Daniel broke the law. God found him innocent. The charge against Daniel was treason, or something right next to it. No one was to pray to anyone but the king; Daniel prayed to God. And just to make it clear Who he was praying to, he faced Jerusalem. The bureaucrats rejoiced, the king agonized, Daniel fell. But there was someone else there, too. Jim brings us Part 2 of The God Who is Trustworthy.

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The kind of God you serve will determine the kind of person you become. If your God is generous, you'll develop confidence in His grace, and become a giver, yourself. If your God is faithful, that will cultivate faithfulness in you. In Daniel, Chapter 6 the prophet is serving a new king, but the same Lord. And he serves both well. And that gets him in trouble. Here's Jim to open the sermon, The God Who is Trustworthy.

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Belshazzar ordered the gold and silver drinking vessels from the Temple. God brought the scales. This Chaldean king who lived a long time ago and spoke a funny language - he's a guy we know. He's the rich kid who didn't have to earn it; the man who knows he's superior to all who came before him...even though he has no idea who or what came before him. His ignorance is as great as his arrogance, and on a night when he's feeling jolly he decides to have a little sport with that quaint Hebrew deity. Here's Jim with Part 2 of The God Who Rewards.

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Today, we "read the handwriting on the wall." "A little bird told me" that many of our common idioms come from the Bible. From "no rest for the wicked" to "my 2 cents' worth." One of the most ominous of these phrases comes from the passage we'll read today, Daniel, Chapter 5. Nebuchadnezzar is long gone. We have a different arrogant king, and he wants to throw an enormous party - one for the history books. He thinks he'll "eat, drink and be merry," but he's about to "bite the dust" and "give up the ghost."

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God warned Nebuchadnezzar that He would "cut him down to size." Then he gave him a year to avoid that sentence. In Daniel's chronicle we see both divine judgment, and mercy. When the king failed to submit himself to the King of the Universe he didn't just lose all his power, he lost his mind. But God's ultimate goal with Nebuchadnezzar wasn't to take, but to give him the precious gift of humility. We're in Daniel, Chapter 4. Yesterday Jim showed us the fundamental reality that God rules.

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If I'm successful I want the credit; if I'm not, it's somebody else's fault. As Jonathan Swift put it, "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit." Nebuchadnezzar was happy. He was a man who had everything except someone to thank. So God, who had given all these gifts, was about to give one more - of a different kind. In our study of Daniel we move to Chapter 4. Here's Jim with Part 1 of, The God Who Rules.

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Does God want you to be happy? Careful: there's a difference between the question, "Does God want you to be happy?" and the question, "Does God want you to be happy right now?" or "...all the time?" Remember that His perspective is much broader than ours, and the bliss He's planning for us is beyond our understanding. But in the meantime, we'll deal with some tests and tribulations. Some fiery furnaces. Here's the third-and-final segment of Jim's sermon The God Who Delivers, taken from Daniel, Chapter 3.

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Some say we all worship the same God under different names. To the early Christians, Yahweh was God and Jupiter was not. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego would bow to the God of Abraham, but not to the god of Nebuchadnezzar. For this truth they were all willing to die. But theirs is The God Who Delivers, as we started discovering yesterday. Here's Jim to continue in Daniel, Chapter 3. He's talking about those who construct their own god from their diseased imaginations.

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Today we'll look at 3 of the most famous characters in the Bible: Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. It doesn't seem fair that Daniel is known to us by his Hebrew name - nobody calls him Belteshazzar - while his three friends were stuck with their Babylonian handles: Shadrach, Meshach an Abed-nego. But they are recognized by those names to every Sunday School student worthy of his or her gold star. What did their bold encounter with a rash ruler reveal about The God Who Delivers? Here's Jim with Part 1 of that sermon.

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God has both wisdom and power - and He shares! Yesterday we began looking at Daniel, Chapter 2, and the familiar account of Nebuchadnezzar's disturbing dream. When God revealed both the dream and its interpretation to Daniel, the prophet broke into poetry: "Wisdom and power are His," verse 20; and in verse 23, "You have given me wisdom and power." Now that we have your attention, Jim will bring us Part 2 of this message, called The God Who Reveals.

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