The success of your life will be determined by how similar or different you are to your father.
The perils of pride and why you should flee with all your might; pride defrauds God’s worship. Pride denies God’s word. Pride deserves God’s wrath.
God alone is worthy of worship and praise because He is the reigning King. We should have resilient faith in Him for this very reason.
You don’t drink yourself under a table because you are filled with wisdom but pride. Those who are intoxicated with the world are often more-so intoxicated with themselves.
This whole ordeal was to mock God.
We should never envy the wicked, nor participate in their wickedness.
Who might I be tempted to envy today?
In life, defrauding God the praise He is due cannot secure happiness but judgement and damnation.
It is to be truly alive and truly human to praise the God of Heaven.
Would God give me a heart that gives him the praise He is due.
God will not be mocked. He will give His Glory to no other.
Pride leads us to deny God’s Word.
What a foolish thought of Belshazzar’s that wisdom can be bought.
Godly grief doesn’t lead you just to fear, but faith and repentance.
Real repentance is a sort of fear; a fear of what you have done against whom you have done it.
If your sin simply causes you to fear consequences and not God, you are no better than king Belshazzar.
Shame before men will pass but shame before God will last for eternity. The difference between a non Christian and a Christian is what you do with your sin.
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Despite all this, Belshazzar mocked the God of heaven to the point that there was no hope.
What a gift it is to have been raised in a Christian household.
Don’t let God’s kindness to you in your parents lead you to pride in rebellion but let it lead you to rejoice for all of your days.
The ultimate outcome is pride is the deserving of God’s wrath.
There is an expiration date on God’s gracious offer to repent.
You can win the world but in the end you will be buried with nothing - not even death itself can rob us of what we have in Him.
Mark 8 - what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?