1. ISRAEL 1000 David (and Psalms) 931 Israel and Judah Split 721 Fall of Samaria (capital of Israel) 581 Fall of Jerusalem (capital of Judah)

2. ISRAEL Babylon Jerusalem By the Rivers of Babylon Where do we belong? Babylon or Jerusalem? The World or the Kingdom of Heaven?

3. By the Rivers of Babylon 1)Where do we belong? 2)Kingdom Activities take place when our hearts are in the kingdom

4. By the Rivers of Babylon 1)Where do we belong? 2)Kingdom Activities take place when our hearts are in the kingdom 3)How do we deal with those who work against the Kingdom of Heaven

5. Challenge: Psalm 137 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" 4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill]. 6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. 7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!" 8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-- 9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. When the music fades Thank God for his written word to us We belong in the Kingdom where we do Kingdom activities

6. Challenge & Confession: Psalm 1 1 Blessed 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. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He 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. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. To be in your presence Thank God for his written word to us