What is God Teaching You?
Daniel 4:1-16
Pastor Jeff Droogsma

Want to print the sermon notes? Here is the PDF printable version:
https://storage.snappages.site/P7SC73/assets/files/20-6-28-Endurance-outline.pdf

What Is God Teaching You?

Set the stage

What we know about King Nebuchadnezzar:
• King of Babylon – ruler of the world
• Jeremiah 27:6 – God’s servant to carry out His will
• He was the conqueror of Jerusalem and Israel
• Brutal warrior
• King Nebuchadnezzar was like Solomon

Verses 1-3

Are You Willing To Tell Your Story?

Verse 4

Verse 5

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. —I Peter 4:12

How about:

Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” —Luke 21: 36

Verse 6

Who did you truly turn to when this COVID hit?

Verse 7

Verse 8

Prayer and the Bible – Bam!

Verse 9

What would our lives look like if everyone on our FRANC lists see us this way?

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things. —Isaiah 45:7

Do You Know What God is Teaching You?

So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. —Matthew 24:44

Verse 26-27

Do we need to repent of things that our country, the USA, did?

So I turned to the LORD God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. 4I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: “LORD, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. 6We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land. —Daniel 9:3-6

How do you think God would respond if all the churches in the USA in unity repented?

Verse 28-31

Verse 34

It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’” 12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. —Romans 14:11-12

Are You Willing to Respond to what God is teaching you?

Daniel 4:34-35 New International Version (NIV)
At the end of that time, I, Jeff, I, Mary, I, Bob, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”