Six hundred and seventy-five, please.
Six, seven, five.
There's a royal banner given for display to
the soldiers of the King.
As a men's fine fare, we lift it
up today, while us ransomed ones we sing.
Six, seven, five, please.
Hark!
The Herald Angels Sing.
Book of Daniel now.
And we're at this great third chapter this
evening.
Book of Daniel, and at this great third
chapter.
And you'll notice that we're trying to do
the whole chapter this evening, thirty verses.
And these thirty verses bring the historical record
of these three stalwart Hebrews.
Sometimes we call them three Hebrew children, they
were really men.
And this chapter brings the historical record of
these stalwart Hebrews who faced death, faced death
in the furnace, rather than dishonor God.
It was death before dishonor as far as
they were concerned.
And this gives us the historical record of
this mighty event at that particular time.
Now I think you remember me saying this
when we were starting the book of Daniel,
I said there are twelve chapters and they
divide themselves into three great divisions.
As we take these chapters you will find
that there are many historical record for you.
The record of what Daniel did and of
what the three Hebrew children did.
There are many records for you, inspired, divinely
inspired records, historical records.
But this book has not only historical parts,
it has great prophetical parts.
And the prophecies that's lodged here in Daniel
for us, my they will fill us up
with days goodbye if the Lord will.
But I pointed out that not only have
we an historical section and a prophetical section,
but at the same time we have a
spiritual section.
There are great spiritual things hidden in these
stories that we must get out.
But then there's something more, there's something even
deeper than that.
You see we're looking at an historical record
this evening.
This great record of these three who took
the stand for God.
And although it's an historical record, and I
shall take the time to point out the
spiritual truths that are here.
Remember sometimes these historical records become illustratively
prophetical.
Now that's something that's not seen by everyone.
O.G.H. Lange who was a great
Bible scholar said this once.
He said the histories of Daniel are prophecies.
Now many people took him up on that
and there were great debates about this statement
that G.H. Lange made that these histories
are prophecies.
And many people said it's not even logic
to say this.
But I would like to take my stand
beside O.G.H. Lange this evening and
I believe what he believes.
I believe the histories are prophecies.
At least they're illustrative prophecies.
And we've got one of them this evening.
You see watch me while I explain what
he and I meant.
Me.
You see we're going to look again tonight
at Medjugorje.
And he was the one who began the
times of the Gentiles.
Now right at the beginning of the times
of the Gentiles this mighty monarch he made
a great image and he commanded the whole
world to bow and worship or those that
refused would be slain.
Now that's the historical record right after the
commencement of the times of the Gentiles.
Now this book takes us away on to
the end of the times of the Gentiles
and it passes by where we are tonight
in history and a few years ahead we
will come to the end of the times
of the Gentiles and then at the end
of the times of the Gentiles a mighty
monarch again will make a mighty image and
ask the world to bow and if they
don't they'll be slain.
So you see what we're talking about.
That the very histories are illustrative prophecies and
we must get the grasp of that because
that makes the book interesting.
Not only have we the historical bit and
the prophetical bit and the spiritual bit but
even the histories are illustrative prophecies.
I think that we shall notice this this
evening that these three Hebrew men were in
the furnace for God that's what I've called
this chapter in the furnace for God and
I think we shall know that they were
literally in the literal furnace in the literal
fire for God and I think that we
are going to learn that if we take
our stand for God the way they did
and we obey God's word and we bow
to God's will in this day and hour
let me tell you, you'll find yourself being
afflicted, unpersecuted and in the spiritual sense you'll
find yourself in the furnace for God more
than once.
You just take your stand and stand steadfast
and unmovable by the word of God and
its teachings and you'll find out that you'll
be in the furnace for God.
And of course, in the Greek tribulation when
the Lord takes the church out and the
tribulation period begins and the Antichrist is full
sway God will have witnesses for himself in
that period and every one of them will
be in the furnace for God.
There will be 144,000 Jews that God
will bring through the furnace Yes, there'll be
some slain for that there are deep things
and great things and mighty things in this
wonderful book of Daniel.
Now we're starting the third chapter and the
first thing I want to underline for you
this evening is the dedication of this idolatrous
image that Nebuchadnezzar made.
First one, Nebuchadnezzar became made an image of
gold whose height was three square cubits and
the breadth there are six cubits.
Some of the Bible scholars argue about the
length of the cubits in Bible days some
of them say it was 16 inches some
of them say it was 18 inches, some
of them say it was 20 inches and
if you get a Bible encyclopedia you'll find
that they don't know for sure so we'll
take the middle one, we'll just say 18
inches and if it's three square cubits it's
six and we see that this would make
it 90 feet high it's got the whole
of that, you know, 61 foot and a
half, 18 inches so that it's 90 feet
high can you see it towering like the
church tower almost?
yes, 90 feet high and you can see
that it's six cubits broad it's 90 feet
across it's 90 feet high, it's made of
gold it was worth a pound or two
I assure you yes, let's get this bit
in Nebuchadnezzar became made an image of gold
whose height was three square cubits and the
breadth there are six cubits he set it
up in the plain of Jura in the
province of Babylon now the plain of Jura
is just the end of the Syrian desert
very near to the earl of the Chaldees
and we had a gentleman here one evening
he's the managing director or one of the
managing directors in the engineering department of Shell
Next and he was away out there because
they were sinking some new pumps in the
very place called earl of the Chaldees and
it was on this very plain of Jura
and when Jim Scott was here with me
one evening I questioned him about it afterwards
because I wanted to know and it's a
long level stretch of burning sand it belongs
to the Syrian desert and it actually goes
out from the earl of the Chaldees for
miles and miles of level sand so this
was the very place to erect this so
that the king could draw all and sundry
before him countless thousands and he stood them
before this image Jim Scott told me a
very interesting thing he said you know very
near to where this great image must have
stood I got quite a number of Arabs
all seated on the ground one evening the
sun was just going down the sand was
still burning hot and they prayed this very
message of yours and they sat right through
the message and listened well this is most
interesting that I preached on this very spot
this very message that I'm giving you this
evening so I want you to get this
image into your mind and I want you
to think about it then Nebuchadnezzar the king
sent to gather together the princes the governors
and the captains the judges, the treasurers, the
consuls, the sheriffs and all the rulers of
the provinces to come to the dedication of
the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set
up then the princes, the governors and captains
the judges, the treasurers, the consuls, the sheriffs
and all the rulers of the provinces were
gathered together onto the dedication of the image
that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up and
they stood before the image that's why I
took the time to sort of sketch for
you the scene there was plenty of room
here for all the notable characters from the
provinces and remember this was one of the
greatest gentile world powers this world has ever
seen it was the great gentile empire of
Babylon I want you to try to get
the image into your mind I want you
to try to see this great thing set
up and the command is going forth just
in the moment that when the band plays,
when the orchestra strikes up everybody must bow
in worship and there's going to be something
like this in a day to come let's
look at the book of Revelation just for
a moment and we'll look at Revelation chapter
13 book of Revelation chapter 13 and
you remember last week we were looking at
this great chapter John says verse 1 I
stood upon the sand of the sea and
saw a beast rise up out of the
sea having seven heads and ten horns and
upon his horns ten crowns and upon his
head the names of blasphemy and I pointed
out that this was the man of sin
and we took time to prove this last
week now we'll go down the chapter a
little bit further verse 11 and I beheld
another beast coming up out of the earth
and he had two horns like a lamb
and he spake as a dragon and he
exercised all the power of the first beast
before him and caused the earth and them
that dwell therein to worship the first beast
whose deadly wound was he and he doeth
great wonders so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the
sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell
on the earth by the means of those
manacles which he had vowed to do in
the sight of the beast mind you the
word manacles is really there cause this is
the devil these are diabolical manacles this is
the devil of this medical business and you
know they're getting a speak of this in
the United States even now and I can
tell you that the devil could bluff you
as easy as you like you know it's
been well known now and it's being found
out day after day that there are some
fellows pitching great big Kansas tents at New
York seeking maybe three or four thousand people
they profess to be able to heal any
disease that's presented to them and what they're
doing is they're sending a plane from New
York to California three thousand miles away from
New York and they're getting down and out
in California and they're bringing them back and
they're bringing them into the meeting at night
of blind men some of them in wheelchairs
some of them on stretchers what will you
do if you're in a big audience the
blind man's brought in with a stick and
the fellow touches him and he drops the
stick he's never conceived that's from hell that's
what it's from the devil would bluff you
hope that they're not saying that I don't
believe in healing I believe that God can
heal anything I believe also that God can
do without healing there are people who are
going to die I believe that God can
heal miraculously I believe that God can heal
medically he can use means I believe that
God can heal surgically I believe that God
can do without healing but I can tell
you we're going to have bother with the
devil at the end of the age and
it'll get worse in fact it does say
there I'm deceivers then that dwell on the
earth by means of those medicals which he
had power to do in the sight of
the beast saying to them that dwell on
the earth that they should make an image
of the beast which had the wound by
a sword and he had power to give
life onto the image of the beast that
the image of the beast should speak and
cause that as many as would not worship
the image of the beast should be killed
so you can see that Daniel chapter 3
while it is an historical record it is
illustratively prophetical of this particular day that's yet
to be when the Antichrist and the false
prophet who will work for him you see
at the end of the day in this
world we're going to have the dragon and
we looked at the dragon last week the
devil and Satan and we're going to have
the Antichrist and we're going to have this
false prophet you see the devil has always
tried to eat God and as there is
a trinity in the Godhead Father, Son and
Holy Ghost so we'll have an evil trinity
at the end of the day and remember
the work of the Spirit of God in
this age is to get the whole world
to worship Christ to bring men to Christ
so the false prophet will work to get
men to worship the beast and all the
time the devil will be behind this because
he wants the glory of everything yes you
know there's going to be this image in
the future but let us get a hold
of this this is really tremendous let's go
back to Timothy Paul's letter to Timothy 2nd
Timothy and it's 2nd Timothy chapter 3 Paul's
writing to Timothy and saying this verse 1
This know also that in the last days
perilous times shall come and I think that
we're almost there aren't we you see he's
writing to young Timothy and he's saying perilous
times shall come for the church of course
for believers and these perilous times are going
to come for men for men certain kinds
of men men shall be lovers of their
own selves covetous, ghostly, proud blasphemous disobedient to
parents unthankful, unholy without natural affection truth breakers
false accusers incontinent, fierce despisers of those that
are good get that that is trickers, heady,
high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers
of God now these men and they're described
very fully by the spirit of God just
take one or two phrases out unholy men
despisers of those that are good men that
love pleasure more than they love God they're
going to have a form of godliness well
I have a big image you know this
ecumenical movement is going to build an image
oh yes it is you know they tell
me they're going to get together and the
leader of course is the present archbishop of
Canterbury and he believes this is what he
believes now you can check up on it
he believes that atheists will be in heaven
this is what he believes well if he
were right Jesus Christ is wrong because Jesus
Christ said he that believeth not shall be
damned but the archbishop says he that believeth
not shall be in heaven is this the
foundations that they have in the ecumenical movement
this big image is being built and you're
going to be in the fires of affliction
if you don't bow well I have no
notion of bowing not for a moment I'll
tell you folks what the bible says are
you listening watch it watch it very carefully
we're going to have trouble in the last
days because these men these unholy men these
men that despise those that are good these
men that's building this form of godliness but
denying the power thereof here's what the bible
says some such turn away my dear friends
I think that that's plain enough you couldn't
make it any plainer is that uniting with
it or getting away from it I'll leave
it to yourself but when you think you
stand like this and say no we can't
go with men who are modernists and we
can't go with men who deny the teachings
of christ then we're despised you see well
we might have to be in the furnace
of affliction and persecution for god yet I
wonder are we prepared for that so you
can see there was an image in the
past there'll be an image in the future
they're building one at the present from such
turn away let's go back to Daniel chapter
3 we're at Daniel chapter 3 and
we're at verse 4 just when the king
got everybody assembled in this great plain of
Judah verse 4 says then on hell cried
aloud and as far as I know they
had no loudspeakers in those days and it
would take a very great herald to cry
to this crowd mind you because I would
think that there would be thousands here but
you know I've had one or two of
these heralds in the far east when I
was in Jerusalem on the very first night
I was ever there Mr. Irvine and I
were together and we got talking to the
proprietor of the hotel it was a terribly
warm day it was about a hundred and
four in the shade it was really warm
and we were allowed to sleep out on
the rooftop lovely sleeping out on the roof
at night whenever everything's congenial and as he
was getting his pajamas on he looked over
the edge of the great building and here
were the Jordanian soldiers marching on the edge
of the wall of this place up and
down he said to me what are those
boys doing there?
I said you see the Israelis make them
over those hills in the middle of the
night he says my god we shouldn't be
on the top of the roof and we
juked together you see and then lay down
to sleep but nothing worries him too much
before long he was snoring and I really
mean snoring you know but about four in
the morning one of these heralds on the
top of one of these great temples calls
the Muslims to prayer and you should hear
them you can hear this easily two miles
away and it comes out like a foghorn
Allah!
and Erfan's out of bed and he says
he says what's that?
I said it's the Israelis coming yeah I've
heard these heralds you know and they can
really shout now the old king was employing
one of these heralds and when he got
the cloud there the herald cried verse four
to you it is commanded and I want
you to underline the word commanded in your
mind there to you it is commanded all
people nations and languages that at what time
you hear the sound of the corn the
fruit, heart, fat book, paltry, dulcimer and all
kinds of music he shall fall down and
brush up the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king has set up now I want you
to notice exactly what Nebuchadnezzar was doing he
had gathered the people he had made the
image he had employed the herald and he
had this orchestra just prepared and you can
see that when he is making the appeal
to the people he is using music to
bring it home I sometimes think that it
is diabolically used at times I don't think
we should try to play on the emotions
of the people in any way at all
but he used it anyway and he probably
was one of the first that used the
music when he was making the appeal I
want you to notice this this is the
king of a great state and he is
commanding his people to fall down and worship
you can't command people to worship it will
never be done people don't worship by command
you can't command anybody to worship worship is
not done by command you can neither command
worship nor by it the old devil took
the lord up to the highest mountain and
let him see all the kingdoms of the
world in a moment of time he said
all these will I give you if you
fall down and worship me and he learned
you can't buy worship and you can't command
worship and you know the states and the
statesmen who think that they can command any
sort of religious worship they are fools because
worship you know wants people to worship the
state sometimes there are people in the millions
to worship the state but there is a
lot of them there because they are afraid
but there is a cynical smile in their
heart all the time they are not doing
any such thing so that's not how worship
works you know when the lord Jesus is
talking to the woman at the well he
says God is a spirit and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth you know we hear them talking
about going to the place of worship let
me say this very carefully to you unless
you know Jesus Christ God's son personally a
way deep down with an experience in your
heart experientially know him then you cannot worship
God it's only when you know what God
has done for you in Christ and what
Christ has done for you and when you
get this great tremendous truth into your heart
and you have given your life to him
then your heart comes out with worship you
can't command people to worship you can't bow
them like that and the state that tries
it will find out it is failed it
doesn't work like that and so you can
see the expectation of this crowd you know
he wanted to bend these people or in
verse 7 verse 6 who so falleth not
down and worshipeth shall the female be cast
into the midst of a burning fire eternally
therefore at that time when all the people
heard the sound of the corn of fruit,
pot, fatba, paltry all kinds of music all
the people, the nations, the languages fell down
and worshiped the golden image of the King
etc but there were three men there just
at that time who didn't fall down and
worship these three men were doing no such
thing you see they knew the truth about
bowing to images they had the truth taught
to them to bow before a plaster cast
or an image of any kind be it
gold or silver or anything else is an
insult to the living God these men didn't
bow and I want you to notice this
next little bit I've called it the accusation
of these bitter Babylonians verse 8 wherefore at
that time certain cold things came near now
that's very wonderful that the word cold things
is used there do you remember when we
were at the last chapter let's go back
to chapter 2 just for a moment you
remember the king had a dream and it
went from him verse 2 then the king
commanded to call the magicians and the astrologers
and the sorcerers and the cold things to
show the king his dream and it was
the cold things that speak see verse 4
then speak the cold things to the king
and tell him verse 5 the king answered
and said to the cold things verse 10
the cold things answered before the king you
know these were among the wisest of the
wise men of Babylon and of course at
that particular time they were puzzled they couldn't
answer the king's dream and then of course
Daniel came in you remember how he got
the secret from the Lord through prayer and
then he very nobly went in and asked
these men to be spared that the king
wouldn't destroy the cold things and although he
defended them and saved them yet here they
are just waiting their chance to do his
frenzy when for at that time certain cold
things came near and accused the Jews you
see there is a bit of professional jealousy
here because Daniel and his three friends were
the wise men who got many of the
king's secrets they speak and said to the
king that you could never oh king live
forever thou kingest me to decree that every
man that shall hear the sound of the
music shall fall down and worship the golden
image whoso falleth not down and worshipeth that
he should be cast into the midst of
a burning fiery furnace there are certain Jews
whom thou hast settled with the affairs of
the province of Babylon Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
these men oh king have not regarded thee
they serve not their gods, thy gods nor
worship the golden image which thou hast set
up and this is the accusation that was
brought by these bitter Babylonians now here is
the special bit of the chapter and I
want you to watch it, verse 13 then
that you could measure in as rage and
fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
then they brought these men before the king
that you could measure, take and said unto
them is it true?
oh Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego do not ye
serve my gods nor worship the golden image
which I have set up now if ye
be ready that at what time ye hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackcloth,
paltry, dulcimer and all kinds of music ye
fall down and worship the image which I
have made well, but if ye worship not
ye shall be cast ashore into the midst
of a burning fiery furnace and who is
that god that shall deliver you out of
my hand now I want you to learn
the tremendous lesson of how these men answer
verse 16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and
said to the king oh nebuchadnezzar we are
not careful to answer thee in this matter
there is an older translation which says we
have no need to answer thee in this
matter their answer had already been given they
had learned the truth and they were standing
by the truth these were truthful men and
so there is no need to answer you
know exactly our convictions and then they go
a bit further if it be so our
god whom we serve is able to deliver
us from the burning fiery furnace and he
will deliver us out of thine hand oh
king you know they were not only truthful
they were trustful these men were being severely
tested I have called this the determination of
the tested trio and in this test they
were trusting god but they went a bit
further they said in verse 16 but if
not be it known unto thee oh king
that we will not serve thy gods nor
worship the golden image which thou hast set
up you know they were faithful men these
men had truth in their souls and they
would stand by that truth they had a
trust in their hearts it was a trust
in the god who was able to deliver
there was a faithfulness a way down deep
in their spirits they would neither bend nor
budge and finally they wouldn't burn they neither
bend nor budge nor burn I wish we
could learn this I wish we would stop
compromising with god's truth there are so many
today and so many things in this book
doesn't seem to matter to them all that
would disturb somebody if I just said somebody
said to me once the way you preach
believers baptism to this great crowd you'll haunt
them well friend if I haunt you by
god's truth you'd be far better you never
were here you don't mean to tell me
that I would hide god's truth just to
keep you in that seat I had this
class for 20 years every Tuesday look at
it tonight in these days the American said
to me the other day how long have
you had the class?
20 years I said he said there's not
a film being made even God with the
wind would hold a crowd of almost 700
for 20 years every Tuesday neither were his
and it isn't my ability it's god's truth
I learned early on to preach god's truth
never to seek the people's smile never to
fear the people's throne I neither seek your
smile nor fear your throne I'm here to
teach god's word and by his grace I'll
stand by it and I know this that
if you're truthful and if you're trustful and
if you're faithful nobody gonna burn you god
whom you're honoring will honor you and there's
a great lesson to learn here friend you
never lose anything by being faithful to god
verse 19 then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury
and the form of his village was changed
against Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego therefore he spake
and commanded that they should heat the furnace
one seven times more than it was wont
to be heated and he commanded the most
mighty men that were in his army to
bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to cast
them into the burning fiery furnace then these
men were bound in their coats their hoses,
their hats and their other garments and were
cast into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace therefore because the king's commandment was urgent
and the furnace was exceeding hot the flame
of the fire slew those men that took
up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego you see sometimes
those that plan evil it turns upon themselves
and I'm sure this has been evident in
these last days that sometimes those who were
working diabolical things got burned themselves yes it
has always been so you know when the
devil cuts a rod it usually beats himself
and these three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
fell down bound into the midst of the
burning fiery furnace you know somebody came to
argue with me about this once you know
this is not just possible you know you
can't throw a man into the flames and
he'll not be burned you can't do it
and I told him a story and there's
a man here who knows the story very
well Stanley, Stanley's there somewhere and there was
a little negro fella came to my door
Stanley knows him very well Stanley Seyfried I'm
talking about and the little negro fella said
to me as he came to the door
you're Mr. Mullen I said that's right he
said you know I've enjoyed these tips of
yours come from the West Indies I said
come on in brother he belonged to the
brethren this little man quite a capable preacher
we had an afternoon together and tea together
and then he told me a story about
his brother he said you know my brother
went and joined a religious sect who gave
themselves to the devil he said you know
to be fully fledged in this sect you
had to shut yourself up in a tent
no food no water for three weeks and
you had to close your eyes and get
into a kind of a state where you
asked the devil to take your eyes and
your ears and your tongue and your hands
and your feet and every part of you
and then you were completely taken over by
the devil they built a huge fire outside
it had to be ten feet in width
and it had to be flaming into the
air and he said I went along on
the day my brother was being initiated as
one of the priests and he came out
of the tent stark naked a man possessed
as ever there was one walked straight to
the fire flings himself in said I was
sure I'd never see him again and in
fifteen minutes walks out not a blister on
him surely if the devil could do it
you would allow God to do it I
can tell you that the devil could do
things with your body you never dreamed about
you know there's a man in the scriptures
and he's possessed by the devil he'd wear
no clothes he'd lay out every night he
was in the tombs when they came to
him he'd just snap the feathers he'd cut
himself each night with stones you can see
him taking a piece of rock tearing it
down his face across his breast he never
dies you know nothing goes wrong with him
there's a little kid who's possessed with the
devil and many times the devil threw him
in the fire there he's never born many
times the devil's thrown in the river he
never drowns we don't know how much the
devil can do that's our trouble I think
that Dr. Barnhouse was probably one of the
greatest authorities on demonology and he said to
me once going down towards Stuart Harbour he
said Willie do you believe the devil touched
Job?
of course I do he said what happened
to him?
I said the devil just touched him and
at the next second from the crown of
his head to the soles of his feet
he was covered with these boils he said
it was a mighty touch wasn't it?
he said do you think the devil could
have come round the next day and touched
him and healed him?
yes he could you know oh some night
we'll take up demonology in all its stark
reality but we're not talking about demon power
tonight we're talking about God's power there God
saved them in the furnace you don't believe
in God do you?
you'd nearly believe what the devil can do
and you wouldn't believe what God can do
if I can tell you this what's the
story do you see?
verse 24 then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished
and rose up and hastened and stepped and
said unto his counsellors did not we cast
three men bound into the midst of the
fire?
they answered and said unto the king true
O king he answered and said lo I
see four men loose walking in the midst
of the fire and they have no heart
and the form of the fourth is like
the son of God you know that's a
tremendous statement please don't come round after the
meeting and ask me how he knew the
fourth was like the son of God because
I don't know unless this fourth person was
so majestic and so divinely expressly divine looking
there must be something that made them say
he's like the son of God but there's
no question at all that we'll fall there
you see I believe that if you're steadfast
and unmovable and you're going to obey God
rather than men and you're not worried about
what men say or think about you and
you're going to be standing for God in
this evil day I believe you know the
son of God will walk with you he'll
walk with you it's a great experience you
know I see the bride in the song
of Solomon and she's coming up out of
the wilderness for some reason she's been away
down in the wilderness and she's coming up
out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved
he's walking with her you remember the two
on the road to Emmaus now quick watch
me you know they were wrong the whole
way through these two oh they were true
followers of Christ but they took the wrong
turn that morning you know they're going from
Jerusalem to Emmaus they turned their back on
the city it was back there the morning
meeting was the disciples were meeting back there
they turned their back on the morning meeting
Sunday morning they turned their back if it's
the wrong turn you go in the wrong
way if you listen to them talking they're
saying the wrong thing if you watch their
thoughts they're thinking the wrong thing everything's wrong
friend if you love Christ even when you're
wrong He'll come and walk with you He
means to turn you back He'll walk with
you even when you're going wrong if you've
made a blunder don't forsake Him Son of
God will come and walk with you He
turned them back you know I'll tell you
this when you're coming up out of the
wilderness He'll walk with you when you're going
the wrong road He'll come and walk with
you and talk with you I'll tell you
this when you're in the furnace for help
He'll walk with you I'll tell you this
if you ever have to go into the
valley of the shadow you'll not go alone
you know He'll walk with you wonderful thing
this you know I came here nearly 20
years ago and the first message I ever
preached on that Sunday morning just a few
months ago I was preaching here and I
said I came here 20 years ago I
preached the message first Sunday morning you see
Sam Best was sitting down there he said
listen you what was it?
he says it was the Lord at your
elbow because these old weekends of ours have
got great memories you know and he would
like to say that was the message the
Lord at your elbow the Lord is at
hand it means the Lord is at my
right hand He's just beside you friend let's
get the hold of this He'll be beside
you the whole way through He'll walk with
you don't you be afraid to take your
stand you'll not be on your own walk
with you I'll tell you this He'll bless
you wouldn't you see this have a look
at this verse 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near
to the mouth of the burning fire of
Eternus and spake and said Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
ye servants of the Most High God come
forth and come hither Then Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego came forth of the midst of the
fire and the princes, governors, and captains and
the kings, counsellors being gathered together saw these
men upon whose bodies the fire had no
power neither was the hair of their heads
changed neither were their coats changed nor the
smell of fire had passed from their Oh
what a God we are God's able to
deliver you, you know with no mistakes about
it you just take your stand for God
and be steadfast and unmovable and accept His
truth and trust His power and be faithful
even as it must be unto death and
I'll tell you God will be with you
more can you want my God is with
you and God is for you I would
like to know who can be against you
Here's what Nebuchadnezzar said Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and
said Blessed be the God of Shadrach I
like that Blessed be the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego who hath sent His angel
and delivered His servants and trusted in Him
and hath changed the king's work and here's
the wee bit and yielded their bodies you
see, if we are going to be any
good for God this is where the surrender
really begins, you know Paul said to the
Romans I beseech you by the mercies of
God that ye present your bodies living sacrifice
it's where it begins we've got to give
our bodies to the Lord not of what
it costs you know it's a wonderful thing
in these days when you give your body
to the Lord I don't believe that anybody
can shoot you when God's between you and
them you know that I don't agree with
everything that Mr. Paisley says and he knows
that too but he's a dear soul, you
know I think he's misrepresented at times he
comes to see me when he's got little
problems he arrives not so very long ago
when he comes to see me he comes
about sometimes one o'clock in the morning
and I assure you I don't like him
coming to our house at one o'clock
in the morning it's enough to get you
grew up, you know but he comes trotting
in he puts the big feet up and
they're really big feet alright and he stayed
there and we talked about things oh it
must have been well after two o'clock
and you know when you're coming out onto
these sort of empty streets at two o
'clock in the morning and your personality like
Paisley I said to him, you know what's
going to happen to you one of these
days you're going to get shocked running about
in the middle of the night he says,
you know I put my life into God's
hands a long time ago and I believe
that I'm immortal till my work is done
that's what he believes and I believe that
this is true that if you've given your
life to the Lord and you've put your
hands and your feet and every part of
you into his care I don't think that
anything will happen to you he is in
command I'm sure of it wish we could
live like this you don't need tablets at
night you know you just go to sleep
oh let's learn to trust God properly not
to be siddling at us my let's really
do it here's what the king said therefore
I make a decree that every people, nation,
language which speak anything amiss against the God
of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego shall be cut
in pieces and their houses shall be made
a dunghill because there is no other God
that can deliver us to this thought if
you go right down the king's speech you'll
see that he talks about the most high
God that he talks about their own God
that he talks about the God of Shadrach
friend I think this is just the basis
upon which we can go on when we
get back after the holiday somebody asked me
once where's Daniel in all this?
there's no Daniel here well you see when
Daniel answered the king's query and he was
made the first president of this vast empire
and his three friends were made leaders in
the empire it's quite possible that his presidential
job took him away from Babylon to some
other part of the empire and he wasn't
there at that particular time that's just Harvard
being a guess you can be perfectly sure
if Daniel had been there there would have
been four men not die and so I
want to thank you once again and if
the Lord will see you on the first
Tuesday in August pray for me I'm going
to have meetings at Great Victoria Street on
some Sundays and I would like to state
this out clearly just now because somebody phoned
me just this day and said I hear
you're going to Great Victoria Street for some
Sundays in July I said yes and he
said I heard a little whisper that you're
gone as a pastor well it must have
been the devil that whispered to you now
in case this noises abroad when I'm not
here to correct it take it categorically from
me just now that I am not going
to Great Victoria Street and I will not
be going you got that?
they haven't asked me and if they do
I won't be going alright you've got it
cleared up now right we're singing 685 firmly
stand for God in the world's mud strife
though the bleak winds roar and the waves
beat high tis the rock alone give us
strength and life when the hosts of sin
are nigh 685 please firmly
stand for God in the world's mud firmly
stand for God with the most pure with
the firmly
stand for God it will serve you best
though we break and fall it is for
the best it is the rock alone give
us peace and rest when the hosts of
sin are nigh dear
Lord part us in my fear