God’s At Work

“We tend to see our trials as isolated nightmares. God, however, sees them from a different perspective. They are important and connected punctuation marks in the biography of grace He is writing in our lives.” Sinclair Ferguson

Daniel 1

1. The book of Daniel is , not Daniel, the end times, or Crossroads Church.

2. We aren’t gonna get .

3. Daniel teaches us about God’s and .

4. Daniel teaches us to be where we’re planted.

5. Daniel teaches the of following the ways of the world.

6. Daniel provides vivid clarity that God is .

7. Daniel has for God’s exiled people today who still wait for a better king and better kingdom.

Theme of Daniel 1:

God is sovereign in the lives of His children and the details of their lives for and for strategic, eternal purposes. 

1. God sovereignly His Word.

2. God sovereignly blesses the of His children.

3. God sovereignly His children for His own eternal purposes.

4. God can enable us to live lives of to Him even when by pagan influences and propaganda like Daniel was.