Daniel 2:1
I. The narrative sets before us the value of united prayer.
II. We have an illustration here of the power of gratitude.
III. We have an illustration of the devout humility of genuine piety.
IV. We have an illustration of faithful friendship. When Daniel was
exalted, he did not forget... [ Continue Reading ]
Daniel 2:3
We may feel that this ancient story is not wholly untrue, nor the
effects of it wholly lost to it, when we cast our mind upon our own
lives, and remember how much we, too, have been haunted by some
magnificent dream. When the vision of what life really was, with its
deep and solemn signif... [ Continue Reading ]
Daniel 2:29
I take the severance of the stone from the mountain to denote the
coming of Christ into the world, and the collision of the stone with
the image to mean the founding by the Lord of that spiritual kingdom
which is in its principles antagonistic to all the world-powers, and
which will ult... [ Continue Reading ]
Daniel 2:34
I. We see in the dream of Nebuchadnezzar the great fact that the
kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of truth, is at
length to be supreme over all other kingdoms. Other kingdoms have
always hitherto represented ideas and forces of evil. From the
beginning, even down to the... [ Continue Reading ]
Daniel 2:44
I. Notice the law of decay in human affairs. (1) It is impressively
illustrated in the fact that individuals pass so soon out of the
memory of the world. (2) It is more impressively illustrated in the
fact that nations die. (3) It disappoints the most plausible plans
and. expectations o... [ Continue Reading ]
Daniel 2:45
_(with Proverbs 27:1)_
Our subject is the future, and we are to find out what is known, and
also what is unknown about it.
I. We owe a great deal, both in the way of stimulus and in the way of
education, to the very mysteriousness of the future. It is expectancy
call it hope and fear... [ Continue Reading ]