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00:02 #S090 - I'm A DEI Hire (Part 2)
00:20 Welcome to The Breath of Life 00:21 Television Ministries broadcast with Pastor Debleaire Snell. 00:27 In today's episode, Pastor Snell will preach part 00:30 two of the powerful message “ I'm A DEI Hire” 00:35 now let's go deeper 00:38 into the Word of God. 00:42 So look of me, if you don't mind, Daniel. 00:44 Chapter three and verse eight. 00:46 I need to unpack this thing a little further, 00:48 the Bible says, therefore, at that time the child's came for 00:51 and accused the Jews, 00:52 and they spoke 00:53 and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, O King Live forever 00:57 your king have made a decree to everyone 00:59 that hears the sound of the horn, 01:00 the flute, the harp, the lion's, torture 01:02 and symphony with all kinds of music 01:04 shall fall down and worship the golden image. 01:07 Whoever does not fall down and worship the image shall be 01:10 cast into the mist of the fiery burning furnace. 01:15 There are certain Jews whom you have sent over the affairs 01:17 of the province of Babylon, said Mystic and Abednego. 01:22 These men of King have not paid due regard to you, 01:24 nor do they serve. 01:26 Your gods are worship the image which you have set up. 01:29 The second thing this teaches is that progress is going 01:32 to always be met by a pushback. 01:37 Now you're born Nebuchadnezzar. 01:39 He's exclusively interested in the national growth of Babylon, 01:44 and he actually doesn't care 01:46 who actually helps facilitate that aim. 01:49 And there's a place now because God has set favor 01:54 and the hearts of those that don't look like the Babylonians, 01:57 Nebuchadnezzar has simply decided 02:00 that I'm going to rule with them, yet 02:02 his ego gets him too hastily enact an unjust law 02:09 that will affect those that he actually put in power. 02:12 And notice how those of Chaldean descent 02:16 seize upon this opportunity. 02:19 Not that they don't 02:20 even identify them by their religious convictions. 02:26 They I identify them by their ethnicity and their race. 02:30 They say, look, king, 02:33 those 02:34 Jews, you put in charge of everything, 02:38 though, don't vote, though those people 02:41 have not paid due regard to your laws. 02:46 Those that you put in that deed 02:49 program 02:52 are threatening our national interests 02:56 and see, understand what is undergirding 03:00 the insecurity of the majority in Babylon. 03:04 You realize what's happening 03:07 because Babylon doesn't look like it used to look. 03:11 And Babylon don't sound like he used to sand 03:15 and Babylon doesn't feel like it used to feel. 03:20 And there are some in Babylon that consider themselves 03:24 Tel and patriots. 03:28 They are Babylonian conservatives 03:32 who got to let the king know. 03:33 We've let this thing go too far. 03:37 We've got to get things back like it was there. 03:41 Overwhelmed by nostalgia for the good old days, 03:46 there is a part of them that feels like we've got to 03:50 get things under control, that we've got to keep these 03:53 foreigners from taking over, that we've got to take control 03:57 of our country back. 03:58 In fact, they run on the mantra, We've got to make Babylon 04:03 great again. 04:10 I told you, 04:11 if you're brittle, you might as well go home, go off 04:14 and notice what they do. 04:16 They weaponize religion 04:19 for political processes. 04:22 Did you know this means that they don't really care 04:24 nothing about Nebuchadnezzar? 04:26 This religion, 04:27 all they want to do is weaponize religion 04:30 as a political tool to dictate the conscience of the masses. 04:35 And I need you to understand that any weaponized religion, 04:40 it is not Christianity, it is Babylon masked 04:43 as Christianity. 04:47 Now, understand friends 04:51 that if Shadrach, Michigan had been to go, 04:52 he's just working in the kitchen, 04:55 they wouldn't have no problem with their 04:58 if they were standing and they were 05:00 just working out in the field, we wouldn't have no situation 05:05 if Shadrach Michigan had been the go ahead just stayed 05:07 in their place. 05:11 We wouldn't have this predicament. 05:13 But it is this fragile instability and insecurity 05:19 that says we've got to take back what is ours. 05:23 That is the root of these unjust laws. 05:27 And to be clear, friends of mine, you should know 05:30 that this is a very old playbook. 05:34 And if we 05:34 are to draw strength from the future, 05:38 we've got to be able to look back and see how God 05:40 was able to thwart the plans of the wicked in times past. 05:46 In other words, friends, do you remember in Egypt 05:49 where because of Joseph, the nation had begin to prosper 05:53 and God has blessed Joseph and his descendants to the point 05:57 that they had lived 05:58 in the best land in Goshen, in the land of Egypt. 06:02 And because now the Israelites had begin to grow, 06:05 do you realize that 06:06 because of their progress, as soon as Joseph dies, 06:11 there arises a pharaoh that does not know Joseph. 06:15 And his immediate reaction to their progress 06:19 was to create 400 years of slavery and toil 06:23 because there's always a push back to progress. 06:27 We see friends that Daniel and his boys 06:29 are in the middle of a leap year. 06:31 They get promoted in chapter one, 06:34 they get promoted in chapter two. 06:36 But now folks are tired of their ascension. 06:40 And now they've got to put a halt on their progress 06:43 because there's going to always be a push back to progress. 06:47 Even in Daniel Chapter six, the Jews enjoy vessel favor and 06:51 protection because of Daniel, but now they create a law 06:56 that is against Daniel to be in conflict 06:58 with the law of the people and the law of His God. 07:03 Because there's always a push back whenever there is progress. 07:07 You remember 07:08 at the end of the Civil War, when we received our freedom, 07:13 they began to enact what they call black codes 07:16 to limit our participation in society. Why? 07:18 Because there's going to always 07:20 be a push back whenever there is progress. 07:25 And even after the rights to vote were given, 07:28 they enacted voter suppression laws 07:31 and they used things like poll taxes 07:33 and literary text and grandfather clauses 07:37 because there's always a push back whenever there is progress. 07:42 And even as federal protections, expanded hate groups 07:45 like the KKK began to emerge to inflict terror 07:49 in the hearts of people 07:51 because there's always a push back whenever there is progress. 07:57 Do you realize that even after the civil rights laws 07:59 were expanded, Jim Crow and redlining emerged? 08:04 Because there's always a push back whenever there is progress. 08:08 And even after the election of Barack Hussein Obama, 08:14 the eight years after that, we got 08:22 because there's always a push back 08:26 whenever there's progress, 08:28 because when an establishment feels threatened 08:31 and a system faces it's disequilibrium, 08:35 it is easily stoked by fear and to a hatred 08:40 that is illogical to white people that mean them 08:43 no harm are no threats. 08:49 And can I preach beyond this pulpit for a moment 08:54 to my brothers and sisters 08:55 of Goodwill, of other races and nationalities, 08:59 to my clergy, brothers and sisters 09:02 who stand behind 09:03 some of the things and the rhetoric 09:05 that is being spouted in our time. 09:07 Whenever that rhetoric is promoted, that suggests 09:11 that we've got to get it back 09:12 and we've 09:13 got to get it under control and we've got to get things back 09:17 in their rightful place. 09:18 The question I have for them 09:21 is when did black people 09:25 ever subscribe to a hostile takeover of this country? 09:30 Okay. 09:31 Okay. 09:32 Y'all, y'all brand new today? 09:33 Y'all brand new today? 09:36 When did we ever set it as a goal 09:40 to supplant the dominant, ah, majority culture? 09:44 Do you realize we loved America 09:50 when America did not love us? 09:55 That we went overseas and fought wars for liberties 10:01 that we couldn't even access when our men got back home? 10:07 When did we ever launch a government coup for our weapons? 10:13 Were nonviolent demonstrations and we conquered 10:17 not with munitions, our bomb, but with the Christ 10:22 like unconditional love of the cross. 10:25 When did black people ever storm 10:28 into a government building 10:32 with guns and weapons 10:36 and no sense for senators and congressmen 10:41 who are enacting laws that we did not like? 10:44 Oh, we never wanted was to be included. 10:48 All we ever wanted was equality. 10:52 All we ever wanted was our dignity. 10:56 All we ever wanted was our humanity. 11:00 All we ever wanted was access to those self-proclaimed 11:05 inalienable rights of life and liberty. 11:10 And the pursuit of happiness is all we have. 11:14 A loaded. 11:22 We are not insurrectionists. 11:25 We are not trying to topple a government. 11:29 We just want to be alone and my question for America 11:33 is this is this too much 11:35 to ask? 11:41 Is it too much to ask 11:44 that we not be spied upon and surveyed 11:47 when we shop in a department store? 11:52 Is it too much to ask that our boys and girls 11:56 not get gunned down by police on a routine traffic stop? 12:02 Is it too much to ask that the same age 12:07 you send overseas 12:09 to repair countries you destroy, and that a fraction of it 12:13 be sent to urban communities to build up the poor, 12:19 the least the loss and the life of the. 12:23 Is it too much to ask 12:26 that we get equal pay for equal work? 12:29 Is it too much to ask that 12:31 we simply be given humanity and dignity? 12:35 Is it too much to ask that we stop sending money to Mars 12:41 and start sending money 12:42 to education and child care and scholarships 12:48 and building up underprivileged communities? 12:52 Is it too much to ask 13:00 and see friends of mine? 13:01 This is why you've got to be able to see the hand of God 13:05 in all of our life's journey. 13:07 Five Reminded of the statement 13:09 that White makes, he says, We have nothing to fear 13:11 for the future. 13:13 Oh God. 13:15 Lest we forget the way in which God has left us in the past. 13:17 And see, the problem is you cannot look at the progress 13:20 we've made as a nation, as simply a social movement. 13:24 I see a spiritual revival where God has fought on behalf 13:28 of the oppressed 13:29 and marginalized in every season, in every generation. 13:33 I hear me today. CHURCH 13:35 So do I recognize that it was God 13:37 that broke the bow of Pharaoh 13:40 and put an end to 400 years of Hebrew slavery, 13:43 that it was God 13:44 that fought on behalf of the Jews in Babylonian captivity 13:49 and put an end to the 17 years of prophesied captivity 13:53 that it was God that stepped in during Hitler's regime 13:57 and made sure that the Allies were able to win, 14:00 that it was God that stayed the advances of Joseph Stalin 14:03 so that he could not be all that 14:05 he one day hope and dream to be. 14:08 You had to recognize that it was God in the Civil War 14:11 that gave favor to the Union soldiers 14:14 so that the Confederacy could not 14:16 reach any further than it did. 14:18 But it was God that awakened conscious white men 14:21 and Jewish men to see the evils that had taken place 14:25 and to march with us and stand with us 14:28 and to help us get the liberties we now have, that it was God 14:31 that exposed the wickedness of John Wallace and Bull Connor 14:36 on the Edmund Pettus Bridge so that progress can take place. 14:40 I need you to know that it was God 14:42 that brought us every step of the way. 14:44 And I've come to remind you of the words 14:46 of the old Negro spiritual. 14:48 We've come this far by faith 14:52 leading, and the 14:53 Lord trusting in His Holy Word. 14:58 And He's never failed us yet. 15:00 And can I say, like they used to say, nobody told me 15:04 that the road would be easy. 15:07 But I don't believe he's 15:10 brought me this far to lead me. 15:16 So to my saying, Pastor, I hear you, 15:18 but I'm tired of always 15:19 being pulled back on my how to always being pushed back. 15:24 But have you ever noticed in the Book of Psalms 15:26 that God is pictured 15:29 as being a master archer? 15:33 Okay, let me press you on the side that God is depicted 15:38 as an expert with bow and arrow. 15:41 See, somebody hadn't figured out 15:44 why you have to be pushed back. 15:46 Because when an archer wants the bow 15:50 to go far, the further he wants it to go forward, 15:57 the further he has to pull it back. 16:00 So the next time you get pulled back on your job 16:05 and pulled back in traffic and pull back in the courthouse, 16:09 it's not God punishing you. 16:11 It's God preparing you to propel 16:15 you further than you are supposed to go. 16:19 Thank God for the push back. 16:22 Boy, it's a push forward. 16:24 Sometimes the knock down 16:27 is a set up for a comeback kid. 16:31 Somebody giving grace. 16:45 So watch this. 16:48 Oh, it's going to get good to me, 16:50 whether it's good to you. 16:51 I'm enjoying this all by myself today. 16:55 So? So the day of the commencement 16:58 of the image has finally come. 17:01 And, friends, y'all got to see this thing 17:04 where this thing is got like an alumni 17:06 weekend homecoming vibe to it. 17:10 Where Babylon alum from all over the world 17:14 have come back to the land for the dedication of the image. 17:19 And, Julian, you got to see this thing 17:20 the outside, the gates there is tailgating going on 17:25 where they are serving libations and they're serving up 17:28 hot dogs. 17:29 There are they are image t 17:32 shirts and image hoodies and image programs 17:37 as folks have come to see the dedication of the image. 17:41 But the third thing this teaches 17:42 is that some things you don't want to be included in. 17:47 Okay, so you got to see this thing. 17:52 So Nebuchadnezzar says that man, that's folks come all over. 17:54 There's confetti streaming through the air. 17:57 There is this sense of coronation 17:59 that Babylon is 18:00 going to take its rightful place and that Nebuchadnezzar 18:05 is going to be immortalized among the ancestors, 18:09 so that when the music plays, everybody will bow down 18:12 and complete homage 18:13 to Nebuchadnezzar and the image that he has set up. 18:18 And notice how the Bible lays it out, 18:21 he says, When you hear the sound of the horn, the loop, 18:25 the harp and the lyre in symphony 18:27 with all kinds of other music, 18:31 then you about down and worship. 18:35 But notice this collection of instruments 18:38 the heart, the flute, the I look at the life. 18:41 When you read that it sounds like you're reading 18:44 one of the divisions of the book of sounds. 18:47 Okay in other 18:48 words, this group of instruments comprised what they saw 18:54 as the Israelites sound our way of worship. 18:58 And so what Nebuchadnezzar was trying to 19:01 do was to create a hybrid of Israelite worship 19:07 in conjunction with the worship of the Egyptian God, 19:11 the Amiright gods, the Philistine Gods, 19:14 in fact, church. 19:15 It was like the first episode of the Betty Awards 19:19 where you got Snoop the weekend are Kendrick Lamar 19:25 and Kirk Franklin on the same stage 19:30 and you ain't got no conflict taking place. 19:34 And I love how these boys answer the king 19:36 and they say, King, we really got a whole lot 19:38 to tell you about this thing. 19:40 He says, Our God whom we serve 19:43 is able to deliver us 19:47 through. 19:47 I have seven folk that still know we think 19:50 our God is able to deliver us. 19:54 But even if not, 19:58 we will not bow down and serve your gods 20:02 and worship your image. 20:05 So I love this church where the Bible says 20:09 that is face and counter the spell that you're part 20:13 Nebuchadnezzar got big man what they say. 20:17 So he said, okay, play the music one more time. 20:22 Let me give you one more chance to change your mind. 20:26 And so all of a sudden in the plane of Doura, 20:30 you've got to see a mass of humanity as they stand 20:34 before the golden image, which Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 20:38 So all of a sudden now you get those of Anglo descent 20:42 and they begin to play the bagpipes. 20:44 And once the bad guys play, 20:46 all those of Anglo descent fall to the ground. 20:50 And then after a while, 20:51 our brothers and sisters of Latino descent, 20:55 somebody plays some maracas and they shake them with force, 20:59 and everybody of Hispanic descent hits the ground. 21:03 And then somebody prays a lot, which is a Chinese guitar 21:07 and those of Asian descent, their bodies hit the ground 21:11 and then they begin to get some Kongo drums 21:15 and then some of us chuckling folk men like to dance. 21:17 Then their bodies hit the ground, 21:20 and then they play the horn, 21:21 the flute, the lyre and the heartbreak. 21:25 And then all of those of Hebrew descent hit the ground. 21:28 And when all these bodies hit the ground, 21:31 there is a cloud of dust that begins to rise from the earth. 21:36 But as the dust begins to settle 21:39 and the 21:40 rays of light begin to cut through 21:43 and one cannot stand, said Rick. 21:46 And another corner stands Me Shack. 21:50 And on the other side is a bad Negro. 21:55 You see, 22:00 we always saw them standing as a band of brothers, 22:04 but the Bible says they worked in different provinces, 22:07 so they are united in their conviction. 22:11 But they've made it up in their mind that if Abednego 22:14 doesn't stay and Shadrach doesn't stay, if nobody else 22:19 stands, I'm going to still stand 22:25 and see. 22:26 Sometimes friends, you got to be willing to stay, 22:28 even if you got to stand all by yourself. 22:30 See, the problem is we too need too much agreement 22:33 for principle. 22:34 We need somebody to second the emotion. 22:37 But when you got conviction, it doesn't matter. 22:38 If nobody else stands with you, 22:41 you're going to stand if you all by yourself. 22:43 Y'all hear me? 22:45 So the king says, That's all right. 22:47 They play me. 22:49 I got to do something about this. 22:51 I listen. 22:52 They're going to front me all my big day. 22:54 I got to make an example of them. 22:58 So not only does Nebuchadnezzar say heat up the fiery 23:02 furnace, LEWIS He made one mistake. 23:12 You know what that mistake was? 23:15 He told them to heat it 23:17 seven times hotter. 23:23 He probably would have been good 23:26 if he said heat it five times hotter. 23:29 He probably would have been straight. 23:31 If you said he did six times hotter, he might have been okay 23:36 if he said he did eight times hotter. 23:38 But when he said heat it seven times hotter, 23:42 Jehovah stood up on his throne 23:45 because when he called the number seven, 23:49 he called the number 23:51 of God's perfect deliverance. 23:56 Did you know that the number seven 24:00 is the number where God gives his people less? 24:03 So he told, naming the dip in the water. 24:06 And when he did six times he had no deliverance. 24:10 But when he dipped the seventh time he got his help. 24:13 They marched around Jericho six days. 24:16 But the war didn't tumble till the seventh day. 24:20 He worked on six days, 24:23 but God's people found rest on the seventh day. 24:26 And when he said seven, 24:29 he actually prayed 24:32 and intercessory prayer. 24:37 See, God is so good that when your enemies made the castle 24:41 you got to turn around 24:45 and make them bless you, your heart 24:50 and soul lost in smoke. 24:52 So God says I was going to let them be the first martyrs, 24:56 but now I got to go see about my children 24:58 so I can see the father now 25:01 looking for an angel to go and see about his children. 25:05 So he looks at one of those two winged angels and says, Angel, 25:09 how long will it take 25:11 you to get there and see about my children? 25:13 That to wing angel says, Father, I'll get there in a jiffy. 25:17 It'll take me about 5 minutes 25:19 and I'll be in that fiery furnace. 25:22 But God says 5 minutes is too long. 25:25 Let me find one of those four wings 25:28 following Angel. 25:30 How long will it take 25:31 you to get there and see about my children? 25:33 For Angel says Mass, I can get down there 25:36 in about three and a half minutes 25:38 and I'll be there right on time. 25:39 God said, No, that's still too long. 25:41 Then he looks one of those six meanings with two wings. 25:45 They cover their eyes and two wings they cover their feet. 25:49 And with two wings they cover that. 25:50 They fly. And he says, Six wings. 25:54 How long will it take you to get down there? Six 25:56 wing angel says, I can be there in about an 85 seconds. 26:00 God says, it's still too long. 26:01 Gabriel Come over here. 26:04 Gabriel 26:05 How long will it take you to get there and see him outside? 26:08 Rick Gabriel says I'll break my own record. 26:12 I'll fly faster than the speed of light. 26:15 I'll get there in under 60 seconds. 26:18 God says that's still too long. 26:20 And so God looks to his right hand 26:23 and says, Jesus, 26:28 Jesus, 26:32 Jesus, 26:36 Jesus, 26:41 Jesus, 26:46 Jesus, 26:51 Jesus, Jesus, 26:56 where you at? 26:59 And he hears a voice from heaven 27:01 and Jesus says, Daddy, 27:04 I'm already there. 27:09 Hey, can I just preach to somebody 27:16 that your help ain't on the way? 27:19 But he's promised to be a present. 27:21 Help in the time of trouble. 27:25 God ain't on the way. 27:27 God is already at work 27:30 You just got to open your eyes 27:36 and see the salvation of 27:38 the Lord. |
Revised 2025-05-07