Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: In God's Hand

(09-05-2021) Ptr. Lynard Molo

=In God's Hand=

*Daniel 5:1-6
"1 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

*Disrespect to God

4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.

*Daniel 5:22-26,30
"22 "But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.
23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
25 "This is the inscription that was written: Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin.
26 "This is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

*Our lives are numbered in God's hand.

30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,

*Proverbs 27:1
"1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth."

*James 4:13-14
"13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

*Job 14:5
"5 Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

*Our days are numbered.

*Daniel 5:27
27 Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

*We will be evaluated by God.

*Revelation 2:2-4
"2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

*Mark 4:38-40
"38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
40 He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"

*Daniel 5:28
28 Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

*God holds our future.

*Daniel 5:30-31
"30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,
31 and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.

What is life in God's Hands?
1. Our lives are numbered in God's hands.
2. We will be evaluated by God.
-Love
-Faith
3. God holds our future.