Title Daniel's Faith / Dan 6:18-20
Content Daniel's Faith / Dan 6:18-20
I. King Darius had a very painful night.
A. He realized that he had been deceived by the wicked and that he had put to death Daniel, whom he loved and loved, who he was thinking of making over the king.
1. They incited the king's vanity and pressured him to sign a foolish decree that forbade him to worship or pray to any god or man except the king for 30 days. It was decided to throw him into the lion's den as punishment for those who violated it.
2. They became jealous when they learned that Daniel had been appointed to the high-ranking office they coveted.
a. They knew that Daniel was sincere and found no blemishes in the conduct of his business.
b. They knew that Daniel was devoting himself to God and praying continually.
c. In the end, it was a plan to entrap Daniel, and he tried to make such a decree.
B. Even though Daniel knew that the decree had been signed by King Darius, he opened the window to Jerusalem and continued to pray three times a day.
1. Upon receiving a report that someone had violated this order, King Darius realized that this was his dear Daniel, and realized the folly of his decision.
2. The king found loopholes in the law and sought a way to take the edict, but he knew that the edict once signed by the Mede Pasa Act could not be changed again.
3. In the evening people came to the king and urged him to enforce the law.
C. The king fell into a trap and had no choice but to express his deep regrets to Daniel. The king encouraged Daniel, saying, "The God whom you serve will save you from this lion's den."
1. God sometimes sends us words of encouragement through strange people.
2. A very lovely young man has been with us for several years and he has become mentally ill and speech impaired due to drug addiction and an accident.
a. God used him in a special way. One day while he was in the psychiatric unit at Orange County Hospital, one of his psychiatrists called the church and asked, "What must I do to be saved?" According to him, "There is a young man in our hospital who doesn't know everything else, but he seems to know one thing for sure. He always tells me, "Jesus loves me." So I want to know this Jesus too. " was it.
b. Around that time, my wife, Kay, was having a rather gloomy day. What she wants is "to confirm that God loves me," he said. Then I got a phone call from a young man. He calls "Sister Kay" in an indecipherable tone that is not accurate due to her disability, says "I want you to know that Jesus loves you" in a very accurate, clear, perfectly normal pronunciation, and then immediately becomes opaque again. I have experienced the fact that I went back to a stutter.
D. The king encouraged Daniel with these words, but he stayed up all night because he was totally incredulous.
1. He abstained from dinner and music.
2. He spent all night in agony, lamenting his own stupidity in signing such edicts.
3. Early in the morning the king ran toward the lions' den. He ordered the stones to be removed from the cave's entrance, and he cried out in a sad voice toward the cave, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, was your God, whom you always serve, able to save you from the lions?"
4. Daniel said to the king, "O king, I beg you, long live the king. My God has already sent an angel and has sealed the lions' mouths, so they have not hurt me." rejoiced
II. Was your God mighty?
A. In the first half of the book of Daniel, when the three Hebrew boys were threatened by the furnace fire by King Nebuchadnezzar, they answered, "The God whom we serve is powerful to save us from your furnace." saved you
B. Our God is a God of salvation. God is mighty to save you. The same is true of the black lions in the bellows.
C. Are there limits to God's power?
1. Is there anything God cannot do other than lying?
2. After Ratio prayed for the church in Ephesus, he asked God to do the impossible there, so that he might realize the sensible love of God and be filled with the fullness of God. Paul declared, "Now God has power to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think."
3. God's power is beyond what you need and think.
4. God said to Jeremiah, "Behold, I am the Lord; is there anything beyond me, the God of all flesh?"
D. He said that the key to Abraham's faith was "believing that God had promised him and that he was able to do it."
1. Do you believe that you can do what God says He will do? So what's the problem? Why are you concerned?
2. In many cases we are like King Darius. He encourages others with those words and says that God will do everything for him, but he is not sure. he asked in the morning. ?쏧s your God able to save you???
III. What are some things God can do for you?
A. God will hold you from stumbling and will set you blameless before him when his glory is revealed.
1. The ratio asks, "Who are you generous to judge the servants of others? His rise and fall are with his master, and God will have the power to raise him up."
2. No matter what others say about you or judge your weaknesses, God has the power to build you up. God holds you from falling.
B. 2 Corinthians 9:8 "God is able to make all grace abound, so that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work."
1. Oh, the wonderful grace of Jesus is greater than all my sins. 2. Think about how God's grace makes me overflow.
C. Paul gave Timothy his glorious assurance of assurance, "I know that Jesus, in whom I believe, has power to protect me until that day." I entrusted everything to him to protect my life. I know that the Lord has the power to sustain me.
1. I am weak, but he protects me;
2. I fall, but the Lord protects me from falling.
3. I make mistakes, but he never fails. I depend on the power of the Lord, not on my own. I believe in the power of the Lord to save.