Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Political and educational wise man, as helpful as they are, have proven unable to cure on any large scale the problems of the human race at their source, our hearts.

They can't cure what's going on in the human heart. Money can't do it. Education can't do it. Politics can't do it. science can't do it. It can't give us solutions to

the ultimate problems now and it can't give us meeting for the future.

Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and apologist J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vinovich. Today on the program, we come to another story of God taking down a prideful, rebellious, and selfish king.

You're like, wait, didn't we just hear this story on the program? Well, hang on, sadly, today we come to Bel-Shazzar,

the grandson of King Nebuchadnezzar.

You'd think he might have learned a lesson from old granddad,

but nope.

We're gonna see that this problem of pride and arrogance

is much bigger than just one king.

So grab your Bible, turn to Daniel chapter five,

and let's see what we can learn from God's word today.

You got your Bible this morning,

and I hope that you brought your Bible.

Take it out to Daniel chapter five.

How many of you have heard the phrase,

the writing is on the wall?

The writing is on the wall.

Put your hand up.

Yeah, that usually means that something bad is about to happen,

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