Download audio Download sermon Daniel 12:1-13 Tonight we conclude our series of sermons on Daniel. I preached my first series of sermons on Daniel in 1983, some thirty-four years ago. It is remarkable how superior the current stock of commentaries on Daniel are to what was available in 1983. Back then there were was really […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 11:36-45 We return to Daniel after missing a Lord’s Day, so let me remind you that chapter 11 contains the content of the vision that had been given to Daniel in the third year of Cyrus, that is, 535 B.C. The vision covered the years and the political developments in […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 11:2-35 The previous chapter serves as an introduction to the vision, the substance of which is now provided. But the introduction, impressive as it is for its account of the overwhelming impression the vision had on Daniel, for the appearance of an angel and references to other spiritual beings […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 10:1-11:1 Daniel chapter 10 is, in effect, the introduction to the final section of the book of Daniel. Chapters 10-12 are a single unit. They amount to a prophecy of the future, with commentary, and, as we will find when we consider chapter 11, a prophecy in some ways unlike […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 9:20-27 We begin our reading this evening with the paragraph with which we concluded our reading last Lord’s Day evening. It reminds us that what follows in vv. 24-27 is a revelation brought to Daniel by the angel Gabriel in response to Daniel’s prayer. It also raises an obvious question: […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 9:1-23 Daniel, as we have already seen, is an interesting mix of different sorts of material. We first had the famous stories of the first six chapters – remember, I don’t ever use the word “story” to mean that what we read was not true history; I mean only that […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 8:1-27 At the beginning of this second vision, given to Daniel two years after the first, the book reverts to Hebrew. From chapter 2, verse 4 to this point the book was written in Aramaic. It remains Hebrew to the end of the book. The brute fact is: no one […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 7:1-28 With chapter 7 we enter the second half of the book of Daniel and leave behind the more familiar and popular parts of the book. The final chapters of Daniel record visions of the future that Daniel received at various times. As the stories in the first six […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 6:1-28 Chapter 6 and the story of Daniel in the lions’ den is the part of the book of Daniel that everyone best remembers from Sunday School. It is one of the most beloved stories in the entire Bible. When I was a boy, we often sang in Sunday School […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 5:1-31 Some years have passed since the events recorded in chapter 4 and Daniel is now an older man. We wonder what his life was like through those long years. He was there at the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign and was there to the end. Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 B.C. […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 4:28-37 Remember, now, where we are. Nebuchadnezzar had another dream and Daniel interpreted it to mean that the king was soon to be humbled in a most dramatic way, unless, that is, he repented and began acting less like the arrogant man he was. Text Comment v.30 A year had […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 4:1-27 For the second time the emperor has a dream, the kind of dream that you and I in all likelihood have never had, a dream that was overpowering in its impression and that was remembered from start to finish in precise detail. It was the sort of dream that […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 3:1-30 Chapter three is the self-contained narrative of a single episode in the life of the Hebrew exiles, though interestingly not of Daniel himself. Was he untouchable because of the favor that he had done for the king? No one can say. It happened, as the previous events, during the […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 2:31-49 Last time we read that Nebuchadnezzar had a disturbing dream and, desperate to know what it meant, had demanded that his advisors describe the dream and then provide an interpretation. Obviously he thought that a reliable interpretation could only be guaranteed if the omen-readers could tell him the content […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 2:1-30 The chapter before us – a single, self-contained narrative – is quite long, some 49 verses in our chapter 2. For that reason I’ve decided to take only a portion of the chapter this evening, vv. 1-30. The substance of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream we will leave until next time. The […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 1:8-21 Last time we spoke of the opening paragraph of the book of Daniel as something of the thesis of the book: a book that describes the faithful people of God in the midst of a great trial that God himself had created for them. The Lord gave Jehoiakim into […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 1:1-7 The story of Daniel begins as the long story of Judah’s spiritual decline and rebellion against God draws to its close. The third year of Jehoiakim was not the end of Judah. The event being described in the first verses of chapter one was a preliminary incursion by the […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 1:1-2 I have not preached through the book of Daniel since 1983, when very few of you were in the church and many of you were not yet in the world! It is time to consider this book together. The times have changed since 1983 and in a direction that […]