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have to miss a new message. Let's go right into the service recorded at Free Chapel. I believe it's

going to bless you today. I'll begin reading in Daniel chapter one and we'll just for the sake of time go to verse 4 and so they gathered them all

together young men in whom there was no blemish but good looking gifted in all wisdom possessing

knowledge and quick to understand the sharpest of the sharp, who had the ability to serve in the

king's palace in whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

And the king appointed for them as a daily provision of the king's delicacies of the wine

which he drank and three years of training for them so

that at the end of that time they might serve before the king now from among those sons of judah were

Daniel Hananiah Michelle and Azariah.

Now, I just gave you the Hebrew names.

You know them as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendigo,

because they changed their names, changed their identity.

And to them, the chief of the eunuchs was given the name, was, what gave names.

He gave Daniel the name Beltashezzar to Hananiah Shadrach, to Michelle Meshach, and to Azariah,

Abindigo.

But Daniel, here's my text, purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank.

Therefore, he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Now, God had brought Daniel into favor and goodwill with the chief of the eunuchs.

I will stop reading there, except I want to quickly go to verse 19 and 20.

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