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In his book, Your Reactions Are Showing, J. Peterson states, “You may be surprised to learn that your reactions to the situations you face daily may say a great deal more about you than your actions say.”
When you open up God’s Word - Do you open up God’s Word? - how do you respond?
How do you react?
Daniel faithfully walked with God.
The date for the events of this chapter are about 537 B.C., a year before Cyrus permitted the Jews to return from exile, and sixty-nine years after Daniel had been carried captive at the beginning of the captivity in 606 B.C.
Daniel was a young man in Daniel chapter one, likely a young teenager, when we read of him:
Teenagers and young people, make a decision, when you are young to serve the Lord.
Teenagers, there are adults in this room who, if given the opportunity, would testify that they “wish”
they could go back in time and get saved at an earlier age,
they could go back in time and surrender their life to God sooner,
they could get back some of the years of their life that they “wasted” in living for themselves, living for the things of this world, in living for the devil.
Adults, please understand, though, that it is never too late to make a decision for Christ: to accept Him as your Savior or to surrender your life to Him.
So, here in Daniel chapter 9 we see a godly man who had faithfully walked with the Lord for the vast majority of his life.
Although Daniel had his share of challenges and difficulties, I’m sure that he would have testified, “It was worth it all!”
Sometimes the day seems long, Our trials hard to bear.
We´re tempted to complain, to murmur and despair.
But Christ will soon appear to catch his bride away!
All tears forever over in God’s eternal day!
It will be worth it all when we see Jesus!
Life’s trials will seem so small when we see Christ.
One glimpse of his dear face, all sorrow will erase.
So, bravely run the race till we see Christ.
Daniel’s life certainly was an example of...
Through the years Daniel had kept his eyes on the Lord and ran his life with patience!
Daniel faithfully walked in God’s Word.
In this verse we see Daniel, still as an old man, digging into the Word of God that had been given to Jeremiah the prophet.
I believe that it is possible that the book of Jeremiah may have been Daniel’s favorite book of the Bible and that, throughout his 69+ years in Babylon, that time and time again, Daniel would open up the pages of Jeremiah’s prophecy and would feast upon God’s Word.
I believe that, from Daniel 9:2, we can see Daniel’s desire toward the Word of God:
Daniel had a desire to read God’s Word.
Congregation, do you have a desire to read God’s Word?
Daniel had a desire to pay attention to God’s Word.
The word, “understood,” in vs. 2 literally has the meaning, “pay attention.”
I know what it is like to pay attention.
When I am driving between Los Angeles and Lancaster, CA, on the freeway, I pay attention.
I don’t want to get into an accident.
I know what it is like to not pay attention.
I see that often, amongst the seventh grade students, when I begin to talk about adverbs and adjectives in English class.
They don’t see adverbs and adjectives as very important.
Congregation, when we open up God’s Word, do we pay attention?
Daniel had a desire to know and understand God’s Word.
Daniel 9:2 says, “…that he [God] would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Daniel had likely read that passage of Scripture on countless times but he kept digging into it until he had the “Aha!” moment.
Congregation, when we open up God’s Word, is there a desire, in our heart to truly know and understand God’s Word?
Do you keep digging until you finally get it?
I believe that Daniel is a perfect example of...
Daniel rightly responded to God’s Word.
God’s Word demands a response.
Daniel 9:3-4 show us how Daniel responded.
Daniel turned his attention to the Lord.
“I set my face unto the Lord, to seek...”
Daniel made a conscious decision to turn his attention to the Lord.
What has your attention today?
I am reminded of...
I believe most of us know how that turned out for Lot!
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
Daniel prayed.
“…by prayer and supplications...”
Daniel’s usual response was prayer.
Prayer is always a wonderful response to any situation we find ourselves in.
Prayer is a wonderful response because it means we have found ourselves helpless and we have come to the end our ourselves.
Usually, when we pray when we have exhausted every other available means to handle the situation and have come up short.
That was the response of the woman in Mark 5...
Reaching out to God in prayer is always an appropriate response.
Daniel humbled himself.
“…with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes...”
As we have seen throughout the book of Daniel, God is very able to humble individuals if it is necessary.
Just ask Nebuchadnezzar.
However, God would much rather we humble ourselves and Daniel demonstrated time and time again that he truly was a humble individual.
Daniel exalted God.
(vs.
4) “…O Lord, the great and dreadful God...”
Moses said...
David said...
Nehemiah said...
When you spend time in God’s Word, does it cause you to exalt God?
Does your time in God’s Word cause you see the greatness of God?
Does your time in God’s Word cause you to fear Him with reverence and awe?
Be Thou exalted forever and ever,
God of eternity, the Ancient of Days!
Wondrous in wisdom, majestic in glory,
Perfect in holiness, and worthy of praise.
Be Thou exalted by seraphs and angels,
Be Thou exalted with harp and with song.
Saints in their anthems of rapture adore Thee,
Thine be the glory forever, Amen!
As we close this morning, I would ask you to turn to Jeremiah chapter 25. (Turn to and read Jeremiah 25:3-8.)
May I ask you, when you open God’s Word, do you respond in this fashion or do you respond in the way in which Daniel did?
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