Daniel as a Re-Former

Dennis Tuuri

Outline: Daniel 1-6 Daniel as Re-former Sermon Outline for October 31, 2004 by Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri Intro: Daniel 7:1-10 Spirit-filled “Change Agents” and Reformation - Make me a zephyr! 7:4,5 Recapitulation of first six chapters. Gen. 1:2; Zech. 2:6; 6:1-8; Daniel 8:8; 11:4; 7:17 (land or sea?) 1. Reformers love God’s law, and teach its application! Overview of Daniel, 10 Sections Matching 10 Commandments Hebrews Intro (1) I. Daniel and Three Friends Faithful to THE God (1) No other gods Aramaic Sections (2-7) II. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, Daniel’s interpretation (2) No False Images III. Daniel’s Three Friends saved from Furnace (3) Full Witness of Yahweh IV. Neb ’s Insanity and Salvation (4 ) Enthronement, Rest in Yahweh - 1. I will attend this church's worship services unless providentially hindered. - 8. I will keep the Lord’s Day, the Christian Sabbath, worshipping and resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ, the risen Savior, refraining from unnecessary commerce and labor, enjoying opportunities of Christian fellowship, and benevolent activities, as the Lord provides. - Neh. 10:31 “..if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day;” - Doug Hayes’ Position Paper “The idea here is the prohibition against buying and selling. You are not to keep your store or business open, nor were you to patronize a store or business.” (See Revelation 3:18; Isa. 55:1ff) - Importance of Lord’s Day worship – Temple Items , Altar Stone, Faux Temple , Watcher and Seven Times, Faux Feast, Prayer V. Belshazzar’s Feast (5) Honor Father and Mother as True Son VI. Daniel saved from Lions (6) Don’t Murder VII. Vision of four kingdoms (7) Spiritual Adultery Hebrew Section (8-12) VIII. Vision of two kingdoms (8) Don’t Steal IX. Vision of seventy weeks (9) Faithful, not False, witness X. Vision of two Kingdoms (10-12) Horrors of Coveting 2. Reformers, assured of their relationship with God, attain to excellence in education, vocation and state-craft. 3. Reformers defeat the deceitful and envious. 4. Reformers re-form the world through simple acts of faithfulness! Major Austin Pearson 2:47 ; 3:29 ; 4:34 ,35; 6:26 Conclusion: Ride the wind! 1 15 And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies. D Climax: Success! Healthier (The transformation of Nebuchadnezzar begins) 2 New Wilderness: 2nd Commandment; New Creation: 2nd Day and 2nd Feast (Passover – Lev. 23) D Climax: God Reveals the Dream and Its Interpretation At Night 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 3 D. Climax: Mighty Men Unharmed, Nebuchadnezzar Astonished vv. 24,25 24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”25 “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” 4 Daniel Distressed by Dream 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” 5 The Third and Final Failure of False Wise Men A 13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah , whom the king my father brought from Judah . B 14 I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. C 15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter. B’ 16 But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. A’ Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” 6 18 Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him. Da 7:1-10 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. 9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.