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Any people, nation or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach,

Meshach and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses laid in ruins.

For there is no other God who is able to rescue in this way.

Did you hear that? I think most people are familiar with the story. At least

who know the Bible are familiar with the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and how they

willingly were thrown into a fiery furnace instead of obeying the King's command to bow down

and worship a false God. And while they're in the furnace, I mean the story in Daniel 3 is amazing.

The King says, I put three men in there. There's somebody else in there this picture of God's

presence with and God's provision for them. But that's where most people's knowledge of the

story ends. And so we walk away and we say, yes, okay, you should trust in God even when it's

costly, even when it may cost you everything, worship God alone. Yes, yes, absolutely that.

But if we don't get to these verses at the end of the story, we miss the point. Why did God do this?

Why did God allow even ordain these three servants of His to be thrown into a fiery furnace so that

in the end of this story, on the other side of that fiery furnace, Navican Ezra, a pagan king

would declare the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is worthy of praise. He is able to

rescue like no other God. So every people, nation and language needs to honor this God. In other

words, God does what he does with Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego for the praise of His own

glory among all the peoples, nations and languages. And here it's the lips of a pagan king,

king, Navican Ezra. This is the story we see all throughout the Bible. God is spreading His own

glory among all the nations through His people. That's why we are here. That's why you are in this

world today to spread the greatness, the rescue, the glory of your God, starting among all the nations,

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