America: Weighed in the Balance, Part 2

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America weighed in the balance in Bible days. A corrupt kingdom was placed on the scales of God's righteous standards and was found lacking their failure to heed God's warning brought the hand of judgment to literally right upon the wall of the king's palace. You are weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Today America is being weighed in the balance of God's word. So here's the point that I'm just scale and wait in your house because you might use them.

Amen. God says that these are an abomination to him. So let's move along.

What is the bag. The bag is his and the weights in the bag or here's the what is the back, a biotech gas hold up your Bible.

That's the bag and the commandments in there and the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of the epistles of Paul and the other apostles. They are the weights. Amen.

They are the weights, but today people have one standard in the church and another standard outside of the church and what has that done that has devalued the authenticity of the word of God.

Now let's get this straight doesn't change the word of God.

It doesn't serve the work of time, but in site and in the sight of all those around them.

It devalues it. Amen. And so they begin to alter the word of God to the world standards and God said you are to conform your standard to my sanctuary standard. Amen. And that's exactly what is happening the world.

America has rejected the 10 Commandments is strip them out of the public square. Some of them been there for decades and some even longer. Amen. But they're removing them from society and economy, literally removing the granite that they're etched in. Amen.

The standard of prayer and Bible reading strip from America and now you know is knowing the schools now that you're in the military. How can you be a chaplain in the military and you can read the Bible and pray for people. Amen there are places that if you wear a cross to work to tell you to take it off and let's face it, for some people it's just a piece of jewelry they are no more thinking about Jesus dying on the cross for their sins and the man in the moon.

Amen. But let a true Christian let a real Christian, and wear a cross and all of a sudden HR is calling for them to come down town. You need to take that cross off. Amen. And all the while were importing the gods of all the people coming to America were importing their gods with them.

Amen to bring in their gods with them now. If they bring their gods with them, then what our job is to do is to bring them to Christ to bring them to the Lord and show that like Paul did when he went to Athens you are serving an idle cannot idle talk to you that the stone I made was somebody's hands and you get a call that your body. But instead of us being able to do that because now Christianity is being persecuted, ridiculed and prosecuted were no longer able to share our faith openly and publicly.

So now we got the double way importing I do a marathon and I can now get tired and getting them out so we can share the gospel with them. Amen. You know it's true so we changed our standards. Listen to this. To accommodate our preferences.

The standard of biblical truth is marked because now truth is relative truth is relative to what ever you decide is truth for you is okay and whatever you decipher truth for you is okay and so on and so on. And it's okay for you even if it doesn't fit with societal norm and even if your truth doesn't fit what 98% of the society believes about marriage and other things like that. It's okay. Your truth is your truth even if it doesn't fit with societal norm and much much less if it fits with the biblical standards that God said we each can create our own standard of truth. Everybody gets to create their own standard. Now it just me from this out to you if we all changed how much and how many ounces are in a pound. What would we have in this country we would have chaos, you would know how much to pay for what people would start arguing and fighting and shooting because you overcharge them because Yorktown ways so much in their pound away so much and it's the same way that were talking about. Now, when everybody creates their own standard of truth. You you you are you hypothetically.

And I'm not great at math so don't hold me to this if I mess up this hypothetical okay. I thought this on my own, so it I'm not going to state 100% correct but let's just say, hypothetically, that Baltimore city has made a decision that from now on there only 9 inches in a ruler okay all Baltimore city's going to conform to it were teaching in our schools.

There's only 9 inches to a ruler meets all the stores that Home Depot is the Lowe's etc. hardware stores, 9 inches now is to the ruler.

That's the new standard. Okay, so now you live in Baltimore County and involve a county it still 12 inches to a ruler, but you need to buy some flooring for your house and you decide to go to Baltimore city to buy it because there's a store there that you want to go to to buy your flooring. Now you need if you go in Baltimore County and your good be buying it by the square foot how many square inches is in that square foot in Baltimore County hundred and 44 I said inches and how many know how you get the area. Come on, you know.

Remember how you get area length times with 12×12 is hundred 44 so you going to get 144 in.² in Baltimore County but you gonna Baltimore city and their rulers. 9 in.² inches go to get their square foot 81, but your opinion by the square foot and even if they both charge the same amount two dollars a square foot.

Even if they both change that. Let's make it easy one dollar a square foot. But when you go to Baltimore County.

You're going to get a lot more for your square foot. When you go to Baltimore city. You're going to be cheated right. Your good be cheated. 9 in.² for every square foot. Is that correct my right so far because it's a 3 inch difference so you're going to pay different amounts in Baltimore County are going to pay for 100 square-foot if it's a dollar square foot and you need 100 square-foot, how much you going to pay hundred times one right, it's a dollar square-foot and you need 100 ft.² you're going to pay how much that your W's money looks on your face and my County truth, embedding is that right okay but if you go into Baltimore city and you want to get the same amount, but now you are short right so how much of an opinion Baltimore city to get the same amount by no one's mind as I did on 200 so I'm real quick here on 200 I knew that you were going to get last because it's short you were going to get only 63 square-foot to the same hundred square-foot in Baltimore city. Anyway, you're going to pound was going back to the two dollars a square foot. Let me just get cut to the chase, you pay $200 in in Baltimore County but when you get to Baltimore city.

You're going to pay $326 for the same amount. Amen.

Based on two dollars a square foot, and you need 100 ft.². Now don't get hung up there and the rest of the sermon you got your you're trying to figure out if I'm right or wrong, I didn't. I'm pretty sure I'm right but you know I don't claim to be a mathematician, I want you to see how that you are cheated. Amen. And let's bring it into the spirit where we are if we change the standard of truth and we let it vary from person to person or group to group or even state to state what kind of problem are we going to come up with were going to come up with corruption. Amen. Think about a seamstress who is.she's once to make up address and we know that you buy body are material bodyguard.

So if you live in Baltimore County is going to be 36 inches Juilliard but if you live in Baltimore city. It's only going to be 27 inches to a yard.

How's that going to mess her up and calculating how much she needs to make the dress that she need how many see what I'm saying.

It corrupts everything and I say to you that a society in the nation the changes its values of truth is of no spiritual value because they had become corrupted.

Turn with me to Daniel the fifth chapter and were going to see what God has to say about a kingdom that is become corrupted. Daniel five and looking at verse one Belshazzar the King made a great feast with thousand of his lords and drink wine before the thousand bell shouts are why he tasted the wine commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines might drink there in then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem and the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines drink in then they drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of no how many knows this is not good so Belshazzar technically the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar and you remember we talked about this recently that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem tore down the city walls ruined this city tore down the temple and talk all of the holy instruments and furnishings out of the temple and took them to Babylon, and now here's his grandson, who is King now and he's having a big drunken party and Molly's in the midst of this piece is some no get those golden goblets and silver goblets that my granddad got from the temple in Jerusalem bring them out so we can drink out of and they were not only drinking out of them. They were laughing and mocking and worshiping the gods of silver and gold, and a tell you what God would want to sit upon his throne, and let them get away with it. Look at verse five in the same in our world came four fingers of a man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace and the King Saul, the part of the hand that wrote then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints on his allowing his lines is were loosed and his knee smoked one against another hot that they did the king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers of the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon. Whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with garlic have a chain of gold about his neck and listen to this and shall be the ruler in the kingdom. Then came in all the king's wisemen, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation thereof, then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him and his lords were us tarnished all how quickly their revelry there mocking their laughing their drunkenness. I mean, he got sober and a heart beat. Amen.

He was scared to his hip joints came loose and his knees were knocking against one another and then he brings in all the wisest men in the astrologers and all of those people and said you know if you can tell me what pattern can even read it. It's a language I can even rate. But if you can read and interpreted.

I'm going to give you our closing roads and gold chain and make you the third. Moreover, my kingdom and nobody could do it.

None of them could they could reread it much less interpreted and he was even more troubled now and all his lords and all their wives and princes and princesses, they were astonished and the word means they were alarmed and they were perplexed.

Verse 10 now the Queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house and the queen spoke and said oh king live forever. Let not your thoughts troubled you, nor let thy countenance be changed because there is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy God and in the days of your father like an understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him whom the king Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the king, I say, thy father made master of the magicians and astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers for as much as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding and interpreting dreams and showing of hard sentences or riddles, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel whom the king named Delta Chavez are not to be confused with Belshazzar two different names. It was what Nebuchadnezzar called them now. Let Daniel be called and he will show you in the interpretation so the king said okay. All right. Call for him call them right away.

Bring him in. Amen. So they brought in Daniel and the king repeated about.

I'll give you a gold chain and scarlet robe and and I'll make 1/3 will work if you can come in. Daniel said I don't want your gifts. I don't want your rewards. I don't want nothing to do with them but I will tell you what it says and I will tell you the interpretation of it, and he began. First of all, by reminding Belshazzar about his grandfather and how his grandfather had come under the judgment of God. Amen. And let's pick that up and let's drop down and offer sick at times. Verse 20 but when his heart was lifted up, speaking of Nebuchadnezzar and his mind hardened in pride he was deposed from his kingly throne.

And they took his glory from him and he was driven from the sons of Manning was driven from human beings and his heart was made like the beast and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They said it with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appoints over it, whosoever he will, so Daniel boldly reminded him before I tell you what it says and what it means that mind you about your grandfather.

Amen.

How that he had gotten lifted up and look at verse 22 and now his son. Oh, Belshazzar has not humbled thine heart, although you knew all this pain that his grandfather lost his mind.

He went insane like a beast to the point he was driven out of the palace dripping out of the city driven around from human being 10 went out in the field living with the donkeys and the oxen Gary down on all fours eaten grass like an ox and his body was covered in it says do and I don't know if he got hairy.

I don't know what happened. I'm not going to try to make it like Hollywood special effects and turn them into something the Bible doesn't say, but suffice it to say he was insane and he thought he was an ox and he acted like 188 like one. He went out there with the asses donkeys.

Amen. It was stubborn and he would start God and this is what happened to him and I didn't check this fact out, but I believe he was out there seven years and then after that God delivered him from that he was returned to his his throne employee thing. Another song when he got back a whole another song he was praising the God of heaven, and he exalted Daniel.

Daniel became the Prime Minister of the land and he was in charge of all the wise men all wisemen and was the governor. How could Belshazzar forget that some soon he had some forgotten so much about it. He didn't even remember who Daniel was. It was his wife. That said, don't you remember Daniel, the one that told your grandfather about the image that he saw that image and he told him the dream interpreted so here this man. He is been so corrupted that he forgot what happened was grandfather and about Daniel so now Daniels brought in nicely telling what's going on 23 but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven and you have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords and their wives and their concubines have drunk wine and then and you praise the gods of silver and gold or brass iron and wood and stone, which cannot see nor hear nor know and the God in whose hand your breath is and whose are your ways, you have not glorified then was the part of the hands sent from him and this writing was written and this is the writing that was written. Men amen they tackle you fair sin.

This is the interpretation men a God is numbered. Thy kingdom and finished it tackle you are weighed in the balances are found wanting Perez which is what you fair sin is. Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. Imagine imagine seeing a hand just to hand appear on the wall up there. The white part of the wall and start writing something.

You know what will say Hebrew start writing Hebrew letters up there. The first of all if you if you don't pass out from seeing the disconnected hand, if you managed to survive that or you think you come to and then you see this writing up there and you're thinking, what does that say and what does it mean because obviously it means something very important that I need to find.

Amen.

And so Daniel was able to read it and tell you what they and that word means you are number and finished and when ever you have a doubling of the word like that it's intensifying it intensifying it tackle you are weighed in the balances and found wanting. Now here we get the picture that I've already described God has his scales. God has his weights and he has one scale and one weight for every body doesn't matter if you're a king or whether you're a fool. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what nation you're from. It doesn't matter what background you from God has one scale and one bag of weights and he put Belshazzar on the scale and then he took out his just and righteous and holy weights and put them on the scale and when he did that went way down like this and Belshazzar went way up here. God said you see all that you're wanting your lacking your lacking righteousness your lacking holiness. Your lacking truth. What a scary thing. How scary. That must've been to be there when God placed him at his kingdom on one side of the scale. Amen. And he said in verse 30 and that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans slain that very night that Daniel came and gave him the interpretation he was slain, and Darius, the median took the kingdom and if you know your history. You have to dig this out a history because I talked about Cyrus not too long ago how the member to talk about King Cyrus.

He was king of Persia, and Darius is King of media and guess what they were uncle and nephew so they split up between the two of them and one took one part one took the other part should it came to pass, just like the handwriting on the wall said says you will be divided because the word Perez means to divide something into to split it and it happened in that very very night. Amen. He had made his decision. He did not care about the word of God. He had forgotten completely. Who Daniel was and honestly tell me can you forget about a man who was thrown in the lion's den and wasn't eaten and came out amen talking you forget about this guy, but he was so corrupt and he made his own choices and he was weighed in the balances of God's judgment. Why do I say this to us.

Why do I bring this out because Saints when I look around and see how the standards of America had changed the rapidly they did not. Gradually, I mean the railing we wheel over one thing and something else hits us. Amen. It's been happening rapidly and you know this first but you might want to turn there in Isaiah 520 and you'll see how this is how you change the standards. This is how people change the standards of God's word. Isaiah 520 we weaving quoting this a lot lately. More we focus first. More now than the last year so that I recorded the whole time I was growing up in church, Isaiah 5 2101 and then they call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness, for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Look at verse 23, which justified the wicked for reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from in now.

This is how you change your standard, you take God's standard that says this is good and this is evil and you start: the good, evil, and the evil good when we heard this when I was growing up. Really we thought was far-fetched. We really think anybody would be really be that stupid. Okay so you don't want to serve God so you don't want to go to church okay but you don't go around calling good evil and evil good, you're still you still understood righteousness and unrighteousness. Good and evil you may not have been ready to surrender to God in him. But you still understood what his word required.

Amen.

And you still call good good and evil evil, but this is what is happening now. Listen to what the prophet Micah said he was a contemporary of Isaiah. He said he would take the good and love the evil so now were progressing. It's getting worse in America today. There have always been people who did evil from the time of cane there've always been people who did evil.

But now people love evil. Amen.

There've always been people who do evil.

But now the because they justify the wicked for reward, and they take away the righteousness, the right judgment for the righteous.

Amen. This is been a radical change that is occurring in America, changing the standards the moral values of this nation that were built on biblical concepts, no matter how try to did not get it is what it is you don't have to give very long and very smart that America was founded by godly men, biblical eight eye-opening word of the Lord America weighed in the balance. God said it was an abomination for his people to corrupt the temple standards of measures by having two sets of weights in the bag one honest and the other deceptive so as to cheat people into getting less product for their money every scale and set of weights in Israel was to conform to this set of weights in the house of God, but dishonest sellers had two sets of weights in their bags using the heavier set when they sold their merchandise. This is where the term double standard comes from and when you change the standard weight of something you change its value.

God said in Proverbs 1611 the bag and the weights in the bag are his.

The bag is the Bible and its laws are the weights the standard of right and wrong. And America was founded on these Judeo-Christian standards.

Today there is a double standard in America and in the church people have created their own set of corrupt weights devaluing the truth of God's word. We've come to the place as Isaiah prophesied, when they call evil good and good evil, and when the society changes. It standards it then must change its laws to facilitate the new standards. This necessitates redefining words to conform to the new laws. Sin is not as a weakness, a disease it's an alternate lifestyle.

What was once a personal preference such as homosexuality is now the new standard for which the law was changed to legalize same-sex marriage in America and God's standard for marriage was struck down. It is open the door to prosecute Christian vendors who will not participate in same-sex weddings then can change standards, laws and dictionaries, but it won't change the reality God holds the scales and the weights in his bag. America weighed in the balance is a fresh word in due season and it's available today on CD for your love gift for the ready of ministry of $10 or more request SK 201 mailed to sound of faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 or shop online@soundoffaith.org where you can order on MP3s, but to order by mail send a minimum love gift of $10 request SK 2012, PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 St. I hope you will order the CD and even shop Re: store for other timely messages find myself and my dad brother Hardy, if not, I urge you to send your best donation to help us with the cost of airtime on this station. If you are inspired, informed, blessed and refreshed by our program.

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