Renouncd Your Sin

Daniel 4:20-27 “The tree you saw, which grew large and strong, with its top touching the sky, visible to the whole earth, 21 with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the beasts of the field, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds of the air – 22 you, O king, are that tree! You have become great and strong; your greatness has grown until it reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to distant parts of the earth. 23 You, O king, saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live like the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’ 24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree the Most High has issued against my lord the king:  25 You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes. 26 The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules. 27 Therefore, O king, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”
 
DANIEL has spoken the bad news and the good news. The king will be cut down. Then he will be restored. Then Daniel has life-giving advice for the king: repent. That’s what it is to renounce your sins by doing what is right. Repentance is spiritually and physically turning away from your sins. You say, “I quit that sin.” Then you walk away from it, into the Spirit’s power to live more and more as Christ, the Redeemer, taught and lived.
    This entire dream sequence has been about God’s justice and his mercy. He is sovereign to declare what is wrong and what is right. The LORD God is the Ruler of heaven and earth who rightly judges those who sin and graciously blesses those who obey him.
    Thank God he gives you the opportunity to renounce your sin. Praise his justice and mercy to forgive as you repent. Walk into life in Christ and call on the name of the Lord.
 
Acts 17:31 “For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”