Well, if you are joining us for the first time, you're walking in on a sermon series that is changing the game for a lot of people.

We're walking through the Old Testament book of Daniel, but we're not just walking through Daniel as a historical study.

We're framing it through the eyes of Daniel and his friends' formation as they grew up.

And what's cool is we're watching the Word of God move in supernatural

ways as we just read it and talk about it and focus on it. I want you to know that what happens in

this space is not powerful because of the way I deliver it or whoever on this stage delivers it.

What's happening in this space is powerful because the Holy Spirit loves to illuminate Jesus through the Word of God.

So it's so simple. There's no tricks. There's no gimmicks. All we're doing is reading stories from

the Word of God, applying them to our lives, and then we're watching in real time, God change people's lives.

God is doing in our day what he promises to do through the scriptures, and there's nothing

magical about it. There's no delivery that's manipulative. It is just straight. Focus on the

truth of God's word, apply it to your life and watch the Holy Spirit work. And what's crazy about

that is that the reason why Daniel and his friends were able to hold onto their faith in exile

in Babylon was because their parents

were a part of a generation that returned to the Word of God. King Josiah reigned when Daniel's

parents were around, and King Josiah led a nationwide revival to destroy idols and return

to the book of the law. We read this story in week one, but I want to remind everybody, this is the lens that we're

viewing everything in this series through.

King Josiah is reigning and he's trying to destroy idols and he's trying to change things.

And all of a sudden, the priest at the time, Hilkaya, Jeremiah's dad, finds the book of the law

and they read it and they go, this is why everything's falling apart. We've lost the truth of

God's word. We've lost our commitment to this book and we've got to return to him. Now, they're only

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