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ISRAELBabylon

Jerusalem

By the Rivers of Babylon

Where do we belong?

Babylon or Jerusalem?

The World or the Kingdom of Heaven?

By the Rivers of Babylon

1) Where do we belong?

2) Kingdom Activities take placewhen our hearts are in the kingdom

By the Rivers of Babylon

1) Where do we belong?

2) Kingdom Activities take placewhen our hearts are in the kingdom

3) How do we deal with those who work against the Kingdom of Heaven

KEEP CALM

AND

LET GOD JUDGE

Challenge: Psalm 1371By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept

when we remembered Zion.2There on the poplars we hung our harps,3for there our captors asked us for songs,

our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].

6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

7Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"

8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--

9he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

KEEP CALM

AND

LET GOD JUDGE

When the music fadesThank God for his written word to us

We belong in the Kingdomwhere we do

Kingdom activities

KEEP CALM

AND

DO IT RIGHT

KEEP CALM

AND

JUST SAY NO

Challenge & Confession: Psalm 1 1Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

2But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

4Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

To be in your

presenceThank God for his written word to us