<TITLE>11. Par 34-35</TITLE>L-34 Well, the next morning, the king might have said, "Have you decided now that you're going to bow down to my god?"
Said, "No, we're not going to bow down."
"Well, we just..." It raged his indignation in him, he heat' the furnace seven times hotter than it ever was heat'. And he took some big strong men. They started walking up to drop off into the furnace. And as they walked up close, looked like that the dark hour was there.
That's the way it looks to Christians sometime when somebody... The young lady, when she's been persuaded by a boy that she really loves to take her first cigarette; when she's forced, maybe to take a--a drink for her first time, have her first cocktail at the party of the boss that she works for: or the man who's got a wife and family at home, when the immoral woman tries to make love to him... You've got those barriers at the gate. But if you'll just... Look like God's forsaken you. Just keep walking steady. Watch Him. Just keep moving on.

L-35 And they walked right up. And you know, we're the one that gets nervous. What about you accept your healing night after night? Well, you think, "Oh, tomorrow... I--I'm--I'm still coughing. My hand's still crippled." That don't have one thing to do with it. When you have really, honestly, from the depths of your heart accepted that as a finished work that Christ did for you, it's finished. That's all of it. Yes, sir. Just stay right with it.
Now, they kept walking. I can imagine Shadrach looked over to Meshach and said, "You're sure we're prayed up?"
"Yeah." Walked right on, furnace getting hotter and hotter, till almost the skin coming off of their face. Even the Bible said that the man that throwed them in there, the intense heat of that furnace killed the men that throwed them in. Looked like it was the darkest hour. They was walked right up to the edge of the furnace.
But you know, it--sometimes God lets it get that way to try you. You can never... Abraham would have never possessed the gate of the enemy until he was tried first. And you'll never possess the gate of the enemy until you go through the trials. "Some through the waters, some through the flood, some through deep trials, but all through the blood." God leads his children. See, you must first be tried. Oh, then the illegitimate falls in the trial; but the true child of God stands true. He knows where his possession lays. He knows where he's standing. He knows what's happened to him. He knows that he's passed from death unto life. And he knows that God answers prayer.


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