Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Manila and I wanted to quickly explain to you Daniel chapter 7 verse 25.
In Daniel 7 verse 25 the Bible reads,
And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High.
The Bible says the Antichrist is going to wear out the saints of the Most High.
Well how is he going to do that?
Well it says in Daniel 7 25 right before that when it says,
He shall speak great words against the Most High.
So when the Antichrist speaks against the Most High, the result is it's going to wear out the saints of the Most High.
So basically when he mocks God, when he has blasphemous things, that wears you out.
Now an application of this is that a person who goes to work and then their co-worker wants to talk about filthy things on the television or filthy music they listen to and things like that.
And when you are hearing that filthy conversation from day to day you are vexing your soul.
You're wearing yourself out.
Now here's the thing about this.
We as Christians, most of us work secular jobs.
We're around the world 40 plus hours a week at work and you're going to hear people talk about things that are ungodly, things that are not spiritual, things that are against the Most High.
They speak about things that the Bible speaks the opposite of all the time.
And then you go to restaurants or you go to the grocery store or wherever and you're going to hear things against the Most High.
Whether it's ungodly music or TVs or just TV or conversations people have.
Well it's one thing in your day to day life because we've got to be in the world.
We cannot just completely avoid the world.
But it's another thing when Christians choose to watch television all the time in their own personal home.
Or they listen to the rock music or country music in their own personal time.
And when you listen to the rock and country music you are listening to ungodly people that are speaking great words against the Most High.
And the result is it's going to wear you out. It will wear out the saints of the Most High.
That's what Daniel chapter 7 verse 25 teaches.
And you know what? It makes perfect sense because when you hear people constantly speak against the Bible eventually it's going to wear you out.
Where you're not going to want to go soul winning and read the Bible and go to church.
You know I remember when I was kind of a newer believer and you know I started going soul winning and I was excited about trying to win people to the Lord.
But I had a lot of things that I needed to clean up in my personal life.
And I used to watch the TV show Family Guy which is a very ungodly show.
And you know I would vex my soul because I'd watch it, there were parts that I found funny, and then they would say something extremely blasphemous.
And it was like a bullet wound right here.
And eventually you reach the point where you got to make a decision.
Are you going to be a godly Christian that goes soul winning and wins many people to the Lord?
Or are you going to be someone who's just the normal typical Christian that lives a very worldly life and just pleases the flesh all the time instead of the spirit?
And you know eventually you got to make that choice.
Because I promise you this that there is nobody out there who's doing something big for God and is a great soul winner and is a mighty preacher of God's word who is living a very worldly life.
You got to make your choice.
And if you want to do something great in this life you've got to choose to do your best to avoid hearing people speak against the most high.
Don't set anything wicked before your eyes like the hellavision, the movies.
Don't allow your ears to listen to things that are going to speak against the most high.
We as God's people, we ought to be a peculiar people.
Do not willingly allow yourself to hear words spoken against the most high.
Because I don't care who you are or how zealous you are, it will wear you out in the Christian life.
Thank you and God bless.