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• You looked, O king, and there before you stood a
  large statue-- an enormous, dazzling statue,
  awesome in appearance. The head of the statue
  was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of
  silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs
  of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of
  baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was
  cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the
  statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed
  them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the
  silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the
  same time and became like chaff on a threshing
  floor in the summer. The wind swept them away
  without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck
  the statue became a huge mountain and filled the
  whole earth

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• This was the dream, and now we will interpret it
  to the king.
• You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of
  heaven has given you dominion and power and might
  and glory in your hands he has placed mankind
  and the beasts of the field and the birds of the
  air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler
  over them all. You are that head of gold. After
  you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to
  yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will
  rule over the whole earth.
• Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong
  as iron-- for iron breaks and smashes
  everything-- and as iron breaks things to pieces,
  so it will crush and break all the others

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• Just as you saw that the feet and toes were
  partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this
  will be a divided kingdom yet it will have some
  of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw
  iron mixed with clay.
• As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so
  this kingdom will be partly strong and partly
  brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with
  baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and
  will not remain united, any more than iron mixes
  with clay. In the time of those kings, the God
  of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never
  be destroyed, nor will it be left to another
  people. It will crush all those kingdoms and
  bring them to an end, but it will itself endure
  forever

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• This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut
  out of a mountain, but not by human hands-- a
  rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay,
  the silver and the gold to pieces. The great God
  has shown the king what will take place in the
  future. The dream is true and the interpretation
  is trustworthy - Daniel 231-45

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• 1- Everything you have, Nebuchadnezzar, comes
  from God. Therefore, its an entrustment
• BToL-If it comes from God, then you are
  responsible to God for what you do with it
• 2- The king has been entrusted with all that he
  has because God has a purpose for him
• 3- Nebuchadnezzars kingdom will end and another
  will come and take over

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• Teach us to number our days aright, that we may
  gain a heart of wisdom - Psalm 9012
• If you number your days, you live in the
  awareness of a quick end at any moment and live
  differently

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• Two main reasons for prophecy
• 1- Authentication
• 2- Encouragement/Warning

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• But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
  The heavens will disappear with a roar the
  elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth
  and everything in it will be laid bare. Since
  everything will be destroyed in this way, what
  kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live
  holy and godly lives as you look forward to the
  day of God and speed its coming. That day will
  bring about the destruction of the heavens by
  fire, and the elements will melt in the heat- 2
  Peter 310-12

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• What God is saying to us today
• - Missional living- something greater than
  ourselves
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• - Incarnational living- Jesus living through us

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• Communion points backward
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• Communion points forward
• I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from
  now on until that day when I drink it anew with
  you in my Fathers kingdom
  - Matthew 2629

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• Communion is a down-payment on a promise God will
  keep. It reminds us to live for him now
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• The eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth
  to strengthen those whose hearts are fully
  committed to him - 2 Chronicles 169