When Life Is Hard

Good morning, New News Church. Good morning. Happy New Year,

first Sunday of the year. Glad that you are here with us.

Today we begin a new series titled Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednagel.

The plan is for this to be a short little 2D series that covers Daniel chapter 1 and Daniel chapter 3.

Daniel 1 · chapter mention Daniel 3 · chapter mention

The inspiration for this series would be the camps that our church sponsors

in the summertime for kids that are in the foster care.

If you are unfamiliar with that, I will just tell you a little bit about that.

In every summer, our church sponsors two camps for kids in foster care.

One is called Rural Family Kids Camp, and that's for kids that are elementary age.

And then the other one is called Teen Reach Adventures Camp,

which is abbreviated TRAC, TRAC.

And that is for middle school and high school age.

And what both camps have in common is they're both designed for kids who have

been neglected or abused or abandoned.

So it's not a typical summer camp that you send your kids to.

It's not as typical as a DBS program.

It's specifically designed for kids in the foster care system I

was the speaker at the middle school and high school

age camp the boys version of

it this past summer and so this week's

sermon and next week's sermon are based on what I said at camp last summer and

so I'm just letting you know that I want to give a disclaimer so that I don't

plagiarize I have preached on these Bible stories at camp multiple times I think

at least twice maybe it was three but I think we talked about Daniel,

because you know it's kind of on rotation because it's different kids over the years.

I preach on these Bible stories at least twice over the years.

The camp gives us a curriculum to

use and the curriculum is specifically designed for kids in foster care.

However, it is not the kind of curriculum that I can just re-say to the kids.

I cannot just open the booklet and just read it and the kids will be like,

oh thank you sir, that is so helpful.

So I have to do my own Bible study, I have to think of my own thoughts,

and then I come up with something that is sort of a mix between their curriculum

and my preaching so it

has been long enough now I don't have the original curriculum that they sent

on Daniel it would be very difficult to try to figure out which like of these

next two weeks which sentences and which ideas are theirs and which ones are

mine and so I'm not going to try to do that I'm just letting you know there's

content in here that is by then content that is specifically designed for people

who reviews neglected or revamped.

Now, you may wonder, okay, well, that's cool, but Mario, why would you preach this to us?

Like, if this is for kids in foster care, and we are mostly adults,

not in foster care, why waste our time with this?

That is a good question. I have four reasons.

Reason number one, just because something was originally written for middle

schoolers and high schoolers doesn't mean it's not good for an adult to hear. Did you know that?

In fact I'm going to give you a little confession right now before I was the

pastor here I was a youth pastor and when I was a youth pastor I was a youth

pastor for 10 years before I came to this church and then when I showed up at

this church I can tell you for sure what I did not do is I did not show up here

after having to talk to teenagers every single week for a decade I did not show up here and go.

I am an adult minister now I will never say anything that I've said before that

is not what happened I had realized at that point I had said lots of important

and helpful things to teenagers.

So I came here and I repeated them to adults with no shame.

And in some cases, didn't even tell you. You didn't even know you were hearing that. Ah!

All right? So I'm sorry. That's the first reason I want to tell you.

Second thing is the points in these sermons are good for the family of God to

hear. They are filled with principles from the Bible.

Even when I was preaching at camp, if I remember correctly, I think as I was

preaching to the campers at camp, I remember thinking, I'm going to share this

with the people of Good News.

You know, eventually one day I will get around to it. And I've gotten around to it.

Third reason I want to preach this to you is there are people here in this church,

both adults and kids, who have been abandoned or neglected or abused.

And maybe you've never been in the foster care system or maybe you've never

gone to a summer camp like growing up in a kid's camp.

But these sermons might be particularly good for you to hear.

And then fourth, because our church is so involved in Rural Family Kids Camp

and Tract, and I know not all of you are available to serve there, right?

You know, big church, not every single person is available to go to camp and serve.

But some of you support us, like, indirectly as we do camps.

Some of you pray for us while we're out there. Some of you give money.

And so because there are a lot of you here who support this camp indirectly,

I like it every now and then for you to be able to hear the kinds of things

that we say there so that you know what kind of youth ministry we are doing

when you are around. Fair enough?

All right, here we go. If you have your Bible, go to Daniel chapter 1.

Daniel 1 · chapter mention

That's where the story begins.

Daniel chapter 1, we're going to begin with verse 1.

Daniel 1 · chapter mention

So, here's how our story begins. Daniel 1.1 says, In the third year of the reign

of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,

came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.

So, the way that the story begins is we see that this story is about two kingdoms with two kings.

One kingdom, the king over that kingdom's name is Jehoiakim.

Jehoiakim is over the Israelites to Judah, and the capital city is Jerusalem.

The other kingdom is headed up by Nebuchadnezzar.

Nebuchadnezzar is the king over the Chaldeans, and he is in Babylon.

And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans in Babylon, he is the one that

attacks King Jehoiakim and the Israelites that are in Judah in the city of Jerusalem.

And what he says in the verse particularly is that he came to Jerusalem and he laid siege to it.

Do you know what laid siege means?

I ask the kids that can't, what does it mean when one king laid siege to the other kingdom?

And if I remember correctly, I think they said things like, it means he attacked

it. It means he conquered it.

And that is like true, but only partially true. This is a particular word that is something specific.

There is a way that you could attack, like one country could attack another country.

And the way they do it, they could just go in and attack the people they're

going to attack and just go in and just kill them all. Okay?

But that's not what the word for this is. Okay?

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.

What does that mean? To lay siege is to encircle a city with an army so that

no one can get interactive.

The purpose for this is it's very similar to what happens with police officers

and bank robbers on TV, and I assume in real life, but I've only seen this on TV, not in real.

But the people are robbing the bank, and then the police officers get there,

and then what happens a lot of times?

They surround the building, they block all the exits, and then some police officer

gets on to a bullhorn, and they say, come out with your hands up, we have you surrounded.

Them right why do they do that the reason they do that is the

police officers are trying to conquer the bank robbers without killing them

right that's what's happening here the purpose of laying siege to a city is

so that you can conquer people while at the same time keeping them alive you

got at least some of them so that's what happens happen here let's go on verse two,

the lord handed jehoiakim king of judah over to him the him being nebuchadnezzar

so notice god God is sovereign over this.

He hands Jehoiakim over. He decides who wins the battle, right?

He hands Jehoiakim over to the king of Judah, sorry, the king of Judah over

to Nebuchadnezzar, along with some of the vessels from the house of God.

Nebuchadnezzar carried them to the land of Babylon, to the house of his God,

and put the vessels in the treasury of his God.

So Nebuchadnezzar, when he goes and he conquers the Israelites,

he takes some of the stuff, some of the special things, from the God's temple,

and he takes it and puts it in the temple and the treasury of his God and his new land.

So he takes things from there.

One thing you're going to see as we keep going is Nebuchadnezzar not only took

things from the Israelites, but we're about to find out that he also took people

from the Israelites. That's the whole purpose of the laying sea.

So when you go in somewhere and you take things that don't belong to you, that's called what?

Yes. But when you go and you take people who don't belong to you, what's that called?

Very good. So that's what this is. This is a kidnapping story.

That's what we're learning right now. This is essentially a kidnapping story.

Here we go. Daniel chapter 1, verse 30.

The king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials,

to bring some of the Israelites from the royal family and from the nobility.

Notice, bring Israelites.

Israelite is the type of person. He's saying, hey, remember when we captured all those people?

I want you to grab some of those people we got, and I want you to bring them to me. Right?

Bring some of the Israelites from the royal family and from the nobility.

Young men without any physical defect.

He's describing the kind of people he wants them to bring. This is what I want you to bring.

Young men without any physical defect, good looking, suitable for instruction

in all wisdom, knowledgeable, perceptive, and capable of serving in the king's

palace, and to teach them the Chaldean language and literature.

The king assigned them daily provisions from the royal food and from the wine that he drank.

They were to be trained for three years, and at the end of that time.

They were to serve in the king's court.

Among them were the descendants of Judah. So among them from the descendants

of Judah There were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

The chief official gave them other names.

He gave the name Belteshazzar to Daniel, Shadrach to Hananiah,

Meshach to Mishael, and Abednego to Azariah.

So what we see in the story is there's four main characters.

I'm sure there are more than four people that actually lived through this.

But this story centers on four guys are named in the story. The four guys,

the word that's translated in English, sometimes they're called young men,

or sometimes it's translated youths.

But I'm guessing these four guys are probably teenagers, probably upper age

teenagers, but don't know for sure.

Probably young men, I'm thinking 16, 17, 18 years old.

And they get taken to Babylon. And we have now eight names total,

but it's only four people, right? Each one of them has two names.

We have two listed names.

The author of the book of Daniel gives us their Hebrew names.

That would be the name that they had prior to being kidnapped.

And these four guys' names were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

And then he gives us their Babylonian names. This would be the name that they

were given after they were kidnapped. and those names are Belteshazzar,

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

So what names, since there's two different options, what names am I going to

use as I'm referring to the people in the story?

I'm going to tell you, it's kind of weird because these four characters became

famous and they became famous under particular names and not their other name,

but it wasn't all from one list. Do you see that?

Daniel is famous under his Hebrew name. No one calls him Belteshazzar,

right? We all know him as Daniel.

But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are known by their Babylonian names.

No one calls them Hananiah, Meshachah, and Nazareth.

So there's a little piece of it that's like, well, I'm going to be consistent.

We'll either call them all by their Hebrew names, or we'll call them all by

their Babylonian names. They might have decided, no, that's stupid.

They're famous. Three of them are famous under the Babylonian names.

One of them is famous under the Hebrew name. I'm just going to go with the name

that they're well known for. So that's what we'll be calling them.

So, what has happened in the story so far? We are seven verses into Daniel.

We go, okay, it looks like basically you're saying, so far here's the story.

Four guys got kidnapped, and they had to go work, so they came in some other country.

Is that what's happened so far? Yeah, that's what's happened so far.

Okay, what does any of that have to do with God?

Ah, here we go, that's a good question.

These people that were kidnapped from Judah and brought over Babylon are people

who worshipped the true God.

Like they worshipped the God of the Bible.

And the people in their new country that they were brought to worshipped false gods.

And I think back then, a lot of people would have thought that when you get

taken to a new country, especially when you get conquered, when you get taken

from one kingdom to another, you leave behind your old land.

You have to. You leave behind your old king, because you've got a new one now,

and you leave behind your old God.

And you begin to worship the new ones in the new kingdom. I think that's what

would have been assumed back then, especially, like, why would you worship the

old God? He wasn't even there for you. Like, you lost. You got conquered.

So you worship the new God in the new land with your new king.

This is something that, for those of you that were here during our Christmas

series, and we talked about Ruth, do you remember that this principle was there too?

Right? That their geography and their theology was a lot more connected.

Do you remember the part of the story where Orba was told to go back to her

land? And in the same breath, it was like, go back to your land and your gods.

And then when Ruth said that she's going to go to Naomi, do you remember how

she said, I'm going to go with you and your people will be my people and your

god will be my god? The idea is I'm going to the new land and I'm going to believe

in the god of the new land.

So here these guys are. They've been brought into the new kingdom.

And I think the assumption is they're going to worship the new gods, not the old ones.

And that is not what these guys did.

So let me go ahead and read you a poem a portion of a poem from the Royal Family

Kids Camp curriculum, I don't have

all of it but I wrote this down at the time that I had it it says this.

Before long the chosen ones left their hometown their brothers and sisters and

moms, their fathers and friends, their language and land, they left all that they knew but not God,

no God traveled with them He lived in their hearts.

They vowed they'd stay true to his plan.

I like that poem, and I like that it talks about the many, many things that

they had to leave behind in this situation.

They were taken from their house. Think about that. They wanted to live nice, too.

They were taken forcibly from their house and moved to a different location.

They were taken from the city that they used to live in and the city that they

were used to. They were probably taken from their families.

They were taken away from the foods that they were used to eating.

They were taken away from the language that they were used to speaking.

They're talking about the language.

And some of you have gone through some of that, haven't you?

There are some of you in this room that you were living somewhere,

and some sort of thing happened, and suddenly you were taken away,

and you weren't able to live there anymore.

I'm sure there are some of you, when you look back on your childhood,

do you remember when there was that difficult thing, there was that tragedy,

there was that terrible thing that happened?

Maybe Bob never even told you

the whole story, but you had to go live with your aunt for a little while.

Or there are some of you that have suddenly had to move, even in adulthood, something happened

and suddenly you had to pick up and go to a whole other place there wasn't a good time to

pack much but you had to just get out of there and you had to go set up somewhere

else it was difficult to start over some of you have had times in your life

where you were separated from your family and it was painful do you remember

that some of you have had a tragedy hit your life,

where you very suddenly had to switch your

whole lifestyle because you

got sick or she got sick or he died or

she died or he lost his job or you lost your job

and all of a sudden everything was

brand new your whole life was turned upside down have you

been in that situation my point is I don't

think that you have to be a prisoner of war like these guys in

the story to be able to relate to some of

what they went through yes not all they probably know

in this room has had it worse than what

these guys went through but probably many of us in this

room can relate to some of it though yeah I remember starting all

over again I never I didn't know what anybody was talking about I remember what I really wanted

to live there I couldn't ever go back I remember I

didn't get to see them anymore I didn't even get to say goodbye I think there

are a lot of us in this room that we go yeah I can remember that and so that's

the situation these guys are in but probably worse and the point here particularly

and the point of that poem that I wanted to point out is there is so much that

these three guys and Daniel, but we're going to mostly focus on these three.

There's so much that these guys have to leave behind.

But not God. He went with them.

And we're going to see that these guys believed that God was not only the God

over their old kingdom, but that he was the God over their new kingdom too.

Because he's the God over every kingdom.

And so they were going to keep believing in him, and they were going to keep

serving him, even in their new land.

And you're going to see that as the story goes on. But it was at this point

in the story that I said to the kids that I believe that what was true for them

is the same is true for us.

That you can have people and stuff in your life taken away from you.

But if you know God, he can never be taken away from you.

That's a big deal. People can literally take everything and everyone away from

you. But God, if you know him, cannot be taken away from you.

Wherever you go he goes with you,

Even into the new, difficult, unfamiliar patch. And that is a big deal.

So I have the kids repeat something after me. I'm going to ask you to do it

as well. I'm going to say a sentence, and I'm going to ask you to say it back.

No one can take God away from me.

Very big deal. It is. In fact, one more thing I want you to repeat.

I ask the kids to repeat this other thing. It's like three phrases.

I'm going to say them, and you say them back. If I know God.

He'll be with me. everywhere I go.

That's huge. And some of you have had your life turned upside down.

And it is good for you to remember it.

I know God is going to be with me wherever I go next.

So let's move on to the next verse. Daniel chapter 1 verse 8.

Daniel 1:8

Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king's food or with the wine he drank.

So he asked permission from the chief official not to defile himself.

Now this particular verse only mentions Daniel. It doesn't say Shadrach,

Meshach, and Ben-Nagot.

However, if you keep reading, you'll see by the time you get to verses 11 through

16, you will see that the concern that Daniel had also applied to Shadrach,

Meshach, and Ben-Nagot. But at this point, it's just Daniel talking.

But what was the problem? It was really a problem for all four of them,

but Daniel's the one that brings it up. Okay, what's the problem?

And the problem was, we can't eat the food.

We're going to this college of the new king, right?

Three years of training, so that we're going to serve him in his court,

and we're giving all this food and all this wine, and we can't eat the food.

Well, what was the problem with the food?

And the answer is, well, we don't know for sure what the problem was with the

food, because it doesn't say what the problem was with the food.

But you can kind of guess, because whatever the problem was with the food,

you can see Daniel believed that eating it would defile him.

He would not defile himself as a king's food, so he asked permission by the

chief official not to defile himself.

So all we know about this food is Daniel believes that it would defile him,

And that word sounds like not just I don't think it's fit for me or an analogy.

This is, it would be dishonoring to go.

So it could be that these foods were foods that the Jewish people were told not to eat.

That they had codes and laws, like Israelites had laws, this is the kind of

food you can't eat, this is the kind of meat that you can eat,

this is the kind of meat you can't eat. They lived with it their whole life.

They show up, and all the stuff that they said, no, no, no, all of a sudden

it's put in front of them, and they go, oh, we're not allowed to do this,

we're not allowed to eat this.

It could be that these were foods that were dedicated to the false gods of Babylon.

And they said, well, we can't enter into the worship of these gods we don't

believe in. I don't see any reason why it could have been both.

It could have been food that they were told not to eat and had been dedicated to the gods of Babel.

But whatever it was, Daniel thought that it could defile him.

The assumption seems to be that

it would dishonor his God for him to partake in the food and the wine.

So he said we can't do this. So what happens? Look at verse 9.

God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official.

Well, that's good. I just like to think of it in a good direction. Verse 10.

Yet, he said to Daniel, my lord the king assigned your food and drink I'm afraid

of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the

other young men your age you would endanger my life with the king,

so it sounds like Daniel maybe had a good personality I don't know what but

the guy that's in charge of him goes I like you, I like you more than the average

person so if you asked him for a favor I would really like to do it I'd be happy

to do something to help you out,

but now this, again this one the king is the one that assigned the food,

If I give you different food than everybody else, and then you start losing

weight or you get pale or sickly or whatever, you start looking less healthy than the other guys,

the king's going to come to me and go, what's the deal there?

Have you fed them all the same food as everyone else?

Well, no, actually not. You did not feed them the food that I told you to do? Well, no. Why?

Well, because they wanted to eat something different, so I did what they wanted

instead of what you wanted.

He's saying, I'm not going to get myself in that situation. The king's going to kill me if I do that.

So Daniel is now in a tough situation, isn't he? And what we're about to see

in the next verse, Shireach, Meshach, and Bennego are in a tough situation because

they're in the same situation with him.

I think that they're all in the same difficult situation, but up to this point

in the story, it's only mentioned Daniel, and I think that's because Daniel

is the spokesman for the group.

But what is being asked of them? I want you to think about it from their perspective.

These people who are buttingen with this other country, they are being told to eat food.

And probably what they were being told to do I would guess that most of the

people around them would have said this is not a big deal just eat it,

they would be told probably everybody around them said just eat the food just

go along and get along this is not a big deal, go for it,

but they believe that it would dishonor God so I think the temptation for them

would have been this is the temptation to not worry about what God says just

to fit in with everyone else.

Have you been there? Have you ever had the temptation, don't do what God says

just to fit in with everyone else?

Well, here's another portion of that poem that I read to you earlier.

It says, Meshach then mentioned, I think I have heard, I'm sure that this statement

is true, that when living in places like, well, Babylonia, what you do is Babylonians do.

Then all looked at Daniel, but Daniel scowled. And then suddenly the guys caught

a clue. They were chosen.

Royal, belonging to God. As Jews, they had no right to die on anything God had

labeled not good, including the king's food and wine.

Now, I don't know if it really went down like that with Meshach being the one

that goes, well, let's just try it.

And then Daniel scowls and then Meshach's like, okay, I'm sorry,

I'm not going to take that.

I don't know if that's how it actually went down. But I will say this,

in real life, as people are struggling through situations like this,

conversations do happen and there was probably some sort of conversation that

took place between Daniel and Meshach and Shadrach and Abednego.

So this is what happens. Verse 11. So Daniel said to the guard who the chief

official had assigned to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Notice it's not just Daniel, right?

That's their Hebrew names, but that's our people. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

They're all there. The chief official had assigned to Daniel,

Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Please test your servants for ten days. let us be given vegetables to eat and

water to drink and then examine our appearance and the appearance of the young

men who are eating the king's food and deal with your servants based on what you see.

I want you to notice the way Daniel says it. You can tell that this is not just a Daniel thing, right?

He says, test your servants for 10 days, right? Let us be given vegetables,

examine our appearance, right?

And deal with your servants, plural, based on what you see. You can see that

this is Daniel speaking on behalf of the four of them.

And so what does he say? He suggests a 10-day vegetable test, right?

So let us be given... Because apparently they're saying, like,

we're fine with eating vegetables, and we're fine with drinking water, right?

So you have this meat over here we can't eat, it would defile us.

There's wine over here we can't eat, it would defile us.

But you've got some vegetables that we believe would not defile us.

You've got some water that would not defile us. So can we just eat the vegetables

and the water? Let us be given vegetables to eat, and water and drink.

And then examine our appearance, and the appearance of the young men who are eating the king's food.

And deal with your servants based on what you see. And he, and it looks like

they talked to a different person. This is to the guard.

So this is not the first person they asked that said no. He's a different person, it looks like.

And that guy says, all right. He agreed with them about this matter and tested them for 10 days.

So the idea here seems to be, okay, I get it. You're worried that something's going to happen to us.

It'll be obvious that we're different than them. And they're going to see our

diet is different than them. You're going to get in trouble.

So what if, what if. He talks to the guard.

So what if we just test it out and see if you have anything to worry about?

Would you just let up? Because we can't. We can't eat this food.

So can you give us the food that we can, and let's just wait ten days and see what happens.

Let's just see if the gods of Babylon bless the king's food,

or if God blesses our food. Let's just see what comes of it.

Like, let's just, we're going to eat vegetables.

And then at the end of the ten days, check and see what we look like,

see what happened, and then make your long-term decision from there.

So the guy goes, okay, we'll give it ten days. Look what happens.

Verse 15. At the end of 10 days, they looked better and healthier than all the

young men who were eating the king's food.

So the guards continued to remove their food and the wine they were to drink

and gave them vegetables.

So what is the point of this story? Here's the thing.

I don't think the point of the story is simply vegetables are good for you.

Even though that is true, right? And that's definitely true.

Ask any nutritionist, they will tell you. Vegetables are good for you. That's for sure true.

But because of what happens before and after this, I think it's fair to say

this is not a vegetables are good for you story. That's not what this is about.

What's happening here is these guys are trying to be faithful to God in a hostile situation.

And there was great pressure on them to do something different than other than honor God.

And they succeeded. And followed by God. And so the lesson here is simple.

What God says matters. So we should listen to what he says, even when it's hard.

You get that? What God says matters, so we should listen to what he says, even when it's hard.

Next week, if the Lord wills, the plan is to cover the Shadrach,

Meshach, and Abednego story that they are most famous for.

And in that story we will see that God is not just a rule maker but he is also

a savior so come next week let's pray.

Lord, I thank you for your word, and I thank you for these principles,

and I thank you for what you've taught us, and I pray for the people of this congregation today.

I do know that there are people in here who have had to switch things up or move around.

I know that there are people, I mean, it's incredible to even think about.

We're so used to, like, the truth that you are the God over the whole world

that we don't even think about, like, the worldview they probably have.

But it's incredible that people from Washington, California,

Canada, China and Brazil and all different places, like move to other places

and you're still their God.

And we've had people from places like that move here to Ocala and you were their

God in their own place and then you came with them and you're their God here.

And maybe many of us in this room plan on sticking around here in Ocala for

a while, but maybe many of us plan on going somewhere else.

And the thought that we will not be leaving you, but that you will go with us,

and as long as we know you, you can't be taken away from us.

That is a beautiful truth and so we thank you for it and we praise you for it.

From the people that leave here and go to other places, we thank you that you go with them.

People that have come here from other places, we thank you that you're our God.

You're there, that God there and here.

And we especially thank you. We know that one day we'll be in your presence

and anything will be fine. And we know between now and that day things are not fine.

And yet, even during this time period of not fun, it's still true that you cannot

be taken away from us if we know you and we thank you for that.

People could take all our stuff away. People could take away all of our people away.

But you can't be taken away from us. And so we thank you and we praise you for that.

I also pray for us as a congregation that you would help us to stand firm in

difficult situations and in a hostile culture.

I was thinking about it this morning, and I don't know exactly where America

is on a scale of Jerusalem to Babylon, but I kind of assume we're closer to Babylon.

And I think there are a lot of people in this room that there is this pressure

that everybody else around them is saying it's no big deal, and it's hard to stand firm.

So I pray that you would give us the strength to do that. I pray that we would

honor you in the midst of our Babylon.

We love you and we thank you for your grace we thank you Jesus.

In Jesus name we pray Amen let me end with these good words from God's word

this is actually from Romans chapter 8 it says for I consider that the sufferings of this present time,

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are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us that is good news Thank you.