Daniel's Attitude in Prayer and His Bibical World View

Basic Principles for Christians to Achieve a Biblical Worldview Charles e Whisnant, Bible Teacher-Pastor, Expositor

Daniel 9 and Selected Scripture   February 08 2012

NUMBER  7:

·       He prayed, seventh, dependent on God. Utterly dependent on God. He said "You're a great," in verse 4, "awesome God, You keep Your covenant, You show mercy to those that love you and to those that keep Your commandments.. In other words, he prayed his prayer dependent on the absolute unchanging promise of an unchanging God.

NUMBER 8

·       And finally, I would say that he focused on God's glory. The whole point of his prayer was on the glory of God. That was the whole thing. "Do it for Your sake." Verse l9, "O Lord, hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord hearken and do, and defer not," and here it comes, "for Thine own sake, O my God, for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name." This is Your people and Your city and Your name is at stake. And he was praying. And he was praying the right way

THE BIBLICAL WORLD-VIEW vs. THE WORLD’S VIEW

1A       Survey:  Do you believe your Faith has anything to do with your life outside the church? Y  or  N
2A       Do you feel you suffer from Christians  SCHIZOPHRENIA?  Y or N
3A       Do you see secular society as encouraging split personality?   Y or N
4A       The mature Christian must constantly challenge these values of the culture?  T or F
5A       Daniel never developed a cultured mind-set.  T or F
6A       The yard stick of your involvement and activities are set by the community standards.  Y or N
7A       The world’s view is shaped by objective truth?   Y or N
8A       The world’s view is antihistorical?  T or F
9A       The Christian’s point of view is pragmatic?  T or F
10A     I would say that I have a bigger secular mind-set than a Christian world view.  Y or N
11A     I sometimes I am covered rather thick with Christian veneer?  Y or N
12A     Daniel did not get buried under spiritual rubbish?  T or F
13A     Authentic Christianity will have a mind-set that will think on truth.   T or F
14A     The modern Christian has most likely succumbed to secularization.  T or  F
15A     America is not in the midst or a moral crisis?  T or F
16A     Daniel was God-centered, rather than self-centered?  T or F.


WORLD’S VIEW                                      BIBLICAL WORLD-VIEW
1A       Shaped by relativism:                                    Is Formed out of the objective, revealed truth of
                                                                                    Scripture. It rests on absolutes.
2A       Is secular:                                                       Is eternal.
3A       Is antihistorical:                                             Acknowledged the historical account of God’s
                                                                                    work from the beginning.
4A       Is naturalistic:                                                Is based on the supernatural.
5A       Is Pragmatic-do what works             Is idealistic- do what is right by objective standards