DNA: The City
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Introduction
Introduction
I grew up at St. Pauls Lutheran School
Lutheran school in the late 80’s for a little kid meant one thing
Felt Board Bible Stories
Who remembers the felt board?
Talk about adults lying to little kids
Happy Noah and all the sweet animals
Just the other day my sweet wife says: Think of all the animal poop on that boat. What did they do with it?”
I don’t remember the Rhino poo felt cut out
Jonah and the whale…ever read the end of Jonah…dude was an absolute mess..it ends with Jonah mad at God for being compassionate to people he didnt like...
Daniel and the docile Lions....
We even had a song for that one…anyone remember “Dare to be a Daniel”?
At no point was i ever told what it means to be a Daniel?
If you have waited 30 years to know what it means to be a Daniel I am happy to bring you closure this morning
The passage we are in this morning is what it means to be a Daniel.
It is the passage HE read that shaped His heart and life
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be seventy.
How did Daniel make sense of how to live in the City?
Jeremiah 29 is what he read to do it
As we walk through our Passage this morning Daniel will be our real life example
We are going to see 3 Things this morning
Gods Plan for the City, A Third Way in the City, and the City of All Cities
God’s Plan for the City: 29:-4-6
God’s Plan for the City: 29:-4-6
This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Find wives for yourselves, and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
How did we get here?
sovereignty over exile..his plan to move the nations to seek the gospel…his mission to have the nations as His..from the day of his birth wise men came from the nations because of the exile to babylon
stats on cities, why the city
God’s plan has always been to reach the nations through the city
Christmas is coming and we will see the 3 wise men figurines.
THe nations came to worship the king because of the faithful witness of Gods people in the babylon the nations heard of Jesus
In Matthew 2 they come to Jesus.
The only way these men would have known to look for the King of Kings was through the witness of God’s people in city
The nations represented in these men come to worship
They don’t worship a regular King
They worship a king whose message is unlike any other
This King came to die for His people
The nations came to Jesus with
A Third Way in the City: 29: 7-9
A Third Way in the City: 29: 7-9
Pursue the well-being of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it thrives, you will thrive.”
For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them, for they are prophesying falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
- contextualization, the questions of the city, daniel as a wise man
The City of all Cities: 29: 10-14
The City of all Cities: 29: 10-14
For this is what the Lord says: “When seventy years for Babylon are complete, I will attend to you and will confirm my promise concerning you to restore you to this place. For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore you to the place from which I deported you.”
The ultimate exile..the one carried off to die in a foreign land that he may set the captives to an impossible master free.
true restoration would come from the ultimate exile
Contextualization
Critiqing from the inside
The third way
