Redemption
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Recap the warning Dream from God
Recap the warning Dream from God
Pride Comes before the Fall
Pride Comes before the Fall
he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
The Grace in the Fall
The Grace in the Fall
While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,
All Authority is From God. You and I walk in grace. everything we own or have is from above.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
The Loneliness of the Fall
The Loneliness of the Fall
You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes.”
The kings fall, not only wedged between him and God, but between him and everyone else.
He was ostricised as the known world watched its greatest leader succumb to mental illness.
Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like the ox. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
The fall caused him to live erratically. The king devolved into a sad sub human state!
You see the call of God is to constantly draw humanity towards God, but the call of Sin is draw humanity towards a wild earthly terrestrial state. A state that is driven, by emotion and instinct, rather than divine order and purpose.
So here falls the great king of Babylon, He has gone from the glorious leader to fighting oxen for grass. He has chosen his own pride or humbly acknowledging the truth that everything he ruled over was a gift.
You and I want to be the masters of our fate. WE want to control everything. We want to power over life and death. But you see God is trying to teach us that all these things are safely in His hands.
If I build something great! Awesome, praise God that He allowed me to steward this project for His glory.
If you do good thing. Do unto the Lord, for His glory. For his Glory.
If He uses for a great! Praise God that you were chosen.
You see you and I get so caught up in titles, in status, in making a name for ourselves. that we can if we are not careful descend into an arrogant and self praising state.
The Fall begins to turn
The Fall begins to turn
At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”
If my people who are called by my name
If my people who are called by my name
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
The Restoration Comes to those who bow to the Lord
The Restoration Comes to those who bow to the Lord
At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.