Number one the Bible reads Nebuchadnezzar the king unto all people nations and languages that dwell in all the earth
Peace be multiplied unto you now
What's interesting about this chapter is that this is spoken by Nebuchadnezzar from start to finish it starts out with the word
Nebuchadnezzar in the same way that New Testament books would start out call an apostle of Jesus Christ
Under the Church of the Philippines or under the Church of the Thessalonians. It's basically identifying himself as the author
He's sending out this letter
Unto all these nations and peoples and tongues that he has power over and he's identifying himself at the beginning
And then if we go all the way to the end of the chapter it says in verse 37 now I Nebuchadnezzar
Praise and extol and honor the king of heaven all whose works are truth and his ways judgment and those that walk in pride
he's able to
Abase so this chapter is coming from Nebuchadnezzar himself putting out a literal
Proclamation to his entire kingdom now. What's great about that is that it shows that God's word or
Just the testimony of the God of the Bible is going out to all the people in the earth at that time in their own
language and God did this many times throughout the Old Testament where he made sure that the whole world heard about something and
Just to make sure that the people of the world knew about the God of heaven and they knew that there's a god in Israel and you'll hear
statements like that all throughout the Old Testament how all the nations would look upon Israel and
See the miracles that God did or hear the preaching of the prophets of God and that was a testimony for them to seek
After the true God and in the book of Jeremiah talks about Jeremiah
going on tour basically and preaching in all the nations under heaven and so God in the Old Testament
cared about
Everyone in the world hearing his word. It wasn't just all about Israel and the Jews
No, Israel was supposed to be a light to light in the Gentiles
they were supposed to be a pattern nation an example nation and a
Nation that would evangelize the rest of the world and they failed at that
But that was always God's intent and in the New Testament God is using
Christians to preach his word to all nations and all tongues and all people
So that's the same in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that God cares about all people
He didn't only care about the chosen people in the Old Testament. That's a false doctrine
Another thing that's interesting about this is that this chapter of God's Word which is obviously divinely inspired
It's the Word of God. This chapter is something that initially went out into all languages
now a lot of people have this idea that God's Word can only be read in the original language and they lament the fact that
We have to read it in English and we miss so much of it and so much is lost in the translation
but God's Word has always been intended to be translated into all languages and it doesn't lose anything in the
Translation now the proof of that is Acts chapter two because in Acts chapter two all of these men are speaking as
They're moved by the Holy Ghost in all of the native languages or native tongues of those who are present in Acts chapter two
So if the Holy Ghost is the one that's leading them to speak God's Word in various languages
Then we know that must have been a perfect translation if it's the Holy Ghost that's doing the translating and so God is not limited to speak
one language in Acts chapter two the Holy Ghost spoke all of those languages and
Just the fact that the Old Testament is written in Hebrew and the New Testament is written in Greek
That should be your clue right away that God's not limited to only speak through one language
and that we can get God's Word in any language and this Daniel chapter four that was shipped out to all these different languages I
Guarantee you it was just as powerful in those other languages as it was in the original Chaldean language that it was written
Because of the fact that God's Word has power in any language as long as it's accurately translated and there are bad
Translations out there, but if it's a good translation if it's a right translation
You get the same thing that you would have gotten reading the original and people always say oh
Well, you always lose something in the translation and a lot of times the people who tell you that only speak one language
I speak multiple languages
You talk to a lot of other people that speak multiple languages and they may have differences of opinions about this
But if they have the other opinion of this then they're just wrong
It's that simple because people who are actually good at translating understand that you can
Get the same point across in any language an effective
Efficient translator can get that done and so we don't need to go back to the original Hebrew to understand the Bible
We don't need to go back to the original Greek to understand the Bible
What we need to do is just reread our English Bible and believe what it says here
We've got the King James Bible and it's everything that we need
We don't need to rely on some scholar or theologian to expound it to us from a foreign language
Especially because the vast majority of these so-called scholars and theologians are not fluent in Hebrew
Nor are they fluent in Greek, but yet they'll tell you supposedly what those languages mean
All they're doing is just parroting something that they read in a commentary or a lexicon
So God's Word is for all languages as we see here in Daniel chapter 4 verse 1
So Nebuchadnezzar sends out this letter the purpose is given in verse 2
I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me
How great are his signs and how mighty are his wonders his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his?
Dominion is from generation to generation I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house and
Flourishing in my palace I saw a dream which made me afraid and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head
Troubled me, so he uses this word
Flourishing because he's just trying to emphasize. I was doing great. I mean I was at rest. I was flourishing
I was thriving everything was going perfect for me. I mean he's the most powerful man in the world
He has this great kingdom and excellent power and majesty
But he says that this dream that he had made him afraid and the thoughts upon his bed and the visions of his head
Troubled him. This is God shaking him up because this dream comes from the Lord and it's a warning unto him to shake him up
A lot of times people are going through life and things are going great. They're flourishing. They're thriving, but they're in sin
They're living wickedly and if God cares about that person
He'll often send that person a warning a shot across the bow
Shake them up a little bit the Bible says whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth and scourgeeth every son whom he receiveth and so obviously if you're a child of God
You know that God loves you. You know that God cares about you if you're his son
Nothing could separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
So he is going to chasten you
Chastise you and shake you up a little bit when you get off the right path
And you don't want things to go well when you're living in sin
Because we want to get right back on the right path and so here God is doing Nebuchadnezzar a favor by shaking him up
Warning him sending him this bad dream now Nebuchadnezzar is not saved at this point
So not every unsaved person is going to get this kind of a warning
But God is being gracious unto even an unsaved man an unbeliever someone who is not one of his children
By giving him this warning shaking him up sending him this dream to terrify him
It says in verse 6 therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me
That they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream
Then came in the magicians the astrologers the Chaldeans and the soothsayers and I told the dream before them
But they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof
But at the last Daniel came in before me whose name was Belteshazzar
According to the name of my God and in whom is the spirit of the Holy Gods and before him
I told the drink saying now you can see here that this is Nebuchadnezzar's polytheistic nature coming out here
Right because instead of saying that the spirit of God is in him
He says oh well he has the spirit of the Holy Gods plural in him
So this is before he knows the Lord and it's debatable whether he ever got sick. I believe that he did get saved
I believe that he will be in heaven, but you can't really prove that for sure from the Bible
But we can see at this point in his life. He's talking about the Holy Gods now with that
He says that Belteshazzar is named after the name of his God now
What are the first three letters of Belteshazzar?
Bael Bael Bael Baelzebub this is the devil that is his God at this point
Okay, so he says that Belteshazzar is named after his particular God
But he believes in multiple gods because he talks about Daniel
Oh, he has the spirit of the gods in him
Well, the Bible is crystal clear that there's only one God
But it's also clear that there are many that are called gods as there be gods many and lords many
But to us there is but one God and we know that there is only one true God
So whenever we see this word gods in the Bible, which you'll see that word a lot actually with the plural s ending
When you see that word gods, we're talking about false gods
we're talking about so-called gods and that's
Consistent if you study the Bible from Genesis to Revelation anytime we have plural gods
We're talking about false gods and it goes deeper than that because false gods are not always just figments of people's imagination
but rather many of these false gods that they're worshiping or idols that they're worshiping are
Demons they're devils the Bible tells them first Corinthians 10 that the things which the Gentiles offer and sacrifice unto idols
They sacrifice unto devils and I would not that you should have fellowship with
Devils all of false religion is run by the devil. I mean, who do you thinks behind Islam?
Who do you think is behind Hinduism? Who do you think is behind Buddhism?
Who do you think is behind perversions of Christianity itself such as Roman Catholicism the Latter-day Saints?
The Jehovah's Witnesses. It's the devil who is behind false religion. He wants to confuse people
he wants people to worship idols worship devils worship carved statues and images and
Even sometimes people who think that they're
Christian are worshiping devils because they have little carved statues of gods and just because they call it the same
Saints or Mary or whatever they're praying to they're bowing down to an ancient image that is
representative of a demon or a false god and so
Nebuchadnezzar here is in a wicked religion here. He believes in false gods
He's worshiping devils his particular. God is Satan himself Bell bail the Elzebub
And it says here in verse 9 Oh Belta Shazzar
Master of the magicians because I know that the spirit of the Holy Gods is in thee
And no secret trouble of thee tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen and the interpretation thereof
Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed
I saw and behold a tree in the midst of the earth and the height thereof was great
the tree grew and was strong and the height thereof reached unto heaven and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth the
Leaves thereof were fair and the fruit thereof much and in it was meat for all
The beasts of the field had shadow under it and the fouls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof and all flesh was fed
Of it. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed and behold a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven
He cried aloud and said thus hew down the tree and cut off his branches
Shake off his leaves and scatter his fruit
Let the beasts get away from under it and the fouls from his branches now
I want to point out one thing here in verse 13. This is Nebuchadnezzar's dream
And he's terrified by it this great tree which later in the chapter
We learn of course that that tree is Nebuchadnezzar himself that great tree is
This powerful king who is ruling over the earth and has all of these
provinces underneath his giant empire of the Babylonian Empire
but it talks about the tree being cut down and when it talks about who gives the decree it says in verse 13 a
Watcher and an holy one came down from heaven now the first thing I want to point out about these terms
Is that they're both referring to the same person when it says a watcher and an holy one
That's one person who is both a watcher and an holy one
That's why in the next bread that says he singular cried aloud and as we go further in the chapter
It becomes obvious again that those two terms are referring to the same person now. What does that mean a watcher?
That's kind of a weird term because it's only used in this chapter of the Bible
To refer to an angel as a watcher and I believe that that's what this referring to an angel
Coming down from heaven and making this decree because this is very similar to a lot of other
Stories and visions in the Bible where an angel comes down and makes these type of proclamations
But that term watcher is unique to this chapter
There are a couple explanations for this one explanation could be well
This is a language that Nebuchadnezzar is used to or this is the language that he knows angels by
Because he's involved in a false religion and he's talking about the holy gods and everything
So this term watcher isn't the word that God normally uses
But it's just being given to Nebuchadnezzar in a language that he's familiar with in his culture or something like that
Or it could be that this term watcher is just unique to this chapter
I mean God will sometimes just use a word one time and it's just unique to that chapter
And so that's probably the more likely explanation is that God just happened to only use this word one time in this chapter
He's done that elsewhere as well. This chapter is the only place you find it
It's mentioned three times in this chapter
But if we study the word watch throughout the Bible the word watch usually means to stay awake
When we hear the word watch we immediately think of looking at something and keeping an eye on it
Which that is a related meaning of the word watch simply because when people stay up to stand on guard
They're both staying awake, and they're watching for an enemy to invade
So that's why this word has those two meanings, but the Bible tells us in Thessalonians for example
Therefore let us not sleep as do others
But let us watch and be sober when the disciples fell asleep in the garden of Gethsemane. They were told watch and pray
He wasn't saying hey watch this he's saying watch and pray meaning stay awake and pray
So usually when we see the word watch in the Bible the vast majority of the time and this time included it means
To be awake to be paying attention now. Why would God call the angel a watcher?
Well, if you remember there are descriptions of angels in heaven praising the Lord and one of the things that it says about them
Is that they rest not day nor night saying holy holy holy Lord God Almighty
Which was and is and is to come and so this watcher is an angel
It could be because of the fact that they stay awake all the time. They're always on guard. They're always doing their job
They're always doing what they're supposed to be doing and you could also make the case that angels are
Watching over us like where the Bible tells us that he gave his angels charge concerning us or that the angel of the Lord
Encampeth round about them that fear him which is like setting a watch around us
So that's what that term means a lot of people get really goofy with this and they oh
let me tell you about the watchers and it becomes like a whole new category of
Supernatural being and some people they try to insert a little too much Dungeons and Dragons type of mentality
Onto the Bible and they get really into the Nephilim and the Watchers and the book of Enoch and all this crazy stuff
Obviously when God uses a term only one time people are gonna run with that and say oh well
Let me just create a whole body of literature about the Watchers the holy ones
You know and this and that as far as being a holy one the term holy angels is used a lot in the Bible
The angels are often described as holy so that's really no surprise
So this angel comes down from heaven this watcher and holy one comes down from heaven, and he says cut this tree
Down then it says in verse 15 nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth
even with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven and
Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth let his heart be changed from man's
So now it's a personal pronoun about this tree that it's a person
Let his heart be changed from man's and let a beast's heart be given unto him and let seven times
Pass over him so the punishment that Nebuchadnezzar is going to receive here because of his pride
Because of his arrogance II because he fails to give God the glory and because he oppressed the poor in his kingdom
Is that he is going to lose his mind and his heart is going to be changed from the heart of a man
To the heart of a beast so he's going to have the mentality of an animal
Temporarily now this is going to go on until seven times Passover now. What does that mean seven times?
Well time is a period of time and I've heard people say this could be weeks. This could be months
This could be years, but I strongly believe that this is referring to years
And here's why I believe that because elsewhere in the Bible if we compare scripture with scripture the Bible uses the term a time
Times and half a time to refer to three and a half years one time plus times
That's three and a half a time. That's put next to 42 months or
1,260 days or
1,290 days so if we let the Bible define itself a time times and half a times is three and a half years
So seven times it makes sense that that would be seven years
Furthermore because we know that during this time that Nebuchadnezzar had lost his mind his hair
Grew like eagles feathers and his fingernails became like bird claws
that's not gonna happen in seven weeks some of you may not even cut your nails in the last seven weeks and
Even in seven months. You're not gonna be to that bird talent mode
Some of you have tested it but seven years later. It's gonna be very extreme and so because of the
Extremeness of his physical appearance with the the hair and the claws and everything like that
I think it's pretty clear these out there for seven years now
This is one of the worst possible punishments that God can give to anyone is to lose their mind
And let me tell you something all throughout the Bible. You'll find God punishing people by taking away their sanity
They're a place in the Bible where it talks about people being confounded, being struck with madness, being astonished
And God giving them delusions
And we know that today a lot of people, even in the United States of America, suffer from delusions
They're psychotic, they're crazy
And I did a whole sermon about that recently when I preached about ways to destroy yourself
And I talked about drug-induced psychosis
And in that sermon I talked about people having delusions where their fears would come upon them
Whatever their greatest fears were
And it's very common
And one of the things I mentioned was the cocaine bugs
You remember that?
How these people, they lose their mind
And often they're using cocaine or using meth or whatever and something snaps
And they get this delusion where they feel that they're infected and infested with parasites
They believe that their whole house is filled with little bugs, fleas, and that they're biting them and all over them
And these people, they shower and they scrub and they scrub and they can't get rid of the bugs
Because the bugs aren't there, it's all in their mind
People even end up harming themselves and cutting into their own flesh
Trying to remove bugs that have burrowed down into their skin that aren't even there
It's very common, it's called parasitosis
Well, I preached that sermon and I was contacted by some pest control guys
And this one pest control guy, and I talked to multiple pest control guys
But one guy from West Virginia, he said
I deal with this about two to three times a year in my line of work as a pest control guy
And he said everyone in our office has stories like this
Everybody deals with it
Now look, that's one pest control guy in one office in this whole nation
Imagine how many offices there are, how many pest control guys
This guy says I see it a few times a year
Everybody in our office has dealt with it
And he told me some really graphic weird stories
About some of the specific parasitosis he'd seen
And people trying to show him these bugs
And burrowing into their own flesh and things like really weird stuff
And I'm telling you, that is not the blessing of God
That's the curse of God
It's a great reason to never snort cocaine
It's a great reason never to take meth or any other drugs
to just be sober and not put that kind of poisonous garbage into your body
Because God can punish you by sending you strong delusions
Or you might just punish yourself by just poisoning yourself with chemicals
and giving yourself a delusion
But God specifically smites people in the Bible with madness, astonishment
He makes them go crazy
And this is only one example of that
It's a horrible punishment
I mean, there are a lot of other things I'd rather have happen than for this to happen
I mean, losing your mind, being outside, wet with the dew of heaven, living like an animal
Having the mentality of a beast
And let me tell you something
There are people like that even in Tempe
You see these people that are just completely crazy
Their brains are fried
They're wet with the dew of heaven
They're acting as a beast
And it's a punishment from God
It's a horrible place to be
It's a warning unto all of us
We shouldn't have to wait till
it happens to us to be warned
When we see that, we should take warning
and say, "Whoa, I better make sure
that I give honor and praise unto God
that I don't get lifted up with pride
because I don't want to be smitten
with this horrible punishment"
Now, go through it to Romans chapter 1
because Romans chapter 1 is a place
that we can find evidence of God punishing people
by destroying their mind
and giving them the mentality of an animal
the mentality of a beast
and this is of course the reprobate mind
found in Romans chapter 1
and make no mistake about it
the reprobate mind is a punishment from God
it's a punishment from God
what does the Bible say?
it says in verse 25
"who changed the truth of God into a lie
and worshiped and served the creature
more than the creator
who is blessed forever amen
for this cause God gave them up
unto vile affections
for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature
and likewise also the men
leaving the natural use of the woman
burned in their lust one toward another
men with men working that which is unseemly
and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meat
and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient
now in Nebuchadnezzar's case
he was smitten with insanity that was temporary
right and only lasted seven years
and then seven years later his reason returned unto him
also the type of insanity he was struck with was different
because he was given the mentality of an animal
he thought he was an animal
so he went and lived outside and ate grass
and just was crazy in that way
just living in the wilderness as a wild beast
whereas in Romans chapter 1
there's a different punishment here
where people who hate the Lord
and I don't believe that Nebuchadnezzar hated the Lord
there's no evidence of him hating the Lord
it's just that in fact he had good things to say about the Lord in chapter 3
but Nebuchadnezzar was prideful and arrogant
so his punishment was different than for the God haters
his punishment was to go out and live like a beast
to be humiliated for seven years
so that he could learn not to be prideful
but in Romans chapter 1
and I don't have time to preach through the whole chapter here
but read it on your own
it's about people who despise God
they hate God
they don't even want to retain God in their knowledge
they don't even want to acknowledge him as the creator
and because of that
they are punished by being given over to vile affections
and they are given over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient
now what does that word convenient mean?
that which is convenient is something that's pretty easy to get your hands on
right if we talked about convenience foods
we're talking about food that doesn't take a lot of work to go find and get
and receive it's something that's just right there it's at hand it's easy to
get and i believe that what god means by this
word convenient here is that these are things that don't come
naturally they don't just come on their own
these are not the normal things that people would do
now all of us have a normal sin nature it's pretty normal
for people to be sinners because that's our
nature as sons of adam we sin and there's not a just man upon the
earth that do with good and sin is not but these people in romans one that
have been given over to the reprobate mind
they do things that are against nature i mean it's natural for a child to lie
that's why they have to be taught to tell the truth that's why they have to
be disciplined it's natural for a man to lust after
other women and to commit that sin of the lust of the eyes or the lust of the
flesh fornication adultery murder these are
the type of things that in our sinful flesh we're capable of
but these sins here these are the things that are not convenient
they don't just come naturally as part of the human condition
most people are repulsed by these things disgusted by these things
and would never desire these things in a million years
so in order to explain how these people got that way
the bible tells us well god gave them over to vile affections vile means
gross disgusting so god gave them over to
vile affections god gave them up he gave them over
to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient so make no
mistake about it this is a punishment from god
and it's a more extreme punishment than what nebuchadnezzar experienced
because this is permanent with nebuchadnezzar it was temporary
this is permanent and you know what this is also much more disgusting
than what nebuchadnezzar experienced i don't know about you
but i'd rather be out there eating grass and having fingernails that look like a
hindu ascetic and have my hair in dreadlocks and be
out there acting like an animal than to be one of these disgusting
sodomites and let me tell you something and this is talking about the homos
talking about the sodomites and let me tell you something about these bunch of
sodomites they know that they're disgusting
they hate themselves that's why they're constantly committing suicide
because they hate themselves they're disgusted with themselves
they know how sick and filthy that death style is
and you say oh well these poor homos they want to change but they just can't
they're just born that way no they weren't born that way
they are that way as a punishment and it's the worst
possible punishment to be given those vile affections
to desire something so sick and so perverse
and so filthy but that's what they desire today
what normal people are repulsed by disgusted by
and consider to be filth they crave that but they know it's disgusting they know
what they are and that's why it's so depressing for
them oh you feel bad for them no no because you know what that is what
they deserve and god is just to give them that punishment
you say well what you know what do we do for these people how do we help them
here's how you help them you get them saved before they get to that point
that's how you help them once they get to a point where the bible says that
they're reprobate reprobate means rejected by god
okay they have rejected god and didn't even want to retain god in their
knowledge so then god gave them out to a reprobate mind to do those things which
are not convenient and so at this point they've crossed that line with god
they're rejected they're reprobate why don't we get to them before they get to
that point and it's so funny how people today want to fall all over
themselves and oh how are we going to reach all these poor little reprobates
you know what about the other 98 percent of the population that's not reprobate
have you reached them yet these bunch of holier than thou churches
sitting there looking down their nose at people like us calling us hateful and
saying that we're a hate group and everything like that and
we need to love these people we need to reach these people well you know that's
funny because our church is doing a ton of
soul-winning we're winning a ton of people to christ
we're knocking doors every single day we're accidentally giving the gospel
to more homos than these people are doing on purpose
and they have the gall to accuse us of being unloving and not
you know what okay you're right i don't love the two percent of the population
that's a reprobate but at least i'm demonstrating my love
for the other 90 percent every single week of my life by going out
and preaching the gospel and trying to win people to christ
that's more than these bunch of bleeding heart liberals can say
they claim they love everybody but you know what their works show
their works show that they don't love anybody except themselves
when they're not aggressive about soul-winning when they're
backing down on preaching the whole council of god
because they want to be popular or for filthy luker's sake
when they're scaling back the soul-winning programs when they're
just sitting around and letting the whole world go to hell
their deeds demonstrate that they don't have love
you know what our deeds demonstrate that we do have love
for 98 percent of the population and what i mean by that is we love
those that are saved and we love the lost
but we don't love those who hate the lord because the bible says
in psalm 139 verse 21 and 22 do not i hate them oh lord that hate thee
and i'm not i grieve with those that rise up against thee i hate them with a
perfect hatred i count them my enemies that's what the
bible says say well i don't like that kind of preach
you don't like the bible that is psalm 139
verses 21 and 22 you need a memory verse for this week
you need two memory verses for this week you need a memory chapter it's roman's
one there's a whole bunch of scripture to
support what i'm teaching right now from roman's chapter one and it's
crystal clear but people don't want to see it because
they've been brainwashed by hollywood and everything to think that that
homosexual death style is normal or that they're born that way or that
oh they're just like everybody else or or even now christian pastors are
getting up and say oh well any of us could fall into that sin
what in the world hey there's no temptation taking you but such as is
common to man and that is not common to man that is a
punishment from god that desire for the same gender is a
punishment from god and it is the evidence of a reprobate
and it is just as much a mental punishment as what nebuchadnezzar
experienced except it's way worse as permanent much worse the
reprobate mind it's the heart of a beast because what they do
is even worse than what the beast would do go back if you
would to daniel chapter four daniel chapter number four and
you say oh you know i can't believe this kind of preaching
i'm never coming back good well i'm glad you heard it while
you're here then since you're not coming back let me just
make sure i send you a real clear message while you're here
because this church has not bought into the media's
propaganda campaign to promote sodomy and you know what youtube can give us all
the strikes that they want and delete all the accounts that they
want and try to make it to where only one
viewpoint is acceptable and to say oh you know this is hate
speech and just brainwash you you know if i ever hear a christian
tell me i'm speaking hate speech that just tells me i'm talking to a
complete idiot who's been completely brainwashed by the media
that is not a biblical concept the bible doesn't talk about hate crimes and hate
speech you got that junk from the idiot box
you got that stuff from hollywood you got that stuff from madison avenue
you didn't get that from the spirit of god the spirit of god
will teach you that sodomy is an abomination
and that's worthy of death and you know what youtube can go to hell
and facebook can go to hell and twitter can go to hell if they don't like it
bunch of perverts and weirdos running our country
bunch of perverts and weirdos running the internet running this uh whole nation
and let me tell you something nothing will ever stop me from preaching
what i'm preaching right now they never will you know they're gonna
have to beat me and put me in jail and kill me but they'll
never stop me from preaching it's the filthy
sodomites and you know what if you're sitting in this church
expecting me to back down on that issue well you know what you might as well
just hit the road jack and don't you come back no more
because i will never change on that issue i hate them more
in 2018 than i hated them in 2017.
get out of here you fag-loving idiot there are plenty of people here who know
what the bible says and haven't been brainwashed like you
who don't think that these bunch of disgusting perverts are normal
and all god's people said amen but let's go back to daniel's chapter
four bible says and i got all fired up for
watching brother jimenez's documentary you'll feel the same way tomorrow when
you watch it so daniel chapter four the bible says
and let's skip forward here to the interpretation it says in verse 24 this
is the interpretation oh king and this is the decree of the most high
which has come upon my lord the king that they shall drive thee from men and
thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field
and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen and they shall wet thee with the
dew of heaven and seven times shall pass over thee
till thou know that the most high ruleeth in the kingdom of men
and giveth it to whomsoever he will and whereas they commanded
to leave the stump of the tree roots thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee
after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule
wherefore oh king let my counsel be acceptable unto thee
and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to
the poor if it may be a lengthening of thy
tranquility so here he says that even though
nebuchadnezzar is going to completely lose his mind
and go out and dwell in the wilderness with the animals that his kingdom is
going to be sure unto him meaning that someone else isn't going to take over
and he's going to lose everything it's sort of just waiting there for him for
the seven years so some of his other deputies or lieutenants or whoever
apparently take over and they run things while he's gone
and seven years later when his mind comes back they're ready to put him in charge
again there's a great welcome back you know
and they put him right back in charge and he rules once again in the kingdom
of babalon after that once he knows that god is the one who's in charge
and once he's been humbled before the lord now daniel here gives him advice
and i want to point this out especially he says wherefore o king let my counsel
be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness
and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor if it may be a lengthening of
thy tranquility now a little bit earlier on it says in
verse 19 then daniel whose name was belt to shazzar
was astonished for one hour and his thoughts troubled him
the king spake and said belt to shazzar let not the dream nor the
interpretation thereof trouble thee belt to shazzar that's daniel
answered and said my lord the dream be to them that hate thee
and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies now we see here that daniel
even though he's working for a boss that's part of a false religion
even though he's working for a boss that doesn't know the lord he's still
respectful to the legitimate authority figures in his life
even in spite of that you know when you go to work or other areas of life where
you have someone who's your boss or someone who's an authority figure
you want to be respectful to that person and have a good attitude toward
them and seek for their blessing you know it isn't right for you to
work for a company and not want the company to succeed
if you don't want the company that you work for to succeed
you need to get a different job it's wicked to work somewhere
and not have a desire for the company to prosper because you're being hired to
bless them and to help them so Daniel because he is
working for Nebuchadnezzar and because that's his job
that's what role he plays in this kingdom and God has put him there
basically he desires the peace of that kingdom
and he wants Nebuchadnezzar to prosper and he is troubled by the dream because
when God reveals to him this interpretation is bad news to
Daniel because he says man I wish that this would be to your enemies
I wish it would be to those that hate you and he tries to help
Nebuchadnezzar by giving him advice of how
he could possibly stay the wrath of God by
cutting off some of his wicked deeds and doing some good things
so that God wouldn't just wipe him out now look what the Bible says in verse
28 all this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar
at the end of 12 months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon
the king spake and said is not this great Babylon
that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the
might of my power and for the honor of my majesty
while the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven saying
oh king Nebuchadnezzar to thee it is spoken the kingdom
is departed from thee now notice 12 months go by so god gives him a grace
period he gives him 12 months to get his act
together to straighten up but apparently he completely forgot
about that even though this dream bothered him at the time
12 months later he's forgotten about it he's more puffed up and arrogant and
prideful than ever now we need to be careful that we
don't do the same thing a lot of times we could be sitting in a church service
and hear the word of god and god gives us a warning from the
scriptures or maybe we experience some chastisement of god in our life
and we think to ourselves man i need to fix things in my life i need
to get some sin out of my life i need to get right with god but isn't
it easy when things go well to just forget about that three or four
days later a week later two weeks later you remember when 9/11
happened and even the bars were putting up signs that said god bless america
and everybody was praying and seeking the lord for like two days
and then all of a sudden it's just back to the normal wickedness
back to forgetting the lord back to forgetting god that's what we see here
you know nebuchadnezzar is troubled but 12 months later
he totally forgot about that make sure that when god speaks to you through
preaching or god speaks to you through reading the bible
or god warns you through the events of life that you don't forget about that
during the good times and that you meditate on that
and keep reminding yourself to serve the lord with fear and rejoice with
trembling even during the good times and so after this grace period is up
he starts to praise himself and while it's coming out of his mouth how great
he is a voice comes from heaven telling him that the kingdom is
departed from him verse 32 and they shall drive thee
from man and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field
they shall make thee to eat grasses oxen and seven times shall pass over thee
until thou know that the most high ruleeth in the kingdom of man
and giveth it to whomsoever he will the same hour was the thing fulfilled upon
nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men and did eat
grasses oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven
till his hairs were grown like eagles feathers
and his nails like birds claws and at the end of the days
I nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven
and mine understanding returned unto me and I blessed the most high
and I praised and honored him that liveth forever whose dominion is an
everlasting dominion and his kingdom is from generation to
generation and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing
and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto
him what doeth thou at the same time my reason
returned unto me and for the glory of my kingdom
mine honor and brightness returned unto me and my counselors and my lord
sought unto me and i was established in my kingdom
and excellent majesty was added unto me now
i nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the king of heaven
all whose works are truth and his ways judgment
and those that walk in pride he is able to abase
we don't want to have to learn this the hard way like nebuchadnezzar
we don't want to have to go through some kind of a humiliation
or severe chastisement in order to be humble and realize that god's the one
who's in charge and if we get lifted up to high positions
of authority or high positions of power or high positions of status and wealth
and society we better not let that go to our heads
because god can abase us anytime he wants he can snap his fingers and
destroy your life at any moment he can cause you to lose all your wealth
he could cause you to lose your health he could cause you to lose your very mind
now thank god if you're saved you'll never become a reprobate
because that's a punishment that is reserved for those who hate god
and don't even want to remember that he even exists they don't even want to
retain god in their knowledge but i believe that even a saved
christian who knows better and goes out and gets drunk
and takes drugs and does a bunch of stupid things
can be punished with some kind of a psychotic
episode they could receive a drug-induced psychosis i don't
believe that christians are immune from drug-induced psychosis i think if
you're a born-again child of god and you go snort a bunch of cocaine
god might allow you to get drug-induced psychosis you may be
plagued with cocaine bugs or whatever other
strange delusion that could come upon you you know there are a lot of things
that god could do to humble us and put us on our place
we better make sure that when things are going good when we're flourishing in our
palace and when we're at rest that's when we
need to seek the lord give him all the glory give him all the praise
give him thanks every day instead of getting private
oh man i'm so good in business look at this business empire i've created
no it ought to be that we say boy thank god he gave me the power to get wealth
every good gift and every perfect gift is from above
and coming down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness
neither shadow of turning and if we'll praise god
and thank him and appreciate things and stay humble when things are good
god won't have to just destroy us and wipe us out and humiliate us and
and make us go through things like this to get us
in our proper place let's just make ourselves
humble by learning from other people's example
and not making god do this to us or something like this to us
and different people experience different kinds of chastisements and
different kinds of lessons but the key is at the end of verse
37 there those that walk in pride he's able to abase and it doesn't matter
who you are he is able to abase you i don't care how
diversified your assets are i don't care how many vitamins and
supplements you take i don't care what you do to protect
yourself he's able to abase you or he's able to
exalt you the bible says humble yourselves in the sight of the lord
and he'll lift you up do you want to be exalted by god do you want to be lifted
up then be humble the way up is down and if you want god
to wipe you out and humiliate you and make you look like a fool
then be puffed up and prideful because that's the path to getting there
let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer thank you lord for this great
chapter and thank you for the example of
nebuchadnezzar lord and we thank you that he eventually did give you the
glory and that you were able to restore him to his position
and to give him some of his glory and majesty back and allow him to retain
that kingdom and even for excellent majesty to be
added unto him lord help us to learn from the story and
understand the importance of humility lord
not to be puffed up and lifted up with pride lord
and help us lord to learn from the bible and not have to go out and take
the drugs and get drunk and experience the punishments for ourselves
help us to learn from other people's bad example and not
have to be a bad example ourselves in jesus name we pray amen