The Burning Fiery Furnace. By the way, the Caesars did exactly the same thing, didn’t they? This was when they were with Moses. More personal idols were listed by Dr. Andrew Blackwood, professor emeritus of Princeton, he said, “America has these following gods: Self, money, pleasure, sex, romance, amusements, sports, education.” And he added, “We need a return to the first commandment in the light of the cross.”. Register. And Nebuchadnezzar is like a preliminary picture of the antichrist. And then pride. It can be simplified for preschool students and modified to be used as a Children’s Church Lesson. And they were separated in the jostling in the crowd and they were kind of lost and thousands of people were pushing in to hear him preach. If Nebuchadnezzar says we all worship the idol, we all worship the idol, guys, we’ve got to keep our jobs. The second one, make no graven image. Man is incurably religious. Charles Haddon Spurgeon November 26, 1865 Scripture: Daniel 3:25 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 11. If that means fiery trials today and more tomorrow, do your work in me. The image being long gone. But notice the next one. Amen. You either worship God or false gods. It is common in those times to find information to the effect that when they wanted to build such an image, they would build it out of wood, and then they would cover it with a substance, and they would overlay it with heavy gold. Walked in there, spinelessly followed the lead of Nebuchadnezzar, all the great ones. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. And you say, “Well, we don’t really worship the idols, it’s just that the representation is there.” Yes, but the transition is so subtle, so subtle. Most Ski areas have a little spot marking a chapel. He gets his strongest men to bind them and throw them in the furnace, even though they plan no resistance. I mean, we don’t - this is a very sophisticated 20th century.” Yes, we do, and I’m sure you’re aware that we have idols. So, whether you’re talking about worshiping a false god, or worshiping the true God in a wrong way, or worshiping God to a wrong image, it is all forbidden in Scripture. Daniel became ruler of the whole province of Babylon, reminiscent of Joseph in Egypt. He assumed they had assimilated fully into Babylonian culture, politics, and religion. It had a gold head, and it had brass, and then it had silver, and then it had iron, and then it had iron and clay mixed. And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these … His wife was somewhat distressed, not feeling it went exactly with the decor that was there, removed it to the den. Another one is pride. The primary issue, then, in the ten commandments, the beginning of it all, is the affirmation that there is to be no god substituted for the true God. Oh my, is that ever a god. Sermon. Sermons › Consolation in the Furnace; Sermons. But it’s a 90 foot high image. So if you reject that, you invent a god who is a lot like you, and it’s a lot easier to live with that kind of a god. “Then Nebuchadnezzar the king - ” it’s really kind of funny, I’ll show you why “ - Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together - ” and here we go “ - the princes - ” and the word literally means “the governors.” And I think it goes into descending rank here. Fiery Furnaces! We have had many of the best and brightest from other countries come to our shores to be educated and to work. | MP4 | RSS: Text-Featuring a sermon is a less expensive way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands … He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. Sermons Sermon 12/3/17 GOD’S PRESENCE BRINGS LIFE: THE FIERY FURNACE Daniel 3:1, 8-30 December 5, 2017. Now, he wants everybody’s allegiance. “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. ... the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace. This is a sermon based on Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who were thrown into the Fiery Furnace for not worshipping the statue of Gold in Daniel 3:1-10. Narrator: King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual 20 and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. Some people put their favorite antique there. IN THE FIERY FURNACE. They told the king that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego would not bow down to worship the statue, and the king was furious. It is from chapter 3 where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego choose to obey God and are thrown in a fiery furnace. And so here is man making the god that he wants to exist, and then becoming like that god that he himself has manufactured. If you look at the pole, you’ll be healed.”. Go over to 2 Kings, chapter 18. The Fiery Furnace Daniel 3:1-30. ( Daniel 3:1-30 -fighting fire with faith) INTRODUCTION: Testing-we seldom enjoy it. Sermons Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So one of the 20th century idols is possessions. Herod gave a great speech, put on his fancy robe, and stood up, you know, in Acts 12 down there at Caesarea, and he gave a great speech and the people said, “Oh, it is the voice of a god and not a man.” And he just loved it, you know. But they spend all their life bowing down to some empty, useless god established in their own mind or in their own heart. II. And he made gods out of wood and stone, and he began to worship man, and beasts, and creeping things. While your heads are bowed for just a moment, let me just share a thought with you or two. Daniel 3:16-27. It’s a good indication that you’ve got a problem in that area. Then there are many of you Christians who have Christ as Lord of your life, and yet you find yourself diverted so often like that unstoppable river, and you find yourself going in the wrong direction toward idols of this world. The Eastern Orthodox Church finally smashed all the images because they felt it was idolatry. Articles and sermon outlines written by members of the churches of Christ. The events in chapter 3 seem to follow the events of Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream found in chapter 2. Illustration: Last August, you might remember 118 crewmen dying when a series of explosions caused the Russian submarine Kursk to sink. He was about to leave a press conference in New Hampshire and … Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.”. Those symbols are fine when the candles and lights point us to Jesus, the light of the world; when the tree and greenery speak to us of the everlasting life won for us by Jesus. “The principle god of our times,” says Dr. W. Stanford Reid of McGill University, “is our standard of living. Build homes, he said. Because, as I said, idolatry may be external in some societies, but in other societies it is internal. We are focusing on symbols of the season and preparation for Christ’s coming as we decorate God’s house today and in coming days. A parable tells about an idol-burning ceremony in the backyard of a church. The Fiery Furnace Dramatic Reading taken from Daniel 3 Narrator: King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. And we’ll just cover this first point. I think religiously, he wanted one religion to hold the people together, but beyond all of that the guy had an incredible ego, and he just sought self-glory, and he saw himself as the head of gold, and he just lost control of himself and decided to go whole hog and make himself an image so that the whole world would worship him. At Daniel’s request, the king appointed his friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be in charge of the day to day affairs of the province. And it seems very strange in the light of 2:47. They love to see their name in the paper. And I think about Abraham, who waited, and waited, and waited until he was 100 years old to have a son, and then God said, “I want that son, and I want him on an altar, and I want him dead.” And Abraham said, “All right, God, I love that son. At the end there are additional resources that may be helpful for your individual class needs. By: James Smith. And, Lord, as we come together to look at Your Word tonight, we pray with open hearts and open minds, we might be taught of Your Spirit and that we might not be listening to a human voice but that we might hear You speak for Your praise and glory we pray, Amen. Six is the number of man. Topics: Encouragement. Malachi 4:1-6. He wanted to make sure they were loyal and faithful to him. (If you don't know me, I love snow skiing). They both say essentially the same thing. Get married. The satraps were the top governors of the provinces in the Babylonian Empire, all right? Dr. W. A. Criswell. Well, let’s see the rest of the ceremony, very quickly, in verses 2 and 3. We do pray for Rodney and his family in the loss of their grandfather, that You would especially be near to them, and they would even discern in this the meaning of life and eternity, the significance of Christ and His resurrection, that they might come to know that eternal life that comes only through faith in Him. Tried to be fit for WHEN traveling through the country you have often noticed that in different spots the old rocks peep out from under the soil as if they would let us know what earth’s bones are made of … Home > Sermons. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other … Mining gold in those days and getting gold was so difficult that it was just incredibly valuable. Dr. W. A. Criswell. 20 And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. I didn’t intend to be impolite, but whenever I see a crowd like that waiting for me to preach, I’m overwhelmed with a sense of responsibility. You have the establishment of the false gods in verse 22 and 23. It was made of gold, but believe me, it is so huge, three - you know what a cubit is? Being … Copyright © 2021 Central Presbyterian Church. He usually becomes like his god. A. Tonight we want to begin to look at the chapter and we’ll see how far we get along as we go. Because what you need is a miracle in the fire. They told him there was no need to play the music because they weren’t going to do it. Just beyond your belief the amount of money involved in that. He wanted a single religion because he was afraid that a split of religion, because religion is so deep in the heart of man, that if they split over religions in the Empire they would fracture the empire. This morning, we are in week 3 of our journey through the book of Daniel, subtitled “Walking by faith in a secular world.” Let’s look at Daniel 3: NIV Daniel 3:1- King … When you abandon God, and you turn God loose, and you let God go, and you turn your back, then you invent your own gods because man is incurably religious, and in inventing his own gods he makes gods like himself, he becomes more like them, and damns his own soul in the process. Entertainment, oh, do we worship the God of entertainment. And it seems to me that that is the best way to perceive this image. They want to be the chairman. Prior to the Super Bowl football game, I read a rather interesting story about Ronald Reagan in the L.A. Times. This would be a great time to open your heart and confess to the Lord that you have some idols. He just ate it up. Sometime we should do a study on idolatry and really get in it in detail. Did you get that? “Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their god? Unless we go to the desert to live in a cave as a monk or hermit, or into the mountains to live as a survivalist, we are part of a culture, a society, and we either have to throw our lot in completely with that culture or make some decisions about lines that we will not cross even if “everyone else is doing it.”. Date: September 21, 2014. It was made of gold, folks. “He removed the high places, - ” now watch this “ - and broke the images, and cut down the idols.” Now stop right there. But just to give you an illustration, whenever men invent gods, those gods mirror the deficiencies and the sins of men. Some people put their new Ph.D. there. Sermons on the Fiery Furnace. In fact, I’ll save the sermon till next time. Articles and sermon outlines written by members of the churches of Christ. What have you placed before God? And it reiterates that they were all big shots, but none of them had the courage to say “no.” They all came. The Fiery Furnace: A Sermon Preached in Magheralin on 19th November 2006. “Your God is the revealer of secrets, the Lord of kings.” That was in verse 47. We might also say that pleasure is a god in our society. hearts and open minds, we might be taught of Your Spirit and that we might not be listening to a human voice but that we might hear You speak for Your … And it was six cubits wide, which really isn’t very wide. Primary Purpose: To look at the commitment and loyalty to Jehovah God that these 3 men demonstrated as compared to the masses of people who bowed to an idol. In the Fiery Furnace. Now, Nebuchadnezzar makes this huge image. Great Faith vs. the Fiery Furnace. We need to at least talk about that for a minute before we finish. Nebuchadnezzar called them to come out, and the three men did, unharmed by the fire. The man is an egomaniac. I think just in terms of his own personal needs, he wanted the worship and allegiance of his leaders. You see? He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. And early the next morning she sneaked back to the pile, hoping not to be seen, and when she got there she found her idol lonely and forlorn, the only one still left. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. You say, “Well, you know, we don’t have any idols. A French archaeologist - I can’t think if I can pronounce his name, I think it’s Oppert, something like that - was doing some digs down southeast of Babylon a few miles and he came across, in his diggings, an absolutely huge brick foundation that must have held some gigantic statue or obelisk. To look at the pole was simply an identification of their faith. And one of the things he does in the revival is in verse 4, and I want you to see it. Let’s pray together. And the sermon next Sunday morning, which will conclude the message, will be entitled The Mysterious Presence, The Glorious Person. Kind of an interesting story, Charles Spurgeon, just before he got married - and I can’t even imagine what it must have been like to be married to him - but, before he got married, he had picked up his fiancee to take her to a place where he was going to preach. He was one of the world’s greatest soldiers and strategists. In these present, immediate days, we are preaching through the Book of Daniel. Do you spend more of your energy, more of your resources on possessions than you do on God? Get rid of that little brass thing that they were all worshiping. We’re looking at Daniel chapter 3 tonight and it’s going to take us a couple of times to get through this tremendous chapter, an exciting chapter with much truth and many principles to deal with. Sermons. And the parable says that all agreed that failure to burn them didn’t mean they weren’t willing to give them up. Some worship a friend. He orders that the furnace be cranked up seven times its usual heat. First we find the ceremony, the ceremony in verses 1 to 3. Well, what he’s doing is pulling together his nation in an act of unity. And she said, “Charles, you left me in that crowd all alone and you weren’t even concerned where I was.”. Puzzles and … Christ meets us in our worst trials. And because of its seriousness, you can reduce the warnings in the Bible down to three simple statements. “And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.” Which means “the little brass thing.” He treated it with disdain. Rabbi Tovia Singer Responds - Duration: 26:50. General Prayer Themes Sermons Basic Christianity Bible Study & eBooks Articles Christian Quotes Useful Links. The plain of Dura is a flat area where it would be visible. ... and his attitude toward them changed. And by the way, this is fascinating. Their faith, which prohibited them from worshiping idols and false gods, was just the ticket. Anyone who did not do this was to be thrown into the fiery furnace. King Nebuchadnezzar obviously had no clue about that fact. Have children. You shall have the second place. Andy Davis preaches a verse by verse expository sermon on Daniel 3:1-30. And I would also add that one of the gods of our society is projects. I’ll just build bigger barns, and bigger barns, and store all my crop. Speaker: Eric Stillman. I’m not even going to give you the Scriptures. Hobby, sports, entertainment? Whenever a member of the Shadrach team is tagged, they stand in the out section, the Fiery Furnace. It was bad enough they were summoned by the king and were threatened with the fiery furnace. He made a decree prohibiting anyone from speaking against their God, and he gave them a promotion. Is it education, prestige, sex, money? “ - six, six, six.” It’s as if it starts out with two sixes and ends up with three. The Bible says, “God created man in His own image.” But man creates gods in his own image - the ultimate rebellion, man inventing his own gods. In the twenty-first century we may find burning in a blazing furnace hard to believe. TITLE: Escape from the Fiery Furnace SUBJECT: Great Escapes of the Bible PROPOSITION: As we think about escaping from the fiery furnace, 1) we face the threat of the fiery furnace, 2) we may be thrown into the fiery furnace, 3) that we may thwart the fiery furnace. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Two verses later, he’s building an idol to himself. Now, in the gospel you just heard, you might have noticed the language toward the end—of the fiery furnace, ... Jesus says earlier in the Sermon on the Mount that we need to take care of the log in our own eye before addressing the speck in someone else’s. Colossians 3 says, “Covetousness is idolatry.” When you covet it, you worship it. He prayed and the Lord answered somewhere between verses 7 and 8 and said, “Make a serpent, set it on a pole: it shall come to pass, every one that is bitten, when he looks up shall live.” Now, watch what happened. Now, you’ll notice in verse 1 that it says, “he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.” Now the plain of Dura, as far as we know, was just in the province of Babylon, just near the city itself, maybe six miles southeast of Babylon. It’s an exciting chapter. Sermon. To have intercourse, then, with a temple prostitute was to be united in power with Baal, a very consummate act of worship. The Hebrews who find themselves in the fiery furnace suggest to us the Nation Israel, and particularly the Nation Israel in the Tribulation, the fiery furnace suggesting the tribulation period of the last days when, as a nation, they shall enter into the most severe of persecutions, called in … Now, idolatry, then, is the corruption of true worship. You know, every time I go to one of those places where you ride something, you know, Magic Mountain, Disneyland, or Knott’s Berry Farm, or I don’t know what all, I just - my theology goes wild in those places. 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