Main Scripture: Daniel 5

Additional Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 15:19, John 1:12, 15:5, Romans 3:24, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 2:14, Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 1:3, Luke 11:20

POINTS:

• Belshazzar throws this party because he is looking for significance.

• The closer death gets, the more he chooses to revel in sensual pleasure, wealth, and religious rebellion. The world does the same.

• Our significance is directly linked to where we place our hope.

• We have no real significance in life when we have no hope after it.

• We look for significance in others, achievement, and religion.

• Our pursuit of significance has created a consumeristic approach to Christ and the church.

• Like Belshazzar, the world calls in specialists to help interpret the “writing on the wall” when crisis strikes.

• Significance is found in what God has to say about us. Therefore we must humbly come under the whole counsel of God through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

• People don’t want to be in a relationship with Jesus Christ because they either don’t understand how sinful they really are or they don’t want to be contradicted.

• When we serve our communities, while in a relationship with Christ and one another, we show the world the writing on the wall.

• Jesus is the writing on the wall and His message is for satan. Just like Belshazzar was drinking, fornicating, and proudly taunting his power all the while his defeat was plain, and so it is with satan. His defeat is decisive. It is Finished!