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Tony Evans' Radio

Fireproof

Tony Evans' Radio

Tony Evans

Religion & Spirituality

4.88.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Pressure has a way of revealing what we really believe. It’s easy to follow God when it’s convenient—but what happens when the culture demands compromise? Pastor Jonathan Evans shows what it means to stand firm in the fire when everyone else is giving in.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You don't have to or may not even have the privilege of being able to wait till later to get serious about Jesus.

0:07.0

Jonathan Evans warns that spiritual delay is one of Satan's most effective lies.

0:13.0

So one of the tricks of the enemy is to think that you have time and that you can get serious about God later,

0:19.0

but I'm here to tell you the time is always right now.

0:23.4

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, founding pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

0:32.0

and president of the urban alternative.

0:36.1

Pressure has a way of exposing what we really believe. It's one thing to follow God when it's

0:41.7

convenient, but what happens when the culture demands you to compromise? Today, Pastor

0:46.6

Jonathan Evans takes us to Daniel chapter 3 and shows us what it means to be fireproof,

0:52.5

to stand firm when everyone else is giving in.

0:56.1

Let's join him.

0:57.5

There was a king, and that king had a decree.

1:02.4

This king made a golden image, and he said, I want you, everybody, under the sound of my

1:08.3

voice, when you hear the sound of the music, I want you to bow down

1:13.1

to the image that I have set up. And if you don't, I'm going to throw y'all into this fiery furnace

1:20.1

and burn you up. In other words, he had a threat to make sure that everybody bowed down to the

1:26.5

image that he had set up. And then that everybody bowed down to the image that he had set up.

1:28.8

And then when everybody bowed down, everybody in the culture, all the peers and all the

1:34.3

people bowed down to the golden image that he have set up, there was three youngsters.

1:42.3

There was three youth that decided we're not bowing down to anything you have set up.

1:49.4

And they stood against the culture. Let me just say to all of the young people in the room,

1:54.1

God is calling you to not stand for the culture, but stand against it.

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