Everyone’s bowed down – do you stand up, andstand out? Or do you “bow down” and follow along?Or here’s another example – maybe not relevant toyou guys yet, but a handful of you will be going tocollege next year, and you might face this dilemmasooner than you think. It’s the second week of school, and you’ve met some cool friends, and theywant to check out some parties at the frats. And justso you don’t use the excuse that you didn’t knowwhat goes on at these parties – there will be drinking. There might even be drugs. There will probably bequite a bit of public displays of affection – and maybeeven public displays of procreation.Unfortunately for you, your newfound friends are allvery comfortable with underage drinking, and they’reurging you to drink with them. It’s a lot of pressure,right? You’ve just made these friends, and theyseem pretty cool, and you don’t want to be Mr. PartyPooper, and you don’t want to be cast out from theirmidst, into a fiery social furnace. Do you bow down?Let’s see what Daniel’s friends did. Read Daniel3:16-18 They stood up. They not only stood up, they stoodup with conviction. Their reply to the king – “wehave no need to answer you in this matter.” Theybelieved, to the point of death, that God will deliverthem from whatever the king will throw at them. Think about it for a minute – these men faced certaindeath, yet they were not afraid. They knew Godwould deliver them. What about the situations you
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