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Someone once stated “No one gets out of life unscathed”.
How many of us would agree today?
Life can be difficult.
I remember hearing a story from the childhood of Chuck Swindoll in one of his early books.
They would attend family reunions in South Texas.
The family would always hire the same fellow to help take care of the event.
His name was Coats.
One afternoon, Chuck was standing near Coats as the man worked over a barbecue pit.
As he worked, Coats told young Church about his life.
A life etched with trouble and tragedy.
Coats rubbed his big, leathery hand through Chuck’s hair as he knelt down to his height and said, “Charles, the hardest thing about life is that it’s so daily.”
Coats had it right - “Life is unceasing isn’t it?”
You don’t get a day off from life and life doesn’t throw marshmallows at us.
Every one of us will be tried by life.
It may be situations of our own making, poor decisions, sins, etc.
Maybe situations someone else brought upon us.
Taken advantage of, mistreated, deceived, etc.
It may be a situation that life gives us.
Disease, suffering, loss, etc.
Life is difficult.
It was difficult for Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego.
These young men had been part of the Israelites who were conquered and removed from their home.
Taken from a people who knew about God to a country and people that knew nothing of God.
From one environment to another.
Probably saw some atrocities in that war.
Possibly saw some loved ones killed.
Suffering the loss of people, home, identity.
They lost a lot.
But they kept their God.
They kept their faith.
It is possible to go thru everything that life will send at you without losing your faith in God!
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego’s commitment to God would be tried.
Your commitment is going to be tried.
Daniel 3:1-
Notice the kind of pressure they were put under when they refused to bow down to this false god.
It was the kings command.
Everyone else did it.
Many people will do what they see everyone else doing.
Their position (king’s court) demanded they bow too.
These young men would not bow.
They were not willing to lose the one thing they had retained.
When it seems as though you have lost everything, don’t lose your faith in God too.
Being Tried
Don’t be surprised by the trial.
Count the trial a joy.
Temptation here in the NKJV is often translated as “trials”.
There is a crown of life at the end of the trial.
When you come through on the other side, steadfast, standing, you will receive the crown.
Trials are going to come.
Don’t be surprised.
Count the trial a joy.
There is a crown of life at the end of the trial.
You only know the value of your faith when it has been tried.
Their hair is not singed, coats are not changed, the smell of fire has not passed to them.
Bonfire Illustration
Anyone seeing them, getting close to them could not tell they had been in the fire.
No effects.
God will carry you thru some trials that people will never know that you went thru.
No effects.
Caution of talking about the trial.
There are people who God takes through a trial.
The outside is untouched, but the heart is marred.
The trial got into their spirit.
It possesses all their conversation, seems as though they can’t wait to tell you about their trial.
Joseph
We have been talking about Joseph in our midweek life groups…great example.
Sold by his brothers, lied on by Potiphar’s wife, 2 years in prison, exalted to prime minister of Egypt.
Gen
When his brothers come to buy food and he reveals himself to them.
He could have ask “Why?
Why did you do that to me?”.
No smell of the fire.
No bitterness.
No after effects of the trial.
Stephen
Stephen preaches to hearers about Jesus.
They rush upon him as a mob and begin to stone and beat him to death.
Ending soon - Call for music.
Acts 7:54-
Stephen is not seeing a trinity - He is seeing Jesus Christ in the fullness of His power.
The right hand of God represents the authority and power.
He is seeing a revelation of who Jesus Christ is, verse 59 says he was calling on God, notice the name he uses for calling on God.
Acts 7:54-55
Seeing Jesus Christ in the fullness of His power.
Calling on Him.
Stephen could have ask “Why?
Why are you letting them do this to me?”
Acts 7:
No smell of the fire.
No after effects of the trial that ended in death.
When seeing Jesus Christ in the fullness of His power, calling upon God.
Stephen could have ask “Why?
Why are you letting them do this to me?”
Ending soon.
Call for music.
Jesus
Though he had been drug through various courts of the land.
He had been abused cruelly.
Beaten, crown of thorns, beard plucked, tortured.
He still prayed, “forgive them they do not know what they do”.
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