Sermon Cloud

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?

These are the practical questions that "life in Babylon" forces the follower of Jesus to face. We are not called to push away from the bar entirely - we are called to drink from a different source! Interesting that Jesus so often used the metaphor of hunger or of thirst to describe our pursuit of Him!

The text we're looking at this weekend paints the devastation that is coming to a world that is drunk on the potions, libations, cocktails and "dainties" that an anti-Christ world system is pouring. The great "Babylon" comes crashing down; imploding upon itself, and all those who have drunk from her goblet will face the same horrific end.... Serious stuff!

Can I pour you a cold drink? What will it be?!