<TITLE>05. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 And now, how that in that great time of sliding away and the falling away of the Jews... And God permitted a heathen nation to come over and carry away the chosen down into captivity, because they had not served the Lord with a full heart: Very beautiful picture of the day we're living. Yet we have been a chosen and a selected people, a blessed people above any of the rest of the world, but when we forget God's commandments, and cause a great drinking, and rioting, and divorce, and adultery, and things that we are putting up and making it absolutely legal in this nation, God's got nations that can come and take it any time He wants to.
You heard that commentator the other day that just left Russia, said, "They had--they had at least ten thousand jet bombers that can never even stop to fuel and loaded in the hangers with atomic bombs that could fly over America and return back without even fueling." Think, each--each plane carrying at least eight or ten atomic and hydrogen bombs which could put a hundred and fifty million people to this nation to a total annihilation in one hour's time.
And we wade on in sin, corruption, forsaking the Lord, doing the things that's contrary to His Word, and laughing, and making fun of those who are trying to do right. What else could we expect but a repeat of the carrying away into Babylon? Just right.

L-19 Notice in there, God had a servant down there by the name of Daniel, a young prophet about forty years old, who was serving the Lord with all of his heart. And God had a work for him to do.
And in the carrying away of Babylon, remember, if God has a work for you to do, all the demons out of torment can't take you. They just can't startle you in any way. God's got a purpose for the Holy Ghost Church. And all the devils of hell will never be able to take it away. God's got a purpose for it. And it will never be destroyed until God lets it fulfill the purpose that He has ordained it to do, and it will.
And remember, as Daniel went with the Hebrew children down in there, I want you to notice, many of them already worldly minded, many of them didn't care, while they just go with the tide of least resistance. And isn't that just about the picture of our country today?
And this may be shocking, but it's about the picture of the church today, let alone the nation: just float with the tide of least resistance. Every way the wind blows, just set your sail, go right on.

L-20 Oh, God, give us men like Daniel. Give us Christians like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who are willing to sacrifice or forfeit every right that they have to become a servant of the Lord.
Notice, Daniel, when he went down into Babylon, he knowed he was going among unbelievers, the uncircumcised. And when he went down there, he knowed he'd be entangled with them. Not because that he wanted to be, but because the nation had fell, and he had to go into captivity with them. But God was with him as an alien. I love that. No, though we be an alien, God still will be with you.
The little story, I don't know, I've told it so many times. I might have told it to the tabernacle but it comes right into my heart as this time.
Here some time ago down into the southlands, they used to buy slaves. And they would buy them, and have the brokers to go buy just like they do a used car lot today, selling people, the colored race, for slaves.
And when they did, people would go by the old plantations and they'd see a bunch of slaves, if they look like good workers, he would offer a certain price, buy these slaves, and take them, and sell them for good workers somewhere else and make a profit on the exchange.


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