Thank you. What do you think of as your distinguishing characteristics?

How would other people describe you?

Today on Truth for Life will be introduced to an elderly Daniel

and find out how his unwavering faith

and obedience to God became the source of blessing, honor, and loathing.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Daniel, Chapter 6.

Well, in reaching Chapter 6, we've come to what is undoubtedly the most familiar story in the book of Daniel.

Even people who know very little about the Bible will probably know something concerning Daniel and his lion's den, in the same way that they will know that Noah had an ark. But if we are tempted to dismiss or to sideline these recorded incidents

in Daniel as being little more than good moralistic stories for children, then it is imperative

that we reconsider. It is possible to go through these first six chapters of Daniel simply in a

moralistic way, saying these people were very good and you should be very good as well.

Daniel was a very strong fellow. Why don't you become a strong fellow?

And of course, there's value in that, but that's not the reason we have the book of Daniel,

and that's not the message of these chapters.

Daniel knows that even when the external fabric of religion is dismantled and in some cases destroyed, as it is for many of our

brothers and sisters throughout the world this morning, God remains God, and access to him

remains the same. And so it is that this book comes initially to readers who by this point were tempted

to give up on the law of God. And Daniel says, I didn't do it and you shouldn't. And they were tempted

also to give up on the idea that there would ever be any deliverance for them at all.

And as Daniel has recorded these incidents,

they have been galvanized into understanding that all the kingdoms of the world are in

opposition to the work of God, still God remains God. And he is, and he will, accomplish his purposes.

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