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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

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Purpose In Your Heart

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Our God Whom We Serve Is Able to Deliver Us

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Who Do You Bow To?

  • Acts 5:25-29
  • We ought to obey

GOD rather than men

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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!

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R E S O L V E

  • Fill your life with that kind
  • f RESOLVE, and you

can face any trial

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Not ALONE in the Fire

  • God PARTICIPATES in
  • ur Trials
  • God not only carries us

through our Trials, but He is there to ENCOURAGE and COMFORT us as well

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Not ALONE in the Fire

  • 1st Peter 4:12 & 19 NLT
  • Keep on doing right!
  • Trust yourself to God!
  • He will never fail you!
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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

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Why the Chaldeans?

  • 1. They had worked

their way back into positions of importance?

  • 2. Daniel has been

doing more administrative work than interpretation?

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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

  • f the Most High God”
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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.

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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
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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
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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…