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February 7, 2020 8:00 am
Honesty delivered in the right ways powerful the Bible because in speaking the truth in love. That's our topic today with Dr. Wilton welcome his edition of The Encouraging Word teaching the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton well-known author management seminary professor and so much more today as he opens the book of Daniel were still the study on Daniel. He's talking about the sovereignty of God and the sins of the son, and in particular honest communication helps us grow in our faith as we dive you know that we're here for you to pray with you right now as we kick off the program are numbers. 866-899-WORD jotted down storing your cell 866-899-9673 will always connect with one of us happy to talk the listener pray and connect with great resources email us at online@tewonline.org large now Dr. Don Wilton I'm going to speak on the subject of how to speak truth in love, how to speak the truth in love.
Now this is a word for parents and educators grandparents whole politicians you know and love the Lord Jesus Christ man and woman for postures for teachers for Sunday school workers.
This is a very very critically important dynamic in our hearts and lives to the truth is something that we have to deal with because truth is put in place by God himself. The question is how do we speak the truth in love. Now we have a king by the name of maybe goodness and I'm going to remind you that in the life of maybe couldn't answer.
We have a man who is all powerful, maybe couldn't answer is a man who was with and I am wrong. Nobody can compare.
Nebuchadnezzar, he is the king of all kings. I've heard some preachers call him Goldfinger because he ruled over Babylon, the gold central balloon and maybe commands it was a man when he spoke, people acted. We need to pre-people jump. If NASA wanted to execute somebody executed them if they wanted to promote somebody. He promoted them, and the result was that they were literally hundreds of thousands of people who became his subjects.
There are many of us like that today. We don't live in a dictatorship like that. Just as a matter of interest. There are many people in the world do you live in a dictatorship. There are many people who have no control over their own destiny, but not in the United States of America. We have quote unquote the power of the ballot box. We don't live under a crack or a dictator.
We don't live under someone over Ross and hands down edicts but at the same time, the subtlety of the undermining of truth in any society is a reality that all believers have to do without exception.
I think that I may say to you that even this morning as I preached on the team.
Come on, we basically were looking at walk-throughs is compared to what the world has determined truth is, and the question is this how do we determined to share what is right and proper in the sight of God and how do we endeavor to teach truth in love to our fellow man. In chapter 4 we going to find an incredible tub that takes place on the one hand there is maybe couldn't answer a human being a man is in charge.
A man who has everything that opens and shots is everything.
Eddie's fingertips, but on the other hand, we have God's sovereign, not the key verse in chapter 4 is going to be found in verse 37. The key verse in the whole of chapter 4 is going to be found in verse 37 and I want you to repeat verse 37 off to me. I'm going to read a few phrases I want you to repeat it out loud often read together.
Now I maybe couldn't answer, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven because everything he does is lie and all of these ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able, now that is a remarkable verse. Would you believe me if I told you that that was King Nebuchadnezzar speaking. I've entitled this overall theme. The conversion of the king. King goodness of the same man who has caused so much destruction who has decreed so much falsehood, who has undermined truth has finally come to the point at which he recognizes the King of heaven because everything the King of heaven does is right because everything that the King of heaven does is just he praises and exalt him and then against all confounding of all the critics. This is the same man who says those who walk in pride. God alone is able to humble we find here in chapter 4, an incredible tug-of-war that takes place in the life of King Nebuchadnezzar and this tug-of-war went all the way back into chapter 1 in chapter 1 Nebuchadnezzar is stunned and shocked at what is taking place in the life of these young believers in chapter 2 Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges the God of heaven. In verse 47. In chapter 3 Nebuchadnezzar builds a statute to himself and then ends up in praises God and in chapter 4 God finally deals finally with Nebuchadnezzar.
Now I'm going to skip all the way over to the interpretation of the second dream of Nebuchadnezzar.
I do want to read to you what the dream was about to put this into context, so I'm going to begin at verse four of chapter 4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at home in my palace, contented and prosperous.
I had a dream that made me afraid as I was lying in my bed. The images envisions the boss through my mind terrified me so I could bonded that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me when the magicians being taunted as astrologers and diviners came I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me. Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream is called Delta shares are often the name of my God and the spirit of the holy God is in him. I see Delta shares chief of the magicians.
I know that the spirit of the holy God is in you and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream interpreted for me this is the dream where all these visions I saw while lying in bed.
I looked and there before me, stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its hike was enormous. The tree grew large and strong, and its top touch the sky.
It was visible to the ends of the year, its leaves were beautiful its fruit abundant and all it was food for rule under the under Rick the beasts of the field found shelter and the birds of the air live in its branches from it. Every creature was spread in the visions I saw while lying in my bed. I looked at there before me was a messenger of holy one, coming down from heaven by the wife you've ever wanted.
Where heaven is is another passage. Heaven is up it's right above us all guarantee you because of Scripture. He called in a loud voice cut down the tree impossible for its branches strip over its leaves and scattered screwed let the animals free from under them. The birds from its branches, but left the stump and its roots bound with iron and bronze remain in the ground in the boss of the fee, let him be drenched with the dew of heaven. Let them live with the animals among the parts of the year ladies mind be changed from that of a man related be given the mind of an animal till seven times, possible buyer for him.
The decision is announced by messengers the holy ones dictated the verdict so that the living may know that the most high is sovereign over the kingdoms of man and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them. The lowliest of man. This is the dream of acting. Nebuchadnezzar had now about us as a tell me what it means when none of the wise men coming in my kingdom can interpret for me, but you can because the spirit of the holy God is in you then. Daniel also called Delta says was greatly perplexed for a time and he's thoughts terrified him so the king said Delta shares are. Do not delete the dream or its meaning alarm you.
Delta shares are on said my Lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies, and its meaning to your adversary the trees for which grew large and strong with its top touching the sky visible to the whole earth with beautiful leaves of abundant fruit. Providing food for all giving shelter to the beasts of the field and having nesting places in Rogers for the birds of the air you okay all that tree you have become great and strong, your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky. Your dominion extends to the distant parts of the earth you are looking for messenger a holy one, coming down from heaven saying cut down the tree and destroy it but leave the stump bound with iron and bronze in the grass of the field while its roots remain in the ground. Let them be drenched with the dew of heaven. Let them live like a wild animals seven times boss frame. This is the interpretation of King. This is the decree the most high is issued against my lord the king, you will be driven away from people you will live with the wild animals you will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven, seven times we paused by for you until you acknowledge that the most high is sovereign over the kingdoms of man and gives them to anyone he wishes the cabal to leave the stop of the dream, with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that heaven room. Therefore, okay. P please accept my advice, renounce your sin by doing what is right and your wickedness by being kind to the euro price may mean that then your prosperity will continue the more we apply God's truth.Encouraging Word to our life in her heart.
The more we become like Christ. The greater God's forgiveness interruption will be back with complete message the sovereignty of God in the sense of sale of the sun. That's the message today from Dr. Wilton in just a moment the doctor done in societal level so you know, we can pray with you, we stand ready, not just encourage you the teaching of God's word but to encourage with resources to help you spend time on a daily basis in God's word for the really daily free Bible, God will put in your hands if you call 866899 word that's 866-899-9673 email us at online@tewonline.org. You can sign up for the free email and you get that email from Dr. Wilton every single day. We believe in this consistency of God's word and how it will change are the genuineness of our heart in great ways to get her thoughts are back in today's message at the end.
The problem yes I will give you more information on the Jesus in you. It may have contacts about this all the time and ran lots book Jesus and me. You can see the details on our website@twonline.org for details before the broadcast is over. Now let's get back to Doc's teaching. This is Dr. Don Wilton folks. That's a long passage to read and my needed to read that to you because you don't it's very difficult to understand the context in which is this the same.
All I want to share with you tonight is simply this, then you could man is a dream to dream once again. He's engaged in this parcel with God. God brings both the shares are otherwise known as Daniel into his presence and gives to Daniel the opportunity of speaking the truth in love. Nebuchadnezzar the same thing that has the capacity to execute them same team who has the capacity to throw Shadrach me shack and Abednego into the fiery furnace. The same thing when we see light. Ron is going to throw Daniel into the lions den. At least it was his son. We know that there is a patent here that is set up of antagonism against the sovereign will of God. So I wanted to share with you to monitor some brief thoughts about how to speak the truth in love.
Let's develop an acrostic Festival T. Think it over. Think about know one of the greatest problems that I have is that I don't think things over. Not sometimes when we know that something is right, we ought to quick to speak before we thought the Truman presented to God, so that even though we are saying something that is right because we haven't thought of over no matter how rented is it still comes out wrong just like us men just like human beings today is not just classic. Sometimes we know that what we want to say is correct, but because we don't as it will catch our breath and think things over as moms and his dad just politicians as preachers as teachers we end up saying the truth but because we haven't thought of over we end up saying the truth in the wrong way and we end up destroying what we intend to decide to begin. Think it over. Verse 19 tells us the bat Delta says or Daniel was greatly perplexed for a time what what you have to say terrified and wanted a terrifying well I think the aunts is quite simple because he realized he was dealing with Nebuchadnezzar, he realized that he had the truth to say, but he realized that the truth is going to be so direct it was going to be so straightforward that if it was not saved in love that he would end up the same way that Nebuchadnezzar intended for Daniels three friends to end up all review your heart reveal your heart. Folks listen as moms and Vance's parents as preposterous as ministers. One of the greatest assets that God is given to you is the genuineness of your own heart.
Don't run away from your heart. Many things in life are not taught they all court many things in life are not saying they are experienced.
There are many times in life that it's not what you say.
That is going to make a difference. It's how you say it is going to make a difference.
Sometimes you may be having problems with your wife over your husband and and you seem to be butting heads and there seems to be a deterioration in your marriage and you cannot speak to each other and many times in that relationship.
It's not that you are wrong or she is Romo.
He is wrong. It's not in what you're saying to one another. It's how you saying up to one you'll never get the truth through if you don't reveal your heart and you will name you reviewed your heart if you don't take time out to think about. That's my greatest challenge in the world because I have a tendency to speak every now and again I have a tendency from time to time to have an opinion about certain things and what I have to constantly awesome God to do for me where the rhyming committee meeting whether I'm meeting with Spartanburg County foundation, or whether I'm talking to businessman or whether I'm in my home. What I have to do constantly and I many times I do a very poor job of that. I bought a constantly awesome God to help me as a father as a husband as a teacher as a pasta as a friend. When we going to ministers meetings. There are many times will have an issue come up in amongst us and we just brothers and sisters, and it's wonderful at and there comes a time when his pasta. I need to say what ever it is that needs to be said. I need to just stop think about it and then I need to speak from my heart. I need to speak from my heart. You see my brother and sister. You can disagree but you need to disagree without being disagreeable. You see, if we do not reveal our hearts in speaking the truth. It's going to be the disagreeable list with which we speak. That is going to end up distorting what we say. Have you ever met someone who's got a lot of good ideas but nobody ever wants to listen that we are asking a very personal question here. Maybe there's someone here tonight and it seems you've got wonderful ideas, but nobody wants to listen to you lost yourself why number one. Maybe because you don't take time before you speak and number two because you are not asking God to allow you to reveal your heart, your heart is the pulse of your preciousness is the fountainhead of the truth that God delays in you'll be. It is the conviction of your soul, folks, I have from time to time, even in our church. I've had people come up to me and say something to me and and I don't want to listen not only don't I don't want to listen. I just hours there been other times people come up to me and said exactly the same thing and I will is in the eyes. I want to listen to every word what's the brother you come up to me or I come up to you and we breathe three things and slaughter over one another and we speak from a heart that is not in tune with God. It doesn't matter how right you are nobodies going to listen now.
The same applies in our parenting. Sometimes as moms and dads while we struggle with our parenting is because when we speak and when we act we are acting like King Nebuchadnezzar, not black. Daniel went out saying something in love and will not saying the truth from hearts that are into with Almighty God.
So truth be told about how to speak the truth in love to you think of over all review your heart you understand their position noticed here in verses 20 through 23 it's actually amazing thing here, but Daniel even though he's about to lower the boom on Nebuchadnezzar. It's amazing how he has the goal of this training to you okay and all that tree you have become great and strong. Now some people might say this is patronizing know it is. I think he was fighting affect.
By the way, never ever stop elevating praising lifting up other people being encourage or one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my life is that you and I should not be praising one another.
You can't tell a parent not to praise their children you ever tell me never to encourage and and to uplift and define the good things in my sons and my daughter and the capitalize of the work on that and elevate that my job is apparent is to find out what they good at and appraise them and that and by them and to make them feel good. My job is not to break them down. Well, here comes Daniel God's given them a word of Bonnie's heart and he's about to lower the boom on Nebuchadnezzar before he says a word about the truth he finds something that he can say, listen to this. That is when some folks listen to me in the church today. One of the greatest problems with with modern-day Christendom is that there are two extremes.
There are some people who just believe in absolute license and everything goes and then on the other side there are all those religious zealots and right-wing fundamentalist who believe that I'm going to get in your face and if you don't listen to me you gonna go to the devil's hell and I don't care what happens to you as well, when this world cries. I believe that there are more people in America today who are put all the love of Jesus Christ by Christian men and women then by anything else. Why because they do not capitalize on speaking the truth in love on taking time to think unrevealing heart and then coming to a basic understanding of the position of the people to whom they are about to speak first Baptist Church listen to me. We need to become monsters of understanding the lost world that we are ministering to the day in this church that we say oh no we don't do that is the day we need to close this church's doors.
I'm so grateful Eddie Robinson had the vision concerning baseball fields from charming goodness me come on now give us a break means baseball three but you know what this church said we not getting baseball fields for baseball fields.
We getting baseball fields because people love baseball and if people are baseball they going to come and play baseball and dance when they come and play baseball. We going to be able to show them the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that when it comes to Thursday night was possibly we have over 200 public decisions pets understanding their position that's getting down to where it counts. This man Daniel before he does a thing. He understands his position, Nebuchadnezzar gets in there. He becomes a monster of human personality. He wins people over.
He is Windows 7 in what he does. He doesn't alienate and confront and get in the face and set himself up on a pedestal is about to speak the truth in this life changing each need to frame competent, somebody will come alongside us and share every step of our journey. Someone who will listen, advocate, fairness and comfort someone contract this month for your gift of support The Encouraging Word. We will send you the inspiring Jesus and me and live in Jesus and not stress on knowledge and personal stories, including her recent cancer diagnosis understand the third person of the Holy Spirit, 86699963 to request your copy of Jesus and me today The Encouraging Word as a viewer and listener supported ministry hearing God's truth around the world you for your support you for listening today. God has spoken to you hesitantly and you ready to give your heart to Jesus. I'd love to help you right now.
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