Welcome to Battles of Faith.
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We are your host
Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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Today we are continuing
our series on the entertainment
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industry in which we
compare it to a black hole.
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Again a black hole is
that place in space where no
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light can escape.
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In our last program, behind
the scenes we saw how we can
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be changed by beholding
the images on the television,
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either for good or for evil.
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So we want to behold
those things that will draw us
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closer to God.
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We have an article here
and it is entitled Violence,
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Sex Increases In Movies.
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A new Harvard study shows
violence, sex and profanity in
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movies increased significantly
between 1992 and 93.
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While ratings became
more lenient, research by the
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Kids Risk Project at
the Harvard School of Public
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Health found a ratings
Crete in movies and suggests
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that the Motion Pictures
Association of America was
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relaxing
standards in rating films.
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The study release suggests
that films rated PG and PG-13
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have become more violent,
that there was more sexual
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content in PG, PG-13 and
R films and more profanity
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was used in films
rated PG-13 and R.
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The researchers say the
current rating system does
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not adequately
describe the content of movies.
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The study also found
more violence and animated
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G- rated films than in
non-animated films with the same
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rating and emphasize
that animation doesn't
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guarantee appropriate content.
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So no longer can parents
think that just because it
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is animated movie or
cartoon that it is okay.
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Yeah remember we discussed
in our last program that the
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enemy uses mediums, or media
to distinguish, or rather blur
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that line that distinguishes
between good and evil.
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It is not surprising to
see that these standards that
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were once set in place to
protect children, are now slowly
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lowered and lowered and
remember the devil does not
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care how young you are.
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He is going to try to do
all that he can to change
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your characters, to change
us into his image and into
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his likeness and we see
this as one of the ways that
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he is doing it.
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Right, just like we
mentioned in other programs with
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Jesus it was all the
babies under two, and with Moses
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the same thing, correct?
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He doesn't care
how young they are.
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I'm thinking about these
people in this entertainment
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industry who make
these decisions and say,
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you know what we can
allow a little more profanity in
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this children's film or
we can elude to this sexual
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thing in the children's films.
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I know they are not coming
up with these ideas on their
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own, Satan is whispering a
spell, which we talked about
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before, and they are accepting
it and making these changes
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because we are allowing our
children to watch these things
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and it is changing them because
they are able to do these
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things that are
harmful for them.
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We want to say this, it may
seem as though we are coming
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down really, really hard
on the entertainment industry.
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If you have been watching
these programs and you are
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seeing our focus in this
particular series is dealing
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with the entertainment industry
and if you think were coming
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down hard it is because
we are coming down hard.
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Atonte: yes we
are coming down hard.
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The industry is coming down
hard on those who are trying
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to keep their eyes
stayed on Christ's.
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It's coming down
hard on young people.
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It is literally removing
the moral compass, the moral
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standard and they
are not afraid to do it.
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You know they are not afraid
to get out there and do what
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they believe in and so we
believe as Christians we should
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be just as bold.
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The Bible says we should
expose the works of darkness.
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We not only want to expose
the works of darkness, but we
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also want to show you how
to escape from that black hole.
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We have traveled and spoke
in many places where when we
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make appeals for young
people to come forward.
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They are shaking, they are
trembling and we are talking
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about appeals dealing with
the entertainment industry.
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Dealing with giving up
those things they know are
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addictive, I'm telling
you as I see people literally
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struggle over this, we have
I believe appropriately called
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it a black hole
because it is difficult,
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especially for young people.
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It is difficult to break
that bond because so many of our
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peers are in this
black hole as well.
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It seems like something that
is normal until the light of
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Jesus Christ comes in and
we see the battle plan of Satan
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revealed and we see the
battle plans of Jesus Christ
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revealed, and when we
see those things our eyes are
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opened and we see how
dangerous an attack this is.
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Mostly because it
seems so innocent.
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He is not exaggerating
when he said shaking,
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he has literally made
appeals and young people
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are literally shaking
because they want to make
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the right decision.
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They are feeling convicted
by the spirit to let these
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things go, but Satan is
right there trying to trap
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them and keep them.
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There is a severe battle,
it is a great controversy going
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on right there in their chair.
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This is why these
programs are so important,
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and it is important that
we pray for young people and
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pray that they will have
the strength to cling on to
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Jesus who can
give them the victory.
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Again Atonte, when I was
in the entertainment industry
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as a hip-hop artist, we made
appearances on many programs,
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but one program in particular,
which is why we need this
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program Moved by the Spirit.
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One program we appeared
on was a program called,
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Soul Train.
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Soul Train and many people
know what that program is.
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It is a program like the
mountaintop experience for the
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entertainment industry.
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When you made it to Soul
Train, you were official!
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Atonte: right, right.
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A group appeared on Soul
Train and we were so excited
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about it, and after the
Lord came in and delivered me
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from the black hole, I
began to realize that there was
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more significance, spiritual
significance to the name
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of that program The Soul Train.
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There was more
significance to that name than
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I had a first realized.
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I happened to find something
after I became a Christian
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in one of my favorite
books, Early Writings,
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dealing with a soul train.
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I would like to take
the time just read it.
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It says here.
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She is speaking
here about spiritualism.
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Then it goes on to say they
are all going with lightning
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speed to perdition.
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Atonte when I first read
this statement I was under the
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impression that maybe
Harry Potter was going to become
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really, really popular
and everybody was going to be
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reading Harry Potter.
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I wondered, how is it
that it seemed like the whole
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world could be
on the soul train.
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This train heading for
perdition and it was not until
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I began to see
behind the scenes the battle
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plans of the enemy.
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As I was beginning to
see how he was using the
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entertainment industry
that I began to see how it is
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possible for
almost the entire world.
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You know if you go to Japan
today you are going to find
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hip hoppers, in fact you
have a statistic and I don't
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know if you have
it readily available.
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Well I do have statistics
on the top of my head.
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It says that 75% of those
who listen to hip-hop music
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are non-African Americans.
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I'll have to repeat that,
some people might think I made
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a mistake. Ivor: No!
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There was a time, 15, 20
years ago it was almost purely
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African-American, but
now it has actually reversed.
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Now more people that
listen to hip-hop are
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non-African-Americans.
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That's right I was
talking to a girl friend doing a
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little research for these
programs, because I knew we
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would be coming in
talking about these things and
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really we are not a part
of the hip-hop world anymore.
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So we don't really
know what's going on.
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However, she let me know
that hip-hop has crossed over
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all racial barriers.
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Every nationality is into
hip-hop and there are still
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rock groups out there, but
they are not nearly as big.
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She says is a matter of fact,
the rock groups are joining
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some of the bigger
hip-hop groups to make some
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songs together, just
keep their names out there.
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Because every nationality
is into hip-hop music.
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So we cannot no longer
say that hip-hop is for
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the young African-American
children because truly every
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body is listening to hip-hop.
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The article even goes to
say that it has entered into
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the board rooms of
America because most of the
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commercials use hip-hop
music to sell their products.
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Like Sprite, Coca-Cola,
they had the hip-hop beat behind
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it, they can't put any
other little hokey dokey song
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behind it and
still sell their product.
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So hip-hop has taken
over to say the least.
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Right, and we are not just
talking hip-hop art itself.
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We are talking again about
movies, music and all forms
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of entertainment as a
form of spiritualism has taken
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over and we can see how
the whole world is on board
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this soul train.
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You know trains move
people, that's what they do.
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The purpose of a train
is to move a person from
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one location to another.
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So when I think about the
name of that program Soul Train,
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I think about behind
the scenes of that picture,
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that concept of a soul
train my heart trembles.
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I see that truly many,
many people are on board of the
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enemies soul train.
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Now I want to take a look
at Colossians chapter 1 and
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we invite you again
to get your Bibles out.
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Colossians 1:23 and find a
statement here and I will ask
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Atonte to read that.
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Okay Paul here is encouraging
us to be stable in the
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faith, he is saying
don't be moved away.
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He's not telling us to be
literally or physically moved
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away from the gospel,
he's talking about emotionally,
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spiritually, do not be
moved away from your love for
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Jesus Christ, do not be
moved away the truth of God's
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word, be stable, he says
stand still in God's truth.
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Now let's look at a
word here on our screen.
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It is a simple word,
the word simply is move.
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What does move
mean? Move means to stir.
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Real simple, to stir.
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So when someone says I was
moved by that presentation.
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I was moved to go
to this or go do that.
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They are talking about
they were emotionally stirred.
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Paul here saying, do
not be moved emotionally
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from the gospel.
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So we understand that the
enemy of the soul train has
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one purpose, and
one purpose only.
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It is too what? Move us
from the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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To move us from our
love for Jesus Christ.
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When you think about the
word emotion, let's put this
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word up there.
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Emotion, the word emotion
you notice there's the letter
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E. and the word motion.
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The word emotion means
the same thing as move.
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It means to stir
or to be stirred.
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So again we see here that
one of the most effective ways
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the enemy of God can
move us emotionally away from
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Jesus Christ is through
the entertainment industry.
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Atonte: and through movies,
right? Because it gets our
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emotions, or any
television program,
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because our emotions are
up and down and all around and
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all over the place.
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Now think about that
Atonte, you just said the word
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movies, who wants to
take a wild guess why they are
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called movies?
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They move us, for the
most part, away from God.
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You know you said a little
earlier, when someone goes
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to the movies or sits down
before that screen and watch
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this movie, what is
happening during that
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two-hour program?
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Your emotions are literally
being moved, or I should say
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spiritually being
moved, for two hours.
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You're happy with
some good is happening,
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and you are sad when
something bad happens.
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You are angry when this
thing happens and your emotions
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are literally
being played with during
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that two-hour period.
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And you have no control over it.
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You have no control over
it, you have this moving of the
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emotions, up and down up
and down all across the board.
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Anger, sad, happy, joy,
all these things in two hours.
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Do you know what
that does to our emotions?
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When the movie is over
what do you think happens
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to our emotions?
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They have been trained to
be quick and jump all over
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the place, we get out
and get easily irritated,
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easily agitated, we're
happy one minute and mad
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the next minute.
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Joyful one moment and
the next moment we are sad.
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We find that we are
losing control of our emotions.
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We are driving down the
road, especially in California,
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there is a new
disease called "road rage".
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Where did that ever come from?
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People are getting angry at
the drop of a dime and their
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emotions are becoming unstable.
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I believe a lot of this has
to do with the movies moving
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the emotions and taking away
the barriers like we said, that
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allow us to be stable, to
be focused upon God and focused
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upon His word.
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Again this is another form
of sorcery, medicating the mind
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so that it cannot, not
only will not but cannot
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follow the law of God.
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You know that is an interesting
point that you made about
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the emotions as being so
used to being happy one moment
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then we're irritated then
were angry and we see that
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happening in our homes
between married couples.
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With mothers or
fathers and their children.
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Many times I can see it
in the store, mothers can't
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control themselves they
are flying off the handle so
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irritated with their children
they're not even thinking
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they are in a public place
and they are flying off the
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handle with their children
because they are so used to
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their emotions going
from A to Z in one second.
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And your A-Z just reminded
me about another new disease
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that has been recently diagnosed
in the last couple years
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and it is called ADD.
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I am not an expert to say
what exactly that is all about
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but one thing I do know is
that the devil is after our
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attention span and that
is why he is doing all these
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things by flashing lights
and music and all these things
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before our minds so he
can lessen our attention span.
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I think there is a spiritual
disease that many people
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are unaware of and
I call its sadd, SADD.
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Spiritual
Attention Deficit Disorder.
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Meaning that it becomes more
and more difficult for us to
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focus on spiritual things.
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Take for example, we go
to the movies and watch some
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program that our emotions
are moving all over the place.
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There is all this explosion
and drama, you think about
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those words they use to describe
movies as they are coming
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out, you've got
drama, action, sizzling,
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all those
different exciting words.
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You go watch this two-hour
movie and then when you get out
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and come back into the
real world what happens?
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Everything seems boring.
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Everything seems boring
and so you need what? More!
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You need more drama, you
need more action and so that
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is why you see these movies,
it is really the same thing
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only amplified.
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More explosions, more
bombs, more killing, more blood,
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more blood than
you have ever seen.
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That is how they do
their advertising now.
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It's like a drug, remember
we talked about the definition
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of sorcery, pharmacopeia,
pharmaceuticals, anything that
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medicates the mind.
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It is a drug that
medicates the mind and it is an
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addictive thing.
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So we begin to watch these
programs we become more and
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more addicted, now
watch what happens Atonte.
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So our attention line has
been chopped to pieces by the
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enemy because we have been
moved emotionally through the
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movies, then we come to
church and there's no what?
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There's no action, no blood.
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No blood, no sizzling, no
drama, you know what I mean.
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All of a sudden we begin
to lose interest in church.
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Atonte: It's boring.
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It's boring, the devil
pulls out his remote control.
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And it's interesting
Atonte when you think about that
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word remote
control, what does it mean?
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Atonte: to control. Ivor:
to control from a distance.
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Ivor: to control from a
distance and the devil will
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pull out his remote control
and hit the snooze button
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and there you go
falling asleep in church.
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Because it is what? Boring!
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The bobbing head syndrome,
and not only that but now if
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the sermon is more than
half an hour you are in trouble.
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Ha, this is too long, but
we could sit before a movie
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for two hours, three
hours and be entertained.
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So again we find the enemy
strategically setting his plots,
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setting his plan so that
we are slowly being moved away
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on the soul train from God.
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Again people will say there
is nothing wrong with movies.
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It was just a
nice little love story.
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What Satan does is that he
builds and builds and builds
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so that when we do get to
the word of God it seems so
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boring, but the word of
God is not boring at all.
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There is more drama in
here, the great controversy is
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one of the most exciting things.
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There is no movie that could
even begin to touch the great
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controversy
between Jesus and Satan.
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I think of the battle in
heaven when Satan was cast out.
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If you could go there in
your imagination, or your minds
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eye, and think about
what really happened.
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There is no movie that even
could dramatize that more than
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what really happened.
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I mean the Bible has those
things and they are good things
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for us, it is not things
that is destructive to us.
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I think about the current
fad in the movie theaters with
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the supernatural superheroes.
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We see it out there, there's
Spiderman, there's daredevil,
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there is all the sudden this
influx of superheroes for the
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world to look up to.
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Again I believe that when
young people, we are talking
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about young
people now, 5-6-7-8-9.
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When they are seeing these
superheroes who are dressed
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in these pajamas, muscle
men that are able to fly and do
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all these things.
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I think one of the things
the enemy is doing is he is
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trying to make
Jesus Christ look boring.
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Who wants to be like Jesus
Christ when you can be like
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Spiderman and climb
up the side of buildings?
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That is all foolishness
because the ultimate superhero
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is Jesus Christ and the
devil wants to block that out
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by providing his
own set of superheroes.
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So you have daredevil
with his rod and Thor with his
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hammer, and really
all these superheroes,
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in fact Superman.
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These superheroes are
counterfeits of the genuine
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superhero which is Jesus Christ.
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You may say oh what
is the matter with that?
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I remember behind the
scene the eye of faith perceives
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things that are not visible
to the naked, or the natural
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eye and this is why Christ
tells us we wrestle not against
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flesh and blood but
against spiritual wickedness
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in high places.
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You are so right, especially
about young people not
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getting excited about Jesus.
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Him healing people, they should
look to Him and get excited
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about that and the things that
He did on this earth were no
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easy feat, He was
supernaturally connected to God,
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His father and that was the
way He was able to do things.
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We could be supernaturally
connected to God, our Father,
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and do the same
things that Jesus did.
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That should be the
exciting force that drives us.
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That's right, that's right.
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You know when we go back
to that text Colossians 1:23.
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We look at that word when
Paul says be not moved away
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from the Gospel.
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The word there for
moved is Manta Kineo.
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That is the
Greek word Manta Kineo.
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Forget about the Manta part,
think about the Kineo part,
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does that sound familiar
in our English language?
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It does, that sounds a
lot like the work Kinesis.
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Now what does the
word kinesis mean?
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It means to move.
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So Paul here is saying do
not allow your emotions to be
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moved away from your
love for Jesus Christ.
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The devil will come in any
way he can to try to move you
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a way, and Paul
says I want you to stand.
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I want you to be stable.
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So that word kinesis or Kinetic
has a lot of significance
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in the fact that when the
enemy comes in, he wants to do
00:23:47.94\00:23:51.35
exactly that, to move.
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Now I want to look at another
work real quick because your
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probably familiar when I
say Kinetic or kinesis then
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the word may pop
into mind telekinesis.
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So let's look at
that on our screen.
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The supposed psychic ability
to deform or destroy an object
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without physical force.
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I would suggest that through
the movie industry, the enemy
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of souls is able to deform
our characters without the use
00:24:33.05\00:24:38.59
of physical force and
he is doing just that.
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In fact he would probably
blow your mind if I told you
00:24:42.39\00:24:46.71
that the word cinema is
derived from the word kinesis.
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They are actually connected?
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Through the cinema the
enemy moves the soul from God to
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another place away from God.
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In doing so he destroys,
or deforms our characters.
00:25:02.25\00:25:06.21
He actually
exercises telekinesis.
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Many of us would never would
sit back and say I'm involved in
00:25:08.48\00:25:11.51
telekinesis in any way.
00:25:11.54\00:25:13.51
Telekinesis has
no power over me.
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Yet when we sit and allow
our characters to be deformed by
00:25:15.92\00:25:20.76
the enemy, he is actually
using the power of telekinesis
00:25:20.79\00:25:25.60
destroying our
characters without the use
00:25:25.63\00:25:28.29
of physical force.
00:25:28.32\00:25:30.22
The Bible even talks
about that in Revelation 12:15.
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Ivor: carried away, now
this is a prophetical context
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where it is a historical
background we are talking about
00:25:49.59\00:25:53.03
here, but we see that one
of the enemies tactics to cause
00:25:53.06\00:25:56.47
the woman, which
represents the Church of God.
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In Bible prophecy a
woman represents a church.
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One of his tactics is
to cause her to be what?
00:26:01.10\00:26:03.49
Carried away, he
does it through a flood.
00:26:03.52\00:26:06.44
Right now the enemy
is using the same tactic.
00:26:06.48\00:26:09.32
Through the flood of the
entertainment industry, through
00:26:09.36\00:26:12.65
the flood of the media, he
is causing many people to be
00:26:12.69\00:26:15.91
carried away, to be moved away
from God through the industry.
00:26:15.95\00:26:21.03
Again Christ says I, if
I be lifted up will draw
00:26:21.07\00:26:26.18
all men unto Me.
00:26:26.21\00:26:28.29
In other words He says I
will pull you out of that flood
00:26:28.32\00:26:30.80
that the whole
world is going along with.
00:26:30.83\00:26:32.84
I will rescue you from
that soul train and redeem your
00:26:32.88\00:26:36.33
soul and make it to
the image of God again.
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Again this is what He is
calling our young people, our
00:26:41.04\00:26:45.15
old people who are on the
soul train, He is saying get off
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Board the soul train right now.
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I am your way of escape,
looked to me all ye to the ends
00:26:50.80\00:26:54.48
of the earth, and be ye saved.
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Now I know we are doing another
program on this, but it is
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connecting right now that
Jesus said if I be lifted up,
00:27:01.39\00:27:05.33
I will draw all men to myself.
00:27:05.37\00:27:07.41
We were talking about how
Satan uses the remote control
00:27:07.44\00:27:10.06
in church because
everything seems so boring.
00:27:10.09\00:27:12.62
We are bringing in to try to
entertain people to keep them
00:27:12.65\00:27:18.22
there, the same things
that the world is using.
00:27:18.25\00:27:20.81
Jesus said that if I be lifted
up, that is the formula on
00:27:20.84\00:27:24.33
how to keep young
people, and how to keep
00:27:24.36\00:27:26.66
your churches full.
00:27:26.70\00:27:28.33
It's amazing Atonte how
the enemy is sending the flood
00:27:28.36\00:27:30.15
into churches
all across the world.
00:27:30.19\00:27:34.76
The flood of worldliness is
coming into the church and we
00:27:34.80\00:27:37.81
are using it as a way to
say we've got to keep our young
00:27:37.85\00:27:41.31
people so let's bring in
the explosions, the action,
00:27:41.35\00:27:45.68
and all those things,
and I'm talking across the
00:27:45.71\00:27:49.97
denominations are becoming
more and more like the world.
00:27:50.01\00:27:53.27
That's true, we need to
understand more about what it
00:27:53.30\00:27:56.88
means to lift Jesus up
instead of trying to turn to the
00:27:56.91\00:28:00.45
world to entertain our kids.
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Well we are almost out of
time, but I want you to know
00:28:02.69\00:28:06.02
that our next
program is about video games.
00:28:06.06\00:28:08.73
You don't want to miss
it and until then God bless.
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