by Justin Marple | Oct 27, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 8 tells us about a little horn who arose near the end of the Greek empire that we now know was named Antiochus IV. That little horn conquered human rulers that God had put into place, set himself up as an antichrist, wore out many saints, and changed the times...
by Justin Marple | Oct 20, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 7 shows us visions of four beasts — one like a lion, one like a bear, one like a leopard, and the fourth is a hideous monster. But the thought that any of these beasts could stop the plan of God is laughable. Thus my apologies for the title —...
by Justin Marple | Oct 13, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 6 is the famous story of Daniel in the lions’ den. As his friends had been in the fiery furnace of Babylon before being thrown into the burning fiery furnace, so too Daniel was in the lions’ den of the Persian empire before being thrown into the...
by Justin Marple | Oct 6, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 5 is the reason for our idiomatic expression “the writing is on the wall” or “the hand is writing on the wall” meaning that disaster is imminent. Belshazaar may not have been the blood descendant of King Nebuchadnezzar but he did...
by Justin Marple | Sep 29, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 4 shows us that to be proud is to be morally insane just as Nebuchadnezzar was driven mentally insane. His pride is pretty obvious reading the passage, but we are just as prone to be proud. Pride is when it is about me. And pride is pure crazy as this story...
by Justin Marple | Sep 29, 2013 | 2013 Sermons, Faith under Pressure (Daniel), SERMONS
Daniel 3 provides us with a metaphor that describes nicely the world in which we live — it is a fiery furnace. The problem is that if we started shouting to people that there are flames all around them then they would assume that we had gone nuts. This is not...
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