<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Now, there was a testing time. And there's always a testing time. Every son that cometh to God must first be tested, tried. Oh, I love it. Oh, I don't call for it, but after it's past it yields a beautiful fruits of meekness. The testing time, when the fire is hot, how every Christian through the ages went through that testing time.
And the Bible said if we can't stand that testing, we become illegitimate children and not the children of God. So real a child, in the testing time, with this was... They do not walk by sight; their physical eyes are closed to the things that are around them. They only walk by the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, looking to His Word and believing that He will keep every Word exactly the way He said He would do it. Testing time, trials...

L-20 And we see when this trying time come to these three Hebrew children, they proved out faithful. They said, "We will not bow down to the image."
Oh, my, then the great proclamation that had been signed, they went and gathered them together and pulled their hands behind them, and walked them up a great plank or runway to drop off into a furnace that had the skies literally red: seven times hotter than it ever been het. And while they were walking up this plank, knowing that in their heart, they did not see how that God would ever do it, but they knowed that God could do it. It was their privilege to walk to their death, as it was, to keep the Word of God.

L-21 And as they walked up there, perhaps was the darkest hour that they ever seen. They had no--no home to go to on this earth; they were captives. They were just like slaves. They'd been brought from their homeland; they wasn't allowed to go to public worship. They worshipped idols in that country, so they could not go to idolatry. Neither could they have their homeland privileges. They were captive. But one thing, you can't bind a believer from his God; no, you can't.
And that morning as they walked up there knowing that they stood alone with God... And as they begin to make their steps as they went up, perhaps, the darkest hour that they'd ever come to... And the heat of the furnace begin to blaze into their face. And as they made their final good-bye step to this world down into that fiery furnace, then Jesus came along just at that time. And He got down into that fiery furnace, pulling a palm off of the evergreen trees from the heaven, and He fanned the fire away from them until after burning perhaps for a hour or more, the king got all weary and said, "Open up and let's see what's happened."

L-22 And when they pulled down the great lid of the furnace and the big steel, or brass lid fell down, the king looked in and he said, "How many did we put in there?"
He said, "We put in three."
He said, "There is four in there, and One of them looks like the Son of God."
It might come dark heated times; it might come testing times; but Jesus is always on the scene, if we will just be true and faithful.
It was a little woman one time, who had spent all of her money for doctors. And she'd sold the farm and the team. Perhaps, and all that she had, she'd sold and give to the doctors to try to get healed. None of them could do her any good. And as she set alone, her little body was frail because she was losing blood for many years. And nothing could seem to help her. And there... She had heard; you know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." She heard that way over in the other side of the Galilee, there was a Prophet over there Who were healing the sick. But she didn't have the money to cross the lake. She couldn't oar the boat herself; she was too frail. And she couldn't have any money to pay somebody else, because she'd spent all she had for the doctors, and was still just as bad as she ever was.


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