A very familiar Sunday School Story. In this chapter we see:
Pride, Idol Worship, Jealousy, Anti-Semitism, Anger, Hate.
Daniel 3:1-7 PRIDE – 18-23 years have passed since Chapter 2. Old Neb’s forgotten about God, Daniel’s God.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: …
Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: …
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin
Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: …
Old Neb was a great man. God had revealed the future to him and thru him … BUT Pride was a problem.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Compare Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Daniel 3:5-7 Idol Worship — When does a man begin to worship Idols?
When he becomes a Fool … How does he become a Fool?
Romans 1:21-23 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Remember the 10 Commandments .. Look at just the first 3:
Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; …
Compare Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Daniel 3:8-11 Jealousy — The strongest of all mental sins … makes monsters out of men.
Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: …
Proverbs 14:30 … but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Song of Solomon 8:6 … jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Jealousy Crucified Christ Matthew 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Jealousy kept the Jews from salvation Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, …
Jealousy produced false doctrine 1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Jealousy destroys love, removes happiness
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