This message is not against having a TV, but against you.
John Piper in? What can we do in practice to be more godly? Said:
- “The first step is to recognize the need to become more godly.
- We must recognize that there are many things that rob us of time and attention in our daily lives.
- So it is necessary to choose a time and place for reflection so as not to be bombarded by television.
- Radio.
- Telephone or even through the Internet.
Instead of occupying our time with these superficial things, we should surrender to our Bible and God in a quiet environment. To be more pious, we must be able to give ourselves through meditation and reading Sacred Scripture.
In? Council for Pastors: How can you help your people find more satisfaction in God?Piper also warns us:
? Help your people turn off the TV. There are few things in our culture that inhibit us spiritually as television does; even dubbed programs are generally banal, insubstantiated and far from being considered enriching and cultivating the ability to rejoice in God. Also, if we consider deterrence of advertising. accompanying almost all programs, it is not surprising that many of our practicing Christians are spiritually incapable of having lofty thoughts and deep emotions.
It is a fact that we currently spend a lot of time on television, on the Internet, etc. Not that there’s anything wrong with watching TV or accessing the Internet, but you can’t think that reading the Bible for 10 minutes will be very strong versus 2 hours of television. As Christians, should we take every captive thought to make him obedient to Christ?(2 Corinthians 10: 5). We need to understand that:
1) Our spirits were made to love God
You will therefore love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength; This is the first commandment. San Marcos 12: 3
If you have great zeal for God and the things of God, but do not understand the basic doctrines, Paul says in Romans 10: 1. 2 that you are not saved. This is serious! All your zeal is empty, because in the end you do not love God with all your mind, submitting your intelligence to Christ, but think according to the flesh, who is the enemy of God (Romans 8:6. 7).
Nor do we want to fall to the other end of loving God with all understanding, but without any “strength”. We must love God with everything: wills, thoughts, emotions, and works.
2) Our spirit must be filled with great and noble thoughts
As for the rest, brethren, all that is true, everything honest, everything just, everything pure, everything beautiful, all that is reputable, if there is virtue and if there is praise. Think. (Philippians 4: 8)
Do you think that’s tedious? Maybe it’s because you think this kind of thinking is similar to the little angel sitting in a cloud playing the same song for all eternity. God didn’t make you want to think small and small. God has given you a spirit so that you can think carefully of the glory of Christ and the good of mankind. God called you to have thoughts about the beauty of Christ’s attributes, thoughts on how to bring people to this wonderful Savior, thoughts on how to feed the hungry, help the poor. , fight against injustice, thoughts on how to bring the Kingdom and do the Will. Father being on earth as in heaven. Sensational!!It’s hard. That’s why you need your whole mind. You have to get him to think about these things and not at the end of the next novel (by the way, do they all end up the same way?Didn’t you really notice?).
3) Our minds must be prepared and ready to act
So get ready, ready for action; be sober and put all hope into the grace that will be given to you when Jesus Christ is revealed; as obedient children, do not be shaped by the evil desires of yesteryear, when they lived in ignorance; but like the one who has called you are holy, you are also holy in all that you do, because it is written: “Be holy, for I am holy” (1 Stone 1:13, 14, 15, 16).
This? Therefore, this means that your mind must be ready as a result of the preaching of the gospel and the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Because you’re saved, you must have a prepared mind, but prepared for what?For a life of holiness. Living the alert life of a soldier at war, the life of a worker waiting for his Lord to arrive at any time Have your hours of television and the Internet made you more aware of the holiness and return of Christ or more well-off?on that.
We will post videos and texts every week for 1 month to guide you on this topic.
Don’t lose your mind
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