✝️ Daniel 3:17 | Pattern Of Radical Devotion

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Happy Thursday, everyone!

Today (and every Thursday), we’re connecting dots between our memory verse and other parts of Scripture!

In today’s email…

• ✝️ The pattern of radical devotion

• 💬 Sharing your faith in the midst of trials

• 🔦 Community spotlight

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MEMORIZE 🧠 

If this be so, our ___ whom we _____ __ __ to ______ __  from the _______ ____ ______, and he will ______ __ out of ____ ____, _ ____.

Daniel 3:17

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CONTEXT 📕 

Let’s connect some dots.

Daniel’s fiery furnace isn’t just a dramatic rescue that stands on its own.

Far from it!

This moment looks back, echoing moments of divine intervention in the life of the Israelites (the exodus from Egypt, the battle of Jericho, and Gideon's Victory over the Midianites to name a few).

But it also points forward to something greater.

While it’s not explicitly stated, many see this as a pre‑incarnate vision of Jesus - God with us in the midst of trial.

And regardless of whether or not it was Jesus, the appearance of that mysterious “fourth man”, who looked “like a son of the gods” (Daniel 3:25) is undeniably a display of God’s power to save.

The Cross and the Furnace

Just as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were punished for defying King Nebuchadnezzar, we deserve punishment for the ways in which we sin against the God of the universe.

BUT…there’s something called amazing grace.

The radical devotion that led the three men into the furnace is the same pattern that led Jesus to the cross.

Just as God saved Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from physical death in the furnace, Jesus has rescued us from spiritual death.

Jesus lived a perfect life, perfectly obedient to the Father.

Yet, he chose to enter the ultimate "furnace" — bearing God's wrath on the cross — to save us from the punishment we deserve for our own sin.

All so that we could be in relationship with God again.

Jesus made it possible for man and God to dwell together again.

The goodness of the Garden, restored.

APPLY AND RESPOND 🏃‍♂️ 

What was the fruit of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego’s radical devotion?

They chose faithfulness over safety, and it caused King Nebuchadnezzar to bless God!

When we live with radical devotion in the midst of a trial or “furnace” (even when it doesn’t make sense to the outside world), people notice.

This week, let your faithfulness become a testimony:

• 🔥 Identify a furnace: It could be something like financial pressure, relational conflict at work, or spiritual doubt.

• ✝️ Invite Jesus in: Jesus, like You stood with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, stand with me now in this furnace. Help me sense your nearness and trust you with my whole self.

• 🗣️ Share your story: In the midst of your furnace, be open to sharing the reason for your hope with a friend who doesn’t know Jesus.

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ANSWER KEY ✅ 

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.

Daniel 3:17