#SERMONS ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL HOW TO#
#SERMONS ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL WINDOWS#

He was a great man - the highest in the land- consequently he had great public duties. We are told that he went to his house to pray.

#SERMONS ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL HOW TO#

He knew how to study divine wisdom, and he became wise. He knew how to lay hold of divine strength, and he became strong.

If you saw him great before the people, the reason was because he was great before his God. Our first point will be that DANIELвЂ™S PRAYERFULNESS WAS THE SECRET OF HIS POWER.

Of this Daniel we are about to speak to you. The sequel shows that the Most High God delivers him. In the higher sovereignty of the King of kings he believes and to the edicts of his everlasting kingdom he yields fearless and unqualified obedience. Though Daniel knows that it is contrary to the law of the realm for him to pray or ask a petition of any god or man save of king Darius, yet he does pray and give thanks before his God.

They have, by fraud, perverted the kingвЂ™s mind, so that he has passed an edict. Great as he was in the palace, and great in the midst of that nightвЂ™s carousal, he appears, if possible, greater, because the faith that animates him shines more radiantly when he is upon his knees. After this he appears again, and this time in a personal dilemma of his own. вЂњThou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting,вЂќ said the prophet, as he pointed to the mysterious handwriting on the wall. The Persians had dried up the river, and were already at the palace doors. In lurid light, in terrible grandeur, Daniel comes forth again, on the last night of BelshazzarвЂ™s reign, when the power of Babylon was broken for ever. Daniel discharged his duty to his conscience, so there was nothing to disquiet him. It needed that he should be a lion-like man to say to the king, вЂњThou, O king, shalt be driven from among men, and eat grass as oxen, and thy body shall be wet with the dew of heaven, till thy hairs are grown like eaglesвЂ™ feathers, and thy nails like birdsвЂ™ claws.вЂќ Yet what he told him came true, for all this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. In after days he showed his dauntless courage when he interpreted the memorable dream of Nebuchadnezzar, in which the kingвЂ™s pride was threatened with a terrible judgment. No wonder that the excellent spirit which shone in him led to his being made a great man, procured for him rich gifts, and led to his promotion amongst the governors of Babylon. How grand and impressive his first appearance as a young man, when he was introduced to Nebuchadnezzar! The Chaldeans and magicians and astrologers had all failed to divine the secret which perplexed the king and troubled his Spirit till at length there stood up before him this young prince of the house of Judah to tell his dream and the interpretation thereof. He is depicted on the pages of scriptural history as one of the greatest and most faultless of men. Knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he didДANIEL was of royal race, and, what is far better, he was of royal character.

#SERMONS ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL WINDOWS#

вЂњNow when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ДЄnd his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his

Sermons on the book of daniel