Last Day to Live Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Daniel rejects the rewards and advises Belshazzar, God gave Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, majesty, glory, and honor. He’s reminding Nebuchadne uh Belshazzar of history. For pride, Nebuchadnezzar lost his throne and ate grass like animals. Until he knew the most high ruled, not Satan, the most high ruled in the kingdom of men and appoints over it whomsoever he will. This has got to get into your See, if God is the one that’s controlling the governments of the nations and we have access to God, can we change a nation? Hallelujah, that’s true.

▶ 0:54 But most of us don’t know that. We’re just hanging on to the rapture. We’re just hanging on cuz that’s what we’re taught to do, just hang on. Hang on, Jesus is coming and going to fix these people. No, he’s coming, he’s going to save a lot of people and the people that won’t get saved, he’s going to fix. You, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart and you knew all this. He not only heard, but he knew. He knew about Daniel. He knew about God. He knew these things. He knew that God humbled his forefather. But in spite of you knowing, you haven’t humbled your heart. You haven’t gotten on your knees and admitted you were wrong and asked God to forgive you and start doing right.

▶ 1:48 That’s what humbleness is, admitting you’re wrong. Asking God’s forgiveness, asking God to strengthen you, getting up, and putting some action behind it. You’ve lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. You’ve exalted yourself. You use his vessels, the vessels of his house for your your wine parties, and you praise and idols. Which see not, hear not, nor know, and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath and your ways are. See, he not only has what time you die. When he closes that hand, you’re dead. I don’t care what the heart machine does. I don’t care what. When he says you’re dying, you’re dying.

▶ 2:40 That’s it. But not only does he have your life in his hands, he has your ways. Uh. This boy’s doing pretty good. He’s conquered about three areas in the last three years. That’s pretty good. Hallelujah. Let’s keep it moving forward. Oh, this guy. He’s rejecting everything. He’s cocky. He’s making up his own standards of right and wrong. Man, we’re going to have to do something get his attention. Well, I tell you there’s a guy driving down the road drunk. Let’s just let him swerve over here and just teach this guy a lesson get his attention. Ah, you go, “No, no, no. Oh, really?” You don’t think God loves you enough to try to get your attention?

▶ 3:35 And get you to come to him and humble yourself? Hallelujah. His ways are in his hand. And he can make our ways prosperous, the Bible says. And we can destroy our ways. Bring destruction. So, the problem is we exalt ourselves when we reject Jesus Christ and his word. We’re putting ourselves as God. We’re exalting ourselves. Okay? Now, Acts 26:27. Watch this. Now, may I have your attention? This is good. This is really good. Are you ready for this?

▶ 4:27 Okay, here we go. King Agrippa, here’s another king. Okay? Paul is preaching the gospel to this king. And Paul says, “King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.” King Agrippa, I know from the spirit of God, and I know from what I’m hearing from you today that you believe the scriptures. How many of you know on radio and TV, this is the main message? If you have faith in Jesus, you believe in the Bible, you believe in Jesus, you’re going to heaven. That’s it. I’m the only one that hears those messages. And America is intoxicated with faith and believe. And they live any way they want because these these teachers of the gospel on radio and TV and writing books have propagated this message so much that we have our faith in our faith.

▶ 5:36 Because we believe we’re in. Now, watch this. If Paul by the spirit says that Agrippa is a believer, is he a believer? Is he a believer? Yes. All right. Here’s King Agrippa’s answer. You almost persuade me to become a Christian. Is there a difference between a Christian and a believer? It’s clear here. He was persuaded that there was a God. He was persuaded that the prophets did teach the word of God back there. But he wasn’t committed to being a Christian, one who comes from Christ, one who follows Christ.

▶ 6:30 He wa- He believed it, but he didn’t want to live it. Woo! Wee! Folks, that’s good stuff. It might jar you, but it’s a good jar, isn’t it? It might shake you up. How many know we need to move on to Christianity? We need to get through our faith and our belief and move on to following Jesus Christ. There are many people in America who believe and are not followers. You know them by their fruits or their faith? Fruits. Isn’t that beautiful? Now, look. Many people fear. When the scriptures are being preached, when they read the scriptures, and God comes to them, they fear God, but they won’t follow.

▶ 7:26 Look at this account. Acts 24:25. As Paul reasoned to Felix, now here is the message that needs to get out. We gave you the three responses. Here is the three truths that you need to preach to be getting the full gospel out. Do you understand me? You young adults, this is your outline of how to get the word of God out. Now, Paul’s standing before a civil leader. He didn’t flatter that civil leader. He didn’t approve of that civil leader. He confronted that civil leader with three things. Are you ready, church? Paul reasoned. What does the atheist use and homosexual and all that?

▶ 8:20 What’s their word? Reason, logical thinking. He taught Paul Felix some logical things from the Bible. Righteousness. He said, “Felix, you got to live right. You got to speak right. You got to do right.” Number two, he said, “Felix, you got to use temperance or self-control.” Oh, but us Pentecostals, we want the Holy Ghost just to do it. No, you got to use self-control. You got to control yourself. You got to say no to sexual immorality. You got to say no to lying. You got to say no to intoxication. You got to say no. You’ve got to control yourself, discipline yourself.

▶ 9:18 Amen. And then he said, “Felix, there’s a judgment coming. If you don’t live right, if you don’t control yourself, you’re going to be punished in that judgment.” You young adults, did you get this? You leaders coming up in this church, do you understand this? When you’re out there getting the message out, you got to incorporate these three things. If you want people’s hearts to be pricked, you want their spirit to be shaken, it says Felix trembled. Here’s that fear again. The word of God and the spirit backing it up caused this king to shake inside. How many of you know we need some shaking? Conviction came. And just because conviction comes doesn’t mean we respond to the conviction.

▶ 10:15 But it came. Hallelujah. So what was his answer? That second response. Remember the three responses? He gave the second one. I’ll tell you what, you go your way, Paul. Here he is shaking in his shoes and his knees are knocking. He probably you go away. I’ll call you when it’s convenient. It’s not convenient for me right now. I’m not ready. How many of you heard that when you’re preaching to someone? I’m not ready. Well, what what Where does the Bible say you got to be ready? When the word of God comes, you just either say yes or no. I’m not ready. I’m not ready. What? It’s weak. What you’re doing is saying I’m rejecting it, but I’m just saying it in a nice way. This is Bible morality right here. Righteousness, self-control, and a punishment if you don’t do it.

▶ 11:10 That’s Bible morality. Now, Daniel interprets the writing and deals with both the kingdom and the individual. Part of the hand with writing from him, they saw the hand many many Tekel Upharsin. That’s the writing. Daniel tells him this is the writing. Here is the interpretation. God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. The kingdom, the nation is going to be dealt with. Secondly, Tekel, you’ve weighed and weighed in the balance and found lacking. The individual. God is going to judge you as an individual and you lack. You’re in trouble, friend. My friend, you are in trouble. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians. Here he is. He said, “I’m going to turn the kingdom, the people over to another authority, a new king.” Now, how many want Jesus to be that new king?

▶ 12:09 Yeah. Okay, it’s very simple. In Amos 4:7, I sent famine, plagues, wars, and prophets. Yet you’ve not returned to me, says the Lord. Prepare to meet your God. What’s the phrase? Prepare to meet your God. We heard it today. Prepare for the presence of God. Prepare to meet with your God so he can encourage you and strengthen you. Here the message is to prepare to meet your God for judgment. How many of you know we need to prepare? We need to make ourselves ready. And the prophet said, “Amend your ways and your doings.” Okay? That’s many, many for us. Hebrews 4:1, “Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of us of entering into his rest any of you should come short of it.” Is it possible that we can come short of these promises of God?

▶ 13:01 Yes. So, we want to what? Humble ourselves. We don’t want to exalt ourselves. We want to humble ourselves. We want to repent. We want to ask We want to keep Jesus active in our life. Third one. Matthew 21:43, “The kingdom of God was taken from you, you Jewish leaders. You messed up. You’re not bringing forth the fruit. I’m going to give it to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” And folks, that’s the church. And we want America given to people of righteousness. Can I hear an amen? When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people mourn. They’re depressed. They’re cast down. Now, I went over that quickly. But that’s the present interpretation of that. God deals with every generation.

▶ 13:54 I want your attention. I want you to turn back to me. I want you to humble yourself and follow me. All right? And here is very important, so you don’t get cast down over these verses. How shall we escape? Hebrews 2:3, if we neglect so great a salvation? The only way you cannot attain to the promises of God is your neglect. God has such a powerful salvation that the only thing that would cause you to come short of this is your neglect of it. Cuz he promised it’s a what? Great salvation. Powerful. And that’s the salvation I experienced as a unbeliever, a great salvation. That’s Bible morals. We don’t reject rights. We don’t reject self-control. We don’t reject the coming judgment.

▶ 14:47 Now, I had to learn self-control. How many of you are learning self-control? Yeah, that’s acceptable. It’s when we say I don’t see nothing wrong with it, it’s a problem. When we’re not afraid to face God in the condition we’re in, that’s a problem. And look at this. Hebrews 7:25, he Jesus is able to save them to the uttermost. Any extreme condition that you think you’re in. You think that you are have committed the unforgivable sin. That’s I hit get hit with that a lot. Yeah. Oh man, I’ve just I I’m I’m forgivable. He He What’s this say? I don’t care what extreme you go to. Man, I was a prostitute, a drug addict, a pimp, and I was horrible, a gang leader, and killed people. I don’t care what extreme you bring to him, he’s able to save you.

▶ 15:43 AMEN. WOW. THAT’S A POWERFUL PROMISE. NOW, Belshazzar rewards Daniel with scarlet clothes, and he’s going to die in just a few minutes. Just before he dies, he rewards him. A lot of good a reward like that does, huh? Our government can promise you a lot of rewards, folks, but let me tell you, when God’s hammer comes down, they can’t do anything to save you. These philosophers and these groups can promise you great things, and promise you great rewards if you send your money to them and follow them, but when God gets involved, they can’t do beans for you.

▶ 16:37 Can I hear an amen? The king just thought he had some power. So, that night, Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was slain. Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about 62 years old. Now, let me have your mind for a minute, and we’re going to go through the historical, written in the history books, what happened here. Persia Now, they’re having a party, but Persia and the Medes had already come up against them and won the all the major battles. The Babylonian army was defeated. Outside the walls of Babylon, they were defeated. Now, Cyrus, the king of Persia, was besieging Babylon while Belshazzar was having this festival. He had his army circled around Babylon.

▶ 17:31 Have you got it? Now, he’s in there exalting himself, and this is what’s going on. It’s not only in the Bible, but it’s in history. It’s written in history. Okay? You see a picture here of Babylon. 300-ft walls, a moat all around it fed by the Euphrates River. Okay? Impregnable. No one had ever conquered the city of Babylon. They had such security. They had such confidence that they were okay. Is Americans like that? Oh, yeah. We think because of our atomic bombs and our, you know, aircraft carriers and our military, you know, with it, man, we’re just solid. Let me tell you, when God brings the hammer down, there’s nothing that can keep Salvador from overrunning America.

▶ 18:29 You say that’s a little extreme. Well, now here is a top view pictorial of Babylon. You see the Euphrates River running through the city? They had an endless supply of water. Wasn’t polluted like it is today. Endless supply water. They had hanging gardens. They could grow their own They could maintain for a long time. They could maintain a siege. They were so confident, cocky, they No one could get into that city. But Cyrus immediately got his engineers to start digging a channel, a low place in the land to divert part of the Euphrates River. And he ignited that diversion the night Belshazzar went through his last day on Earth.

▶ 19:27 And the Euphrates River went down to shallow water, the military waited through that water at both ends, both this end and this end. And they took the city without hardly a shot fired. Why? Because they were in a festival. They were bragging about how they were safe and they had false confidence and they can’t come in here. And there they were. Instantly Belshazzar was killed. They killed the king. And they put Darius the Mede Cyrus’s uncle. Now, please listen to this. This is really good for you young ones. You need to know history backs up the Bible. They put Darius, Cyrus’s uncle, in charge of Babylon and Cyrus went back to Persia. That’s why he’s there.

▶ 20:19 Got it? And he reigned for about 2 years. This is in history, this is in your Bible. Now, Cyrus, if you know your Bible, was prophesied by Isaiah and named. Only a few people were named before they were born in the Bible. Three or four, I forget. Josiah, Jesus, Cyrus, and one other. What’s the other one? Yeah, John, right. Okay. Cyrus is a heathen person and he’s named to be born, given a name over 100 years before Cyrus was ever were And told what Cyrus would do. If Belshazzar would have read Isaiah, he would have known what’s happening.

▶ 21:20 But being a atheist as they are, well, it’s just coincidence, you know. It doesn’t really show the power of God. Only God can name things before it happens and it comes to pass. So he was born over 100 years later and then about 150 years after that prophecy, he fulfilled it in destroying Babylon and sending God’s people back to Jerusalem. Now, that brings us to America. Unless I connect with relevancy, so what? Okay, we’re in the nation of America. This is relevant to us. We know we are going downhill. We know Jesus and the Bible have been uh diminished, uh attacked for decades and we know that the population of Christianity in America has declined from 86% down to 77%.

▶ 22:27 We know these things. You see? We’re in a decline. We’ve lost a lot of our religious liberties. The little horns, the voices seem to be the ones that are winning. But we got to remember Daniel 7, the little horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them until the Ancient of Days intervened. See? See, Belshazzar was in control until the Ancient of Days changed them. Amen? And judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. We not only want to possess the kingdom of God, we want to possess the nation of America and turn it back to Bible morality.

▶ 23:21 Amen. Not our religious nonsense that turns people off. Who cares if you speak in tongues or don’t speak in tongues or what? It’s the fruit of your life. It’s the behavior of your life. It’s what’s right, doing things that don’t hurt people. See, that’s the wisdom that brought the nations to these men back there, and it’s the wisdom that’s going to get the attention of America. Amen? We don’t want the Catholics in charge of America. We don’t want the Jews or the Muslims. We want Bible morality instituted by God, Jesus Christ, back in America. Hallelujah. And we’re not going to kill everybody. We just want them doing things in the closet, in the darkness, in hidden places like they used to in the ‘50s and back.

▶ 24:16 Get them back to doing these things not out in the open, not broadcasted, not promoted as right. Amen? Bible morality. Do you understand, church? Now, this is very important. It’s very important for you young’uns especially to understand this stuff. And you old ones, too. You need to be reminded of this. We’ve got to become people that express our views on morality in America. We got to lay down these stupid differences between churches. Do women wear shorts or don’t wear shorts? Do women get their hair cut or don’t get their hair cut? Good God. What is the matter with us? Abraham Lincoln went through a tough time in America and he has some very powerful quotes and he quotes the Bible a lot.

▶ 25:18 But here he’s quoting the Constitution. He’s facing a dilemma. There’s a conflict in America. You got to remember that in our the founding of our nation only 20% were loyalists to Britain. 50% were undecided and 30% were patriots. See, the patriots wasn’t the majority. You know, the people act like all the colonies were ready to revolt. No, they only had 30%. And you know what they were revolting over? The three things they were revolting over, main three things was taxes. Is that an issue in our generation? See, let me give you an example.

▶ 26:11 Our government forces me to pay taxes to the public school when I don’t believe in the public school and I don’t use the public school. Taxation without representation. I don’t use the service. Why should I be paying? Now, the teachers unions hate to hear that. But yeah, let me tell you, this is what Britain was taxing the colonies unfairly and without representation, without getting something for their dollar. And that’s one of the main issues. The second main issue was they had no voice in government.

▶ 27:05 Let me give you an example of that today. Obamacare the Congress says I got to have it whether I want it or not. I don’t have any say. They’re just forcing it on me. And it’s a good I mean you mean to keep people healthy is good, isn’t it? It’s not hurting people to keep people healthy. But when you force me to pay taxes to something that I don’t want I don’t have a say in government. Are you there? Regulate trade. See? We may be the minority but so was it at the Revolutionary War.

▶ 27:56 It was the minority that won the victory. Amen. How many people were at Concord? About 17? It wasn’t like we had a big thousand, two thousand member army there. It was just a few patriots stood up against Britain and fired that first shot. Are you with me? So Abe says this. This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. How many agree with that? How many know that’s what the Constitution says? He says, “Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it.” See, we have a a right to go to the state legislature, to go to Congress, and plead our case, and fight for our rights.

▶ 28:54 And shame on us when we don’t. There’s hardly any nation that has this kind of rights, this privilege that we do. He says, “If that doesn’t work, or if their revolutionary right to dismember it.” Now, this is what the South did. Abraham Lincoln wanted to amend the Constitution to get rid of slavery. The South didn’t want to amend the Constitution. They wanted to stay at the way it was. So, they what? Separated. I’m glad we have states because there’s states that are very conservative and very uh uh pro-religious freedom. Texas is one of them. Texas stands up, man. You mess around with those Texicans down there, they just they fight back.

▶ 29:50 They’re one of the big ones. And they’re a big state. And there’s a lot of these middle states from north to south that are very very encouraging to religious freedom and to biblical morality. It’s California and New York and some of these other places that have these big cities, Illinois, that are the little horn speaking a lot of stuff. Now, and if that doesn’t work, they can overthrow the government. Do we have a right to bear arms? Why does the preamble to the Constitution tell us we have a right to bear arms? So, that anytime our government becomes a tyranny, we can change it.

▶ 30:43 And how you going to change it if you don’t stand up and fight against it? You say, “Man, that’s Well, this is Abraham Lincoln talking. He’s in a difficult time. Now, you got to remember, only one out of four people in the South had slaves. The slave owners were a minority. Only one out of 12 in the North had slaves. And yet, that minority was ruling the nation and enslaving people. Homosexuals are 2% of the nation. And yet, they’re in high power and putting their values over on us. See, we’re in the same allegory that Abraham Lincoln was in.

▶ 31:36 Are you with me? The abolitionists only had uh 5% of the population were abolitionists before 1850. How many know that’s a real minority? They were speaking out. They were writing books. They were printing pamphlets. They weren’t popular. They were abused. They were attacked. They were hurt. Their property was damaged. They paid a price, but 5% stood up. And only 5% of the population was for and standing up against slavery. And they won. You get my point, church? You know, we act like the whole And did you know that blacks had slaves?

▶ 32:29 Now, blacks don’t like to hear this. But free blacks had slaves. See, it wasn’t a racial thing, it was a monetary thing. I can make money off you, brother. Slavery’s legal, I’m buying you. You take care of my fields. How many of you knew that? A handful. And so Abe Lincoln stood up and this was his values. This is And it took decades for these evolutionists to win the slavery issue. It took decades for women to get their rights.

▶ 33:23 And much longer to get rid of the separate but equal thing. Decades. And it may take us decades to get back to Bible morality. But how many know we should stand up? If we’re the 5% or whatever, we should stand up. There’s more to it than just worshipping and touching God and uh we’ve got to be concerned for our nation. Now, listen to this. Deuteronomy 28:13, “The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, the leader and not the follower.” Say it, leader not follower. Are we leading people to the right? See, “You shall be above only, you’ll be the leader and not beneath, the follower if you what? Heed the commandments.” That goes back to Bible morality.

▶ 34:15 It’s not whether you’re baptized. It’s not whether you believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost or not. It’s not whether you go door-to-door witnessing every Thursday or or What’s going to win this thing and bring us to leadership and respect in America is up us standing up for Bible morals. And every Christian should do that. Because Jesus did that. Even if we’re failing, we still have to stand up for right. Don’t let them get you under guilt trip that well, your life is bad, so you don’t have a right. Yes, you do have a right to stand up for right. Amen. You’re on your way to getting it and on your way you can speak it.

▶ 35:07 And you can unite. Listen to what he said. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. Anybody can say well, I’m going to pray about it. Get up off the prayer for off and let’s speak out. Let’s protest. Is that a good quote? Yeah. Does American church have a lot of cowards? By this statement? Absolutely. Bunch of cowards. We don’t want them opposing us and fighting against us. And look at this statement. I’m not bound to win. I’m not bound to succeed. This is Abe Lincoln again. I’m just bound to be true. I’m bound to stick up for truth. If I lose sticking up for truth, it doesn’t matter.

▶ 35:59 I may not get the victory, but I’m going to stand up for truth. Isn’t that a good statement? Coming out of this tall, skinny hillbilly? I must stand with anybody that stands right. And I must stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. And that’s what he had to do. He had to accept every religion that would stand with him in his cause. He had to accept the rich, the poor, the male, the female, you know, the bond, the free, whatever. He stood with them. And in areas where they were wrong, he didn’t stand with them. He stood in areas where they were right. Amen?

▶ 36:51 And just because they got some wrong, if they’re in this right, then I can stand with you. I can stand with the Mormon. I can stand with the Catholic. I can stand even with the homosexual if they have a purpose to accomplish something right in America. That doesn’t mean I have to stand with them on the issues they’re wrong on, but I need their support in the issues we are right on. We can’t divide over hair and clothing and kind of music we listen to and all the rest. We got to unite unite over right. Can I hear an amen? All these voices are speaking out today. And they’re trying to force their morality on all Americans.

▶ 37:48 The homosexuals are forcing their moral moral standards on all of America. They’re trying to teach in school that our to our kids that it’s an acceptable lifestyle, that we should respect them. And they’re winning. The atheists who destroy the Bible and twist things around and lie. These people lie. They don’t use truth. They say they use reason and they don’t use reason. They They use lies. They manipulate. They’re trying to force their morality. Somebody has to decide what morals a nation follows.

▶ 38:40 And right now, the liberals, the humanists, the atheists, the homosexuals, the hedonists are winning the battle. Am I right? But we got to be the 5% that starts standing for right. If it takes decades, but Jesus is coming tomorrow. You better not look for that. You better look for a powerful move of God in His church because it’s coming. It’s coming before He comes. Ain’t those good quotes? Powerful quotes from this guy who went through a very difficult time in America and stood up for right and it cost him his life. He paid the ultimate price. Cost him his life to stand up for these values.

▶ 39:40 Matthew 28:19 says, “Go you therefore into all the world teach all nations.” That means disciple all nations. Teach them to observe some of the things I’ve commanded you. How many things? All the things, folks. Morals are part of the gospel. Government is part of the gospel. Not just salvation and eternal life. These are all part of the gospel. Unity is part of the gospel. We’re supposed to flow together in unity around right. Not whether they believe every little faith doctrine of my church or not. God is crying out to the church in America.

▶ 40:35 God is crying out for the nation of America. The Holy Spirit has two questions for you today. Do you want to enter into eternity like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King with sexual, flagrant sexual multiple, consistent sexual immorality in your life? Stealing in your life? Lying? Dishonoring your parents? Greed? Hate and murder?

▶ 41:29 And because you believe you think you’re okay. You want to really take that chance and say I’m ready to stand before God even though I’m flagrantly sinning? Or you want to do what Daniel asked Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar to do, humble yourself, admit you’re wrong, and turn from those sins, and keep turning until you conquer.