Think about this scenario if you will:
A 25 year old man is hit by a car in 1968 and slips into a 40 year coma… Fast forward to the year 2008; and this man amazingly awakes from his coma of 40 years, only to find that his world had completely changed. While lying in his hospital bed, this man turns on the television with an alien object called a “remote” and is astonished by what he sees on television! As he flips through the channels he sees and hears the following: vulgar language, people using God’s name in vain, men and women simulating sexual experiences, husbands and wives cheating on each other as if it were a natural occurrence, greed, children using foul language, extreme violence, commercials pushing pills for erectile dysfunction, .. and the list goes on and on. If you think back to the year 1968 (if you are old enough that is), there were none of these things on television. Sure, there were some sexual and violent movies in the theaters back then, but they were ordinarily rated R or X, and were not shown in America’s living rooms, with children and senior citizens watching.
Now think about this man finally getting out of the hospital. He goes to the grocery store with his wife. He approaches a young man stocking the shelves and says, “excuse me young man, I need to get something from that shelf you’re stocking.” The young man turns and looks at the older man and says, “you will just have to wait until I am done, can’t you see I’m busy old man?” You see, it used to be that if someone in a store spoke to ANY customer that way, they would be fired, right there on the spot. However, in this day and age, courtesy toward customers in a store is an unusual phenomenon. The customer is no longer the customer to be served, but one to be ignored and treated with disrespect. In fact, we now live in a “me” generation, with focus centralized on the greed and the wants of the world.
The world has really changed immensely in the past 40 years. Many minds of this world have been polluted by what they see on television, what they view on the internet, by the violent and sexual video games they play and through the immoral music they listen to. This especially applies to the youth. Sure, there are exceptions. There are children who have been raised by parents who weren’t afraid to instill values in them; parents who were actually able to monitor their children’s behavior and steer them in the right direction when they began to stray off course. Unfortunately these days, many parents are afraid of their children. They are afraid of the power that they hold in the system. If a well-meaning parent were to spank their child, that child could actually press charges against their own parents, and have them fined or thrown in jail. Isn’t that preposterous? I don’t believe in child abuse by any means, but even the bible tells us not to spoil our children:
Proverbs 13:24 (NIV) states:
24 He who spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.
Do you understand how this world got so messed up? I do. It is because that although Satan is the father of all lies, the head deceiver of all time and the most evil of any creature; he is subtle. He manages to slowly introduce different evils into the minds of people in a slow, but sure manner. Let’s go back to the man who was in a coma. One day (back in 1968) he is watching The Andy Griffith Show and Gilligan’s Island on television, and the next day he wakes up and he sees shows like ‘Cheaters’, ‘The Family Guy’, ‘Jerry Springer’,’ South Park’ - and even ‘Will and Grace’ and ‘That 70’s Show’ are full of sexual undertones and ‘That 70’s Show’ promotes underage drinking and drug use (marijuana). Wouldn’t that be a huge shock to someone’s system who hadn’t seen television in 40 years? Sex, violence, foul language, greed, homosexuality and dishonesty being publicly displayed on television, is something that did not occur just 40 years back.
Now, let’s take a look at the way we view television in this era. We see so much sex, violence, foul language, homosexuality, infidelity, greed and so much more evil on television, that it no longer phases us. Gradually we’ve seen television and the media evolve to the level we are at currently, and we never even noticed it happening. If we did notice, we just became ignorant of it and let it go. Each time we see sex, violence or greed and other evils on the big screen or on television, we become that much more desensitized by what we see and hear. After a while, we just “accept” what we see as “NORMAL for this day and age”. Why do we accept it? Because after a while, we begin to believe the lies of the enemy - the lies that tell us “THIS IS NORMAL - JUST ACCEPT IT!”. But let me tell you, these things are not normal in God’s eyes, and shouldn’t be normal in our eyes either. When we embrace what the world is doing, we become friends with the world; and in turn become displeasing in God’s eyes, and therefore an enemy to God. It says the following in James 4:
James 4:1-5 (NIV)
Submit Yourselves to God
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 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. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
We need to stop believing the enemy and the world, and again start thinking about pleasing God and turn back to what He would want for us to believe is normal. Return back to your bibles people, as that is the only place you will find what God would want you to classify as “normal”.
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