Why is your faith worthy dying for? (Daniel 3:19-27) by Gideon Mpeni - a podcast by gideon macgovern

"In the fire yet on fire for the Redeemer" - Continuing with the sermon series in Daniel.

In this Sermon "In the fire yet on fire for the Lord." Pastor Gideon MacGovern Mpeni picks on from the third chapter he started last week.

As all world super powers, in  Daniel, the superpower empires unconsciously mimicked God’s global purpose by attempting to steal God’s ruling authority and establish their own dominion over every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.

For example, in Daniel 2, King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a giant statue representing his kingdom and three others. In the dream, a stone “cut out by no human hand” (Dan. 2:34 ESV) struck the statue and crushed the temporary kingdoms of the world. The stone—representing God’s eternal kingdom—grew into a mountain and filled the whole earth (Dan. 2:35).

King Nebuchadnezzar’s prideful response to that vision was to erect a huge golden statue in a futile attempt to say, “It won’t happen to me!” Nebuchadnezzar commanded “people of every nation and language” to worship the statue or be thrown in the fiery furnace (Dan. 3:4–6 HCSB).

The climax in the third chapter is seen in the response of the three Hebrew boys and the question of the King.

The three men could have compromised with the king and defended their disobedience by arguing, “Everybody else is doing it,” or “Our office demands that we obey,” or “We’ll bow our knees but we won’t bow our hearts.” They might have said, “We can do our people more good by being officers in the king’s service than by being ashes in the king’s furnace.”

From their response the king asks a cardinal Question that this narrative passage answers it in wonderful manner

Who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?

The God who delivers these boys is revealed as Fathful in that :

1. He is a personal God - "our God ... servants of God...the God of" (v.16,26,28,29)

2. He is a powerful God - "He is able" (v.17-18)

3. He is Present with His people in the Fire (v.19-25)

4. He is pre-emminent - "The Most High God" (v.26)

Take time and listen, and Next week God willing we will look at the last two incredible attributes of this God...

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