Title: Personal Purity (1)
Series: Daniel and Friends
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Daniel 1:1-10
Our society has become increasingly aware of the danger we face of polluting our air, our water and other resources. Oil spills, the eroding ozone layer and the pollution of the oceans with plastic have all become hot news stories and topics.
There is another form of pollution that very little is said about today and that is the moral pollution which contaminates our lives and destroys our personal purity. Our society cares more about
polluting the earth than they do polluting their lives.
I Timothy 5:22 Paul wrote to the young pastor Timothy
"Do not take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure."
Paul wanted Timothy to keep himself free from sin so that he would be an example for the believers to follow.
Daniel is a great example of someone who determined to keep himself pure according to the law of God even though he was living in a pagan culture. He did not let the influence of the
culture determine his walk with God.
BACKGROUND :1-2
We know nothing about Daniel's family or his early life.
He was taken to Babylon in 605 BC during the first deportation when Jehoiakim, king of Judah, stopped paying the yearly taxes to Nebuchadnezzar who had conquered the area. Daniel was probably about 14 years old and he spent the rest of his lifethere serving the most powerful rulers of the world for 70 years.
CULTURAL SITUATION :3-7
Education :3-4
Nebuchadnezzar brought a few of Jewish nobility in their teens into the royal school so they might e btrained and then be given positions of leadership within the empire.
:4 They were to be taught the customs, language and knowledge which would include: mathematics, astronomy, astrology, surveying, architecture and agriculture. These studies would equip them to become officials in the royal government. The point was that these young men would serve this new country for the rest o ...
Series: Daniel and Friends
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Daniel 1:1-10
Our society has become increasingly aware of the danger we face of polluting our air, our water and other resources. Oil spills, the eroding ozone layer and the pollution of the oceans with plastic have all become hot news stories and topics.
There is another form of pollution that very little is said about today and that is the moral pollution which contaminates our lives and destroys our personal purity. Our society cares more about
polluting the earth than they do polluting their lives.
I Timothy 5:22 Paul wrote to the young pastor Timothy
"Do not take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure."
Paul wanted Timothy to keep himself free from sin so that he would be an example for the believers to follow.
Daniel is a great example of someone who determined to keep himself pure according to the law of God even though he was living in a pagan culture. He did not let the influence of the
culture determine his walk with God.
BACKGROUND :1-2
We know nothing about Daniel's family or his early life.
He was taken to Babylon in 605 BC during the first deportation when Jehoiakim, king of Judah, stopped paying the yearly taxes to Nebuchadnezzar who had conquered the area. Daniel was probably about 14 years old and he spent the rest of his lifethere serving the most powerful rulers of the world for 70 years.
CULTURAL SITUATION :3-7
Education :3-4
Nebuchadnezzar brought a few of Jewish nobility in their teens into the royal school so they might e btrained and then be given positions of leadership within the empire.
:4 They were to be taught the customs, language and knowledge which would include: mathematics, astronomy, astrology, surveying, architecture and agriculture. These studies would equip them to become officials in the royal government. The point was that these young men would serve this new country for the rest o ...
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