{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Church OKC","title":"Stand - Striking A Balance","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2455,"description":"Striking a Balance\n\nDaniel 1:1-6\n\nThe culture of the world we live in has an agenda.\n\nRomans 12:2 Don’t be conformed to the pattern of the world…\n\nDaniel 1:7 \nCulture wants to redefine your identity.\n\nDaniel = “God is my judge”\n\nBelteshazzar =  “Lady, protect the King”\n\nHannaniah = “Yahweh has been gracious”\n\nMishael = “Who is what God is?”\n\nMeshach = “I’m despised, contemptible and humiliated.” \n\nAzariah = “Yahweh has helped”\n\nAbednego = “slave of Nebo”\n\n1 Peter 2:9\n\n2 Corinthians 5:17 \n\nHebrews 2:11\n\n\nDaniel 1:8 \n\nCulture will ask you to compromise biblical standards\n\nDaniel 1:9\n\nDaniel 1:12\n\nDaniel 1:14\n\nDaniel 1:17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds. 18 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service. 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.\n\nCulture will always create a confrontation\n\n1. I’m right you’re wrong\n\nI Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.\n\n\n2. It’s all good\n\nJohn 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. \n\nJohn 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your Word is truth.\n\nEphesians 2:8-9God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.\n\nJohn 8:3 The scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnHuiqv1vzbVKS3-CGSScUOuOFSAm4CGeToUp1bnpos/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTVl/MTRhMTgxNzM4MDZl/YmFlNGVmYzkzMGRm/MjkyZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}