I continue to follow on throughout the years I recently experienced family difficulties 1st thing I wanted to do was have myself Aster Rogers mask just. Like a dear friend guiding me back to my Lord and Savior. Washing of my wife how many years what a perfect example I mean a true free and guiding him back into a relationship with Jesus the success of love was funny ministries over 33 years has been our friends friends that listen friends that view friends that support friends the volunteer friends that take our information share that with their friends we exist our d.n.a. When you impact who we are all comes down to a circle of friends of love or funny care I remember Adrian Rogers preaching about friendship and I remember him saying that in order to have friends you need to be a friend be a good friend and he had this to say in the studio about friendship. A friend is a person who is loyal true friends stay bias in bad times in good times just when we need them the most it seems like they're always near and if they're not near physically they're near with their care their prayers and sometimes the phone call the letter if you have a true friend you are rich indeed I hope our people will stay tuned for this message in titled The friendship factor Zig Ziglar was a great friend of Dr Rogers and he would always say you help people achieve what they desire to achieve in life and they in return will help you achieve what you desire in life and it's friends helping friends write 50 friends telling 50 friends about Jesus Christ that's how we do it that's always how Jesus did it I just had the 12 disciples but he had the inner circle of the ray Peter James and John and it was friends telling friends about the love of Jesus Christ. Well for the friendship factor Here's Adrian Rogers Proverbs Chapter 17 and verse 17 the time of our message the friendship factor the friendship factor proverbs 17 verse 17 says Friend. Love Beth at all times and a brother is born for adversity off friend love it at all times and a brother is born for adversity and for him if you have a friend a real friend a true friend you indeed have something of great great value I do not have many friends now you say wait a minute Mr Rogers you have to have a lot of friends I have a lot of acquaintances I have many many acquaintances and I love my acquaintances and I enjoy my quaintance as and I thank God for my acquaintances and I would not for a moment put down my acquaintances thank God for all I want you to understand that but still I don't have many friends a friend is a rare thing as a matter of fact the Bible tells us we are not to have too many friends matter fact the Bible warns against having too many friends did you know that in Proverbs Chapter 18 in verse $24.00 The New American Standard puts it this way a man of many friends will come to room now it's interesting King James translates said he would have friends must show him so friendly This is a very interesting translation so I had to check it out several times but literally that is to be preferred as a direct rendering a man of many friends will come to room why is that well friends are costly things to have. I mean it takes effort it takes time all real friend is someone in whom you're going to invest your energy you're going to invest your prayers you're going to invest your emotion you're going to it's going to be demand upon your social life it's going to be a demand upon your financial life is going to be a demand upon your emotional life and you cannot afford the luxury of many friends you could not maintain them you only need one wife or one husband and you need a few friends a person of many friends the Bible says will come to ruin But everybody everybody everybody needs a friend when I was in seminary they used to tell us you as a pastor ought not to have friends. On your church field don't have any friends it'll make other people jealous or envious and a pastor's wife not supposed to have friends I believe that was and is still bad advice I believe to say to anybody who lives that that person should not have friends is to deny their basic humanity and I want to say even though Lord Jesus Christ when he was here in the flesh had his friends now he loved every bottle but he had his friends there were 12 disciples and out of those 12 there was that enter trinity of disciples Peter James and John who were more intimate and out of Peter James and John there was one John who was the beloved disciple matter right and Jesus loved many people but there was a home where Jesus would often resort. And it was the home of Mare monster and Lazarus and he loved everybody but these were his friends and the Lord Jesus and his humanity needed a friend had a friend that I had a friend and so must you oh Doug Doug value the value of a friend now I want to move on just a little bit and talk not only about the value of friendship but I want to think about the virtues of friendship why are friends so by Yuval Why do we talk about friends as being so wonderful and worth the investment by the way they're no bargain Friendships are very costly things but it's worth it was well when you see the virtues of friendship you'll understand let me mention for virtues of real genuine biblical friendship number one true friendship is selfless selfless a real friend is a selfless friend who loves you because not of any need that he has in him as such but it is a selfless unconditional love that says I love you period real friendship is a selfless friendship now because it is selfless it is steadfast That's the 2nd Test true friendship is steadfast Fran will stick offering him love at all times it doesn't matter what you have done that friend is going to be there now not only as a friend selfless he doesn't put conditions upon it. And because he's selfless he's steadfast conditions are not going to change and make him less a friend when conditions change but I want to say thirdly that a friend is sacrificial it call to be a friend Proverbs 18 verse 24 look at the Bible says then Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 24 that a friend stick of closer than a brother oh say something else about the virtues of friendship all real friend is sanctifying he sanctifies you with his friendship there's a sanctifying factor there look in Proverbs Chapter 27 in verse 17 you see what I'm talking about Proverbs Chapter 27 and verse 17 iron sharpening fire so a man to sharpen it but the countenance of his friend now we should be friends because a friend was sharp in you a friend will enhance you a friend will put the sharp edge there but now listen a true friend will not condone you when you do wrong. A true friend will not condone you not indulge you but a true friend will confront you that he might change you and you see to take the rough edges off that's what it means as iron sharpens arm so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend let me show you a passage of Scripture here in Proverbs Chapter 27 and verse 6 look at it with me for a moment. Faithful all the rooms of a friend. And that a beautiful worse faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are to see full. Judas kissed the Lord how deceitful lad was he was a false friend he pretended to be a friend but all he did was flatter the Lord Jesus when He said hey he'll master flattery comes from Paul's friends True friends don't flatter you are they may compliment you but they do not flatter you. But you know flattery and hypoxia are basically the same thing but you know that under the skin they're the same thing if you are flatter I want you listen here's the difference between a flatter and a hypocrite I have to quit will say behind your back what he will not say to you face. Off flatterer will say to your face what he doesn't say behind your back. That is friends love us enough they care enough to confront a real friend has a sanctifying influence on your life he will make you a better person and the test of your friendship is am I a better person. Because of my frame and the friends that I have other than my wife my real friends I'm not with them 2 or 3 minutes before they're giving me a new thought a new blessing a new idea whether we had an automobile in a restaurant at a convention in a motel room it instantly my life is being built up my countenance is being sharpened these people are adding to my life because they are free and they have something in the Word of God or some blessing something that will add to my life because I am sharpens iron and a man's countenance sharpens the countenance of his friend faithful by the wounds of a friend a friend will make you a better person these are beautiful words someone has written I love you not for what you are but for what I am when I am with you I love you are not only for what you have made of yourself. But for what you. Are making of me I love you for not closing your ears to the discord in me but for adding to the music in me by worship full listening you have done it without a touch without a word without a sign you have done it by just being yourself. Perhaps this is what being a friend means after all and the key to that beautiful prose is in the 1st line I love you not for what you are but for what I am when I am with you as iron sharpens iron saw a man sharpens the countenance of his friend the wounds of a friend are faithful and so what are the values of friendship and why do we prize friendship and why do we pay the price for friendship and why do we take the risk for friendship because a friend dear friend or a real friend is something saw are far beyond gold in value. Now let me talk to you thirdly and finally. Not only about the value of friendship and not only about the virtues of friendship but let me talk to you about the venture of friendship I mean how to have a friend. How to Be a friend. I know what you're thinking you're thinking I need a friend that's exactly what I need I need in my life a friend well I want to tell you and give you some spiritual and practical ways they enter into this venture of friendship bar number one I want you to meet and know the best friend whose name is Jesus now that's the beginning point and don't think that that's non consequence as a matter of fact he is a friend that you need to meet remember all of these other things I said about a friend a selfless friend oh he 1st loved us and I remember what I said about a steadfast friend he said I will never leave you no forsake you a sacrificial friend Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends a sanctifying friend oh jesus can make me what he wants me to be Jesus is that kind of a friend and I want you to meet the Lord Jesus Christ listen even his enemies call him a friend of centers you see he doesn't love us because we are lovely He just loves us we're not valuable he doesn't love us because we're valuable we're valuable because he loves us I've told you before he does not change you in order to love you he loves you in order to change you that's a wonderful friend is that that's the kind of friend that you have in the Lord Jesus God commanded his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners. While we were yet sinners. Christ died for us what a Friend We Have in Jesus now here's the secret to having human friends is to have him for free and you see let me show you why many of us do not have more friends or any friends is because we're not the kind of a person that is easy to be a friend with we have a basic character flaw that makes us sometimes almost obnoxious and hard to be around and that's the reason we don't have friends well let me tell you what that character flaw use it is insecurity and because we have this insecurity that insecurity portrays itself and comes up in the life of selfishness you see when I'm in secure I don't feel that I have anything to give and so therefore I become selfish I become closed in and I want to take from you and add to me and even sometimes when I'm trying to have a friend what I'm trying to do is to latch on to somebody else that I might lead them that I might some from them strength to me and so it's sort of a again relationship and I'm trying to take from other persons because I'm I'm so in secure and I don't have anything to give in and I just feel unworthy. Now when I meet the Lord Jesus who loves me when I was yet a sinner who knows all about me. And yet he loves me I've met before him of senators now let me tell you what faith is faith is an understanding of number one he accepts me not because of what I am or what I've done he just loves me that's Grace right he accepted me I want you listen to this now he accept me Now faith is my acceptance of the fact that he accepts me faith is my acceptance of his acceptance of me. He will accept you now watch he except you I accept that he accepts me and now I accept me I mean if he loves me I accept his love now I can love me it's all right to love why Jesus loves and if Jesus loves you you can love you but ever heard about is it hey don't love yourself that's bad you. Bring you supposed to love yourself. Jesus said we don't love others as we love ourselves now if you don't love yourself how are you going to love anybody else you have to have a basic self-love that comes from the fact that you see that the Lord has accepted you you accept that the Lord accept you value except you and the Bible says you are accepted in the Beloved when I say that you to love yourself that doesn't mean that you're filled with ego when you stand in front of the mirror and saying How Great Thou Art I'm not talking about the Heavenly I am talking about this 5 that you are in the Lord Jesus Christ somebody I had become a royal blue blood a child of the King accepted in the Beloved I am now somebody in Christ and that ladies and gentlemen deals with my basic insecurity Now watch what I'm saying he accepts me I accept the fact that he accepts me now I accept me now I am free to accept you now I don't have to be leeching on to you now I don't have to be manipulating you now I don't have to be using you now I don't have to be egocentric to build up that insecurity this in me now I am free. To love you as a real person and now you are free to love me because that ugliness has been taken out of me and there's the basis of friendship is in the Lord Jesus number one you know the Lord 'd Jesus Christ to get your sins forgiven Number 2 you have something better you have a friend in the Lord Jesus who will never leave you never forsake you now I remember when I said when the Lord Jesus Christ was here in His humanity that. He just had a few for him. Remember that you say well I wish I could have been one of them you can ma'am let me give you a verse of scripture listen to it John 15 verse 15 Jesus said henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knows not what he is Lord do with but I have call you friends for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known and to you Matt Jesus said this in that passage of Scripture where he is getting ready to go back to the father and us in the Holy Spirit Remember Jesus said it is good for you that I go away it is better for you it is expedient for you for if I don't go away the Holy Spirit will not come but if I go I'll send him on to you and you know what the Holy Spirit is he is a personal friend to every one of us you see when Jesus was here his humanity he could not spin the night in everybody's home but you know he spends the night in my home now did you know that he could not be intimate with everybody but now he's and to meet with me and with you and he can be your friend as though we had no other friends through the Holy Spirit of God in that wonderful Henceforth I don't call you servants anymore now I call your friends and I'm sending the Holy Spirit to represent me and to you are what a Friend We Have in Jesus and so my sins are forgiven when I receive Christ I have that friendship I'm never alone the darkest night the most lonely road Christ is there and then I become a whole person I can love me for the 1st time and now because I can love me I can love you as I love me and because I love you as I love me you can love me because that ugliness has been taken out of my life and that is the basis my friend for having a friend be a real friend a true friend now listen. Second thing number one meet the true friend the friend of friends the friend of sin is Jesus number 2. Take the initiative. Now if you want a friend. Be afraid Galatians chapter 6 verse 7 says Be not deceive God is not mocked for whatsoever a man so's that you also read that is you going to get what you give. You won't love give law you want people to give to you give to them give any shall be given unto you you see. People who want to have friends need to show themselves for in where you see so many people waiting for someone to come and be a friend to them. I went out to find a friend. And could not find one there I went out to be a friend and friends were everywhere now stop waiting for people to come to you you take the initiative and go to them Dale Carnegie said this you can make more friends in 2 months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get other people interested in you take the initiative and then be practical I mean get in a place where you go to meet the right kind of friends you're not going to be the right kind of friends in a singles bar you want to meet them in church you're going to meet them in that social context of Christian people you see the way to find the right friend is to be the right person and be in the right place and then go ahead in and take the risk break the ice find someone with a common interest and begin to talk to that person and share with that person and there is a risk you might be unnoticed you might be embarrassed it might not work you have to take that risk you can do it now because Jesus Christ is in you. And then be yourself don't put on be your best self but be yourself and be reasonable Don't try to make it happen overnight there are no real instant friendships. Don't force it don't do it over kill. You'll drive that new friend away. Just let it happen you gotta give your friend don't pull your radishes up by the roots to see how they're grown and then jam him back in the ground again. Don't make a reasonable demands don't smother up your new friend. And you're going to find out that if you'll do this. If you on the want to meet the Lord Jesus let him radically dramatically change you on the other hand if you will take the initiative and began to give Number 3 if you will be practical and number 4 if you will pray and say God give me a friend he will my God show supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus and God answers prayer if you need a friend you know since before. Me If You need a friend will send you one how awesome it is to know that God cares about the details of our lives even now to the people we consider close he cares about it all and maybe today you can take time to pray about your friends thank God for them lift them up to your father look deeply into each investment that they've made into your life and that you've made into theirs and ask God for wisdom to maintain the relationships in your life with grace and understanding we appreciate your friendship with us here at love worth finding for your generous gifts for praying for us we have a special thank you if you will reach out right now 3 copies of the Gospel of John from the Adrian Rogers legacy by call to give 1877 love God or go to L.W.'s. Thanks for studying with us and join us next time for more about God's infinite wisdom right here on love worth find. The preceding program is sponsored by Cordova media your tune am 670 calle t.t. 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Slows down too and it pools at the Dead Sea the Dead Sea There's nothing that lives in or around the Dead Sea I think that's because there is no outlet our lives can be like that if we will let God flow through us rather than flow blessings to us will be amazed at the life that will be sustained all around us join us and save the children in making a difference 805705155805705155 Don Stephens here at Mercy Ships dot org with today is mercy. 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This very night before the rooster crows you will disown me 3 times it's. Peter declared even if I have died with you. I would never disown. And all the other decide to say. The readers and the doers of his word you may be seated one to talk to you really just ask you a question today. A question I want to ask you is can you handle the fire. Can you handle the fine. Jesus was trying to prepare his folk for what was going to happen a man. Now in the King James Version. Says the Jesus told them this very night you will stumble on account of me. Amen and what he was telling them is that we've had a great time we've had a good March we have been on target and on track we've been going for 3 years but you know what the time is coming when the route that we've been going in the way we've been marching you're going to have a stumbling block put in the way and it is going to be me. Who's Telenor is going to come a time to even mention my name or even show at least just what me is going to cost stumbling which at the time you can't even imagine that I mean they were having a great church every place they with. A man. He was healing folks and folks was excited and he was preaching God's word and even when he went to get arrested would finding that some church when the preacher finished preaching then go get some rest and the folk find and say put some. I run into those situations like to. Keep my own fruit. He says he was trying to get them prepared for what was about to happen and basically a good shepherds job is to get the flock prepared for what's about to happen a good shoppers job is to make sure that the flock is spiritually equipped to be able to handle the trollers that or upon this a minute that's why yesterday you know we were at the women's breakfast and mother's surely shot she brought it Man oh man she was not playing a. Rod. In I kid. I can't articulate the term as she used to describe preachers that are up here messing around. You can't I have to be there. The bottom line is that if she was saying we don't have time for the full Asian is that it's coming from some of our it's because God is trying to get his people mobilized the impact of the fall because people are losing their lives daily without known keys and there's no time for the 3 act rights that we see in some ministries. When the Word of God is set aside. And I understand me well. I can get Ritchie with you preaching were. In your spiritual gifts leads you into a sort of I'm on a piece that goes along we call a hoop and. I can get Ritchie you up the front row center if you don't fail me something 1st. In other words I can't shout what you're hearing give me some of the shout Oh. So somebody's got to stand up at some point and somebody's got to start telling the truth. And Jesus was the somebody he was telling them the truth and he was saying in this my 1st court today. The father of the trial of the fire is going to come against the head 1st here and says I will strike the shepherd in the sheep or the flock will be scattered it makes sense if you should try to head. The new bodies out away this morning we were talking about a boxer and trying to see you know I was talking about you know my early days I used the box I used to give. That was not my calling. And I used the box and one of the things that we learn is everything you did in boxing everything was the set up a head shot. Now you don't come right up to here right off the back because everybody knows you're trying to hit the here so they're just blocking. And so you do some body shots to do something and you do some jab and you're doing everything so that you can put yourself in position to hit that head because once they head is out of whack then the body's out of way you know what happens when you see a boxer who is punch drunk. How does he how does he walk in the ring. Just like. Now look he still has his muscles he still has this conditioning but because it's heading right he can use this stuff see. Saying no who's there use you wrap your biblical training say knows you study say knows you know right from wrong Satan knows that if he can get into your head. Then you know I don't follow through. And this is Satan works with me saying the tax me from every angle you can imagine saying attacks me through the media Satan attacks me through my family he attacks me through my wife he attacks me to my friends he attacks me through the church it is a no no unsafe folk doing attack. But what satan is trying to do is say now is trying to attack to bring down this under shepherd so that this ministry will be just broke punch drunk and will have direction and will lose its effect. Lucas Zachariah 13 is. Jesus is actually quoting scripture here. There's a Waco suit against my shepherd against the man who was close to me to close the Lord Almighty strike the shepherd in the she will be scatter now I would turn my head and against the little ones in this holy land declares the Lord 2 thirds will be struck down and perish one 3rd will be left. I will bring into the fire were find them like silver and test them like go they will carry on my name and I will answer them I would say they are my people and they will say The Lord is our God. God is telling us right from the beginning. Your headship is going to be a test to his ship in the church going to be. If you had a young home you go be attacking women if you had your home. He tell you right from the beginning its own don't be surprised this is how Satan works not only that he is also telling us is that you can mix game testing. Father is going to come because far refinance and you can get better in this somebody turn the needle . Because we have a new pressure folks we lay back and relax. Lifeless fon with no pressure everything is cool God wants to look a lot out some pressure so that we can be refined the thing I like about it is that he will normally warn you when something. If you're purring. Now if you're not pretty and you're going you know to temptation. If you do not pray and you do draw on your own strength and you a stronger our care who you are I don't care how many scriptures you can quote you are not strong enough for your own. Temptation come there comes a time you got a pull on something greater than yourself. You have a plan oh no he's got to give you strength and he's got to give you no one in season. You know what that means he's got to give you something to do or say that applies to the situation to me of also using last seasons were because we've been in the we're only been encouraged some of us to use a momma's word grandma's word. Do you hear me today. So Jesus was mourning the. Now 2nd point is this sometimes when father come we don't see it. When father come we don't even know it's a rhino. When testing comes we don't see it and the disciples didn't see it here look at this but after I have risen I will go ahead of you in the Galilee and Peter says even if. You want to kill me you are never will and Peter you and this. Now Jesus is because of me you're going to stumble. But let me help you always so if Jesus was good enough to teach them for the last 3 years he have to be good enough to get this word across. But this world wasn't come in the way that Peter wanted it to come. Some of us think we can handle temptation when it come the way we expect but when it comes in a way we don't expect then all of a sudden we don't agree. And so is telling God I got this. And see you can't tell God you get nothing because you aren't even got to self. So how can you have a situation where you might get yourself. Imo. Folks is killing folks in committing crimes and then going to court and what police temporary work you might get yourself. Even if temperance you want to get your. Preacher that's kind of extreme know somebody who can be crazy. Little rules they've been some of y'all been crazy. So many are doing when off. Interview It could have an out of body experience you will recognize Would you sleep. I'm not us troops Peter said hey I got this I want you not only that he says even if the rest of these guys fall away who was the gun was the other disciples even if they don't got you got you how arrogant is that . Imagine it was the Cyprus was like Just wait a minute. Science says temptation doesn't come package in a way that is palatable. To your experience and your ability. Temptation comes packaged in ways that use only expect. It from someone you have I'm not going to say. Messenger up to your house one of them big round things with the fuse on. Because you don't know not to accept that package your money. You don't say that's a bomb. I don't want that. But a fine rolled out in a brand new Haskel it would spend hours in the. Bed on top. I say all you always saw. But I guess then you might. Only do so only let us come to sent this to me only old. Is just as deadly as the bomb. Because he comes to us in ways that we are open to. Not ways you're watching for. If you're watching. Then he's not going to be effective he's going come in ways you know look out for him to come and he's going to use folks that you don't expect to be used He's going to use people you trust. He's going use family. He's going you somebody in the church I can't tell you how many folks get her going to church and just going to church no more don't focus what you do don't trust the folk in the church. Trust God don't think trust them. Just cuz somebody go to church. That don't make them trustworthy. I mean. Now me tell you so when I was younger. People used to invite me to church or town but I wouldn't go anywhere near my partner's dear go we was not looking phone no Jesus. We were not. We were looking for a pretty young thing. Now we were in the church and we were just right but there was none spiritual but our Until 2 months. Oh but he goes to church pastor is what that me. So was a lot of folks go to church. Dot com package the way we're expecting so we respond to it differently when we're in prayer God is able to allow us to be able to see some of these challenges when they come in be able to recognize them for what they are saying can do so slick because he doesn't know I mean God knows everything saying this try. And sometimes he tries stuff without saying you know the Holy Spirit is like oh yeah I remember he tried that back in you know you know own 50. I remember he don't worry about that this is how we don't have. A man who try not really know all the work we know they were trying to operate and we have to deal with the listen listen fire will not be tame. You play with it you go and give back. Not only that. U.k. Manage the intensity of fire. And God may allow Satan to turn the heat up. We're going to talk about that in just. A minute. And says Peter declare even if I have to die with you I will never disown you and listen to this and catch this in your spirit 35 says and all the other side bows say at the same so we always are a tribute to the Peter but also the disciples agree that they are not going to did not Jesus Christ and they were really in the dock with him a man. Then Jesus goes to the garden against him and they there were just so many meaning the press going to so many was located in the Mount of Olives which is ride across the king drone valley from the walled city even to this day and the guarding against somebody had a price and is so they could bring up all over harvest from the Mount of Olives into the garden of the press the all of and that 1st price was called the Virgin press and that's why when you get all of the oil it says version because of that 1st press and so they were in this garden where this press was located. Jesus told. His inner circle through. Here and you all pray the sons of. You all stay here and I'm going to go a little bit further Jesus goes a little bit further than you praise and look at verse 40 and then he returns to his disciples and found them sleeping and he said could you miss in not keep watch with me for one hour. Who did yes folks Peter says. You will in the die with me could you not watch with me for one hour now listen this is critical you got to watch him pray was so that you will not fall into temptation prayer keep your from temptation. Studying the Word of God gives you faith for faith comes by hearing hearing by the Word of God prayer keeps you from temptation because prayer direction you so you've got faith in the word and you have got resistance against him patient through prayer and direction through prayer now you praise it's like taking a fire. Retardant jacket. And putting it on. To protect you in the midst of the fire. That's what it's like because even though fire is raging around you you're not going to buy it doesn't take the 5 year old way it allows you to. Handle the fine message the 5. The 3 Hebrew boys there we know our God can deliver us but if he does we are so they walked into the furnace. Trusting God to either protect them or not. Either way it was God's will and God put a protective fire retardant covering over there they didn't even smell like smoke when they came. To new a smell like smoke. And then they you know that's something to do you know. Sometimes I run across kids there are road cross from you know some kilowatt Pareto whoa whoa come here come in whoa whoa. What you been smoking I promise I wasn't smoking it where you been so where were they were smoke. I can smell it this protection puts the Guard protects you even as the flames are raging you're able to make right decisions the temperature don't get to you. What does the flames look like in our lives it looks like in our lives realistically when we run into Try us young people you run into trials on the time you run in the trials at school when people are trying to get you to do or tries something that you know was wrong or people are trying to get you to skip school that's a that's a fire that's a trial. Gotta make the right decision. We adults who run in the trials all the time. Runs into trials and integrity where it takes us telling the truth even though we suffer. Versus telling the law we're running to trials in integrity when it comes down to us use the money the way God wants us to. Trials in integrity when we talk in terms of what we do once the lights go out last week I said some of us are skipping the step coming down here and say and i do we run into rounds typin and slip and sleeping with folks we got no business leaving with that's a fire folks let me tell you something I don't think you can manage the far. Don't think you can manage the 5 brothers don't think you can manage the 5 like past the book says How far can I go. Quit playing around with this thing. A minute . 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Of live events are an integral part of what we do at the a.p.r. Let's talk about that today well one of the most important live events is the one we start our broadcast year with every year and that's called Christmas in America so why do we do Christmas in America studying history and government and you go back across the ages across the millennia across thousands of years you find there's one big bump and then wrote one being moment when everything changed in fact one moment when the way we even record time on our calendars changed from b.c. To a.d. 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You're tuned to a m $670.00 calle t t k o t g h d Commerce City Denver. At 95 point one. Streaming world warning at $670.00 calle t.t. Don't come. Close to. The serious load. A. Quote Daniel's friends Shadrach the shack and Abednego had every reason to be terrified in fact they faced a decision they could determine if they lived or died God had miraculously delivered them before but would he do it again welcome through the Bible where our teacher Dr j. Vernon McGee tells us the rest of the story as we continue our study of Daniel Chapter 3 So as you find your seat on the Bible bias as Dr McGee love to call it we'll take a brief detour with an introduction the Dr biggie recorded to help put today's message in context now we've been giving some overview our background material of the places that are being touched and prophecy and a historical background that philosophical background and a psychological background that's all going to lead finally at the the end tax rise and I feel that at this particular fathom the question that's going to be asked by many out that well what about the church where does the church fit into this picture friends let me say to you that the church is not in the book to die and you know that you know makes no reference at all to the church this man had gotten from a little nation of as Soriano where I'm sure as thanking was very pro venture as the was there now he's put down in this great 1st world. And I tell you his mind is being stretched and he sees something now that a great many people don't even see the day all oh we have the history for it today the tremendous history of man under governments that began by the time of Daniel with Neb you can as an that has absolutely no reference to the church at all is free will and the Gentile nations.