Episode Transcript
Daniel chapter 2 verses 22 and 23.
Now after God showed Daniel the dream that he had given Nebuchadnezzar and the interpretation of it, Daniel began to give praise to God.
And last week we said that the words of Daniel's praise were a prelude to the interpretation of the dream.
And a prelude is an introduction of some greater significance to come.
So as we're studying the prelude this morning, we have to understand that it is an introduction to the full interpretation of this dream and it is giving us sort of like before you shoot your gun, you aim it.
And so it's pointing us in the right direction.
So we'll know how the interpretation is going to go.
In our previous verses last week, we learned a great deal about the dream that God had given King Nebuchadnezzar in the prelude of praise that Daniel gave.
And now this morning we will continue by God's grace to soak in the wonderful truths of God's Word, which are contained in this prelude of praise, as Daniel, speaking of God, says in verse 22, He revealeth the deep and secret things.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your precious word.
I thank you, dear God, for the Bible.
I thank you, dear Lord, for those who come to study it faithfully every Sunday and Wednesday.
I thank you, Lord God, that you give us your truth.
You haven't left us here in this dark, evil world, Father God, that's just surrounded by chaos.
Where the good is called bad and bad is called good, but you have given us your word so we can know how to live in this present world.
And we can know, Father, what to expect in the future.
I pray, Lord, that all eyes will be on you this morning.
You'll bless the teaching of your word and give us the understanding we need.
In Jesus' wonderful name, Amen.
He revealeth the deep and secret things."
Now the two key words here are deep and secret.
And the first thing that we learn from this is that there are things pertaining to God's kingdom and specifically pertaining to God's kingdom plan for mankind that are deep and secret.
You ever read the scriptures and think man, what in the world does that mean?
Well, some things are deep and they are secret and God puts them that way on purpose and then when God reveals them we know it didn't come from our flesh, we know it didn't come from the influence of the world or some great education we got in school, we know it came from God's spirit.
And so God's kingdom plan for mankind has some deep and secret things.
Now recently at a White House press briefing the media asked Caroline Levitt about specific details concerning a major announcement that the White House was going to make.
And Miss Levitt only gave the media basic information.
And she said that the administration would give more details when the information was ready for what she called public consumption.
Not ready for the public yet.
So I'll give you the basics.
There's a major announcement.
It's concerning this topic, but that's all we're going to give.
I'm not going to get ahead of the president.
I'll wait until the information is ready for public consumption.
Some things are not meant to be known by all people.
Some things are not meant to be known by all people.
There's some things about our government I don't want to know.
If they got military secrets, I don't need to tell them to me.
That some things just need to be kept secret.
So some things are not meant to be known by all people.
But those things that are meant to be known only by some Some people will not be revealed until they're ready to be known by God.
Until God's ready for us to know them, He won't reveal them.
They'll remain deep and secret things.
Now they're called deep things.
If you look in the Scripture, they're called deep things because they lie beneath the surface of our shallow awareness of life.
And that's really the way things are.
They're deep because they lie beneath the surface of our shallow awareness of life.
They're called secret things because they are hidden from us by God's divine plan.
Some things aren't meant for us to be known.
And it's better that they're not known.
All divine knowledge is good, but not all knowledge is good for us, right?
All divine knowledge is good, but not all knowledge is good for us.
How do we get in the mess to begin with?
The tree of what?
The knowledge of good and evil.
We were never meant to know evil.
We were only meant to know good.
And so, all divine knowledge is good, but not all knowledge is good for us.
Now, last Wednesday night after church, I love getting my hugs from Hannah.
Boy, she gives the best hugs.
And last Wednesday night after church, my sweet friend, Hannah Geremini, was standing outside here, as she often does after church, and she'll be looking out over the parking lot and kind of watching people do their thing.
And the wind was blowing, and it felt so good outside, and that wind was blowing in her hair, and she's just kind of looking around and doing what she does.
And so I said, "Hannah, did you know that you're beautiful?"
And she said, "No."
And I said, "You are.
You're beautiful."
And Miss Sherry Colvin quickly agreed and told her the same.
How many of y'all believe Hannah's beautiful?
Raise your hand.
Look at that, Hannah.
Boy, look at that.
But now, suppose Hannah was standing outside in the same spot, and there was no skin on her face.
And her brain was exposed.
How many of you want to see Hannah walking around like that?
Little brothers don't count.
I would have said the same thing about my sister when I was little.
Nobody wants to see Hannah walking around like that.
You see, by God's design, that knowledge of Hannah is deep and secret.
You see?
It's deep and secret.
It's divinely covered and concealed from us by skin and muscle and bone.
Our inner workings are a fascinating part of us, but they're not designed for public knowledge.
You see how that works?
In the inner workings of God, the inner workings of God's kingdom, they're fascinating.
But God has to control that knowledge.
It has... some things are meant to be deep.
They're meant to be not seen on the surface.
Here's the kingdom truth for you this morning.
God designed us to see on the surface and know in the deep.
God designed for us to see on the surface and to know in the deep.
And that design works best for us both physically and spiritually.
I know she has a brain.
I know she has muscles and sinews beneath the skin.
I know that and I want to know that.
I want to know how the body works, but I don't want to see deeply.
I want to know deeply and I want to see on the surface.
That's how God designed things.
It's the same way for some things, for some things spiritually, until they're ready to be revealed.
For example, in Ephesians chapter 6, Verse 12, "God revealed to us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
But aren't you glad that we know the dark spiritual powers of this world are all around us, but we We don't have to see them.
I wouldn't want to get up each day and look at devils and demons or angels even for that matter.
I don't need to see those things.
I need to know about them in the deep, but I don't need to see them on the surface.
That's the way God designed us to operate.
In the Old Testament, the king of Syria who was warring against Israel at the time, he one to capture the prophet Elijah and this greatly troubled Elijah's servant.
In 2 Kings chapter 6 verses 15 through 17 says, "And when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth, behold, and host compassed the city both with horses and chariots.
And his servant said unto him, 'Alas, my master, how shall we do?'
"Oh no, Master, what are we going to do?"
And he answered, "Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them."
And Elijah prayed.
I said Elijah meant Elisha.
Elisha prayed and said, "Lord, I pray Thee, open his eyes that he may see."
Now he could see, because he could see the chariots, but he was seeing on the surface. see.
Elisha by God's Spirit was allowed to see in the deep.
God made us to know in the deep and see on the surface.
But God allowed Elisha at this time and now his servant to see on the surface and also to see in the deep.
And Elisha prayed and said, "Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see."
And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire, round about Elisha.
These horses and chariots of fire were physical representations of the spiritual reality of God's presence.
His angelic forces that were among them.
And God, for that moment, opened the eyes of Elisha's servant that he could see them.
Angels and demons frequent this earth.
They war among us.
They are the behind the scenes forces involved in our spiritual warfare and generally speaking, they are meant to be known in the deep but not seen on the surface.
Why?
Because they are deep and secret things.
Since the unbelieving world rejects the gospel, they can only see the surface of this life and they can only know what's on the surface of this life.
They can't understand what's the deep and secret things like the children of God can.
They're not privy to what's going on behind the scenes in God's kingdom.
They don't understand the inner workings of God and His kingdom agenda.
They are deep and secret.
But since we are part of God's kingdom, God has revealed some of these deep and secret things to us because we, the church are the right people at the right time to know them.
Listen to what the apostle Paul said in Ephesians chapter 1, I'm sorry Ephesians chapter 3 verses 1 through 6, Ephesians chapter 3 verses 1 through 6, he said, "For this calls I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if ye have heard the dispensation grace of God which is given me to you."
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery.
Watch now, you see the revelation, that means something that was deep and secret has been revealed.
It was a mystery, why?
Because it was previously not disclosed.
So God revealed something deep and secret to Paul that before time was a mystery.
He says, "As I wrote afore in few words, whereby when you read, ye may understand my knowledge, or my understanding, in the mystery of Christ."
My knowledge, my understanding, in something that was previously unknown about Christ.
Which in other ages, he says, was not made known unto the sons of men.
It was deep, and it was secret.
It was deep, and it was secret.
In the ages before the church, men did not know this, as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit."
Why?
So they could then reveal them to us, the church.
We are the right people, at the right time, for this deep and secret information to now become known to us.
We don't see it in the deep, but now we can know it in the deep.
And he says, "What is that deep and secret truth?"
Verse 6, "That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel."
In other words, beforehand we didn't realize that the Jews and the Gentiles were going to become one body.
What does the Bible say about the man and the woman?
The two shall become one flesh.
In the same way, in the person of Jesus Christ and His gospel, here was the deep and secret thing through Jesus and His gospel through the cross, the Bible says the two, Jew and Gentile have been reconciled into one body by the cross.
Isn't that amazing?
Now listen again to what Paul said to us Gentiles in 1 Corinthians 2, 7-10.
Paul said, "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom."
The hidden wisdom.
That would be secret, right?
Mystery, deep, it's not on the surface.
Hidden, it's secret.
"Which God ordained before the world and to our glory, which none of the princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
They didn't understand what was going on.
Had they understood it, they wouldn't have crucified Him.
But as it is written, "I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him, but God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit."
Now, this scripture right here, most people say, "All the things that are waiting for us in heaven, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for us."
We just have no concept of what God has prepared for us.
That's not what the Bible is saying, but that's how people quote it all the time.
He says, "No, this is what He's saying.
The truths that you're learning, which are deep and secret, they weren't seen with the eye."
The eyes didn't see them.
The eyes didn't see them, you see?
And the ear didn't hear about it with the physical ear.
Neither has it in the heart of man.
In other words, man just didn't somehow or another figure it out and go, "Ah, that's what God's prepared for us."
But here's how we know.
We know it in verse 10, "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.
For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the" what?
"deep things of God."
Now you see how the Old Testament and the New Testament just come together like this.
So in the book of Daniel, Daniel says God reveals the deep and secret things.
And God had revealed something deep and secret to Daniel in his day for his people.
And now here we are in the New Testament era and God has revealed some deep and secret things to us.
He revealed them to God's people through the prophet.
In Daniel, He reveals them to us through the Apostles and Prophets.
In the New Testament, they are hidden, which means they're secret.
They are deep.
So these are the deep and secret things of God.
Now, this dream that God had given Nebuchadnezzar concerned the deep and secret things of God's Kingdom.
It pulls the cover back.
And as Elisha prayed, "Lord, open his eyes that he may see."
And suddenly Elisha could see the chariots of fire and all the army of God that was there that day.
In the same way, when we study the prophecies in the Old Testament, God through His Scriptures, when we believe them, and we are given understanding of those Scriptures, God is opening our eyes that we can peer in deeply to the inner workings of God's kingdom and We can see the deep things beneath the surface the world can't see in the secret things that previously were even hidden from us and This is what we have here in Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
It's going to be something beneath the surface.
It's going to be deep It's going to be a secret because previously it was a mystery.
It was unknown.
It was hidden And so we're going to learn a lot in this dream.
In this dream, God is revealing His future kingdom plans for this world and for His people, me and you.
He is revealing the deep and secret things that were previously not disclosed, that are still not understood by unbelievers, who live on the shallow surface of this unregenerate life.
And the dream not only reveals the deeper and secret things concerning God's kingdom plans for this world, but it reveals to us, look back in your text now in Daniel, it reveals to us that He knoweth what is in the darkness.
He knoweth what is in the darkness.
God not only reveals what is deep and hidden, But God knows what is in the darkness.
Now notice the difference in the verbiage here.
Concerning what is deep and secret, God reveals.
Concerning what is in the darkness, God what?
He knows.
That's two different actions, two different verbs.
Daniel's dream reveals that unbelievers walk in darkness.
And God knows what they do in the dark and will fully discover it one day by His light that He may render a proper judgment against them.
You see this?
You see God not only knows what is in the darkness but He's going to judge it too.
And God is the only one who can do that.
But God is not the only one who has deep and secret things.
God is the only one that can judge what's in the darkness.
But God is not the only one who has deep and secret things.
You see, the devil and his followers, they also have deep and secret things.
God conceals His righteous works from us for our good and for His glory, but the world conceals their unrighteous works to hide their wicked agenda and avoid God's judgment."
But you can't hide anything from God.
Why?
He knows what is in the darkness.
And that's what Daniel is praising God for.
Daniel is praising God for two things in these verses.
Number one, he reveals the deep and secret things to his people.
Praise God we're not left to wonder what's going to happen to us in the future.
The church isn't left to wonder, "Are we going to one day be overcome by this world?
What's going to happen to us?"
We know our future because God has revealed those deep and secret things to us.
You can't hide anything from God.
He knows what's in the darkness.
So by Daniel's dream, we will learn that God reveals the deep and secret things, and God knows the dark and dirty things.
You see how that works?
God reveals the deep and secret things.
God knows the dark and dirty things.
God reveals what's in the light to edify His saints.
God discovers what's in the darkness to judge His adversaries.
In the Gospel of Luke chapter 12 verses 2 and 3, Jesus said, "For there is nothing covered, that is covered by the wicked, that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known."
Therefore, Jesus said, "Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness, you see that?
shall be heard in the light.
And that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops."
You see what Jesus is saying?
He's saying, look, you've got these people, they get together, they get in their closed rooms, They do a sweep, there's no electronic devices, there's nothing that can surveil them in there.
They say, "Now look, here's what we're going to do."
And they start discussing their wicked plot, their wicked plan.
Now when they come out and they talk to the public, they have a whole different story.
But back in the back, their inner workings, and their darkness, they discuss their dark plot.
There's been a lot of world leaders do that, haven't they?
They put out here something positive in the front, and man, it's dirty and dark back here.
And they've got a deep, hidden, wicked agenda.
Happens all the time.
Not just world leaders, but people.
People who smile at you to your face, and they'll stab you in the back if they get a chance.
And Jesus said those things that were discussed in those secret rooms and you came over and you whispered in somebody's ear I better do this, the microphone, you whispered in somebody's ears and nobody else can hear you God knows what's in the darkness and there's nothing that was whispered like that in the dark that shall not be later known the light it'll be announced from the rooftops everybody's gonna know about it well one of these days, listen listen, listen, listen If you're like me, you look at what's going on in our government, and sometimes I just think, "Wake me up and let me know when I can get my pound of flesh."
How many of y'all want to see some people go to prison?
Woo, me too.
How many of y'all would just love to know the truth?
I don't care what side of Paul, I don't care if he's a Republican or Democrat.
How many of y'all would just love to know the truth of what really goes on, what people have really done, and what they're really trying to do, and any kind of being bought out by someone, and a spy for somebody.
How would y'all just love to know the truth, and watch it all be judged?
Everybody.
That's what Daniel's dream reveals.
Daniel's dream reveals that number one, God is gracious to us to make sure that we don't walk in darkness.
We know what to expect as Christians.
We know what our future holds.
Daniel's dream also reveals that God knows what's in the darkness too.
Not only does He reveal to us what's in the light, but He knows and will judge and will show everybody one day what's in the darkness.
And there's going to be a great day of reckoning when that time takes place.
You know what the beautiful thing is?
Daniel's praising God for all this and we can too.
Do you know why?
Because we've already had our great day of reckoning.
On the cross where Jesus died, there was a great day of reckoning and our sin was placed on Him.
The dark and dirty things that you don't want anyone to know about.
God knew about them.
Jesus knew about them.
And everything that you don't want anyone to know about, that you wouldn't be embarrassed for someone to know that you did.
God put those things on Jesus.
And there was a day of reckoning for those things.
And God held court.
And God condemned you in the person of Jesus Christ.
And Jesus died in your place.
Praise God, we're now walking in the light of God's Son.
We're now redeemed and forgiven and washed clean from our sins and we're waiting on our Savior to come.
But those who have rejected the light of God's life and gospel are still in darkness.
And their day of reckoning has yet to come.
And there won't be a substitute to take their place, because they've rejected the one who took their place already.
Notice that Jesus said that what the wicked spoke in darkness shall be heard... where?
In the light.
In the light.
Light reveals what's in the darkness.
So Daniel went on to say, if you'll look back in your text, "And the light dwelleth with him."
The light dwelleth with him.
The light dwells with God.
God knows what's in the darkness and the light, that is the light that exposes what's in the darkness, it dwells with God.
You making the connection here?
God knows what's in the darkness.
Now how do you expose darkness?
You shine light on it.
Where is that light?
The light dwells with God.
It dwells with God.
Now that light is God.
The Bible says God is light.
And in Him is no darkness at all.
So the light is God, yet the light with God.
How is that?
It's because Jesus is the light, Jesus is God, but he's God the Son, so he dwells with God.
John chapter 1, the Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, that's Jesus, and the Word was with God and the Word was God and then it goes on down in the Gospel of John chapter 1 verse 9 it says Jesus was what the true light which lighted every man that cometh into the world so Jesus is the Word of God Jesus is the light of God well how is Jesus the Word of God he is how God is made known I know God through His Son.
How is Jesus the light of God?
He is the one that reveals what's in the darkness and then judges that sin.
He is also the light of God because He lightens our way so we can know the truth.
Light does it all.
Light can expose you or light can direct you, right?
All depends on what you do with it.
And so the light dwells with God, just as the Word dwells with God, because that light is Jesus.
Jesus is the light of God.
Jesus dwells with God and God will one day expose and judge the hidden things of darkness by Jesus Christ.
Romans chapter 2 verse 16.
Romans chapter 2 verse 16.
The Apostle Paul says, "There is coming a day when God "God shall judge the secrets of men by whom?
Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
You see how that works?
What are we learning from this, folks?
When Daniel says the light dwells with him, and then the Apostle Paul says he'll judge the hidden things of darkness by Jesus Christ, And in the Apostle John says, "He's the light and he was with God."
It's showing us Daniel, when he says, "The light dwells with him."
Daniel's talking to us about Jesus.
He's talking to us about God the Son.
This whole dream that Nebuchadnezzar had is about Jesus Christ.
And it is an amazing dream that we're going to learn the inner workings of God's kingdom.
And as we study this dream in the future verses, through the prophet, God's going to pull back the skin and expose the inside of how things work.
"Man, I don't know about you, but that gets me excited."
He says, "God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
Daniel's dream assures Christians of two things.
First, God explains the deep things.
Second, God exposes the dirty things.
God explains the deep things and God exposes the dirty things.
And because of this, we have the confidence of knowing what will happen to us those of us who belong to Jesus' kingdom and what will happen to those who fight against it.
No matter what this world tries to pull on us, we know that we are waiting on our glorious victory in Jesus Christ and they are waiting on their terrible defeat and sin.
And for these truths Daniel says in verse 23, "I thank thee and praise thee, O God of my fathers."
God, thank you!
I can praise you, O God of my fathers!
I was watching a terrible video the other day about... it was some Christians in Syria and the Muslims persecuting them.
They had a pickup bed full of bodies, absolutely full, stacked in there like wood, full of bodies and on top there was a man that was just barely still alive and they were beating on him and hitting on him.
They pulled him up and he just barely there and they hit on him again and they just having the best time hitting on that man, hitting on him with the same hatred they had for Jesus.
It was so sad.
But you know, those people, those believers, the bed of that pick up is not the end of the road for them.
And those people persecuting them, that's not the end of the road for them.
One day the Bible says in the book of Thessalonians that God's going to give trouble to those who troubled us and to those of us who've been troubled, He'll give rest.
That's the deep and secret things that God has revealed to us.
And so Daniel said, "I thank thee and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers."
Remember Daniel was a captive right now.
He had been taken captive in Babylon.
These pagan people were holding the Jewish people captive.
In the middle of that captivity, Daniel says, "I thank you God."
Because the dream lets Daniel know, "This isn't my end.
This isn't how it ends for me.
And this isn't how it stays for them."
He goes on to say, "I thank the old God of my fathers who has given me wisdom and might."
You see that?
If you have your Bible out, underscore "me," "wisdom and might."
And then outside in your margin, write down verse 20.
Just put "V." and then "20."
Verse 20.
You see, in Daniel 2.20, if you've got your Bible open, look back in Daniel 2.20, You can look up here on the screen, either one.
In Daniel 2.20, Daniel said, "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His."
Wisdom and might are God's.
So in verse 20, Daniel said, "Wisdom and might belong to God."
But now in verse 23, after having been revealed the dream, Daniel says God has given wisdom and might to him.
You see, Daniel is teaching us the principle of shared assets.
Shared assets.
Man, when I was growing up, I could drink milk back then.
I can't drink it anymore.
But when I was growing up, I could drink milk.
And I'll tell you what, Shared assets is a beautiful thing, Brother Doug.
Beautiful thing.
I grew up in my parents' house.
Brother Shepard, I never had to go to the grocery store to get anything.
I just go and open up the door and there's just milk.
There's just unending supply of milk.
I could drink it.
I could eat anything I wanted.
Even when I was a teenager, I was driving an automobile.
I'd go right in there, open up.
I was still living at home.
I'd go in there and just get whatever I wanted.
Three square meals a day.
My mom was a good cook.
And it was great.
Go to the doctor.
My medical bills were paid for.
Never once did I ever think about pulling my wallet out.
It was wonderful.
Do you know why that was?
Shared assets.
I belonged to my parents.
Therefore, what were my parents belong to me?
Shared assets.
And now here's Daniel.
In verse 20 he says, "Wisdom and might are his."
But now in verse 23, the cause of the mess is this dream.
He said, "Thank you God, you've given me wisdom and might.
Wisdom and might are mine."
Shared assets.
They don't belong to Daniel by nature.
They belong to Daniel by grace.
That wasn't my milk and my bread and my food in my parents house that I went out and worked and paid for.
They weren't mine by my merit, but my position in the house and in the family that I belong to.
And so Daniel says, "Thank you God, you've given me wisdom and might.
Because I belong to God, what belongs to God belongs to me.
Because you belong to God, what belongs to God belongs to you.
Wisdom and might are God's, therefore that wisdom and might is ours, not by nature, but by grace.
God has wisdom and might, And by revealing the truth of this dream to Daniel, Daniel now has wisdom and might.
In the truth that God revealed to Daniel in this dream about Jesus, Daniel can now stand in the wisdom and power or might of God.
Let me repeat that again.
Because of the truth that God has revealed to Daniel in this dream about Jesus, dreams about Jesus.
Daniel can now stand in the wisdom of God and in the power of God. 1st Corinthians chapter 1, if you're taking notes, 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verses 23 through 24, Paul said, "But we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Or we could say Christ the power, the wisdom of God and the might of God.
Christ dwells with God.
Christ is the wisdom of God.
He is the might of God.
And because I belong to Jesus, Jesus belongs to me, therefore his power and his might are mine.
Christ crucified is the wisdom of God and the power of God for believers and that is the power and wisdom that Daniel was thanking God for.
Because of Jesus Christ, Daniel could face uncertain times because he had a certain future.
And can face uncertain times because we have a certain future and knowing that truth lets us stand in the power and wisdom of God.
By knowing our certain future in Jesus we can stand strong in the uncertain times of this world and that's what Paul meant in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10 when he said finally my brethren be He's strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
Why?
Because wisdom and power are His.
Therefore wisdom and power are ours.
Daniel said, "I thank you God for you giving me wisdom and might."
Look back in your text as we close now.
"And has made known unto me now what we desired of thee.
For thou hast now made known unto us the King's matter." underscore the King's matter this dream was referred to as the King's matter the King's matter why because it's a matter that concerns every past present and future world leader this dream that we're going to be studying concerns every past, present, and future world leader.
It's the King's matter.
The dream is a message to every world leader, teaching them that they are merely temporary fill-ins waiting on a permanent King to come and His name is Jesus.
For which cause Daniel gave thanks and so do we.
Father we thank you so much for your precious word.
Oh Lord, your word is so rich, it's so powerful.
Your word reveals to us the deep and secret things that are hidden to the people of this world.
The cross of Jesus Christ is the key that unlocks the door that exposes the deep and secret inner workings of your kingdom.
And I thank you that through His cross and through Your Son, in Your Word, You've shared those things to us.
Oh Father, I pray You'll seal these truths to our hearts.
And I pray, dear Lord God, You'll bring people back next week to continue to study and to learn the deep and secret things of God.
In Your Son's precious name we pray.
Thank You for sending Your Son to die for us.
Thank you for him overcoming the grave to overcome death force and give us an everlasting hope.
In his name we pray, amen.
