(TEXT : Daniel 3:17-18 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
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One of the rugged and the oldest Christians in the Old Testament are these three Hebrew boys. They are really the “Christlike” in the Old Testament that never gets compromised on their Christianity standard in which they believed in and they stood for it all the way to “persecution.” They aren’t standing before the King to argue with him, they were only interested in telling the king the truth about their own conviction in their own God. Some confidence can’t just be hidden; because in your confidence lies the TRUTH about who you truly are. In other words, they told the king, “we are for Christ” every single step of the way. Yes, we might be in a strange land right now, but that is part of the package of being called “Christians.” That is why you should get ready to be hated by the world!
John 15:18-19
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
1 John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
In addition, some people don’t even face this kind of persecution in their journey of Christianity; but they have backslided. To some, their own is not persecution, theirs is just a “temptation” of money, power, or women; and before you can think of anything, they are already nowhere to be found in the path of Christianity. Don’t let us mistake “persecution for temptation;” persecution is to test your Faith as a Christian to see whether you are “broken indeed.” While temptation is to test your Faith to see whether you as a Christian will bend to the “pleasure of life.” There is absolutely nothing that the world gives, that it will not surely take back from you when your time expired.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Finally, Jesus had His first three disciples in the book of Daniel, and not in the book of (Matthew, Mark or Luke). Perhaps, Jesus wouldn’t have come to the world to die for the sins of the world, if peradventure the “three elected Christians” in the Old Testament had not defeated the “world king” as at then, with all the nonsense in his head. And of course, Jesus seeing the demonstration of enthusiasm and fanaticism in these three Hebrew boys; He knew it worth it for Him to come and die for all our sins. Because if ordinary three men could defend their FAITH before a “worldly king;” then I will come to the world to deliver as many “innocent souls” from the hands of this “world king.” If you call yourself a Christian, defend your Faith before any earthly kings, gods or worldly leaders.
BE SAFE AND GET SAVED!
God bless you richly!
Jesus Christ loves you
Thank you Holy Spirit
ARE YOU SAVED?
T.O AKINSANYA
PRINCE ORATORTEE