Daniel 3: Walking through the fire with Jesus
Taken from the Barn45 July 9 video Facebook post by Joy:
LOVE:
The ropes in the fire ~DANIEL~
***The enemy’s greatest mission in your life is for you to believe:
1. God doesn’t love you
OR/AND
His love isn’t enough (GARDEN!!!!)
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Most don’t believe they’re loved
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Love deprivation= LIE
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LOVE=A Legitimate need often found by illegitimate means
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“LOVE IS LOVE” • lie
“LOVED BY LOVE” •true
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Satan comes as an Angel of light— disguised in COUNTERFEIT LOVE!
T H E R E A S O N
we don’t fully receive Gods love:
-> satans lie (garden)
“Gods not enough.”
And then we ….
become obsessed with trying to get it from somewhere /someone else.
Love isn’t BASED on me, it’s simply PLACED on me.
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Shadrach, meshak & abednego KNEW their
I D E N T I T Y!
N A M E D after false gods.
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Given a Counterfeit Identity by attaching to false- gods of the world :(
Isaiah 49:1
“isten to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! —The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me BY name.
You’re a MIRACLE !!!!
(Million tiny miracles)
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STORY from Dan 3:
Daniel 3:16-18:
👉 “We do NOT DEFEND OURSELVES before you in this matter.
(A person who KNOWS they’re loved-won’t defend themselves. )
(God is my defender!)
If we’re thrown into the blazing furnace , the God we serve IS ABLE to deliver us from it & He WILL deliver us from your hand…..
BUT EVEN IF HE DOESNT…. We want you to know— we WONT serve your god!”
👉but EVEN-IF He doesn’t… ( faith language)
👉 WHAT-IF He doesn’t (fear language)
When I KNOW the love of God — Im willing to trade in my “expectation” for His “intention!!!”
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“expectations are pre-meditated disappointments. “
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F I R E :
The 3 were bound with ropes (BY STRONGEST MEN) & thrown into fire-7x hotter
The king didn’t realize God is in the fire!
Daniel 10:6 /Rev 19:12 “His eyes are like blazing fire.”
Psalm 4:6- “let the LIGHT of Your face SHINE upon us!”
EXODUS:
“Led by pillar of fire at night”= to give LIGHT on journey!
👉the pillar of fire in wilderness allowed them to:
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To SEE where they’re going on their journey.
To KNOW He will not abandon them. (A SYMBOL OF His LOVE)
DO I SEE:
FIRE
OR
GODS EYES & FACE ….in my CIRCUMSTANCES?
(They were walking into the eyes of God!)
I M P O R T A N T :
👉It’s in the fire we encounter Jesus’ sufficient love😭 (JESUS WAS WALKING AROUND IN FIRE W/ THEM)
Mal 3:2-3
“…For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes. He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross (draus). He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the LORD.”
(Gold is Done when refiner can see his reflection in the gold!)
LOVE SAYS:
“I see His PERFECTION in my REFLECTION!”
Counterfeit love says:
“I see MY DEPLETION in my REFLECTION!”
Is 43:2
“WHEN (not if) you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set YOU ablaze.”
👉They KNEW the book of Isaiah!!! They read these words & BELIEVED these words !
(Isaiah was written approx 150yrs before!)
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R O P E S :
The ropes Were the only element burned in the fire
👉They were UNBOUND & UNHARMED walking with a 4th person in the fire.
Prov 5:22
“An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that entangle, catch and hold him. (B45 trees)
Isaiah 5:18
“What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
The ROPES only got scorched in Gods fire!!!
Rope — lie I’m not worthy or capable or deserving of love
EVERY SIN HAS A LIE, ROPED TO IT!!
Every sin is because we believe a lie that we’ re not loved (IDENTITY)
(ROPE = SNAKE)
The fire was used to burn up the very thing that they were “bound” to!
but if I keep AVOIDING FIRE, I’ll never experience what it’s like to be unbound from Satan‘s ropes!
👉It’s IN The fire THE lies are BURNED TO A CRISP!!
Once the lies are gone— the sin is left behind 🙌
—>focus on lies, not sin!
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PEOPLE LOOKED IN:
V. 3:26-27
“So Shadrach, Mishak and aBendigo, Came out of the fire, and many (“IMPORTANT PEOPLE”)
C R O W D E D around them. They saw:
that the fire had not harmed their bodies(I’ll walk & not grow faint!)
not a single hair of their head was singed (not a single truth about Gods love was removed from my mind)
their robes were not scorched (white robe represented CLEAN)
there was no smell of fire on them.” (Fear has stench of death. No smell of death on me— I have eternal life!)
👉It’s ONLY In the fire can I become unbound & know His BOUNDLESS love!
God uses
difficulties to expose deficiencies”
Our greatest MISERY can become our greatest MINISTRY!
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C L O S I N G :
“May you have the power to understand, as ALL GODS PEOPLE SHOULD....
how wide,
how long
How high
how deep
His LOVE is
~ Eph 3:18
“Define yourself as one radically absurdly, incomprehensibly, transformationally, immeasurably, perfectly, unfathomably, undeservingly loved by God....
THIS, is your true self.
Every other identity is only an illusion.”
~ Brennan Manning
Joy & Tara’s Primary Source: The Holy Spirit
Secondary Source: Holy Bible, New Living Translation. Tyndale, 1996, 2004, 2015