How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your life. You get a powerful picture of that kind of faithfulness in the life of the

prophet Daniel. First we heard about a young man, likely a teenager, who wouldn't

eat the food that God told his people not to eat. That's the first of many decisions he made that

could have cost him his life. In this study of through the Bible we hear about

another choice that Daniel makes now as an old man.

Dr. J. Vernon McGee is our teacher,

and we're headed into one of the most familiar stories

of the Bible.

Remember when you first heard about Daniel in the lion's den?

Well, I'm Steve Schwartz, your host, on this five-year journey through God's entire word, and now I bet

you know the highlights of this famous story, but let's listen for the lessons that bring a practical

application to our lives.

As Dr. McGee will show us, Daniel's testimony is so much more than a children's story.

In fact, on a number of occasions, Dr. McGee has challenged us to go deeper in our

own Bible study.

Here he is to encourage us again.

And I'd like to begin this today with a little poem that a friend of mine, a Canadian

by the name of Walt Huntley that I met down at Volkertan in Florida.

It goes like this, if someone should ever ask you why some Christians are so slow and like undernourished children they just

never seem to grow chances are they're on a diet and too weak to really stand for the pulpit where they

worship only serves the Pablum brand.

How can any newborn Christian ever grow to be a man if he's always on the

...