Weekly Sermons

Dream On

Daniel 2:1-23

Daniel is a book that shows believers that they can be faithful in the midst of anti-God conditions; Daniel is also a book that describes an unchanging Messianic ______________ to come that will overshadow all earthly kingdoms.

There are _______ times we are told of visions in the book od Daniel, and 10 of Daniel’s 12 chapters contain dreams.

Daniel 2:4-7:28 is in Aramaic, the language the Babylonians, or Chaldeans, spoke! It is also mostly in the third person.

 

The bad man has a nightmare                                              V. 1

Almost all of the dreams that non-believers had in the Bible were some type of what I would call an OR ELSE _________________.

“My life’s dream has been a perpetual nightmare.”    -Voltaire

In contrast, almost all of the dreams that believers had in the Bible were words of ________________ and guidance to help them face what was coming.

 

The bad man is a ____________  man                                  V. 2-6

 

The impossibility of the request is underscored                  V. 7-11

We get two key admissions in verses 10-11:

1.         It is impossible for a man to know what another dreamed

2.         Only the “gods” could ___________ a dream like this

The King calls for the death of _________ the so-called wise men                                                                                                 V. 12-13

 

Relational capital gives Daniel a window of __________________                                                                                                            V. 14-16

Matthew 6:33

Mark 10:45

 

The beauty of a _______________  meeting                        V. 17-18

Acts 13:1-3

 

The __________________  comes!                                       V. 19

 

“The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully…Behold I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them…”                -Jeremiah 23:28, 32

You will not have a dream or vision that ________________ the Bible’s truth; If you have one, it will encourage you to persevere in your Christian walk!

 

Don’t forget to _________________ God for answered prayer                                                                                                     V. 20-23