STANDING FIRM WHEN CULTURES CONFLICT (4 OF 7)
Scripture: Daniel 3:1-30
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Standing Firm When Cultures Conflict (4 of 7)
Series: Being Politically Incorrect
Donald Cantrell
Daniel 3: 1 - 30
I - The Complete Commentary and Insight (1 - 30)
II - The Cultural Conflict and Intimidation
III - The Christian's Commitment and Indoctrination
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Standing firm when the government violates my biblical beliefs''
Are We Prepared for Christian's Being Persecuted in America
Bishop Polycarp, an older man at the time, was put to death for his faith in Smyrna in the year 167. He had tried very hard to escape arrest, but was eventually tracked down. When apprehended, he was ordered to curse Christ.
Polycarp replied:
''Six and eighty years have I served him, and he has done me nothing except good. How then can I curse my Lord and Savior?''
At that profession, his abductors sentenced him to death. Wood was gathered and piled in an open square, and the white-haired old man was made to mount the large heap. But when they sought to fasten him to the stake, he told them:
''No, leave me thus. He who has strengthened me to encounter the flames will give me the power also to stand firm at the stake!''
And in this manner, Polycarp suffered a martyr's death.
Persecution has a way of making a genuine follower of Jesus Christ, an individual of sturdy and profound faith.
Other Christians died as Polycarp did during the 2nd Century, and their heroism had a positive outcome in making Christians of that time nobler, purer, and vigorous in their walk with God. The persecuted became, as Tertullian said, ''a fan which cleanses the Lord's threshing-floor.''
Moreover, Christianity began to sweep the land.
To quote Tertullian again:
''We conquer in dying; we go forth triumphant at the very moment we seemed subdued....The oftener we are mown down, the more do we grow in number. The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church!''
Someone once wisely ...
Series: Being Politically Incorrect
Donald Cantrell
Daniel 3: 1 - 30
I - The Complete Commentary and Insight (1 - 30)
II - The Cultural Conflict and Intimidation
III - The Christian's Commitment and Indoctrination
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Standing firm when the government violates my biblical beliefs''
Are We Prepared for Christian's Being Persecuted in America
Bishop Polycarp, an older man at the time, was put to death for his faith in Smyrna in the year 167. He had tried very hard to escape arrest, but was eventually tracked down. When apprehended, he was ordered to curse Christ.
Polycarp replied:
''Six and eighty years have I served him, and he has done me nothing except good. How then can I curse my Lord and Savior?''
At that profession, his abductors sentenced him to death. Wood was gathered and piled in an open square, and the white-haired old man was made to mount the large heap. But when they sought to fasten him to the stake, he told them:
''No, leave me thus. He who has strengthened me to encounter the flames will give me the power also to stand firm at the stake!''
And in this manner, Polycarp suffered a martyr's death.
Persecution has a way of making a genuine follower of Jesus Christ, an individual of sturdy and profound faith.
Other Christians died as Polycarp did during the 2nd Century, and their heroism had a positive outcome in making Christians of that time nobler, purer, and vigorous in their walk with God. The persecuted became, as Tertullian said, ''a fan which cleanses the Lord's threshing-floor.''
Moreover, Christianity began to sweep the land.
To quote Tertullian again:
''We conquer in dying; we go forth triumphant at the very moment we seemed subdued....The oftener we are mown down, the more do we grow in number. The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church!''
Someone once wisely ...
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