As followers of Christ we have to decide up front, just like Daniel, that we’re not going to compromise our biblical principles no matter what. It’s been the cause of many young people losing their faith. This is an extremely important lesson for young people (and adults) to learn. All the other captives ate whatever the king was offering. It didn’t matter what everyone around him was doing.Īccording to the text, only Daniel and his 3 friends refused the king’s food. This young boy had had the precepts of God – as well as integrity – so instilled in him, that it mattered to him whether or not he pleased God.
Daniel didn’t have to maintain his Jewish standards. Since parents aren’t around, this child can easily get away with playing the game or watching the movie.
#LIFE OF DANIEL BIBLE STUDY MOVIE#
A modern day example of this would be if a child goes to a friend’s house and they’re playing a video game or watching a movie they aren’t allowed to watch. He could’ve eaten the food without a second thought. He was away from home, in a foreign pagan kingdom, without his parents around. Here’s my point: Daniel didn’t have to uphold his Jewish standards. Remember that the Jews had many dietary restrictions of foods that were declared unclean.
The phrase “that he might not defile himself,” suggests that the food King Nebuchadnezzar was serving was a kind of food that the Jews weren’t allowed to eat. It says that Daniel purposed in his heart not to eat of the food Nebuchadnezzar had provided. Daniel wasn’t willing to compromise his standards It’s here that we see the first of four key lessons we can learn from Daniel.ġ. “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he wouldn’t defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” Reading in chapter 1, verses 5 and 6 denote that King Nebuchadnezzar provided these Jewish captives with a daily supply of food, delicacies and wine. Quite an overwhelming event for a boy of that age. So, we likely have a teenage boy who is abruptly removed from his hometown and taken to a foreign pagan nation to serve a pagan king. While we can’t be certain, most scholars would put Daniel in his early teen years when he was taken to Babylon. What I want to do is to see what we can draw from Daniel’s life, his whole life, and apply it to our lives today. But what most kids, and even many adults don’t know is there’s far more to the account of the life of Daniel than him being thrown into a lion’s den.
#LIFE OF DANIEL BIBLE STUDY FULL#
Little kids from New England to California all know the story of how Daniel was thrown into a den full of lions for praying to God three times a day. Now when I say the name Daniel, what instantly comes to mind? If you’re like most people when I said the word Daniel, you probably thought of a lion’s den.
Names like David, Moses or Abraham, would probably come up as well but there’s one character in the Bible that receives a great deal of attention from Bible class teachers in kids classes. If I asked a group of kids in a Bible class who their favorite Bible character was, there’s a name that would come up probably multiple times.
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