Daniel 2
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Good Friday on April 18th, 6:30PM at Portico Church
Easter Sunday on April 20th, 10AM
READ
Daniel 2:1-6, 24-35, 44-46
Explore
What stands out to you in the texts?
What is Nebuchadnezzar’s emotional state after having unsettling dreams and a lack of sleep? Why do you think he wanted someone to tell him his dream and interpret it so badly that he was willing to have the interpreters destroyed if they couldn’t?
In the dream, the images of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold are all broken into pieces and it says that they become like chaff that the wind carries away. What does this represent and why does the stone become a mountain that eventually fills the earth?
APPLY
God uses Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in part to give him the opportunity to lay down his anxieties and fears by trusting in a Kingdom that is formed by no human hand and shall stand forever, rather than living by the hopes and fears of what the temporal kingdoms of man may do.
In knowing that The Kingdom of God has smashed kingdoms in the past and one day will be brought in full by eliminating death itself, how might we more quickly lay down our fears and anxieties in prioritizing and trusting in the eternal Kingdom of God? Why is that difficult for us to do?
In the dream, the stone was small and grew over time into a mountain. Often our efforts to build The Kingdom of God by obeying the commands of Jesus can feel slow and insignificant compared to what is loud and fast, though we know it has the power to transform a people. How can we proactively engage in the “slow and small” efforts in loving people and God The Father like Jesus this week?
PRAY
Pray for encouragement in anxieties and in trusting in eternal kingdom vs the fading ones
Pray for the needs of each other and for our city