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 Good evening and welcome again to Church Online.

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 Can I just say, personally, thanks so much to people who have been in touch to encourage,

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 to say that they're praying, to say that they're appreciating the content.

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 It's really helpful when you're speaking into the ether to remember that we are a community, we are family.

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 Let me take the chance as well.

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 I've said it a little bit, but just to say thank you so much to Kellan,

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 whose music ministry and also his work on YouTube has been such a gift to us.

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 As a church, we're so fortunate to have both his gift and his willingness to serve in the middle of his own busy schedule.

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 So thanks to Kellan and thanks as well to Sarah, our administrator.

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 The gift of administration is so useful and valuable to a church.

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 And maybe never more so than in times like this and keeping us connected.

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 So thank you to Sarah.

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 Thanks to everybody who tunes in, who connects.

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 It's really encouraging that we can be together around God's word.

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 And to that end, let's begin our call to worship.

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 It comes from Lamentations.

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 Lamentations, a lament of the prophet Jeremiah.

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 Things were incredibly hard in his experience.

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 And yet there are words of hope.

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 Wonderful words.

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 Lamentations 3 at verse 22.

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 Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed.

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 For his compassions never fail.

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 They are new every morning.

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 Great is your faithfulness.

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 I say to myself, the Lord is my portion.

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 Therefore, I will wait for him.

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 Let's wait on God with expectation now as we gather together that he would speak truth to our hearts and lives.

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 That he would do us good as we sing, as we pray, as we hear God's word, as we reflect on it.

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 Let's hear God's word.

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 Let's read in Daniel chapter 1.

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 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

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 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God.

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 These he carried off to the temple of his God in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his God.

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 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king's service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility.

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 Young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand and qualified to serve in the king's palace.

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 He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.

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 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's table.

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 They were to be trained for three years and after that they were to enter the king's service.

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 Among those who were chosen were some from Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

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 The chief official gave them new names.

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 To Daniel, the name Belteshazzar.

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 To Hananiah, Shadrach.

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 To Mishael, Mishael.

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 And to Azariah, Abednego.

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 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself in this way.

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 Now God had caused the official to show favour and compassion to Daniel.

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 But the official told Daniel,

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 I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink.

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 Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age?

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 Then the king would have my head because of you.

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 Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,

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 Please test your servants for ten days.

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 Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

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 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.

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 So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.

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 At the end of the ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the other young men who ate the royal food.

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 So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

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 To these four young men, God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning.

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 And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

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 At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service,

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 the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.

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 The king talked with them and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

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 So they entered the king's service.

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 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them,

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 he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

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 And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.

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 Amen.

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 Thank you both.

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 Now, if you've got your Bibles, keep them open.

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 Daniel, chapter 1.

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 Last week we did an overview.

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 This week getting into the main text of chapter 1.

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 And our big idea is resolving to trust the God who rules.

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 Daniel is a book that begins when everything turns upside down.

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 Daniel and his three friends as teenagers are flung into unimaginable change.

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 Taken away from their family to a foreign country.

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 Exposed to a new language.

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 A radically different culture.

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 Now working for an emperor as part of an empire that has just attacked and defeated their whole nation.

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 Surrounded by a different religion full of other idols.

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 Experiencing a different diet.

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 And all the while, they're part of a nation facing exile.

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 Facing the judgment of God.

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 That's some significant change, isn't it?

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 What we see in the Daniel story, and it comes to mind because we recently studied the Joseph story, is the parallels.

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 Remember Joseph as a teenager?

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 He was taken a prisoner to Egypt and he spent the rest of his life there.

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 Well here, Daniel will spend the next around about 70 years serving four different emperors in Babylon.

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 So the story of Daniel is a story of national grief and national shock as exile has come.

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 And the question for the people in Daniel's day then was, how can we be restored?

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 And Daniel and his friends serve for them as a model to imitate.

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 Restoration would come when the people would return to serve the Lord.

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 When they would resist and reject idolatry.

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 And when they wouldn't compromise their faith.

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 Now Daniel's situation is not our situation.

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 But of course we recognise that our upheaval is still real and significant and life-altering.

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 And he is at the same time a model for us.

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 Daniel chapter 1 says to us,

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 Resolve to trust.

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 Resolve to follow the one true God who rules.

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 So let's see that together.

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 The story begins starkly.

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 Because it reminds us that God rules in judgment.

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 You can read again verse 1.

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 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,

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 came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

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 So this sets the scene for us.

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 Incidentally, knowing that some of you like museums and artefacts,

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 you can go online to the British Museum and you can search their database.

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 And if you look for the Babylonian Chronicle,

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 you'll find stone tablets that have been really helpful for dating the rule of Nebuchadnezzar,

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 which have helped people to set what happens here at the time of 605 BC.

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 So this is stage one of the fall of Jerusalem.

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 But the significant question that the Bible would have us answer is,

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 why did this happen?

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 And when we read the Bible and we read the history of the Bible,

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 we discover that biblical history is at the same time the theology of history.

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 It looks to show where God stands in relation to world events.

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 So verse 2 begins,

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 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into his hands.

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 This is not an accident.

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 This is not down to the aggressive expansion plans of the Babylonian Empire.

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 No, the judgment of God has come on Judah through Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon.

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 And the reason for that is because of the people's covenant disobedience.

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 This is something they had been warned about from the beginning as the people of God.

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 But there were some particular warnings in the build-up to this.

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 So in 2 Kings chapter 20, we meet Hezekiah.

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 Hezekiah, a good king, but he made an unwise choice in showing the treasury to the Babylonians,

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 hoping to forge an alliance or relying on an alliance with Babylon,

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 which was folly rather than depending on God.

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 And then the message of Jeremiah,

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 which gave warning after warning to the people against following false gods,

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 against turning from God's truth,

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 against their spiritual adultery,

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 where they were breaking off from being faithful to God

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 and were being unfaithful,

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 where they were guilty of great injustice.

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 So if you can imagine the picture,

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 the storm clouds have been gathering.

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 And what happens when storm clouds begin to gather?

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 Our instinct is to find shelter.

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 But the people of Judah,

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 they did not take shelter from the storm of God's judgment that was threatening.

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 There was no repentance.

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 You read a chapter like Leviticus 26,

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 and you see that God in His patience would give warning after warning after warning to the people.

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 And those warnings would be ignored,

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 progressively ramping up the pain and the suffering they would feel,

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 but still there would be no turning back to God.

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 Our story,

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 the story of Daniel,

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 begins with that warning becoming reality.

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 To reject covenant with God

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 is to receive God's judgment

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 and not God's blessing.

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 For the exiles,

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 the message is clear.

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 Your response to this crisis must be

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 to repent of your sin,

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 of your idolatry,

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 of your compromise,

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 and to return to the one true God.

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 And when we read stories like this,

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 there is no room for us to have complacency.

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 The Bible speaks of the day of the Lord,

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 which is coming,

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 the day of the Lord's judgment.

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 When Jesus returns,

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 He will judge the living and the dead.

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 And for us,

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 knowing that as reality,

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 we are to find shelter

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 in Jesus Christ,

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 in His cross,

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 in His finished work,

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 of Him taking the storm of God's judgment against sin

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 on Himself

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 so that we might be spared,

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 so that we might know blessing.

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 So here in verse 2,

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 we see God delivers.

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 God delivers His people.

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 God delivers the articles used for worship in the temple,

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 and they are taken off by their enemies

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 and put in pagan temples.

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 But still,

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 in this chapter,

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 we see glimpses of hope.

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 Just like in Eli's day,

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 Eli who came before Samuel,

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 when the ark was captured in his day

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 and was taken to the temple of the god Dagon,

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 what happened there

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 was a wonderful,

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 both comedy and the power of God.

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 Here's the ark of God,

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 and Dagon was,

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 believed to have defeated

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 and shown himself superior to the god of Israel.

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 But morning after morning,

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 when the people would arrive in the temple,

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 there was Dagon's statue

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 smashed on the ground in front of the ark.

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 Here,

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 God gains glory in foreign lands,

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 and God will gain glory in exile.

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 Here,

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 God will gain glory

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 through Daniel and his three friends.

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 Through their story,

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 the rule of God will become evident.

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 The glory of God will be apparent.

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 God's deliverance will take centre stage,

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 even as they are exiles living in a foreign land.

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 So there is judgment,

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 but even then,

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 there is hope.

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 For you and I today,

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 there is encouragement for us

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 to trust in Jesus,

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 the one who is God with us.

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 To trust to that new covenant

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 established in the body and blood of Jesus.

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 To trust that he is with us

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 when everything is upside down.

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 To trust that God is able to gain glory

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 in the middle of suffering and trouble.

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 It's an encouragement to us

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 to trust that God rules for the good of his people.

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 We may not know why God is doing what he is doing,

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 but we can trust that he is working out his good purposes,

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 saving purposes for his people and for his glory.

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 So God rules in judgment.

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 And we'll turn to the rule of God at the end of the chapter.

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 But in between,

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 we meet Daniel and his friends.

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 And what we see from Daniel in particular

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 is that he resolves to trust in God.

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 And he does that despite huge cultural pressure.

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 You begin to read verse three to seven

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 and you see some of that.

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 So those that were taken to serve in the king's palace,

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 they were to be taught in the language

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 and literature of the Babylonians.

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 The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine.

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 They were to be trained for three years.

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 And the chief official gave them new names.

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 There's a lot going on.

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 Nebuchadnezzar as a king had what we might call

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 a shock and awe approach to warfare.

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 The shock of a devastating conquest.

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 Nations submitting to his rule and power.

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 But then the awe as he sought to dazzle the brightest

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 and the best with Babylonian wealth and culture

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 to make them effectively Babylonians.

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 So for our four teenagers,

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 there are significant cultural pressures

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 that they are facing.

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 First of all, there's the mention of the language

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 and literature of Babylon.

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 Now, this is not the equivalent of,

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 you know, here's your book of Shakespeare in Babylonian.

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 Now, Babylonian stories and culture

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 was full of stories of the gods.

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 Many gods.

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 Not all gods were equal.

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 Lots of warfare among the gods.

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 Gods that were connected with nature.

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 So Daniel and his three friends,

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 they needed to have a strong faith,

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 a strong understanding of the truths about God

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 so that they would be able to discern

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 what was true and false

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 as they engaged with the culture of Babylon.

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 They needed wisdom and they needed truth.

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 In verse five,

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 they enjoyed the king's luxuries for three years.

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 Here was their taste of success.

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 As it were, if we stick in with this king,

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 the idea was, well,

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 wealth and prestige and honour will be ours.

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 Where will the loyalty go?

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 And we'll come back to that.

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 And they were given new names.

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 They wouldn't be spoken to

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 and identified as people of Israel's God.

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 Rather, they were given names

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 connected to Babylon's gods and culture.

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 Nebuchadnezzar's aim,

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 establish new identities,

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 establish new loyalties.

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 Let the influence of the glory of Babylon

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 pull people away from their ordinary

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 and previous allegiance.

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 Some of our American friends,

00:19:05.099 --> 00:19:07.920
 I guess, will be familiar with the idea

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 of pledging allegiance to the flag.

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 We'll hear for Daniel and his friends,

00:19:16.120 --> 00:19:19.480
 the pressure is on to pledge allegiance

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 allegiance to the flag of Babylon.

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 With no family support,

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 with no temple to go to,

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 with no Bible to read,

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 with no limits from a religious community around them,

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 how will they work hard and work well

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 and honour the emperor

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 but maintain their loyalty and devotion to God?

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 That's a real challenge.

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 That'd be a real challenge for any of us,

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 never mind for a teenager.

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 I guess it makes us ask some questions of ourselves.

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 Do I have a biblical worldview that is strong?

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 That as I look and read and watch

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 what's happening in culture,

00:20:08.619 --> 00:20:11.339
 read the novels, watch the movies,

00:20:11.879 --> 00:20:14.859
 can I see what is true and what is false?

00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:21.379
 Can I see what would agree with God's view of the world

00:20:21.379 --> 00:20:25.079
 and identity and values

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 and what is opposed to them?

00:20:29.719 --> 00:20:33.479
 Daniel had his particular pressure points in his day.

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 What are my pressure points and what are yours?

00:20:38.779 --> 00:20:41.919
 What behaviours or beliefs

00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.580
 do my friends and my colleagues hold to

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 that don't match up to

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 what the Bible teaches

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 but where we're being pulled in that direction?

00:20:57.840 --> 00:20:58.480
 Fundamentally,

00:20:58.800 --> 00:21:03.360
 does knowing Jesus define me?

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 Is that vital to who I am,

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 how I think of myself,

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 how I live

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 or is it an optional extra?

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 I can leave aside

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 if it doesn't seem convenient for the moment.

00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.080
 Like Daniel,

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 if we're Christians,

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 if we're trusting in Jesus,

00:21:21.620 --> 00:21:23.120
 we're citizens of heaven

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 but we're living in Babylon

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 and so we need much wisdom

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 and much resolve

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 to trust in God in that context

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 with all those pressures around us.

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 what we're going to see very clearly

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 is that Daniel resolves to put loyalty to God first.

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 And it all centres around verse 8, doesn't it?

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 In verse 8 we read,

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 So what's this about?

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 And again,

00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:07.759
 you can read

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 lots of different opinions

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 about this.

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 So some people will say,

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 well perhaps the food was sacrificed to idols,

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 perhaps it didn't have the blood drained,

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 perhaps it wasn't kosher.

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 I'm not persuaded

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 by that

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 because

00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:28.700
 later on in Daniel,

00:22:28.819 --> 00:22:30.500
 Daniel chapter 2,

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 we read,

00:22:32.779 --> 00:22:33.579
 at that time,

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 this is many years later,

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 60 or so years later,

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 I, Daniel,

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 mourned for three weeks.

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 I ate no choice food,

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 no meat or wine

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 touched my lips.

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 So three weeks of fasting

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 from choice food,

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 meats or wine.

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 Still in Babylon.

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 So what I think

00:22:56.500 --> 00:22:58.460
 is happening here

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 is that Daniel

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 is taking a stand

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 to say

00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:06.359
 my first allegiance

00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:08.940
 is to God.

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 In the ancient Near East,

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 to share a meal

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 with someone

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 was a commitment

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 to friendship.

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 And in a sense,

00:23:18.339 --> 00:23:19.519
 all this luxury

00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:20.879
 was Nebuchadnezzar

00:23:20.879 --> 00:23:21.480
 looking to

00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:23.599
 secure friendship

00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:24.559
 and loyalty

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 from those

00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:26.680
 who were now

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 in his service.

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 Daniel and his three friends

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 say no

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 because they want freedom

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 to be loyal

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 and to trust

00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:36.799
 in God.

00:23:37.980 --> 00:23:39.079
 So what they choose

00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:39.779
 instead,

00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:41.139
 verse 12,

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 very simple test,

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 very simple diet.

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 Please test your servants

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 for 10 days.

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 Give us nothing

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 but vegetables

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 to eat

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 and water

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 to drink.

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 They want to eat

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 what God provides.

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 They want to express

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 dependence

00:23:54.899 --> 00:23:56.359
 on God,

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 the creator.

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 And of course,

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 what's the outcome

00:24:00.439 --> 00:24:03.799
 of that 10-day diet?

00:24:04.099 --> 00:24:04.839
 Verse 15,

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 they looked healthier

00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:07.359
 and better nourished

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.959
 than any of the young men

00:24:08.959 --> 00:24:10.319
 who ate the royal food.

00:24:10.399 --> 00:24:11.379
 This is not

00:24:11.379 --> 00:24:13.759
 an advert for vegetarianism.

00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:15.779
 This is

00:24:15.779 --> 00:24:17.699
 an advertisement

00:24:17.699 --> 00:24:19.459
 for God's glory

00:24:19.459 --> 00:24:21.019
 and God delivering

00:24:21.019 --> 00:24:22.299
 and God honouring

00:24:22.299 --> 00:24:24.279
 his faithful followers.

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 If covenant disobedience

00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:29.619
 has brought the people

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 under God's curse

00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.500
 and judgment,

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 then obedience

00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:36.139
 is bringing blessing

00:24:36.139 --> 00:24:37.359
 and favour.

00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:40.660
 Now when we think

00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:41.579
 about this for a moment,

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.740
 this was a costly

00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:43.500
 resolve,

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:44.099
 wasn't it?

00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:46.079
 We might imagine

00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:46.599
 some people

00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:47.220
 around Daniel

00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:47.440
 saying,

00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:48.019
 but Daniel,

00:24:49.019 --> 00:24:50.339
 you're risking

00:24:50.339 --> 00:24:50.920
 missing

00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:52.319
 important opportunities.

00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:53.659
 you need to stick

00:24:53.659 --> 00:24:54.480
 in with the king.

00:24:54.619 --> 00:24:55.980
 Don't stand out

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.759
 as being different

00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.379
 or awkward.

00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:00.579
 Just eat the food.

00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:02.339
 You can still honour

00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:03.519
 God in your heart.

00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:06.659
 Look around Daniel,

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:07.700
 it's no big deal.

00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:09.359
 Other exiles

00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:10.159
 are doing it.

00:25:12.139 --> 00:25:12.960
 But Daniel

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:13.500
 and his friends,

00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:14.179
 they resolve

00:25:14.179 --> 00:25:16.059
 to trust in God,

00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:16.859
 to express their

00:25:16.859 --> 00:25:17.339
 dependence

00:25:17.339 --> 00:25:18.000
 and loyalty

00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.379
 to God.

00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:19.839
 And again,

00:25:20.939 --> 00:25:21.319
 it's important

00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:22.419
 for us to ask

00:25:22.419 --> 00:25:24.179
 ourselves,

00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:26.339
 do I have

00:25:26.339 --> 00:25:27.039
 the resolve

00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:29.279
 to put loyalty

00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:30.439
 to God first?

00:25:31.619 --> 00:25:32.279
 Now we will see

00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:32.700
 in the story

00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:33.119
 of Daniel

00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:33.659
 and his friends

00:25:33.659 --> 00:25:34.740
 that it's tested

00:25:34.740 --> 00:25:35.539
 in much more

00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:36.819
 significant ways.

00:25:38.399 --> 00:25:39.599
 Can I put God

00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:40.659
 first in the

00:25:40.659 --> 00:25:42.139
 little moments

00:25:42.139 --> 00:25:43.919
 and

00:25:43.919 --> 00:25:46.720
 in the big decisions?

00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.860
 when it comes

00:25:49.860 --> 00:25:51.620
 to family,

00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:53.980
 perhaps our

00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:54.940
 house feels

00:25:54.940 --> 00:25:56.000
 absolutely

00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.319
 chaotic

00:25:57.319 --> 00:25:58.700
 right now.

00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:01.620
 Can you and I

00:26:01.620 --> 00:26:02.400
 put loyalty

00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:02.980
 to God

00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:03.519
 first

00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.539
 so that we

00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:05.480
 want to

00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.360
 obey God's

00:26:07.360 --> 00:26:07.740
 commands

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.759
 and to be wise

00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:09.660
 as parents

00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:10.339
 and wise

00:26:10.339 --> 00:26:11.259
 as children

00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:12.380
 and to respond

00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:13.039
 and live

00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:13.759
 for the glory

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.240
 of God?

00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:16.259
 When it comes

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:17.200
 to our work

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:18.460
 and to our

00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:19.140
 studies,

00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:21.960
 are we resolving

00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:23.440
 to put loyalty

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:24.039
 to God

00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:25.259
 first so that

00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:26.019
 we work with

00:26:26.019 --> 00:26:26.879
 integrity

00:26:26.879 --> 00:26:28.140
 and honour,

00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:29.140
 that we show

00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:30.359
 compassion and

00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:31.480
 care to those

00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:32.019
 around us,

00:26:32.059 --> 00:26:32.579
 that we make

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:33.640
 time for them,

00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:34.319
 that we speak

00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:35.480
 truth and we

00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:36.579
 speak only

00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:37.299
 what is kind?

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:39.019
 With our

00:26:39.019 --> 00:26:39.680
 finances,

00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:41.519
 do we

00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:42.460
 consider

00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:43.279
 that we

00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:44.140
 are stewards

00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:45.340
 of God's

00:26:45.340 --> 00:26:45.779
 money and

00:26:45.779 --> 00:26:46.380
 we are to

00:26:46.380 --> 00:26:46.960
 use it in

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.039
 ways that

00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:49.140
 will love

00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:49.960
 and serve

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:50.920
 others?

00:26:52.580 --> 00:26:53.420
 Crucial

00:26:53.420 --> 00:26:54.620
 for us

00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:56.519
 in resolving

00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:57.180
 to trust

00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:57.820
 in God

00:26:57.820 --> 00:26:59.120
 is that

00:26:59.120 --> 00:26:59.880
 we see

00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:01.080
 the glory

00:27:01.080 --> 00:27:01.700
 of God,

00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.480
 that we

00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:04.620
 see that

00:27:04.620 --> 00:27:05.660
 glory as

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:06.880
 our great

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:07.700
 treasure,

00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:09.840
 that above

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.740
 all else,

00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:11.840
 we would

00:27:11.840 --> 00:27:12.840
 value his

00:27:12.840 --> 00:27:13.600
 welcome

00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:14.940
 and friendship,

00:27:15.940 --> 00:27:17.200
 that we

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:17.819
 would live

00:27:17.819 --> 00:27:18.920
 for his

00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:20.759
 well done,

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:22.480
 good and

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:23.080
 faithful

00:27:23.080 --> 00:27:24.240
 servant.

00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:29.240
 Back to

00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:30.039
 the rule

00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:31.019
 of God

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:31.500
 at the end

00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:31.740
 of the

00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:32.080
 chapter,

00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:33.500
 God rules

00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.940
 in mercy

00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:37.080
 and salvation.

00:27:37.700 --> 00:27:38.580
 Again,

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:38.920
 there are

00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:39.960
 Joseph parallels

00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:40.799
 in this

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.319
 chapter.

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:42.340
 In verse

00:27:42.340 --> 00:27:42.819
 9,

00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:43.900
 did you

00:27:43.900 --> 00:27:44.420
 notice that

00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:44.840
 God had

00:27:44.840 --> 00:27:45.380
 caused the

00:27:45.380 --> 00:27:46.080
 official to

00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:46.680
 show favour

00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:47.360
 and compassion

00:27:47.360 --> 00:27:47.940
 to Daniel?

00:27:48.620 --> 00:27:49.140
 Same thing

00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:50.019
 happens in

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:51.220
 Potiphar's house

00:27:51.220 --> 00:27:51.720
 and even when

00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:52.059
 he's in

00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:52.819
 prison with

00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:53.160
 Joseph.

00:27:54.059 --> 00:27:54.519
 And then

00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:55.480
 in verse

00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:56.019
 17,

00:27:56.100 --> 00:27:56.380
 to these

00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:56.920
 four young

00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:57.220
 men,

00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:57.700
 God gave

00:27:57.700 --> 00:27:58.220
 knowledge and

00:27:58.220 --> 00:27:58.799
 understanding

00:27:58.799 --> 00:27:59.440
 of all kinds

00:27:59.440 --> 00:27:59.980
 of literature

00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:00.559
 and learning

00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.500
 and Daniel

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:02.140
 could understand

00:28:02.140 --> 00:28:02.840
 visions and

00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:03.299
 dreams of

00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:03.860
 all kinds.

00:28:04.539 --> 00:28:05.100
 God gave

00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:05.620
 knowledge,

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:06.640
 he gave

00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:06.940
 gifts,

00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:07.320
 including

00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:07.720
 visions,

00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:08.120
 just like

00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:08.600
 with Joseph.

00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:09.980
 And Daniel,

00:28:10.100 --> 00:28:10.420
 just like

00:28:10.420 --> 00:28:10.779
 Joseph,

00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.680
 would come

00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:12.140
 to find

00:28:12.140 --> 00:28:12.640
 a high

00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:14.340
 place in

00:28:14.340 --> 00:28:15.480
 a foreign

00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:16.279
 court.

00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:18.759
 God raises

00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:19.759
 Daniel and

00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:20.259
 his friends

00:28:20.259 --> 00:28:21.340
 because they

00:28:21.340 --> 00:28:22.660
 are vehicles

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:23.500
 for bringing

00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:24.360
 glory to

00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:24.740
 God.

00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:26.440
 God will

00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.200
 have glory

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:27.960
 in Babylon.

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:29.640
 God will

00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:30.420
 deliver his

00:28:30.420 --> 00:28:31.220
 faithful people.

00:28:32.380 --> 00:28:33.039
 God will

00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:34.019
 cause enemy

00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:34.740
 kings to

00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:35.620
 recognise the

00:28:35.619 --> 00:28:37.359
 supremacy of

00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:37.859
 the God

00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:38.179
 of the

00:28:38.179 --> 00:28:38.500
 Bible.

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.359
 I really

00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:43.099
 appreciate in

00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:44.000
 verse 19

00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.299
 the simple

00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:48.159
 fact that

00:28:48.159 --> 00:28:49.159
 it says

00:28:49.159 --> 00:28:49.339
 there,

00:28:49.399 --> 00:28:49.679
 the king

00:28:49.679 --> 00:28:50.199
 talked with

00:28:50.199 --> 00:28:50.439
 them and

00:28:50.439 --> 00:28:50.779
 he found

00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:51.539
 none equal

00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:52.879
 to Daniel,

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:53.739
 Hananiah,

00:28:54.419 --> 00:28:55.419
 Mishael and

00:28:55.419 --> 00:28:56.199
 Azariah.

00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:56.879
 So they

00:28:56.879 --> 00:28:57.279
 entered the

00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:57.979
 king's service.

00:28:58.099 --> 00:28:58.359
 They're not

00:28:58.359 --> 00:28:59.239
 Belteshazzar,

00:28:59.459 --> 00:28:59.719
 they're not

00:28:59.719 --> 00:29:00.199
 Shandrach,

00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:00.799
 Mishach and

00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:01.239
 Abednego.

00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:03.219
 Shakespeare,

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:03.759
 asked what's

00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:04.200
 in a name.

00:29:05.860 --> 00:29:06.120
 For

00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:06.579
 Daniel's

00:29:06.579 --> 00:29:06.759
 friends,

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:07.000
 there's a

00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:07.259
 lot.

00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:09.319
 They answer

00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:09.660
 to their

00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:10.200
 Babylonian

00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:10.460
 names,

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:10.960
 absolutely.

00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:12.960
 But in

00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:13.680
 their hearts,

00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:14.900
 they belong

00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:15.440
 to God.

00:29:16.180 --> 00:29:16.680
 They keep

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:17.460
 their identity

00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:18.460
 as the

00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:18.960
 people of

00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:19.220
 God.

00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:21.759
 Here, in

00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:22.100
 a sense,

00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:22.579
 is the key

00:29:22.579 --> 00:29:23.500
 to surviving

00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:25.160
 and thriving

00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:26.339
 in lockdown.

00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:28.339
 Here is the

00:29:28.339 --> 00:29:29.000
 key to

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.079
 enduring with

00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:30.500
 joy,

00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.360
 enduring

00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:31.939
 suffering.

00:29:32.659 --> 00:29:33.059
 Here is how

00:29:33.059 --> 00:29:33.519
 to live

00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:34.159
 well when

00:29:34.159 --> 00:29:34.839
 the world,

00:29:34.979 --> 00:29:35.539
 our world

00:29:35.539 --> 00:29:36.240
 turns upside

00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:36.740
 down.

00:29:38.399 --> 00:29:39.240
 It's to

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:40.899
 know who

00:29:40.899 --> 00:29:41.679
 you are in

00:29:41.679 --> 00:29:43.659
 Christ and

00:29:43.659 --> 00:29:44.679
 to live out

00:29:44.679 --> 00:29:45.599
 our identity

00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:47.019
 as a child

00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:47.699
 of God,

00:29:48.199 --> 00:29:49.299
 trusting in

00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:49.819
 our good,

00:29:49.899 --> 00:29:50.899
 good father.

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:54.159
 But above

00:29:54.159 --> 00:29:55.519
 all else,

00:29:56.679 --> 00:29:57.099
 when we

00:29:57.099 --> 00:29:58.759
 recognise that

00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.959
 our resolve

00:29:59.960 --> 00:30:00.940
 fails,

00:30:01.380 --> 00:30:02.160
 we see

00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:03.440
 Daniel as

00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:03.940
 a man of

00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:05.160
 resolute faith,

00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:05.700
 but what about

00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:06.079
 when our

00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:06.819
 faith fails?

00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:07.380
 And sometimes

00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:08.220
 we know this,

00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:09.519
 we fail

00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.279
 miserably,

00:30:10.420 --> 00:30:10.759
 we let

00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:11.480
 ourselves down,

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:11.799
 we let

00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:12.340
 others down,

00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:12.720
 and above

00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:12.900
 all,

00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:13.340
 we let

00:30:13.340 --> 00:30:13.940
 God down.

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:15.539
 And we

00:30:15.539 --> 00:30:16.039
 don't want

00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:16.660
 the message

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.720
 to simply

00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:18.059
 be,

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:20.819
 work really

00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:21.220
 hard to

00:30:21.220 --> 00:30:21.519
 try and

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:22.160
 be like

00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:22.519
 Daniel,

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:23.220
 use your

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:23.720
 own courage,

00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:24.059
 use your

00:30:24.059 --> 00:30:24.559
 own strength,

00:30:24.620 --> 00:30:24.880
 and be

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.460
 steadfast.

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:25.980
 that's not

00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:26.660
 what we

00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:27.680
 say first

00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:28.340
 and foremost,

00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:29.500
 we say

00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:30.360
 we must

00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:31.519
 look to

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:31.920
 Jesus,

00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:32.799
 who is

00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:33.140
 our

00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:34.220
 greater

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:34.559
 than

00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:34.980
 Daniel.

00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.140
 Jesus

00:30:37.140 --> 00:30:38.259
 left

00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:38.880
 home,

00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:40.860
 Jesus

00:30:40.860 --> 00:30:41.660
 perfectly

00:30:41.660 --> 00:30:42.500
 resisted

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:42.860
 every

00:30:42.860 --> 00:30:43.680
 temptation

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.660
 that came

00:30:44.660 --> 00:30:45.200
 his way,

00:30:46.120 --> 00:30:46.360
 Jesus

00:30:46.360 --> 00:30:46.660
 was

00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:47.519
 absolutely

00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:48.340
 loyal

00:30:48.340 --> 00:30:49.059
 and

00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:49.620
 obedient

00:30:49.620 --> 00:30:50.180
 to his

00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:50.920
 father and

00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:51.440
 pursuing

00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:51.819
 his

00:30:51.819 --> 00:30:52.480
 father's

00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:53.120
 glory,

00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:53.979
 trusting

00:30:53.979 --> 00:30:54.699
 in his

00:30:54.699 --> 00:30:55.279
 father's

00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:55.859
 plan,

00:30:56.099 --> 00:30:56.779
 even as

00:30:56.779 --> 00:30:57.199
 it took

00:30:57.199 --> 00:30:57.779
 him to

00:30:57.779 --> 00:30:58.399
 the cross

00:30:58.399 --> 00:30:59.099
 where he

00:30:59.099 --> 00:30:59.639
 would die

00:30:59.639 --> 00:31:00.299
 in our

00:31:00.299 --> 00:31:01.299
 place for

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:01.839
 our sins

00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:02.599
 to secure

00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:03.659
 our forgiveness

00:31:03.659 --> 00:31:04.179
 and bring

00:31:04.179 --> 00:31:04.939
 us peace

00:31:04.939 --> 00:31:05.699
 with God.

00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:06.699
 He died

00:31:06.699 --> 00:31:07.639
 to establish

00:31:07.639 --> 00:31:08.639
 the new

00:31:08.639 --> 00:31:09.519
 covenant

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:10.219
 and now

00:31:10.219 --> 00:31:11.419
 he's in

00:31:11.419 --> 00:31:13.219
 glory and

00:31:13.219 --> 00:31:13.759
 he prays

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.219
 for us.

00:31:15.379 --> 00:31:15.759
 Jesus

00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:17.639
 is our

00:31:17.639 --> 00:31:18.219
 way

00:31:18.219 --> 00:31:18.839
 home.

00:31:20.959 --> 00:31:22.259
 In the

00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:22.799
 letter of

00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:23.159
 Peter,

00:31:23.639 --> 00:31:24.319
 he describes

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:24.940
 Christians

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:25.519
 as

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:26.759
 exiles.

00:31:27.139 --> 00:31:27.460
 This is

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:27.940
 not our

00:31:27.940 --> 00:31:28.299
 home.

00:31:29.460 --> 00:31:29.879
 Glory

00:31:29.879 --> 00:31:30.379
 is our

00:31:30.379 --> 00:31:30.579
 home.

00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:31.240
 Heaven

00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:31.799
 is our

00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:31.960
 home.

00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:32.519
 Being

00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:33.399
 with God

00:31:33.399 --> 00:31:33.980
 is where

00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:34.700
 we belong.

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:36.619
 Jesus

00:31:36.619 --> 00:31:38.039
 is the

00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:38.700
 way to

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:39.359
 God and

00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:39.940
 where Jesus

00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:41.000
 is now

00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.259
 in glory

00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:43.619
 we will

00:31:43.619 --> 00:31:44.379
 follow.

00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:45.940
 But while

00:31:45.940 --> 00:31:46.839
 we are

00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:47.799
 in exile,

00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:48.519
 Jesus

00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:49.019
 as he

00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:49.539
 prays for

00:31:49.539 --> 00:31:49.680
 us,

00:31:49.879 --> 00:31:50.180
 as he

00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:50.779
 sends his

00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:51.359
 spirit to

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:51.759
 us,

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.339
 as he

00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:53.839
 speaks in

00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:54.420
 his word,

00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.259
 he provides

00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:56.720
 guidance and

00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:57.579
 strength for

00:31:57.579 --> 00:31:58.599
 us in

00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.660
 exile as

00:31:59.660 --> 00:32:01.559
 exiles so

00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:01.980
 that our

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:04.279
 faith and

00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:05.960
 dependence will

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:07.839
 endure even,

00:32:08.259 --> 00:32:09.859
 even when the

00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:10.379
 world turns

00:32:10.379 --> 00:32:10.980
 upside down.

00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:25.460
 peace.

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:26.120
 안에

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:26.519
 n

00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:27.019
하다

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:27.420
 Hydra

00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:28.440
 n