Uncompromising Courage

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Uncompromising Courage
Daniel 1

"God is with us and God is for us when
we are uncompromising."

Daniel 1:8 But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

Daniel 1:15 At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food.

Daniel 3:15 ...if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?"

Daniel 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."

Daniel 6:10-12 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help. So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: "Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or man except to you, O king, would be thrown into the lions' den?"

Hebrews 11:35-39 But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life.... Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons. Some died by stoning, some were sawed in half, and others were killed with the sword. Some were destitute and oppressed and mistreated. They were too good for this world..... All these earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised.

"Uncompromising Courage inspires uncompromising devotion"