Main Point: God is King over the kings of earth, and is free to be merciful or to render judgment go his enemies.

Outline:

1. The King’s Desecration (5:1-4)

2. The King’s Verdict (5:5-28)

3. The King’s Judgment (5:29-31)

Main Point: Nebuchadnezzar not only learns humility before God but actually comes to confess the sovereign superiority of Daniel’s God who rules over all things.

Outline:

1. The Dangers and Occasions of Pride

2. The Necessity of Humiliation

3. The Goal is Repentance

Main Idea: The news of the incarnation is meant to cause people to glorify God.

Outline:

1. Why do some people scoff at the teaching that Christ will return?

2. In various ways Peter asserts that Jesus will return.

3. What God’s people are to do until he returns.

Main Point: The news of the incarnation is meant to cause people to glorify God.

Outline:

1. God Brings His Good News of Peace

2. God Brings His Highest Glory

Main Idea: Jesus is equal to the Father, receiving the life that he has “in himself” from the Father, but denies that he is a different deity. He is instead “light of light, very God of very God, begotten not made.”

Outline:

1. The Son is God

2. The Son is Begotten

3. The Son is Eternal

Main Point: The Lord delivers his people, even when they suffer under the

pressures of worldliness and idolatry.

Outline:

1. Incredible Pressure

2. Incredible Determination

3. Incredible Faithfulness

Main Point: Idolatry replaces the living God with a dumb, helpless, created thing

that cannot save or satisfy.

Outline:

1. Idols are Man-Made (3:3)

2. Idols are Man-Centered (3:5)

Context: The Apostle Paul, along with Silas and Timothy, writes to the church in Thessalonica, following up on the ministry that began in Acts 17.

Main Point: While worldly wisdom and understanding has some value, it cannot

replace the need for human beings to hear from the Maker, whom they were

created to know.

Outline:

1. The Failure of Worldly Wisdom (2:1-13)

2. The Need for God’s Wisdom (2:14-49)