Courage in Babylon
Summit Life with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear Ministries
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Through the famous story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, we will see an example of courage that could only come from faith in God. These three young men knew that God was bigger than anything life can throw at us. And more importantly, that God was better than anything death could take away. So what does courage look like in your life right now?
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| 0:00.0 | today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer. |
| 0:02.4 | You can't bifurcate Jesus. |
| 0:04.3 | He's either Lord or He is not. |
| 0:05.8 | You're either fully surrendered to him or you're living in rebellion. |
| 0:09.3 | And y'all, you understand that if God is the only God, |
| 0:13.1 | then for us to say anything different is cruel. |
| 0:15.9 | Not just wrong, it's cruel. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to Summit Life with J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Bidavitch. |
| 0:36.1 | Our journey through Daniel today takes us to the fiery furnace of Chapter 3. Through the famous story of Shadrach, Meshach, and |
| 0:38.2 | Bednego, we'll see an example of courage that could only come from faith in God. These three |
| 0:43.8 | young men knew that God was bigger than anything life could throw with them, and more importantly, |
| 0:48.7 | that God was better than anything death could take away. That is some serious courage being displayed |
| 0:54.1 | there, in a situation |
| 0:55.3 | unlike anything most of us have ever had to endure. So what does courage look like in your life |
| 1:01.6 | right now? Think about it as we turn in our Bibles to the book of Daniel chapter three. |
| 1:08.5 | Daniel three, you may not recognize the name Desmond Doss, but you might have seen the movie about his life. |
| 1:13.6 | It was called Haxall Ridge. |
| 1:15.6 | Desmond Doss was drafted into the U.S. Army in World War II, but he was a pacifist, the way he interpreted the Bible, |
| 1:22.6 | led him to believe that he couldn't cause any violence to anybody else ever, so he couldn't bring himself |
| 1:28.1 | to carry a gun, but he also loved his country, and he wanted to serve it, so he accepted a position |
| 1:34.1 | as a medic in a squadron, and as was depicted in the movie, his pacifism made him the subject |
| 1:42.0 | of all kinds of ridicule. Then one evening, he was serving in the midst of a |
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