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We can see that, the casting of these three faithful servants of God into the furnace as ordered by Nebuchadnezzar was a capital punishment to whosoever who could not obey to worship the golden image. Instead of mitigating their punishment, he ordered it to be heightened, that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was want to be heated for other malefactors or evil doers, which, though it would make their deaths more grievous, but rather dispatch them sooner upon their crime as seven times more terrible or serious that the others, and so made their death more humiliating. But God brought to himself out of this foolish instance of the tyrant’s rage. He gives glory to the God of Israel as a God able and ready to protect his worshippers as recorded in the text.

The King does himself acknowledge and adore Him and thinks it is fit that He should be acknowledged and adored by all. God can extort confessions of His blessedness even from those that have been ready to curse Him to His face. He gives Him the glory of his power, that he was able to protect his servants or worshipers against the most mighty and hateful enemies. There is no other god that can deliver after this sort.

Acts 5: 33-35: “When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took council to slay them. Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.”

Verse 38 – 39. And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought. But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”

We can see that we are his witnesses, appointed by him to publish the gospel to the world and if we should be silent, we should betray a trust, and be false to it when a cause is trying; witnesses of all men ought not to be silenced by any challenge whatsoever. For the issue of the cause depends on our testimony, secondly by the spirit of God; we should be witnesses competent ones and whose testimony is sufficient before any human judicature but this is not all; the Holy Ghost is witness, a witness from heaven for God hath given his gifts and graces to those that obey Christ. Therefore we must preach in his name because for this end, the Holy Ghost is given us whose operations we cannot stifle.

2 Timothy 1: 7-8.”For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God”. Here Paul is warning Timothy that his teaching will come under attack as men desert the truth for ear itching words.

God has therefore armed us against the spirit of fear by often bidding us fear not. We should not fear the face of man or danger we may meet with in the way of our duty, because God has delivered us from the spirit of fear and has given us the spirit of power and of love and of sound mind and the spirit of courage and resolution to encounter difficulties and dangers. We understand that the spirit of love to God will always make us endure and set us above the fear of man or Satan himself, and all the harm that a man can do us. It is the spirit of power, for we speak in Jesus name who has all power, both in heaven and in the world and it is the spirit of love for love to God and the souls of men, and it is the spirit of sound mind, for they speak the words of truth and soberness. All who follow Christ must expect afflictions and persecutions for the sake of the gospel, and after overcoming these, it is God to be glorified and given honour and at the same time be known by the whole world that God whom we serve is the true God who is only to be worshipped, and this can only be achieved if we are courageous and overcome all challenges we may meet on our journey to the coming Kingdom.