Choosing Humility: Lessons from Nebuchadnezzar's Journey

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "I'll tell you what I know happened what will continue to happen unless we become people who are constant in prayer. What will continue to happen is evil will have its way. And evil isn't just an action. Evil is a position of the heart. And whether people who are angry right now, guess what anger is rooted in? Evil. Some people who are upset that other reasons didn't happen, that's rooted in what? Evil. And I'm reminded today in scripture that God desires none. Regardless of if you agree or disagree with that person, none shall perish because we are all his creation." [01:12] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "We can either choose humility or humiliation. That's the truth. You see, one, you initiate. We initiate humility. God initiates humiliation. We initiate humility. That's no problem. We understand what that's like. It means thinking of ourselves less. That's been the definition of humility before. In fact, God warned Nebuchadnezzar that if he were to identify areas where he was proud that God, and if he repented of those areas, God would not bring humiliation." [25:29] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If you want to change the path of your life, change the person who gets the praise. Simple. If you want to change the path of your life, if it's going down a road of destruction, humiliation, change the person who's getting the praise then. That's a simple way to say it. You see, what happens oftentimes when humiliation occurs, we pray to God but we pray the wrong prayer. We pray, God, get me out of this circumstance, right? Versus, God, in this circumstance, what do you want to change in me?" [33:22] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When we declare that everything comes from God, he restores our mind and restores our perspective. When you get, you know, he didn't get his mind back until he took his mind off of himself. Think about that for a second. You have to ask, are you busy about trying to get God to praise you or are you busy about trying to praise God? There's only one road to go down. But you have to ask, am I getting God? Am I doing things so that God will praise me and others will praise me or am I doing things because I get to praise God because he's given me the ability to do these things?" [32:30] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "So I'm going to ask you an honest question this morning. Where in your life are you more self-sufficient than you are God-dependent? And if you want to know how to figure that out, there's an easy way to figure that out. It's a really, really simple way to figure it out. The lack of prayer is the beginning of pride. Hear what I'm saying? The lack of prayer in your life is the beginning of pride. Why? Because when I pray, that means I have to submit myself to a different authority. If I do not pray, guess who I'm submitting myself to? My authority." [27:03] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "What I realized is this and what we're about to find out and what Neb realized is this. Pride is about my glory, but humility is about God's glory. Daniel 4.33. Check it out. Immediately, so he's walking. He gave him 12 months. Immediately, the word, what was the word? You're going to lose everything if you don't repent. The word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar He was driven amongst the men and ate like grass like ox and his body was wet with the dew until his hair grew long as eagle feathers and his nails were like bird's claws." [23:36] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Listen, sometimes, this is important for us to understand. We don't learn and listen to advice. We only will learn through adversity. And God's like, I'd rather you listen to the word of God and what the word of God has to say so you don't have to go through adversity. And that's exactly what happened to him. He failed to listen to advice from others who were men of God and he failed to adhere to the word of God so destruction came." [24:17] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We all struggle with pride, don't we? Anybody got it all together? What does pride look like today? I'll tell you exactly what it looks like. Thinking I know better than God. God says do this but we do the opposite. Every single one of us struggle with this in some area of our lives. We know what God has said yet we choose to do what we want. My kingdom, his kingdom. That's pride." [25:06] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "You see, what I find interesting around this is sometimes God will put people around you you don't like. True? It doesn't change our love for them and that's what was happening here. It didn't change his love for him. Daniel, we're going to skip down to Daniel 4.25. There we go. That you should be driven among men and dwell in with the spirit of the beast in the field. He's interpreting this. He's saying, you are this person. You will be driven. You will be made to eat grass like an ox and you will be wet with the dew in heaven and for seven periods of time will pass over you until you know the most high God rules in the kingdom of men and he gives it to whom he will." [20:40] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We become great by becoming less. We don't become great by becoming prideful. We only become great by subtracting self-reliance and listen, our pride is stripped away and God can finally be revealed. Until Nebuchadnezzar's pride was stripped away, God wasn't revealed through him. One takeaway this morning and I'm going to close. We're going to do something completely different in closing today. Can I give you one takeaway? Start to say thank you. Simple." [35:29] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)