Living Water Church

The Blind

The End of Exile

In Daniel’s final vision, we see the end of exile for all of humanity. When God’s Kingdom comes down to heal this world, death is undone and all of God’s people rise to live with Him in a restored creation forever. This is the hope God’s people have to look forward to, and this is the hope that’s meant to help keep us walking during the darkest and most difficult days - when our identity as exiles in a broken world is more obvious than ever. Because knowing how it ends makes us unshakable in the present.

Confession In Exile

As Daniel learns the time of exile is coming to an end, he turns to God in confession. Through Daniel’s prayer, we learn that confession isn’t something to be avoided, its actually the path to redemption.

Power In Exile

Hope In Exile

During a transition of power, God gives Daniel a vision that unmasks the true nature of reality. Above the chaos of this world, God’s Kingdom of beauty and justice reigns. And by grace, God is sovereignly at work to bring His Kingdom down to earth through Jesus, working all things - even suffering and pain - together toward the day when His people will rule and reign with Him in a restored creation forever.

Distress In Exile

Daniel 6 powerfully illustrates that even the most powerful man in the land is unable to save. Coming to the end of ourselves is the best thing for us because it forces us to trust in the one true God who does save!

Judgment In Exile

As Christians, we love to talk about God’s love and grace, but often times we’re less eager to talk about His judgment. In the fall of the Kingdom of Babylon, we see that God’s judgment isn’t something to be embarrassed about - its actually good news for those suffering under injustice. Because God is a God of perfect judgment, we can take heart, knowing that life isn’t random or meaningless, but that all evil will be dealt with. And through Jesus, our lives become a modern writing on the wall, proclaiming the end of the Kingdom of Satan, Sin, and Death, and the dawning of a Kingdom of perfect justice that we get to experience by grace.

Faith Says Jesus Is Better

Testimony In Exile

What’s your story? In Daniel chapter 4, King Nebuchadnezzar tells the story of how God has changed his life. As Nebuchadnezzar goes from a persecutor of God’s people to a preacher, we see in dramatic fashion that God can do anything and save anybody, and He does all of this by grace. As God’s people in exile, we want to learn to tell our stories in a way that reveals God as the hero, that we too might glorify Him and encourage others by how we share the testimony of our lives.

Worship In Exile

Everyone worships. The question is not if we will worship but what we will worship. In Daniel chapter 3, King Nebuchadnezzar tries to get Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to worship his idol, but they resist temptation - even to the point of death. However, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego aren’t the hero of this story. The hero is the God who delivers them from the fire, and it’s through seeing this God that we are filled with the faith that sees through the empty promises the idols of our day and are transformed to life-giving worship of God alone.