Dan Lee
John 17:1-2, Salvation for the Glory of God

Jesus’ prayer in John 17 begins with a focus on the glory of God. Jesus prays that His impending death will ultimately glorify the Father and that this would come about through the granting (gifting) of eternal life to His elect. What Jesus’ crucifixion puts on display is the glory of God’s grace in salvation.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 27-34, Two Ways to Live

As Moses closes his final message to the children of Israel, he focuses on the consequences of obedience and disobedience. He does so by setting down before them two pathways: the pathway to life, good, and the blessing, and the other pathway to death, evil, and the curse. Along with these options for their future, he reveals to them their future in apostasy, judgment, and even a restoration afterwards. The Pentateuch closes with an allusion to the prophet like Moses to come, the Lord Jesus, who speaks from the LORD and all the people ought to hear. The call to choose life echoes throughout the ages, calling all to be reconciled and restored to God and to enter into His blessing through the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 12-26, The Place and The Prophet

In this final legal section of the Pentateuch, Moses touches on a wide range of laws. Among these, two stand out as the most prominent in the main message of Moses regarding the Messiah: the place of worship and the future prophet like Moses. These two ideas propel us to build up God’s church, hope in Christ’s return, and listen to Christ.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 1-11, Remember and Obey

Moses speaks his final message to the children of Israel before heading up Mount Nebo and see the land of Canaan and die there. His aim is to expound the law but he is gripped by the urgency of the spiritual needs of his people and thus he earnestly exhorts them with a long introduction (nearly all of 11 chapters) to remember and obey. In this three part study of Deuteronomy, we examine the practical relevance of this exhortation and consider the ultimate Israelite who lived up to all that this exhortation required.

Dan Lee
Numbers 22-24, The Messianic Prophecies of ...

The very perplexing figure of Balaam shows that God can use even a wicked pagan priest to speak forth His truth. Unbeknownst to this man, the LORD intended to use him to reinforce His immutable commitment to bless Israel and send the Messiah for our salvation. Balaam’s prophecies show that Jesus is the coming king who will reign supremely over all the nations, crushing all His enemies. They also show that Jesus is the promised seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, who grants the blessing of salvation to all the elect of God.

Daniel

Daniel 9:27, The Kingdom of God (Part 8): the Destruction of the Antichrist

God is powerful to end all evil in the world. The end of Satan is sealed with the destruction of his greatest and the vilest brainchild on earth, the Antichrist. With the demise of the Antichrist, we are assured all the more that our God has a definite power over the Devil and that he will not prevail over our God. This encourages us to pray, for God is more than able to do that which Satan opposes, to open blind eyes and soften hardened hearts. May the Lord evermore strengthen and empower us to depend on the almighty who vanquished the Devil and his minions. With this in mind, we delve into the final verse of this chapter which reveals the final heptad of years in the timeline of God for the history of the world for this age.

Daniel 9:25-26, The Kingdom of God (Part 7): Messianic Events

God’s timeline precisely pinpoints the time of the presentation of the Messiah as the King (“prince” is just another word for king). This is then followed by His death and other events, including the destruction of Jerusalem. The timeline of the sovereign God is simply amazing. May God persuade every heart to be humbled before His truth, and may they repent, embrace Jesus as the only Savior and Lord, be delivered from their sins, and enter into life eternal in the kingdom of God.

Daniel 9:24, The Kingdom of God (Part 6): Divine Timeline

God has a plan with a timeline. In this breathtaking prophecy, we see the rich backdrop against which the seventy-sevens are to be understood as years that mark out a very particular timeline for the Jewish remnants and the rationale for this timeline that stretches Daniel’s expectation of restoration from seventy years since captivity to four hundred ninety years. What the new timeline accomplishes is the full restoration of the people of God with the completion of judgment, true repentance, atonement for sin, everlasting righteousness, and the millennial temple. This is the God whom we worship and serve, the God of wisdom and order who has a plan and a timeline. He is the reason for the security that we enjoy no matter the circumstances in this life.

Daniel 9:1-23, The Kingdom of God (Part 5): Prayer

Prayer is God’s ordained means of bringing His will to pass on earth. Daniel perceives this from his study of the Bible and earnestly prays with confession and repentance. Prayer is still the means by which God accomplishes His purposes in the world today. May the Lord build us up to be a church of prayer. In this sermon, we also cover the five features of the Antichrist that found in Daniel 8.

Daniel 7:1-14, The Kingdom of God (Part 3): the Antichrist

Daniel receives a second vision which expands on the first vision regarding the kingdoms of the world and the climactic conclusion with the indestructable and eternal kingdom of God. Several new elements are unveiled in this vision, including the prophecies regarding the antichrist. His final judgment is also revealed, in which the LORD, the righteous Judge, will recompense him for his deeds according to the books. The only Lawgiver and Judge will deal with every last sinner according to His perfect and uncompromised justice.

Daniel 2:31-45, The Kingdom of God (Part 2): the Four Kingdoms and the Stone

The sovereign God has revealed His plan for the four kingdoms of the world to precede the arrival of the final kingdom of God. Starting with the Neo-Babylonian empire, Daniel reveals the plan of God for human history which concludes with the indestructible and everlasting kingdom of the Messiah, who is the stone cut out without hands, which puts an end to all the kingdoms of the world. We are living in the final kingdom stage. May the Lord evermore encourage our hearts to look ahead to the coming of Christ and His glorious kingdom!

Daniel 2:1-28, The Kingdom of God: an Introduction

This new series of study will focus on the coming kingdom of God as declared in the book of Daniel. The conclusion of history is revealed in Daniel progressively through multiple visions, giving us an ever sharper insight into the end times. In this introductory study, we consider the relevance of the kingdom of God and the proper perspective regarding biblical prophecy: God not only reveals the final chapter of history, but He acts to bring it to pass, because all of history is the plan of the sovereign God who orchestrates all things to accomplish His good will and purpose.