When God Humiliates a King to Save His Soul | Nebuchadnezzar’s Conversion

• Well, we come to the conclusion of Daniel chapter 4. We have been here for a while and we have learned much. But here in Daniel chapter 4, we get to the crux of the matter as we look beginning at verse 34 on to the end. And what I want to address today is Nebuchadnezzar’s conversion. Now, it’s difficult for us to talk in terms of Nebuchadnezzar’s conversion for a number of reasons.
• Let me outline just five of them. First, we generally think of conversion as a New Testament concept. We we don’t think about conversion in terms of the Old Testament. We don’t think about people in the Old Testament being converted, if you will. Um, we have pictures in our minds of the conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus.
• We have pictures in our mind of the Ethiopian unic um who hears the gospel and says there’s some water. You know, we we we we have pictures in our mind of of of Cornelius hearing the gospel or of the day of Pentecost message being preached, individuals being confronted with the gospel, responding in faith, being baptized, united with God’s people.
• But we don’t generally think about that idea in terms of the Old Testament. Secondly, we we think of conversion in the Old Testament exclusively in terms of the Hebrew people only in terms of the Jews. We think about God’s salvation of his people, Israel. When we read the Old Testament, that’s that’s what the Old Testament is about.
• It’s about God redeeming his people, is it not? And so we don’t generally think about God redeeming, God calling, and God saving Gentiles unless and until again we get to the New Testament. Cuz after all, in the Old Testament, it’s really all about God saving the Jews. And it’s not until the New Testament that we get to the age of the Gentiles, right? really Ruth, >> Rahab Nebuchadnezzar.