Well, good morning. Welcome to
our continuing Bible study in the book of Daniel. We'll be
in chapter 3 today. As we closed out last week, Daniel
had interpreted this dream for the king. because he was able to do that
and avoid being executed with the rest of the magicians, astrologers,
and soothsayers. The king made Daniel and Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, promoted them to various official duties
as governors over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But
chapter two closed with Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
And so Daniel becomes a, a trusted advisor or person,
ambassador for the king. And as we looked in chapter 8,
verse 27, that chapter ended where Daniel had been pondering
a vision that he had in the night. And he said it made his head
hurt. He said he got up in the morning
and concluded the business. He was in Shushan, the palace
in the province of Elam, which is southeast of Babylon. He said he got up in the morning
and concluded the king's business. The king sent him places to do
stuff and didn't really elaborate on what that was. So as we enter into chapter three,
we can kind of suppose that Daniel was on one of these missions for the king because
he's kind of absent in this block of this text. So we're going
to read chapter 3 and then we'll make some comments there. And
remember that in chapter 2, it kind of refers back to chapter
1 and the three years that the in Babylon that the Hebrew children,
the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said, keep them three years,
fatten them up, teach them the Babylonian culture, language,
and customs, and then bring them before the king. And so they
would have been about 18 to 20-ish when that occurred in chapter
2. And now some more time has gone
by. And at the conclusion of chapter
2, remember the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter 2, he said, He
said he had a vision, a dream of a statue, an image, and it
had a head of gold. And then the arms and the breast
was silver, and the trunk was bronze or brass, and the thighs
and the legs were of iron and clay. And Daniel said, well,
you, O King, are that head of gold, but you're going to be
replaced by this silver. country that's an inferior country,
silver being inferior to gold, you're going to be replaced by
this inferior nation, and then that nation is going to be replaced
by the brass, which was represented of the Greeks, and then the iron
would have been the Romans, and then finally the stone cut out
of the mountain without hands, which was a representative of
Christ there. So that's the situation as we
left it in chapter 2. So what does Nebuchadnezzar do
in chapter 3? Nebuchadnezzar the king made
an image of gold, the whole thing. I'm not just going to be the
head of gold, replaced by inferiors. I'm going to make a statue that's
all of gold. An image of gold whose height was three square
cubits and the breadth thereof six cubits. And he set it up
in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar
the king sent together the princes, the governors, the captains,
the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and
all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of
the image which Nebuchadnezzar, the king, had set up. Then the
princes and governors and captains, the judges, treasurers, the counselors,
the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the province were gathered
together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar,
the king, had set up. And they stood before the image
that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And then a herald, one who shouted,
like Hark! The Herald Angels, the Declarer,
cried aloud, to you it is commanded, O people and nation and languages,
that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, the flute,
the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, the dulcimer, and all kinds of
music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar
the king has set up. and whoso falleth not down and
worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning,
fiery furnace. Therefore, at the time when all
the people heard the sound of the cornet, the flute, the harp,
the sackbut, the psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people,
the nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden
image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Wherefore, at
that time, certain Chaldeans, and remember the Chaldeans were
not necessarily just the nationalistic name of them, but there was a
sect that specialized in astrology and tea leaf reading and all
that kind of stuff. And they came near and remember
Daniel and his compadres kind of got put in among them and
were even in some measure over them as the advisors to the king, and
there was some jealousy that went on there. And so these Chaldeans
came near and accused the Jews, and they spake and said to the
king, Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live forever. Thou, O King, hast
made a decree that every man that shall hear the sound of
the cornet, flute, harp, sequitur, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds
of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. And
whoso falleth not down and worshipeth, that he should be cast into the
midst of a burning fiery furnace. There are certain Jews whom thou
hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not regarded
thee, and they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden
image which thou hast set up. And then Nebuchadnezzar, in his
rage and fury, commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
And then they brought these men before the king, and Nebuchadnezzar
spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego? Do not ye serve my gods, nor
worship the golden image which I have set up? Now if ye be ready,
that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbutt, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye shall
fall down and worship the golden image which I have made. Well,
it'll be good. But if you worship not, you will
be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
And who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?'
And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king,
O Nebuchadnezzar, we're not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us
from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of
thine hand, O King. But if not, be it known unto
thee, King, that we will not serve thy God, nor worship the
golden image which thou hast set up.' Then was Nebuchadnezzar
full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he spake, and he commanded
that they should heat the furnace, once seven times more than it
was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty
men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
and cast them into the burning, fiery furnace. Then these men
were bound in their coats, and their hosts, and their hats,
and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the
burning, fiery furnace. And therefore, because the king's
commandment was urgent and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame
of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego. And these three men, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning
fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king
was astonished, and he rose up in haste and spake and said unto
his counselors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst
of the fire? And they answered and said unto
the king, True, O king. And he answered and said, Lo,
I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire, and
they have no hurt. And the form of the fourth is
like the Son of God. And then Nebuchadnezzar came
near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spake and said,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the Most High
God, come forth and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
came forth out of the midst of the fire. And the princes and
the governors and the captains and the king counselors being
gathered together saw these men. upon whose bodies the fire had
no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their
coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. Then
Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, who sent his angel and delivered his servants
that trusted in him. and have changed the king's word,
and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve or worship
any god except their own god. Therefore I make a decree that
every people, nation, and language which speak anything amiss against
the god of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be cut in
pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill, because there
is no other god that can deliver after this sort. Then the king
promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon."
Boy, you can just imagine those Chaldeans went... It's kind of like trying to have
Lazarus killed again. What were they thinking? Get my page up here. So as we look at this chapter
three, some undetermined time has passed since the dream of
the golden head of the statue. And Daniel, again, seems to be
absent doing some official duties for the king. And we find that
the Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego in verse 23 that we
just read a bit ago, they're referred to as men now. Not Hebrew
children. So some time has elapsed and
Nebuchadnezzar has had this image. created and erected on the plain
of Dura in the province of Babylon. And it's interesting that the
image with a head of gold by the purpose of God becomes through
the nature of man an image all of gold. That's what Nebuchadnezzar
said. Oh, if I make an image all of
gold, that means My kingdom shall never be taken over by the inferior
ones. And it's an apparent denial of
the sovereignty of God and a denial of the truth that God presented
him in the dream and in the interpretation. He says, no, I don't go for that. I don't believe
it. And it goes against pride to
learn that your nation is going to be conquered by another. And
he goes against pride to recognize God as sovereign and that you
are not. And that's a hard thing to overcome. And as we've been going through
here, we've been looking at some of these. We get introduced to
a new attribute or name of God in almost every chapter. And
we have Elah in verse 17 and the Son of God in verse 25. And we have a description of
the absolute efficacious nature of the deliverance of the elect
in the form of the three Hebrew men. by the Lord of Glory. And the
evidence of it is observed there as we read in verse 24 through
27. You know, in the mind of Nebuchadnezzar,
the god of the Hebrew men, he just viewed him as, oh, just
another one of those gods. He seems very powerful. But he
doesn't recognize him as the Lord of Glory. He doesn't recognize
him as a savior. He doesn't recognize him in any
of those spiritual contexts. He just says, well, we have all
these other gods and they didn't do anything like that. This God
must have some power if he delivers them. So he's just another of
many gods. The Babylonians had many gods,
same as every It's like Paul on Mars Hill, they had a whole,
was it the Parthenon up there on the top? They had all these...
They just had an innumerable number of altars set up, one
to each god, and they even had the one to the unknown god that
they didn't want to... just in case we miss one, we'll
just cover it with the unknown god, so we don't make them mad. But in the beginning of our text
there, Nebuchadnezzar the king, in defiance of the prophetic
dream given to him, And the interpretation by Daniel, he causes this large
golden monument to be constructed and erected. And it says it was
60 cubits high by six cubits in breadth. That would be in
our metrics, it would be about 90 feet tall and about nine feet
wide. Fairly large. structure. That would be about the same
height as the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Only nine feet wide, but it would
stand out from a goodly distance. probably be maybe about like
those wind turbines that we see east of here. They're pretty
large units there. And again, the purpose of the
image was to be in contrast to the dream that he had been given
by God and the interpretation of it, that he was only the head
of gold and then that was going to be replaced and he'd be conquered
by an inferior country. He presented a large image or a statue made entirely of
gold and defiance to that prophecy in which, in his way of thinking,
Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom would never end. It's going to just
be here for all time. And that's the view a man has. Everybody has that in their mind,
their present circumstances. Well, this is just going to go
on forever. And we don't know that down the road what might
happen. But whatever it is will be according
to the purpose and sovereignty of Almighty God. And then we
have these ones that accuse the Jews. Hey, you know what? Those guys are not falling in
line. O King, they're not worshiping
your image. They're not falling down and
doing obedience to you. And they're not deviating from
their faith. And so they said, well, here's
a convenient way to get rid of those interlopers from another
country that we don't like. And in verse 14 through 15 that
we read, Nebuchadnezzar commands the Hebrew men to fall down and
worship the image. And I like the way it's written.
It says that I have set up, like I'm the all-powerful one. And
he kind of vacillates between saying, oh man, the Hebrew God
is really powerful, and he's a most high God, and he's this
and that. And then he says, I. And that's
a term that we find a lot in religion about people's relationship
that they profess about God. I did this, and I did that. And
I have set this up, and I have made this image. And it just
seems like it's a perfect metaphor for all the religious schemes
of man. Worship this way, or suffer the
consequences. And looking out here, I can see
where many of us have been exposed to that in our time. And as long as you toe the line
with the status quo, then you're fine. But boy, the minute you
mention grace or any of the classified document words that we talked
about here from time to time, election or predestination or
sovereignty, especially sovereignty, you're out of here. And if they
had a burning, fiery furnace to throw you into, they would,
without blinking an eye. So this Nebuchadnezzar, his pride
is kind of exposed in that he thought himself really more powerful
than any gods, and he didn't have any tolerance for those
who didn't worship Him and what He had done. But you know, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, they're just a perfect picture of grace
that you can't unknow it. And you can't go back to that
kind of religious scheme once you've
been exposed to grace and it's been revealed to you. You just
can't go back. You can't unknow it. It can't be denied and it can't
be cast aside. And it really becomes an integral
part of the person whom God in grace delivers. It's not just
something they read or came into their mind mentally or intellectually. It actually becomes an integral
part of their entire makeup because they see it as affecting everything. And it's in everything. And it's all, everything is by
grace. And the words of the Hebrew men
point out that they surely recognize that God's purposes are always
right. They're always perfect. And though the circumstances
experienced might be traumatic, might be painful even in this
world, that are the physical results of sin and the fall.
You know, we all suffer from maladies and our breakdown of
our bodies over time and we're subject to various illnesses.
There's a COVID, another COVID bug going around that's impacting
people negatively and if After that will be the flu season,
and cold season, and allergy season, and cancer, and all these things
that we're subject to that are the result of sin and fall in
the world. I think in the bullet there it
mentions that every atom and every particle is of the universe
is impacted by the fall. And so we have that to deal with
in this world. And God doesn't guarantee that
we'll get out of this world any way other than dead, really. That's what happens in this world. But for him, it's a It's a different
concept and it's just a transition from this world into his world. And so he looks at it differently. And for us, it's scary and traumatic. And the more you know about grace,
then the less scary and traumatic it becomes. And you just see
it as, well, I'm just one step closer to being with Him. There was a card I was going
to send to my sister the other day that had this picture of
Jesus on the front of it. It says, so you're turning 70.
See you soon. So anyway, the viewpoint is For people that
are saved by grace and have experienced the new birth, it's different
than the people that look that this world is what there is and
make the most of it, because after this, there's just dirt. So these Hebrew guys, they say,
you know what? Our God, one way or the other,
is going to deliver us. And if not, if according to His
purpose, He elects not to deliver us from this traumatic experience,
we know that it's according to His purpose and we're still not
going to worship You. Because we can't. We just can't
make those words come out of our mouth anymore. We just can't
go, we just can't relate to that anymore. It just can never happen
again. So they have this confidence
in the Lord, and they have this confidence in Him working all
things for good, even though at the time it may not seem like
that's all that wonderful. Norm and I were talking about
in Matthew chapter one, all that list of names that goes down
to Christ. There's some nasty folks in that
list. And some of them, though, gave
birth to someone that was an integral part. of Christ coming
into this world and saving His people from their sins. So all
things work for good. So they said, you know what?
We won't serve thy gods nor worship this stupid golden image that
you set up. And boy, that made the king angry.
You're not going to worship the way I say? You're not going to
worship the thing that I have created? And this image that he set up,
it was just one of a host of images that they set up that
were all over the kingdom. Remember in our opening introductory
remarks that described Babylon as being like 15 miles on a side
and the walls were like 300 feet tall and 90 feet thick. And in
the middle they had this, this temple that was huge. It was like the temple that they
had. It was way bigger than the temple
in Jerusalem. And pretty significant looking.
And they set that up and if you didn't
go there and worship, you probably would pay the penalty. So it was just another one of,
this image was just another one of the many religious things
they had set up all over the place. They worshiped the moon
god, and all the, the god of vegetables, and the river gods,
and the rain, and all, you know, all those things. And for the most of those people,
He called all of his leaders, really, what he did. He didn't
have all the people of the whole country come there to the Plain
of Dura, but he had representative governor people from each region
or major point come to this Plain of Dura to worship. Then they
would go back and tell all their people all about it. They all
came there and said, oh yeah, here's another one of those.
God statue things. And he was like, sure, we'll
worship that. Why not? Yesterday we worshiped
Nebu, the moon god thing. It's like, it's no different. Just like religion today, where
you can switch from being a Baptist to a Presbyterian to being a
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's just not really very
much fundamental difference in them. So they said, hey, there's
no problem. But these Hebrew men said, I
don't think so. And it reminded me back in the
Song of Solomon, if you remember years and years and years ago,
probably close to 20 years ago, we were studying the Song of
Solomon, and there was a verse in there where in chapter 5,
in verse 9, where some people approached the ones
that represent the church there and they said, Well, what is
your beloved more than another beloved? O fairest among them,
what is thy beloved more than another beloved that thou dost
so charge us? Because they were saying, man,
keep your eye out for my beloved because he is fair and wonderful
and good. And they said, well, what's
different about your beloved? And the Hebrew men could say,
our God can deliver us if he so chooses, if it suits his purpose. But we will not, under any circumstances,
go to your beloved and worship your thing that you're enamored
with that really is no God. And so the sentence is harsh.
In verse 11, anybody that falleth not down and that doesn't worship
will be cast into the midst of a burning, fiery furnace. And
I'm sure probably everybody's been through the philanthrograph
part of this and kind of has that image. But that's the true desire of the religious
mentality that God in grace delivers His people from. If you don't
fall in line, you'll be punished. Grace delivers you from all of
that. But they want you gone before
you infect somebody else with your... At least that was our
experience. They said, we can't have you
telling somebody else about grace. because then they'll believe
it. It's just like the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the elders
in their Jewish religion there, when Christ was walking around,
they said, we've got to get rid of that guy, because everybody's
going after him. And they're always accusing you
of the opposite thing. of what is reality. I was telling
Norm that they hired guns from Texas to come up to Alaska and
assassinate us and they said, funny thing about you Calvinists,
you dirty dogs, you always, it's funny how your kids are all saved,
every one of them. And we all, the three or four
of us that were Believers in Grace, it was in this crowd,
says, I wish. Because that was the farthest
thing from the truth. But it sure is the truth about
their religion. Practically every one of them
had their kids saved by the time they could walk. And so it was
just a typical, let's not deal with the truth of the scriptures,
let's do some character assassination. You know, the truth is, the grace
believers, they actually pray for those other guys and say,
man, oh, that God would give them repentance. Oh, that God
would open their eyes and take them out of darkness into His
marvelous light. Norm prays that every week about
that young fellow that he deals with. Because he knows that he
can't do anything but preach the Gospel to him, and the rest
is up to God, not him. But Nebuchadnezzar, he's just
like the rest of religion. He's full of fury and rage and
wants to get rid of them. It wasn't enough that he just
has them thrown in a fiery furnace that would have killed them.
He says, heat that baby up seven times hotter than it usually
is. So they probably had some bellows or something that they
used to pump air into that thing and get it red hot glowing. And it was so hot that when the
men that he had tasked with throwing them in after they tied them
all up head to toe, it killed them when they tried to, it was
so hot it killed them when they tried to throw them in. And it
says they fell down into the furnace. And I was telling Norm,
I think they saw something in there. I think they saw one like
under the, the Son of God in there, and they said, we're coming. Nebuchadnezzar a little bit later
says they yielded their bodies. And so these culprits that carried
out the deed were slain. And we find a kind of a similar
episode in Esther, if you remember back when Norm taught through
the Book of Esther, is that Haman had erected the gallows and he
was going to hang Mordecai on it. And he ended up being the
one that hanged on it and killed him by it. These men were killed by the
heat and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell down bound into
the midst of that burning fiery furnace. And the impression of
the scene to Nebuchadnezzar was that though they were firmly
bound, he says they yielded themselves. Such was their apparent obvious
trust They didn't make a fight of it. They didn't go kicking
and screaming. They didn't struggle. They yielded
themselves. He said that they might not serve
or worship any God except their own God. And, you know, we see
similar actions in several places in the books of Acts, the apostles,
you know, Peter was sleeping bound between the guards and
the angel came in and delivered him in Acts chapter 12. But Nebuchadnezzar
says, wait a minute. I'm looking in the furnace, and
it doesn't record whether anybody else saw that, but Nebuchadnezzar
saw it, and he said, I see four men. Didn't we cast three guys
in there? And they said, true, O king.
He said, but I see four men loose. And that word means free. And they have no hurt, no damage,
no evidence of harm. Three he recognized as the Hebrew
men that he had ordered to be cast in there. But the fourth
appeared to him in the Aramaic, looking up in the King James,
it says that the fourth is like unto the Son of God, capital
S. O-N, capital G-O-D. In the Air
America, it was Bar Elahim, which is a son, a small S, son of a
deity. So he viewed it as some little
g-god that was in there with him. And that's what it says
in the NIV translation too, as a son of little g-gods. I see four men walking around
in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son
of the gods," is what the NIV translate that as. But I believe
the King James translators recognized who that was and said, well,
this wasn't just some little g-god, some son of some little
g-god. This was the son of God. And
they rendered it. I believe they were right. It wasn't the actual translation
accurately, but they translated it as that because they recognized
who that was. That's the only place in the
Old Testament in the King James where that Son of God is used. The rest of it's all in the New
Testament. But it's a strong declaration
and a great reassurance that whatever trials we face, whatever
things that we come across in this world, that He'll never
leave us nor forsake us. And recognizing that our expected end may not be His
expected end. I give them an expected end.
But he's looking down the road a lot farther than we are. And his expected end is, welcome
to the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Come ye blessed, he calls them. Inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from before the foundation of the world. Even though we may experience
In the end, like, if you've ever had a chance to glance through
Fox's Book of Martyrs or Martyr's Mirror, they're like this big
ol' volume, like this thick and that tall. thousands and thousands
of entries in there about people that have been martyred because
we will not worship your God nor serve your God because we've
experienced grace and we can't unknow that. So no, kill us if
you will, but we're not going to go and recant our faith and
worship your... That book's full of people that
got killed in the most heinous ways that you can imagine. But
somehow God worked it out for good according to his purpose. And
the other interesting thing was here in... I see four men loose,
free, walking about, and the fourth is like the Son of God.
Next we have a list of 3,000 people that were converted because
they saw this mighty miracle in Daniel. No, that's not what
happened. I made that up. It didn't happen. They saw this
mighty miracle and yet there wasn't a big miraculous Everybody got saved all of a
sudden in Babylon. So unequivocal evidence does
not always equal salvation. Only the new birth, and nothing
less. So the princes and the governors
and the captains and the king's counselors being gathered together
and witnessing all these things. And when they came out, these
guys said, look, they're not even singed. I've been singed
a lot of times. It's pretty obvious. I've reached
my hand in to light my barbecue and it had too much propane in
it and all of a sudden it goes whoosh. I got no hair on my arm
from the elbow down. It's all singed off and it smells
bad and you go camping. Our daughter came up and met
us up at the lake one day and spent the day with us, and we
said, you should go in and put on some of our old camping clothes,
and then come back up and sit up by the fire. She said, oh,
I never thought of that, because I'll smell like smoke when I
get in my rental car, and I'll smell like smoke all the way
back to Portland. And so she went in and changed
clothes. But even my hair, when I got
home, even my hair smelled like smoke. So it's obvious, it's
something that It's not easily gotten rid of, but not a hair
of their head was singed, neither were their coats changed, nor
the smell of the fire passed on them. What a metaphor we have
for the complete deliverance by Christ from sin. You know,
in Ephesians, he says he's going to present them without spot,
without wrinkle, no damage, not a hair of their head singed. they should be holy and without
blemish. And the king, he said, he changed my word. Now remember
in a lot of the times we look at the Old Testament, those kings,
and the word of the king may not be altered or changed. And
the Medo-Persians were that way. You issue a decree, it can't
be revoked. Even though they might have a
change of heart about it later, It can't be invalidated. But he said, the one that was
in the fire, he changed the king's word that commanded these guys
to be killed, burned up in that fire. So perhaps a change was being
wrought in this king, but there's a Scripture that says, how are
the mighty brought down? In Isaiah 43, 11. There's a scripture there that
Isaiah, remember he was a prophet, that if you look back in your
A chart there about 740 B.C., well before Daniel's time. He
said, I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior. And I have declared, and I have
saved, and I have showed when there was no strange God among
you. Therefore, you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I am God.
Isaiah 43, verse 13 says, Yea, before the day was, I am He,
and there is none that can deliver out of My hand. I will work,
and who shall let it? Do you remember what Nebuchadnezzar
said there in this chapter? He said, Who is that God that
can deliver out of My hand? He thumbed his nose right at
God, and God had hundreds of years before said, Nobody can
deliver out of My hands, and I am going to show you Because verse 14 says, thus saith
the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, for your sake
I have sent to Babylon and have brought down all their nobles
in the Chaldeans whose cry is in the ships. He delivered them
out of that furnace and he brought them down and said, I'm the one that can deliver.
So that's our lesson for today, and next time we have another
dream, chapter four. Nebuchadnezzar kind of sings
a little bit of a different tune here, and he recognizes a little
bit about what God has done for him. And he has a second dream,
and we'll explore that in our next lesson. So until then, be
free.