Let look at the sermon and lessons to learn from Daniel Chapter 3, as Daniel's friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego disobeyed King Nebuchadnezzar in order to obey God.
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Below Mike Bamiloye explains how the young men were able to do so. He wrote in an article that:
These three Hebrews know their God intimately. They know His nature and attributes.
THEY KNOW HE COULD DELIVER THEM from the fiery furnace of the king. So, they were so strong in their faith in the Lord their God. They knew their God is All Powerful and could quench the fire in seconds; He could send a flooding rain and destroy the entire furnace and sweep away the ashes with its flood.
So, with outrageous boldness, they declared before the king: "Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from your burning fiery furnace...."
HOWEVER, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT THEIR GOD, AT TIMES, HAS ANOTHER WAY DIFFERENT FROM THE WAYS OF MAN; HE COULD CHANGE HIS PLANS; HE COULD DECIDE NOT TO DELIVER THEM.
He may allow them to die in the fiery furnace if He so chose.
SO THEY QUICKLY ADDED IN THE NEXT VERSE: VERSE 18: "But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up." THAT IS WHAT I UNDERSTAND BY KNOWING YOUR GOD.
If you are the type who can not withstand a little delay from God...then you do not know your God.
If you are the type who would challenge God and question God for not answering your Prayers at the time the answers are needed, and you would be discouraged and disappointed, THEN...you do not know your God.
If you are the type who want things to be rosy for you all the time, because you are following God, Then,.... you do not know your God.
If you are the type who is not ready to die for what you believe like those Three Hebrews men, Then.... you do not know your God.
If you are the type who can not hand over back to God, what the Lord had given to you,.... Then you do not know your God.
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