This sermon by Matt Murphy unpacks Daniel 3 around Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue, showing how the pressure to bow—through authority, conformity, spectacle, and fear—mirrors the idols and cultural pressures we face today. Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to worship Babylon’s false gods, we too are called to resist modern idols of self, wealth, politics, sexuality, and nationalism. Every false god either consumes us or abandons us, but the living God meets His people in the fire, rescues them, and proves Himself faithful. Our hope is not found in grit but in grace—Jesus took the ultimate furnace of judgment in our place and now stands with us in every trial. Because of this, we can live day by day with quiet faithfulness, refusing to bow to lies, and trusting that we are never alone in the fire.