Stuck Between A Rock and A Hard Place: The Problem with Never Taking God Seriously

 

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble. Daniel 4:37

1. The first mistake Belshazzar made was his .

The Lord detests all the proud of heart... Proverbs 16:5

 ...Whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure. Psalm 101:5

A man’s pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor. Proverbs 29:23

"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." James 4:6

King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.  As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. Daniel 5:1-4  

2. He never took God .

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way. Daniel 5:5-6

3. He had no one to speak truth into his life. He had any accountability.

“But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all of this. Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven...” Daniel 5:22-23  

”...you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.”  Daniel 5:23