Gospel—R. Reeves
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Thing #132.
132.
We have heard.
His wife was found.
We have heard that.
Matter. No matter. No matter. Freelance. All right, let's say I cross the West.
When the heart water turns, they spread.
Rain and cry for the truth.
Drink. What's there to drink? What's there?
You're going to might be parting the Rainforest Day.
Like to have you think of that?
Expression Jesus saves like a great big sign.
And if you can imagine it on one of the streets here in Pella.
You can imagine that on the wall above the clock.
But it's true.
Jesus there.
He does, and I heard yesterday about.
A man for that stage.
And then I heard that tonight.
About a man that got saved and so this sign is true. Jesus.
Say, and that sign is still.
Remember when my wife Rachel had a garage sale?
Last year.
And.
It was my job each day at the garage sale to.
Put the sign up.
Out in front of our house.
It said garage sale.
And then on the last day in the afternoon, I put up the time.
At prices slash.
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So that sail was on till 5:00.
Garage sale.
Prices slash things were marked down from $0.10 to five and that sign did a good job.
And I was so glad when the time came when I said honey.
I'm going to take the sign down.
I'm just tired of this.
And I went out the front of the house.
And I took the sign down.
Day was over.
I took the sign down.
Let me tell you this.
The sign is up tonight.
Jesus said the sign is up.
I can just see it in my mind. Great big letters. Jesus, Savior and he died. But someday.
God is going to take the time.
And they want a trove and lost.
So I hope nobody misses.
Being saved while the silent Jesus stayed.
Our father, would you please turn with me in your Bible to the book of Daniel?
I'm going to read to you tonight.
But I consider very very interesting story.
Daniel, Chapter 5.
So please turn to Daniel Chapter 5.
Daniel chapter 5 verse one Belshazzar the king made a great priest to 1000 of his Lords, then drank wine before the thousands.
Belshazzar Wild contasted the lion.
Commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem.
That the king and his Princess, his wives, and his concubines might drink therein.
And they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the House of God.
Which was at Jerusalem.
And the king and his Princess, his wives, and his concubines ran to Grim.
They drank wine.
And they praise the gods of gold and silver.
And a brass and iron, and a wood and a stone.
Well, that's interesting, isn't it? Just seeing the guy with all his.
His important people together for a thief and.
As a part of the feast, they would.
They would drink a lot of wine.
And so they decided that they would make use.
Of some of the vessels.
That have been taken away from.
The House of God in Jerusalem.
They would make use of those vessels.
For their own fun.
That we're going to use the vessels of God.
If you have a good time for themselves.
Now the question is this.
Can they get by with that?
Can people get by with making use of something God has made?
For his honor.
Can they get by with taking those things and using them for their own funds?
Are people going to be able to get by with that?
Is God going to let people get fired?
You see, they didn't, they didn't realize the seriousness.
Of taking something that belonged.
To God.
And using it for yourself.
Now what's going to happen?
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All I can just see this bunch of people.
And here's a nice golden cup that have been used in the service of God and the one of the person says, hey fill it up again for me, set it up again and.
Crank it full of wine, drank it down, making use of something that God has created for himself.
For their own son. Now, can you get by with that?
Let's see.
Verse 5.
In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand.
And wrote over against the Candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace.
And the king saw the part of the hand that looked.
Well, that was scary, wouldn't it?
How experience is?
Suppose you, as you look towards me tonight, close you saw over here under this picture.
Fingers of us, somebody, hands riding on the wall. Wouldn't like to have anything like that happen to have anybody right on the wall.
Wondering how to get rid of it.
But it would scare us all. Please.
Offenders were the first in hand, right?
The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Verse six in the King's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him so that his joints of his loins volution.
And his knees smoked against another.
King Body was having a good time. Oh, they were laughing, I suppose, telling jokes and.
Then what do you think of this? Here I just drank a lot of wine out of a vessel that used to be in the House of God and now look at look where it is. Ha ha ha ha ha. And I love that.
And all of a sudden.
Looked on the wall.
Suddenly, mysteriously, is a hand, not an arm.
But a hand is writing something otherwise.
And the king escaped. He's so scared that his knees.
Start to pound again.
They share me too.
Verse 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers. Those are the people that looked at the stars.
The Chaldeans and the soothsayers. Those are the smooth talkers.
Those were the smooth talkers, the ones that can make a chicken. Lay an egg with it. Once to enough the soup sailor.
Telling everybody that everything is all right, let's keep on going as soon as they.
When the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon.
Whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck.
Shall be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
And came in all the King's wise men, but they could not read the writing.
I'll make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
Then with King Belshazzar greatly troubled.
And his countenance was changed in him, and his Lords were astonished.
Now the Queen.
By reason of the words of the king and his Lords came into the banquet house, and the queen spake and said, O king, live forever.
That's interesting expression, and the Spanish language is just done in one word, vivo.
We were, we were, you know, we were old king. Live forever.
Let not thy thoughts trouble thee.
Let not that countenance be changed. There is a man and thy Kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods.
Of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him.
On the king Nebuchadnezzar, thy father the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.
For as much as an excellent spirit and knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams and showing of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts were found in that same Daniel.
Whom the king named Belt Belt to Shazzer. Now let Daniel be called and he will show the interpretation.
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Then was Daniel brought in before the king? And the king spake, and said them to Daniel, Art thou Daniel?
Which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the King my father brought out of Jewish?
I've heard even of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom of thee. And now the wise men the astrologers, have brought in before me, and that they should read this writing and make known them to me the interpretation thereof. But they could not show interpretation of the things.
And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations and dissolve doubt.
Now if thou cant read the writing and make known them to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet.
Have a chain of world about thy neck.
And shall be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
Well, it's not hard for me to understand how this king was all upset. Here he was.
Doing those things that God was not pleased with.
And folks, let me tell you this.
I can't do it.
He knew that he was doing wrong.
Anyway.
He was smart enough to know that the way he was living was not.
Right. His way of life was the wrong way of life. He knew that.
All of a sudden it sees this hand right in the wall.
And writing words that he never thought before and he couldn't figure them out.
And where did this hand come from?
Where did these words come from?
What do they mean?
And he was scared.
And he called together all his wise men and inquired of them, but they couldn't help him at all. So we don't know. We never saw anything like this happen before.
Francie King, We just don't know.
And then the King's wife said, well, you know there isn't a man here called Daniel, and he sure helped your father a lot. When your father got into some jams, Daniel was a big help to him because Daniel has contact with God.
And it's a good idea to call, so they call Dan.
And the Daniel said. Oh, Daniel, if you can tell me what this is all about, I'll give you some really rewards and I'll give you a good job.
Verse 17 And Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself.
And give thy rewards to another.
Yet I will read the writings unto the King.
And make known to him interpretation.
Now I would like to ask you all to very carefully.
Listen and read with me.
The next rehearsal.
Because in these next three verses, next few verses we are going to see.
But Daniel knew.
The type of man.
That he was dealing with.
And he knew the kind of a heart that this man had. Let's read it. Verse 18. Old Thou King, the Most High God, gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father, a Kingdom and majesty of glory and honor. And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages assembled and appeared before him. Tell me what absolutely Whom he would he slew. At home he would he kept alive. At whom he would he set up, whom he would he put down.
And when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened and cried, he was deposed from his Kingdom thrown, Kingdom thrown, and they took the glory on her.
Now, Daniel says to Belshazzar, you know what happened to your father?
You know that he got proud and God had to put his hand on it. You know that.
They took your glory from it.
And he was driven from the sons of men, verse 21. And his heart was made like the beast.
And his dwelling was with the wild answers. And they fed him with grass like oxen. And his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the Kingdom of men.
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That he appointed over it, whomsoever he will now become through the punch line.
Verse 22.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled.
Thine heart go down to us all this.
That's pretty heavy word, Daniel said to this king. He said, you know what God did to your dad? You know what God did to your father?
And even though you know all of this.
You're still just as proud as you always were.
And you have not humbled your heart.
Before the Lord.
Daniel points to this man and he says to him in his plain language that you can imagine you are a Sinner.
That's what he said.
Verse 23 But thou hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven.
And they brought the vessels of his house before thee. And thou and thy Lord, thy wives, thy concubines have drunk wine in them. And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, and brass, iron, wood, and stone, which seen off no hear, no, no, and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose ways.
And whose are all thy ways which thou not glorified?
So, Daniel.
They laid it on this, Mouth said. You know you are a Sinner.
And you have tried to get by.
In your life, you have tried to get by in your life by having your own way.
And doing the things that you want to do and you don't care about God at all.
And you've been trying to get by that way.
Now let me ask all of you here.
Can you get by that code?
Can a person get by?
And come out well.
Who forgets the God of heaven and using what God has given him just to please himself or herself?
Can we get by having our own way? Well, that's a good question, isn't it? The answer to it is no. Can't get by with it.
Verse 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him, and this writing was written.
And this is the writing that was written Mimi.
Many people.
Your partial.
Well, just imagine you see that, right, Vernon? I'm not going to do that with an ink marker tonight, but just imagine that Ron Reeves came here and rode with the big black ink marker. Meanie meanie tico, You Farsan.
I wouldn't dare to. It wouldn't let me come back. But just in your mind. You see it right here, don't you? Me neither. Sequel you parsing.
Came scratching his head, he said. What's that all about?
26 This is the interpretation of the thing meaning.
May God has numbered your Kingdom.
And finished it. In other words, king, you're through.
You're through. You thought you were quite important.
But.
Your truth, your Kingdom is over.
T Cole, we're 27.
While it weighed in the balance and found wanting.
What's that all about?
Remember that word I wrote there? Says Tikal. I mean, God has been looking at what you've been doing and he's decided that you have come short. You have come short.
Verse 28 Ferris.
Will you partion? Thy Kingdom is divided and given to the Muslim Persians. In other words, you're going to lose your Kingdom and God's going to give it to somebody else.
What do you have your message for this proud king, Mother?
Well, there was a little bit of honor in this king.
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Because he.
He did do what he said he would do it, and he did. He did reward Daniel for Daniel's matrices in this way. He did do that. I was thankful, he says then Commander Belshazzar Belshazzar. And they flowed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold upon his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the Kingdom.
Well, we are real glad that Daniel got paid for his services.
But not the 1St 30.
In that night.
Was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldean slain?
Meaning, meaning people you've Arsenal.
God has numbered your Kingdom.
Of his before Nanjo.
And you have been weighed in the balances, and you have come short.
And God is going to give everything you've got to somebody else.
In that night with Belshazzar, the king of the Caribbean.
And verse 31 Says in Daniel then derives the medians of the Kingdom.
Being about 3 score and two years old, so this handwriting on the wall came true.
What are we going to learn from this?
I tell you what we should learn.
We should learn that God is watching everything that we did.
And we should learn that we cannot get by.
With using what God has given to us.
Just to please ourselves, hoping that God-given to us what He's given us, our bodies, He's given us our life, He's given us our stuff.
He gave it to us.
Now, have we used it to please ourselves, or have we used it to dwell by God?
Well, you know, people who don't know the Lord are just like this Belshazzar. They use everything that God gave them. They use it as to please themselves.
And you can't get by with us.
And they come short.
Now, folks, I don't think anybody in this room.
As any difficulty understanding this story.
What's clear as it can be?
So here's a man that was a Sinner. Here's a man that came short of God's glory.
And here's a man that was going to lose his whole.
It's as clear as you can as you can get it.
It's clear it was considered.
But here's what I would like to say.
This man did not have to die under the judgment of God.
If we had.
Turn to the Lord. The Lord would have forgiven him. It did not have to happen. And let me tell you this. It is not necessary. It is not necessary for sinful, sinful people to die in their sins and go to hell. It is not necessary. It does not have to happen.
And that's why I stand here tonight.
With the gospel message in my heart and in my lips.
Turn to Luke's Gospel, chapter 18 and I'll show you something great.
And it will confirm.
What I believe, and that is this man Belshazzar, did not have to die under the judgment of God.
He didn't have to.
But.
Luke 18.
1St 13.
And the public and standing afar off.
Would not lift up.
So much as his eyes but smoke upon his breast.
Saying God be merciful to mote upon his breast, Saying God be merciful to me a Sinner.
And I tell you, this man went down to his house justified. Oh, I like it. I like it.
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There is a man who acknowledged that he had sinned against God and he points to his chest like this and he says I'm the problem, I'm the problem, the problem is in my heart.
I'm the one who caused it points to 1000, he said. God's been merciful for years and Sinner and it says he went down to the house justified.
And I tell you dear friends tonight, that if belt Charger, Bill Charger has called upon God for mercy, he would have got it. He would have got it. But the sad part about his story is that.
Didn't do it. It didn't do it. And the saddest thing that can happen in the life of a Sinner is that that Sinner does not call upon God for mercy and half to die under the judgment of God.
It does not have to happen. It does not have to happen.
Learn to the Book of Revelation.
Chapter.
Excuse me, Revelation chapter.
7th of June I think it is.
And maybe it's Chapter 21. Yeah, it's Chapter 21.
Before we read chapter 21, I want to read a verse in chapter 20.
Revelation Chapter 20.
This talks about a coming day. It says I saw the dead small and great stand before God, and the books were opened and another book was written was opened which was the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the book.
According to their work.
Well, we talked together about the words that were written meaning, meaning People departed when God wrote on the wall of the power.
Well, God is not writing on the wall of the palace tonight.
God is not writing on the wall of the meeting room tonight. But let me tell you this, He's writing down work of chimney. He's writing down the thoughts of unbelievers and if anyone's here tonight without Christ while he's writing down in that book.
This person sat and heard the gospel and tell us and rejected Jesus again and he wrote it back and someday that book will be open.
And there it will be, all dated and everything.
April 5th.
1992 she sat in the meeting room and tell her he sat in the meeting room and tell her and was not interested in hearing about the dog.
I don't want anything like that about anybody who.
It's a serious thing when God writes something down.
Because nobody can arrange for.
But I want you to turn to Chapter 21.
It talks about a coming day of.
Blessing for those who believe.
In the heavenly city it says in verse 27 there shall know him no wise enter into it. Anything that be Pilate. Revelation 2127.
They're showing wise enter into it Anything that defileth either whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
They that are written in the Lamb's Book of life.
Would you like to have your name written in the Lamb's book of life?
Let me tell you this.
If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ tonight, you can be sure that your name is written in the man's book of life, and that the writing men in those other books will never be used against you. Because the word of God says the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sins, and the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world and died on Calvary's cross and shed His precious blood.
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Towards your sins and mine away. And the moment we believe on him, all our sins are taken away and they're erased from the books, and you'll never be able to find them.
And we who believe in the Lord Jesus know that our name.
Written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and if Belshazzar.
Had have called upon God for mercy.
He could have known the joy instead of dying in his fins and going into the judgment of God, he could have known the joy of having his name written in Lamb's foot of life. Well, I hope everybody here in this room.
Know that your name was written in the land of book of life, and you can know it if you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we're going to sing another song, which is #28.
#28
oh, what a savior is Jesus the Lord?
Well may his name by the Saints be adored.
He has redeemed them from hell by his blood, saved them forever, and brought them to God #28.
Ever.
Stayed on straight day in my heart. Now I just love.
Praying and forever and from him to come.
Jesus Christ, my deepest pain.
Is not my son of God. That's the kind of grace.
On important.
39.
I'm still not saying you're coming now while you're praying.
Look down your feet making her lovely girl.
I love your hands. Me just bear where it's good.
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Someday I'm going to heaven.
And I can just see it all now.