Main idea: Let us be faithful in the small things because God is faithful over all things.
Outline:
- The setting of the story (Daniel 1:1-7)
- The faithfulness of Daniel (Daniel 1:8-16)
- The faithfulness of God (Daniel 1:17-21)
- God was faithful to honor Daniel’s faithfulness (vv. 9, 17-20)
- God was faithful to discipline Israel’s unfaithfulness (v. 2)
- God is faithful to restore us from exile (v. 21)
Secondary sources cited:
- Sinclair B. Ferguson, Daniel, The Preacher’s Commentary Series vol. 21 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1988).