{"id":539,"date":"2008-04-07T04:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-03-27T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T14:19:52","slug":"certain-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/certain-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nDaniel 3:8-25<\/font>
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Alternate Title:<\/b> Faith Worth Dying For<\/i><\/p>\n

You may know the story. Here’s my quick summary: A powerful (and ruthless) king sets up a gigantic image of himself and requires all his subjects to bow to it and pray to him. The penalty for disobedience is an expedited trip into a furnace. Three faithful men of God wouldn’t. God went through the fire with them and delivered them.<\/p>\n

Here, though, is the part that captured my attention this morning:<\/p>\n

“There are certain Jews…these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up”<\/font><\/b> (11).<\/p>\n

“There are certain Christians . . . .”<\/p>\n

“There are certain Mennonites . . . .”<\/p>\n

“There are certain [Apostolics, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, YourDenominationHere] . . . .”<\/p>\n

Not all of God’s people then stood against the sin and apostasy and lukewarmness and spiritual laziness of their day.<\/p>\n

Only certain ones.<\/b><\/p>\n

Not all of God’s people today stand against the sin and apostasy and lukewarmeness and spiritual laziness of our day.<\/p>\n

Only certain ones.<\/b><\/p>\n

The expression “certain Jews”<\/i> reminds me of a similar expression in yesterday’s Sunday School lesson (taken from Daniel 1:8-21) — “the children which are of your sort”<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I want to be one of those Certain Ones.<\/p>\n

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of your sort<\/strike> the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”<\/font><\/b> (1 Timothy 4:12).<\/p>\n

I want to be a true and accurate example and sample of my sort (ie, those Certain Ones, those followers of Jesus, those Christians).<\/p>\n

(This is my introduction to the Sunday School lesson for April 13, 2008. Tomorrow I plan to post my regular piece on the lesson over here: Sunday School Thoughts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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from Daniel 3:25<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Daniel 3:<\/b> Our God Is and Will<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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