What Are Your Predictable Patterns? | Faithful in a Faithless World Week 4

“Predictable.” Ugh. That’s an insult, right? After all, who wants to be predictable? It might feel bad on a personality quiz, but it turns out that having predictable patterns is a major way to create growth in our lives. Join us today as Brian talks about how Daniel’s predictability led to his success—and a close encounter with a lion.

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    - Hey, welcome to Crossroads, my name is Hannah.
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    - And I'm Kyle, and we are here to guide and equip
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    you for the adventurous life that God has made you for.
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    - Now this week has had, I mean,
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    a lot of crazy stuff happening.
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    - National Popcorn Day. - Okay, wasn't on the list.
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    - It was a little bit crazy.
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    - A little tiny bit, if that exists.
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    - A small amount crazier than that is that
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    the Cincinnati Bengals, my hometown team
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    got their first playoff win in 31 very long years.
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    - That is a long time.
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    I wasn't even born the last time.
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    - You weren't born. - That is crazy.
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    - St. Joe of the Burrow, not yet born.
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    - Wasn't born either.
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    - Hero of the football. It's out there. Pretty amazing.
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    - I believe you, it's crazy. Okay, you're right.
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    - Crazier than that is the story
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    we're actually diving into today.
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    A story about a guy named Daniel
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    who got thrown into a literal den of actual lions.
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    - With lions in the den, and it's crazy.
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    And so let's hear from our senior pastor, Brian Tome
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    right now and what he has to say about it.
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    - The book of Daniel is a story of a faithful man
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    and the unmatched power of God.
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    After being taken captive from their home city,
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    Jerusalem, to an unknown land called Babylon,
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    four very special royal Israelites
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    were chosen to serve the king.
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    Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
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    Today we focus on Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,
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    better known as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
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    or the three Hebrew boys.
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    The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar loved himself
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    so much that he put a huge statue
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    to remind people of his imperial power.
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    And he wanted everyone to worship it
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    whenever they heard the special music. Everyone.
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    The Hebrew boys, men, Boyz II Men,
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    they were not about it.
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    Today we explore their story
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    and what it means for our life.
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    - Predictable patterns lead to predictable outcomes.
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    Your life is perfectly designed
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    to get what you're currently getting
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    based on the things you're predictably doing.
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    This is what we find from Daniel's life,
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    we've been looking at in this series.
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    Daniel is this faithful person
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    in the midst of faithless times.
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    And he's faithful because he's predictable.
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    He keeps doing the same things again and again,
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    over and over.
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    So just for recap here.
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    Daniel, now for decades
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    has been serving the Babylonian empire.
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    The Jews have been captured and they're in exile
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    and they're under their oppression.
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    And Daniel was drafted into
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    their executive training program because
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    he's good looking, he's smart, he's bright.
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    And time and time again,
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    he keeps doing these crazy things.
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    These patterns emerge in his life
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    because he's very predictable, the things
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    that he's doing to form himself spiritually.
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    This is the way you and I are.
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    What we're doing is giving us what we're getting.
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    And whenever somebody starts to elevate their game
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    and get to a place that's on a higher level
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    than everybody else, everybody else gets upset.
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    This is what happens here in Daniel 6,
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    with Daniel and and his peers, his contemporaries.
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    Let's just read a little bit and then I'll talk about it.
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    Daniel 6:3:
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    An excellent spirit was in him.
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    People looked at him, they said,
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    "There's something different about you,
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    something special about you."
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    Is anyone doing that with you and I,
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    looking at us and saying, "There's something different,
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    special about that person."
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    The satraps are this ruling elite class
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    that were given a section to oversee in the Empire.
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    And they were supposed to collect taxes
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    and all that stuff,
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    and they kept a slice of the pie as well.
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    And these people are really jealous
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    of the things that Daniel is experiencing,
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    the things that is happening.
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    This is the way it is for us today.
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    We get really jealous and upset
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    when somebody is getting ahead of us.
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    The satraps are really upset
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    that Daniel is getting ahead of them.
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    When I was a little kid, I go down to the beach
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    with my parents and you'd go on this long pier
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    and they'd have these guys were getting crabs.
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    I don't mean crabs in their underwear.
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    I mean, crabs, that they would get.
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    Maybe those too.
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    I mean crabs that they were getting in the beach
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    and they're putting them in a bucket.
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    It's fascinating, if you get one crab
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    and you put it in the bucket. What do you need?
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    You need a lid that goes over top of it.
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    You get three crabs, four crabs, put them in the bucket.
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    You don't need to lid anymore because
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    all the other crabs in the bottom,
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    as soon as one starts to climb out,
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    will grab him and pull him back down.
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    We're like crabs.
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    We get threatened when someone elevates their game.
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    We get threatened when somebody has
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    a special spirit inside of them.
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    We get threatened when somebody is getting things
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    that we aren't getting.
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    This is the way it is with satraps.
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    They are threatened and jealousies.
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    This is the way it is with us today,
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    which is why so many people hate on you and I.
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    Entrepreneurs.com back in an old article in 2015,
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    says why the most successful people
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    have the most haters.
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    The article said this: Haters hate on you because
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    you're doing what they cannot, will not,
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    or are too afraid to attempt.
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    Haters are a natural part of growth.
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    There is one way to avoid having haters:
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    sit on the sidelines. Do nothing.
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    Don't set goals. Be average.
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    And no one will judge or hate you.
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    We get upset when somebody has
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    a more excellent spirit than us
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    and they're getting closer to having a life
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    that's prosperous than we are.
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    We hate so much because this is the way we are.
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    A leading theologian of our time,
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    T.A. Swift put it this way:
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    That's a theologian we can all listen to,
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    and we have listened to that theologian many times.
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    Daniel tries to shake it off, but unlike us
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    where we shame people in the social media sphere,
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    Daniel actually has physical harm
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    that's going to come his way.
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    Let's keep reading here.
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    They want to pull him down. They want to bring him down.
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    The problem is they don't figure out,
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    they can't figure out how to
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    because the guy never does anything wrong.
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    They think the only way we're going to get him
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    to do something wrong is we redefine morality
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    and have him step outside of the bounds
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    with something he's currently doing that we can outlaw.
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    So that's what they conspire to do.
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    They go to the king and they say, "You know, King,
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    we've got our own theology,
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    we've got our own divinity and our godhead.
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    We should just make official law if anyone prays
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    to any God other than the ones that we approve
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    in the ways that we approve,
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    that they should lose their life."
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    The king is like, "Um, Yeah, yeah. Ok, yeah.
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    Yeah, that's fine. That's fine."
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    So he sets it in motion, says, yes, that's good.
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    And these guys are like, "Aha, we've got him."
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    They know that Daniel was going to pray.
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    In fact, he is incredibly predictable about it.
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    Some time ago, I had somebody who was trying
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    to run a smear campaign on me and trying to get people
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    who either worked around me
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    or didn't work real, real close to me,
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    but knew of me to think less of me.
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    And one of the things this person said was,
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    "Well, Brian is so predictable. He's so predictable.
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    If you say this, he's going to do that.
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    If you do this, he's going to say that.
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    He's so predictable."
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    They meant it as a slam.
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    And as I heard it trickle back to me
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    that I was being called very predictable.
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    I thought, "Great, I'll take that, great."
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    Predictable patterns produce predictable outcomes.
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    I want to be predictable.
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    That's also being known as faithful,
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    not just faithful to my patterns,
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    but I want to be faithful to God.
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    Daniel has this predictability that
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    they want to try to use against him.
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    They want to slam him because of his predictability.
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    They go, "Oh, Daniel always prays to this one God,
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    the God of Israel, not our God.
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    That's one thing he always does.
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    Two, he always prays towards Jerusalem.
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    Three, he prays three times a day at the same time.
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    Every day he gets down on his knees
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    and he prays to his God in Jerusalem three times a day.
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    Let's just outlaw that and we will eliminate him."
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    That's exactly what they do.
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    He reads this -- Daniel reads this document
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    that he has to pray a certain way to a certain people.
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    And what does he do?
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    He still does his predictable pattern.
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    Now, this is this is really a little confusing
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    because he's at this point, he's 70 maybe, 80 maybe.
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    He is older.
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    He's been through like three or four
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    different kings at this point.
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    He's an older guy, he's not just a young upstart.
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    He's an older guy.
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    And this is the way he's been doing it.
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    And maybe he would have had friends
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    who would have said something like, "Daniel, dude,
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    this idea of praying to Jerusalem,
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    that's nowhere in the Bible. It's not there."
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    Muslims pray to Mecca,
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    that's actually in their holy scripture
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    I their Mecca or, excuse me, in their Koran.
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    But the Bible never tells Jews or Christians
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    to pray towards Jerusalem.
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    It never tells us do it three times a day
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    or have prayer three times a day.
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    It never tells us to have
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    exactly the same time every day to pray.
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    It never tells us to hit our knees
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    as the only way to pray.
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    Daniel could have prayed another time of day,
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    he could have gone to another position.
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    He could have gotten away from the window.
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    Any of these things: pray another time of day,
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    don't go on your knees, don't pray by the window,
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    don't pray this. Any of those things.
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    If he just eliminated one of those things,
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    a world of pain wasn't going to be coming his way.
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    But no, he thinks to himself,
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    "I had the predictable outcomes in my life
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    because of the predictable patterns in my life.
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    And this is the pattern that has brought
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    me spiritual fruit and I'm not going to forsake it."
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    So he follows through on his pattern yet again.
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    Do you know what your patterns are? What are they?
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    What are the things that you predictably do
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    like clockwork every day, every week,
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    every month, every year? Do you know what they are?
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    Do you have any?
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    I know this: if you can't identify
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    predictable patterns you have,
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    you don't have predictable outcomes that you want.
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    I'm not going to tell you all the different patterns
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    you have to have today, but I'm telling you
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    you have to have some and you've got to know
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    what they are and you've got to
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    faithfully hit that nail all the time.
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    That's how faithfulness is born.
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    That's how you rise above it.
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    That's how you get an excellent spirit in you.
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    That's how you go to another level.
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    - Real quick, I want to tell you about giving
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    and why it's a critical spiritual act.
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    And it's going to be quick. I promise only 30 seconds, go.
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    Giving you something we do in an effort
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    to show our gratefulness to God.
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    It's to say even if You never do anything again for me,
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    God, You have done enough.
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    If that's something that you want to be a part of,
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    you can go to Crossroads.net/give for more.
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    Now back to the message.
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    - Daniel is not going to forsake this for one minute.
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    They come up, they find him, like, "Aha, we got you."
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    They grab him, they take him off,
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    they take him to trial,
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    and his punishment comes his way.
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    Let's take a look at what happened.
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    Actually I won't read all of it to you.
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    Here's what happens. He comes back.
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    The king sees this.
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    He's like, "Oh no, I should have known
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    somebody was going to try to set up my man, Daniel."
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    Because Daniel has done amazing things
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    for whoever was the king of Babylon
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    as Daniel served him.
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    Here's what it says:
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    And this guy is pinned.
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    He's got to now do what he's written down,
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    what's in the code that he created.
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    He's got to uphold his kingly integrity
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    and follow through on what he's said.
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    So he says, "Take him and throw him in the lion's den.
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    Take a rock. Put it over top the the mouth of the hole
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    and puts a rope over it."
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    And he signs it, or doesn't sign.
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    He actually puts a seal on it,
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    which when they put to take a rope over the rock,
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    over the crack, put some wax in it,
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    take a signet ring and put it in that.
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    And he would do that so that if anybody came to it,
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    they would know they should never remove that seal.
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    And therefore, Daniel is for sure going to
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    stay down with the lions and he's going to die.
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    So, they believe.
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    The king is stressed out.
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    He doesn't like that he's done this,
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    but he does it anyway, and he doesn't sleep well.
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    No diversions are coming to him.
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    In other words, he says, "Hey, my normal entertainment,
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    I don't want my normal entertainment.
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    Don't bring them my way.
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    I'm just freaked out and I can't sleep.
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    I'm beside myself."
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    He doesn't like he's been --
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    he doesn't like that he's been set up
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    and that his buddy, spiritual buddy,
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    the person who brought him spiritual value,
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    Daniel, is now going to be dead.
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    And the story continues.
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    This comes up a couple of times in this chapter:
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    who you serve continually.
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    Daniel's god, who he serves continually.
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    He has a predictable pattern
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    of serving his God continually,
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    he does it like clockwork.
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    Now I'll tell you one of the frustrating things
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    about this chapter is there some things
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    in the Bible that I want to know that it won't tell me.
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    It tells me he's put in the lion's den.
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    This isn't a den that's out in the wild
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    where they all say, "Oh, here's where the lions
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    are in this cave.
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    We're going to go out there,
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    we're going to put the stone there." No, no.
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    Later on talking about throwing them
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    down into the lion's den.
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    This is a torture chamber the Babylonians have
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    dug out a pit and they just throw people in there.
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    It's easily accessible. You know where it is.
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    You can just go in there and you see the lions
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    and you see all the bones
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    and that's where we throw people to get munched.
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    Daniel was thrown in there, stone put on top of it.
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    And what I want to know is this:
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    What happens inside of the den?
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    Like, there's these lions in there, right?
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    What's he doing with the lions in there?
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    Spoiler alert, the lions aren't going to eat them.
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    This is going to be a miraculous save
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    that God gives to Daniel.
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    What's Daniel doing in there?
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    Is he like -- is he?
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    What's he doing with the lions?
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    Is he petting the lions when he's in there?
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    Or are the lions just sleeping and he's sleeping
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    and it's no big deal?
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    They never talk to or see each other for hours
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    or is Daniel petting them?
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    Is he going, "Oh, my own little lion.
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    I will love him and hold him and squeeze him
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    and pet him because he's my own little lion?"
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    Is that what he was doing with the lions?
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    What is going on in there? We don't know.
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    I'd love to know.
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    Point of this story isn't the lion,
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    it's actually the king, the king who's pacing,
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    the king who can't sleep, the king who
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    doesn't want his normal form of entertainment.
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    The king, who first thing in the morning
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    runs, rolls away away the rock.
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    He says, "Daniel, are you okay?
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    The king, the ultimate king, your god
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    whom you serve continually, has He saved you?"
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    The king, who doesn't share the spirituality of Daniel
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    wants to know how Daniel is doing,
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    because Daniel has offered value to him
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    and other kings before him.
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    Daniel has told them dreams.
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    Daniel has given them interpretations to dreams.
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    Daniel has read the writing on the wall,
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    that's another scene from the Book of Daniel
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    that we're going to get into this series,
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    where there's a hand that goes up
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    and writes on the wall.
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    He reads the writing on the wall.
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    There's so many things that are in our culture
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    that are based on biblical stories
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    that we don't even know.
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    Daniel is able to interpret a language
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    as a hand comes and writes on a wall.
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    Daniel has a power, and he's given value to the king,
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    and he's not happy about this.
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    That's the thing.
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    Now here's my ask: for you, is there anybody
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    who has different spiritual beliefs than you
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    that really needs you in their life?
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    Is there anybody that doesn't have your ideas
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    or doesn't have your patterns,
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    but who gets major value from you
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    and they want you there?
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    This should be the way that Christians are.
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    Whatever city we reside, there should be people
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    who have completely different spiritualities
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    and don't believe in our beliefs who should be grieved
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    if we ever left their city
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    because poor people get fed while we're in their city.
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    Because people who have no hope, get hope when we're there.
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    Because we are encouragers, because we bring jobs,
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    because we bring generosity, because we bring levity
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    and we have a sense of humor about us.
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    It's a bad thing where many people think
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    that Christians are bores.
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    No one thought Daniel was a bore.
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    He was a value add. He was a threat to many.
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    He was a value add that they wanted around them.
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    So let's see what happens when the king
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    goes to see Daniel.
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    He's affirming an authority position
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    that doesn't have his same spirituality.
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    We can learn something from that.
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    He's like, "Whew. I need you in my life
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    and in this kingdom."
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    That's the value that you and I should bring.
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    And then the king goes immediately
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    from thankfulness that Daniel's here
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    to flip flopping over and wanting vengeance
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    for the people who put him there.
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    Here's what it says:
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    Finally, we find out about what the lions are doing.
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    These are not sleepy lions.
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    These are man eating lions.
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    He takes these folks and their whole lineage,
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    whole lineage: wives, kids, dogs, gerbils, all of them,
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    says, "Get them in there.
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    I'm going to wipe out their whole lineage,
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    the future of potential generations
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    that will be malicious like this. I want them gone."
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    And this is a godless king who doesn't have
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    the morality of my God and your God.
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    That's what this king does.
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    Throws them down in the pit.
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    And finally, finally, the lions do what lions do.
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    The lions, it says, they get up. [growling sound]
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    [singing] If I were king of the forest
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    Not prince, not Duke, but king.
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    Name that movie. What was that movie? Come on.
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    Wizard of Oz. Come on.
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    Every real American knows Wizard of Oz.
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    It doesn't matter how old you are.
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    These lions, these lions, as bodies are falling down,
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    before the bodies hit the ground,
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    they snatch them out of the air, break and eat them,
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    break their bones and start munching on them.
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    These are hungry lions, probably because
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    God was keeping them from eating Daniel.
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    They're like, "Oh man, something kept me
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    from eating a human being just a couple of hours ago.
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    Not now, I've got to get them while I can."
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    And these people get their fill.
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    What I love about this story,
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    it's really not about the lions,
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    it's also maybe not about Daniel,
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    but it's about how God does a new thing
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    in the heart of the king.
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    The king, in essence, gets converted
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    or at least gives the best spiritual verbiage he could
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    in talking about the one true God.
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    Here's what he says:
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    So Daniel prospered.
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    This king has basically a spiritual awakening,
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    and Daniel prospers. Why does Daniel prosper?
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    Because he has predictable patterns.
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    Your predictable patterns
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    will dictate your level of prosperity.
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    Now I know that some of us hate that word prosperity
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    because we know that there's people who are preachers
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    that just love to tell people to keep giving,
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    giving, giving, giving.
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    Because if you don't give,
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    you're not going to be prosperous.
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    I'm not talking about some false theology like that.
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    I am just saying the word prosperity is in the Bible.
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    It doesn't always mean financial prosperity.
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    There are people who are very, very prosperous
  • 00:24:02
    but aren't financially -- aren't financially rich
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    or even barely getting by.
  • 00:24:08
    But to be clear, God does want to prosper you
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    relationally, spiritually, emotionally.
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    And how does He prosper you?
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    He prospers you the way that Daniel gets prospered
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    through predictable patterns
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    that lead to predictable outcomes,
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    the predictable outcome of prosperity.
  • 00:24:30
    You have to know what your predictable pattern,
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    what are they like?
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    When do you read the Bible? When is that?
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    We've looked at the research and been very clear:
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    four times a week, if you read it four times a week,
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    change will come to you.
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    When do you do that four times a week?
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    It doesn't matter when you do it.
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    You've got to do it predictably,
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    every time you go to the bathroom, that would work.
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    For me, its first thing I do when I'm in my house.
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    When I'm out camping or something like that,
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    I generally I'm not reading the Bible in the morning.
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    I'm just in a different thing.
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    But when I'm around my house, predictable pattern.
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    Every morning I have some Bible intake.
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    Do you know when it is?
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    Do you know when it is your predictability
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    of how you give?
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    I had a little extra money I got recently.
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    I did an outside speaking engagement
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    and they send me a check. Now what do I do?
  • 00:25:17
    My first predictable pattern
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    is I give God the first fruits.
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    So I turn around, give Him the first 10%.
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    The Bible tells me to do that,
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    and it's what I've been doing for a long, long time.
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    It's a predictable pattern that brings
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    a predictable outcome and level prosperity to me.
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    Do you know when you connect with your girlfriend.
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    Do you know when you connect with your boyfriend?
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    Do you know when you have meaningful conversation?
  • 00:25:38
    Do you know when you pray with your spouse?
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    Do you know when you tell your kids precepts about God?
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    Well, if you just have a value to generally do it,
  • 00:25:47
    you're generally not going to do it.
  • 00:25:49
    You have to know it's at the dinner table,
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    it's on Saturday mornings. It's the this.
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    What are the predictable?
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    You have to know your predictable patterns
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    to have predictable outcomes of prosperity.
  • 00:26:03
    And one we're doing and elevating here this year
  • 00:26:06
    at Crossroads is the Bible Challenge.
  • 00:26:08
    Get into the Crossroads App or open up your paper Bible.
  • 00:26:12
    Do it 4X a week. Journal there.
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    See what the rest of us are doing
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    and grow from the rest of us
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    and build into the rest of us
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    by giving us your insights.
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    You'll find you're going to get into a predictable pattern
  • 00:26:25
    that's going to give you a predictable outcome
  • 00:26:27
    of having a prosperous life.
  • 00:26:29
    That's only what God wants from you.
  • 00:26:32
    It's what God wants for you.
  • 00:26:34
    And it's what Daniel had.
  • 00:26:37
    - I'm going to remember that: predictable habits
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    is what dictates your prosperity, that's super good.
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    - That's what Daniel had. - That's absolutely
  • 00:26:44
    and that's what we're doing as a community.
  • 00:26:46
    We're calling it the Bible Challenge.
  • 00:26:47
    Whether this is your first time watching
  • 00:26:49
    or thousandth time, it doesn't matter,
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    you can jump in with us.
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    Here's what you need: the Crossroads App,
  • 00:26:54
    which is completely free.
  • 00:26:56
    This app lets you and me and Hannah
  • 00:26:58
    and everybody else in the community
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    read the same chapter of the Bible
  • 00:27:01
    and journal about it together.
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    You just click right here and you --
  • 00:27:04
    - You already did yours today.
  • 00:27:05
    - I did do mine today. - I didn't do mine yet.
  • 00:27:07
    But I'm going to do it.
  • 00:27:08
    And if you want to do it, you can go to
  • 00:27:10
    Crossroads.net/BibleChallenge.
  • 00:27:13
    And not only that, but you can do that and find the app,
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    learn more, and you can get this cute little guide book.
  • 00:27:18
    And I call it cute because I think it's cute.
  • 00:27:20
    But it's more than just cute.
  • 00:27:22
    It's fricking helpful.
  • 00:27:24
    There's like all these sort of context in here
  • 00:27:26
    that just helps you understand what's happening
  • 00:27:29
    in Daniel and enhances your Bible reading.
  • 00:27:31
    - At Crossroads we are in your corner.
  • 00:27:33
    If we can help you in any way,
  • 00:27:34
    please don't hesitate to reach out.
  • 00:27:36
    You can email me directly, kyle.ranson@crossroads.net.
  • 00:27:39
    I'd love to pray for you
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    if you have anything go on your life
  • 00:27:41
    or whatever else you need.
  • 00:27:43
    Let us know we're here for you.
  • 00:27:44
    We'll see you next time. - Next time.
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    There is a way that leads to life.
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    It's not the paved path, well-lit,
  • 00:27:57
    well-traveled, known.
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    It's the ancient path, narrow, forgotten, wild.
  • 00:28:06
    Few are willing to walk it,
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    but those who do find what they've been searching for.
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    Be one of them.
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    Walk the way that leads to life
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    and find faith in a faithless world.
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    Happening now in the Crossroads Anywhere App.

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