The question today is, "At what point, as a Christian, do I draw the line?" In other words, how do you know what hills to die on where you refuse to go along with what the rest of the culture is doing? We're going to find the answer by looking at the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3.

2. How to Kill it in a World Gone Mad:
1) Relax, God has been, and always will
be, in control.
2) Resolve to swim upstream
3) Reach people by creating value

3. “At what point, as a Christian, do I draw
the line?”

4. Say not, “Why were the former days
better than these?” For it is not from
wisdom that you ask this. (ESV)
Don’t long for “the good old days.” This
is not wise. (NLT)
– Ecc 7:10

5. Say not, “Why were the former days
better than these?” For it is not from
wisdom that you ask this. (ESV)
Don’t long for “the good old days.” This
is not wise. (NLT)
– Ecc 7:10

6. King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of
gold, whose height was sixty cubits and
its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the
plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to

7. gather the satraps, the prefects, and the
governors, the counselors, the
treasurers, the justices, the magistrates,
and all the officials of the provinces to
come to the dedication of the image
that

8. King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:1-2

9. And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You
are commanded, O peoples, nations,
and languages,that when you hear the
sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon,
harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music,
you are to fall down and worship the

10. golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar
has set up. And whoever does not fall
down and worship shall immediately be
cast into a burning fiery furnace.”
Therefore, as soon as all the peoples
heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre,

11. trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of
music, all the peoples, nations, and
languages fell down and worshiped the
golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar
had set up.
- vv. 4-7

12. “These men, O king, pay no attention to
you; they do not serve your gods or
worship the golden image that you have
set up.”
- v. 12

13. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
answered and said to the king, “O
Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to
answer you in this matter. If this be so,
our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery

14. furnace, and he will deliver us out of
your hand, O king.But if not, be it known
to you, O king, that we will not serve
your gods or worship the golden image
that you have set up.”
- v. 16-18

15. Even if the whole world rises up to
oppose you, never let anyone ever
persuade you to express anything about
God that you do not believe.

17. “But I see four men unbound, walking in
the midst of the fire, and they are not
hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is
like a son of the gods.”
- v. 25

18. So everyone who acknowledges me
before men, I also will acknowledge
before my Father who is in heaven, but
whoever denies me before men, I also will
deny before my Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 10:32-33