Participants: Ty Gibson & James Rafferty
Series Code: DBOTB
Program Code: DBOTB000008B
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00:01 Welcome back friends, we are Daniel Chapter 7.
00:03 We have identified a power 00:05 that in the context of the 00:07 book of Daniel so far, is 00:09 seeking to undermine the new covenant. 00:12 Now what I say that Ty, we just expressed it, 00:15 but we didn't really prove it, so right now what we 00:17 want to do, with our viewers is take them to the book 00:20 of Hebrews Chapter 8. 00:21 We want to identify what the new covenant is so that we can 00:25 look at the principles of the new covenant and then go back 00:28 to the book of Daniel and identify that theme in Daniel, 00:32 and understand how it is being undermined, 00:34 or attacked by these powers that have been prophetically 00:37 predicted to do so. 00:38 Hebrews Chapter 8:6 clearly establishes what the new 00:44 covenant is, now it says, "but now had he obtained a more" 00:47 "excellent ministry, by how much more also he is the" 00:50 "mediator of a better covenant, which was established" 00:53 "upon better promises. " 00:54 "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then" 00:58 "should no place have been sought for the second. " 01:00 "For finding fault with them, he said, behold, the day is" 01:04 "come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant" 01:07 "with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:" 01:08 "not according to the covenant," verse 9, "that I" 01:11 "made with their fathers in the day when I took them by" 01:14 "the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because" 01:16 "they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them" 01:19 "not, saith the Lord. " 01:20 "For this is the covenant" verse 10, " that I will make" 01:24 "with the house of Israel after those days," 01:26 "saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind," 01:29 "and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a" 01:32 "God, and they shall be to me a people:" and they shall" 01:35 "not teach" verse 11, "every man his neighbor," 01:37 "and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:" 01:39 "for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. " 01:42 Verse 12, "for I will be merciful to their" 01:46 "unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I" 01:49 "will I remember no more. " 01:51 There it is. 01:52 I love this because over and over again we see that the 01:55 most prominent feature of the new covenant, 5 times 02:00 God says I will, I will, 02:02 I will, I will, I will. 02:04 God is telling us that the 02:07 old covenant was based on 02:09 weak human promises. 02:11 Faulty promises! Yeah Faulty Promises! 02:14 Promises that could be kept. 02:15 Our promises to God, as pertains to righteousness and 02:19 salvation, and obedience are like ropes of sand. 02:23 We are incapable of ourselves to keep the law of God. 02:28 We are morally bankrupt and God says, this is the covenant 02:32 that I'm going to make. 02:34 I will do these things and the way I am going to do it 02:38 is step one, I'm going to write my law in your heart, 02:43 in your mind. 02:45 Amen, yes this is crucial at this builds the 02:49 connection with Daniel. 02:50 Some of our viewers may be wondering what does this have 02:53 to do with the prophecy of Daniel Chapter 7? 02:56 But you will remember that in Daniel Chapter 7, 02:58 the characteristic that we focused in on regarding the 03:02 little horn is that it would intend to change the times 03:05 and laws of the most high God. 03:08 The little horn power is attacking the new covenant in 03:13 that it is attacking the plan of God by which the new 03:17 covenant of His law written in our hearts 03:20 would be fulfilled. 03:21 God intends to do this, the little horn is seeking 03:24 to intervene in order to prevent the fulfillment 03:28 of the new covenant. 03:29 And this is not the first time this attack on this 03:31 new covenant experience was made in the book of Daniel. 03:34 In Chapter 7 is another attack from another direction. 03:38 All through these first chapters God's new covenant 03:41 experience has been attacked as it concerns the 03:43 relationship God wants to have with His people. 03:46 Satan has sought, working through princes, and rulers, 03:48 an ungodly men to undermine relationship. 03:50 That is part of this new covenant experience. 03:53 Yet God has prevailed every step of the way. 03:55 We have saw that first of all, in the book of Daniel, 03:59 through a process God led Nebuchadnezzar to a new 04:03 covenant experience of relationship with Himself 04:06 based on faith. 04:08 Then we saw that God led Darius through an experience 04:13 of new covenant faith. 04:15 And of course we see that Daniel exemplifies the new 04:18 covenant relationship with God and his three friends. 04:22 Step by step through the entire narrative of 04:24 the book of Daniel. 04:25 But over and over again we see laws and principalities 04:27 seeking to undermine and disconnect that relationship, 04:30 that dependence, that faith relationship that these men 04:33 have with God. 04:35 So as we summarize this is really powerful because you 04:38 look at the first aspect of the new covenant. 04:41 There are five, there are five aspects here. 04:44 First 1, is what God will do, His power! 04:47 Number 2, His law is involved in the new covenant. 04:50 Number 3, notice what it says here in verse 11. 04:53 "And they shall not teach every man his neighbor," 04:56 "and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:" 04:58 "for all shall know me from the least to the greatest. " 05:01 That is talking about His Spirit. 05:04 It is talking about the unction of the Holy Spirit. 05:06 1 John says we have an unction from the Holy One and 05:08 we do not need any man to teach us. 05:10 But the Holy Spirit teaches us, now let's clarify this Ty. 05:13 It doesn't mean friends that we don't need pastor's, 05:16 we don't need teachers, we don't need elders in the church. 05:19 What it means is that we do not have to rely upon men 05:22 to be our teachers. 05:23 Men can help us and direct us, confirm what God is 05:27 teaching us, but our main teacher has to be the Lord. 05:31 It has to be the Holy Spirit. 05:32 God is promising us, He's going to do it, and He is going 05:35 to put His law in our hearts. 05:36 He is going to be doing it through His Holy Spirit with 05:39 His unction and we don't need to depend on man to teach 05:42 us, verse 12, and "He is going to be merciful to our" 05:45 "unrighteousness and He is going to forgive our sins. " 05:48 So it is not only His law, is not only His Spirit, 05:51 it is not only His power, it is also His mercy, it's His 05:54 grace that is going to be part of this new covenant 05:57 experience. 05:58 And finally, in the context of all of this, it says there, 06:02 in verse 10, "I will be to them a God and they shall be" 06:05 "to me a people. " 06:07 Relationship, the foundation of whole new covenant is, 06:09 number 5, relationship, God wants to have a relationship 06:12 with us, it is powerful isn't it? 06:13 A relationship in which He is the One Who is achieving 06:17 our salvation, He is the one by His grace that is writing 06:21 His law in our hearts. 06:22 Who is overcoming the sin problem, and delivering us from 06:26 sin through His mercy and forgiveness and giving us a 06:30 clear understanding of His love for us. 06:33 Which, in turn, draws us into a relationship with Himself 06:37 and empowers us to receive God's law into our hearts 06:42 and into our minds. 06:43 This is very important Ty because by definition 1 John 3:4 06:47 says, sin is transgression of the law. 06:50 Jesus came to save us from 06:51 our sins, so He came to save 06:53 us from transgressing the law. 06:55 Both in the sense of being saved 06:57 from the things that we have 06:59 done in transgressing God's law and in an ongoing 07:01 experience of transgressing God's law. 07:03 So we don't have to murder anymore, we don't have to 07:05 steal anymore, we don't have to take God's name in vain. 07:08 We don't have to break His Sabbath. 07:09 We don't need to covet our neighbors goods. 07:12 God wants to put His law of love into our hearts. 07:14 That is part of the new covenant experience that God wants 07:17 us to have and this is what Satan is seeking to undermine 07:21 through the powers, the secular powers, that are identified 07:24 here in the book of Daniel as well as the professed 07:28 religious powers that come into play as we move down 07:31 through the history of time. 07:32 So we are seeing here in Daniel 07:35 Chapter 7 is a picture of the 07:37 great controversy as it plays 07:39 out in human affairs at the 07:42 end of time. 07:44 We see that the crucial issues that are involved in this 07:48 great controversy, center on God's plan and objective to 07:53 establish and fulfill the new covenant in the 07:56 hearts of His people. 07:58 And the little horn power seeking to intervene and 08:01 prevent the fulfillment of the new covenant through 08:05 exercising force in the name of God, through defaming 08:08 or blasphemy in the name of God, and by changing the law of God 08:14 and the time in God's law. 08:16 These are the characteristics of the little horn. 08:19 But we see here in Daniel 7 the promise that in this 08:22 great controversy, in this conflict that the Saints 08:25 of the most high God, the people of God emerge from this 08:29 conflict with the little horn, they emerge victorious. 08:32 They emerge victorious in the sense that it says the 08:36 kingdom is given over into the hands of the Saints of 08:40 the most high God and judgment is made in their favor. 08:44 This is the outcome of the judgment. 08:46 Amen, and we can identify Ty, it is very important for us 08:49 to identify, New Testament, last book of the Bible, 08:52 who are the Saints, Revelations Chapter 14:12, 08:56 "here is the patience of the Saints. " 08:57 Who are they? "These are they that keep the Commandments" 09:01 "of God and the faith of Jesus. " 09:03 So you have a group of people in the end of time that 09:05 have full faith in Jesus, a relationship with God, anointing 09:08 of the Holy Spirit, their sins are forgiven by 09:10 the blood of Jesus Christ, and yet they are reliant on 09:13 God's power and they keep His Commandments, keep His law. 09:16 The law is being challenged in Chapter 7 and verse 25. 09:20 The law is being changed and this is really subtle 09:22 because there are a lot of people today who feel like 09:25 they are keeping God's law, but because the law has been 09:27 changed, guess what? 09:28 They are not keeping God's law. 09:30 That's right and it is incredible to notice that the 09:34 identification of this end time people is not an 09:37 identification that they simply keep the law. 09:40 This isn't a law keeping 09:43 legalistic people, nor is this a 09:45 people that disregard the law in 09:48 favor of faith in Christ. 09:50 As they keep the Commandments of God and have the faith of 09:54 Jesus, these are like two oars on a rowboat in which as 09:59 they move in tandem, in unison, those two oars of faith 10:04 and works, obedience and faith move in unison and 10:08 develop Christian character in balance. 10:12 But we need to understand that it is not just balance 10:15 James, the keeping of God's Commandments is in fact, 10:18 the result of faith. 10:20 We are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone. 10:23 There is no virtue, there is no merit, there is no 10:26 salvation in keeping the law of God. 10:28 But those who enter into new covenant relationship 10:32 with God will in fact, keep the law of God because it has 10:36 been written in their hearts. 10:37 You know I am really glad you clarified that Ty. 10:39 There is a little bit of 10:41 confusion about this in 10:42 relation to New Testament. 10:44 There are a lot of people 10:45 who believe that in the old 10:46 Testament we were saved by law, so in the Old Testament 10:50 you have a people that kept God's law. 10:53 When Jesus came, when the Messiah came, they rejected Him. 10:56 They did not exercise faith in Him. 10:57 Now you come past the cross, you come past the New Testament 11:01 church, and you come to the Christian believer today. 11:04 You know many Christians today believe that we are living 11:06 in a covenant, they called the new covenant, that means 11:09 we are saved solely by grace and therefore, because we 11:12 are saved by grace, we don't keep the law of the 11:15 Old Testament. 11:17 In other words, Jesus has done away with the law. 11:19 This is not what the Bible teaches, and this is not 11:22 what we believe, and this is not what the book of Daniel 11:24 and the book of Revelation is telling us. 11:26 We find here, is we find here a people who not only place 11:29 their faith in Jesus, but they also keep the law. 11:31 God is looking for a people who will not only accept the 11:35 Messiah, but will also allow that new covenant promise to be 11:38 fulfilled in their hearts and in their lives. 11:41 Daniel 7 closes on a note of victory James. 11:45 We had here a very clear result of the great controversy 11:49 between good and evil. 11:50 In verse 26, speaking of the judgment and its effect 11:54 on the little horn, Scripture says that the court or the 11:58 judgment shall be seated and they shall take away his 12:01 dominion, that is the dominion of the little horn, 12:05 to consume and destroy it for ever. 12:07 And then in verse 27, "then the kingdom and dominion and the" 12:11 "greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall" 12:15 "be given to the people of the Saints of the most high God" 12:18 "and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. " 12:21 It is our prayer that you would be a part of that final 12:25 victory and the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior 12:28 Jesus Christ. |
Revised 2022-11-14