Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. I'm so glad you're here today. We're going to continue our series called Unshakeable.

Rick is taking us through the book of Daniel, and that's so we'll be equipped to handle whatever curveball life throws at us, even the most difficult trials.

And now here's part two of the message called When Your Beliefs are Belittle.

Here's Rick.

So how do you excel in your education when relativism is actually a fundamental position of humanism?

Well, let me give you six things.

You need to write these down.

And even if you've gone through school, you're going to need to share these with students, children, grandchildren, and you're going to need them the rest of your life even at work. Okay? Here's how you excel in your education or even in your business. Number one, decide in advance to stand for God. You decide in advance

to stand for God. The time to choose your loyalty is before the test happens. Before you go back

to school, before you go back to work, Jesus said, in the world you will have tribulation.

Not might, you will.

So count on it.

It's a guarantee.

Should not be surprised that your faith is going to be tested at school or your faith is going to be tested at work or anywhere else.

The Bible says in 2. Timothy 2.13, look up here on the screen, everyone who wants to live

a godly life in Christ Jesus might, no, not might, will suffer persecution. If I'm not

suffering any persecution in my life, guess what? It just means I'm not living a godly life.

It means I'm living such a chameleon life that people don't even

know I'm a Christian, and so I'm not suffering anything. If you live a godly life, you stand for a

truth, then you're going to suffer some harassment. Okay, so no big deal. It's going to happen in your

life. Parents, you need to prepare your students for this. You should expect

your faith to be challenged during your two decades of school at some point. Now, you need to

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