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God Breaks Us In Order To Bless Us: Zac Poonen (Transcript)

Here is the full transcript of Zac Poonen’s sermon titled “God Breaks Us In Order To Bless Us” which was delivered on April 6, 2024.

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TRANSCRIPT:

God’s Glory Belongs to Him Alone

God is a very jealous God. He says, “My glory I will not share with another.” It’s very important to remember that. He’ll give us His love, He’ll give us His power, He’ll give us wisdom, He’ll give us everything. But He says His glory He will never share with another because it’s not good for us.

And very often the problem is that men touch His glory and then they suffer the consequences. It says in Isaiah 42 and verse 8, “I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give my glory to another.” He’ll give us everything, His power, His love, His spirit. Why doesn’t He give us His glory? Because if we take glory to ourselves, we move towards the devil. That’s how the highest angel became the devil in a moment. He was proud and he wanted honor and glory. And there’s no limit to what God can do through a human being if He can reduce that human being to recognize that He is a zero.

Turn with me to Daniel chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar verse 1, “The king to all the peoples and nations and men of every language that live in all the world,” this is a message that Nebuchadnezzar himself is sending, it’s a letter, “I, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the people in the world, nations and men of every language, I live in all the earth, may your peace abound.”

Nebuchadnezzar’s Humbling

And he says some wonderful things about God but then he became very proud and you know what happened?