Free Men

Daniel 3:25

He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Four men loose

The three Hebrews were free men.

Though the king had commanded them to bow before his image and, though everyone else had obeyed him, these three remained true to their:

·       Convictions

·       Principles and

·       God

Governments can force the body but they can never bind the spirits of men whose faith is in God.

Gill points out that, once bound and cast into the furnace, these men saw no hurry to come out. So free from the cares of this world were they that they walked about in the midst of the furnace as if it were a garden.

But Nebuchadnezzar had only cast in three men.

There was a fourth man who had joined them in the fire of his own free will. No, it was not Daniel whom, I can only surmise, must have been away on some business. The king said the fourth man was like the Son of God. Indeed it is Christ, he had come to join them in their worship of the true and living God and in their walk for and with God.

Every man is free who walks with Christ.