Truth Matters 012122: The Struggle Between Today's World and the Spirit of Babylon

This is Truth Matters! Daily devotion with Dr. Cheryl Davis. Truth Matters is a ministry of The Truth Project whose mission is to empower men and women in the Christian faith to teach Biblical truth in the culture and the marketplace of ideas, using the Bible as a sacred trust of truth in sharing the message of Jesus. Learn more about the ministry of The Truth Project at www.projecttruthmatters.com. Today we discuss the struggle between today's world and the spirit of Babylon.

Here's your host. Lest you share in her sins and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you.

Repay her double according to her works and the cup which she has mixed, mixed double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow. For she says in her, I sit as a queen and am no widow and will not see sorrow. The command for the people of God to separate themselves from the world is a frequent one in scripture. One of the best known exhortations is given by Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 14 through 18. There are two reasons for fleeing from Babylon. One is to be separate from the sins of Babylon. Judgment is coming upon the world system of Satan and if we separate ourselves from the world we will escape judgment.

That is the first reason. The second reason is the flee to escape the plagues and judgments that are coming upon the antichrist and those who follow him. Just don't fall prey. Don't think that because the literal Babylon is in ruins today that the spirit of Babylon is not alive and well because it is. We need to stay separate from that worldly spirit which is a key to safety in the days ahead. And I think really to be honest that is the biggest struggle of the church today is the intermingling of the world with the church and we're losing our identity. So I implore you that if you're leading a church or if you're a leader in a church is to pray where the Lord would open your eyes to where the world has taken up residence in your church and it has polluted the people, it has polluted the work of the church and that he would open your eyes to come out and to cut out those parts of your church much like a surgeon's scalpel with precise precision and to open your eyes to who that is and to work that is and that needs to come out from the world and to be separate.

So we've finished chapter 18 and we will see that the blood of the saints has been avenged again on the economic system. So I thank you for listening to Truth Matters and next time we'll get into chapter 19 of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. I'm Dr. Cheryl Davis. This program is also available to speak to your ministry group or church function. She can be reached by email at CherylDavis at ProjectTruthMatters.com. Or if you'd like to send a letter, the address is Project Truth Matters, Post Office Box 159, St. Paul's, North Carolina, 28384. You can hear Truth Matters weekdays on this radio station at 8 20 a.m. and 5 20 p.m. for the full length teaching program on Saturday afternoon at 12 30. Until next time, let's all work together to teach a biblical truth to assist, equip, edify and encourage one another and bring the gospel to the world because truth matters.