Babylon became great because of the sovereign blessing of God. In their greatness they forgot about God and began to take him for granted. God judged them and they were no longer a great nation. In the end God judges that nations who forget him, and that judgment often comes at the hands of another nation God raises up for that very purpose.
Text: Daniel 5God deals with Nebuchadnezzar’s pride. Application: The moment you start taking credit for anything, you’re just daring God to come and smack you around. God won’t share his glory with anyone and he won’t sit idly by while we attempt to shove him out of the picture. If we choose not to listen to God, he turns up the volume until he has our undivided attention.
Text: Daniel 4Even if we are not delivered from our troubles, we will not bow down.
Text: Daniel 3:17-18The key to this passage is found in the very first verse: “But Daniel resolved …” The King James Version […]
Text: Daniel 1:8-21The question posed by my title is not as easily answered as one might assume. It is evident from reading […]
Text: Romans 10:9-10If you don’t know God, you’ve missed the very reason for your own existence.
Text: Genesis 1:1; John 17:3(This sermon was given by Bob Boerman.) Jim Dobson once said, “Kids today encounter more sex on their way to […]
Text: VariousIt all started late in 1988 when I was sitting at my desk at home in Garland, Texas wondering what […]
Text: VariousThe year was 1866, and in a log cabin in the little town of Franklin, Kentucky, Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was […]
Text: Lamentations 3:22-23We begin with two quotations. The first comes from British playwright Oscar Wilde who said, “I can resist anything except […]
Text: I Corinthians 10:13; Genesis 39