Wasteland

 

 January 25, 2016              #1803

      

Wasteland    

                                                                 

Turn off the television
It is not necessary for relevance. And it is a deadly place to rest the mind. Its pervasive banality, sexual innuendo, and God-ignoring values have no ennobling effects on the soul. It kills the spirit. It drives God away. It quenches prayer. It blanks out the Bible. It cheapens the soul. It destroys spiritual power. It defiles almost everything. It is unnecessary for most of you, and it is spiritually deadly for all of you. (John Piper, "Preaching as Worship: Meditations on Expository Exultation," Trinity Journal 16, 1995)



Television, the Great Life-Waster
Television is one of the greatest life-wasters of the modern age. And, of course, the Internet is running to catch up, and may have caught up. You can be more selective on the Internet, but you can also select worse things with only the Judge of the universe watching. TV still reigns as the great life-waster. The main problem with TV is not how much smut is available, though that is a problem. Just the ads are enough to sow fertile seeds of greed and lust, no matter what program you're watching. The greater problem is banality. A mind fed daily on TV diminishes. Your mind was made to know and love God. Its facility for this great calling is ruined by excessive TV. The content is so trivial and so shallow that the capacity of the mind to think worthy thoughts withers, and the capacity of the heart to feel deep emotions shrivels. (John Piper, "Don't Waste Your Life" 2003)

"I have kept my feet from every evil path, so that I might obey Your Word." Psalm 119:101 

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This Writer, Speaking at a youth conference, Southern Baptist Convention 1955 said, "If Satan had wanted to design something to make children just as mean-sinful as possible he would have designed a television set" So enticing, addictive, this sewer of decadence has invaded almost every American home... seducing young people into its "coma" of indolence.  I understand that most children spend many hours a day just watching the trash and why not? They watch their parents, TV Lounge Lizards spend their good hours in this waste land

Do you understand why murder, sexual perversion and every known sin of decadence, how this nation has become so profane ?

There are so many examples I could give about the extravagances of television watching:

Adult-Intelligent men addicted to watching millionaire sports figures running up and down an athletic field.

Adult-Intelligent women living their life fantasies via soap opera characters (Most of whom are well known sexual pervert who have nothing to offer the world but their looks and voices) AND, if the desert of television were not enough, comes the computer and the snare of the internet, AND, if the sewer of the internet were not enough, now comes all of the temptation-decadence  of the ages wrapped up into a small hand held instrument called the cell phone. And, parents can not understand why their children have become so irascible and unconcerned about everything decent, Why the prisons are full, Why the court houses-half way houses are full.

Most education comes through the eyes, light impulses gathered by the retina of the eyes and transferred through the optic nerves of the eyes, through the brain and registering- interpretation at the back of the brain. You do learn some things through hearing-smell other senses. This blind man eye doctor reminds you to thank your blessed lord for your sight. Guard what you see and limit through the righteousness of a Holy God . The seducing attractions of the world which Satan so easily provides.

Have you noticed that the American dumbed-down society-civilization has become so addicted  the television that every fast food restaurant, every health care office, EVEN the garage where you get the car repaired has a T.V. set running non-stop . As I have told so many parents, Satan wants your children and he has found that he can seduce-captivate your children, Just as he has done with adults by offering to them every carnal thought seductive to the heart of man. " As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is               Proverbs 23:7