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Main Point: Standing Firm and Staying Faithful Requires A Continual Trust in God, Especially When The Flames of Trial Are Their Most Intense.
3 Actions of those with real faith that proves you trust God...
You Trust God When You are Willing to Confront the Challenges Without Reservation (3:1-12).
When we left chapter 2, Nebbie had made a great confession regarding God…but when we get to chapter 3 he is completely different…most scholars believe this event in chapter 3 occurred twenty years after chapter 2, about the time Nebbie conquered Jerusalem…586.Confronting the challenges begins at the heart level.Lets take a look at the heart level of the characters involved...
The Heart of the King was Filled with Pride (1-3)
Do you notice the repeated and similar phrases in these first 3 verses...(v.1)
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold…(end of verse 2) the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up… (twice in verse 3) the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up…the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up…you see it again in verse 5 and verse 7.King Nebbie was obviously motivated by his dream and Daniel’s interpretation of that dream to make an entire image of gold…he was not going to be content with being the head of gold…he wanted them to see an entire image of gold.Daniel told him that no empire would last, including Nebbie and Babylon.Perhaps he was also filled with fear and concern over what the people he had conquered would do so he wanted to make sure there would be no rebellions.This image was 90 feet high and 9 feet wide…generally speaking a story is equivalent to 10 feet…so this statue is 9 stories tall…this worship center is roughly ___________ for some perspective...the word image here refers to a statue in human form…it is most likely an image made in the likeness of King Nebbie…it was extremely elongated…tall and thin…perhaps so everyone could see it for miles.His plan was to unify the kingdom by means of religion and fear…those who did not bow down would be thrown into the furnace and be burned to death.Nebbie sends word to all the empire…not just those in the capital city…he commanded the officials gather for the dedication of this great golden image.Every level of authority was represented and all were expected to be present.This was more than just a political gathering…this was clearly intended to be a religious act, complete with music and called for a total commitment on the part of the worshippers…the word worship appears 11x in this passage…using music was a wise move on his part because it would stir the people’s emotions and make it easier for him to manipulate them into submission and obedience.Think about how that is true for us…in all my years of preaching and teaching the Bible I have yet to hear someone come up to me and tell me something like this… “I was really down yesterday when ________________ happened and all I could think about was that message you preached on July 7th, 2017…when I did that, I got a hop in my step and a joy in my heart and all I could say for the remainder of the day is “Take responsibility for your growth by taking self off the throne and putting Christ back!” …(that was the final thought of the message that day…even I couldn’t remember it…I had to look it up).
No…what do we do…we often connect to God in deeper ways through music…when we find ourselves in though times what do we often do…we sing stanzas like “O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder...” from 1885 no less.
We can remember words written in 1885, but many here right now will not be able to communicate this evening what you learned in church this morning.
(Perhaps if I sing my sermons…no we want to see the church grow not shrink, so don’t fret)…Music has the power to grip human thoughts and emotions.
The Hearts of the People were Fooled by Self -Preservation (4-7)
There was no vote…they were simply told what was about to happen was a matter of life or death.It really was easy for them to comply because they were accustomed to worshipping many gods and goddesses that adding one more was no big deal…especially in light of the consequences.See the difference between the unbeliever and believer is not the absence of faith, even the atheist BELIEVES there is no God…everybody believes in something…the difference is the object of that faith.The crowd believed the herald and the king and they obeyed.Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego believed God so they disobeyed.The multitude of Babylonians did what everybody else was doing…so they conformed…it is easy to draw a point of application to our day from observing their actions here…this assembly of “worshippers” blindly followed the crowd and built their lives something that was false and futile…their only concern was that of survival…escaping danger and death…even if it meant selling themselves out to the empty promises and philosophies of humanity.Can your faith stand the test?
Are you simply attempting to “survive” by selling yourself out to the philosophies and whims of man…do you compromise your convictions because you are afraid of what man can do to you? Are you buying in to the garbage this world tells you is truth…or are you standing on THE truth?
NASB95We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
The Hearts of the Hebrews were Focused on God’s Promise (8-12)
Their faith was in the true and living God and the promises He made to His people.They knew their family history…they knew that God had made a promise to their father Abraham…they knew God was in control knew and believed what Isaiah penned... NASB95But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.
When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.
Possessing true faith in God means that regardless of how we feel, or what we experience, or what we face ahead, obedience will always be our chosen path.
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