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Fear of Intimidation
Daniel
Introduction
Hello all!
I want to talk about faith over fear, as this is now our second week in this series.
Last week we talked about having faith over our physical weaknesses.
We looked at Moses and we learned how he was able to overcome this shortcomings and that was mainly due to God saying, look Moses I got you, I am will be with you.
So tonight we are going to be looking at another familiar story to many, do not feel bad though if this is a new story to you however.
We are going to be looking at the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
But before we do, have you ever been intimidated?
Before we answer that, we must ask, what does the word intimidate mean?
frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.
Has anyone here been intimidated before?
Have you intimidated someone before?
The good news is that if you go to planet fitness, you will not be intimidated there, as they have a no judg
You can see "timid" in the middle of intimidate.
And to be timid is to be frightened or to pull back from something.
When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid.
An animal might intimidate a smaller animal by bearing its teeth, and a person can intimidate another by threatening to do something harmful.
Intimidation is how many people today get things done, it is not a right or proper course of action.
If you are a passive person you probably have been intimidated at some point in your life.
If you are an aggressive person you have probably intimidated someone at some point in your life.
Andrew Vachss, author of many fiction crime book said,
“Life is a fight, but not everyone is a fighter.
Otherwise bullies would be an endangered species.”
This is an unfortunate truth, that we are going to wrestle with tonight.
So lets dive into what is going in Daniel 3.
Let’s set up what is happening here in this story.
The first two chapters are about this guys named Daniel.
Now Daniel was a Jew and he served the one true God, Yahweh.
The king at the time over Babylon was King Nebuchadnezzar.
And King Nebuchadnezzar had just attacked and besieged Jerusalem— The promise land.
King Nebuchadnezzar and his army was literally surrounding the city to take it by force they wanted to capture it.
And they did— In the process of them defeating Jerusalem, King Nebuchadnezzar took some prisoners.
And this dude Daniel was one of them.
Daniel was a wise and great man, who could interpret dreams.
Daniel and his padres’ were going to be feed pretty well, by being given the kings food.
Which Daniel refused to drink or eat it, and challenged the person who was over him, that he and his buddies would only eat veggies and drink water.
Guess what Daniel was right, his food was better, as they were healthier than everyone else.
This earned Daniel and his guest some credit.
Which they were going to need, as King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that no one could interpret for the King.
This troubled the king.
Daniel 2:2-
These Chaldeans were tricky fellows.
They tried to take their time, but the King was not having that, he tried to kill all of the wise people in the land, but that did not work either.
Because as kings guard was coming for Daniel, Daniel was requesting a chance to see King Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 2:
Daniel goes and tells the king, look someone is going to raise up against you.
If you want all the details there read the first two chapters of Daniel.
But really at this moment all you need to know is that Daniel is now like in-charge of lots of stuff, which he then appoints three of his pardres to deal with the affaires of Babyalon.
Daniel 2:
The king did:
Just a quick remark before we dive into chapter three, if you were the people who were fighting for a spot at the top at the Kings table so to speak.
How would you feel about an outsider coming and taking your spot?
Probably not going to be very happy!
Keep that in mind as we read the first little bit of .
Daniel 3:1-
Nebuchadnezzar has this massive image made.
It was most likely made of Gold with like a bronze base, but covered in gold at the end, as this was common for statues in this time.
This statue was about 90 feet tall and the width was 9 feet.
The Statue was enormous.
It is possible that this statue was made in the image of Nebuchadnezzar, however because Nebuchadnezzar wanted/made all of this top officials bow down and worship the statue it is likely it was one of his gods.
Most likely the deity Marduk— who was the god of thunderstorms.
The command came down from Nebuchadnezzar that pretty much when you hear any type of music you are to stop what you are doing and worship the statue.
I mean look at this list: when you hear:
Horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every king of music.
AND this was for all people everywhere.
and if you did not follow this command from the king?
You would be thrown into the furnace.
That is a punishment with some blazing consequences.
This was very common in this time, that kings of foreign lands, foreign in this case is those not associated with Isreal.
Heck you did even see this in Isreal.
Now if you were to put yourself here what would you have done?
Answer that as in your mind as we read this next section.
WELL WE GOT OURSELVES SOME HATERS!
Haters are gonna Hate
Haters gonna Hate
Daniel 3:8-
The Chaldeans are these people who lived in this region but yet they never grew strong enough to take on other nations.
Daniel 3:8-
However, they are present right now because King Nebuchadnezzar was most likely a Chaldean
They were strongly known for this dealing in astrology and witchcraft.
We have these guys that if you look back in chapter 2 were given the task of interpreting the dream of Nebuchadnezzar however after the threat of:
It is a bold strategy to threaten your people who are just trying to interpret a dream for you but hey.
So because of this threat, they did not interpret the dream— leaving the door open for Daniel to do it.
Now reward was great for someone to properly interpret that dream and the Chaldeans wants those rewards, but fail to do so.
I am sure we all got haters in our life and when you have been slighted and someone else get the glory you wanted, you can image they were watching Daniel like a hawk.
And they got their chance to tattle to the King.
That term they came forward and maliciously accused the Jews.
It means they basically they were taking bites out of them, chewing the up, devouring them, they we slandering them.
Now they were not going to go after Daniel first, but when Daniel had properly interpreted the dream King Nebuchadnezzar Daniel was raise up.
Daniel 2:
The Chaldeans knew not to come after Daniel so they went after the people Daniel put in charge.
Daniel and his three friends had received leadership positions in this group, and some of the native Babylonian astrologers resented it.
At the first opportunity they attempted to rid themselves of these foreign intruders.
Daniel and his three friends had received leadership positions in this group, and some of the native Babylonian astrologers resented it.
At the first opportunity they attempted to rid themselves of these foreign intruders.
Stephen R. Miller, Daniel, vol.
18, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1994), 116.
There will be people in your life that will resent you.
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