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Unmasking the Wizards

by Rev. Kirby Williams

Exposing the phoniness of the world's knowledge.

Text: Daniel 2:1-12
Date: 06/04/2017, the Evening service.
Series: "Daniel: Divine Dominion and Deliverance" Part 4

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As the drama of Daniel's situation in the court of king Nebuchadnezzar begins to build, the king makes an irrational demand of his wizards. He has had a dream that troubles him and he wants these spiritualists who claim supernatural revelation, to go beyond the interpretation of the dream and provide him with it's content. The stage is set for the first encounter between Daniel's faith in God and the phony claims of the wizards (representing the world's knowledge). We will focus on Nebuchadnezzar's ploy to find out what is real and what is not. We will then ask ourselves the poignant question, "what do we believe?" Are our beliefs and doctrines based on the truths of Scripture or have the words of the wizards crept into the the church itself? Like Nebuchadnezzar, we will attempt to unmask the wizards and thereby establish what is real.


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I. Introduction
II. Exposition of the text, Daniel 2:1-12.
A. Context
B. Nebuchadnezzar's irrational request.
1. The troubling dream, vs. 1.
a. Getting the chronology straight.
b. The source of the problem.
c. The source of the dream.
2. Nebuchadnezzar's unreasonable request, vs. 2-3.
a. Assembling the maggi, vs 2.
b. The only point of contact, Deut. 18:14.
c. The king's dream, vs. 3.
3. A confident response, vs. 4.
4. The king's stunning command, vs. 5-6.
a. The irrational request, vs. 5a.
b. The brutal threat, vs. 5b.
c. The exorbitant reward, vs. 6.
5. A stunned response, vs. 7.
6. Repeating the threat, vs. 8-9.
7. An admission of guilt, vs. 10-11.
8. The wrath of the king, vs. 12.
III. Application
A. A close encounter with God, Isa. 28:11.
B. Identifying modern wizards.
C. A dilemma in the church.
1. "Real" in theory, Isa. 47:13-14, 1Kings 18:27-29, Ex. 8:18-19.
2. "Wrong" in practice.
IV. Conclusion

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