Church and Religion: 2024.12.29_kids

Daniel 2 “Hyphenated Existence, Part 2” Outline = I. Daniel’s Predicament II. Daniel’s Prophecy III. Daniel’s Posture Verse: The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.” (Daniel 2:47) Could you please (if there is room), also include this quote at the bottom of the notetaking/outline section? “Its sanctions (i.e., the church) are not corporeal [bodily], involving brute force, but only moral and spiritual, appealing to the judgment, the faith, the conscience of its members. It knows nothing of the sword, the dungeon, the lash, pecuniary fines, etc…, etc., but only of argument, exhortation, admonition, censure etc., etc., Its great function is to teach, to convince, to persuade, ‘to bear witness to the truth.’ Its triumphs are the triumphs of love; its drags no reluctant captives at the wheels of its chariot; the design of its ordinances, oracles, ministry is through the efficacious operation of the Holy Ghost to bring its captives into hearty sympathy with its king, and so to give them a share in the glory and exultation of the triumphs of the king . . . . Its only sword is the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Its discipline is not the punishment of an avenging judge, asserting the unbending majesty of the law, but the discipline of a tender mother, whose bowels yearn over the wayward child, and who afflicts no pain, except for the child’s reformation and salvation. The authority of his kingdom is spiritual.” • T. Peck