There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length

Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live

in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be

a help to you today.

Let's open the Word of God tonight.

Where in the Bible would you like to go?

You just tell me, where would you like to turn to tonight?

I told the preacher driving over, I said,

I think I'm going to get up tonight and say,

turn to Zephaniah, just to see the looks on some of your faces.

Well, let's open our Bibles to the book of Daniel again, to Daniel chapter number three.

And perhaps you've read through this chapter again. I hope you have. It's a famous chapter,

and a familiar story, and all the children are going to say, well, we know that story well. It is typically referred to as the story of the three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace. But I want to say to you tonight, it's not about the

three Hebrew boys and the fiery furnace. It's about the God who is greater than the fiery furnace.

You see, the Bible says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

Sometimes we get our eyes so fixed on the world around us.

We forget the God that is above us and the God that is within us.

And when you come to the book of Daniel chapter number three,

it is really not about Hanani and Michelle and Azariah,

or as they were called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. It is not even about Nebuchadnezzar. Now, let me just get this out of the way right up front. Nebuchadnezzar thought it was

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