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Intro
Story of Daniel and his friends being brought out of their nation, their culture.
Daniel and his friends stayed true to their faith and enjoyed the culture and influenced it.
Most people today think we have to choose sides… either give in to the culture or live a life if faith.
As we look at Daniel, I believe that we can do both.
We can live in the culture, and influence the culture.
Let’s look at what this culture we live in is all about.
We’ll either set the culture or reflect the culture.
You can me a thermostat or a thermoter.
God has called us to be a thermostat.
We are supposed to be salt and light in our culture.
Salt makes things better and light brightens everything.
Boudreaux joke - Boudreaux had a thermos.
Thibidoux asked what that is?
A thermos.
It keeps the hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold.
Thibidoux asked, how does it do that.
B - It just knows.
What you got in there… a bowl of gumbo and 2 popsicles.
Night before Jesus went to the cross, Jesus prayed a prayer.
Jesus didn’t ask God to remove them, but to protect them.
It’s easy to isolate, but that’s not what Jesus wants us to do.
We have to learn to live in it but not be part of it.
Single culprit that drives all of our sin… it’s the
The Babylon Mentality
Babylon is located in modern day Iraq.
However, more than that is that it’s a mentality that has been around since the beginning of time and still exists today.
Babylon symbolizes any economic, political, or military system that is hostile to God.
It’s an eventual world wide system that will encompass evil like never before.
We don’t want to participate in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but we want to expose them.
When you learn this, Satan cannot trick you like he has before … as he did in the garden.
Satan showed up in the garden and tricked the couple.
Satan got them to believe that…
Satan’s Lie: I’m all about you.
God is all about himself.
Satan got them to doubt God, themselves and God’s goodness.
Go a little further and you will come to the tower of Babel.
Satan’s lure is to get us to want to be famous… to not worship God but worship ourselves…
Babel - confusion.
It’s a mindset of deranged confusion.
If you are experiencing confusion and uncertainty, it’s this mindset of Babel.
If you follow a way that’s not God’s way, you will experience confusion.
This is where we are in our culture right now.
Look at all the crazy stuff going on… shootings.... mass shootings…
Many people are asking where was God?
He was right where we left him.
God wants to be involved, but we have un-invited him to be part of our culture.
Later on, John talks about Babylon…
Rev 17 & 18 both talk about Babylon.
Everything that is ungodly has it’s root in Babylon.
The Great prostitute here represents all the forces that will come together to oppose God.
example -LGBT groups and Muslims against Israel
This is a belief system that exists where there is satanic deception and resistance to God.
It is the seductiveness of any governmental system that uses immoral means to gain it’s power, it’s pleasure, it’s prosperity, and it’s advantage.
This system, the lure of pleasure, wealth and power, will lure in all the leaders of the world.
Look in the middle of the Bible.
We live in a culture that is addicted to Pleasure, Prosperity and power, but these can vanish in a moment.
Selfie generation…
Babylon’s Motto:I am, and there is none besides me.
Babylon was a great empire but it came down.
Rome was a great empire but it came down.
Both of these empires were totally self focused… addicted to pleasure, power and prosperity.
Neb kept requiring people to worship him.
that’s why Daniel was thrown into the lions den.
It’s why Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego were put into the fiery furnace.
In this Babylonian mindset, we...
Elevate Self.
We are a selfie generation.
It’s all about me.
Our culture is so about ourselves, it’s sickening.
It’s all about my pleasure.
People say, I just think God wants me to be happy, so I am … doing drugs, living an immoral life...
Self Adoring
Some people put way too many pictures of themselves on FB, magazine covers, etc.
Self Building
I can do it without God.
I Don’t need you.
We ignore God and the relationship he wants to have with us, especially while things are going great.
When we get sick, we call on God non-stop.
Once we get out of the hospital, we forget about him.
That’s why when tragedy hits, the churches are full, and when things are going great, they are empty.
Self Indulging.
I can do what I want.
If it feels good - do it.
Our culture is addicted to pleasure.
We are the most self-indulgent culture ever.
Everything in our culture is about me… me… me.
It’s about my rights, my pleasure, etc. God would never tell me to not do something that I want to do.
Lower God.
Neb realized that he would get more out of the people he conquered if he let them keep worshipping their gods.
It worked well until he encountered the real God… the God of Israel… Jesus.
Our Culture today reduces God.
Our culture mocks and makes fun of God.
Christians are the brunt of jokes on TV and movies.
Every other God is ok, just not the real God.
Christianity is removed from the public arena.
Senators mocking judge candidates Christian Faith & questioning whether they are fit to be a judge because they are a Christian.
Can’t pray in schools, at school functions.
Even AA calls god a higher power.
HP is a living God and he has a name and his name is Jesus.
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