All right, we're beginning a new series. If you want to turn to Daniel, chapter one, will be in Daniel.

Again, the notes are, I think, Notes. gatewaypeople.com. They're on you you version but that's the quickest way that takes

you right to them. But we're going to begin a series called The Kings of Babylon.

And this is something that jumped out at me at Christmas when I was just reading the book of Daniel.

There were four kings of Babylon during the exile.

The exile is the 70 year time when God took Israel out of the land of Israel and took them

captive into the land of Babylon.

Now please hear me because I really want you to hear what my burden is.

God was disciplining or correcting his children for something,

but he was not punishing them.

God does not punish if you have a version that uses the word punish,

it's incorrect.

He disciplines and there's a difference.

He doesn't punish us because he already punished his son on the cross for our

seab. But he disciplines, the Bible says, as a loving father. Some of us did not have

loving discipline growing up, so because of that we don't understand what that means.

Hopefully you're in a healthy body now, hopefully if you've been attending here, you've

had someone in your life that has lovingly corrected you in an area and you've walked away feeling

adjusted and that you needed that adjustment but you also felt loved.

So that's what God does.

So I want you you understand God took Israel out of the

land for seven years and so many people think he was punishing him. No, he did it

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