How God's Kingdom Is Different
from Gold on SermonAudio Hosted by Caleb Nelson
Cyrus is the Lord's Anointed (Is. 45:1), who receives the "treasures of darkness" (Is 45:3) rather than "the inheritance of the saints in light" (Col 1:12); and the Morning Star, who may be Jesus (Rev 22:16) or Satan (Is 14:12). Similarly, our text this evening applies four different titles or attributes of Christ to . . . Nebuchadnezzar. In their dominion all kings image to us something of Christ the King. The greatest earthly monarchs are the ones whose glory comes closest to that of the Son of Man. Daniel, and the rest of Scripture, are not afraid to say that all the glory of Nebuchadnezzar, all the glory of the serpent, all the glory of the morning star, really and truly belongs to Jesus Christ. It's actually His, rightfully speaking. The enemies may have borrowed it, or even been loaned it, for a time. But by right of begetting, by right of nature, by right of victory, His is the kingdom, power, and glory forever. He is the morning star and the Lord's Anointed and the king of kings. Others may enact a similitude of those roles for a time. Only Jesus enacts the reality of those things. This evening, I hope to show you simply this: The glory of Nebuchadnezzar is great, but the glory of Christ is far greater, infinitely greater.
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