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Sunday School Lesson – Sunday January 14, 2018 A Bold Faith

To follow along, visit your local Christian bookstore, and ask for the Bible Expositor and Illuminator

Time:  about 587 B.C. – Place:  Babylon

Golden Text:  Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God: (Daniel 3:28).

Introduction

Daniel (Belteshazzar), Hananiah (Shadrach), Mishael (Meshach) and Azariah (Abednego) were of the children of Judah who were taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar.  They were taken from their home as teenagers and were given pagan names to represent the different gods the Babylonians were worshiping. Although these teenagers were in a strange land they didn’t forget who the real God they were worshiping and they purposed in their hearts they would not serve any other god other than the God of Creation. They didn’t allow fear to make them bow and worship a strange god, they stood up for who they believed in and because of their sincere faith God delivered them from the fiery furnace. Read More

God Will Deliver

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, O king (Daniel 3:17).

 The three Hebrew boys were thrown into a fiery furnace because they wouldn’t bow and worship the golden image. Although they were thrown in the furnace, they didn’t burn, the Lord met them there in the furnace. Children of God there will be times you may feel as though you have been thrown into a fiery furnace and the heat is continually excelling. Read More

Time of Testing

Then Jesus returned from the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for 40 days to be tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, He was hungry. The Devil said to Him, “If  You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread – Luke 4:1-3).

Prior to Jesus’ temptation, He was baptized by John, and as He was being baptized, the Holy Ghost (Spirit) descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. Sometimes we think or feel that if the Holy Spirit leads us, it will always be “beside the still waters”, but that is not necessarily true, that’s our thoughts and not God’s. Read More