DANIEL 1:12

• What was it about the food?

The foods that were sitting on the table were foods that were considered unclean to the Israelites in the Old Testament, under the Law.

DANIEL DREW THE LINE THERE!

We are not under that Law, so in some way, our challenge is harder.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:12

DANIEL 1:12

• The word “zeroa” means “that which grows from sown seed.”

• The term would include not only vegetables but fruit, grains and bread that is made from grain.”

Daniel and his friends committed themselves to eat anything that was grown from a sown seed.

• In her commentary on Daniel, scholar Joyce Baldwin says that by Eastern standards to share a meal was to commit oneself to friendship. Sharing a meal was of covenant significance.

We want to be a Daniel kind of person. In a symbolic sense, we do not want to eat off the world’s table.

God desires to give us knowledge and understanding of various kinds (verse 17).