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example. He did it as your substitute, so that you don’t have to
do it. The war is over.

Daniel 2:34, “You continued looking until a stone was cut out
without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and
clay, and crushed them.” God showed Daniel a little stone
coming out of heaven, a stone not made with hands.

Daniel 2:35, “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and
the gold were crushed all at the summer threshing floors; and
the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was
found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth.” The stone hit the feet of
the image of man and the stone began to grow and it continued
to grow until it filled the whole world.

What do you call a stone that grows? You call it a “living
stone”. As it grows, it’s alive. It’s a picture of the Lord Jesus
and the Lord Jesus is the only One that can deal with that image.
He comes down and He hits the very foundation and as that
thing falls down, He begins to grow. He’s the living stone.

That will be true when Jesus comes back again someday. That
was true when Jesus died on the cross. That was true when
Jesus came into your heart. He struck at the image of man and
brought it down and now He’s filling your life; growing and
growing and growing. Did you notice that there was a lot of
dust? The Bible says that the wind came and blew it away. Do
you know what the wind is a picture of in the Bible? It’s the
Holy Spirit of God. Do you see what God is saying for your
life and mine? He’s saying, “Don’t deal with that big image.
I’ll deal with it and what I mow down, the Holy Spirit will blow
away.” You don’t have to try to clean up your life. You don’t
have to struggle to get into the will of God. He has overcome
everything between you and the will of God.

When God comes into your life and strikes at the foundation
and a lot of dust comes from that crash, don’t think that is the