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Nov 15, 2020

Kingdom Courtroom #4 - The Verdict (click for resources)

Passage: Daniel 12:1-13

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Daniel

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: king, repentance, judge, confession, end times, restoration, spiritual warfare, conqueror, angels.

THEMES / OVERVIEW:  Chapter 12 is the final vision in Daniel. It begins with specific prophecies of the violence and volatility of human kingdoms, each being fulfilled over the next few hundred years. However, the culmination of the whole book, the good news of great joy, is that God’s Final Kingdom is already and not yet. In a short while the Father will send his Son Jesus as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, establishing His Righteous Kingdom under his Righteous Rule, which will in due time conquer, redeem and renew that which sin has broken. In the in-between-time the Lord has sent his mighty forces to come alongside the Saints of the Most High in our momentary but painful battle against darkness, with the assurance that we will soon be swept up with all believers into Glory.

11.15.20 GBV Livestream from Grace Brevard on Vimeo.

order of Worship

WELCOME  / ANNOUNCEMENTS / OPENING PRAYER: 

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 105:1-3

SONG: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name

SONG: For God So Loved

READING: The Apostle's Creed

MESSAGE TITLE: Kingdom Courtroom #4: The Verdict

CENTRAL TEXT:   Daniel 10-12 

COMMUNION:

SONG: There Is A King

SONG: Is He Worthy

BENEDICTION:  Revelation 22

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

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The guilty verdict for The Enemy is in.

The sentence is death.

He is currently waiting on death row.

Wreaking havoc. 

How does that make you feel?

    What kind of havoc is the enemy wreaking

  1. a) in this world?  
  2. b) in your life?

12:7b

for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.

Though heaven will be forever, we are stuck in “the now” that has a set ending (“time, times and a half a time”). We don’t chronologically know how long that is, but we know it is limited.

    How can this be really helpful, and maybe really frustrating?

    Why doesn’t God just send Jesus back right now?

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10 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly.

This side of heaven we are in the “already and not yet” time -- we are living in what scripture calls the “end times” (the time between Christ’s ascension and his second coming)

    What is our role as believers in this stage? Why are we here?

    What is God doing TO us (IN us) as we wait?

    Painfully...we live in a world of “wickedness”.

    What’s that mean?

    How do you deal with this?

    How can we help each other deal with it?

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12:1 “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

In the battle on this side of heaven we are not left alone.

    How do you tend to live as if you are on your own?

    What would it look like to live/believe as if angels were real?

    to live as if Jesus actually sent the Holy Spirit to live in you?

    (1 John 4:4)

How does this passage reveal that trouble does NOT indicate that God has lost control?

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12:3

And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above

What do you think heaven will be like?

    What will YOU be like in heaven?

    (similar to Jesus’ resurrected/glorified body)

    What will you be doing?

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12:13

And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”

Matthew 25:23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

How is Heaven a place of REST and JOY?

    See how the Lord has specifically ALLOTED YOU A PLACE!

    How does that give your hope and comfort in the now?