Success, Pleasure, Freedom… at What Cost?

Choose Life or Chase Babylon

Sep 19, 2025

Abortion promised freedom, but many women found only heartbreak.But this isn’t about judging them—they’re just the latest casualties in a spiritual war that has been waged in the background for centuries. A war over what we hold sacred.

The Bible describes the two sides of this war as Jerusalem (the way of life) and Babylon (the way of death). Satan’s goal is to convince you to choose death, and to accomplish that, he’ll dress it up however he needs to. He’ll call it "success"; he'll call it "pleasure"; he'll call it “freedom”.

But God is offering something better. Much better. Watch to learn more about the path of life, and how you can begin to walk away from the lie of Babylon today.

DIVE DEEPER
• WATCH | "Babylon's Bricks or Jerusalem's Jewels?" https://www.ucg.org/sermons/babylons-bricks-or-jerusalems-jewels-tale-t…;
• READ | "How Do We Approach Abortion?" https://www.ucg.org/members/compass-check/compass-check-fall-2022/how-d…;
• LISTEN | "Jerusalem vs. Babylon" https://www.ucg.org/sermons/jerusalem-vs-babylon 

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
2:19- Revelation 17
3:20- Genesis 3:1–6
5:13- Revelation 18:21
5:14- Revelation 18:4
6:13- Matthew 5:7–9

COPYRIGHTS
•ABORTION RIGHTS PROTESTERS GATHER… AP Archive, 2022. https://youtu.be/g3oTWV4e-Zs?si=R_9a6dK1A7shq1Ap 
•"MY BODY, MY CHOICE" CHANTS OUTSIDE… The Recount, 2022. https://youtube.com/shorts/f4VV-7k8epI?si=fQRRC4HBVYnwy2kE 
•ABORTION RIGHTS PROTESTERS CHANT… News 5 Cleveland, 2022. https://youtu.be/Q7YxruYpCFI?si=SItqyL994M6RCD-x
•VIDEO NOW: PROTESTERS CHANT FOLLOW… WPRI, 2019. https://youtu.be/F2dsV8uOQ6Y?si=TEWDj3v0A6vidwRd
•WOMEN LIVING WITH ABORTION REGRET… Live Action, 2025. https://youtu.be/X2Z37kuZwpE?si=jni30bmh6Xbg7nQC
•KAMALA HARRIS ON ABORTION RIGHTS: FULL SPEECH. Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, 2025. https://youtu.be/6nkebkYNa1I?si=LHwVN4Yhn7SMU-VN 
•SCOTUS BANS OFF OUR BODIES CHANT… PP Texas Votes, 2022. https://youtu.be/2Q91yBBFTdU?si=5dWhnzrs9_z6lEHq
•BATMAN FOREVER. Warner Bros., 1995.
•THE FABELMANS. Storyteller Distribution Co., 2022.
•MEAN GIRLS. Paramount Pictures, 2004.
•Flanders, Nancy. 8 UNBELIEVABLY HEARTBREAKING QUOTES… Live Action, 2014. https://www.liveaction.org/news/8-heartbreaking-quotes-from-post-aborti…;

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