Hi friends and welcome to
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Books of the Book!
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We are studying the book of
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Daniel and we are in Daniel
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Chapter 10.
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My name is James
Rafferty and I am Ty Gibson
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and thank you for joining us.
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If you can have easy access
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to a Bible open up to chapter
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10 of Daniel.
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James this is a
chapter in the book of Daniel
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that is just packed
full of information that is
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valuable and beautiful.
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First thing we want to notice
here in Daniel Chapter 10,
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is that Daniel has an
encounter with none other
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than the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You know is really
interesting Ty when you look
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at the Chapter, as a whole,
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you do not see a
lot of prophecy in here.
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I remember when I
used to study Daniel,
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I used to think Daniel 10,
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there's not a lot in
there so I don't really
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need to study that
because I am into prophecy and I
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want to
understand end time events.
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I want to see the beast,
I want to understand what
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they mean, and I
would skip over Daniel 10.
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It's like when I was a
kid and my mom would say,
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eat your vegetables.
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I wanted to get
them out of the way,
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because I didn't like them,
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and get to the
good stuff on the plate.
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Potatoes, gravy, and
so Daniel 10 was like,
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let's get this out of the way.
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When I was a kid I realized,
at lease later on in life,
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that looking back the
vegetables were the good stuff.
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The vegetables were
what nurtured and grew me,
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made me strong.
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That is the same with Daniel 10,
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Daniel 10 is a the good stuff.
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Why? Because Daniel 10 is
where Daniel encounters Christ.
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Daniel 10 is where we
see a man in an experience of
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sanctification and we
learned what it feels like,
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what you
experience in sanctification.
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It is informative to
the Christian experience.
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Daniel says in verse 2, he
was mourning for 3 full weeks.
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It says that he ate no
pleasant food, no meat, no wine
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came into his mouth nor
did he anoint himself at all
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till 3 whole
weeks were fulfilled.
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Then it opens
before him, that Jesus
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appears in glorious form.
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This appearing of Jesus to
Daniel is very striking and
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similar to another
appearance of Jesus to
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John the Revelator in
the book of Revelation.
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First let's read the one
here in chapter 10 of Daniel.
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He says in verses 5 and 6,
verse 5, "I lifted up my eyes"
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"and looked and behold a
certain man clothed in linen,"
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it says James, "who's
waist was girded with gold,"
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then in verse 6,
"his body was like beryl,"
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"he is face like the
appearance of lightning,"
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this is important
to highlight here.
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"His eyes like torches of fire,
his arms and his feet like"
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"burnished or
polished brass in color."
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"The sound of his
words were like the
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"voice of a multitude."
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What a vision!
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It's incredible Ty, what
we're looking at here is we are
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looking at Daniel seeing a
man who is identified as clothed
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in linen, it's not
Jesus yet in Daniel's mind.
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He is not sure who this being is
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But we know it's Jesus because
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we can see the
seven characteristics,
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"the clothed in linen,"
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"the fine gold, the beryl,"
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"the appearance of lightning,"
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"the eyes as lamps of fire,
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"arms and feet like
colored polished brass,"
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"and the words
of the multitude."
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We see all these similar
characteristics in the book of
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Revelation, specifically in
Revelation chapters 1 and 2.
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In chapter 1 in Revelation
beginning right here in
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verse 13, John is in
vision on the Lord's Day.
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And he sees one "like the
Son of Man, clothed with a"
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"garment down to the foot,
and girded about his waist"
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"with a golden girdle."
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"He is head and he is
hair were white like wool,"
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"as white as snow; and his
eyes were as a flame of fire;"
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"and his feet like brass as
if they burned in a furnace;"
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"and his voice is as
the sound of many waters."
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And in Revelation 2:18
the same person which is the
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Son of Man, in chapter 1,
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is identified to
the church Thyatira.
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"these things
saith the Son of God,"
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"who has eyes like
to a flame of fire,"
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"and his feet like fine brass."
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The Son of Man,
another phrase for Jesus,
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the Son of God, Jesus Himself,
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it's the same certain
person that is clothed in linen
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that appears to Daniel.
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The comparison is very clear.
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It is a very striking comparison
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and identification.
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Jesus is the one who appears to
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Daniel in Daniel Chapter 10.
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What is really
powerful about this Ty,
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you see a progression of
Daniel's experience with God.
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He begins by purposing in his
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heart, Daniel Chapter 1.
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Then he gets a vision through
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Nebuchadnezzar,
which is again given to him
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and he interprets it.
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Then he gets his own
visions in Daniel 7 and onward.
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Then Gabriel
comes and visits him.
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You see this
progression taken place.
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Now you get Daniel Chapter
10, and it is incredible,
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now Jesus Himself, God
Himself in the person of
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Jesus Christ
comes to visit Daniel.
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Not an Angel, not
a dream or a vision,
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not someone else's dream
or vision, but God Himself.
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This is amazing and
it's obvious that this
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is overwhelming to him.
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The vision of this
glorious being in verses 5 and 6
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overcomes Daniel
and in verse 7 it says,
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"he was filled with
great terror and he fell upon"
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"his hands and
knees and upon his face."
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It says in verse 8
"that he is comeliness,"
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an old English word for
beauty, "was turned in him"
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"into corruption."
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In other words, Daniel
began to realize his own
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sinfulness in the
presence of this One
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who appears to
him, Jesus Christ.
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And Daniel was a man who
could stand without fault
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before his enemies.
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Daniel is a man who
is blameless before those
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who were seeking to
find fault with him.
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Who is seeking to mudslinging
in the political world.
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Daniel is
exemplifying here friends,
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what sanctification looks like.
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Sanctification, in
the follower of Christ,
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does not look like
I am holier than you.
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I'm better than you.
I'm more righteous than you.
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Sanctification is the appearance
of meekness and humility.
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So much so that when you
come in contact with Christ,
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the more you see of
Christ the less grandeur,
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the less righteousness,
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the less goodness
you see in yourself.
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You feel like
you have no strength,
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you are not good,
you are not righteous,
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and while the other men fled,
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who are with Daniel
when this vision comes,
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he himself retains no strength,
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and he falls on his
face as though he is dead.
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In the first 9 it
says that a deep sleep fell
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upon him, as he laid
there upon his face before
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the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now Ty what is
interesting about verse 9 is the
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transition that is taking place.
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He has no strength and
it says there in verse 9,
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"yet I heard the
voice of his words:"
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"and when I heard
the voice of his words,"
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"then I was in a deep sleep,"
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Jesus says in Matthew 11:28,
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"come unto me all Ye that labor"
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"and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest."
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Daniel is terrified,
the men are terrified,
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he has no strength,
no righteousness and yet
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Jesus, when he
speaks, when he speaks to him.
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When God doesn't speak to
us, when we don't feel God is
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present with us.
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We don't feel that God
is communicating to us,
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we can be overwhelmed
with guilt and feel unworthy.
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We can feel separated from God.
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But God assures
Daniel that he has His favor.
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He speaks to him.
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If you get in a
tiff with your wife,
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I know you never do.
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My wife and I
sometimes have what we call
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these intense
moments of fellowship.
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When we get in a
difference, the words stop.
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There is a lack of
communication and that
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does not go well.
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Daniel is in a situation
where he is feeling like does
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God love me? Does God except me?
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Is He still there for me?
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When he hears the words
he gets the peace of God.
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He comes and feels
that God has accepted him.
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He has the rest
that Jesus promises us.
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Then the angel Gabriel
appears again in verse 10.
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It says, "a hand touched
me, which made me tremble"
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"on my knees and on
my palms of my hands."
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And notice this James in
verse 11, "and he said to me,"
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that's Gabriel
speaking, "oh Daniel,"
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"a man greatly beloved,
understand the words that I"
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"speak to you and stand upright:
for I have been sent to you."
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And this is, I mean just
think about this, he is filled
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with terror, he is
overcome, he is on his face,
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and trembling and here's
the message that Gabriel gives.
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Gabriel says, Daniel
God loves you greatly.
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You are greatly beloved of God.
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Stand on your feet we need
to do some communicating here.
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I have appeared not to
cause you to tremble, and Jesus
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didn't appear to cause you to
tremble, but to assure you are
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deeply loved by God.
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That is the very time we need
to be assured of God's love.
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Friends, there are times
in our lives when we feel like
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we are no good, we are
worthless, we have nothing in us
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that commends us to God.
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That is the very
time that we need to know
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that God loves us.
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Because when God communicates
that He loves in that time,
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it is based on who He is
and not based on who we are.
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It is based upon His
goodness, His righteousness,
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not our goodness
or our righteousness.
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So this speaks powerful
truths to those of us who are
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followers of the Lord
because as we progress in our
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Christian experience
we can begin to think that
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we are accepted of God
because of how good or holier,
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righteous or
obedient we have become in our
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Christian experience.
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Daniel is sharing with
us right here in Daniel 10
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that it is still not
based on our goodness,
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it's based on God's love to us.
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Man, he stands up James,
and we go at the latter part
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of verse 11 and he
is still trembling.
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Gabriel told him, you
are greatly beloved, stand up
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you do not need to be
terrified, stand before me,
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I need to share
with you now concerning
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the vision that you had.
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He says to him, don't
be afraid, in verse 12.
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He has to keep assuring Daniel.
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Daniel doesn't become
nonchalant in Gabriel's presence
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He doesn't take on an
attitude of ill-reverence he is
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still trembling and
yet the angel is trying
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to assure him.
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I don't know if this
is true or not James,
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because I haven't taken
the time to count these in
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Scripture, but in verse
12 where it says fear not,
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or do not fear, someone
has said that this is the
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most often repeated
phrase in Scripture.
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Every time a human being
has an encounter with God,
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or an angel sent
from God, the message is
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don't be afraid, fear not.
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That is an appropriate message
because God wants to assure
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us in His presence, He
wants to communicate with us.
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You see that repeated whenever
an angel visits or comes,
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because the brightness and
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the glory and the goodness and
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the love of God contrasts
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with who we are with our
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unrighteousness,
with our lack of goodness,
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does cause fear, a natural fear.
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I have never had
such an encounter,
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but I know that just in
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searching the Scriptures
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and having encounters heart
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to heart with the Savior
and learning about God sometimes
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has just bowed me down
with a sense of unworthiness.
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Not because God is
pressing a sense of unworthiness
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upon me, but
because God is holy.
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God is good, God is
righteous, God is love and
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everything that I see
in Him causes me to see in
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myself those things that
are out of harmony with Him.
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He does not leave me
there, He wants to lift me up so
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that I had the
privilege of becoming more
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and more like Him in character
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so that the contrast
becomes less distinct.
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Absolutely so in that sense
every one of us has had that
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encounter who have pursued after
God and sought to follow God.
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We all have encountered
Him in such a way that causes
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us to tremble unto fear.
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We all need this
message, fear not.
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It is a beautiful message
as we tremble before the Lord.
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It is a beautiful
assurance to us that we need
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over and over again.
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As we move on here look
at how Daniel gradually gains
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more strength and more courage.
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He first of all
is trembling and then
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falls into a sleep.
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He's resting Christ and
then there are the words
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that bring that
experience, that rest to Him
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the words he hears spoken.
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He awakens and is touched
that caused him to get to his
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hands and knees and then
he is touched again and he
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stands upon his
feet still trembling.
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You see a progression
here that is taking place.
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Friends we cannot
make one move toward God.
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We cannot stand in His presence.
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We can't even
bow in His presence.
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We cannot rise to our
feet, we cannot move toward Him
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without His divine intervention.
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Without Him coming to us.
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Without Him touching us
and without Him speaking to us,
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there is no goodness
or righteousness in us.
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God is consistently
reassuring us that He loves us
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and in that He is pursuing us.
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It is the divine
initiative of God toward us
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that draws us to Him.
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Jesus said this, He
said in John chapter 12:32.
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"If I be lifted up, I
will draw all men unto me."
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That is God's plan, that
is what God is seeking to do.
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Here the book of Daniel
chapter 10 we see God working
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to draw each one
of us unto Himself.
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Now we have a huge insight
into this controversy that is
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coming up in Daniel
chapter 10, so don't go away.
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Because we are
going to be right back!
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