Daniel 5: God Gives the Answer

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With that, we’re going to dive right into our message this morning, as we’ve already taken care of all of the announcements.

Opening

Last Sunday, we considered the first 16 verses of chapter 2. I mentioned in last week’s sermon that when we ordinarily study Daniel 2, we take the whole chapter in one big chunk. This makes perfect sense because that’s because that’s what chapter 2 is: it’s one continuous narrative about the issue with Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. The king of Babylon had a dream that made him sleepless with anxiety and fear, and he demanded that the wise men of Babylon not only interpret the dream, but recount the dream itself without being told what it was—and that he would destroy all of the wise men in the nation if they could not do so. In last week’s message, we looked at the dangers of insecurity, and we saw that stress and insecurity can from from a variety of places, and that worldly solutions aren’t going to work on our spiritual issues. Only God has all the answers for our insecurity. And so we ended last week seeing that Daniel had humbly and respectfully stepped up and asked the king for some time to provide what he was asking for.

This morning’s focal passage is what happened following the king’s acquiescence to Daniel’s request. So open your Bibles or your Bible apps to Daniel 2:17-30, and let’s stand as we’re able in honor of God’s Word as we read that passage:

Daniel 2:17–30 CSB

17 Then Daniel went to his house and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah about the matter, 18 urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men. 19 The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens 20 and declared: May the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to him. 21 He changes the times and seasons; he removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. 22 He reveals the deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him. 23 I offer thanks and praise to you, God of my ancestors, because you have given me wisdom and power. And now you have let me know what we asked of you, for you have let us know the king’s mystery. 24 Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had assigned to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He came and said to him, “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.” 25 Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the Judean exiles who can let the king know the interpretation.” 26 The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation?” 27 Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, medium, magician, or diviner is able to make known to the king the mystery he asked about. 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these: 29 Your Majesty, while you were in your bed, thoughts came to your mind about what will happen in the future. The revealer of mysteries has let you know what will happen. 30 As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but in order that the interpretation might be made known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

PRAYER (For Vicky Frazee’s family; for Arlene Flury; for Nancy Irving; for the well-being of Jerusalem, Psalm 122:6)

When we looked at the beginning of chapter 2 last week, we found that all of the magicians, sorcerers, mediums, and Chaldeans—all the wise men of Babylon—found that Nebuchadnezzar had made an impossible request of them. They said that no one on earth could fulfill his demand, and no king had ever made such an outrageous request—a request that required truly supernatural intervention to solve. Of course, they had previously claimed to have supernatural wisdom or powers, so I suppose we can’t blame Nebuchadnezzar too much.

But because of their failure to be able to do the impossible, Daniel’s, Hananiah’s, Mishael’s, and Azariah’s lives were also on the line. The situation didn’t change. There were still only two options: 1) Do the impossible; or 2) die.

Has anyone ever told you, or have you ever said, “God won’t give you more than you can handle?” How do you think that would have gone over as advice for Daniel and the boys back in Babylon at that particular moment? It would have gone over very poorly. Because they were truly faced with a situation that was massively more than they could handle.

I know that I briefly addressed this particular misinterpretation of Scripture back in January of 2021 as part of our Heresies series that year, but this particular nugget of biblical-sounding wisdom does have its root in Scripture. Specifically, 1 Corinthians 10:13:

1 Corinthians 10:13 CSB

13 No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.

Notice that it doesn’t say that God won’t give you more than you can handle. It says that God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able—He will never put you in a position where you must sin. Doing what’s right might be incredibly difficult, but not impossible, because Paul also promises that the Lord will provide the way out (of course, it’s our responsibility to actually avail ourselves of that way out).

But this passage doesn’t say that God won’t give you more than you can handle. The truth that we all know is that there are a zillion things that are impossible for us in our own strength, knowledge, wisdom, and ability. And the repetitive example and testimony of holy Scripture is that God does and absolutely will give us more than we can handle on our own. This situation with Daniel is one such example.

Daniel was faced with something much too difficult for him to handle by himself. There was no way that he was capable in his own power to guess Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and interpret it correctly. God had definitely given Daniel more than Daniel could handle. But we started this series with a statement about who the hero of the book of Daniel is.

God is the hero of Daniel. And the Bible asks, “Is anything impossible for the LORD?” (Gen 18:14), and records that God said, “Though it may seem impossible to the remnant of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible to me?” (Zech 8:6). It also says that, “Nothing will be impossible with God,” (Luke 1:37) and that “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” (Luke 18:27). So what was impossible for Daniel to do on his own, God was fully capable of doing through him. This is why Daniel could go to Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, and then to the king, confidently believing that God would ultimately allow him to give the king the interpretation that he demanded. (Dan 2:16).

And how Daniel and the boys face this impossible situation and how they responded to God’s work in and through them is the subject of our focal passage today. How can we follow their example? And first: How should we face impossible, God-sized obstacles?

1: We can face the impossible through prayer.

Prayer should be our first thought, our first direction, our first action when the impossible arises in our lives. And I have to humbly confess that often in my own life, this is not how I operate when the difficult or even the impossible come up. I’ll admit that sometimes I pridefully assume that I can work through the problems, come up with the solutions, and take the appropriate steps in even the most difficult of circumstances, without giving myself seriously to prayer. This is something that I’m working on in my own life. And when I try to manage things that way, I’m always left with the same things as what we saw in Nebuchadnezzar’s life last week: stress and insecurity.

But in Daniel’s situation, there was no problem to solve, no solution to deduce, no steps to take. It was literally “do or die.” So what was his first step in facing the impossible? It was prayer.

Daniel 2:17–18 CSB

Daniel could have just gone home and gotten into his prayer closet and prayed by himself, but that’s not what he did. Instead, he called together his brothers in faith and they prayed together. These are four 19 year-old guys who come together in fervent prayer because they face a situation that only God can handle. These four teens got on their knees—probably even on their faces—before the Lord.

What is your prayer life like? Do you regularly gather with other believers and join with them in prayer for the issues that you face in life, the concerns of the church, the problems that plague our state and nation? Is prayer a priority in your family? I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with praying by yourself and in the quietness of your own heart. There is a place for that as well, but that’s not what Daniel did here, and I think it’s telling. When the chips were really down, and they needed God to show up in a miraculous way, they joined in prayer together.

We also see this as a pattern of practice of the church and of early believers in the book of Acts. Over and over again throughout the book, we see the gathered people of God praying for God’s movement in a variety of ways, and then experiencing that movement. Here’s a list of them:

Acts 1:14; 2:42; 4:31; 6:6; 8:15; 12:5; 13:3; 14:23; and 16:25.

There’s something powerfully intimate about spending time in prayer with other believers, lifting up each other’s burdens, sharing each other’s triumphs and heartaches, joining with one focus on the wisdom and will of God.

We have prayer meeting every week Wednesday night in Miller Hall at 5:45 if you’d like to come and try it. We pray together for those on our PrayerLine, as well as spend a time in devotional and praying in response to what God teaches us from His Word.

So Daniel and his friends gather at Daniel’s house and start praying. And what did they pray? I think that Tim Paskert answered this question best in his recent book, Secrets to Thriving in Babylon:

“[Daniel] and his friends didn’t ask God to strike down the king; they didn’t complain to the Lord about the king; they didn’t blame God for putting them in this impossible situation. They also didn’t pray for a political cue. They simply asked the Lord for mercy and to provide the answer to the king’s problem.”

—Tim Paskert, Secrets to Thriving in Babylon

The boys don’t simply ask for an interpretation, nor do they ask for some other solution to their problem. They ask for mercy, so that they and the rest of the wise men would not be destroyed. The language even suggests that it’s possible that some of the Chaldeans had already been put to death because of the king’s decree, because remember that when the decree was given, Daniel and the boys weren’t there. If the executions started right then, several would have been killed.

Notice how different the response to stress is for Daniel when compared to Nebuchadnezzar, whose response we saw last week. Nebuchadnezzar was anxious. Daniel was confident. Nebuchadnezzar searched for a worldly solution. Daniel sought spiritual revelation. Nebuchadnezzar called on the people of the earth. Daniel called on the God of the heavens. Nebuchadnezzar negotiated and threatened. Daniel simply asked.

They needed mercy, and as a part of that mercy, they needed wisdom concerning a mystery. So they approached the Lord in faith, believing that God would respond, living out (even though it certainly hadn’t been written yet) the instruction that God gives to His people in Jeremiah 33:

Jeremiah 33:2–3 CSB

2 “The Lord who made the earth, the Lord who forms it to establish it, the Lord is his name, says this: 3 Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

And what about us? How do we face the situations that rise up in our lives that just look or feel impossible? Do we come to the Lord, asking for mercy in the situation, or do we come and tell Him how we think He should solve it? Would we have prayed the way that Daniel and friends prayed?

God wants to give us wisdom when we face the unknown. He understands that we don’t understand, He knows that we don’t know, He sees that we don’t see. And so in the book of James, we are given this promise:

James 1:5 CSB

5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.

Go to the Lord in prayer when you face the impossible and you need wisdom in how to proceed. We can face the impossible through prayer, but this isn’t to say that we can overcome the impossible through prayer. God does the overcoming in His plans, purposes, and ways. Prayer allows us to keep our focus where it belongs: squarely on God Himself. Prayer allows us to trust the One who can manage the impossible. It reminds us that we don’t have, and never could have, all the answers. Through the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives as we pray, He brings us peace as God brings us through the impossible in His way.

So we see how Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah faced the impossible situation they found themselves in—they did so through prayer. And we can face our impossible situations in the same way. But also like them, we should do so humbly, trusting that it is God who provides wisdom to face our challenges.

So this brings us to our other question to ask this morning: How should we respond when God shows up in the midst of those God-sized obstacles?

2: When God shows up in the impossible, praise Him.

How we respond to God’s working in the midst of difficult or even impossible situations says a lot about how we see ourselves and how we see Him. Truly, we shouldn’t need God showing up in the impossible to prompt us to worship Him. But here in Daniel, we see that God did indeed show upon in a powerful way, and Daniel’s response was one of praise:

Daniel 2:19 CSB

19 The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens

God wastes no time in answering Daniel’s fervent request. I suppose it’s possible that Nebuchadnezzar had only granted 24 hours to come up with the interpretation, and God was right on time. So Daniel “praised the God of the heavens.” Daniel didn’t come up with the answer to the king’s question. He simply received it. God is the One who provided it. And Daniel acknowledged that fact through praise.

I think that it’s really easy for us to forget how God has worked in our lives once the difficulty is passed. As the old joke illustrates:

A man was driving around a busy shopping mall during the Christmas season, trying to find a parking space. Growing frustrated, he prayed, “Lord, if you would just provide me a parking space, I promise that I’ll go to church every week and quit drinking!” At that moment, the reverse lights of a car just a little further down the aisle he was driving down lit up, and the car backed out of a great space. As he flicked on his own turn signal, he said, “Never mind, Lord! I found one!”

(author unknown)

But Daniel’s response is that he is going to praise the Lord, because he knows that it is God who has revealed Himself to Daniel in a powerful way. And what did Daniel’s praise include? Daniel basically composed a psalm about how great God is, about His wisdom and His power, about His sovereignty and authority, about His knowledge and understanding. His response to the Lord’s work is about the Lord Himself—the hero of the book of Daniel:

Daniel 2:20–23 CSB

20 and declared: May the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to him. 21 He changes the times and seasons; he removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. 22 He reveals the deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him. 23 I offer thanks and praise to you, God of my ancestors, because you have given me wisdom and power. And now you have let me know what we asked of you, for you have let us know the king’s mystery.

Throughout the Bible, there are places where theology and worship come together in poetry such as this when God shows up in the seemingly impossible: Deborah’s song in Judges 5; Hannah’s song in 1 Samuel 2; Jonah’s worship from inside the fish in Jonah 2; Mary’s song in Luke 1; and some of the songs of Revelation (such as chapters 5, 15, and 19); not to mention the weaving of these themes in Psalms such as 8, 27, 33, 57, 66, 93, 96, and 98… just to name a few.

If there is one thing that the Scriptures show us about praising the Lord is that it should be a passionate endeavor. And to be clear: songs are not the only way to praise the Lord. We can praise Him in silence and shouting and cheering and weeping and singing and talking and reading and praying. But if we’re going to truly praise Him, it’s something that we must be consciously engaged in, both individually:

Psalm 146:1–2 CSB

1 Hallelujah! My soul, praise the Lord. 2 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing to my God as long as I live.

and corporately:

Psalm 21:13 CSB

13 Be exalted, Lord, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might.

Praise and worship are our response to God for who He is and what He’s done. When we gather here on Sunday mornings, this is why we should be doing so: because God is worthy of our praise and worship. This should honestly be one of our most passionate and focused times of the week, because it’s not at all about us. It’s all about Him. And even if He doesn’t answer our prayers in the way that we think He should, He is still worthy of our praise. His ways are always better than our ways, and He sees the big picture. We can trust Him!

One more thing to think about from this point of response:

What we see in Daniel’s hymn of praise is that he understood that he didn’t have it in himself to get out of the situation that he and the boys found themselves in. And just as there was nothing that Daniel and his friends could do to rescue themselves from their situation, so we are in a situation that we cannot do anything to rescue ourselves from: we need God to rescue us, just as He did with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. But not from the threats of a paranoid monarch, but from the judgment that we deserve because of our sinfulness.

See, God made us to be with Him, but we sinned—rejecting His plan for us and becoming rebels who actually fight against Him over and over every day. And because of our sin, we are separated from God: our relationship with Him is broken, and we deserve to be separated from Him forever. But because God loves us, He took it upon Himself to provide the sacrificial payment for the penalty that we owe: the one and only Son of God, the Lord Jesus, God in the flesh, who lived completely sinlessly, and then died in our place so that we would no longer have to be held accountable for the punishment our sins deserve. So we could be reconciled to God. But He overcame death and rose again, and now lives forever.

The Bible says in Romans 6:

Romans 6:10–11 CSB

10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

If we believe in Him, trusting in what He has done to save us, and surrendering to Him as Lord, then we are what the Bible calls “in Christ Jesus.” We are saved, rescued from eternal separation from God in hell. And not only that, but we are given new life in Christ, a life that begins now and then will last into eternity as we live with Him in heaven.

What better response is there to hearing about what Jesus has done for you than to believe this Gospel message and surrender to Him in faith? Will you respond to God in praise and worship through surrender this morning?

Now, the story for our focal passage wasn’t over yet. Daniel and the boys had prayed, God had clearly answered with what Daniel needed to go to Nebuchadnezzar, and he had praised the Lord in response. Through Daniel, God was doing the impossible.

Which takes us to our last question: How do we respond when God shows up to do the impossible through us?

3: When God shows up in the impossible through us, point to Him.

The final step that Daniel had to take was as risky as his first step last week of going to speak to the king after the decree had been given. He had to go and see Nebuchadnezzar again to tell him about what God had revealed. There was no guarantee that the king, who we’ve already seen was kind of severe, was going to receive what Daniel had to say to him. So Daniel first went to Arioch to inform him that he had been given the interpretation that the king was looking for:

Daniel 2:24–25 CSB

24 Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had assigned to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He came and said to him, “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.” 25 Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the Judean exiles who can let the king know the interpretation.”

Daniel’s first order of business was to make sure that no one else would die. So he opens with, “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon.” Yes, these guys were idol worshipers. No, they didn’t believe in Daniel’s God. But yes, God blessed them through how He worked in Daniel’s life. The Scriptures say that God doesn’t want the wicked to experience death.

Ezekiel 33:11a (CSB)

11 Tell them, ‘As I live—this is the declaration of the Lord God—I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways!

2 Peter 3:9 says that the Lord doesn’t want “any to perish but all to come to repentance.”

These guys were going to be delivered from King Nebuchadnezzar through God doing the impossible through a Hebrew captive. He blessed them through how he blessed Daniel. Daniel would be a witness of how great God is not just to Nebuchadnezzar, but to all of the wise men of Babylon as they received the blessing of deliverance through God’s relationship with Daniel.

One thing that’s kind of funny to me here is that Arioch attempts to keep, or more accurately, attempts to steal some of the glory about this for himself. Did you notice what he said in verse 25? “I have found a man...” He really had nothing to do with it. Let that be a negative example for us: don’t try to steal God’s glory.

But Daniel comes before the king and through the king’s question is given an opportunity to toot his own horn, so to speak, by taking credit for what God had revealed to him. But Daniel doesn’t. He just points to God, because he knows that he isn’t able:

Daniel 2:26–30 CSB

26 The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation?” 27 Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, medium, magician, or diviner is able to make known to the king the mystery he asked about. 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these: 29 Your Majesty, while you were in your bed, thoughts came to your mind about what will happen in the future. The revealer of mysteries has let you know what will happen. 30 As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but in order that the interpretation might be made known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

Daniel repeats basically what the Chaldeans had said to the king before, back in verse 10, that had made Nebuchadnezzar so angry that he issued the decree for their destruction. The answer to the king’s question about Daniel’s ability is therefore, “no.” Since no wise man, medium, magician, or diviner is able to make known to the king the mystery he asked about, so also Daniel is unable to do so.

HOWEVER, Daniel points to God by declaring that the Lord not only reveals mysteries, but that He is has chosen to reveal to Nebuchadnezzar what was coming in the future.

This answer is very similar to what Joseph said to Pharaoh back in Genesis 41:

Genesis 41:16, 25b (CSB)

16 “I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer… 25b God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.”

The revelation that God gave to Daniel is so complete that Daniel could even tell Nebuchadnezzar about the context in which God gave him the dreams. Daniel confesses that he is no more wise than anyone else, and then humbly addresses the purpose for which God had given the king the dream: so that the king would understand the future, and also understand his own thoughts about the future better. God knows Nebuchadnezzar better than he knows himself.

God’s glory is God’s. It’s not ours. We have no right to it. No one else deserves it:

Isaiah 42:8 CSB

8 I am the Lord. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.

Our calling, believers, is to be available for His use when He sees fit to use us. Like Daniel, the giftedness that we have is a good gift from God that we are allowed to use. So even when God does something great through us, we have no reason to show off or lift ourselves up because of it—He does the impossible, we don’t.

1 Corinthians 4:7 CSB

7 For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

We are to walk in humility, not in arrogant, proud, boasting and bragging:

Proverbs 11:2 CSB

2 When arrogance comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 18:12 CSB

12 Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

I’m not going to say that this is easy. It’s not. This is hard, and it’s something that the Lord is working on in me as well. But our role is to make much of Jesus, pointing to Him so that He may be glorified.

Closing

Ultimately, the focus of this passage (and the focus of the whole book of Daniel) is that God is sovereign over all things. He is the hero, and we must remember that. Like Daniel, we may have to face impossible things as we journey through life. But we will be able to face those things through prayer, and we will praise the Lord as He works in us and through us for His glory and His purposes.

In a moment, we’re going to enter into a time of response, and the band is going to come and lead us in a song of invitation. Joe, Rich, and Trevor will join me up front to be available for prayer for the various ways you might need to respond to the Lord this morning.

Maybe today, you need to spend some time in repentance. You’ve tried to steal glory from the Lord. You’ve neglected to give Him the praise that He is due. You’ve forgotten to go to Him in the difficult situations in life. Take this time of response to acknowledge and agree with the movement of the Spirit as you are convicted, crying out to the Lord for forgiveness.

If you’ve never believed the Gospel, never surrendered to Jesus as Lord and Savior, then I pray that through the message this morning you have understood your need for forgiveness and salvation, and that the Lord is now prompting you to respond to Him in faith during this time. The Bible says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Come and confess your faith in Jesus this morning. This church wants to celebrate with you, not embarrass you. If you have questions about Jesus and salvation, come and let us know that as well. If you’re online, send me an email to bill@ehbc.org.

If you’re already a believer, and you believe that this church is a family where you can connect, grow, and serve, and want to know more about formal membership, come and let us know that as well.

You can also give during this time as a response of worship to the Lord, giving back a portion of what He’s given to you for use in His Kingdom purposes here with the body of Eastern Hills. You can give online through the website, the app, or by texting EHBCGIVE to 888-365-GIVE (4483).

PRAYER

Closing Remarks

Bible reading (Exodus 6:28-9:35, Psalm 35)

Pastor’s Study tonight, planning to finish chapter 4.

Prayer Meeting this Wednesday night.

Instructions for guests

Benediction

Psalm 33:20–22 CSB

20 We wait for the Lord; he is our help and shield. 21 For our hearts rejoice in him because we trust in his holy name. 22 May your faithful love rest on us, Lord, for we put our hope in you.

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