Sermons About Babylon
Weighed and Wanting
Daniel 5:1-31 Every human heart has, by nature, a defiance and arrogance toward our creator and our dependence on Him. We tend to believe that we are the master of our fate and the captain of our soul. King Belshazzar was no different. He was much like his predecessor and grandfather, King Nebuchadnezzar. Both were prideful kings who chose to rebel against God. But, unlike his grandfather, Belshazzar would lose his life in his battle with God. The account of the fate of the defiant King Belshazzar unfolded in five acts: 1. The Drunken Feast (vv. 1+4) 2. The Deathly Fear (vv. 5+9) 3. The Disregarded Foreigner (vv. 10-16) 4. The Divine Forecast (vv. 17-23) 5. The Decisive Fall (vv. 24-31) The message that God delivered to Belshazzar was that his character and rule was weighed against God's standards and found lacking. Consequently, his kingdom was divided and his days numbered short. Indeed, the very night of Belshazzar's party, God allowed the Medo-Persian army to invade the walls of the city of Babylon and for Belshazzar's life to be taken. For those who have yet to receive Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, the handwriting is on the wall. God's word assures that you must repent or perish. As sinners, like Belshazzar, we are all weighed and found wanting based on God's high standards. God's call is for us to turn away from the corruptible things of this world and to seek His incorruptible glory!
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Revelation Study Session 13
The destruction of religious Babylon the apostate church by the Antichrist.
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Be Still...Are We Able?
Our world is a mess (just watch the evening news); yet God is sovereign. How does that compute? Quite often the last thing we (humans) want to do is "be still" - we are so prone to fix things. Yet there is such comfort in knowing that God is Gracious and that God is Sovereign. Yet for God's Sovereignty to be comforting some aspects of it must be understood. What can we learn from a Jewish perspective of God's Sovereignty in the book of Daniel?
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What To Do With Our Anger
We are continuing our series of discussions that are intended to help us take a closer look at our emotional life. How do we handle anger? The beauty of Psalm 137, as graphic as it is, is that it shows us that by pouring out our emotional life before God in prayer, by being honest with how we’re really feeling, by not stuffing our emotions down, our anger can be kept from turning into an unrighteous outburst.
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One Nation Under God or Every Nation Under God
Jeremiah 1:5; 46:1 God is the God of all nations, not just Israel or the United States.
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Babylonian Bar and Bistro
Every day followers of Jesus face a myriad of choices that define their citizenship and their loyalties. We walk with a tentative step and live in a constant state of "tension". How can we live IN this Babylonian world, and YET not be poisoned by the waters? Is it possible to sit at the barstool with friends and neighbors who are drinking deeply from the "kegs" of life that offer them power, pleasure, sex, money and fame - and yet be unaffected myself? Won't my friend next to me wonder why I'm not drinking from the same cup as they are? Won't I stand out like a sore thumb? Key Passage: Revelation 17:1 - 19:5
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