YOUR KINGDOM, O LORD, IS EVERLASTING

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for SUNDAY, 19TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: YOUR KINGDOM, O LORD, IS EVERLASTING 

MEMORIZE: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.” Psalm 45:6.

SCRIPTURE READING: Daniel 4:34-35, 37.

“And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.” 

EXPOSITION:

Nebuchadnezzar was a great king of his time. Having completed the subjugation of Phoenicia, and inflicted chastisement on Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar now set himself to rebuild and adorn the city of Babylon (Dan. 4:30), and to add to the greatness and prosperity of his kingdom by constructing canals and aqueducts and reservoirs surpassing in grandeur and magnificence everything of the kind mentioned in history (Dan. 2:37). He is represented as a "king of kings," ruling over a vast kingdom of many provinces, with a long list of officers and rulers under him, "princes, governors, captains," etc. (3:2, 3, 27). He may, indeed, be said to have created the mighty empire over which he ruled. "Modern research has shown that Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest monarch that Babylon, or perhaps the East generally, ever produced. He was an earthly example of majesty. But because he was human, he later died. He cannot live forever.

But our Lord Jesus Christ is the Eternal King and His kingdom has no end. In Psalm 45:6, It is God the Father that says to the Son here, Thy throne, O God! is forever and ever, as appears Heb 1:8-9, where this is quoted to prove that he is God and has a more excellent name than the angels. 

Let us see what Nebuchadnezzar is at length effectually brought to the acknowledgment of; and we may learn from it what to believe concerning God. 

 

1. That the most high God lives forever, and his being knows neither change nor period, for he has it of himself. No king lives forever, but the God of Israel only, who is still the same. 

 

2. That his kingdom is like himself, everlasting, and his dominion from generation to generation; there is no succession, no revolution, in his kingdom.  As he lives, so he reigns, forever, and of his government there is no end. 

 

3. That all nations before him are as nothing. He has no need of them; he makes no account of them. The greatest of men, in comparison with him, are less than nothing. Those that think highly of God think meanly of themselves. 

 

4. That his kingdom is universal, and both the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth are his subjects, and under his check and control. Both angels and men are employed by him, and are accountable to him; the highest angel is not above his command, nor the meanest of the children of men beneath his cognizance. The angels of heaven are his armies, the inhabitants of the earth his tenants. 

 

5. That his power is irresistible, and his sovereignty uncontrollable, for he does according to his will, according to his design and purpose, according to his decree and counsel; whatever he pleases that he does; whatever he appoints that he performs; and none can resist his will, change his counsel, nor stay his hand, nor say unto him, What doest thou? Woe to him that strives with his Maker, that says to him, What doest thou? Or, Why doest thou so? 

 

6. That everything which God does is well done: His works are truth, for they all agree with his word. His ways are judgment, both wise and righteous, exactly consonant to the rules both of prudence and equity, and no fault is to be found with them. 

 

7. That he has power to humble the haughtiest of his enemies that act in contradiction to him or competition with him: Those that walk in pride he is able to abase (Da 4:37); he is able to deal with those that are most confident of their own sufficiency to contend with him.

PRAYER POINT: 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Leviticus 14-16.

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