Amen and amen. Good evening to you. God bless you. You can be seated. Welcome. Glad you're here. Are you glad you're here?

Yes. Those of you online were also glad you're joining with us, whatever the time zone is. If you're on the East Coast, it's after midnight. You should probably go to bed.

You can watch this later.

All right, Daniel, Chapter 4 tonight.

What an interesting chapter, as we're about to see.

Before we tackle this chapter, though, I have to tell you,

by way of full disclosure that I totally stole

this title from my pastor. So I just needed to let you know, being fully transparent,

that he reminded me of this actually in a

recent phone conversation we were talking he said this again I thought wait a minute

anything that hurts me heals me anything that humbles me helps me.

Thank you. I got my title for Thursday night's Bible study right there.

And here's why.

The reason for that is what we're about to see is exactly that, such that King Nebuchadnezzar is both humbled and healed.

However, he first has to experience what the proverbs say concerning the wounds of a friend being faithful,

what hurts me, helps me, and pride coming before not the fall destruction. Remember?

Let's clear this up because this is a issue that needs to be cleared up.

We've talked about it before. I think it's worthy of repeating tonight in the context of this chapter that we have before us tonight.

It's not pride comes before the fall. A haughty spirit comes before the fall. Pride comes before destruction. And that

is precisely what is going to happen to King Nebuchadnezzar in exalting himself. God resist

the proud. But he gives grace to the humble. Now, before we jump in, we'll

pray, but I want to just kind of give you just a quick time stamp on chapter four because there has been, it's believed, approximately 30 years

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