniel was a child and we read a story about a great child in the Bible
and you know what just because you're young does not mean that you cannot be
a great servant of God you can't be greatly used by God or that God doesn't
care about the decisions that you make God wants you children to be pure God
wants you children to do right even when your parents aren't watching you
know Daniel didn't have his mom and his dad to tell him what to do here
Daniel didn't have the blessing of a mom and dad giving him boundaries and
giving him protection and and instructing him what to do in this
particular situation Daniel had to decide to do was right on his own and you
children what do you do when mom and dad aren't watching what are you like
when no one is paying attention what are you doing when you think you can get
away with that are you doing what God would have you do are you following
his commandments are you keeping yourself pure or are you allowing
yourself to be defiled by the king's meat are you going after the sins of
this world and we should challenge ourselves to obey God even when our
parents are watching because eventually you'll become an adult and you won't
have your parents to watch over every decision you won't have someone else to
hold your hand and to pay your bills and to get you out of trouble and
it's every person's responsibility to be accountable to God for himself and
Daniel took it seriously that he was a child of God that he was a servant of
God and he purposed in his heart he did not want to defile himself he
wanted to be right with God he wanted to stay pure now notice how God
responds to this child Daniel being a captive it could be easy for him to say
maybe God's forgotten about me I mean I'm in this country that doesn't fear
God my children my my my whole existence the children of Israel have
been taken captive maybe you could lose faith in the Lord but no matter
what hard times you go through no matter where you find yourself God is
still paying attention God is still noticing where you're at and God
noticed that Daniel had decided not to eat of the king's meat and he found a
way then to convince the master of eunuchs to allow him to pulse and not
do this and he ended up by a miracle actually becoming fatter in the
flesh actually being healthy and strong as the result of not eating of
the king's meat and God also talks about this in verse number 17 as for
these four children God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and
wisdom and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams notice that it
doesn't say that the king of Babylon gave Daniel great wisdom and
knowledge it doesn't say that the master of the eunuchs gave Daniel great
knowledge it doesn't say that Daniel gave himself great knowledge it says
that God gave him great wisdom and gave him great knowledge why because he
kept himself pure and let me tell you something when you keep yourself pure
you're going to give yourself a great opportunity for God to give you all
kinds of wisdom and knowledge and instruction Daniel is arguably one of
the smartest men in the Bible it's described in many places as being one
of the wisest people to ever live it's not a coincidence because he
decided to keep himself pure and right with God and so God gave him great
wisdom and understanding and knowledge you children you want to be like Daniel
well you're going to have to decide that you're not going to defile yourself
you're going to keep yourself pure you can be like Daniel you can be the
Daniel of this generation but you have to decide to keep yourself pure so
that God will bless you look what it says in verse 18 now the end of the
days that the king had said he should bring them in then the prince of the
eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar and the king communed with them
and among them all was found none like Daniel Hananiah Michelle and Azariah
therefore stood they before the king and all matters of wisdom and understanding
that the king inquired of them he found them ten times better than all
the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm notice those who
keep themselves pure and those who strive to please God God can give you
so much more wisdom than the world even quantifies it in this passage as being
ten times better ten times smarter ten times more wisdom than the rest of
this world by choosing not to go the way of the world but follow God's
commandments and Daniel he may not have understood the science he may not
have understood the chemistry he may not have understood all of the
practical reasons why God would give him some commandments in the Bible you
know as a child you may not understand why drinking alcohol is a bad decision
you may not understand why some of the things in the Bible tell you not to do
things not to commit fornication not to eat things that are defiled not to
do drugs you may not really understand why but you just trust that
what God said is right and you follow his rules and you do what he
said and then later God can give you the wisdom and knowledge to realize wow
I'm so glad I didn't partake in that you know just because you don't
understand why you're supposed to follow certain commandments you should
follow them anyways and then later many times God will give you the
wisdom and understanding of why that was such an important commandment it's
better to learn through the Bible's instruction then through making the
bad decision and having to reap the consequences of it and many people have
already shown us the bad example in the Bible we don't need any more bad
examples we need more Daniels that are going to keep themselves pure and say I
know that's bad not because I tried it not because I've ever done it but
because I read it in the Bible and I believed God's Word and then later he
gave me the wisdom to understand why that was such a bad decision and
those of us that go soul winning eventually you'll realize why
drinking is not a good decision those of us that go soul winning eventually
you'll see why the random fornication wasn't a good decision eventually you'll
see your family members and your cousins and your friends that don't follow
the Bible having all kinds of serious problems and issues that you
don't have because they broke God's commandments because they didn't follow
the wisdom of God's Word and you actually notice an intellectual
difference between those who love the Word of God and those who are
following the ways of this world and I'm telling you if you keep yourself
pure God will give you great wisdom go to the proverbs chapter number
one go to proverbs chapter one what I also like about the story of Daniel
is that the Bible tells us that he was really the only one that
purposed in his heart not to eat the Kings meat but his three friends
also didn't and it shows me that when one person makes a good
decision he can inspire others or his leadership can cause others
to follow that example and be blessed by their courage by Daniel's
courage to stand against the king and to follow the Bible and
to not defile himself he caused his three friends also not to have to eat
that not to have to be defiled and he actually saved other people from his
purity from his decision from his courage and what people don't often understand
is that when you follow God's commandments many times you're going to affect other
people and help them to also follow God's commandments you know we shouldn't only
follow God's commandments for ourselves we should also consider the other people
in our lives that are paying attention to us and will be affected by our
decisions as men and as husbands our decisions will affect our wives and our
children and it's very important that we keep ourselves pure so that our
children can also be pure because many times when the dad defiles himself who
follows suit the wife and the children follow suit just as like and it's
interesting to me I noticed several times in families where they have many
daughters all the daughters are raised in the same environment with the same
parents but then when they all become adults they just become a mere
reflection of their husband don't they it's like it's the same family
but one married a bad husband one married a good husband and boy she's a lot
like that bad husband and the other ones a lot like that good husband and you
know it's important the example that men provide men are such an important
example in this world and we need men that are going to be like Daniel and
keep themselves pure not just for their sake but for their wives sake
and for their children's sake you know we need to follow God's
commandment not just for ourselves but also our families Daniel was a
leader because he decided to have the courage to stand against the King's
commandment and we need more leaders in this room we need more children that
are going to follow God's rules and follow God's commandments and inspire
the other children to do likewise not the bad seed that's dragging everybody
else to do evil but rather the good seed the Daniels that are dragging
people into the right direction now I don't want to lie to you there will be
many people that will try to draw you away and to evil you children are very
young if you're homeschooled if your parents are with you most of the time
you're very blessed but there could be a day there will be a time when they're
not going to always be there or you that go to maybe a public school or you
are in school there can be a lot of temptation a lot of people that want
you to make bad decisions and the Bible is really clear on this look at
verse 10 my son if sinners entice thee consent thou not notice that the
Bible is bringing up the idea of someone enticing you children young
people there are sinners out there that want you to send with them they want
you to eat the Kings meat they want you to eat the Kings drink they want
you to send with them and do evil with them when it is a verse 11 if
they say come with us let us lay wait for blood let us look privately for
the innocent without cause let us swallow them up alive as the grave and
hole as those that go down into the pit we shall find all precious substance we
shall fill our houses with spoil cast in thy lot among us let us all have one
purse my son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their
path for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood surely in vain
the net is spread on the side of any bird and they lay wait for their
own blood they lurk privily for their own lives the Bible warns that many
people are going to be tempted to get into grievous sin stealing armed robbery
doing things why because they are mad at the government they're mad at not
having money they're mad at perhaps just not having things are being ripped
off or taken advantage of and instead of actually just working hard and being
content they fight the man they fight the machine and they go and they steal
and they take money and many times they take money from innocent people they
rob and they hurt innocent individuals and they try to make it seem like it's
a good idea to steal it's never a good idea to steal because even if the
cameras don't catch you which in Australia have a lot of cameras God is
always watching God is always noticing God is going to bless you when you do
what's right and when you steal God is not gonna bless you you children when
no one's watching you don't steal things you don't take things I remember
being very young and I went to get a sandwich at a sandwich store and I paid
and the cashier accidentally gave me way too much money back he gave me
more money and I walked out of the store and I was like I could have
just gone but I was getting in the car I noticed and I decided you know what
I'm just gonna go back in and I'm just gonna give him the back of the
change and you know what he gave me a cookie now here's the thing if I kept
that money I was a young kid I would have blown it on something I would have
never seen it I would have no reward from having that extra money but
you know what I did I turn it back in I got a cookie I would have never
gotten that cookie if I had just taken the money because I wouldn't have been
smart enough to be like now I can go buy cookies or something with that I
probably would have just lost it or wasted it or had nothing to do with
it you know what there's a blessing to following God's commandments and you
know what even if he had never given me that cookie it was still the right
thing to do and I'd rather God just be pleased with me and I felt like hey
this is a this is a temptation here God's testing me to see what will I
do if someone gives me money that's not mine what would I do with it and
you know what you as a child have to make a decision what are you gonna do
are you gonna take things that are not yours or would you return it to the
person that it belongs to you know there's a lot of laws in the Bible about
when you find someone else's stuff they are not supposed to steal it or take it
you're supposed to return it to the owner supposed to give it back to them
and you know what these people are the worst they're stealing from innocent
individuals possibly even committing murder and killing people as a result
of just trying to steal their money and their goods they're not gonna be
blessed according to the Bible they're just gonna destroy themselves people
that live these dangerous lifestyles will end up often being killed or
destroyed by other thieves there's no honor among thieves and it's so funny
to me they say let us all have one purse what a joke you really think
that you're gonna get in a group of bandits of thieves and liars and
they're not gonna steal from you you know when you hang out with people
that steal they're gonna steal from you when you hang out with people
that lie they're gonna lie about you when you ladies hang out with ladies
that gossip they're gonna gossip about you don't be confused don't be deceived
we need to keep ourselves pure from the temptations and the people out there
that want to draw us away go to chapter 4 here in Proverbs go to
Proverbs chapter 4 for a moment we need to keep ourselves pure like Daniel
and we need to dare to be a Daniel the world would love to just take
things that are not theirs the world would love to just steal things if
they could get away with it but you know what there should be no
mentality of a Christian of getting away with it because God always knows
there's no getting away with it and we need to make sure that we're right
with God not well is the government gonna know or is someone gonna catch me
or does that is the camera watching you know that's the bad mentality what
does it say in chapter 4 look at verse 14 enter not into the path of the
wicked and go not in the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it
and pass away you children if you know there's a bad kid the guy that's your
neighbor your friend a guy at school stay away from them don't become
friends with bad kids don't hang out with bad kids I remember when I was
young I went to a house across the street and we just were just neighbors
we don't really know each other but I was hanging out with some of the
children that I was neighbors with and they were like hey let's play a game and
they pull out this game I don't know it I've never played it in a Ouija board
and I said what's this and they say oh well you can communicate with the
dead and I just said I gotta go and I just left why because the Bible says
that we're not supposed to be witches and we're not supposed to be
communicating with dead and the familiar spirits and we're not supposed to be
dealing in necromancy and all of these satanic practices and you know
what I'm sure most of the time it's just a dud nothing even really happens
but I don't even want to mess with it I don't even want to touch that stuff I
just got out of there as fast as I possibly could and you know what I
don't want to hang out the house anymore when you know there's gonna be
kids there's gonna be neighbors there's gonna be people that want to entice
you to do evil to do sin and you know what you do you just get out of
there and it might seem embarrassing at first but you know what I've never seen
them ever again I am sure if I ran into that person right now I wouldn't
even know it was them and you know what I'm glad that I never played with
the Ouija board because I don't even want to play with that junk I don't
want to see what is gonna go on even if something did happen it could mess
you up it could cause all kinds of evil go go to chap number five and you
know I was saved so I can't really be possessed with a demon but the
neighbor could and what a horrible thing if this neighbor is having all
kinds of evil happen under them many children were afflicted by demons in the
Bible in the New Testament many children were possessed by devils
they're throwing themselves into the fire there's all kinds of evil and you
know in the public school and in schools in the world today many
children are hurting themselves they're doing all kinds of horrible things
there's there's all kinds of just damage and destruction they're doing to
their bodies through all kinds of substances and I don't want to get into
details because I don't want to know about it and you should know about it
when kids want to do something bad you just get out of there you call
mom you call dad you tell them hey if something bad happens tell mom and
dad you know you should always tell your parents when something weird is
going on or something bad is going on even if you feel embarrassed about it
and I get that that people feel that way about situations but you know what
we need to trust our parents and we need to talk to them and we need to
make sure that they're aware of the temptations that are out that they can
help us but you know even if they're not like Daniel we need to make sure
that we're trying to stay pure from these things look at chapter 5 and
look at verse number 3 for the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb and
her mouth is smoother than oil but her end is bitter as wormwood sharp as a
two-edged sword her feet go down to death her steps take hold on health you
know what children especially the men you know there's a lot of women out
there that would like to defile you and they don't care about you they
don't like you they don't want anything to do with you they just want
to ruin you you know the Bible says that the adulterous woman will hunt for
the precious life and the adulterous woman is not someone that cares about
anyone she literally just wants to destroy individuals and I think sometimes
we we often think that men are the predators when it comes to dating
relationships but the Bible doesn't paint that picture you know the Bible
kind of paints the opposite picture it paints the idea of there being a lot of
women that just use men and then just drop them like a bad habit and destroy
their lives and defile them and cause them to just be ruined and there's a
lot of women out there that are they really will just do anything and it
doesn't matter it doesn't mean anything to them they will just be
with men it doesn't mean anything to them and they're just there to just
ruin people's lives ruin young men's lives if a woman is too forward or she's
trying to get your attention
she's the wrong woman men you want the girl that you find you the girl that
finds you is the wrong woman
okay you need to find her
all right and so you know that's just general advice is my device for my mom
okay she would always give me this but go to Proverbs chapter 23
I remember she told me that some lady showed up to talk to my brother one day
at the house and she just told them they were whores to go away so you
know my wife it's funny because we went to high school together we weren't
dating but she called my house one time because we were in a class and
she was just letting us know that something was canceled and she's just
like is Jonathan there and she's like who's asking and my wife said that my
mom was really mean to her and then she's like I'm just letting him know that our
class is canceled tomorrow she's like okay no problem
I think that I remember I dated a girl one time and she called me several
times apparently and I'd never knew and then finally I met up with it
she's like why did you never call me or talk to me and I said what do you
mean
she's like I called you a bunch of times and then I asked my mom and
she's just like oh yeah I just I just hung up on see my mom would just say
like okay he'll call you and then just hung up and then never told me you
know what she was there to protect me you know what you don't always have
mom there to beat down the whores okay and what you need is you need a
Daniel that's gonna decide I'm not gonna defile myself I'm gonna keep myself
pure and you know what when she finds me no I'm the wrong guy go for the
next sucker okay go for the next victim out over here but I don't want to go
down to hell and of course you can't lose your salvation but there's so many
men that they've just given themselves the whoredom to now they just don't
care about anything and it's like you knock on a door here and it's like
are you sure you go to heaven I don't really care why because all they care
about is just the next hookup or just the next relationship or just
drinking or just doing some dumb thing and basically that woman has destroyed
that man's reason to live and you know what it can happen to a lot of
individuals to a lot of people just don't go in her path stay away from
her Samson was destroyed by women then so was the strongest man at that
time in his generation and he was destroyed by women why because he went
into the wrong direction he hung around with the wrong people he hadn't
purpose in his heart not to defile himself he already had an inclination
and he went to in the wrong place now here's another reason why people make
bad decisions is because they are under the influence of drugs or
alcohol and the Bible tells us in Proverbs 23 verse 20 it says be not
among wine bibbers among riotous eaters of flesh for the drunkard and
the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with
rags the Bible says to stay away from wine bibbers this is individuals that
are drinking you should stay away from people who drink and you say well
that's like everybody I know get some new friends and you're like where look
around this is more people than you can fit in your living room anyways
how many friends do you really need okay but you know what the Bible says
to stay away from wine bibbers and let me tell you something the reason
why people drink is because they're around other people drinking it tastes
like piss nobody really wants to burn their esophagus for no reason the reason
why they drink is because they're around other people drinking but you
know what there's a lot of pressure to drink alcohol you get off the plane
at any one of these airports you know it's lined on every shelf liquor it's
just liquor is just everywhere booze is everywhere and it was so much liquor
I'm thinking like how how are they even making money like who's gonna buy
these thousands and thousands of bottles of liquor but that's what our
world is doing our world is just buying so much liquor and so much
alcohol and they drink so much and they're drinking their lives away and
they're not keeping themselves pure and let me tell you something you do not
become wise by drinking alcohol alcohol has never made someone wise no
one's made a wise this decision while drinking alcohol no amazing inventions
were discovered while drinking alcohol nothing successful happens from
alcohol it is regret bad decision pain suffering whoa the Bible says whoa
so many times in connection to alcohol because people will die they
will get beaten up they will destroy their bodies they'll commit grievous sin
under the influence of alcohol they'll make decisions they would never do if
they weren't drinking alcohol and you know what you children should just
decide I'm not even gonna know what it tastes like I'm gonna stay pure and
this goes to drugs too this goes to you know in our part of the world
marijuana is a big deal do people smoke marijuana often here is that a big
deal I know in our math is a big thing I don't know if you'll have
meth LSD cocaine there's all kinds of drugs out there that people get on and
it destroys and ruins their life they become having they they have an
insatiable appetite for this drug but here's the thing you know what I never
wake up and think LSD sounds pretty good today you want to know why it
doesn't sound good to me I've never tried it so I have no idea what it's
like now here's the thing I love chocolate who likes chocolate all right
you know why I like chocolate because I've tasted it it's amazing okay and
if someone told me like chocolates really bad for me I'd probably still
eat it because it's really good it tastes really good okay but if I have
never had chocolate in my entire life I wouldn't really know I wouldn't even
have a craving for it because I wouldn't even know what I'm missing
and here's the thing that's why it's important for you children to stay pure
because you know what you're not gonna have a craving for drugs when you've
never had them you're not gonna crave all of these evil wicked things when
you haven't touched them you haven't been around them the people that crave
them are the ones that have had them and especially when they had them
when they were young you stay away from you know praise God I have no idea
what marijuana is like I have no idea what drugs and these illicit drugs are
like I have no craving for it and I don't want to start I have no desire
for it and I'm so glad I didn't because you know what it would be a
struggle for the rest of your life if you did and that's why it's so
important to stay pure and that's why it's so important for you to follow
God's commandments so you can have wisdom and stay away from this evil
look at it says in verse 27 for a whore is a deep ditch and a strange
woman is a narrow pit it's interesting how drinking alcohol and whores are
always mentioned in the same chapters because a lot of times people get under
the influence of drinking and then they meet a whore and they make a bad
decision they don't have the same discretion and the wisdom and they get
taken advantage of go back to chapter 20 go back to chapter 20 and look at
verse 1 the Bible says wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise now again we don't know what
the king was offering unto the Daniel and his three friends but it said the
king's wine the king's drink perhaps it was an intoxicating beverage and
according the Bible those who are deceived are not wise you know what
Daniel was wise because he wasn't deceived and he didn't partake in the
king's drink and he didn't go down that path and so you know what God
blessed him but those who drink alcohol are not wise I didn't say that God
said that you say well I think I'm really smart and I drink alcohol you're
dumb the Bible is saying you're not wise just fact now you might have some
levels of knowledge you might have some wisdom in some areas but just
generally speaking you're not wise because let me tell you something
alcohol is a poison how could you ever look at someone and say you know I
drink poison every other night well that seems kind of dumb you know
there's this this this rat poison I keep in my closet every once in a while
take a swig of it it's like what's wrong with you like you wouldn't you
wouldn't think that this oh you're brave oh that's cool can I get some
can I put that on ice like that's that's so silly oh can I pay
thousands of dollars for that I mean people pay it a lot a lot of money for
alcohol alcohol is expensive it's not only are you poisoning yourself you're
paying tons of money to poison yourself like think about the marketing for these
companies like okay we're gonna give them poison and we're gonna jack up the
rates and then we're gonna put a bunch of taxes on that I mean how
could you sell that product to a smart person Oh read the label poison this
could destroy and then it's just like every part of your body lungs brain
heart liver your skin what is the benefit you might break things get a
race irrationally mad you you might punch someone you might kill yourself
what's the benefit again it tastes terrible I mean why do people drink
it's insane you know that's what the world's logic is they think well we
of course you drink everybody drinks and you got to be a man's man and it's
an acquired taste why don't want to acquire that taste okay there's plenty
of things I don't need to defile myself with and acquire that particular
taste you know what here's a good recommendation just don't drink it ever
just stay away from it it's not good it's not gonna bless you you need to
keep yourself pure and the people that do great things for God don't drink
alcohol going with the first Peter Chapman before you know I don't have
respect for people that drink alcohol and get drunk all the time I have zero
respect for those people and you know I've never met a great pastor of God
that's like I drink alcohol all the time it doesn't happen you know the
people that you have a great respect for the people you look up to in your
lives they don't drink alcohol and the people that you know in your lives
that are terrible and destroy their families drink alcohol it's a common
denominator there's so many men that have destroyed their family destroyed
their marriage destroyed their children from drinking alcohol it's not
worth it don't touch the stuff stay away from it dare to be a Daniel well
if I go to work they're gonna make fun of me okay but they're stupid you
know I work where everybody drinks I go to the places where everybody drinks
but I don't you know that you know what's annoying to me is in America the
only people that don't drink are Mormons it's like I go somewhere I'm in a work
party or I'm something and they say hey do you want alcohol and it's like
no I don't drink are you Mormon it's like no like how many kids do you
have again are you Mormon it's like no you knock on the door are you
Mormon no no I'm a Baptist Baptist don't drink Baptist have a lot of
kids hey Baptist go out and knock on doors and preach the gospel of Jesus
Christ hey I hope that next time I hope by 20 years from now the next generation
when they say you don't drink oh you must be a Baptist then oh there's people
walking up and down the street with Bibles they must be Baptist not Jehovah's
false witness not Mormons you know we need to take our reputation back as
the people that have kids that are pure and they're ten times better we
need to raise a generation of Daniels today and you know it's interesting to
me that Daniel could be so great without his parents present how much more if he
was home schooled and if he did as president his parents present and you
know what you children have a great responsibility because you have a great
opportunity to really do something for God being in this church is such
an amazing opportunity I mean you live in a country that is not a
god-fearing country anymore I don't know that ever was for honestly it was
prison colony but it's it's very far from a god-fearing country it's hard to
find that in the world anymore let's just be real but of the people here
you know y'all are really setting a great example drawing yourselves away
from a very wicked and sinful generation and you know what these
children have a great opportunity to serve God but you know what you have
the purpose in your heart children to serve God your parents can't force you
just because your dad sings the songs and goes to church and goes soul-winning
doesn't mean you'll be a good person you have to decide to follow your dad's
example you have to sing the songs you have to decide you want to go
soul-winning you have to read your Bible you have to have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ yourself and one day you're gonna have
to lead a family and make those decisions and you know you're gonna
want to be pure when you find yourself as a parent look at 1st Peter
chapter 4 verse 1 for as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that has suffered in the
flesh has ceased from sin now let's say something deciding to be a Daniel
deciding to be pure sometimes is a little bit of suffering sometimes it's
a consequence of that sometimes you might be made fun of sometimes you
might be separated from company sometimes you might be tried or tested
sometimes you're gonna be separated from the group Daniel and his friends
are separated from the group I'm sure at lunchtime he probably got made fun
of at least once right I mean everybody's already eating meat and he's
eating beans they're like beans beans the more you eat you know what there's
a lot of jokes with this one but you know I'm not gonna use this too
crude humor all right but you eat a lot of beans a lot of stuff happens
inside okay and the reality is I guarantee that Daniel was made fun of
and of course because they're envious of them he's smarter than them he's
better than them he even looked better than them according they get to
be special they get to be unique and you know what you at the lunch
table deciding not to be sinful like everybody else you might separate
yourself and there might be a little bit of suffering there but let me tell
you something that's the right thing to do it doesn't it doesn't it's not
saying it's easy to be the Daniel it's dare to be the Daniel dare to just
follow God's commandments and do what's right and look at verse 4 wherein they
think it's strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riots
speaking evil of you notice when you don't do the things that they do they
will speak evil of you oh you just think you're better than us because
you don't drink oh well didn't you know Jesus drink alcohol no he didn't
liar you don't have to be like that when you're at work or whatever but isn't
that it just makes me so mad you're around these fake Christians and they
are the ones that get the most upset when you actually follow the Bible
you know atheists they'll be like yeah of course you don't drink alcohol
you're a Christian you talk to people that aren't that religious
they're not surprised when you actually try to follow the Bible you
know it gets really surprised Christians Christians are the most surprised when
you say you actually want to follow God's commandments when you say hey I
don't want to drink alcohol because the Bible say that no show me in the Bible
and you're like well what about this verse that's Old Testament show me
where it says alcohol of course it doesn't say alcohol but it's just why
well get a little smart because the Bible says wine what does that mean
what is Proverbs chapter 23 mean when it talks about a wine that move it
itself a right it's talking about fermentation it's talking about that
alcoholic intoxicating beverage and it says to not even look at it not even
to look at it or touch it look I'm telling you that will destroy your life
and if Australia has a reputation of far it's that you'll drink a lot of beer
OK who can say that that's true all right yeah it's true OK I think they
even say like the women drink more beer than American men I don't know but
that's weird OK stay away from the beer the beer makes you like
a feminine anyways it has a feminizing effects on men and it makes you have
all kinds of parts of your body you shouldn't have as a man all right so you
just stay away from go to second Timothy chapter two dare to be a Daniel
you'll be you'll be better in the flesh even look if you don't drink
alcohol you will actually be better physically I'm not even just saying
spiritually I'm saying you will not be having the man boobs that you get
from drinking alcohol you won't have the beer belly you know you see these guys
that look like a bowling ball on on pencil sticks and they drink a lot of
alcohol and they're not ten times better the guy that's actually you know
following God's commandments and going so any burning off that belly he's
gonna be looking ten times better I'm telling you what so you know you're
gonna be better physically mentally and spiritually you're keeping yourself
here and you're gonna be a vessel under honor as the Bible says now in second
Timothy chapter number two it's instructions for a pastor but these
instructions are not just limited to pastors are not just instructions for a
pastor their instructions for every Christian because the pastor is
supposed to be an example to every single person now if he's supposed to
be an example that sounds like we're supposed to follow and we're supposed
to follow we're supposed to do it so if the pastor isn't supposed to drink
wine if the pastor is not supposed to be getting divorced and remarried if the
pastor is supposed to have godly children you know we're supposed to
have godly children too we're supposed to follow that example and
follow his lead and in second Timothy chapter number two it says look at
verse number 19 the Bible is talking about keeping yourself pure
nevertheless the foundation of God's standards sure having the seal the
Lord know of them that are his and let everyone that name of the name of
Christ depart from iniquity now here's the thing this isn't just pastors let
everyone that name at the name of Christ this is let every Christian
depart from iniquity you know some people will say oh you preach that
salvation is a free gift that people can just live out of they want
well you know what salvation is a free gift but that doesn't mean I
should live however I want let everyone that name at the name of
Christ depart from iniquity is what the Bible says oh is that to go to
heaven no I'm going to heaven no matter what I do but let me tell you
something I named the name of Christ and I don't want to bring shame and
reproach to him so you know what I'm gonna depart from iniquity and why
verse 20 but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver but also of wood and of earth and of some to honor and some to
dishonor if a man therefore purge himself from these he shall be a
vessel unto honor sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto
every good work the Bible says that we're supposed to be a vessel
unto honor what how do we do that we have to be a pure vessel so
that God can use us how do we purify ourselves it says sanctify
sanctify means to set yourself apart notice everybody's eating the
king's meat but Daniel's not he's setting himself apart he's
sanctifying himself by not doing that not eating the king's portion
not going the way of the heathen not being like the world we need to be
different you know fundamental Baptist used to be different if you look like
the world talk like the world and act like the world you're not a
vessel unto honor you're not sanctified sanctify Christians look
different they act different they sound different when you go to work and
you say I don't drink I guarantee you're gonna be different when you
say I don't want to go with horse you're gonna be different when you say
hey I go to church three times a week you're gonna be different what do you
mean three times a week you know I just go and watch a big screen and we
just like sigh surrender surrender oh sorry that's hell song isn't that's
that's what's popular now right they go but what did they surrender all those
people that go to church to sing that song for ten minutes over and over and
over again it's like oh but I still drink alcohol oh I still dress
like the world I still act like the what did they even surrender they
didn't surrender anything but their time they wasted their time singing
that stupid song that they didn't mean all right and look I'm all for
surrendering but I'm gonna surrender all you know I like the him better okay
and I don't even know why do they go to church and they turn all the lights
out I mean is it a club like do you think when we go to heaven he's gonna
dim the lights and put on the strobes or something like that you know the
Bible is describing it as light it's gonna be bright you know why they
have to turn the lights all down low and make it all dark it's funny cuz I
remember my dad and I we grew up in a church like this and it's funny to me
how my dad always criticized the church we went to thinking like why do we go
here but he's like you know they turn all the lights down and then it's
just so loud he's like this reminds me the hell where it's dark and it's
loud like but why are we here you know this doesn't make sense go to
church where they turn the lights on you know go to church where they
actually encourage you to sing the hymns and the spiritual songs and to be
sanctified and to be different to be different go do it back to Daniel and
I want to go to chapter 2 for another point here but we need to keep
ourselves pure and why why do we keep ourselves pure of course there's a
lot of reasons first of all we want to be blessed by God we want that
wisdom and and we want to be pure to help others follow that example and
that they can also be pure and people that maybe not have the same courage
you can encourage them to do the right thing but ultimately the reason why
we're a pure vessel is to be used by God he told us that he was going to
use us and we be meet or meaning suitable or appropriate for every good
work what's the most important work that we can possibly do it's preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ and the people who keep themselves the purest
are going to be the best soul winners of course you know even the woman at the
well being very sinful she's still got a lot of people say but let me tell
you something the people that are going to be the most consistent soul
winners are the people that try to keep themselves the purest the people
that stay with Christianity for decades are the people that keep
themselves pure and you know I don't want to serve God for one minute or
one year or a decade I want to serve him for my life and if I want to
serve for my life I have to keep myself pure now this is what's interesting to
me when I read the book of Daniel is you know I sometimes struggle
personally when I would think about this relating because I'm just thinking
like I'm not a slave I'm not only not a slave I don't have Kings asking
me to interpret their dreams like when's the last time you had the
king was like what do you have a prime minister here I don't know
when's the last time the prime minister asked you to interpret their
dreams right has that happened anytime lately you know I'm thinking like when's
the last time I've been threatened to be thrown into a lion's den when's the
last time I've been drug out into the plain of Dura and asked to worship a
giant statue like just sometimes I think about this story and I think like
it's hard for me to always relate to a lot of the things that are
happening but this is what's cool is sometimes it just clicks and then you
see how it actually relates a lot and this story is kind of interesting to me
look at Daniel chapter 2 and look at verse number 12 for this cause the king
was angry and very furious and commanded to destroy all the wise men of
Babylon now what was the cause he had a dream no one could interpret it
and he asked them hey tell me the dream in the interpretation they're
like no one can do this and he's like okay fine we'll kill all of you
we'll destroy all of you and it says in verse 13 the decree went forth that
the wise men should be slain and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain and then Daniel
answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard which was gone forth
to slay the wise men of Babylon he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain why is the
Cree so hasty from the king then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel then Daniel went in
and desired of the king that he would give him time and that he would show the king the
interpretation so Daniel doesn't even know it's just basically like we're gonna kill all the
wise men he's like uh what's going on and he says well no one could interpret the dream
and the king's just mad so he just wants to kill all of the wise men and Daniel says wait
give me just a little bit of time and I will show him the interpretation and it says in verse
number uh 18 this is about Daniel that they would desire mercies of the god of heaven
concerning this secret that Daniel and his fellows should not perish but the rest of
the wise men of Babylon then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in night vision then
Daniel blessed the god of heaven Daniel answered and said blessed be the name of god
forever and ever for wisdom and might are his and he changed the times and the seasons
he removed kings and set up kings he gave wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them
that no understanding he revealed the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darkness
and the light dwelleth with him I think thee and praise thee oh thou god of my fathers who has
given me wisdom and might and has made known unto me now what we desired of thee for thou hast
now made known unto us the king's matter therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch whom the king had
ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon he went and said thus unto him destroy not the
wise men of Babylon bring me in before the king and I will show unto the king the interpretation
of course in the story he ends up showing the interpretation and gets promoted now this is what
I wanted to explain about this the story is that we have this great command from the king
to destroy the wise men Daniel asks for the time and essentially he's granted that
opportunity god reveals unto him the dream he presents himself unto the king and it says that
he didn't just rescue himself he's rescuing also all the wise men of Babylon and I would
always read the story and I think that would be so cool wouldn't that be cool to have someone
have this incredible dream and for god to just give you that wisdom how about the confidence of
Daniel to think about the idea of god giving him that special revelation and sometimes you
could think like I wish I could be in that place but I want to challenge you tonight to
say that every single one in this room is already like Daniel you already have exactly this
story and you're playing it right now because think about it this way there was a hasty
commandment to destroy you know what that's like it's the reality that everyone's a sinner
deserving of hell there is a hasty commandment coming out and everyone who does not get saved
will die and burn in hell for all of eternity that is a very serious matter and what happened
is that Daniel requested a little bit of time given before everyone was destroyed and you know
what your life is that little bit of time window that god has given all of us in order
to rescue men souls notice it says in verse number 18 that they would desire mercies of
god of heaven you know what was going to give them salvation from this destruction
mercy not righteousness not them doing works but mercy which is a picture of what the gospel
of the lord Jesus Christ because you know we're saved by mercy not by works these wise men when
they get rescued they're not going to be rescued by their works they're going to only
be rescued by the mercies of god not only that in verse number 19 it says then was the
secret revealed into Daniel let me tell you something the gospel is a secret that has been
revealed unto you and think about it this way every single wise man at that time knew the
knew hey there's this dream they knew about it they may know the circumstances but they don't
understand the secret of it and in this world how many people have heard the gospel they've
heard about Jesus they go to a church but you know what the secret just hasn't been revealed
unto them they just don't get it they just don't understand it yet and you know what blessed
be the god of heaven that is revealed to us in this room the secret of the gospel of
Jesus Christ and that salvation is a free gift you know that is an incredible blessing that we've
been given is the gospel of Jesus Christ and that secret has been revealed unto us
and here's the question what will you do with the secret that's been revealed
unto you the gospel of Jesus Christ look at verse number 20 or i'm sorry let's let's skip
ahead but notice what it says in verse number 24 therefore Daniel went into Arioch whom the
king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon he went and said thus unto him destroy
not the wise men of Babylon notice that Daniel doesn't just care about himself
he cares about the wise men of Babylon these aren't saved Christians these aren't the children
of Israel this is the unsaved ungodly world that Daniel is rescuing and you know what when
we go out and preach the gospel we're preaching it to a dying and lost world we're not just
caring about our own we're caring about the wise men of Babylon and you know what America could be
Babylon but Australia is not much different anyways and you know we shouldn't just care
about ourselves we should care about the men of Babylon as well and reaching them with the
gospel and giving them the gospel and trying to get them saved and i love in verse number 24
he says and i will show unto the king the interpretation you know what we have to be the
people that go and reveal the secrets of God the mysteries of God the gospel of Jesus Christ
and get people saved and pull them out of the fire and that's why it's so important to keep
ourselves purer so that we'll have the opportunity to what to preach we need to keep ourselves pure
so that we'll preach the word of God and those who don't keep themselves pure often don't preach
that's why it's so important to keep ourselves pure so that we stay a soul winner and that we care
about lost souls and it's no coincidence that chapter one he keeps himself purer and then
chapter two now he gets the opportunity to preach why because God chose a vessel unto honor
to go out and to do the good work that God had prepared for him you know what if he wasn't
that vessel and honor God wouldn't have been able to use him God wouldn't be able to reveal
God wouldn't be able to reveal that secret unto Daniel Daniel wouldn't have been able to save
the wise men of Babylon and you know what we need to decide that our lives have a great
significance here we have a short time window the commandment is hasty people are dying going
to hell every day in this country i mean people are dying every single day and if they don't
get saved they're going straight to hell and you know what a calloused hard-hearted person
that has the secret and doesn't share it with anyone i mean think about how many people are
actually saved and they never preached the gospel one time that's a shame but you know what if we
keep ourselves pure we're gonna have a great opportunity to preach the gospel you know
there's a great place to preach you say i don't like preaching and knocking on doors
and getting no one safe well go to Fiji you know it's a long flight for me but it's shorter for you
hey there's a lot of opportunities in this area there's the Philippines i've heard a lot of people
are planning going there in february you know there's a lot of other islands that i've heard
about in this area that i think are probably really ripe unto the gospel but you know what
someone has to care about that person well that costs money and that's going to cost time
yeah it's going to be a sacrifice you know what why why would i sacrifice all my money effort
and energy on myself because i'm selfish just to just to have more fun i'm not gonna even have
fun on these vacations you know why because god won't bless me when i have the secret of god
and i'm not using it i'm gonna be like the guy that me and james saw at the counter at fiji
so they lost their luggage okay and we're at this counter but we're not the only people
in fact there's a mountain of luggage and i was thinking this is a bad sign
there's another gentleman there he's like i'm here on holiday for two days and you lost my luggage
and he's like well you have all your luggage you're only missing one he's like yeah but it's
my wife's luggage and i'm like you're doomed he's like she's got no toothbrush no clothes
and i'm thinking like your vacation is ruined and the guy's like he offers him a 50 voucher
and he's like what am i gonna do with this
and he's like this is no way to holiday and
a little bit later i saw his wife he did not have a good vacation
oh what if you just take all your money and you go to just have fun for yourself god could
destroy it and look us men we've been on those vacations and it was not fun dad are we there yet
everyone throws up twice it's it's horrible then you see in-laws it's like
it's not a vacation it's like i can't see no honey i can't see your mom i'm going to fiji
on a mission strip okay right hey you know what hey we lost our luggage but you know what
they got it to us just in time and you know what we still got to preach the gospel you
know i didn't need my luggage to preach the gospel
and for us our trip wasn't ruined even if even if it was gone it would have been
bad i wouldn't have liked it but we could have still done the lord's work
why because we were there for the right reason and you know what when you keep yourself pure
and your goals are to preach this is what i've understood you can pretty much preach the
gospel no matter what the circumstances are i mean if you're in jail you can get people
saved in jail no matter where i mean you can pretty much always preach the gospel
but you know what you can't always have fun you can't always have fun i mean if you're married
sorry you can't always have fun you have a bunch of kids you can't always have fun you
can't always enjoy yourself you're not always gonna have pleasure but you know what if you
have an opportunity to go out and preach the gospel you know what that's better than having
fun anyways and saving a soul you know there's been a lot of times i dragged myself at soul
winning i didn't necessarily want to go but i enjoyed it afterwards go to daniel chapter
six go to daniel chapter six dare to be a daniel dare to be someone that's going
to spend their life preaching the gospel well what kind of job opportunities is that
going to give me none here but you know what you might get a pretty good job in heaven
well but is that going to really cause me to have a lot of fun and pleasure and joy no you know
what soul winning is hard work especially here you know where i live it's actually really
easy to go soul winning and a lot of people get saved very easily but you know what praise
god for people like you that will go soul winning when it's not even as receptive i'm way more
impressed with people that go so winning in these hard areas than these easy areas it's easy
it's easy to go soul winning when it's easy but you know when you feel like most of the doors
are going to say no it's hot you're wondering if you're wasting your time your dollars your
money your effort your energy and you still do it anyways that shows me someone has a lot of
character and i bet god is going to give you doors to get great people saved and think about
it this way you know it's not so much about the numbers what about the quality maybe you get
somebody here saved that's actually going to do something big for the lord i mean think about
the guy that got the apostle paul saved i'm sure that was worth it right ananias i mean i'm sure
he didn't he's not disappointed in how his rewards work and it's like well i got the
apostle paul's name right you know in my mind i'm always thinking about like the people i want
to see in heaven and like my heroes the apostle paul's heroes ananias because he got him saved
right isn't that cool like they have their heroes and you know what we should realize that you could
be someone's hero you say i'm just a housewife or i'm just a child you know what you could
change someone's life and they could become a great soul winner and change so many more
people's lives and it just dominoes we keep ourselves pure to preach the gospel and you have
no idea what that little leaven could do it could leaven that whole lump in a positive way
look at daniel chapter 6 and look at verse number 10 the bible says now when daniel knew that the
writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being opened in his chamber
towards jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks
before his god as he did the before time now in this chapter daniel is trying to be
destroyed by wicked men and they convinced the king to make it illegal to pray now this is
crazy because even as tyrannical as some of the countries were during covid i don't remember a
law saying you couldn't pray now i saw something on facebook where someone was not allowed to pray
near an abortion clinic and who's seen that or heard about that okay i think it was in the uk
maybe but that was like the the closest i've ever actually seen something like this but it was
actually illegal to pray but you know what daniel did he prayed anyways and i like how it's
worded think about how this is worded it says and when daniel knew that the writing was signed
so daniel wasn't ignorant daniel knows it's illegal how does he respond he went into his
house his windows being open in his chamber toward jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees
three times a day and prayed and gave thanks towards god as he did a for time this is what
i love about daniel when it became illegal he did exactly what he would do if it was legal
nothing more nothing less you know he didn't try to make a big show about it like hey everybody
i'm gonna pray every note feel legal is everybody watching i'm gonna post it and let
everybody know hey i'm doing something illegal over here you know sometimes people do that and
it's obnoxious like you already get persecuted as being christian don't ask for it okay you
don't need to ask to be persecuted you know that's kind of silly because if you're godly
you shall suffer persecution yay and all that will live godly in christ jesus shall suffer
persecution don't ask for it it will come okay but at the same time don't back down either
and it says that his windows being open meaning what it was public it was public so number
one we need to dare to be daniel because we need to be pure we need to preach and we need
to be public we need to dare to be public with our christianity and you know it's infectious
when you're public with christianity it causes other people and when the government tries to
put oppression on christians you know why it works because no one's public against it the
reason why you can actually have success is when you're public against evil and tyrannical
measures when they say it's illegal to pray you need to keep praying when they say it's illegal
to not have church you still have church when they say it's illegal to go soul winning you
go soul winning why because if you don't it'll be taken away forever you just take the bold
stand and you know what oftentimes it's only a few people that have to really suffer but
you know what the greatest suffering is when it's taken away think about if daniel stopped
praying well now hannah hananiah and azariah maybe they stopped praying well daniel i mean
if daniel stopped praying then we're gonna stop praying and if they stop praying who else is
gonna stop praying and then just no one's praying do you think the god of heaven wants
people to stop praying he wants them to stop following god's commandments you know of course
daniel is just gonna pray exactly like he did and it's exactly what these men wanted
you know it's public because they said hey let's devise a plan we're gonna say it's illegal to
pray now if he's praying where no one could ever see him they would think this isn't a good plan
they knew it would be public they knew they could catch him they knew where he was going to
be they knew what he was doing and you know what sometimes our christianity you can't hide
all of it yes the bible tells us a time for us to pray in private there's a time for us
to give our alms in secret there's a time to serve god and the privacy of your home
and the privacy of your heart but there's also a part of christianity that's supposed to be public
and we're supposed to serve god out in the open and you know what we need to make it clear
that we are christian that we're here to serve god we shouldn't be embarrassed to be
a fundamental baptist you know you should not be embarrassed to go to new life baptist church
you should wear the t-shirt get the keychain don't get the tattoo get the mug okay
okay he's hey my pastor is pastor kevin's a pulpit of new life baptist church here's an invitation
here's his latest sermon it's about you you know right don't be embarrassed to be a christian
hey when you knock on that door be proud to be a baptist be proud to be a christian
hey when someone asks you at work don't be like oh i'm a christian no i'm a baptist no i
believe the bible hey i use the king james bible you know don't be embarrassed about being a
christian be public and you know even if the government puts pressure on you know it just
do what the bible says go to matthew chapter number five go to matthew chapter number five
you know a lot of godly people got arrested did you realize that john the baptist got arrested
folks and he was the greatest man born among women your lord and savior got arrested
daniel got arrested i mean how many were jeremiah got arrested this puts a new perspective on people
that get arrested huh that have a rap sheet you know when you come into a country it's like
have you ever been convicted and i i can say no all right but if i ever do i sure hope it's
for something like being a christian it's like well what's the circumstance i preach what the
bible said you know maybe i'll just write leviticus 2013 right on right down there
you know what i mean look what it says in matthew chapter number five and verse 13 the
bible says ye are the salt of the earth but of the salt of loss of savor wherewith shall it
be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out to be trodden underfoot of
men ye are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid neither men light
a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that
are in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works
and glorify your father which is in heaven now again there are certain parts of christianity
that needs to be private and we need to keep that balance but you know what something that i
do not believe should be private at all is soul winning soul winning should be a public work we
should talk about the fact that we go soul winning we should announce our soul winning times we
should announce soul winning mission trips we shouldn't disguise what we're doing we shouldn't
try to pretend like we're not soul winning we need to tell people hey we're soul winning
we're going to preach the gospel you know i'm a christian i want people to be saved you know
we need to make sure that we're being a public christian otherwise we'll lose the opportunity to
go soul winning you know where i'm from they have these stupid stickers everywhere i say like
no soliciting on doors and even certain neighborhoods will say no soliciting and a lot
of times we go soul winning there cops will be called on us and the cops will maybe sometimes
get us our time they'll say there's no soliciting but here's the reality we're not soliciting
according to their own definition you look up in their own their own laws they'll even say
specifically sometimes this is not talking about handing out religious tracts it'll say this is
selling or giving away products or something like that and and i'm saying look i'm just doing what
your legislation literally says but you know what even if it said soul winning was illegal
i'm still gonna go soul winning i'm still gonna knock on doors and you know there might be a
time and a place to sneak behind enemy lines like a muslim country or something and you may not
want to just be like hey guys bahama is a pedophile you know because then you might go to heaven soon
okay i get those times to be discreet but you know what in australia when it's legal
don't be discreet about going soul winning because they might start taking it away and
if they put pressure you know what i'm just no gonna go soul winning in america i'm still
gonna go soul winning in texas if they say you can't i'm gonna do it anyways i'm gonna just
keep going and keep going and you know what if i don't do that they may say hey well no one's
gonna go so anyways we'll just keep making it illegal passing more legislation more laws
more rules you know our government's tried that a lot in 2020 all over the world they put all
kinds of rules on people you know the only reason why they don't still exist is because
people push back on them because people didn't follow those things and you know a lot of those
they're carnal but at the same time it's the same principle that when the law or the government is
trying to stop christianity you just do it anyways you know they tried to stop peter and
john from preaching the gospel but they said we ought to obey god rather than men
and you know we need to be people that are willing to be public with our christianity
and we're going to let our light shine and we're going to influence other people to follow
god and we want to be a daniel who says hey i'm not going to eat the king's meat
give me pulse give me some other drink give me just water i don't need your defilement i don't
need your drink i'm going to keep myself pure so that i can preach and save others and i'm going
to be public when i pray you know what would be embarrassing if people don't pray right now
when it's not even illegal get a prayer life now and get in a habit so that when it's illegal
when it's illegal you can just keep the same habit you know he didn't have to change his
habit here he already had a habit he prayed three times a week and you know what we need
to have a public ministry and you know pastor sepulveda has to preach the whole bible and he's
going to sometimes call people out and it's going to be uncomfortable for those individuals
not for him and you know what you need to support him you need to get behind him because
he needs to have a public ministry you know john the baptist you know why he got arrested
for preaching against people he didn't get arrested for being such a nice guy
you know what he got arrested for preaching against the king preaching against harrod for
having his brother's wife and they say well that's old testament he wasn't even a jew
did you realize that harrod's not a jew and he was preaching the law to him you know why
because the law applies to everyone red yellow black and white they're all under god's law
okay and you know what it's it's wrong no matter what nationality you're from and john
the baptist he got put in prison for preaching the law for preaching the word of
god for preaching the commandments of god and you know what we need more preachers to get up
and to preach against alcohol and to preach against drugs and to preach against fornication
and to preach against all the defilement that's destroying our countries and causing our youth
to be so apathetic they don't even know what they're doing with their life they want to
become a professional tiktoker they want to just be a professional video game player
you know what they want to do they want to sit around and do nothing with their life
and you know what they're being ruined by preachers preaching lies they're being ruined by
hell song they're being ruined by false prophets and false teachers and we need men of god like
pastors of polvita who are going to rip face and preach against these men and for church
members to actually resonate with the message and support him publicly we need other people to
get behind him because you know what they're always going to lie and say oh no one's like
him he's by himself and you know he needs other people to get rallied behind him and to follow
him and to support him and to pray for him when he takes bold stands because frankly speaking
australia may not be the friendliest government for christianity and especially coming down the
pike coming down the future who knows what crazy things they're going to do and when pastors
of polvita purposes in his heart to serve god who's going to stand with him who's going to
dare to be a daniel who's going to be the person that's going to follow his lead
when the world comes against him you know many men of god had people desert them
and and stop following them because of pressure and you know what we need more people that are
going to dare to be a daniel that are going to follow him and follow his lead because he's
just a man like the rest of us and he needs encouragement his wife needs encouragement his
children need encouragement they need people to help them and assist them and you know what
how can pastor sepulveda do a great work for the god how can he go to fiji where he needs
to go and papa new guinea and the philippines if no one's coming to the church if no one ties
if no one gives any money you know you need to put your money where your spiritual life is
you need to put your time and your effort and your energy into serving god we're here to serve
god we're not here to serve our own bellies and why don't you dare to be a daniel and say i'm
all in i'm going to go to church every time the doors are open i'm going to get plugged into
this church i'm going to ask my pastor how i can do more i want to do more soul winning i
want to support and help him i'm going to clean the building i'm going to invite my friend to church
i'm gonna i'm gonna make a new life shirt and wear it
you know what we need more people to get plugged into the ministry and to just serve god and say
you know i don't care what my family's gonna say about me i'm daniel i don't care what my
work's gonna do i don't care what this world's gonna do i'm gonna be like daniel i'm gonna
stand alone you know when you think about that song the lyrics say dare to be a daniel
dare to stand alone dare to have a purpose firm dare to make it known you know what that means
it's public it's public you know we need christians to be public again the only thing
that'll affect this world is by christians being christians again this world is not going
to get better by us hiding and cowering and being like them we have to be salt we have to
be completely different we have to separate ourselves and draw others with us like daniel
did and we need to stand alone in a dark and a sinful world we need to be that bright and
shining light so that we can give glory unto our father in heaven let's close in prayer