Clash of Kings: Daniel 10, 11, 12

 

We all have that thing in our lives that makes us feel unclean, dirty. Something we’ve done or something that’s been done to us that we feel like we can’t get rid of. No matter what we do, it just seems like we can’t get clean, we can’t restore ourselves to the way we used to be. And this feeling can be compounded by the church as it makes us more aware of our uncleanness. This leaves us with the question, how can I ever be clean again?

This Week Pastor Mike dives into Daniel 9 and really deconstructs Daniels prayer

Message: ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST

Lamentations 3:17-32, Jeremiah 33:6-9, Jeremiah 33:14-16

Clash of Kings

Daniel 8

God’s plan has always been simple from the beginning: to redeem mankind through His lovingkindness. Since the fall of man, there have been kingdoms in conflict, and now we choose which king and kingdom we will serve. Throughout the book of Daniel, it would seem that God abandoned His people, but He never did. In this chapter, God gives Daniel a vision of the future so they would know that God would never abandon them.

Prophecy and history remind us of four world empires that attempted to take over the world. God gave this dream to Daniel identifying that these empires would rise: Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman, but God is greater than all these.

Acts 2:42-47

God created us for “extraordinary,” but to live life this way, there is a cost. The cost is to give up the “ordinary” and follow the one who created you! The first “Christ-followers” in the Bible, were so devoted to the things of God, that their lives were nothing but extraordinary.

There will always be external pressures that bring chaos in our lives, whether it be pressure to perform a certain way, financial issues or relational problems. But when the pressure comes from others who persecute us because of our faith in Jesus, we must develop a firm commitment to the Word of God to sustain us. Then and only then, will we see order in chaos, use in the useless, and good in the bad. God instilled this strong devotion to the Word in the early believers, because He knew that persecution would be coming. We need to be equally devoted to the Word.