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OPENING

It is an honor and a privilege to be with you tonight.

I want to say thank you to Bro.

Alan and Sis.

Michelle for the invitation.

We love your Pastors and have nothing but respect for them.

It is a blessing to have my beautiful wife and daughters here with me tonight.

It is also a blessing to have some family and church members here with me tonight.

How many here tonight are glad to know that we serve a God who is like no other god?

We serve a God that is not dead, but is alive!

We serve a God that can make streams in the desert and that can make a way when there doesn’t seem to be a way.

We serve a God that is always on time and will never fail us.

We serve a God that can deliver us out of trouble and out of the snare of the fowler.

We serve a God that can deliver us out of the mouths of lions and fiery furnaces.

I want to try to deliver a message to you tonight titled, “There is No Other God Who Can Deliver Like This!”

SCRIPTURE

MESSAGE

The Devil is Full of Fury (Daniel 3:19-23)

The Bible says that King Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Aded-Nego and that the expression of his face changed toward them.

The king was mad because these Three Hebrew Boys wouldn’t bow to him and the image he had setup.

They refused to compromise their beliefs.

They refused to give up their faith.

They refused to go along with the program just because everyone else was doing it.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego had some bold faith.

They made it clear to the king, we are not going to bow.

The king said if you don’t bow, then you’ll have to burn.

But I love what the Three Hebrew Boys told him earlier in Chapter 3.

“O King, we have no need to answer you in this matter.”

“The God whom we serve is able to deliver us out of the fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king.”

“But if not, know this, we are still not going to bow.”

They said, “we might burn, but we won’t bow.”

The Devil is full of fury

He is working overtime.

He is fighting harder against God’s people than ever before.

It seems like every time I turn around, the devil is throwing something else at me.

The level of spiritual warfare seems to be increasing.

He is unleashing his demonic hordes in these last days trying to steal, kill, and destroy.

If you take a stand for God, the devil is going to come after you.

These Three Hebrew Boys were willing to take a bold stand for God, and as a result, they found themselves facing a furnace of persecution.

If you take a stand for God, you are going to face your own furnace of persecution.

But the devil is going to try to throw us into all types of furnaces:

Furnaces of sickness.

Furnaces of tribulations.

Furnaces of addictions.

Furnaces of family problems.

Furnaces of doubt.

Furnaces of fear.

Just stand in bold faith.

Paul instructed us to put on the whole armor of God and having done all to stand.

We need some bold faith in these last days to stand up against the wiles and the schemes of the devil.

You might be in a furnace of affliction right now; just stand!

You might be facing a situation that it feels like is threatening to take you out; just stand!

You might feel like you’re up against the ropes and the devil is throwing haymakers at you and you’re about to go down for the count; just stand!

Keep your faith pointed toward the One who broke the power of sin and death at the Cross of Calvary, who was raised from the dead for your justification, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father in heaven making intercession for you and praying for you right now that your faith fail not!

Have faith child of God.

It may feel like the devil is turning up the heat seven times hotter, but hold on, help is on the way!

There is no other God that can deliver like this!

You Have a Friend in the Fire (Daniel 3:24-27)

King Nebuchadnezzar had the Three Hebrew Boys thrown into the fiery furnace.

The Bible says they fell down into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

The furnace was so hot, that the men who threw them in died.

So the king decided to go take a look for himself to make sure that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego had been destroyed.

But as the king looked into the fiery furnace, he saw something that he didn’t expect.

I’m sure he expected to see the Three Hebrew Boys being consumed by the fire, but instead he saw them unhurt and walking around in the midst of the fiery furnace.

But he didn’t see just three men in the fire, He saw four.

So he said, “Didn’t we throw just three men bound into the midst of the fire?”

His counsellors said, “that’s right.”

So the king said, “Then what in the world is going on, because I see four men loose and walking around in the midst of the fire and the fourth man looks like the Son of God.”

I came here to tell somebody tonight, you have a Friend in the fire.

You might feel like you’re in the furnace of affliction, but Jesus is the fourth man in the fire!

The king saw four men loose and walking around in the midst of the fire, but only three came out.

Jesus is still in the fire, and He’s walking in the flames, and He’ll be there to help you when you call upon His name!

You have a Friend in the fire

He will never leave you or forsake you.

He will stick closer to you than a brother.

He won’t leave you there.

He will bring you through the fire.

Somebody look at your neighbor and say, “Neighbor, if God brought you to it, He’s gonna bring you through it.”

The furnace of affliction that you are facing is not a dead end.

It might be an attack of the enemy.

It might be a trial of fire that God has ordained to test and strengthen your faith.

It might be a problem that you have brought on yourself.

Keep holding on, keep you faith in God, keep looking to Jesus the author and the finisher of your faith, because you are coming through the fire and you are coming out the other side!

The Three Hebrew Boys walked out of the furnace.

Their bonds were gone.

The fire had no power over them.

Their hair and their clothes were not burned.

And they didn’t even smell like smoke.

Come on somebody and give God a shout of praise right now.

He’s bringing you through the fire.

He’s delivering you out of the furnace.

And you’re coming out the other side set free.

Your bonds are being broken.

I hear the sound of chains falling.

The fire has no power over you to destroy you.

No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper.

And when Jesus gets done delivering you there won’t even be the slightest smell of defeat left on you.

You’re about to shed the spirit of heaviness and put on a garment of praise!

There is no other God that can deliver like this!

It’s not an Execution it’s a Promotion (Daniel 3:28-30)