God calls us to separation, and unless we are living a separated life,

we are destroying our worship and we are destroying our service to Him.

There must be a purging and a purification in our lives. That's what God calls us to.

Have you ever been tempted to fudge some numbers on your tax return or

embellish the truth on a job application? No big deal. Everyone cuts corners now and then,

pretty much standard practice, right? But the question you cannot ignore is this. What does God

say about compromise? John MacArthur is going to help you answer that question today on Grace to

you as he kicks off a compelling series from the book of Daniel titled An Uncompromising Life.

Now you know John, there really is something powerful about a man or a woman who refuses to

compromise either big ways or small. Of course powerful doesn't necessarily mean popular.

Sticking to principle often means paying a price, doesn't it? Yeah, you know, it's a sad time we

live in. You see it like I see it everywhere. The hypocrisy of our culture, the hypocrisy of pastors

whose sin is exposed. The hypocrisy of church leaders and church members whose sin is made known.

The hypocrisy of people in leadership. This is a society of liars and deceivers. I mean,

there is just a place where who do you trust? You virtually can't believe anything. Anybody says

because hey, there's no premium on telling the truth. This is a culture where you can make up

whatever story you want to make up. You can say you're a woman when you're not. You can say you're

a man when you're not. It doesn't matter. It's whatever you want to say in a world full of lies and

a world full of compromise. An uncompromising life is a rare, rare reality. And we're going to be

looking at a study of a model of an uncompromising life. And that life is the life of Daniel, Daniel

in the Old Testament. Compromise and temptation all around us and it was all around him. And it's

possible to compromise and destroy your testimony in all kinds of ways. But Daniel never did that and

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