Pride comes before a fall. It's true individually, and Dan Jarvis says it's true of nations.

Pride brings them low. It's the very struggle to be great that brings a nation down.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, November 8th, 2016.

Well, as Americans, we have so much to be thankful for.

Freedom to talk about the Lord on programs like this one.

And the freedom to vote and to make our voice heard. We also have a responsibility to vote

and to pass on freedoms to the next generation. On this voting day in the United States,

we're going to be listening to Part 2 of a series from Dan Jarvis on what it means to be a humble nation.

Dan serves on staff with Life Action Ministries, the parent organization for Revive Our Hearts.

And he's also the teaching pastor at Berry and Center Bible Church here in southwest Michigan.

Yesterday, Dan gave us some helpful insight into what it means for a country to be great.

He explained that true greatness comes from humility.

Today, Dan is here to pick the series back up. Let's listen.

Every nation has a choice, a choice between humility or humiliation, a choice between bowing before God or walking on the

path of pride. Today we're looking at the second of a three-part series on what the Bible says

about being a humble nation, knowing that great nations are humble

nations, and that in God's economy, the more humble a person is, the more he'll exalt them,

so opposite the way of the world that we live in. Sometimes when we talk about nations,

people will ask, does God really even care about nations anymore, or is he just interested in individual hearts? And of course, in

eternity, we're most interested in people standing before God, justified by His grace,

entering heaven with those they love.

And that's the primary call of the New Testament is that you would repent and you would be

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