I love the TV show “24.” If you watch it, you love it, too.

Jack Bauer is continually up against three types of people: terrorists, traitors and talkers.

Jack kills terrorists. Jack usually tortures traitors. Jack has no patience for talkers.

In Ephesians 6, Paul reminds us that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against evil forces of evil. They are the real terrorists. They are the enemy. They are the ones we must defeat.

Traitors and talkers though are flesh and blood people.

James 4:4 says, “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”

It’s possible to be so in love with the world that we’re no better than traitors. Our comfort and pleasure become the focus rather than the advancement of God’s kingdom. Without knowing it, we live as traitors of the gospel.

No better than traitors, are the talkers. If you didn’t see last night’s two-hour episode of 24, don’t worry, I’m not going to give anything away…other than one line Jack spoke to a talker:

“You sir, are weak. You don’t have what it takes to stare evil in the eye and do what is necessary to stop it.”

A talker is someone who talks, argues and nit-picks rather than make a difference. These are people who would rather complain about and criticize those who are confronting our spiritual enemy than get into the fight themselves.

I wish we’d all been born in the garden of Eden and sin had never entered in, but we don’t and it has. We’re in a fight for our lives. And the stakes are greater than even an attack on Washington.