When Dreams Teach You A Lesson 3.

Spectacle – 1 Corinthians 4:9

 We are the means.
Daniel 4:5-15,19
2. There is still MERCY – vs.15
 Recall the message last Sunday – From Man to Beast.
 Explain the dream.
 Explain the dream again.
 Show the picture of a stump.
 This dream is more than just a dream, it is not an
 The tree was given hope to grow again.
ordinary dream like we dream every night but this
 That means he was not wholly cut down but God is
dream is the very word of God revealed to the king.
waiting for him, willing to give him a second chance, a
room of repentance.
What lessons can we learn in this dream?
 And when he repented, it was true, God turned him
1. We are the MEANS – vss. 7-8
back to a human being. Look at verses 34-37.
 Explain the scenario.
 Thank God, God forgives, God forgets, and He is
 “But at last Daniel came in”
merciful.
 Even though the king was very powerful but he still has
 Titus 3:5 – We are saved by mercy. Salvation is not a
the missing piece of his life and that is simply the word
right but a privilege because we are saved only
of God (Matthew 4:4).
because God was merciful to us.
 And God used Daniel. Daniel was the means.
 Psalm 103:8-17, Jeremiah 3:12-13, Micah 7:18-19
 What a wonderful thing in life when God will use you
 Who we are and what we are is only because God was
(Romans 10:13-17).
merciful to you and me.
 The king don’t need the astrologers, magicians, and
 We all fail, we all commit sin and mistakes, we all are
etc. because they are fake and helpless, but what the
sinners, we all need God, so let us go to him and find
king needs are people like Daniel.
mercy (Hebrews 4:16).
 You are important in the society, not because you are
rich, talented, or skillful but because you cannot
3. Overcome MALICE – vs.19
underestimate how God will use your life for others.
 Malice is the intention or desire to cause harm or pain
 Daniel was the light in Babylon and in that place
to somebody.
wherever we are – we are the light in that place.
 Explain Daniel’s emotion.
 Astonished – “nahingangha” (filled with consternation
The Bible says that we are:
or dismay).
1. Salt – Mark 9:50
2. Light of the World – Mark 5:16  That’s why the king woke him up in verse 19.
 Then Daniel said in verse 19 (last phrase – “I wish the
dream and interpretation are for your enemies but its
not..”
 Even though the king was the reason that his nation
was destroyed, families, friends, and relatives died,
killed, tortured, and became slaves because of him but
Daniel had no resentment (ill feeling) towards the king.
 Daniel did not say, “At last I’ll have my own revenge.”
 But Daniel understands that God allowed difficult
things to come to his life including Nebuchadnezzar.
 1 Peter 2:1, Colossians 3:8, Proverbs 24:17-18