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Living Like An Animal? Do We Need To Change?
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Sep 5, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: It is easy to be resistant to needed change. The is a Bible lesson where Nebuchadnezzar was warned he needed to change his attitudes and he refused. Seven years living like an animal was very costly.
LIVING LIKE AN ANIMAL. DO I NEED TO CHANGE?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
*Define change: to make a difference, to transform habits, to make different, to alter, to modify, to replace, to make new, to make better,
Change? A lesson seldom learned: YOU DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, BUT FEW LEARN HOW TO KEEP THEIR MOUTH SHUT.
TEXT: Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19 (NLT2) For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19 (NLT2) For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19 (MSG) Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.
I RATHER CHOSE INSANITY THAN CHANGE? I REFUSE TO CHANGE. I EXPECT THE WHOLE WORLD TO CHANGE! WHY SHOULD I CHANGE? CHANGE? THERE IS A WARNING OF TERRIBLE COST TO THOSE THAT REFUSE TO CHANGE.
There was a huge oil tanker that carried over a million barrels of oil across the ocean. One dark, foggy night a call came over the VHF (Very High Frequency) marine radio warning the huge tanker: CHANGE YOUR COURSE. The captain of the vessel replied: NO, YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE. WE ARE A HUGE MILLION BARREL TANKER. Another warning came: SHIP CHANGE YOUR COURSE. The captain answered: NO, YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR COURSE. The voice warns: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION AND CHANGE YOUR COURSE, NOW! The captain refused the warning. IMMEDIATELY A MARINE RADIO CARRIED THE WARNING AGAIN. IMMEDIATELY YOU MUST SHAKE YOUR COURSE OF ACTION, THIS IS THE LIGHTHOUSE. YOU ARE HEADED INTO DANGEROUS, ROCKY WATERS. MANY SHIPS HAVE CRASHED HERE. The captain understood the warning. He immediately called all hands: WE MUST CHANGE OUR COURSE. WE ARE IN GREAT DANGER.
LET US LOOK IN THE BIBLE LESSON THAT YOU REFUSE TO LEARN WILL BE REPEATED OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU LEARN IT OR UNTIL YOU DIE UNCHANGED. THERE IS A PAYDAY SOMEWHERE ALONG OUR LIFE JOURNEY. REFUSING TO CHANGE CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE IN HEARTACHES AND PAIN. WE MUST LEARN THAT CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENES.
I rather have it my way and be a mean, proud villain. Nebuchadnezzar was cruel to Judah and Israel. He took many captives as slaves. No one spoke back this cruel king. He was spoiled rotten: MY WAY OR THE HIGH WAY.
Daniel 4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
DANIEL RELAYS A SAD STORY OF A KING NAMED NEBUDHADNEZZAR. NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD BAD ATTITUDES AND WAS CRUEL AND HAD A MEAN LIFESTYLE. GOD MADE A STRONG SUGGESTION THE NEBUCHADNEZZAR CHANGE HIS WORDS AND ATTITUDES. FEAR GROWS WHERE ONE REFUSES TO GROW.
Daniel 4:4 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: 5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Nebuchadnezzar bad attitudes were a results of choices of selfish motives, vanity, sin and pride. This King would rather face insanity and incapacitation than change. God’s man, Daniel warned this KING you better change.
Daniel 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
No one dare approach the king suggesting he needed an attitude adjustment.
Daniel 4:22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
THE PREACHER SUGGESTED AND WARNED NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN GOD BOLDNESS: YOU NEED TO CHANGE.
Daniel 4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.
CHANGE? WHO ME? THERE ARE 3 THINGS IN LIFE: ME? MYSELF? I?
Daniel 4:30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?
I REFUSE TO LISTEN: I AM THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON A LIVE. THERE HAS BEEN FOUND 1,000 OF DOCUMENTS RECORDING MY GREATNESS. Many of the things in museums today record his greatness!
