We have been in a series for the last four weeks where we are working our way through the book of Daniel.

I think Daniel is a great example to us of how to be in the world but not of the world.

Daniel was a person of influence in Babylon, but he and the other Jewish leaders he influenced never compromised with the culture around them.

They lived in Babylon, but they were citizens of Israel—the people of The One True God.

We face that same tension in the world today—the tension to let go of our heavenly citizenship or our identity as the people of God to fit in with the culture around us.

This has always been the way it is for the people of God—in the Roman Empire Christians faced the same kind of pressure.

God used the Apostle Paul to remind the Christians in Phillipi