Just How Great Is Our God Series

Introduction

Sometimes we as Christians forget how great and powerful our God is. And it takes an unbeliever to call to our attention just how great our God is. Have you ever had a person you know who is not a Christian, ask you to pray for them? That is God showing you through an unbeliever His greatness. The unbeliever sees God’s greatness and we forgot it.

Last week, if you were here, Bro Greg preached a sermon about a man possessed by a Legion of demons. And in that passage of Scripture, the demons showed us just how great our God is.

Matthew 8:31 NKJV

31 So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”

The demons never questioned Jesus’ authority or power to cast them out of the man. The demons did not say if you can cast us out; they knew His authority over them. What they said if You chose to cast us out then send us to the swine. I want to make sure you understand these demons showed us just how great our God is.

And today, in Daniel Chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar, an unbeliever, one who worshiped the gods of Bal and ruled Babylon with an iron fist, is going to show just how great our God is.

And what I want you to leave with today, is a sense of awe as to how great our God is. Let’s begin.

Scripture

Daniel 4:4–18 (NKJV)

4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. 6 Therefore I issued a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 7 Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its interpretation. 8 But at last Daniel came before me (his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying: 9 “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

10 These were the visions of my head while on my bed:

I was looking, and behold,

A tree in the midst of the earth,

And its height was great.

11 The tree grew and became strong;

Its height reached to the heavens,

And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth.

12 Its leaves were lovely,

Its fruit abundant,

And in it was food for all.

The beasts of the field found shade under it,

The birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches,

And all flesh was fed from it.

13 “I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven. 14 He cried aloud and said thus:

‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches,

Strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.

Let the beasts get out from under it,

And the birds from its branches.

15 Nevertheless leave the stump and roots in the earth,

Bound with a band of iron and bronze,

In the tender grass of the field.

Let it be wet with the dew of heaven,

And let him graze with the beasts

On the grass of the earth.

16 Let his heart be changed from that of a man,

Let him be given the heart of a beast,

And let seven times pass over him.

17 ‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers,

And the sentence by the word of the holy ones,

In order that the living may know

That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,

Gives it to whomever He will,

And sets over it the lowest of men.’

18 “This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you.”

Point #1

Three times Nebuchadnezzar says about Daniel “for the spirit of the Holy God is in you.” Let me tell you, when you have the Spirit of the Holy God in you, you will always get what you need for the situation you are in and people who don’t even know God will notice how great our God is.