So let's open up our Bibles to two passages of scripture everybody and I want you to go to Daniel chapter one and then I want you to go to John chapter eight all right so let's open up to two places I'll read just several verses but I want to share with you a message today based

off of a book that I released this past fall and I've actually not been speaking

on it I'm not I'm not on any book tour don't really do that. I'm just a local church pastor.

I actually have prayed and asked the Lord what he would have me share.

And after listening to your pastor's messages about the Bible,

I really felt led of the Lord to bring you this message

because I think it kind of,

I think it goes hand in hand.

Because there really is an attack on the church and on Christianity and we live in a culture that is shifting.

It really is.

And if the church isn't equipped to be able to handle the cultural shifts,

it'll eat your lunch.

And so we have to really be ready.

And in 2013, I did a verse by verse study

through the book of Daniel.

And if you know much about this book,

it's 12 chapters in all.

And the first six of them are completely historic.

So they just cover history of the Jewish people being in exile and in the last six chapters

are all prophecy their dreams that he had and they're prophetic. What's

interesting to me if you know much about how your Bible is laid out, which makes it tough for some people

because the Bible is not laid out chronologically.

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