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Follow God with Humility

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Follow God with Humility

Daniel 5

Key Point

Here is the key point today! Learn from others, follow God with humility. There are many harsh lessons in life that don’t have to be difficult if we are willing to learn from others. We can learn from anybody. Sometimes we learn from their mistakes, and other times, we learn from their wisdom and good decisions. 

About the Story

In today’s story, we are going to learn from someone’s pride and arrogance. This person had gotten to the point where they did not put God first and his pride prevented him from having a good relationship with God. Arrogance is a serious issue that can destroy your own life and hurt the people around you! That is why we must learn from others so that we can follow God with humility.  

Today’s story is the 5th story in the book of Daniel, and you can find it in Daniel, chapter 5. There have been many years that have gone by since our last story, and there is a new King. His name is Belshazzar, which is very similar to Daniel’s Babylonian name, Belteshazzar. Daniel remained in this latest King’s service, but now he was much older.

We need people in our lives that can remind us of our place in this world.

Application

Learn from others, follow God with humility. King Belshazzar did not learn, or perhaps he ignored the lessons from Nebuchadnezzar. We need people in our lives that can remind us of our place in this world. Last week we learned that God is the greatest, which means we are not the greatest. 

We are not horrible humans with no hope. God made us in His image, which makes us pretty awesome, and in all of creation, there is nothing like a human being. God made us unique and special as a species and as individuals, but we are also dependent on him. We can not live well apart from him. We cannot have the life God created us for if we are arrogant. To live the life, He made us for; we must follow God with humility.

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Discussion Episode | Follow God with Humility

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Learn from others, follow God with humility! King Belshazzar did not learn from the king before him and he had a very tragic end!

In today’s story, King Belshazzar had a massive party with his friends, where there was a lot of drinking and worshiping false gods and idols. During the party, a hand started writing on the wall. Daniel came and told the king what it meant and that because he was not humbly following God, the kingdom would be divided and given to someone else. That same night the king was murdered, and the kingdom was given to Darius the Mede.

Daniel 5

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Lesson

Learn from others, follow God with humility.

Questions

  1. Name three people that follow God with humility, one you know personally, one you know about like an author or speaker, and one from history. All of them must be people who follow God with humility.
  2. What is something that you are looking forward to doing? Is it in line with following God with humility?
  3. Our reasons we want something will reflect our humility or arrogance. Name two things that you want and talk about why you want them?

Growth Tip

Let me give you some advice. Plan things that are in line with following God with humility. Doing this will impact the activities you do with your friends, the type of parties you plan, the movies you watch, and even what you talk about with others. 

Prayer Requests

At the end of your discussion, go around the group and ask for prayer requests.

Follow Jesus with Courage

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If you follow Jesus with courage, it can be scary. I know that sentence sounds a bit funny, but it’s true—the more courage we often need, the more terrifying the situation. We often find our security in the provision vs the provider. When we do this, it makes following Jesus pretty scary and hard!

Listen to the drastic decision the first disciples made to follow Jesus with courage. They left everything, including a lot of fish, which for them would have been as good as money since they were professional fishermen. To say this would have been scary would be an understatement – it was terrifying!

There is nothing more important than following Jesus. At times it will probably be scary, but you can do it with courage. Be sure to listen to the discussion questions, and be sure to download the discussion guide! There you will hear me talk about finding our courage in our provider, not in his provision.

Luke 5

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Lesson | Follow Jesus with Courage

There is nothing more important than following Jesus.

Questions!

  1. Name one person in your life that you admire for the way they follow Jesus. What is something you can learn from their example?
  2. Sometimes to leave behind things in our lives to follow Jesus is scary. Talk about some of the fears you have in leaving everything to follow Jesus as Peter did.
  3. Talk with each other about valuing our provider, God, more than his provision.

Prayer Requests

At the end of your discussion, go around the group and ask for prayer requests.

Tips and Tricks for leading a discussion

Ask additional questions to help expand people’s thoughts. 

Let people think in silence. Wait for them to respond. 

Repeat the last three words of someone’s statement turning it into a question. 

Growth Tip

Who are people in your life that you look up to? People that are great at following Jesus. People that are an example of how to follow Jesus!

You can pray to begin your relationship with Jesus!

Jesus, I need you. Forgive my sinful mistakes. I am giving you control of my life. Thank you for your love! Amen