In this day and age it is very hard to keep our ways pure. Every where you look there is some add with a scantily clad woman or some innocent show you are watching and then boom, there is a couple groping each other, or you go through the check out line and "bam" there are adds with women half dressed. Your child is innocently researching some information on the Internet and "wham", a pornographic add pops up on their screen. Immorality is invading our culture and our home and it seems like we have become numb to this fact. We will excuse these things as harmless. Well they didn't really do anything, or she was covered, or... you know the rest.
I believe with all my heart that when we allow even theses so called "PG-13" images into our eyes and minds that we slowly give the enemy ground. And slowly we become anesthetized to its effects. We begin to tolerate what we once thought was shocking. We begin to need more to stimulate our minds, and slowly ever so slowly they raise the temperature until we are in essentially dead. We even put ourselves in danger of becoming spiritually dead.
I know right now some of you are thinking, that is just you overreacting. That those people who become hooked on these images, programs, sites, magazines, etc. is just weak willed people. I would challenge you to monitor for one month, what you watch. Write down in a journal, what programs you deem as acceptable. See what movies you allow yourselves to view. Ask yourselves would you want yourself or your family members to act, dress, or do the things they see in these media genres.
I would also challenge you to ask yourself, am I problems in my home. Do I have any "secret sins" that no one knows about? Am I living a double life? The Bible says "you cannot serve two masters. You will the one and hate the other." If we are serving our sin, then how can we serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? I am not meaning to preach at anyone. When I point a finger at someone, I am also pointing at myself. Brothers I urge you to seek your hearts. Do I want Jesus to rule my life? Do I really want him there? Will I allow to to walk in any room of my life and freely give Him access. Or is there a secret room? A room where only you can go and be alone with your "secret sins". Jesus you can go in any room you want, but...
The great lie from the great liar is that we can live these double lives and know one gets hurt. I am here to tell you that is a LIE!!! If you have this kind of life and even if you think no one is hurting, you have just given ground to Satan. You have given him access into your "home".
Where Satan is Jesus will not abide. Brothers ask yourselves this one question: If you have not or are not submitting to the authority of Jesus Christ, then how can you expect your wife, son, or daughter, to respect your authority over them? You need to be in line with the authority of God, meaning your heart, soul, body and mind have to be in line with God, before you can expect the same of your family.
Brothers before you ask where does he come off, I just want to say like those old Hair Club For Men ads, "I am not only the CEO of HCFM, but I am a client as well." I know of what I am saying here. My hearts desire is that we can be right with God. That we not simply just talk about God, but we live Him as well. It is too easy to give lip service and play church on Sunday. We need to get right with God. We need to spur each other on to the goal.
Brothers I will close in saying I need other like minded brothers who want more than life itself to walk closer with God. I know that there are other Christian brothers who need the same. My prayer is that we have this in the church today. Please be in prayer also.
Prayer Captain out.
I believe with all my heart that when we allow even theses so called "PG-13" images into our eyes and minds that we slowly give the enemy ground. And slowly we become anesthetized to its effects. We begin to tolerate what we once thought was shocking. We begin to need more to stimulate our minds, and slowly ever so slowly they raise the temperature until we are in essentially dead. We even put ourselves in danger of becoming spiritually dead.
I know right now some of you are thinking, that is just you overreacting. That those people who become hooked on these images, programs, sites, magazines, etc. is just weak willed people. I would challenge you to monitor for one month, what you watch. Write down in a journal, what programs you deem as acceptable. See what movies you allow yourselves to view. Ask yourselves would you want yourself or your family members to act, dress, or do the things they see in these media genres.
I would also challenge you to ask yourself, am I problems in my home. Do I have any "secret sins" that no one knows about? Am I living a double life? The Bible says "you cannot serve two masters. You will the one and hate the other." If we are serving our sin, then how can we serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? I am not meaning to preach at anyone. When I point a finger at someone, I am also pointing at myself. Brothers I urge you to seek your hearts. Do I want Jesus to rule my life? Do I really want him there? Will I allow to to walk in any room of my life and freely give Him access. Or is there a secret room? A room where only you can go and be alone with your "secret sins". Jesus you can go in any room you want, but...
The great lie from the great liar is that we can live these double lives and know one gets hurt. I am here to tell you that is a LIE!!! If you have this kind of life and even if you think no one is hurting, you have just given ground to Satan. You have given him access into your "home".
Where Satan is Jesus will not abide. Brothers ask yourselves this one question: If you have not or are not submitting to the authority of Jesus Christ, then how can you expect your wife, son, or daughter, to respect your authority over them? You need to be in line with the authority of God, meaning your heart, soul, body and mind have to be in line with God, before you can expect the same of your family.
Brothers before you ask where does he come off, I just want to say like those old Hair Club For Men ads, "I am not only the CEO of HCFM, but I am a client as well." I know of what I am saying here. My hearts desire is that we can be right with God. That we not simply just talk about God, but we live Him as well. It is too easy to give lip service and play church on Sunday. We need to get right with God. We need to spur each other on to the goal.
Brothers I will close in saying I need other like minded brothers who want more than life itself to walk closer with God. I know that there are other Christian brothers who need the same. My prayer is that we have this in the church today. Please be in prayer also.
Prayer Captain out.
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