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 Rick with part one, and it's actually a

question. The message is called, Will You Stand Strong for God publicly? We've been in this series

on Daniel now for a long time, and we come to the eighth major test in Daniel's life. Now, at this point, Daniel is an old man. We started

when he was a teenager. He was a prisoner of war at 15, and we saw three or four tests in his life,

even while he was a teenager. And then we look at some tests in his 20s and in his 30s,

and then in his middle years.

And now Daniel is about 82 years old.

He has survived through at least two, three, now his third king, two different empires,

the Babylonian empire, which crushed the Assyrian Empire, and now the Persian Empire,

this is all in history, crushed the Babylonian Empire, and Daniel was such an amazing man and leader and a man of integrity that every single leader wanted to keep him on. You know, usually when he

get a new administration, they clear house.

And all of the people who were serving in the previous administration, they're all gone.

But Daniel keeps getting rehired, rehired, and actually keeps getting promoted.

Now, we're going to pick up from where we ended last time that he had outlasted two Babylonian

kings, Nebuchadnezzar and his grandson, Belshazzar.

And now he gets a new boss called Darius the Mead, who is a general with another guy named Cyrus the Persian, Cyrus the Great.

And Darius the Mead actually killed Daniel's previous boss, Belchazer, and ransacked the city of Babylon.

He destroys the city, takes it over, but says, I'm keeping Daniel.

This is an amazing man.

Now look up here on the screen.

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