Daniel 7:13-14 English Standard Version

The Son of Man Is Given Dominion

13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

Matthew 12:14 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

Jesus invoked the title Son of Man in His ministry and it disturbed the religious leaders of the day to the point that they conspired to kill Him. They did so by invoking a misinterpretation of the Law of Moses.

These men believed they were the only ones that could understand and serve God. They had no wish to serve a man, even one who stood before the Ancient of Days and was given dominion over all the earth.

If you don’t like the message, kill the messenger.

Now we are here serving the Son of Man in His dominion delivering His message to those who don’t like the message. Some of us are killed for it.

This is not a message that is encouraging but no less true. I would not encourage anyone to put their lives in danger but Jesus said it Himself. We are hated for His name’s sake, Son of Man.

I cannot help but look to the prophecies of Daniel and believe we serve the One who will have an everlasting kingdom that will never be destroyed.

What is not said in that prophecy is what comes with His Glory. His Glory is His reputation, His persona, and the love that has never been seen in any man until the Son of Man appeared.

We do not serve Him because He invoked the title Son of Man, we serve Him because He loved us first.

1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Invoke love.

1 Corinthians 13 English Standard Version

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

We call this the love chapter. This is how love acts. Love is all important.

So what is missing?

How about love talks to you? How would you like it if your love did not talk to you?

Do you love God? Do you talk to Him? I mean really talk to Him like He is in the room with you.

Seems a little disrespectful not follow the Lord’s example of prayer and just open up a dialogue with “Good morning, it’s me again.” It isn’t like He doesn’t know what is on your heart already, after all He dwells there. Or do you see God as ethereal and beyond reach or unapproachable.

Or is it that we don’t hear His voice? Maybe that is because we are so busy talking we don’t listen. Verse 13 begins with faith and that is where listening on our part takes place. 

Love listens.