? (Theme Song) ? ?
Jesus is worthy... ?
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? oh yes, he's
worthy... ? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise ?
I must admit tonight
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that I'm convinced
that most of us really don't
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believe God is able.
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Because if we did we would
spend less time worrying if we
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really believe God is able.
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We'd spend less time telling
folk off, getting people told,
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setting folks straight,
if we believe God is able.
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We wouldn't give up so
quick because of a doctor's
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diagnosis if we
really believed that God is
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able to work miracles.
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We wouldn't give up on
prayer so easily if we really
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believed that we serve a
God who is able to exceedingly,
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abundantly and above all
we could ever ask or think.
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The three Hebrew boys
said, We know God is able
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to deliver us.
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But if not, we know he can
do it, but if not, we're still
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not going to serve thy gods
or worship your golden image.
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We know God can deliver
us, we know God can save us,
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we know God can
deliver us from the drama
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we're experiencing, we
know God can deliver us
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from our financial deprivation,
we know God can deliver us
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from this illness, but if not.
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We know God can deliver
you from that drug habit.
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We know God can deliver
you from that sexual addiction.
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We know God can
remove that cancer.
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We know God can provide a job.
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But if not, and that's how
we have to get in our lives.
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We must get to that
point that if God delivers,
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praise the Lord.
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If God doesn't deliver
when we want, praise the Lord.
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But in the good
times, praise his name.
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In the bad times do the same.
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In everything give the
King of kings all the thanks.
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I will worship the
God of Heaven and Earth.
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I will worship the God of
Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and
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Joseph, Miriam and
Moses, Enoch and Elijah,
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Rachel and Rebecca.
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I will worship the God of
you and me, because he's Jehovah
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Jireh, my provider,
Jehovah Raphe, somebody knows
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he's a healer.
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Jehovah Shalom, he is my peace.
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Jehovah Nissi, he is my banner.
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So Nebuchadnezzar gets mad.
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He demands the
fiery furnace be turned up
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seven times hotter.
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It's getting hot up in there.
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Everything was done to
make sure that the three Hebrew
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boys were dead,
and dead quickly.
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In fact, the Bible says that
because the furnace was much
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hotter than usual that the
very ones who threw the Hebrew
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boys in the fiery furnace
were killed by the flames
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of the furnace.
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Lesson number three: Be
careful about fueling the
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flames for somebody
else, because the flames will
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reach and grab you.
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Too many of us are busy
setting traps for others,
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waiting for other folk to
fall, and the same traps we set
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for others are
often the same traps
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we fall in ourselves.
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I can't get a
witness in this place.
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You can be so busy turning
folks against somebody else.
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You got to be careful that
the same folk don't turn on you.
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Let me tell you, if somebody's
in the corner talking about
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somebody else, you
better believe when you walk six
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paces they're going
to be talking about you.
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"Be not deceived,
God is not mocked.
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Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap." The lies
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we tell on others, the gossip
we spread on others, the dirt
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we do to others will
come back and get us.
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Be sure your sins
will find you out.
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Now, let's talk
about this furnace.
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It's probably a brick
kiln, since most buildings in
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ancient Babylon were
constructed of bricks.
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It may have been burn bricks.
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Kilns were cone-shaped
structures of bricks.
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The fuel was a
mixture of oil and chaff.
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Now, burns are classified.
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Science students, you know this.
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Burns are classified according
to the amount of tissue damage.
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First-degree burns are the
least severe and affect only
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the outer layer of the
skin, the epidermis, causing
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pain and redness.
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Second-degree burns extend
to the second layer of the skin,
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the dermis, causing
pain, redness and blisters
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that may ooze.
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The third-degree burns involve
layers of skins, and many also
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damage the underlying
bones, muscles and tendons.
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The burn site appears
pale, charred and leathery.
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Though there generally is
no pain in the area because the
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nerve endings have already
been destroyed, because of the
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nerve damage,
third-degree burns may result
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in less pain than
first- or second-degree burns.
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Fourth-degree burns extend
through the skin and fat into
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the underlying muscle and bone.
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This is what
Nebuchadnezzar planned for the
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three Hebrew boys.
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He commanded the
furnace to be made seven times
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hotter than normal.
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Now, the increased heat in
the furnace was produced by an
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extraordinary supply
of crude oil and chaff.
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And while many believe
that this increase in heat was
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because Nebuchadnezzar
wanted the boys dead and dead
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quickly--listen to me--the
purpose of this extraordinary
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command was probably not
to increase the punishment.
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Because an increase of heat
in the furnace would not have
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increased the
torture of the victims.
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Because remember, third-degree
burns are less painful than
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first- or second-degree
burns because the nerves have
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already been attacked.
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But the king
increased the heat to prevent
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any possible intervention.
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What do you mean, Dr.
Byrd? Ellen White says that
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Nebuchadnezzar felt
that it required more than
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ordinary power to
deal with these noble men.
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She says Nebuchadnezzar's mind
was so strongly impressed that
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something unusual would
interpose in their behalf, so
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he intensified the heat
and his strongest men were
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ordered to deal with this.
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In other words,
Nebuchadnezzar sensed--you know,
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you've got a feeling?
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Nebuchadnezzar had a
feeling that something might
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happen to come to the
three Hebrew boys' aid.
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Next lesson: even the enemies
of God know the power of God.
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The devil is no match for God.
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Put God on the
front line of your life.
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Put him on the front line of
your life, and watch God win.
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There's power in
the name of Jesus.
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Salvation in the name
of Jesus, healing in the
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name of Jesus.
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Get thee behind me, Satan.
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I command they, Satan, in
the name of the Lord, to pick up
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your weapons and flee for
God has given me authority
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to walk all over thee.
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What a mighty God we serve!
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Demons tremble at
the name of Jesus.
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Satan's imps are
fickled at the name of Jesus.
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Jesus, sweet Rose of Sharon.
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Jesus, Lily of the Valley.
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Jesus, Way Maker
in the midnight hour.
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Jesus, company
keeper in my lowly hour.
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Jesus, tuition payer at
the student accounts line.
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Jesus, my protector at night.
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Jesus, my shield
from the arrows of life.
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Jesus, my
defender from my enemies.
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Jesus, my protection
from the enemy "in me".
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Oh, I feel like
preaching tonight!
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If God be for us,
who can be against us?
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Because no weapon
formed against you
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is going to prosper.
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It won't work because greater
is he that is in you than he
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that is in the world.
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Jesus.
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Here's Nebuchadnezzar.
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Who is this that I now see
walking in the fiery furnace?
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I thought I threw three men in.
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I now see four.
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And the fourth
looks like the Son of God.
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It's Jesus.
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Let me tell you all something.
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Preachers, teachers,
storytellers and church folk
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all give reasons for
why Jesus showed up in the
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fiery furnace.
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But let me tell you
something. Know this.
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Whatever they say, make
sure it's rooted in this: Jesus
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will always be with you
in the worst of your trials.
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Whatever you think is so
dark that you're going through,
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know this: Jesus is
going to be there with you.
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I don't care how bad or
hot it gets in your life, Jesus
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is going to be with you.
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My favorite text of scripture
is I Corinthians 10:13, "There
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hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man:
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but God is faithful, who will
not suffer you to be tempted
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above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also
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make a way to escape, that
ye may be able to bear it."
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God always
provides a way of escape.
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He may not come
when you want him,
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but he's always right on time.
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Think about it.
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Think about it,
expand your mind.
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We don't know if Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego even knew
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that Jesus was with
them in the furnace.
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Remember now, the Bible
says that Nebuchadnezzar
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saw four men loose.
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That's what the Bible says.
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The Bible does not say
that the three Hebrew boys
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saw a fourth man.
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In fact, the Bible
says in verse 26 that when
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Nebuchadnezzar commanded
the men to come out of the
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furnace, only
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
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came forth.
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Let me tell you something.
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Sometimes we are aware of
Jesus' presence in our trials
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and tribulations,
and sometimes we're not.
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But know this: I'm a
witness that he's there.
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I've also learned in my life
that there are different kinds
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of furnaces in our lives.
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There's the furnace that
men prepare, the furnace that
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Satan prepares, and
sometimes there are even
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furnaces that God prepares.
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Getting hot in here.
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God allows and sometimes
prepares these furnaces
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because God
ultimately is trying to save us.
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Hebrews 12:6 says that God
chastens those whom he loves.
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If you're a child of God,
friend of mine, get ready for
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the furnace, because
you're gonna get thrown in it.
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Furnaces of life
are not fun, though.
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Nobody raises their
hand and says, "Let me in
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the furnace, God.
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God, I want to be your
spiritual guinea pig." No.
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We're rather feel
good all the time.
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But everything good to
you is not good for you.
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Furnaces aren't fun.
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But they're good for us.
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Why?
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Because the furnaces of life
prepare us, prune us, prod us,
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position us, arrange us,
and then rearrange us into what
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God would have us to be.
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And just like gold and silver
are placed in the furnace and
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purified through the process,
you have to go through the
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fire to come out pure as gold.
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And when the Lord has
sent you through a small
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furnace--listen to me good.
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When God sends you into a
small furnace and then God
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sees big results, God
will then later place you in a
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greater furnace down the
road, because God knows you
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will stand for his
glory, hallelujah, somebody.
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I say it all the
time: the higher the level,
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the higher the devil.
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I know in my life, as God
takes me to higher heights
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in him, the devil
also has a higher attack.
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God brought these three Hebrew
boys to a greater faith by
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preparing them with
tests in less dramatic areas.
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Think about it.
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These three young men stood
firm when they were offered
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unclean foods in Daniel 1.
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God saw their
obedience and he blessed them.
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That gave the three Hebrew
boys, friends of mine, the
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courage to obey God in
Daniel 3 when the stakes
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were much higher.
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Because every round
goes higher and higher.
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What you deal with today
is a greater attack than what
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you should have
dealt with yesterday.
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In fact, God never really uses
anybody in a great way until
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he first takes that
person through the furnace
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of affliction.
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Ask Joseph.
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You can't rule in Egypt as
the governor of a country until
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you're first thrown into a pit
by your brothers and sold for
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20 pieces of silver.
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Ask Elijah.
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You can't stand on Mt.
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Carmel in power until you
sit at the dry brook of Cherith
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in humility.
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Ask David.
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You can't lead the nation
of Israel until you've learned
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how to watch some
sheep in a wilderness.
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Ask Paul.
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You can't be the greatest
writer of the New Testament
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church until you go
blind on the road to Damascus.
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Sometimes a setback
is a setup for comeback.
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There's no
exaltation without conflicts.
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There is no
conqueror without a battle.
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In fact, no battle, no blessing.
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The good news about battles
and blessings is that the
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greater the battle,
the greater the blessing.
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No test, no testimony.
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And I have found that
too many folk are testi-lying
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instead of testifying.
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But when you've been through
the fire, been through the
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flood, seen lightning flash,
heard thunder roar, you'll
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know that it was nobody
but Jesus that brought you out.
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Tonight are you waiting
for something big before you
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start to obey God?
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Is your life filled with
so many small compromises,
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yet you tell yourself
that you will stand firm when
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it really matters?
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But if you can't take
the test now, then how you
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gonna survive later?
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How are we going to be able
to stand in the time of trouble?
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Think about this marriage.
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I was looking at
this carefully this week.
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Think about it.
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Could it be that
Nebuchadnezzar was a type, a
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model, an example, a type
of the beast as recorded in
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Revelation 13?
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After all, the books of Daniel
and the Revelation, they are
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companion prophetic books.
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Think about it.
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Nebuchadnezzar is
forcing the whole world into one
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idolatry of religion.
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Could it be that the
fiery furnace is a type of the
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tribulation that the
people of God will endure?
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Could it be that Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego are types
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of God's people who will be
preserved in the fiery time of
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trouble because they
have been sealed by the blood
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of the Lamb?
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I don't know.
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But this I do know.
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When the Lord has sent you
through a small furnace and
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seen big results, he will
place you in a greater furnace
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somewhere down the road.
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What am I saying?
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It's gonna get worse.
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Everybody say
it's gonna get worse.
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Look what the Lord told
Jeremiah in Jeremiah 12.
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He told Jeremiah, stop
whining, because people didn't
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receive him and his message.
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Stop whining.
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God says, Jeremiah, if you
think it's bad now, stick with
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me long enough and you'll
know that things are going to
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get a whole lot worse.
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Let me tell you something.
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If you live for Jesus, you're
going to be persecuted, you're
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going to be talked about.
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You're going to be hated on.
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You're going to be lied on.
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You're going to be
misrepresented, you're going
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to be misunderstood,
mistreated, misperceived.
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You will be discouraged,
you will go through fire.
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It will get hot,
but you must hold on.
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Let me give you this
final point, last lesson.
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Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego were free in the fire.
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All the fire did was burn
the things that had them bound.
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The Lord used the fire
to loosen these men from the
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ropes that held them.
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When the fires of persecution
and affliction come into your
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life, know, listen to me good,
that God is just freeing you
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from some of the
things that have had you bound
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in your life.
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When you're in life's fiery
furnaces, the flames will burn
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away the ropes of doubt.
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Ropes of lust.
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Ropes of adultery,
fornication, pornography.
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Ropes of low self-esteem,
low self-expectation,
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low confidence.
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Ropes of guilt, bad attitudes,
bad habits, self-confidence,
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self-dependence.
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Ropes of egoism.
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God will put us in the
fire so we will realize where
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our help comes from.
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I will lift up mine eyes
until the hills from whence
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cometh my help.
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My help comes from the Lord.
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The three Hebrew
boys were thrown into
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the fiery furnace bound.
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They couldn't help
themselves, they had
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no alternative but God.
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That's the way,
friends of mine, we're saved.
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You will never be rich
enough to buy your salvation.
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You will never be good enough
to deserve your salvation.
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You can't earn it, you
can't work for it, it has to be
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something that God does for us.
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And that's what
the trial by fire does.
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You will get to the point
in your life when you're in the
00:19:06.66\00:19:09.06
fire that you will look
at yourself with contempt,
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knowing that your
righteousness in the sight of
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God is but as filthy rags.
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And all of the efforts to save
yourself, to pull yourself up,
00:19:14.86\00:19:18.53
you get to where you
just throw it all away, stop
00:19:18.53\00:19:21.23
depending on yourself,
and start looking to God.
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And you say,
Lord, you must help me.
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God, you must save me.
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I'm not worthy,
Lord, I'm not equal to you,
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Lord, I'm unworthy.
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That's the way
you have to be saved.
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Trust in God.
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Look to God and
away from yourself.
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That's what the
fiery furnace does.
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It burns and snaps those
personal bindings that bind
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you to yourself so you
can be free in Jesus Christ.
00:19:48.63\00:19:52.16
And you're not living
for yourself anymore in your
00:19:52.16\00:19:54.63
strength, but you're now
living in the strength and
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life of Jesus, where you find
out that you are more free in
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the fire than you
were outside the fire.
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Verse 25 says, "And they
have no hurt." Not only did the
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fire not kill them, but
it didn't even burn them.
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God allowed them to go through
the fire, but he did not allow
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the fire to go through them.
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Verse 27: "The fire had no
power, nor was a hair on their
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hair singed, neither were
their coats changed, nor the
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smell of fire passed on." You
know how when somebody smokes
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you can smell the
smoke in their clothes?
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No hair burned, no
fire smell, no nothing.
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That's just like God.
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When God does a
thing, God does it complete.
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God's not a
half-God, God's a full God.
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When God does something,
God does it completely.
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Not even a smell of fire on
their clothes, not a hair on
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their head
seared, singed or burned.
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God doesn't do anything halfway.
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God is a full God.
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Think about it, you all.
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God never touched a sick
man and helped him a little bit.
00:21:06.86\00:21:09.93
God never cast out some devils
and left some of the demons in
00:21:09.93\00:21:13.30
a man to torment him.
00:21:13.30\00:21:14.66
God never just healed one eye
and left the other eye blind.
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God never unstopped one ear
and left the other ear deaf.
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God does all things well.
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God does things
fully and completely.
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And that's a word
for somebody tonight.
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The good word is that the
good work God hath begun in you,
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he will continue
it until his coming.
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If you're walking through the
fiery furnace, the furnace may
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be frightened, but you
were not brought to it for
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destruction, but you
were brought to it for growth,
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because understand, God didn't
allow it for your hurt, but
00:21:48.96\00:21:52.26
God allowed it for your
good, because all things work
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together for good
through them who love the Lord.
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Even though the flames may
come, they will only free you
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from what binds you.
00:22:02.20\00:22:04.60
You may be in the fire,
but there's one with you.
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When you walk through the
fire you won't be consumed.
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.26
When you pass through the
waters, he'll be with you.
00:22:11.26\00:22:13.46
When you climb high
mountains, he'll carry you.
00:22:13.46\00:22:15.96
When you cross low
valleys, he'll deliver you.
00:22:15.96\00:22:18.56
And when you cry out in
despair, God will save you.
00:22:18.56\00:22:22.40
When Nebuchadnezzar saw Jesus
in the flames, what he feared
00:22:22.40\00:22:27.83
earlier is now realized.
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What he was afraid of when
he made the furnace seven times
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hotter has now come to fruition.
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Why?
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Jesus showed up.
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Jesus shows up.
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You all know the cliche.
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Jesus shines out.
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He showed up at the Red Sea
and made a dry highway out of
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rushing waters.
00:22:51.13\00:22:53.43
He showed up at
Babylon's lion's den and shut
00:22:53.43\00:22:55.40
the lion's mouth.
00:22:55.40\00:22:56.33
Showed up in Babylon's
fiery furnace and provided
00:22:56.33\00:22:58.23
air-conditioning
in the fiery furnace .
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Showed up at the
wedding of Cana and made water
00:23:00.13\00:23:02.96
into wedding punch.
00:23:02.96\00:23:10.50
Showed up at the New Testament
countryside and became Mr.
00:23:10.50\00:23:16.13
Publix, Mr. Kroger, with two
fish and five loaves of bread.
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He showed up at the Sea of
Galilee and showed Peter how
00:23:20.70\00:23:24.36
to walk on water.
00:23:24.36\00:23:25.80
He showed up at Peter's
house one day and healed the
00:23:25.80\00:23:28.53
paralytic who came
down through the roof.
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That's what he did for them.
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Can I tell somebody
what he's done for me?
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He showed up and
woke me up this morning.
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He showed up and
started me on my way.
00:23:41.96\00:23:45.80
He showed up and put food
on my table and clothing on my
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back, a roof over my
head, made a way out of no way.
00:23:49.13\00:23:52.10
He showed up in my life.
00:23:52.10\00:23:54.26
And when my enemies
came to eat of my flesh,
00:23:54.26\00:23:57.13
they stumbled and fell.
00:23:57.13\00:23:58.50
He showed up in my life, gave
me a beautiful wife, gave us
00:23:58.50\00:24:02.66
two beautiful daughters,
gave us a wonderful student body
00:24:02.66\00:24:06.33
and a wonderful church.
00:24:06.33\00:24:07.53
But most importantly, he
showed up at Calvary one day,
00:24:07.53\00:24:13.93
and he told the devil,
you didn't create them, I did.
00:24:13.93\00:24:19.43
You don't love them, I do.
00:24:19.43\00:24:21.13
You can't save them, I can.
00:24:21.13\00:24:22.96
You won't sacrifice
your life, but I will.
00:24:22.96\00:24:27.76
Jesus paid it all.
00:24:27.76\00:24:30.23
All to him I owe, sin had left
a crimson stain, but he washed
00:24:30.23\00:24:32.76
it white as snow.
00:24:32.76\00:24:34.13
There is no furnace in
this world that's too hot
00:24:34.13\00:24:38.03
to keep God out.
00:24:38.03\00:24:41.20
We don't face the
fiery furnaces of life alone.
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God is with us.
00:24:43.96\00:24:45.30
I said God is with us.
00:24:45.30\00:24:47.03
Emmanuel, God with us.
00:24:47.03\00:24:49.40
Somebody knows,
do I have a witness,
00:24:49.40\00:24:52.10
that Jesus is with us.
00:24:52.10\00:24:53.43
Jesus was the fourth person
in the fiery furnace with the
00:24:53.43\00:24:57.16
three Hebrew boys.
00:24:57.16\00:24:58.23
Jesus was the third person
in the Philippian jail with
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Paul and Silas.
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.63
Jesus was the second
person with John on the Isle of
00:25:03.63\00:25:06.26
Patmos, and Jesus was the
first person to conquer death,
00:25:06.26\00:25:09.93
hell and the grave.
00:25:09.93\00:25:12.20
And I'm so glad
troubles don't last always.
00:25:12.20\00:25:16.50
I'm so glad that we may endure
for a night, but joy comes
00:25:16.50\00:25:21.63
in the morning time.
00:25:21.63\00:25:23.36
And I'm so glad
that after the rain,
00:25:23.36\00:25:26.66
the sun will shine again.
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I'm so glad tonight.
00:25:28.60\00:25:29.90
One day the wicked will
cease from troubling; I'm ready.
00:25:29.90\00:25:36.06
The weary will be at rest.
00:25:36.06\00:25:38.46
I'm glad tonight that I
serve a God who believes
00:25:38.46\00:25:43.60
in comebacks.
00:25:43.60\00:25:45.06
Oh taste and see
that the Lord is good.
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His mercy is everlasting.
00:25:49.26\00:25:52.23
His truth endures
to all generations.
00:25:52.23\00:25:55.40
Oh, it's getting
hot up in here tonight.
00:25:55.40\00:25:59.26
But tonight I'm hot in Jesus.
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