Read the passage Daniel 3
1) Truth is staggering and extremely challenging, undeniably effectual.
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, 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.
2) Truth overrules natural order.
Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
3) Truth awakens the conscience and lost men can begin to see.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
4) Observers of truth get a God of power lesson.
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and 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.27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
5) Truth makes an indelible impression on the heart of the unbelieving.
Man is in a position to believe and trust God in salvation (through trusting Jesus in the New Testatment) or to perish in his lostness even though he was exposed to the truth.
6) Trusting in God and God’s truth is seen as the only way to live.
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
7) A swift change presents new opportunities to further know God.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing 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 after this sort.
God needs no decree from men. Certainly God’s sovereignty was acknowledged. This does not equate with Biblical conversion or salvation.
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