Can we bow for a moment of prayer,
please?
Our Father, thank Thee for this time, these
days together.
Thank Thee for each soul that responded in
the meetings there in the morning with Roy,
bowing down.
I saw all those men just bowing down
in brokenness, seeking God.
Thank You for my darling wife and her
ministry and every lady that has come up
to me and I've heard of what God
has done in their hearts through Jenny pouring
herself out in her humble and unique way,
as each one of us is so unique
but so precious if given ever to God.
So we bless Thee for what Thou has
done for the ladies and girls through a
woman who understands far deeper the needs, the
desires, the longings of other women in their
homes and from their children, for their families.
Thank Thee, dear God, for the ministry and
song from each one that played violins and
instruments in a sacred and reverent way, longing
to be used of God.
Thank You they're not out there playing for
the world.
Thank You they're not in the church playing
to bring the world in the church, but
playing in reverence.
Thank Thee, Father, for all these dear people
that are here.
Bless them, all that have responded in the
meetings and sought God like last night, the
way they just sought Thee.
How we bless Thee.
Thank Thee, our Lord, for Thy presence with
us.
Without Thy presence, everything would be a grief
eventually, but to know that God is with
us to sense His voice, to feel His
hand, to sense His convicting power, His grief,
His longing, His light bursting, His voice penetrating
where no human voice can penetrate.
This is all that matters, the presence of
God, the consciousness we have to do with
God, not men.
Our reaction is for God, not men.
Our rejection is to God, not men.
Of any message we hear, of any light
that's held out, or standard presented that's from
this book, it's only to do with God.
Nothing else really matters.
The way we speak to each other, it
is because of God we speak thus.
The way we react when others fail, we
react because God reacted with love and patience
and mercy at our failures.
Everything is to do with God.
The way we reject evil thoughts and bring
every thought into captivity and to obedience, replace
those thoughts with seeking God, is because we
love Thee.
Even our thoughts are controlled out of love
for Thee, are directed.
Everything in our lives are redeeming the time,
the minutes, not the days anymore, not to
lose any opportunity that singularly was given that
I'll never have again, that I could do
something, say something, impress someone.
Oh, we bless Thee that all is for
God.
The way we make our beds, that anyone
who looks at that will know there's something
different about this person.
The way we eat at a table, the
way we dress, the way we speak, everything,
God, everything.
The places we dare to go, we go
only because of God, for His name not
to be damaged, for His heart not to
be grieved.
Come therefore, Lord, take us in this last
moments of this convention.
Have Thy way with us.
Speak to our hearts, every one of us,
as only God can.
Wash me, please, in the blood of God
the Son.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit.
Anoint me, unctionize me, quicken my mind and
heart.
Let Thy compassion flow through me.
Thy love be seen through me, for mine
is not good enough.
Human love is obnoxious in God's service.
It's only God's love through a human that
matters.
Look through me.
Speak through me.
Cry out in mercy through the basest of
men, but let it be God, for without
Thee we can do nothing.
Make Thy word alive, as only the Holy
Spirit can, for the letter killeth, but the
Spirit giveth life.
Give life to this book, for Thou hast
honored Thy word above all things, Thou hast
said, and we long to also, Lord, keep
us all under the blood of Jesus the
Christ.
And come, visit this place by Thy Spirit,
in Jesus, in Jesus Christ's name.
We dare to believe that God would hear
such a prayer, only because we all agree
and ask, as base and unworthy as we
are, in Jesus Christ's name and for His
glory.
Amen.
In the Old Testament, there was a man
called Daniel, a man who, for some reason,
stands out in history as one of the
most greatly honored, loved, revered, and used men
of God to this generation.
For some reason, Daniel was so honored and
revered by God and man that few in
history have ever so affected the entire world
and even continue to affect in the millions
and millions throughout every generation, as young Daniel
did from his early life through to his
death.
He became a household name, revered and feared
across the known world.
In his lifetime, there were four kings who
ruled much, if not most, of the entire
known world.
They were so great and powerful and feared.
But each of these kings was staggered by
this one man, staggered at his life, his
integrity, his transparency, his honesty, his humility, his
trustworthiness, his faithfulness to his God, no matter
what it cost him, his faith in his
God, and above all, in the way God
honored such a life and such faith.
Four kings were staggered, never to recover, never
to recover through this man's life.
God so used him.
Firstly, there was Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, the
man who built the Babylonian Empire, feared across
the world, conquering nation upon nation, nothing stood
in his way.
Nebuchadnezzar, whose armies conquered Israel and then Judah,
taking young Daniel, a teenage boy, away from
his father and mother and land and home
to Babylon with other of the noble children
of the royal homes, the royal family, the
noble families, the finer, refined children, to be
groomed to serve in the palace, to serve
the king and the people of higher rank.
And they, with many other children of the
best and noblest and most educated and refined
of many lands, were taken by Nebuchadnezzar's armies.
Then came Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, King of Babylon
and the Babylonian Empire, his grandfather had established
which was virtually the known world.
Belshazzar, then Darius, the mead, a man who
loved Daniel with his life, a man, I
believe, who aged in fear of what was
done against Daniel by wicked and longed with
every breath in his body to, as a
king, do something to protect him.
He so loved him for his life and
integrity and friendship.
Darius, the mead, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius, the
mead.
And then finally, Cyrus, the Persian, who established
the Medo-Persian Empire to its greatest power
and became feared as few empires have ever
been feared and headed by such a man
as Cyrus, who the Bible says served God,
the God of Daniel.
It is amazing how these men were staggered
to acknowledge the God of Daniel as the
living, true God through Daniel's life.
Oh, we bless God for one man who
from a boy till his death staggered the
world, who became a household name revered and
feared above most men in history.
And to this day, millions are in awe
as they read that which God recorded of
his life in the Holy Book.
But why?
What are the reasons that God could so
singularly use one man to such a degree
as He didn't use through the ages?
Multitudes and multitudes and multitudes who profess to
love God and serve God generation after generation.
What were the reasons God so took this
man?
What were the reasons men so revered him
and feared him and loved him and hated
him if they had no integrity themselves?
What were the reasons that God so honored
this man that the world was staggered through
him the way God used him?
I'd like to look at those reasons with
you in these last moments of this convention
by looking at the heart of this book
of Daniel, the central chapter six.
The heart, I would say, of the whole
book where we read, It pleased Darius.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom
and hundred and twenty princes, and hundred and
twenty princes which should be over the whole
kingdom.
And over these, over these three presidents, three
presidents of whom Daniel was first, of whom
Daniel was first, that the princes might give
accounts unto them and the king should have
no damage.
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes.
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes because, because an excellent spirit was
in him.
An excellent spirit was in him and the
king thought to set him over the whole
realm.
But what does that mean, beloved?
Because an excellent spirit was in him.
What does that mean?
I believe the same thing was being said
of David in 1 Samuel 18, verse 14.
And David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways.
And David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways.
And the Lord was with him.
The Lord was with him.
Therefore, when Saul saw that he behaved himself
very wisely, he was afraid of him.
These men were afraid of Daniel for the
same reason.
He behaved himself wisely in all his ways
and the Lord was with him.
I believe that is what it means.
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes because an excellent spirit.
He behaved himself wisely in all his ways.
The Lord was with him and the king
thought to set him over the whole realm.
Then the presidents and princes sought, sought to
find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom.
They sought for something to condemn him, to
destroy him, to accuse him, to undermine him.
Then the presidents and princes sought to find
occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom.
But they could find none occasion, no fault,
for as much as he was faithful, neither
was there any error or fault found in
him.
That is a wonderful testimony.
Hallelujah!
They sought to find occasion against him, but
they could find none occasion, no fault, for
as much as he was faithful, neither was
any error or fault found in him.
They found that he was uncompromisingly faithful in
his workplace, in the responsibilities and duties allocated
to him at his work.
They found he was uncompromisingly faithful at his
work.
Are you?
Can that be said of you by the
world, the godless, at your work, sir, lady,
your responsibilities?
Can it be said of you, uncompromisingly faithful?
They could find nothing, no fault, nothing.
They wanted to, and God expects it of
us.
Paul cries out in Philippians 2 verse 15,
that ye may be blameless and faultless, blameless
and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked
and perverse nation, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine
as lights in the world, holding forth the
word of life.
Your life gives you the right to hold
this out, to talk of your God to
anyone in this world, to even name the
name of Jesus, Paul says, your life gives
you the right to name the name of
Jesus.
Oh, he was blameless, harmless, the son of
God, without rebuke.
They couldn't rebuke him on a thing, and
we're called to the same, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, as Daniel
was, among whom we shine as lights in
the world, as he did, holding forth the
word of God, the word of life.
1 Peter 3 verse 16, having a good
conscience, that whereas they speak evil of you
as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that
falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
They may be ashamed who want to speak
evil of you, as evildoers, try and find
fault of you.
They may be ashamed, but only if you
have a good conscience, in the light of
God's light and word.
Oh, they found he was uncompromisingly faithful at
the workplace, in his responsibilities, allocated his duties.
Can that be said of you, child of
God?
Is that your testimony?
Will you answer, God, every single one of
you, please?
Uncompromisingly faithful.
What a lovely testimony this man had.
Then the presidents and princes sought to find
occasion against Daniel, but they could find none
occasion, no fault for as much as he
was faithful.
Neither was there any error nor fault found
in him.
Then said these men, we shall not find
any occasion against this Daniel.
We will not find anything to condemn him,
to destroy him.
Then said these men, we shall not find
any occasion of this Daniel, except we
find it against him concerning the law of
his God.
What were these evil men thinking of?
What were they saying here?
Except we find it against him concerning the
law of his God.
Well, they, beloved, remembered what we remember of
Daniel, what's recorded in chapter one of him.
They remembered because they also had come from
nations as boys.
They also had been groomed, but they found
out right from the start there's one boy
here that would not compromise on the commandments
of his God.
He purposed in his heart right then from
the start he would not defile himself with
the king's meat.
He would not go against the commandments of
God concerning defiling food that God commanded the
people of God not to touch, as the
heathen do.
But that was his one commandment.
Obviously all commandments, no matter what the cost,
no matter what it cost him, he would
not compromise.
He was uncompromisingly faithful to the commandments of
his God.
They found firstly, he was uncompromisingly faithful in
the workplace, in his duties and responsibilities allocated
to him.
They found of his life that he was
uncompromisingly faithful, uncompromisingly faithful in the keeping of
the commandments of his God.
Can that be said of you?
Please answer, God, by the unsaved.
Is that your testimony?
You will not compromise no matter what it
costs, no matter what happens, the consequences, the
word of God, the standard of this book.
Then said these men, we shall not find
any occasion against this Daniel, except we find
it against him concerning the law of his
God.
What were they thinking of these evil, evil
men?
Then the presidents, these presidents and princes, assembled
together to the king and said thus unto
him, King Darius, live forever, live forever.
All the presidents, all the presidents of the
kingdom, the governors and the princes, the counselors
and the captains have consulted together to establish
a royal statute and to make a firm
decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of
any God or man for 30 days, save
of thee, O king, he shall be cast
into the den of Lyon.
Now, O king, establish the decree and sign
the writing.
Let it be not changed according to the
law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth
not, which altereth not.
Wherefore, King Darius signed the writing and the
decree.
Now, when Daniel knew that the
writing was signed, when Daniel knew that the
writing was signed, he went into his house
and his windows being open, his windows being
open, his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon
his knees, he kneeled upon his knees three
times a day and prayed and gave thanks
before his God as he did aforetime.
This is staggering.
Beloved, he knew what they were doing, don't
doubt that.
He knew what was going on, but nothing
would make him divert from God.
They found now that he was uncompromisingly faithful,
no matter what the cost, no matter what
the consequences, he would not divert from his
times with God, no matter what it cost
him.
He was uncompromisingly faithful in his workplace.
He was uncompromisingly faithful, no matter what the
cost in the keeping of the commandments of
God.
He was uncompromisingly faithful, uncompromisingly faithful in his
devotions, in his times of intercession set aside
for him to commune with his God, no
matter what it cost him in life, he
would not be diverted.
No matter what the cost, they found him
uncompromisingly faithful in his times of devotion, communing
and intercession with his God.
Can that be said of you?
Will you please answer, God?
If you're not here for God, what on
earth are you doing here?
Will you please answer, God, every single one
of you, even preachers?
Is that your testimony, beloved?
There's something here about this man that is
so faithful, it's staggering.
It is staggering to this generation, all these
hundreds and hundreds of years later, staggering to
the people of God, staggering to my heart.
This man prayed three times a day.
Now, this is greatly significant, because David, who
the same thing was said about his life,
and men feared him for the excellent spirit,
that he behaved himself wisely in all his
ways, and the Lord was with him, and
men feared him.
Wicked men always fear such men, but godly
and men of integrity always love such men.
David, the same thing that was said of
David was said of Daniel.
An excellent spirit was in him.
He was preferred above all the presence, because
he behaved himself wisely also.
But this is so significant.
David also cried out that he prayed three
times a day.
Three times a day he set aside for
God that he would not divert from.
Evening and morning and at noon will I
pray and cry aloud and he shall hear
my voice.
Psalm 55 verse 17.
David cries evening to you, morning to you,
and at noon I make time where others
sleep for other things that they think is
essential to stay alive, and I make time
for God.
Oh evening and morning and at noon will
I pray and cry aloud and he shall
hear my voice.
David says to hear these two men have
something else in common.
Beloved, I believe as a result of this
discipline, God had set times alone with God
that nothing would divert them no matter what
it cost them, nothing.
As a result of this there emerged two
men who behaved themselves wisely in all their
ways, and the Lord was with them.
Men in whom there was an excellent spirit,
that they were preferred above all others.
An excellent spirit.
I believe for you and I to have
such a testimony we need, no matter what
it costs us in life never to be
diverted, no matter what the devil does to
try and put fear in our hearts that
we fail other things or do things.
Oh beloved, I believe as a result of
these times with God that these two men
emerged from, they emerged men who behaved themselves
wisely in all their ways.
Will that ever be said of you?
Answer God.
It will never be said of you.
I guarantee you until you emerge from such
times that nothing will divert you from every
day.
Times when you commune with God, when you
intercede with God, when you're alone with God
and nothing will keep you from it.
No one, nothing, nothing the devil does will
keep you from it.
There's something precious about what Daniel did though.
We don't know what he prayed.
I have imagined what he prayed.
I mean he did speak to God about
these men, don't doubt that.
He must have brought it all before God,
but we don't know what he said to
God, but one thing we do know that
God makes all we know about what he
did.
He gave thanks when everything came against him,
when everyone was now wanting to destroy him
and they could, when his life was at
stake, when he was about to be wiped
out.
In spite of all this throng of evil
rising against him to destroy him, didn't come
before God grieving and crying out of the
unfaithfulness of God now and deserting him and
leaving him in the hands of such wicked
though he's been faithful.
He gave thanks.
Whatever he cried out to God, he still
did the one thing he always had done.
When things turned against him, he didn't cease
to offer the sacrifice of praise.
Can that be said of you?
Is that your testimony or are you just
a murmuring, angry, bitter against God and men?
If things go wrong, when you get on
your knees, can you answer God please?
Will you please answer God right now?
Every single one.
He lived the New Testament standard as few
have, without all we have, even a record
of his life.
He lived it.
There's a verse here, Philippians 4
verse 6.
Be careful for nothing.
That's staggering.
Be anxious, be fearful of nothing.
Frightful, anxiety, fear, flooding your hearts about circumstances.
Be careful for nothing, but in everything, every
circumstance, let your requests be made known unto
God with prayer and thanksgiving.
I love that.
No matter what comes in life, no matter
what you face in life, no matter what
difficulties you're going to have with the onslaughts
of the devil or any circumstance that you
feel you're now going to be destroyed.
Be fearful nothing and nothing, but let your
requests be made known unto God.
Let your requests be made known unto God,
but in everything, by prayer and supplication, let
your requests be made known unto God with
thanksgiving.
And the peace of God, it passes all
understanding, so flood your minds and hearts through
Christ Jesus.
You want peace that passes all understanding?
It isn't just given.
It isn't just given when you pray to
God with all your needs now that you're
facing, oh God, oh pray, but with thanksgiving,
child, there's something about the power of praise.
Whoso offereth praise glorifies me a billion times
more when all goes against you than when
everything's going right.
Glorified God, do you glorify God in praising?
But you give up the moment things aren't
perfect, then he's not worthy of praising.
When things that go against you, people come
against you, are you a perfect murmurer or
a perfect worshiper of God?
One of the two.
I don't think there's an in-between.
I can't imagine how that's possible.
You're one of the two.
What are you in reality?
You're as real, I believe, as you are
when everything comes against you, not when everything's
going right.
What test is there when things are going
right, brother?
And how do we pass an exam more?
A New Testament standard that not only to
come to God for peace, that passes all
understanding by committing it to God, but offering
the sacrifice of praise in spite of all
these things.
Not for these things.
You never praise God for what evil men
do against you, but in spite of them
you never cease to be a perfect worshiper
of God, even though you might be apprehensive,
but you come before God and you find
God's peace flooding you if you do these
things.
Somehow you discipline yourself not just to come
to God with all the problems, but you
come, you commit them to God and then
you praise and God's peace comes and never
before.
Peace that passes all understanding.
Do you think he just had that?
No, he had it as a result of
doing New Testament commandments to find peace that
passes all understanding and keeps your heart and
mind through Christ Jesus.
Do you?
Is that your testimony?
Will you please answer God and speak to
God about it right now?
Will you please do that, sir?
Acknowledge it.
Talk to God about this.
If he's talking to you about it through
the basis of men, but you know he's
reaching you where no human voice can reach.
His voice is reaching.
You know you have to do with God.
Please speak to him about it.
Don't be silent.
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed,
he went into his house and his windows
being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he
kneeled upon his knees three times a day,
three times a day and prayed and gave
thanks before his God as he did before
time.
Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying
and making supplication before his God.
Then they came near and spake before the
king concerning the king's decree.
Has thou not signed a decree that every
man that shall ask a petition of any
God or man within thirty days, save of
thee, O king, shall be cast into the
den of lions?
The king answered and said, The thing is
true according to the law of the Medes
and Persians which altereth not.
Then answered they and said before the king,
That Daniel, that Daniel which is of the
children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not
thee, O king, nor the decree that thou
hast signed, but maketh his petition three times
a day.
Then the king, when he heard these words,
was sore displeased with himself and set his
heart on Daniel to deliver him.
And he labored to the going down of
the sun to deliver him.
Then these men assembled unto the king and
said unto the king, Know, O king, that
the law of the Medes and Persians is
that no decree of the king of Tabareth's
may be changed.
Then the king commanded and they brought Daniel
and cast him into the den of lions.
Now the king spake and said unto Daniel,
Thy God, whom thou servest continually, he will
deliver thee, he will deliver thee.
And a stone was brought and laid upon
the mouth of the den and the king
sealed it with his own signet and with
the signet of his lord that the purpose
might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Then the king went to his palace and
passed the night fasting.
Neither were instruments of music brought before him
and his sleep went from him.
Then the king arose early in the morning.
The king arose very early in the morning
and went in haste unto the den of
lions.
And when he came to the den, he
cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel.
And the king spake and said to Daniel,
O Daniel, servant of the living God, is
thy God whom thou servest continually able to
deliver thee from the lions?
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king,
live forever.
My God hath sent his angel and hath
shut the lion's mouth that they have not
hurt me.
For as much as before him innocency was
found in me, and also before thee, O
king, have I done no hurt, then was
the king exceeding glad for him and commanded
that they should take Daniel up out of
the den.
So Daniel was taken up out of the
den and no manner of hurt was found
upon him.
No manner of hurt was found upon him
because he believed in his God.
And the king commanded, and they brought those
men which had accused Daniel.
And they cast them into the den of
lions, them, their children, and their wives.
And the lions had the mastery of them
and break all their bones and pieces or
whatever they came at the bottom of the
den.
Then King Darius wrote unto all people, nations
and languages which dwell in all the earth.
Then King Darius wrote unto all people, nations
and languages that dwell in all the earth.
Peace be multiplied unto you.
I make a decree.
I make a decree that in every dominion
of my kingdom men tremble and fear before
the God of Daniel.
For he is the living God.
He is the living God and steadfast forever.
And his kingdom, that which shall not be
destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto
the end.
He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs
and wonders in heaven and on earth, who
hath delivered Daniel from the power of the
lions.
So this Daniel prospered in the reign of
Darius.
And in the reign of Cyrus the Persian,
these men found other things about Daniel that
we looked at that they found of his
life.
They found staggering things that stagger me.
They found that he would not defend himself.
He did nothing.
Does God expect that of you and me?
Well, let's look at the light of the
New Testament, at what God says.
He didn't go to the king and complain
and explain.
He didn't go to them and plead.
He didn't argue.
He didn't try and stop them from what
was being planned.
He did nothing against them.
He said nothing to man about them.
He didn't fight them.
And he was the top authority under the
king already in the whole land.
He couldn't.
He didn't react to men's evils.
And they were about to destroy him, but
he did nothing to protect himself, nothing to
rebuke them, nothing to challenge them, nothing.
He did nothing to man who wanted him
dead.
Beloved, 1 Peter 2 verse 19.
For this is thankworthy, if a man for
conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
For what glory is it when we be
buffeted for our faults?
We take it patiently.
But if when you do well and suffer
for it, you take it patiently, this is
acceptable with God.
For even here unto where ye call, because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
example that he should follow his steps, who
did no sin, neither was guile found in
his mouth, who when he was reviled, reviled
not again.
When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed
himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Daniel did that.
All he did was he committed himself to
him that judgeth righteously.
And you see, Daniel's name is God is
my judge.
That's all that matters, you know.
God, be still child, know that I am
God.
Don't you do the fighting or things will
go worse.
Be still child.
He committed himself to him that judges righteously.
He committed this whole situation.
He committed these men, he committed his life,
no matter what, to God who judges righteously.
Do you or did you fight?
Did you fight?
And it just went worse.
Will you answer God please?
Is that your testimony?
They found, they found that because of his
faithfulness to God, his uncompromising faithfulness to God
in all the ways they could look at,
his uncompromising faithfulness to God and his faith
in God, that God was faithful in protecting
him, in delivering him, and in dealing with
those who the devil was using.
They found to their dismay that because he
was uncompromisingly faithful.
Listen carefully.
My son Samuel stood here last night at
15 years of age and quoted a verse
that I've always loved.
It spoke to my heart again.
1 John 3 verse 20.
If our hearts condemn us not, then have
we confidence toward God and whatsoever we ask,
we receive of him because we keep his
commandments.
Whatever God heard Daniel crying out as he
committed it all to God, because Daniel was
uncompromisingly faithful, he kept the condition of the
promise.
There's no such a thing as a promise
without a condition in the entire Bible.
You keep the condition, you fulfill the condition,
God is faithful on this side.
They found that because of his uncompromising faithfulness
to God and his faith in God, that
God was faithful to him, to protect him,
to deliver him, to honour him, to stagger
the world by way he honoured him.
Can that be said of you?
Is that your testimony because of your uncompromising
faithfulness when you come to God in circumstances
in prayer, God is faithful to you because
the conditions right through this book you fulfill.
Otherwise God cannot fulfill.
So don't blame God for what does go
wrong if you're not faithful.
Then they didn't find something else out that
we find out because they tragically were dead.
But we find out that God and man
honoured him in a way that the whole
world, the whole world, the known world, the
great empire, Medo-Persian, the whole world, the
known conquered world of this great man acknowledged
by the king's decree to fear and tremble
before the God of Daniel, for he is
the living God.
What a testimony for a king to give,
let alone your president.
What a testimony for a king to give
the world that he knows, he's convinced, he's
proved, he's seen this God of Daniel.
All of you under me, you tremble and
you fear because of this God for all
the world suddenly acknowledged God.
I don't know to what degree you and
I could say they were saved like in
Nineveh as they turned in their wickedness, crying
out to the God of Jonah for forgiveness.
But they knew he was God, the God
they knew.
I don't know, but there will be a
staggering amount of people we will see as
a result of Daniel's life, including kings who
acknowledged and bowed down before this God because
of Daniel's life and witness and testimony.
In chapter 12 of Daniel, there's a precious
verse, verse 3.
Listen carefully.
They that be wise, oh, he behaved himself
very wisely as a result of God with
him.
They shall shine as the firmament forever.
They that turn many to righteousness.
Tell me, is that your life?
Is that your testimony?
They shall shine as the firmament forever and
ever for the start.
They that be wise, they that turn many
to righteousness.
Well, he did.
He shook the world.
He shook kings to acknowledge that this God
is the living God.
But has anyone in your life been shaken
through your life?
And God honoring your faith and your faithfulness
through your uncompromising faithfulness, have you turned many
to righteousness?
Has God honored you?
Well, he never will.
He never will, not one of you, unless
these things are written across your life and
read loud and clear, not with ink, but
by the Spirit of God, loud and clear,
by the godless and the godly.
Can we stand, please?
Can we bow before God, please?
Father, someone wrote that
him, Lord, dare to be a Daniel.
Help us to, in Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.