7@7 #82: Conviction in Crisis 3

Are you ready for the test? Do you have courage in your convictions? Pastor/Professor Andrew Marquez looks at Daniel 3:13-18. This passage recounts Nebuchadnezzar's confrontation of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The king offers the exiles a final chance to worship his image. Their response is among the greatest answers given in the Bible. "Our God . . . is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, . . . but if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." Would you have such courage in the face persecution and death? Remain in Christ! Receive His grace through His Holy Spirit, so that you can be ready when the trial comes.