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The Book of Daniel: ”Enemy Territory”

Unshaken Saints

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Babylon, if You Want to Run the World, You Better Have a Game Plan

"If I could create, if I could invent a verb, the verb would be to Babylonify," says Daniel. "We want you to feel not only that you fit into our world, but that it's your world too." If we can convince them that being Babylonian is the best possible approach, then what are they going? They're not going to want to escape because they don't feel trapped here", he adds.

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I've often conceived of John 1010 and the fullness of life that we have in Christ as being a blessing or a benefit of being a Christian. I think when I was younger, I thought, oh, if I live out the Christian life, if I behave, I'll have an abundant or full life. I've thought about that differently as an adult. But as I was preparing this talk, I realized that we often do conceive of this fullness of life as a blessing or benefit. But I think we need
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to think about it
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as a mandate.
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God is not offering us
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abundant and full life because
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we behave or
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because we acknowledge God. I think God is inviting us, mandating us into the fullness of life so that we can fully participate in his ongoing work as full persons in this world. I sincerely hope that the 2020s, or perhaps this millennium, will be known as an era where Christians stopped
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being motivated by escaping,
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not being motivated by a fear of hell. Forgive me. But as a season of Christian history,
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where we truly engaged
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God's spirit and work to enable this earth to be the place where God dwells, let us engage wholeheartedly, whole-bodiedly in the spirit's ongoing work in the world. Let this era be known for a new vitality and vigor in our surrendering and
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participating in the work of the spirit
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to bring God's creation to completion. Let us thrive as the fearfully and wonderfully made creations that God intended us to be. Let us be full of ourselves, not for our own ends, but for the fulfillment of God's creation and to prepare God's home here on earth.
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Amen. For visit us at fuller.edu slash studio.

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