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CPT: God showed favor to Daniel who determined to live a righteous life before God amidst the temptations of luxury and status.
Purpose: Our church needs determination to live righteously on mission for Jesus.
CPS: Be determined to live for Jesus.
Introduction
As a church, we need to be determined to live righteously and with integrity before God.
But to do that, we individually need to be a people who are focused on following Jesus with our lives.
We need to be a people who are determined to live for Jesus.
Yet, we face many challenges.
There are challenges to being determined to live a righteous life.
Sometimes, we think of determination as something that doesn’t work out the way we planned.
You see your boss pull up in a really nice car.
You go up to your boss and say, “Man, that is a really nice car!
I wish I had a car like that.”
Your boss says, “Well, if you work hard, if you put in really long hours, and you are really determined, I can get a better car next year!”
But being determined to live a righteous life is not like that.
Whenever we face challenges, its the fruit of a life that has been obedient to God that really gets us through challenges.
We need to live a righteous life amid challenging times.
Problem: How can we live a righteous life amid a challenging time?
We are starting our new series in the book of Daniel, and we’ll see Daniel and his companions living righteous lives under challenging circumstances.
Scripture Reading: Daniel 1
Pray
Summary:
The Israelites have been conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar.
The king takes the Israelites from their homeland in Jerusalem to hundreds of miles away in the city of Babylon, a place in modern day Iraq.
He gets the best and brightest young men, and has them serve him.
Four of them are Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
These young men are faced with a challenge, which is what we will focus on in Daniel 1, especially verse 8
What does a righteous life going through a challenging time look like?
First,
A righteous life is determined to honor God amidst temptation.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
Text: Daniel 1:8; Acts 11:23; Psalm 141:3-4
Daniel determined in his heart to honor God amidst temptations.
Like Daniel, Christians need a fixed and Spirit-led mindset to resist anything that pulls us away from a God-honoring life.
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Daniel’s determination
Daniel is a young man.
In this text, it says that Daniel is determined not to defile himself.
Take a look at verse 8.
Determined defined
The Hebrew word translated as “determined” means to set in place, as if you are arranging and fixing something, installing something so that it will not move.
You are fixing something in place conclusively or authoritatively.
Daniel’s mind was fixed in place, set down that he would not defile himself.
Defiled defined
Defined means to be morally or ritually impure, unclean.
You could think polluted, so that if he ate the king’s food and wine, it would pollute himself before God.
What was defiling about the king’s food and wine?
The Jews had certain dietary restrictions that were given to them by God, so that there were certain animals they could not eat.
The nations around them didn’t follow these laws.
But there was more.
Often, for the foreign nations even the acceptable, clean animals were first offered up as victims to foreign gods, and part of the wine was poured out as a libation on the altars of these foreign gods.
So for Daniel and his friends, their conviction was that to participate in the king’s food and wine would be to participate in their idol worship.
That would definitely defile them before God.
You see this in Exodus 34:15:
Daniel and his companions were determined not to defile themselves before God.
Determined applied
As Christians, we need to have minds that are set in place, fixed and focused that I will follow Jesus today in what I think, what I do, and what I say.
We often walk around in an environment that is not in line with the values of God.
We need a determination that, no matter what, we are people who follow Jesus.
Barnabus encouraged the Antioch church to be determined
The heart is that place within us that feeds our convictions.
Jesus needs to change the heart, and the convictions will follow.
We are encouraged to be people who remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts.
Why do we need this kind of determination?
Being determined is needed because there is temptation in the world.
If we take a look at young Daniel, he is like us.
He is in a world and a situation that is surrounded by temptations.
Daniel faced temptation
1. “Far from authority” temptation
He was in a foreign land, away from the Temple.
First, Daniel is in what I call the “Far from authority” temptation.
He was in a foreign land, in Babylon, which was located in modern day Iraq, hundreds of miles away from the Temple where the Jews worshipped in Jerusalem.
Think of the kid in college, far away from home.
“No one is looking, they won’t find out.”
2. “Social peer-pressure” temptation:
He was treated as special by the king
Second, Daniel had the “social peer-pressure” temptation.
Daniel was looked at in Daniel 1:4 as a young man:
“They think I’m special, I’m suitable for the king, I don’t want to let them down.”
Anyone who has been in high school knows this kind of social-peer pressure temptation on a young man.
3. “Feel good” temptation:
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