Couples Class
21 Fellowship
February 7, 2010
Daniel 3:1-30
1 Apparently Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, was impressed with the head of Gold on
the Image of his dream. He is so impressed he decides to make a new idol that is
2-5 covered with gold skin and represents a new god over his empire of Babylon. The idol is
huge. It is 90 feet tall and 9 feet wide (Maybe 2 times higher than the Midway water
tower). He ordered all the important people of the Empire to come on a certain day to
4-5 worship this new god he had just made and set up in the Plain of __________, which
was just a brad flat piece of land where a large crowd could gather. The signal for them
15 to fall down and worship the idol was when they heard a lot of _________. No one
knows where Daniel was at this time. He may have been out of the country on business.
6,21 But his _____ friends were there and they did not bow down when the music began to
play. So, they were cast into the burning ________ ________. King Neb gives them a
16-18 __________ chance. But the three young men told the King they did not need a second
chance and that they would _________ serve his gods or worship the golden image that
22 he set up. King Neb gets very ______ and orders the furnace to be heated up _______
times hotter than usual. The furnace is so hot that it ___________ the mighty men that
threw them into it. However, when the King peeks into the furnace, he sees something
very __________. Instead of three men, he sees _______. And they are all walking
around unharmed in the midst of the fire and the 4th one looks like ________
___________ __________. Immediately the king goes to the mouth of the furnace and
cries out in a loud voice for the three young men to come out. And, when they walk out,
27 they are totally ________. And, they do not even have the ________ of fire on them or
28 their clothes. King Neb realizes that they have been saved by their God in whom they
have _________. And, eh makes a proclamation that anyone that speaks _________
against the ____ of these men shall be _________ to pieces and their house turned into a
29 __________ ________. Because there is no other God who can deliver like this.
Application: We should only worship and serve one being. Who is that?
Matthew 6:33 is a good verse to illustrate what these boys did - They put the Kingdom of God first and everything else took care of itself.