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Purpose In Your Heart Our God Whom We Serve Is Able to Deliver Us Who Do You Bow To? Acts 5:25-29 We ought to obey GOD rather than men Who Do You Bow To? Choose to serve God WHETHER OR NOT He chooses to rescue you Do what is


  1. Purpose In Your Heart

  2. Our God Whom We Serve Is Able to Deliver Us

  3. Who Do You Bow To? • Acts 5:25-29 • We ought to obey GOD rather than men

  4. Who Do You Bow To? • Choose to serve God WHETHER OR NOT He chooses to rescue you • Do what is right, knowing that God is ABLE to rescue you • But, DO IT, even if He doesn ’ t!

  5. R E S O L V E • Fill your life with that kind of RESOLVE, and you can face any trial

  6. Not ALONE in the Fire • God PARTICIPATES in our Trials • God not only carries us through our Trials, but He is there to ENCOURAGE and COMFORT us as well

  7. Not ALONE in the Fire • 1 st Peter 4:12 & 19 NLT • Keep on doing right! • Trust yourself to God! • He will never fail you!

  8. Contented & Prosperous • Are you more or less vulnerable when things are going well? • When things look good we have cause for concern • We are too often lulled into a sense of false security when things go well

  9. Why the Chaldeans? 1. They had worked their way back into positions of importance? 2. Daniel has been doing more administrative work than interpretation?

  10. Belteshazzar 1. Identifies Daniel with a Pagan, Babylonian God 2. Daniel does not have the “ spirit of the holy gods ” in him, but rather the “ spirit of the Most High God ”

  11. Cut Down to Size • Mistake pointed out to you • One of your decision overruled • Taken out of the “ game ” • Do you learn something POSITIVE from the situation? If you don ’ t, then you will never get past the humiliation.

  12. Daniel ’ s Thoughts Troubled Him • Daniel is dismayed that he has to give the bad news to the King • He isn ’ t glad to see the Mighty fallen • He doesn ’ t delight in seeing the Proud abased • He felt COMPASSION for his enemies

  13. Daniel ’ s Advice to US! • God does NOT desire to harm us • He desires our WILLING obedience • He warns us in advance about judgment and gives us opportunity to turn from sin • God feels COMPASSION for us

  14. God Loves US! • God is not against honoring individuals • Nebuchadnezzar is entitled to enjoy the benefits of what he has done • He simply needed to acknowledge God as the source of his success • We do also…

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