Surrounded By Lions [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright. The climax of the story from a the good news of the Daniel story Vermeil is limiting because it is God said what is is is all gases that what he said his messenger he sent his representative came in to the lions them with me, and here's what I was found blameless and then miles alive shot another message of good use that will help you see your life. No hold I'm Daniel excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series called Daniel as presented in an older church in North Carolina.

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That's one fruit or the other fruit has happened to so many millions and millions of people in our culture have looked at our moralistic teachings and have said, I can't be that good.

I don't want to try to be that good.

I'll come up with my own version of right and wrong and they left the church in droves and live their own rebellious life, stop what I'm saying is moralistic reading of the Bible will lead you to religion, or it will lead you to rebellion, and neither one of those will lead you into life.

This story is part of a great story and this story is absolutely awesome in pointing us to the gospel so I would take a text like this and after just enjoying the flow of great plot that has God is the rescuer. First off I would look if so, where are the recurring themes or word that show up while word that recurs, of course, over and over and here is the very name of Daniel and Daniel means God is my judge Dan judge I need the means my and Elvis will fallow him.

God is my judge. The very name Daniel when you hear it means that there is a judge and he is a righteous judge and he is a judge over all, and that each is my God, my God is my judge, it is to announce that the one who made me the one who loves me and I want to show me all this favor. He is my judge is to announce that ultimately Nebuchadnezzar is not my judge.

Belshazzar is not my judge and Darius is not my judge, it is that God is my judge and it is to announce that there is a judge.

This means that there is a judge.

There must therefore be justice that there is justice that the world is founded on. Now the spirit of the age doesn't like the idea of saying that there is justice to the world and that the world is founded on good and evil and right and wrong. It's not a popular mentality but it is in general revelation obvious to all thinking people that there is that which is good, and there is that which is bad is a good thing to love people and help people.

It is up bad thing to harm children and old people.

It is good thing to care for people is bad thing to hate people.

We all know this and and here is the bottom line to this.

If we have a world of which there is no judge, then that means there is no justice. And if we live in a world that has absolutely no justice, meaning that good is never rewarded and evil is never punished and what is the purpose of this world and of what basis are we living the very name Daniel Danniel, my God, my judge is my God and he is the judge over all things you'll never understand the beauty and the majesty of the gospel until you come to this revelation that the world is established according to the principles of justice that there is a God over all and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and we are all in the same predicament.

Without some saving mercy from the Lord. We are all separated from God forever. The wages of sin is death is rightly to be executed against every Center's ultimate separation from God. This is the reality of the predicament of humanity you can start understanding the story Justin Daniels name God is my child each is a predicament. Then that emerges in the plot.

Did you notice this, the plot builds on the predicament of the law over and over.

It says the law of the Medes and the Persians cannot be revoked. The law stands.

You can't just make a law and then say and will ignore it. For some people around is not really a law, and yet the predicament is that Darius who loves Daniel he doesn't want Daniel to perish.

He doesn't want the punishment that the lawbreaker should receive. He doesn't want to be executed against Daniel and we don't want it to be executed against Daniel, but there's a dilemma it's raised in its heightened then the drama. The law says you must be punished. But the king's heart says I don't want them to be punished. So there's a there's a conflict in a crisis that emerges what will the king do what I can just say I'll just overturn the law. The wall no longer matters. If he does that, then he's going to put at risk all of the law and all the sense of just them justice that the Medes and Persians have built their empire on but if you but if he keeps the law continual just favored counselor will die this man is 80-year-old man who served so well for all these years and never harmed anybody he will die.

What we do. We tend to think that is gotta be either you keep the law, and he dies or you overturn the law. He lives and yet the place of justice is diminished. In other words, how could it possibly be both justice and mercy. If you start thinking that way about a story like this then everything on the inside of me started getting excited because now you're coming up to the edge of the gospel because this is our story, God loves us.

He is your creator and yet he had said to the very first human beings you can eat up all the fruit of any of these trees just don't eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for if you do the death, and the a that and everyone is been born in Adam and Eve and God has if there could be such a thing, a dilemma where in he wants more than anything else to demonstrate his love and his mercy, and yet because he is no liar and his word will never fall to the ground.

Empty. He cannot violate his own word. He's got his word, which says that sin must be punished. His heart this is. I don't want the center to be punished and in every form of religion that has ever been crafted by man has made an attempt to solve it from our side. Here's what we need to do so that God will bless us our great story just like the story of Daniel is not a story about any wisdom craft skill or righteousness of our own, but instead it is a story of a God of so much genius that he found a way to be both just and merciful. He found a different way, not overturning the law, and yet not executing the center. He found the writer of Hebrews says a new and living way.

It's why Jesus came. Did you see Jesus in the story whole. What a good Palm Sunday text right there in the middle.

Daniel sixth century BC file.

The satraps conspired against Daniel and so it was that the chief priests and elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest according to Matthew 26 and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth talent right will have more teaching in a moment from today's important series. It's shocking how quickly American values have changed.

Suddenly, most people go to church or have a biblical worldview. Everything has changed so much that maybe you feel like a foreigner in your own culture. I was a Christian supposed to live in a post-Christian world we fight against it.

We decide our light in the midst of it. We pull away from it.

These are the same questions that faced a young exile named Daniel in Babylon 600 years before Christ.

Though he was an alien God showed the young man favor when you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry today will send you pastor out eight messages on Daniel of favorite foreigner in an attractive CD album on a USB thumb drive or through digital download is our way of saying thanks for your partnership. You may feel like a stranger in this world, but as God should favor to gain his farmland God's grace is upon you today.

Your gift today would only help you walk in the grace of God during these troubling times.

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This ministry is only possible through prayerful support listeners like you when you give today will send you today's special offer were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you. Call 877-544-4860 or come visit pastor out.org today's teaching now continues here once again is Alan Wright Daniels conspirators could find no corruption in Daniel and Mark 14 reports the chief priests and the whole counsel were looking for testimony against Jesus to put him to death with a found on an as Daniel was convicted by trickery, so was Jesus. Matthew 26, the high priest tore his clothes and said he's blasphemed. Why do we still need witness Daniel was found guilty of transgressing the law of the Medes and Persians. According to John 19, Jesus was found guilty of transgressing the law of the Jews says we have a lawn. According to that law he ought to die because his claim to be the son of God. Darius unsuccessfully tried to save Daniel. Just like Matthew 27 says Pilate unsuccessfully tried to save Jesus.

Daniel trusted in his God and Jesus trusted in his father and Daniel descended into the pit. A grave like Dan and Jesus body was laid in a tune Daniels grave was covered with a stone and Jesus's tomb was made secure. They took moist clay around Daniels Dan around that stone and they put the moist clay and while it was still soft.

The king put his signet ring into along with all the Lord. So then when it hard. There was the symbol of the kings of far it was to say that if anyone breaks this seal by moving this stone, then you are under the penalty of the Kings authority for you be breaking the kings seal it was saying no one will be authorized to move this stone, but the king is a big deal made of it New Testament the Jesus tomb.

Matthew 27 was made secure by sealing the stone, no one would be authorized or allowed to move that's tone the king, he rose in his angst and in his haste at the break of dawn to see what was going on and Daniels to and Mark 16 tells us the very early on the first day of the week when the sun had risen. They went to the tune with Angel told them that Jesus had been raised just like he sat Daniel prospered after God had saved them. And Jesus prospered after being raised in Jesus said all authority in heaven on earth has been given unto me, and then the stories begin to diverge so similar now you see that Daniel was but a shadow for Daniel claimed that he was blameless, but we know that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and yet Jesus was, according to Hebrews for the sinless son of God. Daniel faced the possibility of dying while Jesus actually died and Jesus rose from the grave.

Unlike Daniel, who would one day die.

Jesus would never die again, and God prospered. Daniel and put them in a highly exalted position in the government, but Philippians 2 tells us that God highly exalted Christ and gave him the name that is above every name, so that the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father best of the stories about when Jesus was talking to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and their eyes were open and really begin to show them all the Scriptures concerning himself. I bet you took the story.

I bet you this was one of let me tell you guys would Daniel was really all about. It's about a new a living way, third way that nobody had drunk.

What's interesting is that Psalm 22 the text that says prophetically, my God, my God, why you forsaken me, and describes this great anguish of an anointed one who suffers that Jesus is so identified with Psalm 22 that it is what he quotes as he cries out in his anguish on the cross, my God, my God, why be forsaken me that that Psalm Psalm 22 also contains these words, many bulls encompass meet strong bowls of bash and surround me. They open wide their mouths at me like a ravening and roaring lie.

What was happening at the cross was at this time not by not by any pagan rulers decision, but by his own set purpose his own unflinching resolve that this was his mission, the son of God hung on the cross and subjected himself to all the roaring's of the lien that all of the enemies taunts and all of the mockery and all of the judgment. It all was coming to bear upon the son of God.

He faced the lien and as the lion roared God allowed justice to be executed.

Sin was punished. Sin was punished severely sunless the sinless son of God, taking upon himself the sin of the world, and as the lion at Golgotha roared as if in great triumph and every demon of hell had their play day on the son of God. While all that was happening and Jesus was ingesting and becoming our sin and taking upon himself the righteous judgment of God.

While that was happening the way was being opened up and there was shaking and the veil that separated the holy of holies was ripped asunder in a new and a living way was burst forth. And when Jesus came out of the grave burst forth by the authority of the king himself who rolled away the stone. He came to live bow hold forever more so that whoever would believe in him and receive him by childlike faith simply believing that he has paid the price that God is still just but that the punishment landed upon Jesus so that we might be found blameless in his sight. Then the truth of first John comes the past that God is faithful and just to forgive our sins he is faithful because his steadfast love endures forever more at ease. Just because the sand has been paid for it would be unjust to make two people pay for the same said Jesus has paid for your sin, all people of God. You have been therefore found blameless in his side.

The climax of the story for me.

The good news of the Daniel story for me is when it came in his cancer. God saved what is happened. They says yes he said what happened what he said his messenger, they said, his representative, God came in to the lions den with me and here's what happened is that I was found blameless and then the mouse will I was shocked one of this is that you never overcome your sin by moralism and by simply trying harder to live under a system of law.

But when you discover yourself through Jesus Christ shed blood on and through his righteousness to be found blameless and him then when the lien comes and says, look at you with all your sin and all your problems come messed up you are, look at the people you've hurt look at the folly look at your addictions.

Look at how do you think that you're going to be blessed when you hear that voice and you live under the law, you go yeah I try harder next time. Or else you say am I will give up not tried all but if you come into the new in the living way, the way of Jesus. Then you turn to the roar of the lion and you can say shut your mouth, but I have something to say to you Donnie.

Now God is my judge in Jesus Christ is already announced that I am not guilty and that is the gospel. A man right in today's teaching, shutting the mouth of the roaring line. It's shocking how quickly American values of changed suddenly most people go to church or have a biblical worldview.

Everything has changed so much that maybe you feel like a foreigner in your own culture.

I was a Christian supposed to live in a post-Christian world we fight against it.

We decide our light in the midst of it. We pull away from it. These are the same questions that faced a young exile named Daniel in Babylon 600 years before Christ. Though he was an alien God showed the young man favor when you make your gift to Alan Wright ministry today will send you pastor at eight messages on Daniel of favorite foreigner in an attractive CD album on a USB thumb drive or through digital download is our way of saying thanks for your partnership. You may feel like a stranger in this world, but as God should favor to gain his farmland God's grace is upon you today. Your gift today would only help you walk in the grace of God during these troubling times. It will also help someone else.

This ministry is only possible through prayerful support listeners like you when you give today will send you today's special offer were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you. Call 877-544-4860 or come visit pastor at.org. We've made it through the series on Daniel and we finally come to the story that's I right well exist that guides the most famous Daniel story just send it one of vibrant picture though of our enemy. The lion seeks to devour and a powerful thought that there is a way that through the gospel's power we can shut up some of the constant accusations that are bombarding us from the enemy all the times. This is powerful fodder for the spiritual battle is to know who you are in Christ know what's been done for you, and to lay claim to it.

There is no condemnation left for anyone who is in Christ Jesus has already is our advocate stood in our place. And when you know this and you meditate this become strong stuff in the spiritual battle.

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