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Join us as we conclude our inspiring series, discovering the unwavering faith of Daniel and embracing childlike vision in our spiritual journey.
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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Childlike Vision and Faith 0:01 Welcome to the A L S C podcast. Here at A L S C, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:13 We're gonna be concluding this series that0:28 watch all the other childlike series sermons that we've done. They're great. And they'll impact your life. We're going to land the plane this weekend before we go into next week's. Yeah. And about continuing the0:40 conversation on idea, your phone or anything like that or simply you'd like to follow along on the screen, we're going to be today in danger.0:51 Chapter 1 versus 8 to 15. I'm so inspired as I as I read the Bible all the time. There's times where1:03 you're God just really ministers to you. And God really has been ministering to me.1:24 Would you join me in standing for the honor of reading God's Word. And then we'll pray. But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's1:36 food or with the wine that he Therefore, he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in1:47 the side of the chief of you. And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king who's assigned your food and your drink, for why should he see that you were in worse1:59 condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king. The steward, whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over,2:11 Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle, and Azariah. You may know them as Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego. Test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.2:23 Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you and deal with your servants according to what you see. So he2:33 listened to them in this matter and he tested them for 10 days. And at the end of2:33 the day, he listened to them and he tested them for 10 days. And at the end of the 10 days, it was seen that they were in better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths2:45 who ate at the king's table, king's food. Wine they were to drink and gave them and the wine they were to drink and gave them thrown into that as well. Let's2:57 pray this more afternoon. We thank you so much, Lord, for this word today, Father God. You minister to us and may you speak to us today. None of us came here today to hear the opinions of3:08 man or the philosophies of man or even the doctrines of man. Today, we came to hear from you. So as you give us a great meal today, Lord, may we leave here fuller than ever and ready to walk out your3:20 call. In Jesus mighty name. Amen and amen. You may be seated. Thank you.3:37 Look at the person that you don't like as much on the other side. Tell them childlike vision. Today, we're going to share about childlike vision. What it means3:49 to have the vision like a child. A lot of people don't know in the book of Daniel that we just read,4:01 passage of story. The youngest being Meeshak, Shardock, and Bendigo were anywhere between 12 and 14 years. Daniel, who's always named before them, more than likely means he's the eldest.4:13 So he could not, because it calls them young men, he could not be any more older than 17 years old. And so when we look early on in the life of Daniel, Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego, we are looking at4:25 teenagers, young men, young boys, 13, 14, 15 years old, who chose to have a vision for God rather than a vision for men. And children have a great4:36 way believing God words that God says over their life kind of sometimes more than we as adults believe God's over our life. Having a trust in God more4:48 than sometimes we have a5:07 30 minute interview. I only clipped about a minute of it. But what I want you to see is Victor's vision for who God is in his life. So look at this video. This is a little bit about the preacher, Victor, and him5:18 responding to the interviewer.5:22 People's opinion. Mimi, like, when I wake up, Mimi Mimi in our opinions is I want to see bendy. See bendy. When I wake up in the morning, I look myself at the mirror. I say, I'm handsome. I am blessed. Victor is highly5:33 favored. He's cute enough. He's just blessed. So when I come outside, I don't care if you're gonna tell me I'm smart. I already know I'm smart. It's mommy. We don't need anybody's opinion. Me, I'm blessed. And it's5:44 truth. It's the facts that rely on the bible. The word of God says I never lie. So he says I'm more than a conqueror. I don't need anyone's opinion that I'm a more than a conqueror. I don't need anyone's opinion. So5:53 title does not matter. What matters is in me and as much in it as I know myself. Mhmm.6:00 Mhmm. Mhmm. That's how you gotta respond to people sometimes. Mhmm. Adam is blessed. That's it. Mhmm. Mhmm. You know, sometimes it's what you gotta say. Victor said, I'm cute enough.6:12 Okay? He he didn't over exaggerate. Right? I'm cute enough. That that's all I need. Enough or what? Enough what I gotta do to get by. Victor has a vision, and you hear from Victor's mouth constantly repeating scripture,6:23 letting scripture and trust in God overflow. That that is an insight and a vision that only God can give for your life. That is an understanding of who you are and who God is, that only God6:35 can gift in your life. And so to walk in God's vision means that we walk in a childlike nature that has big vision when it comes to God. You know, just earlier in first service, my nephew,6:47 Lorenzo, he calls me Amu. That's Farsi for uncle because Sanaz is Persian. And so we're talking in my office before first service and I look at Lorenzo and I said, you know Lorenzo, he's in the first grade by the way. I6:58 said, Lorenzo, you know, Amu could beat you up. And he looks at me, he goes, oh yeah? Well when I'm in the third grade, I'll knock you out. Now,7:10 I don't know what he thinks is supposed to happen between the first and the third grade, but whatever in his vision is gonna be happening within first and third grade, is he believes he could beat up7:25 first analyze, well, are they bigger than me? Are they or what are they to me? But just Lorenzo, just right away. You maybe got me right now, but give me 2 years. I'll come I'll come to you. It's this mentality7:36 that children have that they can have vision for something bigger. In the same way, my boys who have always been younger when they were kind of infants crawling and learning how to walk, we always had these kind of set7:46 up all around our house. And so they crawl through and they play through them and there's always a ball pit attached and you can weave these all throughout the house. And what would happen is when my boys would play or7:57 they would have friends over, you would hear children playing in these. You just hear them all wrestle and they're going through. And then you would hear, they would jump out and they would say, oh, I'm King Arthur, and8:07 this is my castle. And you're looking at it, and you're like, I can see through your castle, bro. It's not that's not a castle. And then all of a sudden, they're over here on the other side, and they're like, we're in a8:17 zoo. He's a lion, and he's a monkey, and all of a sudden, they're so consumed and so entertained with what to us seems so little, but in a childlike vision, they look at something and they go, oh, I could use8:28 that. I could trust that. I I that's good enough for me. I don't need anything fancy. I don't need that's how Daniel was. Like like, I don't need the king's meat. I don't need the king's wine. Just give me some8:39 vegetables and some water. He didn't want to defile himself. In the same way that children have the beautiful eyes where sometimes my boys will have spoons and we'll be out at dinner and they'll turn them into swords and8:50 they'll all of a sudden start having a sword fight. Or other times they'll put a blanket over their neck and they'll start flying around like they're Superman or like they're Batman or or what they'll do is they'll find9:00 you know, many of us know it, when you buy your kids something for Christmas, they're more entertained by the box than the actual toy. They'll crawl on the crawl on the box and they'll start act like it's a car, or it's9:10 a rocket ship, or a spaceship. That's the vision that children have. They look at the something and they say, oh, to us adults it seems boring, it seems meek, it seems mild. To children they go, man, I can use that. I I9:22 can have an imagination for something like that. I can have fun with that. And what happens is is what Daniel does because what was common was the Babylonians, what they did was they invaded Israel.9:34 And they took the Israelites and they brought them into captivity in Babylon. They turned them into slaves. And what they would commonly do is they would have workers, stewards that would go through the line of all the9:45 ones that are coming into Babylon. And any of them that looked like they were good stature, any of them that looked like they had a good appearance, they would grab them and make them servants in the King's Palace. So9:57 that way, whenever the King was hosting, wealthy elites or ambassadors, they wanted the cream of the crop serving in their capital. So that people see how great that nation is, and how powerful he is,10:08 and look how look how handsome and smart all of his workers are, and all the Queen's maidens are. And so Daniel and Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego get chosen within that. And usually what10:20 happens is is because the king has to be able to trust his servants. Trust his servants is he gives his servants everything in excess. So10:32 they get an incredible meal provided to them every single day. They get incredible clothes provided to them. They get incredible living quarters provided to them. So Daniel and his 3 Hebrew10:44 friends, they show up into captivity. Mind you, they're with dozens of other young Hebrew boys. And what the scripture says is all the other Hebrew boys run and start to devour10:56 the food. Now that may not seem like nothing to you, but this food was stuff that was unclean that Jews weren't allowed to eat. So there would have been some bacon on that table. There would have been some ham on that11:08 table. Would have been some lobster on that table. Some of y'all are saying amen praise God. But to Daniel who only eats kosher, that's not an amen praise God. A much of that meat would have been sacrificed11:20 to their gods and their idols earlier. Their wine wouldn't have been processed or blessed by any of their religious leaders. And so Daniel looks at that and he says, that may look like a delicious11:31 meal, but if I eat that meal, I'll actually be defiling God. So Daniel begins to have a bigger vision. He looks at11:43 that food and he says, that may good for be good for you, but it's not good for me. You may And all of his other friends that he came in captivity with besides Meshach, Shadrach, Abednego, they're eating. Like11:55 that movie Pan, when they're all sitting at the table, and then they're all just eating and consuming. Now Daniel and his friends, they would have just been sitting at that table and said, I'm sorry, but that's not for12:07 us. We don't defile ourselves with food that isn't blessed to God. We don't divide ourselves with food that isn't given and blessed by God. And so what they did is they called the chief steward and they said, would you12:18 mind that we only eat vegetables and water? And he says, you're gonna get me killed. If the king finds out that you guys are malnourished and I'm the 1 that's doing12:29 that, he'll have my head. Daniel said, trust me, trust me, give me 10 days. I got a vision for what God's doing in my life. Give me 10 days. These are teenagers who believe that. There's a reason why I12:41 believe Daniel and them were teenagers because if they were grown like me and you, we would have had a slab of bacon halfway down our throat before we realized we shouldn't have been doing this. But young boys who love12:53 God, they're sitting there and they're saying, I'm not gonna touch it. I'm not gonna touch it. I'm gonna believe God that he has a bigger vision for my life. So if it leads to our death, sorry, we can't eat it.13:05 I'd rather live in right passage with God than live with right passage with man. So Daniel rejects it. You see what often times we have to realize many of us are always believing God for13:17 vision and direction. Here's the part that we always leave out, is when God gives you vision for your life, it means you have to make decisions. That's the part we13:28 miss. So we're like, Oh Lord, give me a way. Open up my eyes. Which way should I go? Give me a word. Give me direction God. What should I do about this? What should I And then when God begins to give you vision,13:41 now you gotta make some choices. And then we go back to praying then we're like, God tell me what choice to make. And he's like, no I gave you vision. The choice is yours now. You13:53 gotta make the choice. We're not robotic. We we we have the right to choose. And so now when God begins to give us insight, God begins to speak to you, to have vision means, oh, I gotta start making some14:05 decisions for my life. In the same way, how many of you guys remember 1 of these from back in the day? California Maps. See, I don't even know how to use it because it's not even the right direction, I don't think.14:18 How many of you guys ever have to drive with 1 of these back in the day? Anybody? Okay. We got we got some people who know that. I saw some millennials hands who are raised. You lying. You lying. You weren't 7 years old14:28 driving with 1 of these around. You know, here's what I here's what I know when we used to have these and you'd have to drive with these. What would happen is if you were in the car and you were driving,14:40 you actually had to If someone was with you, you either had 2 decisions. If you were alone, you'd have to pull over and analyze the map. But if you had someone with you, you actually were able to give14:52 them the map, but guess what? That now meant you weren't in control. So you're driving, you give this to your wife, make15:12 a left on 49. You're like, you just gotta sit there and trust that they know the decision that they're gonna make. Oh, we go left right here. Now, I've been with my wife now for about15:24 10 years. So when we first started dating, we first got married, what happened was is is Android maps and Google maps didn't plug into the into the car. So you'd have to look at your phone at many times. And so15:36 what would happen is is when I was driving, my wife would pull up directions on her phone. But all too often, the moment she would type in the directions and we get on the road, she'd switch to all her group checks with15:48 all her friends. So I'd be driving on the road and I'd be like, hey babe, when do I make a right? And she's like, I don't know. Let me check. And she'll open up maps. She'll go, oh, we were supposed to do that a16:00 mile ago. I'd go, give me that. Pull over, turn around. So then at that time, I'd get the little doohickey that goes into the air vent, and then I'd put my phone in there16:11 because I'm like, all of your direction privileges are gone. You don't get them anymore. Plugged in, sometimes she'll type it in. I'll say, plug your phone in the car. I gotta see16:23 everything that's happening on there. And I don't trust her no more to make these directions. Many, many marriages were tested. I believe they invented Apple Maps because part of the divorce rate existed because16:35 couples had to navigate 1 of these. That's why I know God didn't bore me in this era because I wouldn't have made it. But you see what happens is whoever has the map has16:47 to make call the directions and then whoever's driving has got to make that decision. So I wonder in our own life, who holds the map in your life? Does God hold the map in your16:59 life? Decision? Have you stripped the map from God? So you know what? When I pray, I don't like how long it takes for your answers. When I seek you, I17:10 don't even like the directions all the time that you're calling out for me. So I'd rather, God, have this in my hands, and only if I get into road construction, I'll come back to you. And I'll say, well, God, you17:22 paved the roads. Can you get me out of this mess or anything like that? I know I've been holding them, or maybe you've given someone else this map. You let someone else call the shots for your life. And so what happens17:33 is is we have to get to a place like Daniel where Daniel said, you know what? I have God's word. I have the Bible. God's directions are written in God's word. Don't defile God.17:47 These type of lifestyles. So God has given me the directions. I don't need to pray what is right and wrong. Daniel wasn't like, oh, okay. And we're not talking about in this moment the new covenant with Jesus. We're17:57 talking about the old testament where they had to follow the law. He's sitting there and he's not saying to himself, well, God loves me and he's so forgiving, so I will, out of a broken heart, make this ham sandwich18:09 and drink this wine. Unto you, Lord, I will sacrifice and eat this Philly cheesesteak. No, he didn't. He didn't say that. He said I'll go on a diet.18:21 Because when God begins to direct my life and God begins to give me vision for my life, you got to start making some decisions in your life. And that's what God has called us to do is when he begins to guide us, you and18:33 I have to decide whose voice and whose life will we follow. We endeavor our life to be approved by man, or we endeavor our life to be approved by God. Because when it's approved by God, God is with us and he never18:45 leaves us or forsake us. If it's approved by man, then we are living for man's applause. We're living for man's approval. We're living for man's ways and we get the corrupted nature that man has. And so today, what I18:57 love for us to see with the few notes we're gonna take is vision leads to decisions. So Daniel teaches us what some decisions are made that honor God through his life and through his work in this moment. So if you're19:08 taking notes, I want you to write this down. Daniel teaches us the decision to do what is right. He tells us what the decision leads, decisions lead, to do what is19:20 right. He would not defile himself with the king's food or with the wine that he drank.19:32 You can only imagine how upset the king would get if he heard that Daniel wouldn't eat his food. I want you to imagine that you're hosting someone in your house, in your palace, and you get19:44 word, and you do you have your workers, you've paid for it, you've slaved over it, and you have a plate of food that you did. And you invite someone over to your house and they say Oh, I don't19:57 you've invited them over to your house. They drove you worked hours for this. They say, sorry, I don't eat. Number 1, you ain't never being invited to my house ever again. Never gonna be20:09 Number 2, you're gonna leave my house starving. So I'll see you. And then you're gonna be offended, and then you're probably gonna break off the relationship. King, so20:21 there's, there's these 4 guys and they don't wanna eat your food. Why don't they wanna eat my food? I've killed the best beef for them. I've killed the best pigs for them. I've given them my choice wine. They don't wanna20:32 eat my food? They're too good for my food. Yeah. Well, apparently, they just want to eat vegetables and and water because their God doesn't let them eat your food. So Daniel and the20:43 3 Hebrew boys, they need God to move. But Daniel above the fear, he's gonna do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr. Said it like this. The old law was about an eye for an20:55 eye, but that leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. The time is always right to do the right. Are we living by the old21:07 ways or do we live by the new ways? It's always time to do what is right.21:13 Matthew chapter 6 verse 3321:13 says this, but seek first but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all things will be added to you. Are we seeking for what is right21:25 in our life? We live in an age today where it's very clear between what is right and wrong and a lot of people are choosing what is wrong. And God has called his people to be full of the spirit to21:37 do what is right at all times, regardless of the cost, regardless of how you are perceived, regardless of how you are looked21:48 at. Hey, I gotta do what's right. I gotta do what's right. I gotta follow God. I'm sorry, but to do what's right and honor the Lord above man, yeah, you may not like me no more. We may not have a relationship22:00 no more. Think about Daniel. Everybody wants to kill him after this because the passage we read says after they were proven that they looked better than the others, they switched their diet to vegetables and water.22:16 Foods and now all of a sudden the day comes and like, man, what are you doing? What'd you eat yesterday? Oh, man, I had eggs benedict. I mean, I had this omelet. It was crazy. And then all of a sudden, the food servants22:26 come and drop off fruits, fruits and vegetables on their table. What's this? Oh, well, the king decided Daniel and Meshach, Sharon, and Abednego look so good that y'all need to look like them.22:38 That's what leading to right does. Either people begin to show their true colors. When you do what's right, either people will show their true colors or people will begin to eat your diet that you eat.22:50 Man, you look so good off that diet. That time that you spend with God, that time you spend with the Lord, all everything you're doing in your faith, man, I like that. Or they go, man, I don't like that. And they start23:01 showing their true colors. It's always time and a good time to do what is right. When I was about 14 years old, I got into road cycling and I did the whole thing. I, you know, I had the helmet and then I wore all the23:13 spandex everywhere. So I had the spandex shorts, spandex shirt. And 1 day when I was 14, I'm riding my bike. I'm over, in the back roads in the over by the 15 freeway, kind of by Lytle Creek,23:25 a freeway overpass. It just so happened they were doing construction at the end of the freeway overpass. And as I went to turn, they there were some of the con construction workers didn't clean up from the construction23:37 that week. So my bike slid in all of this gravel and all of these rocks and all of these shards and my feet are clipped into the bike. So my bike, I've I'm going about 40 miles an hour down the hill. I23:49 go to turn. It's something I've done a million times and I go to turn, my bike slips in the gravel, my my bike flips because my feet are clipped in, and then it pulls me about 20, 25 yards in the24:01 ground. So so my my spandex pants are all ripped out, Like I'm all cut. I'm bleeding. My bike is bent, both tires. The chain is ripped off my bike, and about24:12 200 yards the opposite direction are 2 men riding up the hill. And so they slightly hear something and they turn around, and I'm on the ground, and then they they 1 of the guys turns around right24:24 away, and he starts heading towards me. They were going the opposite direction. So he comes down my direction. He beats his friends, so when he shows up he says, are you okay? I'm on the ground kind of trying to pick24:34 myself up. I said, yeah, I'm okay. His other friend comes and he says, is everything okay? And then the guy looks at his friend and he says, she's alright, she just took a tumble.24:47 I'm wearing a helmet, glasses, I'm still 14, so I had a little, you know, butt in the back, and I just, everything was tight. So I look, you know, it just, I didn't have a man's24:59 body yet, you know. So, so he said, she's alright. And and and so and so his friend comes and he's like, he kind of kneels out like this. He's like, are you alright sweetie? Yeah. And25:12 I mean, I said, uh-huh. I just25:17 what what25:18 do you do at that point? And so, I'm laying there and then and then and then they they begin they begin to, you know, fix my bike for me. So they're bending the wheel, setting up the chain. Do you25:30 know, and I'm I'm just being I'm just being, you know, I'm letting the men do what the men do. I'm sitting off to the side. I'm letting them fix your girl's bike and doing everything they can. No. I'm just kidding. So25:39 they're fixing my bike. And then it takes about 20 minutes, and I'm just sitting there. And then, they're done. And they're like, ma'am, do you want us to ride with you back to your house? And I'm like, no, I got it. You25:50 know, like, I just What do you do at that point? I'm a boy. You pull off the helmet and, like, reveal yourself. Like, I don't think that's much reveal yourself. Like I don't think that's much better. So I just didn't say25:59 nothing. I just nodded yes. Uh-huh. So sure enough, after they spent about 20, 25 minutes, they26:05 put air in my tires, fixed all the tires, fixed the chain, did every day. And then they set me on26:05 my way. It took me some and then they sent me on my way. It took me some time because I was in a lot of pain, but I got home. And as I got home, I was thankful because I was I was26:17 young. I was only 14. I didn't know how to fix a bike like that. I didn't know how to fix a chain. Just went we see stuff like that all the time. Oh, look, that person fell on their bike. We're just gonna keep26:29 going. How many times do we go on a freeway and we see someone in a slight accident? We think, oh, someone else will pull over. Someone will look after them. How many times are we going in a grocery store and we see a26:40 mother with 1 kid on the hip and another hand trying to put the groceries away? Well, thank, I'm sure someone who's more convenient will walk by and help them. It's so often to do what is right.26:54 Essential to do what is right. I don't know about you, but at that time, I was thankful that those men were willing to turn around because I didn't have a cell phone back then. I don't I would have had to walk home and27:04 piece everything together. But 2 people that just said, let's just do what's right. Let's be what let's be inconvenienced. It may take time out of our day. It may take time That that's what it means practically in our27:13 own life. Not only to follow God's ways, but to be as believers. It says we're to live by fruit with fruit of the spirit that also comes with loving our neighbor. That comes to do what's right with those around us. To27:24 take care of those that's near us. That's what Daniel's doing. He's doing what's right. And he's telling the other Hebrew boys, you guys should have lived by this diet as well. And so you guys didn't choose to live by27:36 this diet, but God made you live by this diet. And so what we see is the next point is, is Daniel shows us that he made a decision to be regulated, to live a regulated lifestyle.27:57 's standard. He just had a decision to be regulated. In verse 17, as it continues, it said this, as for these 4 youths, God gave them learning and skill because of their28:09 obedience and because of their vision to make the decision to follow God. What did God do for them? He gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom. And Daniel had28:21 understanding in visions and dreams. Now, God begins to give Daniel understanding in visions and dreams. At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the28:33 eunuchs brought them before Nebuchadnezzar. And the King spoke with them, and among them there was none found like Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle, and Azariah. Therefore, they28:44 stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them 10 times better than all of the magicians and28:56 all of the enchanters that28:57 were in his kingdom. And Daniel28:57 was there until the first year of King And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus. That's what it looks like to have a vision for God. Daniel lived a regulated29:10 life. Daniel had what we learned later on. And remember, these are teenagers choosing to follow God. So it's important to teach our young children God's word because Daniel who we admire in29:22 this passage, he ain't 30. He's not 40. He's not 50. He's 16, 17 years old choosing to follow God. There's other magicians that are in the king's palace that are 30, 40, 50 years old29:34 and they don't got wisdom like Daniel. They don't have intellect like Daniel. They don't have knowledge like Daniel. They don't have gifting like Daniel because to live a life with God's vision means we are29:45 following God's decisions for life. It's the best plan we could ever have in our life, which is to have God be the 1 that leads us. And so we see with Daniel what it means to have that type of vision.29:57 God begins to elevate him neck above everybody else. All because Daniel chose to live a regulated life. What did Daniel's regulated life look like? Well, we know in future passages,30:09 some people who hate him, who work for the king, what they try to do is they say, hey king, how about we do an edict, where what we'll do is everybody should worship you on a certain time of day. And they knew it's30:21 at the same time when Daniel worships God, because every good Jewish young man worships God 3 times a day. That's when their prayer time is. And so they say, hey king, we should have a time where everybody bows and30:32 everybody worships you. And they knew the king loved Daniel, but they knew if they forced him to make it a law that they could get him killed. They hated him. But what Daniel did is he lived a regulated30:45 life. He prayed every single day. He worshiped God every single day. He didn't eat the food that they ate. He didn't live the life that everyone else ate. So he separated himself. That that that's why we as Christians,30:56 we're called the called out ones. Called out. God has called us out of something, and he's called us to be separated from the world standards. So we're called out to live God's vision31:08 for our life, so that other people see that and say, man, I need what you have. I need what God can do in your life. So what Daniel does is Daniel's life is so regulated, other people want to throw Daniel under the31:20 bus. They wanna get rid of him. So this time when Daniel gets thrown in the lion's den because he won't worship the king, Daniel at this time is about 70 years old. So he went from being a young31:32 boy at 17 to now he's 70, and he's seen God faithful, And now what does Daniel do? He gets thrown in a lion's den. What does Daniel do when he's in the lion's den? He prays. He's regulated.31:44 He didn't I mean, he didn't jump on Facebook. He didn't get on Instagram. He didn't turn on the news. He didn't he prayed.32:04 And he's gonna show off his power, or we're gonna see him face to face. Win win. Amen. They did it. Win win. Pray. They lived a regulated life. They trusted God in all32:15 situations. And so what happens is they show us in being a person that's a visionary person for what God has over our life, whatever the enemy throws at you, it's like, man, either God's gonna show32:27 off his power or I'm gonna see him face to face. It's a win win. That's the perspective Paul even had. He he Man, he said to live means I get another day with you, but to die is gain. I get to be face to face with32:39 Jesus. It's the perspective of vision that doesn't get scared easily by life circumstance and life surrounding. And so what happens, Daniel shows us, you know, oftentimes in our32:51 own eyesight, I'm always jealous of people who have 20 20 vision because there's usually nearsighted, farsighted, and then 20 20. Well, I'm neither nearsighted or farsighted. I'm just I'm just no sided. I don't I don't33:02 have my contacts. I can't see what's in front of me. I can't see far away. But normally, in the most common causes, people are nearsighted, which means they can only see what's in front of them, right in33:14 front of them. Always scared and fearful by what's in front of them. They just every day is they're nearsighted. Everything that's in front of them scares them, jumps them,33:26 worries them, everything. Everything. It's just everything that's in front of me. Or people are far sighted. Everything's in the future. Everything's far away. Every goal is far away. Every vision is far away. Everything33:37 happening is far away. There's no active activity day by day. Just everything's a dream. Everything's a vision. Everything's a hope. Daniel is tapped into something special.33:49 He's tapped into God who can give 20 20 vision. See, God gives sight where others can't see. God gives words where others can't know. Say.34:01 And so and so if we know that if God is for us, then who can be against us, then that means that God's word over my life and who God is over my life gives me all the clarity that I need. A34:12 regulated life means I spend time with God. We live regulated lives and everywhere else. Just think about it. You talk to people, you say, hey, do you want a Coca Cola? They say, no, no. My34:24 doctor has me. I can only drink diet coke. My doctor has me. Can't have as much sugar right now and so I'm on a regulated diet right now. Oh, okay. Cool. Hey, man. We're going out to dinner on Friday night. You wanna34:34 come with me? No. No. No. My my wife has me on a budget right now and we live in a little regulated right now and so, do that, saying, oh, okay. No. No. I34:46 understand. I understand. Hey. Hey. Hey. You want to come do this for me? No. No. I got high cholesterol. That's gonna get my heart jumpy and stuff like that. It's I'm regulated. I I I can't do that right now.34:58 We regulate ourselves all the time on everything else. Hey, let's do this tomorrow. No. No. I I gotta go to the gym. I'm going right now 7 to 8. Doctor has me doing 2 miles a day at minimum. I'm regulated.35:11 But then it's like, hey, man, I got these concert tickets for tomorrow, Sunday. You should draw well, I mean, I normally go to church on that day, but for Beyonce, I could probably my church, they35:22 do online. It's so good. It just35:22 you know, I'm not My church, they do online. It's so good. It's just I don't gotta go tomorrow. I don't have to go tomorrow. It's not a big deal. I could get that. I could get I could get that another time. I can get35:34 that another time. Hey, don't you and your wife have counseling because you're really trying to get God in the middle of your marriage? Yeah. But man, I got this great opportunity and we could get counseling any season.35:44 We could do that any season. I don't I think we got at least 3 years before our marriage is really in trouble. So if the next year, I just do some prioritize some money. It's not a big deal. We live regulated35:57 in everything else. But when it comes to the things of God, all of a sudden we go, man, well, you know, he's gracious, he's loving, God will understand. If I miss praying today or I miss36:08 reading my word today, it'd be okay. But God will He'll understand. God knows my heart. He knows my heart. He knows I'd give more if he gave me more. He, you36:20 know, he knows it. He just I put it in his hands. We do it all the time. We choose to be regulated in every other area except for the area of God. What would happen if36:32 we were like Daniel and we said regardless of circumstance, regardless of surrounding, this is what my vision for my life will look like. This is what my habits will look like. Because the last thing he teaches us as we36:44 begin to close is Daniel shows us what it means to make the decision to live reliant. Reliant.37:01 Natural things of life? Do you wait upon God in the same way that we wait upon the other things in life?37:14 Rush to honor God with our life? To do what is right and to have a vision for God is a is a person who prioritizes God's word in their life. That truly believes that God's37:26 vision for our life and the vision that God can bring for our life is greater than what we could build on our own. It's just like Daniel who knew to rely on God. Psalms 33 says this, it says this, the Lord brings37:37 counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever and the plans of his heart is to generations.37:53 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. That's why it's important for us to encourage our neighbors to honor God, because it's God's plan to bless nations. 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