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The Spirit of Babylon
00:03:08
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| I think what we're seeing, and my wife doesn't like it when I say this, but it's like this putrid stench in the nostrils of a holy God. | |
| It really is. | |
| And the world is drunk with the spirit of what I call mystery Babylon, Babylon. | |
| And Paul referred to it a minute ago. | |
| But Mystery Babylon is really a way of thinking. | |
| So when you're intoxicated, you think you can do anything. | |
| That's right. | |
| And that's what we saw the other day. | |
| There is nothing as sad as watching a drunkard make a fool of themselves. | |
| True. | |
| And this is what we saw. | |
| So we see, and Paul referred to it in Genesis 10 and 11, when Nimrod literally defies God with this same rebellious spirit of Babylon. | |
| We're seeing this spirit of Babylon rising up again. | |
| And so there's a Hebrew word called kodesh. | |
| It means holy. | |
| It means set apart. | |
| And so this reminds me of Daniel, who was with his three young Hebrew men, and they set themselves apart. | |
| You know, there was 120 that went in, but there was only those four that set themselves apart. | |
| And they were what I call the righteous remnant. | |
| They didn't drink the wine of the harlot Babylon. | |
| They didn't get drunk with that thing. | |
| They stood apart. | |
| And this is what we're called to be now. | |
| We're called to be light in the darkness. | |
| And what we're seeing is this spirit of Babylon. | |
| Today, they say that you have to have social justice. | |
| We have to be inclusive, coexist, have no boundaries, no walls, no borders. | |
| And in our political correctness, let's erase the boundaries of sex and marriage and do whatever we like. | |
| Paul referred to that. | |
| Kevin, don't the church need the gifts of the Spirit? | |
| Because there's not much discernment out there. | |
| It's like Exodus 32. | |
| We're seeing the Aarons with the golden calves everywhere. | |
| And so this is, we're talking about people that in Aaron's day when Moses was coming down, he actually saw the people dancing in a naked delirium around this golden calf. | |
| And he said, what are you doing? | |
| And Aaron said, who was the high priest? | |
| He said, well, I just threw the gold in and out came this calf. | |
| Well, and this is the compromise that we see inside the church today. | |
| We have Aarons who Ezekiel said, man of God, I gave you a word to preach. | |
| And if these people die in their sin and iniquity, the blood is on your hands. | |
| And so to preach the word of God like you're doing with your messages, Jim, is so crucial in this hour because we have a responsibility as people of God to speak the pure word. | |
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Through the Tomb First
00:00:23
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| It's not just, oh, let's come to the cross. | |
| It's go through the cross, lay on it, be nailed to it, because you can't, there's no such thing as a painless Pentecost. | |
| You can't have an upper room experience until you've gone through the tomb first to be risen in the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. | |
| That's right. | |
| You have to have God. | |