Title: Out of the Frying Pan,
Into the Fire! (2)
Series: Daniel-Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Daniel 3:1-30
Open your Bibles to Daniel 3. We're in week three of our series we've entitled "Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God," looking verse by verse through this Old Testament book that was written and lived out about 600 years before Jesus. It is the storyline of Daniel and his friends living in a time and place where it became more and more difficult to remain faithful to their God. This book also serves as a template for us, as we continue to live out our faith in what seem to be days of growing difficulty. This morning I want to begin by looking at the story behind the story.
As we've been unveiling these opening chapters of the book of Daniel, I want us to understand the things that were happening around them. As we focus on each chapter, in some ways we're looking at the fine tuning of the story, but we aren't made aware of the overall picture.
In Daniel 1-6, we have, if you will, a chess game between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil-the Kingdom of good and the kingdom of evil-between the Kingdom of righteousness and the kingdom of sin and rebellion. As we'll see, moves were being made on this chessboard-one move by man and his kingdom, then one move by God and His Kingdom. Maybe a better image would be a game of ping pong, going back and forth. God's Kingdom was being worked out in the nation of Israel. Then the kingdom of the world came to them in the form of the Babylonian empire and King Nebuchadnezzar. They decimated the land of God and took captive the best of God's people. Of course, God knew this would happen and it was according to His plan and purpose.
Right when the devil thought he had won, God gave grace to some young Hebrew boys: Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The first challenge they faced was that the devil's side decreed these men would be required to eat ...
Into the Fire! (2)
Series: Daniel-Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Daniel 3:1-30
Open your Bibles to Daniel 3. We're in week three of our series we've entitled "Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God," looking verse by verse through this Old Testament book that was written and lived out about 600 years before Jesus. It is the storyline of Daniel and his friends living in a time and place where it became more and more difficult to remain faithful to their God. This book also serves as a template for us, as we continue to live out our faith in what seem to be days of growing difficulty. This morning I want to begin by looking at the story behind the story.
As we've been unveiling these opening chapters of the book of Daniel, I want us to understand the things that were happening around them. As we focus on each chapter, in some ways we're looking at the fine tuning of the story, but we aren't made aware of the overall picture.
In Daniel 1-6, we have, if you will, a chess game between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil-the Kingdom of good and the kingdom of evil-between the Kingdom of righteousness and the kingdom of sin and rebellion. As we'll see, moves were being made on this chessboard-one move by man and his kingdom, then one move by God and His Kingdom. Maybe a better image would be a game of ping pong, going back and forth. God's Kingdom was being worked out in the nation of Israel. Then the kingdom of the world came to them in the form of the Babylonian empire and King Nebuchadnezzar. They decimated the land of God and took captive the best of God's people. Of course, God knew this would happen and it was according to His plan and purpose.
Right when the devil thought he had won, God gave grace to some young Hebrew boys: Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The first challenge they faced was that the devil's side decreed these men would be required to eat ...
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