writing on the wall

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Hold Fast is a radio ministry of Golgotha Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho! Join Pastor Marty Sondermann as he teaches us verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book. Tune in every weekday at 12:15 pm to listen in. We hope you enjoy it! If you would like more information about the church you can visit their website at: https://www.golgothafellowship.org/

Hold Fast is a radio ministry of Golgotha Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho! Join Pastor Marty Sondermann as he teaches us verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book. Tune in every weekday at 12:15 pm to listen in. We hope you enjoy it! If you would like more information about the church you can visit their website at: https://www.golgothafellowship.org/

Hold Fast is a radio ministry of Golgotha Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho! Join Pastor Marty Sondermann as he teaches us verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book. Tune in every weekday at 12:15 pm to listen in. We hope you enjoy it! If you would like more information about the church you can visit their website at: https://www.golgothafellowship.org/

Hold Fast is a radio ministry of Golgotha Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho! Join Pastor Marty Sondermann as he teaches us verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book. Tune in every weekday at 12:15 pm to listen in. We hope you enjoy it! If you would like more information about the church you can visit their website at: https://www.golgothafellowship.org/

Hold Fast is a radio ministry of Golgotha Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho! Join Pastor Marty Sondermann as he teaches us verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book. Tune in every weekday at 12:15 pm to listen in. We hope you enjoy it! If you would like more information about the church you can visit their website at: https://www.golgothafellowship.org/

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Daniel 5

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In this 15th Episode in the Book of Daniel chapter 5 we continue where King Belshazzar was terrified as a disembodied hand writes on the wall of the palace while Belshazzar was hosting an alcohol fueled party using the gold vessels from the temple in Jerusalem.  The writing on the wall required the aging Daniel to again tell the king what God was pronouncing.  

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May 15, 2022

When God Crashes Your Party - Daniel 5

Daniel 5 records the events of October 12, 539 B.C. – the fall of Babylon to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 5:1-4, Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Death was literally knocking at the door, but Belshazzar was partying when he should have been praying. He knew Babylon was being besieged, but he had a false sense of security inside the fortified walls of the city.

In a defiant act against God, Belshazzar got the sacred cups stolen by Nebuchadnezzar to use for “booze.” He was using for wickedness what God designed for worship. He was using the sacred for something sinful.

Belshazzar was in God’s face. When you get in God’s face, you are about to lose God’s grace. Belshazzar had crossed the line. When you reject the grace of God, all that is left is the judgment of God.

God literally crashed Belshazzar’s party and the “handwriting was on the wall.”

Daniel 5:5-8, In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke, saying to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and tells me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck; and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” Now all the king’s wise men came, but they could not read the writing, or make known to the king its interpretation.

Belshazzar pictures the one who lives as if this life will last forever, and this life is all that matters. They reign temporarily as kings over little kingdoms made of dust that will one day rust, decay, and fade away!

Luke 12:20, But God said to him, “Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?”

Mark 8:36-37, For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Daniel 5:13, 16-18, Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?...And I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.” Then Daniel answered, and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation. O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor.

Daniel 5:22, But you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this.

Why did God crash Belshazzar’s party?

1) He chose not to remember God. (See Romans 1:18-25)

2) He chose not to revere God. (See Proverbs 15:25)

Belshazzar pictures the one who deliberately rejects God’s grace and mercy. When you reject God’s forgiveness and grace, all that is left is God’s wrath and God’s judgment. (See Matthew 12:31)

Matthew 12:31, Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

Daniel 5:24-30, Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written. 25 “And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27 TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.” 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 

If you die without Christ, the “handwriting is on the wall.”

Like Belshazzar, your life will be judged by God — “weighed and found wanting.”

This week on The Lonely Arts Club, Martin McQuillan is joined by Mike Morris. 

Mike’s journey has taken him down many paths, mainly all routed in social justice and politics.

The rural village of Rufford, Lancashire is where Mike’s story begins as he recalls growing up in the countryside. The only boy of the family, with five sisters, Mike laughs as he claims that he wasn’t spoiled by his siblings.

Mike shares stories about his childhood, and his memories growing up in the countryside and then in Liverpool. Admitting that he went through a period of rebellion at school, Mike’s step into work and further education as an adult was a successful one never-the-less.

During his teenage years, a strong interest in politics grew, which over time saw Mike become a political activist. We hear of his involvement in the Liverpool dockers’ strike and the anti-poll tax movement, and how his creative work became linked through writing and filmmaking.

Now the Co-Director of Liverpool-based literary organisation, Writing on the Wall, Mike tells us how he came to be in such a position and what their annual festival, WoWfest has in store this year. For more information on the festival starting in May, visit writingonthewall.org.uk

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Audio production is by Sam Auguste of Onomatopoeia Studios in Liverpool.

Music is by Joseph McDade.

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Daniel 5: 1-31 - November 17th, 2019
Have you weighed yourself lately? Disappointed? Surprised? The scales are not the enemy – they simply tell the truth, whether we like it or not! The question is what we decide to do about it. Belshazzar, the biological predecessor of Nebuchadnezzar, knew the weight of God’s grace in his father’s life, but he shunned it. Instead of weighing himself, he divulged in a sinful pattern that led to a bold challenge against the true God. So God took his weight for him. This memorable story illustrates that God is not mocked, and whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.