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Title: The Bailout!
Text: Daniel 6:1-28
 
Introduction:
 
 
Our story opens up after Daniel has given the interpretation of the writing on the wall to the Chaldean king, Belshazzar that resulted in his death for rebellion against the true and living God.
Now Darius the Mede is the king of the Babylonian empire who is Judah’s captors.
King Darius decided to do some reorganization in the kingdom so it could continue to prosper.
So he set 120 satraps (princes) and over them 3 governors which Daniel would be one.
King Darius had no problem putting Daniel in such a high position because what it says in verse 3, “/because he had and excellent spirit with in him”/.
Daniel had an excellent spirit.
He had gifts and abilities that surpassed all others.
Darius knew of his service and gifts as he watched Daniel serve faithfully the other kings before him.
He had an excellent spirit with in him!
My beloved, I believe all the gifting and abilities that Daniel possessed came from the power of God.
You don’t operate on the same playing field when God is in.
You may be ordinary but when you are called to task, you do the extraordinary because you got something /on the inside/.
The enablement of the Holy Spirit equips believers to do great things and people will take notice!
It was Daniel who out tested the kings men with denouncing the kings food!
It was Daniel who interpreted dreams and vision that no one else could.
All because he had an excellent spirit with in him!
And when you have the spirit of God, you will have favor with man.
That is what we see here.
Daniel got such favor the king is about appoint him over the Babylonian and his not even Babylonian!
He was a prisoner from Judah.
The captive is about to rule the captors!
My beloved, because of your excellent spirit God has given you so much favor that you will be in places that you know you should not have.
You have things that you are not supposed to have!
But don’t think that because you got favor people are going to like it.
Look at the text.
In verse 4, Daniel’s peers tried to do him wrong because he had favor.
They tried to find fault in him but they could not because he was faithful.
They came to the conclusion the only fault they might find would be against the law of his God.
But that was not going to happen.
My beloved, when people don’t like you because you are blessed that says they don’t know your God!
And they will do anything to try to destroy you.
The governors and satrap plotted together to take Daniel down so they deceived the king to issue a decree that could not be changed according to their law that if anyone would pray to any other god other than the king they would be put in the lions den to die.
The king agreed and signed off on it.
/My beloved, please know that the enemy knows the closer you get to God the more favor you have.
/That is why the enemy is always trying to block you.
They knew that Daniel was a worshipper.
So they did their best to interrupt his worship.
But look at what Daniel did when they tried to stop his worship.
Now when Daniel heard this, he went home to his upper room went to the windows that were facing Jerusalem and went on his knees and prayed and gave thanks 3 times a day to his God as he normally did.
My beloved, we learn from Daniel that in the midst of despair /it is a time for your devotion to God./
It is your relationship with God that will empower you to get thru life’s trial and tribulations.
We see Daniel was not only /commitment/ to prayer but he was also /consistent/.
Like with any relationship, we have to cultivate a committed and consistent relationship with our God.
Also, look at Daniel’s position and prayer focus.
He knelt down at an open window and prayed toward Jerusalem.
He knelt (/berak which means to bless/) toward Jerusalem, the place of the promise of the Messiah.
In other words, he blessed God because the promise of the coming Messiah, the deliverer!
My brothers and sisters when you know your in trouble, you can always bless and thanks God for the Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus who to set us free!
But guess what happen to Daniel when he was praying?
His enemies found him praying.
Your enemies are always looking for ways to catch you in the act of doing something you are not supposed to be doing.
But they caught Daniel praying.
If they knew better, they should have left him alone.
/That is a message for somebody!/
They thought they had Daniel where they wanted him.
So they run back to the king a rat Daniel out in v. 12.
They reminded the king that he signed a decree that couldn’t be altered.
So they told the king that Daniel did not have any regard for the decree and prayed 3 times day.
This put king Darius in a bit of a quandary.
He did not know that his decree was going to affect someone that he favored.
The text says that it displeased him.
And the king tried to find a way to free Daniel day and night.
But they reminded the king that what he decreed by law could not be undone under any circumstances.
So the king had to honor what he decreed.
He commanded that Daniel be thrown into the lions den.
But the king gives Daniel a word of prophecy, “/Daniel, your God who you serve continually, he will deliver you/!
Because of your devotion to God, God will use unlikely people to encourage you.
He used an unbelieving king to encourage Daniel.
But the king had to do what he had to do.
So they rolled a stone to seal the lions den and the king sealed it with this signet ring to give his seal of approval.
My beloved, you may feel like you have been put in the lions den with no way out just because you have been faithful to and God has been faithful you!
You are in a den with things that are trying to kill you.
You may be in a financial lions den.
You may be an in a emotional lions den.
You may be in a bad health lions den with no way out.
But there is a voice from above saying your God will bail you out!! God will deliver you!
I believe that the king felt guilty about Daniel’s plight.
The text says that he went back to his palace and spent the night fasting.
He didn’t want to be entertained and he could not sleep.
I believe he was convicted.
/Has anyone ever been there when the Lord did not let you sleep/?
So early in the morning, the king got out of bed and rushed to the den.
When he got there he cried out in sorrow to /Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions/?
Then lo and behold, the king heard a cheerful voice come up out of the lions den.
/O king live forever!
My God has sent an angel and gave the lions lock jaw so they could not hurt me/.
/God bailed me out!/  My brothers and my sisters, in a crisis situation at the lowest moment that is time God shows up.
God could have stopped them for throwing Daniel in the den.
However, to show us he is God he waits to the darkest hour to show us the light.
Look how he does it.
He sends his angel into the situation.
Remember the pit is sealed shut with stone.
But you know that God don’t care nothing about a stone!
God is so powerful nothing can separate you!
So wherever you are my beloved know that God will get to you even in the dens of destruction!
He will make the very thing that is supposed to kill null and void.
Losing your job was supposed to kill.
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