Feb | 04 | Magnificent in Multi-Media

Key Word:- CONSIDER

Title:- Magnificent in Multi-Media

Daniel 3:17,18…..our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”

Even today, the white cliffs of Dover still embrace the rusty remains of past battles and old gun emplacements, all of course, facing France, which on a clear day, is easily seen in the distance across that small stretch of water called the English Channel. One of the most dramatic moments at the beginning of the Second World War happened when the British army were stranded on the beaches of France. The Nazis had slowly pushed the British Expeditionary Force back into the sea at Dunkirk. It was a killing field. The trapped army transmitted a simple three-word message, which in turn was relayed to the British people. Those words were “But if not.”

British citizens knew the reference came from Daniel 3:18, and could be translated, “we will die, before we bow.” The national response to the transmission of these three simple words was phenomenal, as hundreds and hundreds of small private boats, together with a combined military operation, evacuated what was left of the beleaguered and broken expeditionary force, and in that brave response, nearly 350,000 British and Allied soldiers were saved from the advancing Nazis.

In our Post-modern society, such a message so clothed in simple Biblical reference from a nationally known story of passion and the desire for deliverance, all coupled together with a declaration of courage and resolve, even to the death if needs be, would today, be sorely and most surely, completely and absolutely missed. Generational ignorance and politically correct suicide has left our Judeo-Christian inheritance emaciated almost to the point of death! Some would say it is dead, for now a generation has arisen, that does know the God of the Bible. This is especially true in the many churches where seeker-sensitivity, and its consequent dumbing down of the Bible and its hearers, is at the forefront of the mission, where much of what the Bible actually teaches may not be known by the congregation. As former Christian nations, we once knew the Word, but now, with hard necks and brass foreheads, we have chosen not to know. We once embraced the God of Revelation, but now we reject Him and my friends, the church bears its part in his great shame.

In all my reading of the Scriptures one thing is evident: God, one way or another, in goodness and grace or in fire and fury, SHALL MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN. The God of the Bible is magnificent in multi-media communications. So let us look around and see what gospel messages God Himself has embedded into this present generation, in the stories on film, or in popular songs, indeed in all the stories portrayed through all the arts, whether it be by the providential and pious or from the brush ends of some drunken skunk. I have found that God is always seeker-sensitive, and in being so, sharpens their intelligence to points of decision and makes deep demands on people’s hearts. God never dumbs down the message, but paints it bright and sure. We most surely should do the same. We cannot do this correctly without getting BACK TO THE BIBLE.


Listen: -The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. Psalm 19:1-4 

Pray: - Lord, help me to see where You are working and speaking and follow You there. Dear Lord, may I help unpack Your bags in front of a searching people, a people You have sought for Yourself. Amen.