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Unbound: How Three Men's Faith Transformed a Kingdom
The fiery furnace story from Daniel 3 provides powerful insights on maintaining unwavering faith even in life's most challenging trials.
• Pastor Lee and guests Daniel Raynor and Frankie Brown discuss Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego's bold stance against King Nebuchadnezzar
• The "even if" mentality represents perhaps the boldest statement of faith in scripture
• When anger arises, pausing gives the Holy Spirit time to work within us
• Being bound in trials forces us to let God do the fighting for us
• Jesus Christ appears as the fourth man in the fire, demonstrating His presence in our darkest moments
• Those who experience God's deliverance "don't look like what they went through"
• Our willingness to face difficult situations rather than run from them can lead to transformation that impacts generations
• The king's heart was changed because three young men were willing to walk through fire rather than compromise
If you're going through a fiery furnace type trial in your life, keep pressing forward. God is in the midst of it and wants to rescue you. Be willing to walk in obedience and freedom, trusting that He will remove what has you bound.
What's going on everybody? This is Pastor Lee. Welcome to Beyond. Sunday, I'm your host and I pastor Christ Family Outreach Church, located in Amelia, virginia, and today at the table, I got two very special guests with me. You may have heard them both on the podcast before, but this is the very, very first time ever that we've all three sat down at the table together to record an episode here at the table with me today are my brothers in Christ, daniel Rayner and Frankie Brown. Daniel, how are you doing, my brother?
Speaker 2:Blessed brother, just honored to be here. Praise God and just love being with you guys, amen.
Speaker 1:Amen and Frankie. How are you doing today, brother? Hey, I'm just as blessed, bro, Amen.
Speaker 1:I'm excited to have y'all at the table, appreciate both of y'all coming in. I know your schedules are busy but thank you so much for coming, fellas. I'm excited about this episode because I was thinking about the fiery furnace two or three weeks ago and while I was thinking about it, the Holy Spirit just kind of deposited this thing inside my life about how cool it would be to have three people around the table. This is the thought that was just kind of put in me by the Lord just working and ministering to me how cool it would be to have three people around the table talking about the fiery furnace. As there was three men bound up in the fiery furnace and we know Christ is there the fourth one in the fire, just like Christ is in this room with us today, the fourth one here as well. Amen.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 1:So I'm really excited about it. Just to very quickly set the table before we get going into the Word of God, king Nebuchadnezzar is upset because Shadrach, meshach and Abednego will not bow down and worship the golden image that he had made. And that brings us to the meeting where the king gives the three young men one more chance to bow down to the image. And that's where we're going to pick up today. In scripture, my friends, if you have your Bibles, go ahead and open them to Daniel, chapter 3, and we're going to begin there.
Speaker 1:Daniel 3, beginning with the 16th verse, says this Shadrach, meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, o king. But if not, be it known to you, o king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up. So, fellas, where are you guys at with that? Right there here the king. He's made this image, this golden image. They've got to bow down and worship it. They're not? So the king says I'm going to throw you in the fire. Where are y'all at with that?
Speaker 2:Man not. So the king says I'm going to throw you in the fire when y'all at with that man, two words come to mind is sold out, bro, they're sold out to God here, man. Amen. Their faith is amazing. Right here, man, they just no matter what they go through, they're trusting their Lord and Savior to provide for them.
Speaker 1:This is another example, right, Brother Daniel, of an Old Testament story that is relevant right here in New Testament living. And that's what the Old Testament is. You know, I said this past Sunday at church the only difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament is Jesus Christ showed up on the scene. Right, we know that Jesus was with God from the very beginning. We see that in Scripture. But Jesus Christ shows up on the scene, and so these stories that we're reading in the Old Testament, we're to use them today in New Testament living.
Speaker 3:I love it because they were so prepared for this day. When this happened, man, it wasn't the first time that these guys were like, well, what if this happens? What if no, they were prepared for this day and they were ready to die. And their actions showed that they were ready for it.
Speaker 1:So when you said that, this is what hit my spirit this won't the first time that they face fire. I love that. Now, maybe a physical fire, right, but this won't the first time these boys face fire. Amen, bro.
Speaker 3:They seen the heat before, that's right, they felt the heat before right and they had that to the end mentality on this one right here and it shows, bro, it's powerful Life or death, life or death. I think this is honestly for me, my own opinion, but I believe this is the boldest statement I've ever seen in scripture, what it just says straight up, like we will not worship any other god. It's powerful, bro. It's that even if mentality any other guy.
Speaker 1:It's powerful, bro, it's a even if mentality. Yeah, yeah, even if the point that I get when I read this particular part of the passage is these guys aren't running around, stressed out, you know, they're not fanatically running around trying to figure out how they're going to escape the presence of the king, how they're going to get outside of what the king wants to do to punish them. They're not even worried. You know what I'm saying. They're not even worried. This is how it is. Our God is able to deliver us, but if this is not what he wants to do you know what I mean Our God can do this, but if this isn't what he chooses to do, it's okay.
Speaker 1:Like, can we just take a minute, fellas? Can we just take a minute and talk about the but-if-not moment? Because the three men make it very clear that even if God doesn't deliver them from this trial, god is still God. God is still God and they will not bow down to anyone else. And maybe there's some people out there, some listeners out there right now, that are going through some things and they're not bow down to anyone else. And maybe there's some people out there, some listeners out there right now, that are going through some things and they're just wondering, like, why God hasn't healed them, or why God hasn't done this, or why hasn't God rescued me in this way and maybe God is rescuing them. They're just looking for the rescue boat. They're looking for the lifeboat on the wrong side of the ship.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had a question when I was thinking about this was like what would it take to get me to worship another guy?
Speaker 2:That was just something that kind of hit me. What about you D? That's powerful man. I'm thinking the whole time you're talking. I hope I'm there. I hope I'm in that spot, bro, because I mean, that's strong, you know's strong. When they said anything, it don't matter, it don't matter. It is and that's what we're all striving for. I feel like, as Christians, as followers of Jesus, is denying ourselves. Picking up our cross and following him.
Speaker 1:To be at that point to say, even if he don't deliver us, man oh my goodness, man, notice that these guys, they're not trying to talk their way out of this thing. No, they say look, we're giving this to God and if God wants to deliver us, he will. But if this isn't what God chooses to do right here, I mean, you talk about fully relying on the Father. Moving on, daniel, chapter 3, 19 and 20 says this Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, meshach and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated and he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, meshach and Abednego and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. So, fellas, I'd like to point out something here.
Speaker 1:Prior to this, the king had no problems with these three young men. As a matter of fact, just as a reference, if you're taking notes, daniel, chapter 2, verse 49, tells us that they were in charge over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But when the king did not get his way, the Bible says his face changed against them and then he orders the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual. So to begin with, the king's got no beef with these guys. He's got no problems with them until they don't do what he wants them to do. So I'd like to point this part of it out.
Speaker 1:When we make it about us, how quickly we can miss the mark. The king's made it about him. He had everything going on for him as far as his kingdom is concerned, as far as the worldly piece of it we know that he's going to get the spiritual piece right at the end of this but as far as this goes the finances, the clout he's got everything going for him. But yet he makes it about him, he misses the mark. And how quickly we can get offended, just like this king did, when we make it about us and it doesn't go our way.
Speaker 2:It's like brother Frankie put this morning in devotional man talking about anger. Anger got the best of him here too, and if we don't keep our anger in check, man and I liked the way Frankie pointed out what the Holy Spirit led him this morning is about pausing in the midst of anger. That's so good, man. Just when you get angry in a situation because he did which you know he was dealing with pride there I feel like as well, like you're going to worship me, you're going to do what I want you to do, and then when that didn't happen and he reached a point of anger, he spiraled out of control. Yeah, and that's what we do when we miss the mark, you know, of anger the.
Speaker 3:Holy Spirit hit me this morning. He was like the pause is the antidote to anger or rage. Yeah yeah, antidote to anger or rage. Yeah yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. And sometimes you just gotta see love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, see love. Just gotta say love. Right, it's like what we were talking about at church when I saw you up there this morning. Sometimes you just gotta say love. You know, you just gotta take that break, you gotta take that pause.
Speaker 1:I think when we take that pause, it gives the Holy Spirit time to readjust what we've messed up. I know when, when my two boys were younger, I would walk into the playroom and it could be a hot mess and I'm like I just cleaned that up. You know what I'm saying Like I just cleaned that up. I wonder how many times the Holy Spirit on the inside of us says I just cleaned that up. You know, I just we just worked on that, lee, we just worked on that, and you done made a mess out of this room again. I just cleaned that up. So, yeah, that's a really great point, brothers, that there's times in life where we just gotta hit the pause button and just let God do some work on the inside of us before we make it even dirtier than what it already was. We make it even dirtier than what it already was.
Speaker 1:Daniel, chapter 3, 21, says this. Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats and their other garments and they were thrown into the burning, fiery furnace. Because the king's order was urgent and the furnace overheated. The flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, meshach and Abednego. And these three men, shadrach, meshach and Abednego, fell bound into the burning, fiery furnace.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine what they were thinking as they're being tied up? Like all right, god, this is it. This is that. Even if moment, this is it, we're trusting you to work, but if you don't, we know that you are still going to finish this. You're still going to finish this. So they get bound up, the doors open to the furnace. I mean, man, I just imagine this door big enough to push three guys in opening up. You know what I mean. Three guys in opening up, you know what I mean. And flames so hot that they come out and kill who's pushing them in, but yet they're still living. They're still living. So this door opens, this fire is kicking out. They're getting ready to be thrown in together. What's y'all's take on that?
Speaker 2:Man, what I think about, too, is the bound part. You know how many times we get bound in this life with addictions and the chains that bind us, any kind of addictions and stuff that bound us, so they're going into the fiery furnace. And we can be like that too as well. When we're living this life without Jesus and bound by chains, it's basically like we're in a fiery furnace as well, but they're physically in something that's about to take their life, plus they're bound. I mean, I just think that's amazing, man, what they're actually going through at this moment. Yeah, and they're still like my God got this.
Speaker 1:What I see in that too. By being bound up, you can't fight. You really got to let God do the fighting for you. Yes, you know they are bound up and they're thrown in and there's no kicking, there's no punching. You know they're just being thrown in there and they're letting God do the fighting for them. And of course, we know Jesus shows up in the room. You know he shows up in the furnace man.
Speaker 3:When I was reading this to prepare, I just had this whole. The Holy Spirit gave me a whole new perspective on this. I'm looking at it from Nebuchadnezzar's point of view too. I'm even thinking about that. He picked his best men to tie these guys up, so know, so he's getting ready to to, to lose some of his best men to this. You know, and I'm I'm I just had a perspective on Nebuchadnezzar that I hadn't, I hadn't before, as he's sitting back watching all this unfold.
Speaker 1:You know, that's really good Cause the King back then would have only let the people he trusted most around him with with weapons and things like that in his, in his inner court. So absolutely, he had trust in those guys right there. This is his best man and you're right, he's getting ready to lose some. Getting ready to lose some, yeah, yeah. Daniel, chapter 3, moving on with the 24th verse, says Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors Did we not cast three men bound into the fire? And they answered and said to the king true, o king. He answered and said but I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire and they are not hurt. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods. And I'm just going to say this jesus christ met them in their fiery trial matthew 18 20 says, for where two or three are gathered in my name.
Speaker 2:There I am among them and that's so powerful. Right there he's walking with them because they put all their trust and faith in jesus to be with them, to deliver them through what they were going through, and he's there with them right powerful man right there, and they, they trusted that god was going to deliver and oh, he did, man.
Speaker 3:I was reading in the Psalms this morning, psalms 4-4. I'm going to read it to you. It says be angry and do not sin, reflect in your heart while on your bed and be silent. I'm going to just tell you what man. When Jesus Christ shows up in the fire, I oftentimes believe he shows up when we're silent, because I believe a lot of times it's when we're angry and we willfully choose to sin that we kind of miss seeing the fourth man show up. But when we're silent, man, we give God the opportunity to show up on the scene and start doing some things that we just don't have the power to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or even prevent ourselves from doing it, kind of like what you said earlier what you and D were saying, kind of when you, when you just be still hit, to hit the pause button. Yeah, isaiah 41, 10,. God says fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand, and I love that because it just reminds us that we don't have to fear. Why? Because God's with us. We don't have to be dismayed. Why? Because he's our God. He will strengthen us, he's going to help us and he's going to uphold us with his righteous right hand. You can't go wrong with that. Whether you're in the furnace or out the furnace, god's there.
Speaker 2:And, brother Frankie, when you mentioned being silent, I feel like the Lord led me to Exodus 14, 13 and 14. It says, and Moses said to the people Fear not. Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord which he will work for you today. Amen. That's good For the Egyptians. Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent.
Speaker 1:Amen, it's got to be still. Yeah, got to be silent.
Speaker 2:Just be silent. It says the Lord will fight for you and you have only to be silent.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's like and we didn't even plan this prior to the podcast but I feel like that's like a recurring theme that's going on here throughout all this text. You know just being still, just being silent, letting God do the fight, let God do the battle, let him do that fighting and seeing him on the scene.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:So maybe today, the listener, if you feel like you're bound up by something, man, just be still be silent. Let God fight for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because right here in the scriptures it said that when the fourth man showed up, nobody was tied up anymore. Chain breaker and we know the best man tied him up. You know they did what the king told him to do, but this king that showed up in the scene in the fire with them and ain't nobody bound, no, Hallelujah.
Speaker 1:Look, man, I got a little confession to make. I was not ever a Boy Scout, right, and I do not know how to tie knots. So when we go camping or we go places, you know, I got to look for another man. Be like hey, man, you know how to tie a good knot, that's so embarrassing Like my best knot bro is like them. Granny. Knots always work for me Like tying shoes. What do they say? Like around the heel and through the hole or whatever.
Speaker 2:I don't know about all that, that's my type of knot man.
Speaker 1:So you know, I think about how these guys tied them up with their best knot had to have when they bound them up. Whatever they bound them up with, they did it at their best strength, with purpose. They bound them up with purpose and I want to encourage the listeners out there. If you feel bound up like maybe you can't even breathe, I just want to let you know that Jesus Christ can untie any knot and he can break any chain.
Speaker 1:You ever had a knot in your shoelace that you just can't get undone and it's just tight, tight, tight. And your fingernails are trying to work this thing out and you're just trying to, like, dig and pick at this knot because you pulled the wrong shoelace at the wrong time and, instead of loosening it, it winched it. It just got it tight and it's difficult to get it. And I just want to say, if you feel like you've tied yourself up into a situation in life, I get that, but I want to encourage you out there, if you're listening right now, in this moment, I want to let you know that Jesus Christ can untie any situation that you've got yourself wrapped up in.
Speaker 3:Yes, amen.
Speaker 1:Daniel, chapter 3, 26, says Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace. He declared Shadrach, meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, meshach and Abednego came out from the fire and the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed and no smell of fire had come upon them. Brothers, I love this part. The Bible said that the fire had no power over them. What do y'all think about that?
Speaker 2:Man, I feel like it. Just they don't look like what they went through. That's good, bro. Say it again, brother. Yeah, they don't look like what they've went through. Yeah, you know, when Jesus cleans you up, that's the thing, man. When you go to God, you don't have to be cleaned up. I've always felt like the enemy will try to destroy people because they say you ain't good enough to go to God, you got too much going on, you got too many addictions. Well, how about just go to God with them addictions?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and let God clean you up. Let God clean that up, and that's what?
Speaker 3:I just feel like them guys they don't look like what you've been through D you too, Frank.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I received that brother Praise.
Speaker 1:God, amen, brother, in Jesus' name, amen, amen. I love the fact that the king's got to do a little humble party right here. He got to humble himself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, humility, especially when he finally says service of the Most High God. Yeah, so he acknowledges the Father now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because prior to this fiery furnace ordeal, he was wanting him to bow down to his golden image that he had made. That's right, but now he is referencing the Most High God as who. He needs to be called the Most High God. Most high God as who? He needs to be called the most high God and I think, I think that that's powerful. Yes, and you know he wants to bring them out and have conversation with them. Like hey what was going on in there, you know, by the fourth man?
Speaker 1:right, yeah, yeah, the Bible. The Bible doesn't give us that part of of history, it doesn't give us that part of the conversation. But, man, I'd love to just been like a flower on the wall in the palace that day to hear what that conversation piece actually further went into. That's right. You're right, brother Frankie, tell me about that fourth man that was in there with y'all, yeah, what's up with him, like y'all know him.
Speaker 3:What was he saying? What did he tell you guys?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you know the Father is rewarding you for your faith. I mean, what went on in there? That's powerful.
Speaker 3:I was going to ask you, Pastor Lee, what kind of similarity do you see with the furnace here, and even Moses with the burning bush? You know how it wasn't consumed. Is there anything that kind of hits you when you see that?
Speaker 1:Well, to me the burning bush wasn't consumed Like, is there anything? That kind of hits you when you see that? Well, to me, the burning bush wasn't consumed and the three young Hebrew boys weren't consumed because God was in the midst of it.
Speaker 3:Amen bro.
Speaker 1:And I just want to say, when God is in the midst of something, if the world tries to put pressure on it or heat on it to destroy it, god can still refine it so good. Or heat on it to destroy it, god can still refine it, and just like when fire refines and it's going to get impurities out and make something better. That's really what we see happening right here in the fiery furnace. It changes the king's heart. This fire that the king set for destruction is now changing the king's heart. Think about that.
Speaker 1:The king's own trap comes around to humble him. It was the king's trap that God used. You know what I mean. It was the king's trap that God decided to use. And what I love about it is is that Shadrach, meshach and Abednego they didn't fall for it. The trap didn't concern them. That's right. It didn't scare them. They're like well, hey, if this is the tactic that you're going to do, if this is the path that you're going to go, if this is the way that you're going to put us on, whatever God can deliver us from this, but even if not, we're not bowing down to that, you know, because God is still, at the end of it, going to have victory here.
Speaker 3:Amen bro.
Speaker 1:And Brother D coming inside to record this podcast you share with me, like how you were seeing, how this fiery furnace is much like today's culture, us With believers in it.
Speaker 2:You want to share that with me, yeah, us, with believers in it. You want to share that, what you're sharing with me. It kind of made me think about you know where. You got three guys here in a fire and Jesus with them, and I'd already mentioned Matthew 18, 20. And it kind of reminds us three here together. Jesus is here with us and it's almost like we're in a fire because what we're talking about the world don't appreciate, the world don't accept what we're talking about. You know, people can be killed in some countries for what we talk about. So I just think it's amazing how God laid this on your heart and had us three together, knowing he would be with us. But it kind of reminds me of the whole story in Daniel 2, chapter 3. So that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:I just want to encourage the listeners if you're going through a fiery furnace type trial in your life, keep pressing, don't give up at all, because God is in the midst of it and all you got to do is understand that he wants to rescue you. But you got to be willing to be obedient, to do whatever it is he's calling you to do. He will remove the chains, he will take off what has you bound up. But you got to be willing to walk in freedom. And I'm just going to say that that's what these three, these three fellows, were willing to do Shadrach, meshach and Abednego. They were willing to walk in freedom. They understood that they weren't going to find that path of victory running around scrambling like a chicken with his head cut off. They knew that the only way to freedom is to have full obedience and trust and rely on God.
Speaker 3:Trust in God can lead to miracles, and I know it's a lot of people especially, I know and I'm sure you guys know some as well they're counting on a miracle, either for themselves or for a family member or for a trusted friend. You know, and so I pray that this would encourage the listeners in Daniel, chapter three, read it in your own spare time and just see how, um, how the trust that the Shadrach, meshach and Abednego had in their God, and how it led to a miracle of them being saved. Not only were they saved, but also this King um gives God glory, and that's a miracle in and of itself, right there as well, absolutely A man who wanted all of the attention to himself.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. A man who wanted all of the attention to himself is now saying no, no, no, no. We're giving this to God.
Speaker 3:And he even rewards them too. Yeah, he rewards them for their faithfulness. Man, that's mind-blowing. Amen it really is.
Speaker 2:God's servants were delivered. They trusted in God, they set aside the king's commands and they yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any God except their own God. So you got a lot of things happening right there, and that's what led me to Matthew 16, 24, where and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any God except you know, our God. So then Jesus told his his disciples if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. They're yielding up their bodies, just like we do each day, trying to die to self. Yeah and um and yeah. When you mentioned brother frankie about um trusted in him, it brings me back to psalm 37, where trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. That's good and that's what they're doing.
Speaker 1:I love that, bro. Yeah, amen, yeah, reread that one more time.
Speaker 2:It says trust in the Lord and do good, Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Speaker 1:That's so good, I appreciate that. Amen, bro, praise God, it's so good.
Speaker 2:I appreciate it, praise God, it is great and, as you mentioned too about Nebuchadnezzar, he had a change of heart. When he makes that decree, it reminds me of 2 Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
Speaker 3:The old has passed away.
Speaker 2:Behold, the new has come. He went from all the pride to humility.
Speaker 3:The new is there. The new is there. The new is there. That's the refiner's fire right?
Speaker 1:Yes, Think about this, brothers, If those three men, young men, weren't willing to go through the fire. The king's heart never changes.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:If the king's heart never changes, there's a kingdom, there's a whole province, an entire province that keeps being led the wrong way. Not only does that entire province continue to get led the wrong way, but everybody else that that decree went out to would have continued to be led the wrong way.
Speaker 3:Amen.
Speaker 1:So all of this has changed, generations changed.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Generational curse is broken because three young men were willing to not run from the fire, but willing to go walk through it. Amen, bro, in the name of God, yes, and trust in the Lord.
Speaker 3:I even reasoned at the end of this chapter that even their death would have had just as much of a significant impact as them following and trust too, whether he saved them or not. I believe that this would have made a statement because the King and the rest of the people would be like who are these three men that was willing to lay down their life and sacrifice it and not bow down? That's going to get talked about too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but if they, if they would have ran, it would have been the normal thing to do. In the eyes of the world, running is a normal thing and I'm just going to say, I'm going to say this in love, we got too many Christians that are running from what God called them into simply because they're getting uncomfortable, simply because the heat, the thermostat, got turned up. But that's why you see Christians that you've known them for years and years and years, but their faith never looks like it's grown because, quite frankly, it's not. Amen, because they don't want to let the thermostat get turned up. You know they don't want the spiritual intensity to get cranked up and so, look, if you just want it set on that temperature, that degree, then that's where you're going to remain. But the Bible says we're to go from faith to faith and glory to glory. So you know we go, we go, go through some things in order to get to those levels, amen. We're going to go through some things and so, again, it would have been normal to turn around and run like crazy. But they didn't do that and because they didn't, their world where they live got changed and we're still talking about it in 2025.
Speaker 1:Here in Amelia, virginia. That's powerful. That's powerful. I mean, we're still talking about it. So to the listeners, what's God trying to do in your life that, thousands from years from now, if the Lord tarries in his coming, I particularly don't think it's going to tarry that long, but if he did, hundreds of years from now, whatever, it's going to be five years from now, five months from now, five weeks from now, what's God doing in your life that five weeks, months, years, whatever from now people are going to be able to turn back and look and say I'm talking about that because that was such a powerful testimony and it changed them and God used it to change me. What's God trying to do in your life to not just open your eyes, but open everybody else's eyes as well? Brother Frankie, you want to pray for us, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Father, I just thank you for this message today. I thank you for the fire man. I thank you, God, that you trust us enough to put us in the fire, God, and crank it up. I thank you that you crank it up, sometimes three, four, five, seven times hotter, because you know what it takes to really melt those impurities that's in our lives, God, and if we're being honest from a human perspective, Lord, we don't want anything to do with it. But, Lord, I pray today that a rising will come into the hearts of your faithful and that they will be like God, we're not running anymore.
Speaker 3:I pray for the person that is running right now, God, that we pray for the person that's running right now, God, that they would rise up to the challenge, Lord, God, that they would put their trust in you, that they would wait in the midst of chaos, in the midst of destruction, in the midst of chaos, in the midst of destruction, in the midst of addiction. God, that they would wait. And in the middle of their wait, they will see the fourth man show up, Lord, we love it when the fourth man shows up, because when you show up, Lord, things change. When you show up, Lord, lives get changed, God Lives get altered. I pray that you would do that for each and every listener today that's willing God to say, man, put me in the fire. I'm willing to trust you and I'm not going to bow down to any other God but the Lord Jesus Christ himself. We ask all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen Brothers, I appreciate y'all being on here with me. Lord, I look forward to doing it again, and until next time on Beyond Sunday, continue to seek God with all your heart and even if he calls you into the furnace, know that he is going to be there.
