Oakwood Church
The Humble King - Daniel 4:19-37
Locations & Times
Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
“The king answered and said to Daniel, ‘Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.’”
Daniel 2:47
Daniel 2:47
“Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego… Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.”
Daniel 3:28-29
Daniel 3:28-29
“You shall be made to eat grass like an ox… and seven periods of time shall pass for you until you know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
Daniel 4:25
Daniel 4:25
“Break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”
Daniel 4:27
Daniel 4:27
“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
Daniel 4:30
Daniel 4:30
“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.”
Daniel 4:37
Daniel 4:37
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:11
Luke 14:11
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 2:5
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 2:5
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
o Consider others more Important than yourself
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.”
Philippians 2:3
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
o Consider others more Important than yourself
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.”
Philippians 2:3
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
“And being found in human form he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death…”
Philippians 2:8
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
“And being found in human form he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death…”
Philippians 2:8
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
“Becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Philippians 2:8
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
“Becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Philippians 2:8
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”
Philippians 3:10-11, NIV
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”
Philippians 3:10-11, NIV
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
“Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.”
Philippians 2:9
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
“Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.”
Philippians 2:9
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way
“Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way
“Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:11
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:11
Our Example of True Greatness:
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
o Consider others more Important than yourself
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way
• Embrace The Mindset of Jesus: Humility
o Consider others more Important than yourself
• Follow the lifestyle of Jesus: Service
o Place the Needs of others ahead of your own
• Trust in the Blessing of Jesus: Reward
o Don’t exalt yourself so God can in His way