In his sermon titled 'Don't be Boiled by Pagan Culture,' Jason Dohm discusses the gradual influence of living in a pagan world using the analogy of a frog in boiling water. He warns that just as a frog may not notice incremental temperature changes and eventually get boiled, individuals living in an increasingly pagan society might not detect subtle cultural shifts. Dohm emphasizes the importance of being vigilant and aware of these small changes to avoid being influenced negatively by them. He refers to 'living in Babylon' as a metaphor for residing in a world that is becoming more pagan, urging listeners to have the means to detect and understand the impact of these changes on their lives.
Let me use a worn out analogy. So a young man living in Babylon has to be careful that he doesn't get boiled one degree at a time. So the worn out analogy is the frog. You put him into a boiling pot. The boiling water is a shock and he jumps out.
But if you put him in a pot and you just start raising the temperature one degree, one degree, one degree, supposedly, I don't know if this is true or not, but supposedly you can boil him and he will never jump out because of the incremental increase in temperature. We're living in a pagan world that's not getting less pagan, it's getting more pagan, and we're getting subjected to one degree, one degree, one degree, one degree. When you're living in Babylon, you have to make sure that you actually have a way to detect these small changes and understand the impact that it's likely to make on you so that you