A Faithful Hebrew or a Faithful Christian is so close to God that God is with them.
God touches people working with his Saints. People are touched by God himself,
like Nebuchadnezzar, never to be the same afterwards!
Isaiah 58 Ministries August 14, 2016
Pastor Faith
Scripture: Daniel Chapter 4
So That All Men See God!
George Washington stated that it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God!
President Washington was a military leader first! He didn't have to suffer like Nebuchadnezzar to know this. In his childhood journals he wrote volumes about his redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ. He was called from childhood to fight the American Revolution and Exalt God as his commander and Chief to Glorify God to all nations!
Nebuchadnezzar, one of the Greatest Military leaders of History, was brought to his knees and made deranged by 4 Hebrew slaves It took several miraculous signs and wonders for him to finally acknowledge God as the one true living God.
God speaks to everyone.
Hebrews 12
25 So see to it that you do not reject Him or refuse to listen to and heed Him Who is speaking [to you now]. For if they [the Israelites] did not escape when they refused to listen and heed Him Who warned and divinely instructed them [here] on earth [revealing with heavenly warnings His will], how much less shall we escape if we reject and turn our backs on Him Who cautions and admonishes [us] from heaven?
God uses his people, his children to show himself "for them", helping them so everyone can see God miraculously at work. God created everyone on earth but only some people listen. Others refuse to listen to God and turn and make up their own gods. God shows his power against those who refuse to listen to him that they might repent and turn back to him.
God wiped out entire cities. As punishment for a crime they committed/sin. Noah's flood and Sodom and Gomorrah are the best examples. Did God hate these people? NO! God is teaching that he is Just! You sin, you die! People have the right to be protected from others! This is why God forms governments to protect people, not provide for them.
I used to say "repent or die." Why? When you sin you have hurt yourself
someone else you cause suffering. John Locke states: "No one has the right to
hurt themselves or someone else."
It seems pretty obvious. When you look at the court records, criminals are not punished and innocent people are punished. So someone like John Locke has to state the obvious. No one has the right to hurt someone else.
So we the people have to decide whether someone has been hurt or whether they making something up. Intelligent honest people have to decide what is right and what is wrong. The Bible helps us know this.
Why? Why is so important. We cannot go to heaven if we are not just, fair, and uncorrupted by the world.
Abortion: Is it a crime of murder of a baby or is having the baby a crime against a woman? You better know the answer, your life depends on it.
If you side with the woman you are equally guilty of murder which is punishable by death.
If someone breaks in you home, falls and breaks their leg are you guilty of negligence for not making easy for them to rob you? According to the courts and insurance companies you are and the thief can take your house, your land, everything from you! This is life and death.
Stand up for what is right Standing up for Justice is life and death.
The above statements of injustice show men cannot do the "right" thing without God's help.
We have to ask God for help all day long. We have to pray for justice all day long.
President George Washington, The father of our Country, started the phrase: So, God Help Me!
When being sworn into office as President.
The American theme, the meditation of every America, for every second, must be:
So, God Help Me! Not God bless America.
There is an election coming up soon and I've heard some pretty far out there sermons saying God has blessed a certain candidate even though this man is corrupt and foul. Billy Grahman's daughter, Anne, who I highly respect, even called Donald Trump a possible Nebuchadnezzar, but she misses some key points there. http://www.charismanews.com/politics/elections/57077-will-anne-graham-lotz-vote-for-donald-trump
#1 The Hebrews were brought to Babylon in slavery because they refused to honor and follow God. America, while at fault, is not Israel. We are a Christian nation under God. While God may judge us for our sins, We are not in Babylon.
#2 Nebuchadnezzar was a king. A king with absolute power over the entire known world...
#3 And this is the MOST important. God was glorified and lifted up because God is ultimately in control. The 4 Hebrews who WOULD NOT BOW to the altar made in his image, the 4 who stood AGAINST bowing down (the firey furnance and Daniel), were the ones whose righteous stance made Nebuchadnezzar turn.
I want to point something else out. God demands complete loyalty, not just lip service. Nebuchadnezzar went to Daniel to ask him to interpret his dream, praising the God of Heaven. And yet, God knew his heart was still full of pride and arrogance and so God humbled him. 7 years he wandered around like an animal, deranged. When the 7 years were up, he came back to his senses and saw God as all powerful.
Daniel 4Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
4 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages that dwell on all the earth: May peace be multiplied to you!
2 It seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed toward me.
3 How great are His signs! And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.
4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house and prospering in my palace.
5 I had a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts and imaginations and the visions of my head as I was lying upon my bed troubled and agitated me.
6 Therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
7 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me the interpretation of it.
8 But at last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God—and I told the dream before him, saying,
9 O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you and no secret mystery is a burden or troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation of it.
10 The visions of my head [as I lay] on my bed were these: I saw, and behold, [there was] a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.
11 The tree grew and was strong and its height reached to the heavens, and the sight of it reached to the end of the whole earth.
12 Its leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The living creatures of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches; and all flesh was fed from it.
13 I saw in the visions of my head [as I lay] on my bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.
14 He cried aloud [with might] and said, Cut down the tree and cut off its branches; shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the living creatures flee from under it and the fowls from its branches.
15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the midst of the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let him share the lot of the living creatures in the grass of the earth.
16 Let his nature and understanding be changed from a man’s and let a beast’s nature and understanding be given him, and let seven times [or years] pass over him.
17 This sentence is by the decree of the [heavenly] watchers and the decision is by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High [God] rules the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He will and sets over it the humblest and lowliest of men.
18 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. And you, O Belteshazzar [Daniel], declare now its interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you.
19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished and dismayed and stricken dumb for a while [concerned about the king’s destiny], and his thoughts troubled, agitated, and alarmed him. The king said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream or its interpretation trouble or alarm you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its message for your enemies.
20 The tree that you saw, which grew [great] and was strong, whose height reached to the heavens and which was visible to all the earth,
21 Whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, on which was food for all, under which the living creatures of the field dwelt, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their nests—
22 It is you, O king, who have grown and become strong; your greatness has increased and it reaches to the heavens, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.
23 And whereas the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, Cut the tree down and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field; and let him be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let his portion be with the living creatures of the field until seven times [or years] pass over him—
24 This is the interpretation, O king: It is the decree of the Most High [God] which has come upon my lord the king:
25 You shall be driven from among men and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as do the oxen and you shall be wet with the dew of the heavens; and seven times [or years] shall pass over you until you learn and know and recognize that the Most High [God] rules the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He will.
26 And in that it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be sure to you after you have learned and know that [the God of] heaven rules.
27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you; break off your sins and show the reality of your repentance by righteousness (right standing with God and moral and spiritual rectitude and rightness in every area and relation) and liberate yourself from your iniquities by showing mercy and loving-kindness to the poor and oppressed, that [if the king will repent] there may possibly be a continuance andlengthening of your peace and tranquility and a healing of your error.
28 All this was fulfilled and came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
30 The king said, Is not this the great Babylon that I have built as the royal residence and seat of government by the might of my power and for the honor and glory of my majesty?
31 While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,
32 And you shall be driven from among men and your dwelling will be with the living creatures of the field. You will be made to eat grass like the oxen, and seven times [or years] shall pass over you until you have learned and know that the Most High [God] rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will.
33 That very hour the thing was [in process of] being fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and did eat grass like oxen [as Daniel had said he would], and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens until his hair grew like eagles’ [feathers] and his nails [were] like birds’ [claws].
34 And at the end of the days [seven years], I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding and the right use of my mind returned to me; and I blessed the Most High [God] and I praised and honored and glorified Him Who lives forever, Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion; and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing. And He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say to Him, What are You doing?
36 Now at the same time my reason and understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me, and my counselors and my lords sought me out; I was reestablished in my kingdom, and still more greatness [than before] was added to me.
37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, Whose works are all faithful and right and Whose ways are just. And those who walk in pride He is able to abase and humble.
God will be glorified. He always has a remenet that will not bow. Don't bow my friends. Be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Be like Daniel. Don't compromise. Obey God. Don't let fear cripple your faith. Stand firm on the Word of God! In all that we do, let us say "God, so help me!"
We have all the power of the Universe at our disposal but we keep muddying our purity with worldiness. We are afraid, so we cuddle up to the world like the Isrealites who fled to Eygpt when God told him he was sending them to Babylon. Don't cower to the enemy and try to win his favor by looking like the world, talking like the world, and living like the world. Dare to be different. Dare to be like the 4 Hebrew slaves who stood up to the tryant, who would not compromise but instead fasted and prayed and sought God! God wants to show Himself great on behalf of His people!!!! But he will not share his glory! He is all or nothing! He will not stand by while people acknowledge lip service but in their hearts think they are great.
All leaders must put God first. All...
Kansas Matt Stoskopf For President:
God Almighty for everyone! Farms for everyone!
God loves us so much. So when you read the scripture in the
picture, think about it! God wants to heal America, restore it.
Stop using arguments, violence, fighting, thinking you are right they are wrong. Forget it!
We need God to fix us! I need God to fix me! Humble yourself before God: "God I need you!" Admit you and they are wrong.
People need God's love for them, people do not another politician, Congress, Senator, the government, you or the other guy!
Only the proudest, most arrogant men don't think they need God.
Nebuchadnezzar was made deranged by God until he admitted he wasn't God! He needed God!
"learned and know that the Most High [God] rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will." Daniel Chapter 4
God will be glorified. He always has a remenet that will not bow. Don't bow my friends. Be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Be like Daniel. Don't compromise. Obey God. Don't let fear cripple your faith. Stand firm on the Word of God! In all that we do, let us say "God, so help me!"
We have all the power of the Universe at our disposal but we keep muddying our purity with worldiness. We are afraid, so we cuddle up to the world like the Isrealites who fled to Eygpt when God told him he was sending them to Babylon. Don't cower to the enemy and try to win his favor by looking like the world, talking like the world, and living like the world. Dare to be different. Dare to be like the 4 Hebrew slaves who stood up to the tryant, who would not compromise but instead fasted and prayed and sought God! God wants to show Himself great on behalf of His people!!!! But he will not share his glory! He is all or nothing! He will not stand by while people acknowledge lip service but in their hearts think they are great.
All leaders must put God first. All...
Kansas Matt Stoskopf For President:
God loves us so much. So when you read the scripture in the
picture, think about it! God wants to heal America, restore it.
Stop using arguments, violence, fighting, thinking you are right they are wrong. Forget it!
We need God to fix us! I need God to fix me! Humble yourself before God: "God I need you!" Admit you and they are wrong.
People need God's love for them, people do not another politician, Congress, Senator, the government, you or the other guy!
Only the proudest, most arrogant men don't think they need God.
Nebuchadnezzar was made deranged by God until he admitted he wasn't God! He needed God!
"learned and know that the Most High [God] rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will." Daniel Chapter 4
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