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CPT: God judges evil kingdoms and gives control to whom he wants.
Purpose: The church needs to exalt Jesus and follow his leadership.
CPS: Live your life anticipating God’s kingdom.
Introduction
Christians should be people in anticipation.
We should have a sense of expectation about our hope in Jesus.
The Bible tells us that Jesus is coming again.
We live in expectation of his return and anticipating his kingdom.
When I think of anticipation, I think of a joyful expectation.
We know something is coming, and we are excited about it.
As a kid, I remember anticipating Christmas, which by the way, is in 126 days.
I would look forward to the gifts as the time shortened to Christmas.
I was looking forward to new GI Joe toys or whatever else I wanted.
I know what Jesus meant when he said we should have faith like a child.
I believe that I accepted Christ as a child because I had a sense of clarity about who Jesus was.
He was God.
I would hear the stories of Jesus coming again and stare up at the sky late at night, wondering if this would be the night that Jesus was coming again.
When I got older, there were times that I was doing that again, but this time I was asking for a rapture because the rent was due.
We will be in Daniel 5, and where we are in Daniel, we are getting deeper into the prophetic side of this book.
We will see the fulfillment of prophecy from one kingdom to another.
Ultimately, the book of Daniel will point us to the coming of God's kingdom.
How can we live with anticipation of God's kingdom?
Let's look into this chapter.
Scripture Reading
Pray
We learn about the fulfillment of God's promises in Daniel 5, which will ultimately point us to God's future kingdom.
I think we can learn a few things about the coming of God's kingdom through the events of Daniel 5.
First,
God’s kingdom will come at an unexpected moment.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
Text: Daniel 5:5; Ex. 31:18; Luke 11:20; Acts 1:6-7; Matt.
24:36-44; John 7:6
God appears to the king at a time he did not expect.
People are impatient with God's timing, yet God's timing is perfect.
Live with anticipation of God's kingdom.
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God’s appearance is sudden.
What strikes me about this story is how sudden it is.
The king enjoys this great feast with a thousand of his highest nobles.
He's drinking it up, laughing, and having a good time.
He's had a few drinks, and he remembers that there are these beautiful vessels that Nebuchadnezzar brought back with him after conquering Jerusalem.
Well, you know he wants to flaunt his wealth in front of his guests.
You see, they thought that their gods were the reason they had this great victory.
Daniel mentions later that the king had some knowledge of Nebuchadnezzar's dealing with the God of Israel.
But at this moment, the king is ignoring all of those things.
He takes these holy vessels from the temple, fills them up with wine, and uses them to impress all of his nobles with his wealth and power.
That's when the "all of a sudden" occurs.
It says this in verse 5.
"At that moment."
It's interesting how everything can change in a moment, especially when trying to do your own thing.
You're focused on what you have going on, and life happens.
Reality sort of hits you in the face.
Yet this reality was something the king wasn't planning.
It says that "the fingers of a man's hand" started writing on the wall!
The king is so scared that it's graphic.
The king grows pale, soils himself, and starts panicking.
God's finger was bringing judgment against the king and the kingdom.
What's important in this verse is the king's prior knowledge.
Verse 22 says that the king knew what the God of Israel had done to Nebuchadnezzar.
Maybe for Belshazzar, he felt those were just stories, things that didn't need his attention.
But here's the thing: God's power and judgment don't depend on whether you feel like paying attention to it.
This verse in Scripture isn't the first time we see God's finger writing something.
God called Moses up to a mountain called Mount Sinai.
It says this in Exodus 31:18.
Moses has been up there for a long time.
Now, the people at the bottom got tired of waiting for Moses.
They decided that the God of Israel didn't have power.
They decided to do their own thing.
They built an idol that made them feel comfortable and started partying.
It's a lot like what we see in Daniel 5. Then Moses shows up with the tablets inscribed by the finger of God, and there is a judgment upon the people of Israel.
People rebel against God’s power and timing.
People are impatient.
But I think it's worse than that here.
People like to deny God's power.
They try to rationalize things in a way that restricts God's ability to do something.
You see this in Jesus' ministry.
Jesus was driving out demons, but some in the crowd were trying to rationalize it.
Jesus didn't fit into their preconceived notions of God.
God didn't work with Jesus like they wanted God to work.
See, they had crafted and formed an idea of God in their mind that did things according to their own will.
To try and rationalize Jesus, they accused Jesus of driving out demons by Satan.
Listen in Luke 11:20 to how Jesus responds to those in the crowd denying God's power in Jesus.
God's power in Jesus was the finger of God, a judgment upon their hearts.
The kingdom of God was upon them.
He says a few verses later in verse 23, "Anyone who is not with me is against me."
People are impatient with God’s timetable.
It's not only God's power.
People are impatient with God's timing.
I grew up hearing many pastors speak about Jesus coming again.
I've listened to it for years.
There have been abuses.
In New York in 2011, a radio preacher said that Jesus was coming on a particular date that year.
He invested a bunch of money advertising it around the city.
The date came and went.
Nothing happened.
No rapture.
Nothing.
People get impatient with God.
You even see this in the disciples.
They start to ask Jesus about the kingdom.
When is it happening?
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