Episode Transcript
We'll be in Daniel chapter 5 this morning and God willing we'll be expounding verses 14 and 15.
If you're new to our church, we welcome you this morning and we uh start at uh the first verse and chapter of a book in the Bible and we explain every verse one verse at a time until we get to the end of that book.
And then when we get through, then we understand every verse in that book of the Bible, and we start over at another book in the Bible.
So we have worked our way to Daniel 5.
And we'll be in verses 14 and 15 this morning.
And we've been studying the dilemma of King Belshazzar, which we'll get into here in just a moment.
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So we've been studying the dilemma of King Belshazzar.
Now remember King Belshazzar was drinking wine and worshiping his false gods in the banquet house with a thousand of his uh noblemen, his lords.
When suddenly a hand appeared and began writing on the wall.
We hadn't even got to look at the actual words yet.
But we don't want to skip any verses.
They're all important.
And so he becomes so afraid when he sees this hand riding this up on the wall He knows it's not a man, it's just one hand.
He knows it has to be some God out there writing some message out to him, and he's terrified so much that his knees begin knocking together.
We read that a few weeks ago.
And he brings in all the religious leaders, the astrologers.
He brings them in and they look at it and They can't they can't figure it out.
They don't know what to tell them.
We don't know what it is.
We don't know what it says.
We don't know what it means.
Now he's really afraid And finally he hears about this man, Daniel, who had served his grandfather.
Nebuchadnezzar.
He heard that he could interpret the writing, possibly.
And so we left off in verse 13 last week for context.
Let's look in verse 13.
Says, then was Daniel brought in before the king, and the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
And now in verse 14 this morning, the king continues his address to Daniel, seeking his help and deciphering this mysterious message that God wrote to him.
Look with me in verse 14.
I have even heard of thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee.
Let's pray.
Father, thank you for these precious people who've come this morning.
Thank you for our Sunday school time.
And thank you, Father, for each and every person, Lord.
And I pray, dear Lord God, that all eyes will be on you this morning, that your Holy Spirit will teach your holy word to your people.
Open the eyes of our understanding, and I pray you'll receive all honor and glory in Jesus' precious name.
Amen.
I have even heard of thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee.
Now remember, Babylon was a pagan nation.
Though King Nebuchadnezzar, remember, he was converted, he actually ended up embracing the one true God in the in time past. uh through Daniel's ministry, but his grandson Belshazzar here and the nation of Babylon as a whole, uh they're pagans.
And so they worshipped numerous false gods.
So while you and I, being monotheist and believing in the one true God of the Bible, we would say the spirit of the God is in him Or the spirit of God is in you.
Belshazzar, believing in more than one God, said, The Spirit of the Gods is in thee.
Meaning he had heard the gods gave Daniel their divine understanding.
And thus maybe Daniel could reveal the meaning of the message written on Belshazzar's wall.
And this statement that Belshazzar made, it's an admission from Belshazzar that there is some knowledge That is too high for us to understand.
There's just some things that that that men and women, we just can't attain to that knowledge.
It's above our pay grade, as some would say, but we can't attain it on our own.
It's also an acknowledgement that Belshazzar understood there had to be some higher power over this creation.
I mean every time I read the news, anything about science, scientists now say, you know, how many times y'all ever seen that?
Scientists now believe What is that saying?
That's the scientist not realizing it, but admitting that they don't know everything and what they thought they once stood firm on, now they realize they were wrong.
They never word it that way in the headlines.
They always say, science now says, instead of, hey, the scientists were wrong.
Again.
Again.
But trust the science, even though they're always wrong.
But listen, the universe is far too big.
It's far too powerful.
It's far too complex of a system for us to understand and maintain.
I mean, we we can't control the weather.
We can't control life.
We have no power over death.
We can't control anything.
We're just here along for the ride, folks.
And Belshazzar, even though he was the most powerful man on earth at that time, ruling the world empire of Babylon, about five, six hundred years before Christ came.
He still knees knocking together and still knew that, boy, there's some things that just, man, it's over his head.
He needed some help from the gods, from whoever's running this big thing.
Life and death are too hard for us to understand, and surely someone, something, has to be in charge of all of this.
And whoever that person is, surely they have the answers.
I guarantee you every man and woman on this earth think that way.
They acknowledge it, every one Doesn't matter where you go to, doesn't matter what part of earth you go, they think that way.
They understand that to be the truth.
The spirit of the gods is in thee, he says.
Somebody higher than us, mere mortal, fallible men.
You've got that spirit in you, I hear, I hope.
And folks, that's a logical conclusion for any man to come to.
And that's why everybody in this world acknowledges there's something bigger and higher than us that controls this.
Now this was about again 560 years or so before Jesus came So you can't blame Balshazzar's conclusion on Christianity.
I don't know if y'all have noticed this, but they always in any any type of religious deduction, any type of religious conclusion that someone comes to, they want to say, well, that's because they were brought up under that religious influence.
Now had they not been brought up under that religious influence, they wouldn't think that way.
And they're always blaming the influence of Christianity for making everyone dumb and not smart like the atheist.
But the Christianity wasn't even around at the time.
Now the religion of the one true God was. which we now know as Christianity, but Christianity as we know it today, that wasn't around at the time Be influencing him.
The Old Testament wasn't even finished being written yet.
I mean, the book of Daniel wasn't here yet because what the events we're reading about haven't even happened.
And that means there was no Islamic religion at that time either.
No Muslims around at that time.
That religion hasn't even been invented yet.
The belief system Belshazzar embraced was widely practiced at that time.
But you know what?
It's no longer practiced today.
No one practices that.
All there was at that time was the witness of the one true God that he left the world through his prophets, which we still have today, just more more uh uh detailed than what they had back then.
And then there were all the other false religions of that day.
And these people were not a bunch of dummies.
Up to this time, Babylon had been the most sophisticated, powerful nation on earth, far more powerful than our nation is in the world today.
Far more powerful.
I guarantee you, Babylon did not ask permission or help from their uh uh uh their uh what's the word not adversaries but uh huh allies They didn't need them.
They were Babylon.
So just like people today They had deep spiritual needs, troubling thoughts in life, and they needed deep spiritual questions to meet those needs.
They had questions about life that they couldn't answer just like people today.
They had questions that that weren't created by religion. but that they created their religion to try to answer.
Does that make sense?
The religion didn't create the questions, but they created their religions just as they do today. to try to come up with the answers.
Why?
Because they didn't accept God's answer.
So they had to create their own People create religions to answer the questions, to solve their spiritual dilemmas, to answer their big questions in life.
And that's why they had their pagan gods.
That's why they had their pagan priest to try to give them some kind of insight into the spiritual world, into what controlled everything that they couldn't see, but they knew something had to control this physical world.
They knew someone far more powerful than them had to be in control of the universe, someone who knew the answers to the questions that men have longed for their entire lives.
I don't care what stage of life you're in, as far as the chronology of this world, with the exception of Adam and Eve and the time when there was direct communication from God, all men today. eventually wonder these questions.
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Where are we going and what happens after we die?
That's something every person struggles with.
Now the times have changed since then.
But the questions that people have today are still the same.
And so our needs are still the same.
Just like Belshazzar.
People still come up with false gods today to try to provide some kind of explanation to these questions And you know what?
Belshazzar's religious leaders failed to answer his question.
They failed him when it really mattered most.
Now, Babylon's pagan religion, it lasted for almost 2,000 years.
That's a long time to have a religion.
A long time.
It lasted for almost 2,000 years, but now it's gone.
But you know what hasn't gone?
Daniel's religion's still here.
The truth of God's word is still here It was here in the Garden of Eden.
It is here today, and it will be here forever.
Because Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Just like Belshazzar.
People come up with false gods today, though, to try to explain the answers to their questions.
And there has never been a time in the world's history when God's word was not present with man.
Never a time.
God has always left us a witness.
And the Bible answers every question that we need answered.
Those uh uh four questions I gave you just a moment ago.
Where do we come from?
Why are we here?
Where are we going?
What happens after we die?
The Bible has the answer for all of those questions But those who reject God's word today, like the Babylonians back then, they still invent their own gods to find the answers, and still, when it matters most, they fail them.
People don't seek answers today from the Babylonian god Marduk.
We don't hear anyone talking about him.
That was the main God for the Babylonians back then.
Or they don't seek help from the Babylonian astrologers as they did in Belshazzar's time.
Actually, the gods that people seek today, they're far less creative They're far less complex than the gods they had back then.
You would think by now we would come up with a real good system of false False religions, false gods.
You know what?
It's actually less impressive than what they had back then.
Atheist claim. to not believe in a God.
That's not true.
If you listen closely when an atheist speaks, if you listen closely to secular experts, The scientists, the atheistic scientists, and these people today, you know what they are?
They are the astrologers of our day.
They're the worldly experts that have somehow, through the devil's influence, crept into our classrooms.
Crept into our educational systems.
I was talking to an atheist the other day, and I was coming at him with logic reason.
And when Aiveri couldn't come up with a response, you know what he did?
He pulled out his phone, started typing something in the search engine.
And then he would read me the response for his response.
Do you know what's happening right then?
Where you and I would go to a Bible look up the answer and give the response.
Now the search engine and the data that goes, the data that always changes, the science that always changes and has to update itself That now becomes the Bible.
And atheism.
Evolution.
Atheism becomes the religion and evolution becomes the God.
Do you see that?
The search engine becomes the Bible, atheism becomes the religion, and evolution becomes the God.
It's no different.
And that's where they go to for their answers.
But it will fail them in the day of trouble.
It will fail them when the handwriting is seen written on their wall.
But you listen closely to them.
You listen closely to the religious experts of our day.
Because it's a religion.
Did you know that we have atheist chaplains in colleges?
Now you tell me that's not a religion.
We have atheist chaplains, or did have at least in the military Yeah, you listen closely to them and you'll hear them speak reverently about their God.
I'm gonna give you an example.
Dr.
Joe Hansen, PhD.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
Well let me tell you, Dr.
Joe Hansen is a molecular biologist.
Boy, you'd think he would no, I mean, if he's a molecular biologist, he'd at least know what a woman is, you'd think, right?
They always say, well, I don't know what a woman is.
I'm not a biologist.
Well, here's a biologist.
He ought to know what this stuff is.
He ought to understand.
He ought to be the expert By the way, let me tell you, there are good Christian men that are just as educated and far smarter than these folks.
He's a molecular biologist as well.
But he's also a physicist too.
And boy, can he write about the creation of God.
And explain how they only could come by God's design.
Don't let these folks, just because they have a title after their name, don't let them fool you.
Listen to what Dr.
Johansen says He is the host of the Be Smart Broadcast, because they always say they're smarter than the religious people.
They're smart.
The Be Smart Broadcast, which is supposed to give deep answers, they claim, to simple questions. about science and the rest of the universe.
Now here's the here's the answers that y'all been longing for, folks.
Why does Dr.
Hansen have to give these answers?
Because, like Belshazzar, people still need answers to life's puzzling questions.
That's why he has that broadcast Now, Dr.
Hansen thinks he's too smart to be a Christian.
Dr.
Hansen thinks he's too smart to believe in God and to have a God that he worships.
But I want you to listen to how he explains the world.
And you'll quickly recognize that he does indeed worship a God.
He says, quote, evolution is indeed amazing.
It is a fascinating process that has led to the incredible diversity of life we see today.
From the simple origins of life to the complex adaptations of species, evolution showcases the creativity and adaptability of nature.
Additionally, the incredible diversity of life, such as the leaf-tailed gecko and the pistol shrimp. reflects the boundless creativity of evolution.
Overall, evolution is a powerful and awe-inspiring force. that shapes our world in the lives of countless organisms.
End quote.
Can y'all not see that?
You'd have to be blind to not see that that's a religion That atheism is a religion and evolution is his God.
It's a force Where's this force come from?
It has the power to create a boundless creativity.
Wow.
Let's all sing the praises of evolution.
The boundless creativity of evolution.
The awe-inspiring force that shapes our world.
How about that?
The man who thinks he's too smart to believe in God has simply invented his own God and named it evolution.
That's all.
There's got to be some explanation.
When you hear unbelievers, they speak of, well, that's nature's way of doing this, or that's nature's way of doing that.
They're simply placing the true God with the God they made, nature.
Whether someone is a pagan like Belshazzar or an atheist like Dr.
Hansen, everybody concedes to the fact that there is some intelligent, powerful creator that oversees the world and they seek knowledge and understanding from that creator.
Whether they do it in a science lab, whether they do it from the Bible, they're seeking it because they need it, because they gotta have some kind of affirmation, some type of stability that can hold them sane until death.
Death.
If not, it'd drive people crazy.
It would.
Belshazzar told Daniel, I heard that the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
Look back in your text now.
If you have your Bible out, underscore these three things as I hold my finger up.
And that light, underscore the word light.
And understanding, underscore the word understanding, and excellent wisdom, underscore the word wisdom.
Now, notice the three things that Belshazzar was looking for, the three things that every man needs.
To cope through life, they need light, they need understanding, they need wisdom.
What is light?
What does light do?
Light doesn't so much create things.
Light reveals things that are already there Light reveals things that exist, and without light they cannot otherwise be seen or known by man.
Now the Bible says the darkness and the light are the same to God, but for us, we have to have light.
To see and know.
First Corinthians chapter 4.
1 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 5.
The Bible says, Therefore, judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness.
Belshazzar was looking for light, because he didn't know what was written before him.
And then there's understanding.
Now understanding is the intellect to understand what the light reveals Let me give you an example.
When the Israelites were in the wilderness, the manna came down early in the morning with the dew, right?
This daylight.
You know what happened when they first saw that manna?
They're walking outside and they look.
They looked down at it and they said, it's manna.
You know what the word manna means?
It means what is this?
That's literally what the word manna means.
They're saying, man, this is something we've never seen before, and that became the name of it.
They said, well, this is manna.
This is something we man, this is something out of this world.
We never seen anything like this.
So they had light because they could see it.
They didn't have understanding because they didn't know what it was.
You see the difference?
So he needed light.
He needed understanding.
That's to understand what the light reveals.
And then he needed wisdom.
Now, wisdom is the ability to appropriately act on what you understand that the light reveals.
Let me give you an illustration.
I guarantee you, if you're a man, you'll get this just like this.
If you're a woman, you probably will too, but if you've got a husband that puts things together for you, he'll sympathize a whole lot better.
Suppose you want to assemble something at home.
You bought something and you want to put it together.
So you you get the directions out to read them.
Now if you're like me, when I get those directions out to read them, The first thing I come to is not in English.
I mean, it's got Chinese.
Portuguese, Spanish, it's got all French, it's got all kinds of stuff.
And you just gotta look and look and you see the words You don't know you can't read them.
You're still in darkness.
Now, when you turn to the English, now you got light.
Now you can see So when you turn there and you get to the English part, now you have light.
But suppose there's some big technical word in there.
There's some some words that you don't understand.
There's a lot of us, we read English, we speak English, and then sometimes if you're talking to Brother Shepherd.
Brother Shepard can come up with some doozies.
He's a wordsmith.
And sometimes if I hear Brother Shepherd use a word I don't know, I will try to use it in a conversation later and act like I've been using it all my life.
It's great.
It's great having a relationship with him.
But if you come across, you're reading the instructions in English and you come across some words you don't know, you now You see the word, you can repeat the word, you don't understand the word.
So now you go to a dictionary.
You look that word up, you get the definition.
Now you don't only have light, now you have understanding.
But now there's that third thing.
If you don't have that third thing, you won't ever get it assembled in that skill.
You're going to have to have the skill to be able to know how everything fits together and the ability to get that assembled.
That's wisdom.
You see?
The Bible, the word wisdom, sometimes is defined in the Bible as skill.
Light, understanding, and wisdom.
And it appears that the astrologers were completely in the dark.
When it came to the handwriting on the wall, it was like reading a foreign language.
They just looked at it, they saw it, they knew it was words, they knew it meant something.
They had no idea.
They didn't speak the language, so to speak.
But God had given Daniel light.
He had given them understanding.
He had given them wisdom and light to know the language, understanding to comprehend its meaning, and most of all, wisdom to apply practically. the message of that handwriting to the situation at hand.
Because if you can't do that, what's the point in even having the message, right?
That's why Belshazzar needed that no other religion and no other religious leader could give him And that's what all men need today that no other person can give them except God's man speaking God's word, shining that light Giving that understanding and then God's Holy Spirit applying that to wisdom so they can walk in the light that they have.
Do you remember that Ethiopian eunuch?
He was on the chariot, and God said, Philip, you go join yourself to that chariot right there.
There's a man that needs to hear what you have to say Philip goes over there and he's reading in Isaiah 53.
And Philip says, Do you understand what you're reading?
You get that word understand?
Understandeth thou what thou readest?
Now he could read the language.
He had light.
He didn't have understanding.
Philip joins on that chariot with him, and from that point forward he starts preaching to him Jesus.
And when he he got Jesus in with the scripture.
Now he could understand.
Jesus and his cross is the key to understanding all of God's word.
And when he started preaching Jesus to him, now he's got the understanding.
Now he needs wisdom, brother Doug, to be saved, doesn't he?
At some point in time, when you get the light, you gotta have the understanding.
But you know what?
To be saved, you gotta have wisdom You got to be able to practically act on what you now know about Jesus Christ.
And that's faith.
That's where you act on what you know.
And he says, hey, there's water.
What hinders me from being baptized?
He said, if you believe with all your heart, you can.
He said, I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.
Light.
Understanding. and wisdom.
Now let's look here if you would in verse 15 and we'll begin to close.
And now the wise men, the astrologers, Belshazzar goes on to tell Daniel, have been brought in before me that they should read this writing and make known unto me the interpretation thereof, or the understanding.
But they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
They failed me when I needed them most.
Belshazzar lost his hope in the religious institutions of men.
I would to God every person would lose their hope in the institutions of men.
And Daniel and his God was the only last hope he had.
Why does the Bible give us stories like this?
How come God had stories like this in the Bible It's because, like Belshazzar, people are happy in life as long as they're drinking wine in the banquet house As long as her health is good, as long as the money keeps rolling in, as long as there's no family trouble, people are happy.
When they're drinking wine in the banquet house, but when God puts the handwriting on the wall, when their whole life changes, when trouble comes their way, and the answers of this world then will no longer suffice them.
Dr.
Hansen's awe-inspiring force of evolution works fine when you're living in sin in the banquet house.
But when death comes knocking on your door, and it will And the handwriting of God's judgment is written on your wall.
What comfort will evolution be to you then?
to be no help in the time of trouble.
What hope will atheism offer you then?
None.
Now Dr.
Hansen would tell you that when you die, he'd say, hey, now now we do have, my religion does offer you hope.
You see, here's the thing, when you die You'll simply cease to be exist.
Cease to be.
You'll cease to exist.
And you'll be completely unaware of the life you once lived.
You'll just go away.
And so there'll be no pain, there'll be no suffering, there'll be no sorrow, of course there'll be no happiness either.
There won't be anything.
You'll just cease to be.
So that's the comfort That me as a religious leader can offer you and my religion of evolution.
The only problem is Dr.
Hansen cannot speak authoritatively on that subject.
Do you know why?
He's never died before.
He's still a rookie.
He has zero experience.
When you read the Bible, you are reading the word of God who knows all about life, death, and you know what?
When you get to the New Testament, you're reading words from someone who did die. is now raised again and is going to come back.
Folks, we have a book That can speak to us authoritatively about the most important questions we have in life.
God's word and God's Son who died and was raised again from the dead in his coming back.
Like the failed astrologers of Babylon's time, our experts today, they fell as well.
And it's times like that when only the light, understanding, and wisdom of God can give us what we need.
That's when what we need, and that's when we need a man of God to take the word of God and shine that light and give that wisdom and part that understanding to us.
One Sunday morning several years ago, we had a visitor sitting back there in the back uh about where Chris is at right now.
And uh after church I was walking back that direction and I happened to say hi to him and shake his hand.
He was a visitor and And he said, I understand you wrote a book.
Some of your members told me you wrote a book about knowing you're saved.
And I said, I sure did.
He said, well, I'd like to read that book.
He said, I've been to about every kind of church that you can go to.
He said, I've been to the Church of Christ.
I've been to this denomination.
I've been to that denomination.
He says, and I still don't know if I'm saved.
So I went out to my car.
I got him a copy of the book and I brought it back in and I gave it to him.
I said, if you have any questions, let me know.
A couple of weeks later, we were having one of our meals after church in the fellowship hall.
And I heard my name being called across the room.
Brother Richard!
And I looked up, and it was that visitor.
And he came over to me.
And he said, I now know that I'm saved.
He said, because of what Jesus did for me on the cross.
There's the understanding.
That dear man had been to the religious astrologers.
And they could give him no light, but the word of God had the answers for him.
The word of God shin the light.
The cross of Christ gave him the understanding.
And God's Holy Spirit caused him to believe, gave him the wisdom.
That dear man was Brother Neil.
Brother Neil stayed here faithfully in church.
We baptized him.
I got a picture of me and Brother Shepherd baptizing him hanging up in my study right now.
He's here in church for with us for several years after that.
The Word of God had the answers for him.
The Word of God took him to the cross and gave him the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
That dear man, let me tell you something about him.
He's in a nursing home today In the nursing home.
Brother Neil is on his last stop in this life.
Let's just be honest.
His body is breaking down.
His time is running out.
But because of light, understanding, and wisdom found in his God and in God's word, his knees are not knocking together.
Well he gave me a text mail.
I tell you why that man blows my phone up.
He sent me a a text message yesterday.
The way he sees it is this.
You see, now now God worked it out because years ago, few years ago.
God had some ladies and and men, but he had them go out to this nursing home to sing.
First time they've ever been there.
They passed out tracks.
Someone read a track, then called me Said, hey, you think y'all can provide church services for us?
Said, sure can.
The next thing you know, Brother Doug now is a full-time every Sunday, they're pastor at that nursing home.
I don't know any other nursing home like that Brother Neil gets Parkinson's.
He finally has to go to the nursing home.
And we prayed and God got put him right where he prayed, right there in that nursing home.
And he sent me a texture today.
This is the way he sees it The way he sees it, he's Brother Neil's right hand, he's Brother Doug's right-hand man at that nursing home now.
He's the inside man there at that nursing home.
And so now he wants to get up and read the memory verse like Brother Doug does here for me before I get up to preach.
He said, would it be all right?
Since I'm your right-hand man now.
That's the way he sees himself.
That's the way he said.
Would it be alright if I got up and read the memory verse before you preached, Brother Doug?
Talked to Brother Doug about it this morning.
He said, I'd be just fine.
That man so excited.
I'd never seen someone so excited about being sick in the nursing home.
Someone died the other night.
Do you know what he did?
He gets himself over to that room, starts praying with the family.
He's ministering to people.
Ministering to people with that broken down body.
Probably like he's never ministered before.
Inviting people to come to church.
They had to get a bigger room to have services at this nursing home.
God gave Brother Neil the light of Christ.
God gave Brother Neil the ability to understand what Jesus did for him.
And then God gave Brother Neil wisdom to believe on Christ as his Savior.
The world is fine when you're in the banquet hall, but only the word of God can keep your knees from knocking.
When you see the handwriting on the wall.
Father, we thank you so much for your precious word.
We thank you for your precious Son who gives us the answers.
He is the light of the world.
He is the understanding we need.
And the Bible says he is now our wisdom as well Thank you, Father, for your word, giving us true authority to believe in, true comfort that won't let us down when we need it most.
In Jesus' precious name we pray.
Amen.
