Participants: Frank Fournier
Series Code: HPOV
Program Code: HPOV000017A
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00:01 Hello, my name is Frank Fournier
00:03 and I am here to welcome you 00:04 to Heaven's Point of View. 00:07 Just like we've done before, we are going to be studying 00:09 the Parable of the Prodigal Son 00:11 I am going to invite you to get your Bible, 00:13 come and get a blessing. 00:44 Well, today I want to do some thing different. 00:46 I am going to invite you 00:47 to turn with me to Luke Chapter 10. 00:50 Now I've turned to Luke Chapter 10 00:51 but I want to talk to you about Romans 8:28 00:54 and the reason I've done that 00:56 is because everybody knows what Romans 8:28 says. 01:01 Do you? 01:02 Well, when I asked most people would say, 01:05 "All things work together for good to them 01:07 that love the Lord". 01:08 And do you know, they are right, 01:10 but usually they misquoted 01:12 because they forgot the three first words. 01:15 The first three words are these "And we know" 01:19 that all things work together 01:20 for good to them that love the Lord. 01:22 The problem with that of course is we don't know, 01:25 all we know the verse by heart, 01:27 we can recite it, we know it intellectually. 01:30 But let me tell you something, with our hearts 01:32 when we run into a problem, all of a sudden, 01:34 we don't know that all things 01:37 work together for good to them that love the Lord. 01:40 I had a friend, he was 82 years old, 01:42 he came to join me in Africa, 01:44 he was an ophthalmologist. 01:46 He was going to do some cataract surgeries. 01:48 And by the way, he did do cataract surgeries, 01:50 he did a fantastic job. 01:53 But one day he heard me preaching on Romans 8:28, 01:56 that all things work together for good. 01:58 And after the preaching service, 02:01 we sat down to eat lunch together 02:03 and he was as mad as you can get, angry. 02:06 And I was just like, what in the world. 02:08 Well, he said to me there is one verse in the Bible 02:12 that is not true and that is that verse. 02:15 And wow I thought, hey are you able to say 02:17 that there is one verse in the Bible that isn't true? 02:21 Well, he said that verse is not true and he could prove it 02:25 because he had been in a concentration camp 02:28 in Japan for four years 02:30 and nothing good ever came out of that. 02:35 Now tell me, you think nothing good ever came out of that? 02:40 Or do you think that this poor man did not realize 02:44 that he was negating God's promise by unbelief? 02:48 Do you know that you can negate 02:50 God's promises by not believing them. 02:53 It's just that simple. 02:55 I have a young daughter who called me not so long ago, 02:57 I'd say a couple of years ago now. 02:59 She was crying and crying and crying, 03:02 because she's been trying to buy a house 03:04 and she wasn't able to buy the house. 03:05 The deal fell through and this was house number three or four 03:08 that she tried to buy and all the deals fell through 03:11 and she was telling me 03:12 that God didn't hear her prayers anymore 03:14 that He wasn't doing anything for her anymore 03:17 and I said to her but Julie, don't you know 03:20 that all things work together 03:22 for good to them that loved the Lord. 03:23 And she said but they don't for me. 03:27 Well, I said yes that's true they don't for you 03:29 because you don't believe them, 03:33 don't believe the promise. 03:35 So she hung up and I went home to do 03:37 what a dutiful father would do. 03:39 I wrote her an email, this little sermon on the verse 03:43 "all things work together for good to them 03:45 that loved the Lord." 03:47 She called me back three days later and she said, "dad" 03:50 and I said "yeah", she said, "I repent". 03:56 Well, she did repent 03:57 and the Lord gave her a house two, three months later, 03:59 she had a house. 04:01 So, do all things work together for good or don't they? 04:06 Well, certainly they do, it's one of God's promises. 04:09 And do you know but do you know 04:11 that this is one of the hardest verses 04:13 in the Bible to believe 04:15 especially when something goes wrong. 04:17 Then all of a sudden, we wonder why things are going wrong. 04:21 Being the Christians, shouldn't things go right all the time? 04:25 No, no, they shouldn't. 04:26 And do you know that this verse is replicated 04:28 throughout the Bible many, many places. 04:30 We're gonna look at a few of these verses. 04:32 I had you turned in Luke chapter 10 04:35 and we are looking at verse 19 in Luke chapter 10. 04:39 And Jesus is speaking to his disciples here 04:42 and by the way, you and I are his disciples. 04:45 Are we not? Yes, we are. 04:47 Therefore what He is saying here belongs to you and me. 04:50 Notice what it says, "Behold, I give unto you power, 04:55 power to tread on serpents and scorpions, 04:58 and over all the power of the enemy". 05:00 Now watch "and nothing shall by any means hurt you". 05:06 What? 05:07 Nothing shall by any means hurt you, nothing, nothing. 05:13 That's what Jesus said, do you believe that? 05:17 Have you ever stubbed your toe? 05:19 Have you ever hit your nail with a hammer? 05:21 Didn't that hurt? 05:22 Well, friends, that's not what Jesus is talking about. 05:25 Jesus is looking at the big picture and he says, overall, 05:29 what ever the devil throws at you, I will catch it 05:32 and I will turn it to your advantage. 05:33 Oh, it might hurt for present. 05:35 Hey, we just learned that afflictions are not bad. 05:38 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, 05:40 but in the end, the afflictions will turn to my advantage. 05:43 Jesus promised that it would. 05:46 Turn with me to Job chapter 5, we are gonna see that. 05:49 In another verses is Job chapter 5 05:52 and we're looking at verse 19. 05:56 Verse 19 in Job chapter 5. 06:00 "He shall deliver you in six troubles, 06:03 yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee". 06:07 We've already learned that the number seven is symbolic. 06:11 It means the big picture, it means everything, 06:14 it means profession and so what the person 06:16 is saying here, who's writing this. 06:18 It says, in seven troubles, 06:19 that is in a life full of trouble, 06:22 "There shall no evil befall thee." 06:25 Is that true? Isn't that amazing? 06:28 Do you know that it's all over the Bible? 06:30 God means this and it is true, 06:32 if only we exercise faith in God's word, 06:35 we would have this experience. 06:37 Turn with me to Psalms 91. 06:39 We are looking at Psalms 91 06:41 and this is talking about the seven last plagues. 06:44 Now this world has not seen the seven last plagues yet 06:47 and we know that when the seven last plagues fall, 06:50 it is going to be worst 06:52 than anything anyone's ever experienced in this world 06:55 since the creation of the world. 06:57 So we are in Psalms 91, we are looking at verse 10. 07:01 Notice the wording, 07:05 "There shall no evil befall thee." 07:09 Isn't that amazing? 07:11 "Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling'. 07:14 Do you know why? 07:15 Well, look at verse 9 and it tells us why. 07:18 "Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, 07:21 even the most High, your habitation. 07:24 There shall no evil befall thee." 07:26 And that's the reason, if you would abide in the Lord, 07:29 He would take care of us. 07:30 Plagues will fall in this world. 07:32 They'll fall all around this world. 07:33 They will fall all around this but it says, it won't touch us, 07:37 that's what it says in verses 7 and 8. 07:39 "A thousand shall fall at your side, 07:40 ten thousand at your right hand, 07:42 but it shall not come nigh thee". 07:44 That's what is says. 07:45 "Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold 07:47 and see the reward of the wicked." 07:52 Have you turned in your Bibles the 1 Peter chapter 3 07:55 and this is my favorite one. 07:56 1 Peter chapter 3, we're looking at verse 12. 08:00 "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, 08:03 and his ears are open to their prayers, 08:05 but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, 08:09 and who is he that will harm you, 08:12 if ye be followers of that which is good?" 08:15 I assume that you are a follower of that which is good. 08:19 I know you want to do God's will and the question is, 08:22 who's gonna hurt you if this is in your heart? 08:25 Don't you know that in Romans 8:31 08:29 there's a question asked there, 08:31 "If God is for you, who can be against you." 08:34 Do you know the answer to that question? 08:36 Well, nobody, that's what it says, 08:38 "If God is for you, nobody can be against you". 08:40 And if no one can be against you, 08:42 then everyone is for you. 08:44 No matter if they are your enemy, 08:46 no matter if God or the Satan 08:48 is impressing them to do whatever, God will take it all 08:52 and He will turn it to your advantage. 08:56 What a fantastic concept. 08:58 Now turn with me to the Parable of The Prodigal Son. 09:02 We are going to Luke chapter 15, 09:03 this is what we have been studying all along 09:06 and this is where we are going to pick it up in verse 16 now. 09:09 We are in Luke 15, picking it up in verse 16. 09:14 "And he", that is the Prodigal Son 09:16 "would fain have filled his belly with the husks 09:19 that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him". 09:23 He was in a terrible situation, 09:25 as matter of fact, I say praise God. 09:28 He's finally hit bottom, 09:29 he's come to the end of his rope. 09:31 I don't think that he can get any lower socially, 09:34 he can't get any skinnier, he can't get any hungrier, 09:37 he can't get any poorer. 09:38 He's close as rags and he's smelly. 09:42 He's trying to help himself, that didn't work. 09:44 He went to a neighbor for help and that didn't work. 09:47 And so the Bible says, 09:48 "Cursed is the man that trusts in man." 09:51 Now, do you think 09:52 that was a negative experience for this boy? 09:55 Why, sure it was? It was a terrible experience. 10:00 But isn't this what God used to bring this young man 10:04 to his senses about his relationship 10:06 with his father and his spiritual condition 10:09 if we go to the spiritual side of it. 10:12 Yes, this is how it works. It's a fantastic thing. 10:16 Now, I would like to tell you a story, 10:17 so, I'll take a few minutes. 10:18 You can set your Bible down, relax. 10:22 Here's the story, 1987 my wife and I moved to Africa. 10:26 I've already said that. 10:27 1988, we moved to Lesotho, 10:29 1990 or 91, we returned to Zambia 10:34 and there I was asked to be 10:35 the director of Riverside Farm Institute. 10:37 I asked my wife if she would be the manager of the clinic, 10:40 because she has huge medical aptitude 10:44 and she had a doctor, she had nurses there. 10:46 She had a four wheel drive pickup full of medicine. 10:49 And then and there with that she would go to the boney, 10:52 she would go to the places where, if a person got sick, 10:55 they'd have to walk out one day, two days, three days, 10:58 who knows how long they'd have 10:59 to walk in order to get some help. 11:02 Well, she would load up her pickup 11:03 and she would find her way deep into these places 11:06 and she would immunize their children 11:08 and she would bring food 11:09 because there was always famine in the land. 11:11 She would pull teeth, she would do all kinds of things 11:14 in order to help the people back there. 11:16 All this is background. 11:20 This is 1994, now, 11:23 it's our turn to go on for a low, 11:25 we are going to Canada for three months. 11:28 We're packing our bags, we were going out the door 11:30 and as we're going out the door and we are a little bit late, 11:33 a runner comes to the door with a note for my wife. 11:36 Now the note was not so bad 11:38 then, it was from her best friend 11:40 and the note was trying to tell her 11:42 that her workers were afraid of her, 11:44 that she was too harsh, she was too hard 11:47 and God couldn't work with her that way. 11:49 Well, that was discouraging for my wife to hear, 11:52 so she took the keys off her belt, 11:53 she wrote a letter of resignation, 11:55 she put it on the table and off we flew to Canada. 11:59 Now my question is what happens 12:01 in a heart of a woman, who's received the wound 12:03 but there is no opportunity for conflict resolution. 12:07 All that she can do for three months 12:09 is think about it. 12:11 Well, you know what happens. Depression sets in. 12:14 You know my wife's never had a great self image 12:16 to begin with and now she's no good, 12:19 she's too harsh, she's too hard, 12:20 her workers are afraid of her 12:22 and this is what she's thinking about 12:24 and she is becoming depressed. 12:27 We returned to Zambia after three months, 12:30 after all, I am the president, I am the director. 12:32 I said to my wife go back to work 12:34 and she says nope, not going back to work. 12:37 So, I gathered her team together, 12:39 everyone's excited that we are back 12:40 and I go back to my wife and say, 12:42 they are all excited, they want to go back to work, 12:44 everyone is gung-ho. 12:45 And she is saying, no, I am not going. 12:49 So now, I've got another problem. 12:51 Here I have a wife sitting at home 12:53 and all that she is doing is thinking. 12:56 Not good. 12:58 One day, I am having my own personal devotions 13:02 and I take up the little book. 13:05 Mount-- 13:06 the Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, on page 61 13:08 and I am praying through this book, 13:10 and I am talking to the Lord 13:12 and you know what I read? 13:14 It says on page 61 paragraph 2, 13:16 "That which you look as disaster", 13:18 well, "that's what you take as a disaster 13:21 is the door to highest benefits." 13:25 Really? 13:26 That what you see as a disaster is the door to highest benefits. 13:31 I got a vision, I got a thought and all of a sudden, 13:34 I knew why this was happening to my wife 13:36 and so I go running over to her and I said listen, 13:38 I know why this is happening to you, this is good. 13:41 The Lord is about to give you a tremendous blessing 13:43 but before He could give you the blessing 13:45 He had to cut the legs out from under you. 13:47 He had to make you humble to receive this blessing. 13:50 Isn't that fantastic? 13:51 And my wife said, yeah, right. 13:55 No, no, no, no, hang on, I said, 13:57 this is true, this is from the Word of God, 13:59 I know that this is going to happen. 14:00 And hang on, don't do anything foolish. 14:02 God is about to give you a blessing. 14:07 Do you know what happened in 1994? 14:10 This was world news coming out of Africa 14:12 for almost a whole year. 14:13 Well, I assume 14:14 some of you're old enough to know what happened. 14:16 This was Tutsi and a Hutus, at eachother's throats, 14:19 there was the genocide that we found in Rwanda. 14:22 800,000 people were chopped up with machetes. 14:26 And when my wife heard of it, she says, 14:27 I am going to Rwanda and I said, good, 14:30 you go to Rwanda, this will be wonderful. 14:33 So my wife made her way 14:34 to the United Nations office in Lusaka, there in Zambia. 14:38 She went to the receptionist 14:39 and she said to the receptionist, 14:41 I want to go to Rwanda. 14:43 The receptionist said, well, what are your qualifications? 14:46 Well, she says I manage a clinic, 14:48 I pull teeth, I deliver babies, 14:50 I soothe your wounds, I do minor surgeries, 14:52 I immunize children, I do all of this stuff 14:55 and besides that, I can speak French 14:57 and the girl said wow, 14:59 we needed you there yesterday. 15:01 So go up there upstairs, see the boss. 15:03 And she went upstairs to see the boss 15:05 and the boss said, yes. 15:07 I want to go to Rwanda. What are your qualifications? 15:10 And she told him the same thing 15:12 and he said no, no, no, no, 15:13 your certificates, your diplomas, 15:15 your degrees, your paperwork. 15:18 She didn't have any, she has a grade 10 education. 15:21 Well, he said we can't help you, 15:23 we can't use you, no need even to apply. 15:27 And so she did what any self respecting woman would do, 15:31 she went past the other side of the door 15:34 and she cried her heart out. 15:38 God didn't love her anymore, 15:39 God wasn't going to open the door for her to be useful, 15:42 she was no good, you know, you know, 15:44 and her self image is shrinking more and more. 15:49 By this time, the Rwandans 15:51 are coming down from Rwanda 15:53 through Zaire into Zambia 15:55 and they are coming to the ADRA office. 15:57 Now the man in the ADRA office, 15:58 the director there is a friend of mine 16:00 and he called me. 16:01 He says listen, 16:02 I have all these Rwandese coming down, 16:04 I need to establish a refugee camp. 16:07 Do you have any one over there that can help me? 16:09 And I said, by the way, I do. 16:12 And so I asked my wife if she would go over there 16:14 and help Allen Fowler, who was the director of ADRA 16:17 and I gave her a brand new pickup 16:19 and off she went to help Allen. 16:22 Well, when she got there, she said to him, now listen, 16:25 I will help you to start a refugee camp 16:29 if you will help me to get to Rwanda 16:33 and he said, no problem, 16:34 I'll help you to get to Rwanda. 16:36 And so, they organized a refugee camp together, 16:39 they did a fantastic job, 16:41 everything went well until Allen said, 16:43 it's my turn to go on furlough 16:45 and so there he was. 16:46 It was his turn, he was Canadian also, 16:48 he ended up in Canada for two months 16:50 and my wife ran a refugee camp for him, 16:53 did a fantastic job, everything was good. 16:55 But when he came back, she got him by the shirt 16:57 and she says now listen, "I told you, 17:00 I would help you to start this refugee camp 17:03 if you will help me to get to Rwanda 17:05 and he said, serious? 17:07 And it was serious in her mind. 17:10 So he made a phone call to Rwanda. 17:13 Now you have to understand 17:14 that making a phone call in 1994 in Zambia 17:18 was not an easy thing. 17:20 We didn't have cell phones in those days. 17:22 All we had was landlines and native people, some people, 17:27 some thieves used to steal the copper lines 17:29 in order to sell them to the telephone company 17:31 who would put them up, who would steal them, 17:33 who would put them up, who would steal them 17:35 and then if you ever got the phone call 17:37 through to anywhere, it was almost a miracle. 17:40 But do you know what, that he got through. 17:43 He got through to the ADRA director in Rwanda 17:45 and he told this man about my wife 17:47 and the man said, send her, 17:49 send her now, we need her right now. 17:52 So he told my wife, but by this time, 17:55 my wife is becoming skeptical. 17:57 So she said to him, what did you say to him. 18:03 Well, he said, I told him that you're a practical nurse 18:07 and that you speak French fluently. 18:09 She said, Allen, I am not a nurse. 18:12 But you're practical, aren't you, he said. 18:15 Yes, yes, I am practical 18:16 and my French is anything but fluent, 18:18 I can just, I can get along. 18:21 So she got on the phone, 18:22 she called the very same people, 18:23 she told them the truth. 18:26 Now these people turned around and said okay, 18:28 we'll have an executive committee meeting. 18:30 We will call you back and we'll let you know. 18:34 Well, one day goes by, two days go by, 18:37 three days, four days, five, one week goes by, 18:40 two weeks go by and they didn't call. 18:44 And my wife's self image is shrinking 18:46 because God's providence is not working for her. 18:49 They are not going to call, this is not going to happen, 18:52 she is no good, you understand. 18:55 Well, friends, they did call and finally they said, listen, 18:58 we've been looking all over the world 19:00 for people to come and help us in Rwanda, 19:02 it's very dangerous, nobody wants to come 19:05 and so you may as well come. 19:08 And with that endorsement, 19:09 she made her way to Goma, Zaire, 19:12 where there was a refugee camp of more than one million people. 19:18 In the refugee camp, 19:19 she was asked to trail two nurses, 19:21 they were two nurses from Germany 19:23 and she followed them for two weeks or three, 19:25 whatever it was. 19:26 And when they left to go back to Germany, 19:28 this responsibility was given to my wife 19:30 and she was totally intimidated, 19:33 but not to be intimidated. 19:35 I'll make this long story short, 19:38 before it's all over, my wife has three doctors, 19:41 she has 10 nurses, she has trained 2 dentists, 19:47 she has 66 community health workers, 19:49 she has a catchment of 28,000 people 19:52 that she is responsible for. 19:54 She has to find blankets and food 19:57 and medicine and tents and whatever they need. 20:00 She has a hospital there in the Mugunga refuge camp, 20:04 she has three orphanages 20:06 and the only school for a million people. 20:07 And when it's all over, 20:09 she is the ADRA director for the Mugunga refuge camp. 20:12 Now I tell you all this to say this, 20:16 go and ask my wife, if you ever meet my wife, 20:19 go and ask her what is the best experience you ever had in life 20:22 and she will tell you without hesitation 20:25 that the best experience she's ever had in life 20:27 was in the Mugunga refuge camp of Goma, Zaire. 20:32 Now how did it all start? 20:34 Why it started with a little note? 20:36 Not so big a deal, my wife is hard as nails 20:38 and can be difficult and tough, that isn't so bad, 20:42 but it became a disaster in her mind, 20:46 that which you look upon as disaster 20:48 is the door to highest benefits. 20:52 Is that true? Oh, it is true. 20:56 You want to do is ask Nebuchadnezzar, 20:59 I think he could tell you that it is true. 21:02 Go to Daniel chapter 4 with me, 21:04 let's hope that we have time enough to do this. 21:06 Let's go to Daniel chapter 4. 21:09 Do you know who wrote the Book of Daniel? 21:11 Well, Daniel did. 21:13 Who wrote chapter 4 of the Book of Daniel? 21:15 Nebuchadnezzar did. He was the King of Babylon. 21:17 By the way, he was the most glorious king 21:20 this world has ever seen, 21:22 give or take and he had one of the most glorious kingdoms 21:26 this world has ever seen. 21:27 It was the golden kingdom. 21:29 Nebuchadnezzar was a genius militarily, 21:31 Nebuchadnezzar was a genius architecturally, military 21:35 and also-- how should I say, agriculturally. 21:39 Do you know that King Nebuchadnezzar 21:41 is the one who designed 21:43 and did the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? 21:45 They were one of the Seven Wonders of the World. 21:48 This man was intelligent, 21:50 far more intelligent than I will ever be. 21:53 But the problem with being so intelligent ofcourse is that 21:55 you might take pride in all of this intelligence 21:58 and this is why God sent him a dream in Daniel chapter 4. 22:03 And by the way, Nebuchadnezzar will be converted. 22:06 I mean he was converted, 22:07 will be found the Kingdom of Heaven. 22:10 Well, in the dream, he sees a tree 22:12 and the tree has long branches covering the whole world, 22:15 everyone finds security under his branches. 22:17 But in the dream, the tree is cut down 22:19 and Nebuchadnezzar doesn't understand 22:21 why the dreams-- the tree should be cut down. 22:24 So he calls his wise men, he calls his Chaldeans, 22:27 he calls his soothsayers, he calls his magicians, 22:30 he calls everyone and he wants them 22:31 to interpret the dream, but they can't do it. 22:34 I have no clue why it is that he didn't call Daniel first. 22:38 Daniel had interpreted dreams for him before 22:40 but anyways, like we said before, 22:42 we seem to want to exhaust all our resources 22:45 before we turn towards God 22:47 and that's what he did. 22:48 Well, Daniel came in and he said to Nebuchadnezzar, 22:51 he said, now listen, 22:52 you know, this dream is not to your advantage. 22:55 This is not good. 22:57 Nebuchadnezzar said, well, go ahead, 22:59 I've got broad shoulders, let me have it, 23:01 I want to know what this dream is all about 23:04 and so Daniel tells him what the dream is all about, 23:07 gives him advice in verse 27. 23:10 We're in Daniel chapter 4, we're looking at verse 27. 23:14 "Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable 23:18 to thee break off thy sins by righteousness, 23:22 and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, 23:25 if it may be the lengthening of thy tranquility". 23:28 Nebuchadnezzar, you want to have tranquility? 23:31 You want to have peace? You want to be happy? 23:33 Do good, okay. Treat the poor fairly. 23:37 Do what's right, everything will be fine for you. 23:40 Well, Nebuchadnezzar did that, 23:43 he was good for 12 months, not bad really. 23:47 Look at verse 30, now I think 23:49 that's where it says, verse 29 actually, 23:52 "At the end of twelve months", he lasted twelve months, 23:56 "he walked in the palace of the Kingdom of Babylon". 23:59 And then he said, "is not this great Babylon that I have built 24:03 for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, 24:06 and for the honour of my majesty". 24:08 Am I not something else? 24:11 Well, he thought he was 24:13 and God had warned him not to talk that way. 24:16 Not to take the glory to himself, 24:18 God had given him all these gifts 24:20 and now the man is taking glory to himself 24:22 and God is saying, okay, I know how to deal with it, 24:25 I know how to deal with it. 24:27 And so God was going to deal with it. 24:30 What happened to Nebuchadnezzar? 24:32 Why friends, he became insane. 24:36 He was on grass for seven years. 24:39 Not wheat grass, well maybe some wheat 24:41 but anyway he was on grass in any case for seven years. 24:46 His hair was feathers, his nails were like claws, 24:48 he was an animal, literally, 24:50 that's what he was for seven years. 24:52 But something marvelous happened to him. 24:54 How many people do you know would take an insane person 24:57 and make him king? 24:58 Well, nobody would do that, 25:00 but he ended up being king again. 25:02 It's amazing God can do whatever He wants. 25:05 I want you to see Nebuchadnezzar's repentance, 25:08 his testimonies. 25:09 What it is, verse 37, "Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise 25:14 and extol and honour the king of heaven, 25:16 all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment, 25:19 and those that walk in pride he is able to abase". 25:23 Now, friends, listen, if God is able to abase 25:28 a man like Nebuchadnezzar. 25:31 What do you think He could do with me? 25:33 I am not near as intelligent as he was. 25:36 I am not near as powerful as he was. 25:38 I am not the genius that he was 25:40 and he had cause to be proud 25:42 if we could say that humanly speaking, 25:44 except the fact that God had given him the gifts that he had. 25:50 He had far more to be proud about than I do. 25:54 So do you think that he can abase me, 25:57 that he could humble me if He wanted to? 26:00 Ah, friends, He could do it, 26:02 but not only that, God could humble you too. 26:06 Would that be good? 26:07 Well, let me give you a little secret. 26:10 Don't ask God to do it. Oh, no, no. 26:14 We're told not ask God to humble us 26:16 because it will be too painful. 26:18 The Bible says, humble your hearts 26:20 beneath the mighty hand of God and He will lift you up. 26:24 The work is yours to do. |
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