This is not the time to compromise the promotion is on the other side

And I'm gonna start at verse fourteen, and I will

be reading all the way to thirty.

And this is the title that the Lord gave me,

and it stuck with me.

So Holy Spirit, have done own way.

The Lord gave me.

This is not the time to compromise. The promotion is

on the other side of the fire, starting with verse fourteen,

and so many of us might even know the story.

If you don't know the story, I'll give you just

a little bit of it. These is the three Hebrew Boys,

and so the majority of Daniel is about Daniel and.

The three Hebrew Boys.

But in this section Daniel is kind of left out

of it. Why we don't know. But it's mainly talking

about shaq rapp me shack and a beating ago. And

I'm hoping I'm saying neb but Knazar right, because I've

heard his name say it so many different ways.

But the storyline starts out.

In chapter three, verse fourteen, and the Word of God

says Nebukanazar Spakon said, unto them, is it true? Oh

shad rap me shack in a bed, and no go

do not ye serve my gods nor worship the Golden Image,

which I have set up.

Now.

If ye be ready that at what time ye hear

the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut soft tree

and docimer and all kinds of music, ye fall down

and worship the image which I have made well. But

if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same

hour into the midst of a burning, foul refurnace. And

who is that God that shall deliver you out of

my hands? Shat wrapped me shack in a bed, and

no go answered and said to the King O Nebuka Nezzar,

we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

Verse seventeen.

If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is

able to deliver us from the burning fowl refurnace, and

he will deliver us out of thine hand, the O King.

But if not be it known unto THEE, O King,

that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the

golden image which thou hast set up, then was Nebucannezzar

full of fury, and the form of his visage was

changed again. Shat Bradney Shak and Abtnago. Therefore he spake

and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven

times more than it was walt to be heated. And

he commanded the most mighty men that were in his

army to bind Shat, Bradney, Shak, and Abdnago, and to

cast them into the burning fire refurnace. Then these men

were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats

and their other garments, and were cast into the midst

of the burning fire refurners. Therefore, because the king's commandments

commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame

of the fire slew those men that took up shatrap

me Shack and a betting ago. And these three men

Shat wrapped, me Shack and a betting Ago fell down

bound into the midst of the burning fire refurnace. Then

Nebukannazzar the king was astonned, astonished a storm astned, and

rose up in haste and spake and said, unto his counselors,

did not we cast three men bound into the midst

of the fire. They answered, and said, unto the King,

true O King? He answered and said, lo, I see

four loose walking in the midst of the fire, and

they have no hurt. And the form of the fourth

is like the son of God. Then Nebukanazzar came nearer

to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spake

and said, shot wrap me shack and abedding a go, ye,

servants of the most Tai God, come forth and come hither.

Then shat rapped me shack, and a bettina goo came

forth of the midst of the fire, and the princes,

governors and captains, and the king's counselors being gathered together.

As all these men upon.

Whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was in

hair on their head sined, neither were their coach changed,

nor the smell of fire passed on them. Then Nebukanezzar

spake and said, blessed be the God of Shatrat Meshak

and Abetanago, who had sinned his angel and delivered his

servants the trusted in him, and have changed the King's

word and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve

nor worship any god except their own god. Therefore, I

make a decree that every people, nation and language which

speak anything amiss against the God of Shatrat me shack

in a beetnagold shall be cut in peaces, and their

houses shall be made a dunghill, because there is no

other god the can deliver after this sword.

Then the God, then the.

King promoted Shaq, rapped me Shaq in a betting ago

in the province of Babylon.

You may be seated in the house of the Lord. Amen.

May God at a blessing to the reading here and

and understanding of his word.

Amen. Amen.

So this is not the time to compromise. The promotion

is on the other side of the fire. When the

Lord gave me this, the first thing I thought, and

I'm just gonna be honest, was Lord, we're living in

some tough times right now.

Wonder how many of your people is compromising.

I read a book a few years ago, and the

book was called The Great Compromise, and I can possibly

say it was probably longer than a few years ago.

It's probably been about more than ten years ago. And

in the book called The Great Compromise, it's a Christian book,

and it's talking about the compromise that a lot of

Christians make. And some of the greatest compromise is when.

We choose.

Worldly aspects over Christian aspects. And because we choose to

do worldly things over Christian things, then we find ourselves

in sin, and a lot of time we don't see

it as something big. We see it as if I'm

just going alone to get along or everybody is doing it,

you know, And you would really think that that would

be something with kids. But when you look at the

Christian world or day, you see it's not just kids

when it comes to the church, it's a lot of

older people. I do can't tell you how many times

I still see churches with the fans mimicking the song

that's a worldly song where them fans at And I

just still to this day don't believe I heard y'all

talking a little bit in Sunday School. I don't believe

that the church has to get songs from the world

in order to have songs. I don't believe that the

church you have to get dances from the world in

order to have dances. Now, if my God it's big

and mighty, powerful and strong, all knowing, omnipotent, all powerful,

he got to go to Satan to get a dance

or some.

Does not make any sense.

So you find people in the church that's compromising, So

then they go to the world, and because it sounds

good in the world, then they get it and they

bring it back to the church because it sounds good

to them in the world, instead of them creating something

and taking it to the world.

Because that's what compromise is.

Compromise is when you go against something that you believe

in to take up on something that somebody else believes in.

And so.

Our face a moment or time in our life, well,

we'll have a never caniza, a never canaiza in our life,

whether it's we've already faced it, and I believe we

all have, because we all come.

From not being saved to being saved.

So whether we've already have faced a nether canazza or

we're facing one now, we're gonna face another one, and

then we'll face another one, and then we'll face another one.

But what we see here in this storyline again I

started at chapter three, but we know before we get here,

we have them facing the instance on what we should eat,

and that's where we see Daniel, and that's where we

get our Daniel fast from.

But what I like.

About this is they never bowed down to what the

other people were doing.

And so what I find that My research is is

that with the Hebrew Boys, it wasn't just the four.

In our storyline, we only hear about Daniel, Shadrack, me Shack,

and a Bendigo. But when they went and took captive,

when the Babylonians went and took captive, they didn't just

get these four. They got a thousands. But we only

hear about the four. So that tells me that the

others compromised. When it came to the food, Daniel said,

we won't eat that. Bring us something different. And then

watch and see while we're eating this food, don't we

look better?

We're gonna be more healthier.

And so they did the food and again that's how

we come up with the Daniel Fast for the twenty

one day fast that we do at the beginning of

the year. And they were more healthier than those that

ate the choice foods because Daniel them had been raised

and the Jewish that we don't eat these type of meats,

we don't drink this this type of wine.

So Daniel was sticking to what they knew.

They had come from a Jewish background and so they

knew that they there were things that they followed.

Due to their belief in God.

And these people were following what they belief was the

Nebuknaza their king.

Had set up.

So Daniel's whole thing was, we're not gonna compromise. Well,

he had his three brothers with him. That was shad

racking me shack in a bend of go. So as

they did this, then their whole thing was they would

never doubt what they had been taught.

About their God. See, and that's the same way for us.

Once we know who God is, we can't second guess.

How do you get saved?

And then when you start going through something, you start

second guessing. And that was a question, but the Lord

wanted me to know that they do it all the time.

Soon as we get into hot water, we do it

all the time. As soon as you broke, you forget

that he's Jehovah, Jirah, my provider. Oh Lord, how am

I gonna get this? How am I gonna get this

bill paid?

Oh Lord? How am I gonna make it now? You

lost your job? Oh God, how am I gonna make

it now? But you're a believer. We noticed he's Jehovah driver.

And I can raise my hand because I remember assuming

as I didn't have enough kids in the day care.

I was looking for a second job.

The late Lady Moore used to be Mi dcarriager. She

called me, girl, where you're gonna work at? Why you

looking for a job? You know you ain't supposed to

be working. She'd get me every time. But it didn't

stop me from getting discaraged when I didn't see that

money coming in, Because it happens sometimes. But the thing

is is do we compromise? Do we go backwards or

do we stand? Because God tells us when we're going

through a situation that we're supposed to stand. And after

we've done all the stand and what keep standing? He

didn't say move, He didn't say start asking somebody.

He didn't say start doing something else. He said keep standing.

What are we standing on? We should be standing on

his word. We should be standing.

On who we know. That's what the three Hebrew boys

was doing.

They kept standing on the God that they knew. They

wasn't even with their own people anymore. They were around

all this other influence, but they kept standing on what

they knew. Says they were the only These were not

only young boys. They were not the only young boys

that had been taken captive during the babylon exile. There

were thousands. Some of them were even mighty men of Valor.

So the mighty men of valid gave in. Come on, y'all,

y'all got to eat this food, because this is what

the king say. Y'all got to take this meat and

drink this wine. The mighty men of Valor gave in.

They folded under pressure. They compromised. We can't compromise when

we out there in the world and they saying, okay,

maybe you get food stamps.

Everybody. Everybody don't have it like that.

It's some saints to get some food stamps, so you're

not getting them right now. And somebody say, well, I'm

going over here and I'm stealing some meat, and I

done stole this meat. Hey, I got this meeting. I

just stole this meat, And hey, you want to buy

this I got it on the low low.

It's on a discount because I stole it.

You're gonna compromise and get the meat, or you gonna

trust on God.

To provide for you.

Because we don't live for the system anyway. We're not

believing in the system. We believe in God. Now I

understand that right now, the government is under some man.

I don't even know what to call it, but I

know that our government is God. And so if I'm

believing in trusting in God, then that means I have

to believe in trusting God. The Bible says that if

we've been given, he'll use man to give back unto us.

But I even if you ain't been given, if you

belong to God, God got you. Why because he's our

but father. I don't know a father that would not

take care of his kids except for unearthly father, not

the father that sitts how and look low. And the

Bible says his right hands is extended unto us.

God gonna take care of his even in the family.

And if you don't know that, then you need to

get into your word, because from Genesis to Revelation, it's

scriptures of God.

Taking care of his people.

They was in a land and didn't have nothing, and

he told him to start building houses.

In the midst of not having nothing. Don't build you

some houses. I got you, He got his.

So we have to be depending up on God and

not depending up on man. So that means I can't

compromise because the Lord don't want me buying stolen goods.

He wants me to wait on him.

I just might be that person that standing in the

line before somebody and I get up there and I

don't have enough to pay. But God does sent this

person to stand behind me, and that's the person that

God is already using to bless people.

And he then said, hey, she ain't got enough, give

it to her.

So I don't want to put my help in jeopardy

because I'm compromising. So see, they understood this. They knew

how powerful their God was, so they had this uncompromising integrity,

says The uncompromising integrity that Daniel shat ragged Me Shack

and a Bendigo had was displayed because of them not

compromising when it comes to eating the food that they

had offered them, when it comes to them not compromising

when they was asked a bow down to the king's image,

because they were not willing to compromise their belief.

Sometimes we even compromise our we can have our.

Own self belief system. But because somebody at worked and

said something, now.

We're trying to figure out is it okay to do that?

Don't nobody see me. I'm not at church.

And though none of my church friends work here, I

know I ain't supposed to be doing.

This, But who gonna tell? Because they don't know?

But it's not even as much about them telling as

it is about your Holy Spirit knowing. And I still

to this day don't understand how people don't know that

God see everything, that nothing's hidden from him.

He got eyes everywhere.

And the one thing that I'm learning even the more

is the more that we struggle away of conviction when

the Holy Spirit is convicting us, the harder our heart

gets with God. And you don't want to get to

the point where you start going against the convictions that

the Holy Spirit is convicting you or doing something wrong.

And then he don't convict you no more. Yeah, because

by now he done turn you over to your own self.

You can't be convicted of nothing. You was just mean

and ugly, and.

The Holy Spirit said apologizing. You won't even apologize because

you don't want somebody to thank you weak, or you

feel like you that big that you can't come down

and say I'm sorry, y'all. That's compromising. That's what the

Bible says we should carry bear the fruits of God's spirit,

not the fruits of our spirit. One of the fruits

of the spirit is meekness, humbleness. If you can't go

back and say I'm sorry, something wrong with you, you

ain't got the fruit of the spirit, so you're compromising

who you are. We can't compromise in this day of

this hour. Compromise is gonna push us back instead of

pushing us forward.

And we can't afford to go backward.

So the opportunity to not compromise your belief, it also

opens up God an opportunity to lift you up.

When you compromise who you are.

You take that opportunity away from God.

God uses the.

Opportunity to lift you up, to bless you, to move

you forward, and you not compromising, and you holding fast

to who you are, to who God has called you

to be. Every believer will face a moment again where

your faith is tested. Why our testing trials come to

make us strong? Who want us to stay weak? If

we're in the army of the Lord God for sure

don't want us to stay weak. How can you be

a soldier in your weak And I think sometimes we

just don't wanna strengthen or we don't understand what it

takes to get strong.

I said it once before. I can't remember what sermony was.

But why do you go to the gym and don't

want to pick up the weights? You won't get no muscle.

The little kids say, muscles. How do you get muscles

if you won't lift the weights? And the weights are heavy,

and when you first start, the weights hurt. I don't

lift them anymore because this body won't let me do it.

But I remember lifting weights. When you first start lifting

those weights out, man, first couple of days, you just real,

real sore, And it takes a whole lot of lifting

before the sowred andess works out.

Why because your body's not used to it.

So when we start going through some different things, you're

testing your trial. They don't feel good at first. Who

wants to be tested? Who wants to be tried?

Nobody?

But they come to build us up, to make us strong.

And if you don't never go through the test, if

every time something starts to happen, you back away and

run off. But God is trying to strengthen you. This

ain't you trying to strengthen you? This hour of Father,

and he know you need it because he know what

tomorrow holds for you, and you try to run and

go backwards. It's just another one gonna come. It's like

going like the children of the Israel that had the

eleven day journey to turn it into forty. I mean,

you just you're making it inevitable. It's it's gonna take

you longer. You're just gonna have more tasks gone and

go through that one so you can get ready for

the next one. School is from And these poor kids, now,

bless their heart, I didn't have to go to school

until I was five. Now they're starting them out at three,

what is it, pre K three, pre K four, and

then you get to five, so they didn'et added an

extra two years for them. Bless their hearts. They done

missed out on two years of fun.

I'm just being honest with you.

See, for us, we started at five and then went

to the twelfth grade. It wasn't no pre k pre k,

it was just chinder garden and then you go twelve years.

But through every grade you have tests.

If you don't pass those tests, you don't advance. So

if you're going through tests, if the Lord is allowing

you to go through tests or better yet he taking

you through them tests.

If you don't pass that test, you don't advance.

So if your school teacher don't let you advance, do

you think God gonna let you advance?

Because if God is trying to get you somewhere and you.

Can't pass that test, say he just let you go through,

Say gonna chew you up and spit you back out,

cause you ain't got what it takes to get to

that next level.

See, the three.

Hebrew boys had what it took. That's why when you

get the verse seventeen and you say, what now if

we don't listen to what And I'm telling you I

like these boys because y'all to.

Me, these boys is cold.

I'm just saying because you know, most Christians and I'm

not saying all Christians, but I say most even hide

that they're Christians.

Before we get to verse seven.

Fourteen, and the harps had already played it was some

snitches in the camp, you see that, didn't you It

was some snitches in the camp because they wouldn't say it.

They ain't doing it, you see, they ain't bound down.

But them the same snitches. The wind told on Daniel

how he was praying at the window. But you know

what I like about all of them because they wasn't

hiding that they was Christians. See, we got a lot

of play Christians say they Christians at the church, and

then when they get out there, they look just like

the rest of the world. That's why everybody out there

say they say, everybody out there Christians, Ask.

Them they are Christians. I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian.

I done heard people.

Say I pay tides and they drunk, they cussing, they

foreign a caden.

But I'm a Christian. Now I'm not.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about nobody. And

let they already gonna say it, I'm judging because that's

the favorite word. No, No, I'm just I'm just saying.

I'm just saying, but a Christian is a christ like walk.

So there's a difference. But I'm telling you these boys

stuck to the real because they didn't hide. The Bible says,

let your light so shine before man, that they see

your good works, but they glorify the Father, which is

in heaven. So I just said, talking to the Lord

the other day, they see my works, but they glorify you.

So what I must be doing. Show them you when

they looking at me.

So they look at me, but they see you because

they don't glorify me. They don't say, look at Johnny,

that girl got going on. No, they say look at her, Holly, Loujah, Jesus, thank, Oh,

good God of mercy. So they all highly Loujah into

the image. And they standing there.

Like, look at them.

An old boy came by and said, well, they ain't

bound the music playing, But you know what, what was

he doing that he could see them standing up looking

so he could tell on them because they already knew

that they weren't gonna follow the rules. They had already

not eating like they was like they'd ask them to,

so they wasn't gonna bow down to their God. They

had already set a standard for themselves, as we should

set one for ourselves. There's no way, as a saying

of God that we should be compromising who we are.

How can I win a soul if I'm compromising who

I am? How can I be the light in the darkness?

If I'm compromising who I am? How can I be

a witness? If I'm compromising who I am? I can't

tell you how to live. If I ain't living right now,

if I'm gonna witness, then I better be living what

I'm saying.

And I'm just saying because it's.

Said all the time. Sometime the only church people gonna

see is us. Now if I'm not there all the way,

that's understandable, because it takes some time. Everybody just don't

get saved sanctified and just go running.

So say say.

I'm somewhere in between it and I'm struggling. Okay, baby,

I'm saved, and right now I'm just I'm going through.

Right now, the Lord is working on men. I'm working

with the Lord.

You're honest.

But if I say I'm saying sanctified, filled with the

hold of Goost and I ain't sended all day, you

better make sure you ain't sinned all day, you better

not be saying that. And they just got through sin

you sin. And I'm just saying, but if you have

made a mistake. I tripped and fail a while ago,

be honest about your tripping foul, because ain't none.

Of us perfect. We tripping foul.

I still get up every morning and not only ask

God to forgive me, I repent, Yeah, cause I understand

I'm not perfect. I've only heard the one perfect individual

and his name is Geez, and he seated at the

right hand of the Father. If it's anybody in this

earth right now just saying that they perfect, they ain't

saying the Bible says they lie. Ain't no truth in them,

cause again, were living in earth. We make mistakes. That's

why Jesus died for us. Here's a propituation for us.

We make mistakes, but we have an advocate for us

in heaven, so we can ask for forgiveness. But what

these young men was doing was showing themselves worthy of

being God believers. So when you asked me to bow

down for your God, I'm not bound down for your God.

That's what they told him. I'm not gonna do it.

Whenever Canailza came and went to talking all of that

trash and you say, we did what now, because we didn't.

We didn't bow down to your music. And they say,

so if it be so, God whom we serve. And

you know what I found out about this serve in

verse seventeen. This serve means worship, Hey God, Holly Loujah, Jesus. Yeah,

when you get to verse seventeen that's served turn into worship.

Yeah.

So the God that we worship, he able to deliver us.

I don't know about that god, y'all been bound down too,

But the one that we worship, yeah, he'll deliverer.

Yeah, and he even if he don't.

Hey, God, hollylujah, we.

Know that he able.

Yeah, he might not get us out of this one,

but we know that he can. You know how we

know he can because he even did it before. See,

way before they got here, hit the bottom out of Israel,

I mean bottom out of Egypt. Yeah, they knew they

god to be a deliverer. Yeah, so they wasn't worried

about what they said.

About that God.

So gone and throw me in the fire, refermer, put

me in that test. Lord, put me in the test.

I'm just saying, if you already saved, why are we

running from the test. Something happened and we get all

scared and go shaken, But you saved.

He already picked you up out of the my reclaimed.

Place your feet on the solid ground. Why are you

running from the test.

The test is just to get you a little bit stronger.

But y'all in the midst of studying for this message.

My God, my God, Cause look what the test took

him to. He put him in the fire. Bro Tim

in the fire. Now what they enemy thought he was doing?

Shit?

Who sweet Jesus, They enemy thought he was doing something

that Booker was gonna turn the fire up. He thought

he was making one heck of a threat when he said,

I'm gonna put you in the fire. And then they

went to talking trash to him by telling them that

God was able. Y'all, if y'all don't learn how to

talk trash to the enemy, quitn't letting the enemy talk

trash to you.

Start talking trash back to him. Then I'm here to

tell you today.

I know a lot of people say, oh, we get

a devil too much credit, y'all. Sometimes you forget we

have an enemy. Now you can I'm not telling you

to give him a lot of credit. But I'm telling y'all,

the same God that has given us all of these

promises again from Genesis to Revelation warns us about the enemy,

discounting if you want to, you're gonna make a mistake.

There is no way in the world that God would

give man inspiration mind to write this Bible and have

them to put anything about Satan in her for no reason.

God does not do anything unintentionally. You need to know

that you have an enemy. Now he's defeated and he

under your feet, and that's what we have to keep him.

That's why you need to know about him. See so

when he come in your house and he whispering in

your ear and telling you about your wife, look at him.

All she do is.

Then you know, devil, you will lie. I ain't going

against my wife. I understand that you don't like covenant relationships,

so you will lie.

I'm gonna pray for my wife. Wife.

When he's telling you, look at your husband, Oh devil,

you will lie. Satan, get behind me because I know

you don't like covenant relationships. You against marriages? Why because

God have a covenant relationship with us. Why because God

sees us in him like a marriage.

He said, he the bride, we the bridegroom. I mean

we the bride.

Here the bridegroom, Tyler the backslider.

He married to them.

God is always talking about marriage, and look at the

marriages in the world today.

Christian marriages have the biggest divorce.

And if you don't tell a husband and a wife.

That in the church they sit and they go.

Back and or back and forth, back and for.

Why, because the enemy is in it.

He can't stand to see nothing work when God is

in it. After he don't care why because it don't

resemble God. The Bible says, he comes to kill, still

and destroy. He not looking at us. He looking at us,

looking at God. So I'm just telling you when the

Bible talks about Satan, God has given us revelation so

that we can remember that we don't wrestle.

With flesh and blood. See our enemy a whole lot

connier and than we are.

And because we keep saying, oh, ain't no enemy, he

ain't no enemy. We didn't put him to the side,

and he's sitting over there laughing at us because he's

looking at us fight each other.

Because we then threw him at the picture.

You better put that bigger whoop back in there, because

if you don't put him back in there, you can't

put him under your feet. We too busy putting each

other under our feet, whether it be husband and why,

brother and sister.

Hallelujah, Yeah, we can't.

We can't defeat the enemy because we're too busy trying

to defeat each other, the church beating up the church

instead of whooping the enemy. We won't get on our knees,

We get on microphones and beat each other up, social

media and beat each other up.

Why cause Heven deceived us once again. Hey, y'all know

not sick ereboy said.

I'm telling you Satan is the greatest deceived of them all.

The Bible calls him the father of our lives. And

if you tell me right now, he ain't bamboozling the church.

Got the church fighting with each other, got husbands and

wives fighting with each other, got parents fighting with their kids,

kids fighting with they parents, and everybody thinking it's okay, Oh,

this just the way it is.

That's just the way our kids is now, this just

the way the parents is. Now.

Well we better start calling them a lie and saying

it ain't no truth in them, and get on our

knees and start holding to the principles of this Bible.

Now we got we can't keep saying that's basic constructions

before leaving earth. But won't nobody follow the instructions? Tell

me the Bible says, husbands loves your wives as Christ

has loved the church. Where is it at. I'm just saying,

why submit unto your husbands?

What does that mean? Look it up?

Submit unto your husbands. It means get under submission. Husbands,

get a mission, so we can get under it. I'm

just saying, it's time to line up with the word

of God. So when these when these young men going

through the fire, Yeah, they going through the fire for

a cows, same cows.

Many of us need to go through the fire.

So what the Lord gave me when they were going

through the fire, I'm going through the fire.

God himself is a consuming fire. He himself never can there's.

A thought he was doing something, not just by putting

him in the fire, but by turning that thing up

seven times.

Turn it up then, Yeah, turn it.

Up, Brother and God, highly luyah, because the het of

God get, the better we get. I'm just saying, turn

him up, burn baby, burn, highlyyluyah.

God himself is a consuming fire.

The first time God is mentioned as a consuming fire.

Now I don't win all of them.

My notes is in good God of Mercy, Holly Loujah, Lord,

because I done.

Went past the whole bunch of stuff.

Moses, Moses, Yeah, that's the Holy ghost too, Moses. Uh uh.

They were getting ready to come out of go into

the Promised Land. And y'all know Moses had some issues. Yeah,

Moses don't got mad because the children the Israel let

him tell it cause him to miss out on the

Promised Land.

So Moses is telling them go to uh what is that? Goodness? Hollylujah.

Moses is telling them that they don't cause him to

miss out on the Promised Land, Moses. They didn't cause

Moses to miss out on the Promised land. Moses caused

itself to list miss out on the parmis land. Yes,

uh huh, take me there, Lord, take me there. I

got it written down and got on the wrong glasses.

I just want to make sure I get the scripture right.

Okay, that is m mm hmm.

Deuteronomy four and twenty four. Deuteronomy four and twenty four,

Moses is warning the kids one in the children of Israel,

look out and call them kids because I done got

all excited. Never cannies again. Thank he doing something by

turning up the fire refurnace. But the first time God

is ever mentioned as a consuming fires in Deuteronomy four

and twenty four, after Moses warns the children of Israel

about they their images, their little graven images, them worshiping

gods outside of their own God. Moses tell them, he says,

don't forget how the Lord that God is a consuming fire,

because he's warning them about these forbidding images, and yr

God is not only a consuming fire, but he's also

jealous God. So because we remember how when he was

up on the mountain for too long, he come back

down and his brother then helped these folks buildings, big

old calf, golden image. Yeah, but what gets me about

this is he compromised. So when I got to that part,

this compromising normally take us to idolizing. Hey, does compromising

normally take us to idolizing?

You got to be.

Careful about compromising because if you'll compromise a little bit,

will it cause you to start idolizing.

We want to be careful about the choices that we make.

And so I thought about some of the compromises that

the people nowadays do. Because if I'm not gonna go

to church today, stay don't wash my car yea. So

now instead of me serving this god going to God,

I can compromise.

Not reading my word and watch some TV.

So can I turn my TV into a god compromise

in prayer because I ain't spent no time in prayer.

With the Lord.

But I've been on social media. Check your phone, you

know how to have the little slits on there. But

I've been on social media for like two and a

half hours.

I ain't praised since last week.

Ye, I ain't praised since the last time I was

at church. But I've been on my phone. Ooh, my

hand is hot. Ooh, not corpor tunnel.

So my.

My God is now my phone, I phone instead of

ourba Father. I mean, I'm just saying, compromising can turn

into idolizing.

So we got to be careful about what we're doing.

And I couldn't possibly throw a little Satanism in there,

because I know I don't heard the voice.

Oh girl, you just read that while ago. You ain't

got to read that again.

You don't surely have to study every day.

You know that. Ain't that ain't close to like what

he told you, is it? We didn't surely say you die.

Yeah, we have to be careful. And I'm just saying,

because you'll take some of these little bit of things

and just let them go on by, just let them

pass you right on by. But we living in a

day and age, But we can't afford to spend more

time with the TV than we spend them with God. Yeah,

we can't afford to spend more time playing around than

we do with God.

I mean, I.

Know Second Timothy said that we was in perilous times,

didn't it? And I know when I read that scripture

last A lot of what I read in that scripture

looked like today lovers of themselves, I mean, people doing

all kinds of stuff now. So I know when I

look in the Bible, I see a lot of what's

going on now in the Bible. It's like opening up

the Bibles, like watching TV. Parents killing their children, children

killing their parents, disobedient kids, wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes

and diverse places.

Yes, the weather. Wow, So you don't even have to

watch TV.

Just read the word, turn the TV on, turn the

volume down to read the word while you watching TV.

I'm just saying, yeah.

So I'm just saying, we can't afford not to spend

time with God. And it's not that it's gonna change.

But I believe almost every time I read sometimes you

can read the same scripture and God to give you

a revelation, because I'm telling you I had never seen

the fire refurnished the way I seen it this last week.

As God being off in there. I mean I knew

he was in there, but I didn't see him like this.

And he said, when they turned it up seven times,

they just turned me up. They wasn't record. They weren't

expecting me to be there. They weren't expecting the consuming

fire to be in there, and they show wasn't expecting

me to be in there. When those three men got there,

that's why they got burned up. That was my judgment

up on them because they thought they was doing something.

So that's why they got burnt up. But then when

my boys got in there, I had them just like

I got you. He said, when you in the fire,

just know that I'm there with you, the same way

I was with shad Wreck and me Shack and have

been to go. God was the first of y Uh,

I don't already said that.

When I'm sorry, y'all.

This was uh again, as Moses was telling the people

that he had missed out on the Promised Land because

of them, But it was Moses to compromise because he

was the one that was told to speak to the rock,

and instead of speaking to the rock out of his

anger and his frustration, be careful with your anger and

your frustration, the Bible says, anger but sin not. His

anger caused him to sin. You know why, cause he

was disobedient to what God said do. His anger caused

him to sin.

Be curful with anger and frustration.

So his anger caused him, instead of to speak to

that rock, he hid it, so then he would he

missed the promised land.

So we know how that story went.

These three Hebrew boys seemed to be full of faith

right about now because they were not backing down. The

God we serve as a consuming fire means holiness, purity,

his presence, and his power, as well as his judgment

on sin. It signifies God's overwhelming majesty and purity. His

fire cleanses, takes away the imperfections, and consumes all that's

not aligned with him. So there was no fear of

the furnace, for they had heard about their God. Do

you know about your God? Do you know about your God?

Because if you know about your God, then whatever you're

going through, there should never be any fear. Whether you're

in the furnace, whether you're in the midst of a storm,

regardless of what you're going through, as long as you

know God, because if he yow, God, he got you.

And don't get me wrong, sometimes it looks scary. I

Do'm been there, I'm there now. It's not like He

give us this big picture of the ending. We don't

know what the ending is. And I think that's the

part that makes us scare. But because God gave us

these five senses, he know we're scared, and it's okay

to be scared.

Just don't have.

A spirit of fear, because He does not give us

a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a

sound mind. So if we keep our minds stayed on Him,

he for sure keep us in perfect peace, even in

the midst of us going through something. God, I don't

know how I'm gonna get through this. God, I don't

understand this because I'm telling you, sometimes it seems like

the whole.

World is against you.

I've been there, I'm telling you, and sometimes I don't

know what to do. I have somebody to call me

in and I tell him, in a minute, just go scream,

Cause there's times I have to go in the backyard

and I just have to scream, let it out, don't

let it stay in you, because if you let it

stay in you, it'll build up. And if it started

building up, then that booger wolf, that's what I call him,

he'll show start trying to talk to you. And you

can't give him no space because if you give him

some space, what they say, if you let him ride

in the car, he'll be trying to drive. So and

again we have to be honest about Satan, y'all. We

having enemy. And as soon as he see you down,

that booger.

Wolf's start running.

I got her, I got her.

I seen him.

See now he not like God, he's not all knowing.

He not at all places at one time. So he's

sending his little impts over there.

Go check on to Nico. Today. She looked like something

going on. And if he go over there and see something.

Going on, Oh yeah, boss, then no no, no, no, no, no, oh,

We're gone over there.

And sit with it in. Yeah, we'll spin her ear,

tell her some sweet nothings, tell.

Her what she want to hear her or if you

down and out, keep her down, give awards me party now,

y'all know us women. I don't know about you men,

but us women sometime we like a wards me party,

and so he'll have him to give me a.

Ward's me party.

Yeah, girl, you know he shouldn't have talked to you

like that. You know, he shouldn't have looked at you

like that. And I'll be like, yeah, Lord, And the

whole time I'm talking to God, I'm talking to God,

but he talking.

To me, Yeah, saying this to me. And I'm just being.

Honest with you, because if we don't tell it like

it is, he gonna shift the whole bunch of us.

What Jesus tell Peter, And Jesus didn't stop it, y'all.

It's some stuff that's happening. God ain't gonna stop it.

He didn't stop them from going in the fire with furnace.

Throw them on in there.

I'm in there with them, but I'm not gonna stop

them from going in.

Jesus, say Peter, he wishes to sift you as wheat.

But I'm praying for you. And that's it. That is faith,

didn't feeling? They have faith too, And what is faith?

The substance of things? Hope for the evidence of things

not seen. You can't even see it, so you're blindsided,

can't see.

It, but you yet have to still believe it.

God got me even where I'm at right now, and

you got the hold onto that that even though I

can't see it, I gotta believe.

God got me even in this. This looks ugly. Now

I can see this.

This looks real, real ugly, and in the midst of

it looking real real ugly, I don't even see you God,

but I got to.

Believe that you got me, because.

If I don't believe that you got me, I might fall,

I might falter. And that's what he's trying to get

us to see. I'm in it with you, and because

God's in it to win it, it's won.

We just don't get to see the.

Winning process until we come out. But while we're in it,

we got to still have that mentality that I'm winning,

and I'm winning. Why i'm burning, I'm winning, why it's hot,

I'm fanning, I'm trying to stay cool, I'm trying to

keep this off of me, but I'm winning the whole time.

It's intensified. It's say His presence is in you. The

enemy didn't know that it was going to intensify. Neither

did they, But they went in where the enemy was

expecting them to be burnt up due to the intensity.

They went in with an insurance and assurance. All they

knew is, whatever happens, we're not gonna serve your God.

We're not bound down to nobody but our own.

Even if in the midst of the flames, We're only

gonna bow.

Down to our God.

We got one God and one God only, and that's

the only God that we're gonna serve, and that's what

we have to do. So whatever we're going through, I'm

not bound down to the God of outnet had enough.

I'm not gonna bow down to the God or I'm

sick of this. I'm not gonna bow down to the God.

I can't do this. No, I'm gonna bow down to

the God that sits high and looks low. And that's

the God that I depend on. Hallelujah. That's the only

God that I'm gonna so the whole time I'm going through,

Thank you Jesus haigllelujah, God.

Glory to your not God.

You get the glory out of this. May not feel

good to me, but you get the glory out of this.

And the other thing that God is teaching me is

learned to say, God, what should I be getting out

of this while I'm going through? Must be you want

me to get out of this. You ain't allowed me

to go through this for nothing. Not if my test

in my trials come to make me strong, got to.

Be something just end this for me. So whatever the

other person or the other situ, whatever it is, what

am I to get out of this?

What I am going through? Because in the end, when

I come out, it's me that's coming out. And I

know you didn't allow me to go through all of

this for nothing. Gay God, hallelujah. So God told me

to tell you just hang on in there.

He is in the fire with you.

When he said that he would never leave you, neither

forsake you, he meant that thing. He meant that he

will never leave you, neither will he forsake you. But

he gonna be with you to the end, through this one,

through the next one, through the next one, through the

next one.

And that's what we have to remember that God is

with us.

God is constant, He's present, he is so I support

even through the difficult times when it seems as if

the enemy may be intensifying the pressure on you. God

is intensifying his holiness. The fire is an example and

is exemplifies God's holiness.

It's burning away all of those things that you don't need.

It is cleansing you, cleaning away, taking away all the

impurities of you are from you. That's why I say,

why you're in the flame? God, What is it that

I should be getting from this? What is it? I

just asked Lord on the way to church this morning,

what area of my life are you maturing me in?

Now? I won't never be mature enough.

The Bible say, we won't never be where we are

who we're supposed to be into with him. Even when

Christ come back, all we know is we should be

just like him.

Remember the mirror. When we look in that mirror, we

should see Christ.

Okay, I know I got some moke grew in the girl. Yeah,

because it Sometimes I don't act just like Christ. I

can still have a temper tantrum. Christ didn't have temper tantrums.

He took up on the cross. He was in the

garden of Goosemite, crying out and had sweat coming out

like blood.

He didn't cry. He didn't whine. He was beaten with.

A cat, and iine tell he didn't cry. Now I

know I ain't gonna breathflow. Don't have to go through

nothing like that. One of the things I thought of

when I was studying this lesson was to get a

video that I found on social media about one of

the Africans over there in Nairobia, was it Nigeria, and

he had did a video tape. He was asking for

help from the Americans, but he was also preaching.

At the same time. They just buried a whole bunch

of his friends.

You know, they've been killing the Christians over there in Nigeria,

and he was telling them, he said, he said.

I'm going to ask strong, he said.

I told my kids, don't pay for me. If they

come get me and ask for money for me, don't

pay for me. I'm dying for Christ. Don't give them

nothing for me. I give my life for Christ. To

die is to gain, he said. And we over here

worried about food stemps and government funded Now, I'm not

saying that to mock them. I'm not saying that to

mock them. Don't get me wrong, because I know some

people need that. But I'm saying in other countries, that's

not their issue right now. In Nigeria, and I don't

even think it's our parts of Africa, but I know

Nigeria right now, they literally have a martyring situation where

it'ss are killing the Christians. And since January of this

year to now, there's over I think they said.

A thousand Christians that have been martyred.

And they'll either capture them and try to get ransom

for them or they'll kill them. And the video that

I seen they were putting them all in one grave together.

So I said that to say, we have different issues

in different countries, but when you can find a man

to stand up. See, we hadn't got to that type

of persecution in the United States, but from what the

Word of God says, eventually Christians.

Are going to go through that type of persecution. Persecution

for us right.

Now is we get mad cause somebody say you're judging me,

you're judging me, and some Christians don't know how to

take that.

Well, now, baby, I'm not judging you.

No, we don't judge, but the Bible says we do

righteous judge. Yeah, and see some Christians don't understand that,

so they get mad. No, I'm not judging you, but

there's a difference between what we go through and I'm

just saying, so, if it was up for some of

us to get through off in the fire referring some

of us would be running, some of us would duck tail.

We getting the call and be gone.

And so we need to make sure that we're gonna

hold fast to our belief because that's what he was

holding fast to, was his belief. Well, that starts now

while there is no martyring. That starts now before it's

time to take the mark of the beasts, in case

some of us are here. That's something we should be

teaching our children, our loved ones, our family members, in

case the rapture does happen and some of them don't

go with us, because when the time comes, there's gonna

be some people that have to take the mark of

the beach.

Just to eat.

I was telling my daughter when we was looking at

when they was talking about what they were gonna do

with the food stamp situation, because that's people's livelihood. I

don't think the government should be playing with that. So

we can, we can pray and pray for our government.

But I say there's gonna come a point in time

where it won't even have nothing to really do with

like it is now with just food stamps. If things

go the way to Bible, they're gonna go the way

the Bible said that you go, you're gonna have to

take the mark of the beasts just to be able

to eat. And it's not gonna have nothing to do

with you being on government assistance.

It's just gonna be.

To eat, period, whether you get government assistance or not.

So that's gonna have to do with that person's belief.

Because if the rapture happens first and then you're here

after the rapture, what the Bible states is those people

that are left and they do start to become believers,

those people will be beheaded for Christ. So you're gonna

either take the mark or you're gonna die for Christ.

So the belief that we have is gonna appear by

what we do. This shows through even how the enemy works.

They had binded the three Hebrew boys. I thought about

how sometimes the enemy binds us up in situations and circumstances.

He's good with that one. Sometimes we allow ourself to

be binding. We can bind our own self. But it

says that God's holiness, his purification, and his fire appears

as a divine indicator of his holiness. The furnace was

inviting the presence of God. This is why the mighty

men that it binded them were killed in the flames.

As I said earlier, his consuming fire is also a

judgment on sin. We must be like the three Hebrew

boys and choose not to go with the flow or

to follow the crowd. We must stand up and stand

out as true believers, not just by the word, but.

By a lifestyle. They did They.

Did, They didn't hide when the instruments were played.

They were seen not bound to the image.

Everyone else had bowed to the image except for them.

That's how they were noticed, because they were not doing

what everyone else was doing. The more that they tried

to make themselves fit in, the more the more that

everybody else made themselves fit in, the more that they

stood out. What are we doing to stand out and

to be thrown into the fire?

And when thrown into the.

Fire, may we be nourished enough to stand? And what

I mean by nurse is are we feeled with the word?

Have we starved our spirit man, because what goes in

us is what comes out of us. If you don't

have enough word in you, you're not gonna give them word.

You're gonna give them what you think, how you feel.

This is it.

And so another reason why it's so important, I think

the most important reason is just to be intimate with God.

To know who God is.

We'll only know his characteristics through reading the word stone

away we'll ever get to know who God really is.

But to know him is to know him, and to

know him as to serve him, to know him as

to believe in him.

To know him is to trust him.

Because when we see stories like this, then we know

that I can believe.

In this God.

This is what my God can do. This is what

my God is able to do. And that's why they said, man,

please throw us on in there. I know that my

God is able, and even if he don't, I know

he can. So y'all do what y'all say. They had

heard about God. They knew about God.

God.

Remember, in the Old Testament, they didn't have the books,

but everything was on stone. And the Bible says that

they used to stand up out in midfield and they

used to read.

To them, so they knew about their God. God.

God made sure that, and so they didn't there was

no doubts on who he was or what he could do.

This said, these young men were very intelligent. When the

Babylonians went and took him. They didn't go and take

the dumb ones, the ones that couldn't read, didn't know nothing.

I don't think there was many of them back in

those days. But literally, when you when you read the word,

it tells you they were wise, they were very educated.

They went and got the ones that they knew they

could make good use of. So that's what they took.

So they they were again smart, they knew they were

they they knew their God. And because they knew their God,

then they knew what to do and they knew what

to believe.

It says God's power.

They knew his They I'm sorry, they knew his his word.

They knew his spirit, they knew his power. Shat wrapped me.

Shak and the Bendigo were very wise, knowledgeable and look

good looking too. H I had to throw that in

there because they threw that in there. Again, they were choicy.

They didn't just go choose and hey, little boy, come here.

They chose men of valor, and out of the young boys,

they only chose those that were wise, knowledgeable, and good looking.

So when they went to plunder the land, they had

their pick of what they wanted to choose. Back then

they did things for a reason. Now we just do

things to do things. They made it make sense of

what they were doing. And so it says they only

selected the best. Justice sometimes the enemy and this is

what the Lord gave me, just as sometimes the enemy

looks out, looks at God's chosen and he picks the best.

He not just gonna try you if you know it

ain't nothing to get out of you. And sometimes it

ain't just that he tries you, But just like Joe,

the Lord will say, have you tried him, my faithful servant?

Sometimes you depict of the litter.

Not just for him, but even for God, because God

knows there's something in you and he's trying to get

that out of you. Sometimes the Lord has asked us

to move, and we won't move, and sometimes it takes

a little nudge and to get us to move. And

so that's why we find that scripture that our test

in our trials come to make us strong, because God

knows that our testing trials can build us up.

So even knowing that we are ready to.

Stand on the rock of our salvation and God's unchanging word,

not only trusting you and the fire to protect, but

trusting that when we come we will be better. When

we come through the fire, that will be better than

we was before we went through the fire. That the

fire will make us as pure as goal, and that

in the midst of the fire, if we can find

ourself worshiping and praising God, then it'll help us to

get through the fire. And in my clothing, those that

come come out, you won't smell like smoke, just like

the three Hebrew boys, because God is in the fire

with you. The fire has never meant to burn you up.

The same way that you went in is the same

way that you will come out. If you notice it

said their clothes wasn't cinched, The exact same way that

they went in was the way that they came out.

The only difference with them being in there was they

was in there with it with the Son of God.

There was an angel in there with them. And because

they went in.

And there was no destruction on them, it caused neber

Caniza Nebukanizzar to praise their God. Near said, ye servants

of the most tie in the beginning, he was.

Just saying, Yo, God.

He changed the whole tune, the whole name of who

they God was, Ye's servants of the most High. He

him now, he himself now is praising their God. When

you call God God of the most High, you're lifting

him up. So Never is now glorifying their God. And

after glorifying their God, then God uses never Canazzar to

make a promotion to promote them. And that was the

key to what the Lord gave me. When we can

go through a situation not compromising, going through the fire,

we never go through the fire for no reason. Whether

that promotion is to take you to another level in God,

another level in position, says God use his fiery trials

to display his glory and to elevate. Listen at this

his faithful servants, because if you can go through that

trial and hang on while you're going through, that deems

you as faithful.

And I know we like always.

Saying thank you God for being faithful, even when I'm

not faithful. The Lord gave me a message and it

was years and years ago, and God had told me

I have seen thy faithfulness. The same way that we

always say that God's eyes are up on the land.

God watches us, and God puts us in places and

positions to see if he can see our faithfulness. And

sometimes we be pushing away from things that God has

asked us to do.

Don't do that, don't do that.

I remember times when I heard him say, pick up

the paper, and I'm being honest, do this or do that.

And I know here recently we've been talking about me

letting go of a lot of stuff. But I have

let go of a lot of stuff because at one

point in time, there was nothing that I would not

do in this house. There's already nothing that I won't

do at my house, and there's really not a lot

that I won't do for other people.

I don't count that to myself.

I don't because I know who I was before I

got saved, not that I was a stingy person or

either that I was a bad person.

I don't think I've ever really been a bad person.

I had some addictions, and I had some faults, but

I believe God has always been a part of me.

And then my My mama was a real good person,

always helping people and doing for other people, and I

think I took up on that characteristic. But I would

always find myself. Anything that anybody did not want to do,

Sister Johnny would do it. I'd pick up trash until

I was cleaning the church. When it wasn't nobody to

pick people up to bring them to church, Sister Johnny

be the first one.

I'd pick them up. The late Lady Moore.

Would say, well, come on, spor So's house is dirty

and they're sick. Let's go clean their house. Okay, I'd

go with her. So and so in the hospital.

Let's go.

We need to go check on them. Okay, I'll go

with her. We're going here, and let's go.

I go with them.

Mother Thomas rest her soul, used to would come and

get me, or she would call me.

She didn't come give me.

I take that back, and I wish y'all could have

met hers. I had a place in my heart for her.

Mother Thomas would come and get me, and I'd set

at her house for hours just listening to her tell

me what I should and I should not do.

The church.

And you don't need to worry that, and you shouldn't

wory this, and this is what you need to do,

and this is what you should not do. And y'all,

I wasn't raised in church, didn't come up in church,

so a lot of stuff I did not know. And

I appreciated her for that, and I never took it

in a bad way.

So everything that she told me I should do and

I shouldn't.

Do, I did that. And so due to that, I

end up becoming Pastor's aid. And when again, when people

wouldn't mow the front yard, I remember being out there

in the front late Lady Moore had a pair of scissors.

She'd be cutting the weeds and I'd be more in

the grass. Whatever I found myself to do, I did that.

And I'm not saying that to make anybody feel bad.

I'm saying that because that's when the Lord told.

Me, I have seen thy faithfulness.

God is always looking for somebody's faithfulness. It don't matter

what he asked you to do. Clean out a kumo

infy little trash. I never complained until I finally started

seeing self.

And I remember coming in here one morning.

And I think it might have been some candy or

something in the back of the chairs. Sister Candys rest

us all was real big on you, not you, and

no gum and eating in her. But we had Sister

Jenny who loved to pass our candy. And if I

don't tell you, every kid and every adult was gonna

have some candy. And so they would fill up the

back of the chairs. These was new chairs.

Brand new. The congregation bought these chairs.

We sold seeds for our family members and loved ones.

I'll never forget it.

I bought chairs for each one of my kids. They

wasn't even saved yet, and and they was brand new.

And we come. I come in here to clean up,

and it was candy packets in the.

Back of the chairs. Oh boy, I was heated, and

I was complaining.

Many mail told me, if you gonna come in here

and complain, then don't.

You clean this church.

Don't you clean cause God don't want you complaining.

That hit me in the core, and then God reminded me.

Because if you cleaning this church for them people, you

cleaning it for the wrong reason. And after that I

did not come back in here and complain anymore. I

started coming in here and using cleaning the church as

a time for me and the Lord to worship. And

I come in here six o'clock in the morning by myself,

turn my music on, and me and the Lord would

have a time while I cleaned up. God is looking

for some shadrack niche ACKs and some of the golds.

Their faithfulness was that they went through the fine didn't

say a word, y'all. They stood there while he tied

them up. They didn't wiggle like Jesus. They didn't say

a mumbling word, Tyler. All they said was what they

said from the beginning, gone, My God is able, and

even if he don't, we know he can do what

you gotta do.

That's how we need to be. We know God got us.

So if you have not been through a storm, if

you're not going through one, now, all I'm saying is

prepare yourself. But prepare yourself to go through of a God.

Because the road gets heavy, the road gets tough. And

if nothing but the situation that this world is gonna

go through, y'all, we're gonna go through something. God don't

give us words for no reason. It's your encouragement, it's

your inspiration, and it's your help. So just know on

today that your promotion is at the end of it.

And because your promotion is at the end, that means

you're coming out.

Amen. Amen, assass