The Gospel according to Daniel Quotes

“Why should we take care to maintain focus on the gospel of grace in our interpretations of Daniel? The first reason is to keep our messages Christian. We are not Jews, Muslims, or Hindus whose followers may believe our status with God is determined by our performance. We believe that Christ’s finished work is our only hope. To make Daniel simply an example of one who fulfills God’s moral imperatives and thus earns his blessing is essentially an unchristian message. Apart from God’s justifying, enabling, and preserving grace, no human can do what God requires to be done. Jesus said, “Apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Interpretations of Daniel devoid of the enabling grace of Christ—even in its Old Testament forms of unmerited divine provision—implicitly deny the necessity of Christ.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Gospel according to Daniel: A Christ-Centered Approach

“To believe Daniel is writing prophecy, as he claims, and not history, as the level of detail would seem to suggest, would require belief that what is written was supernaturally inspired. And if God has thus spoken, then his Word has far more authority over our lives than we may wish, and his far-reaching knowledge is far more real than we may want on the days that we want to go our own way.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Gospel according to Daniel: A Christ-Centered Approach

“God does not intend for us to predict outcomes as much as he intends for us to trust him in all circumstances.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Gospel according to Daniel: A Christ-Centered Approach

“Faith results in being faithful despite what comes, not telling God what should come.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Gospel according to Daniel: A Christ-Centered Approach

“By preserving a person named Daniel, God was preserving a nation called Israel in order to send a Savior named Jesus to save persons like us and ten thousand times ten thousand more of the same. Daniel’s willingness to risk everything to make that redeeming God powerfully known expresses how great and precious is the incomparable grace of God toward those who will trust in him.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Gospel according to Daniel: A Christ-Centered Approach