Dan chapt 2:1-23 “Two kinds of builders ”

(1) Life apart from Jesus Christ, is an un- interpretable dream. Vs 1 / Gen 40: / Isa 28:8,9,20/ Job 7:14 / Mt 13;11

(2) Deceitful Master builders: Vs 2 / 1cor 3:12 Gen 11:3

“ Let us make brick and build” / “ Kaldu“ It ;literally means to build” - These must come into conflict with the gospel, Eph 6:10-12

(3) The arrogance of human wisdom: Vs 4/ Prov 8:14,16 / Ahithophel: - 2sam 13:31 / Ps 33:10 /

(4) The confidence and humility of divine wisdom: 14-19 / 27,28,30 - Mt 11:25-27 - thankfulness / confession!

(5) What was the dream? The image of the beast. Vs 31

This is the whole story! -

6) Two unasked questions: 1. Who is this stone?

Ps 118 - Luke 20:17/ 2. What must I do to avoid this calamity?

Fall on Him! - Mt 21:44/luke 20:18 / Rev 18

Application:

How have you responded to the vision?

___________________________________ John 5:24,25

Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;

28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.

30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

31 ¶ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

PASTOR’S COMMENTARY AND OUTLINE

“ A little Leaven ”

Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Like the little foxes, that destroy the vine. You wake up one day, and the beautiful garden is ruined. The lesson is that a little does have a great affect; especially when neglect persist.

The Lord Jesus is warning the church about the subtle evils that change the composite of the kingdom over time. Paul warned Corinth about the leaven of immorality in the 5 chapter. and it’s hardening affect upon the professed people of God, when they ignore blatant rebellion against the greatest institution besides the Church.

He warned the Galatians about the leaven of legalism and self-righteousness, and it’s bewitching effects, causing them to despise the message of the gospel, and look away from Christ crucified as their all in all!

These trumpets blown in the new testament have seem to fallen on deaf ears given the state of the union today. The prophets of the 18,19,20^th century warned us, and yet upon us are all the evils they foresaw!

They were called extreme, eccentric, bizarre, wacko, and out of the loop with the larger consensus. They however persisted in the face of overwhelming ridicule and mockery, to warn, with tears.

Do you not see the ruin? Jer 7:1-18

Appeals, Altar Calls, & Spurious Self- Conversions Quoting Martyn Lloyd-Jones . . .

On the particular night to which I am referring I happened to notice while preaching that this man was obviously being affected. I could see that he was weeping copiously, and I was anxious to know what was happening to him. At the end of the service I went and stood at the door. After a while I saw this man coming, and immediately I was in a real mental conflict. Should I, in view of what I had seen, say a word to him and ask him to make his decision that night, or should I not? Would I be interfering with the work of the Spirit if I did so? Hurriedly I decided that I would not ask him to stay behind, so I just greeted him as usual and he went out. His face revealed that he had been crying copiously, and he could scarcely look at me.

The following evening I was walking to the prayer-meeting in the church, and, going over a railway bridge, I saw this same man coming to meet me. He came across the road to me and said, 'You know, doctor, if you had asked me to stay behind last night I would have done so.' 'Well,' I said, 'I am asking you now, come with me now.' 'Oh no,' he replied, 'but if you had asked me last night I would have done so.' 'My dear friend,' I said, 'if what happened to you last night does not last for twenty-four hours I am not interested in it. If you are not as ready to come with me now as you were last night you have not got the right, the true thing. Whatever affected you last night was only temporary and passing, you still do not see your real need of Christ.'

That is the kind of thing that may happen even when an appeal is not made. But when an appeal *is* made it is greatly exaggerated and so you get spurious conversions. Martin Lloyd Jones