Peers and Beers (Daniel 1)
Theme: God rules.
Theme: We are in the world but are not to be of it.
We are the dispersed ones.
Esther 3:8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from [those] of all [other] people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.
James 1:1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
Everything is spiritual.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places.]
Daniel’s decisions and direct disobedience.
Romans 13:1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
The role of the force of will!
2 Chronicles 12:14 He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
Be bold!
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
Be prepared to face the consequences.
Esther 4:13 Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the king's palace can escape any more than all the Jews. 14 "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"
Theme: He’s a covenant-keeping God.
Jeremiah 25:11 'This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
John 14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, [there] you may be also. ... 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
