Participants: John Lomacang (Host), Danique Tersmette, Scotty Mayer, Keith Detwieler
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017010A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:06 Hello, my name is John Lomacang 01:08 and welcome to a very important program entitled "Controlled". 01:12 Now that's a title that 01:14 it's kind of vague but very specific 01:16 because you may be living in a controlled environment 01:19 and don't even know it. 01:20 Your mind may be controlled and you don't know it. 01:23 Your children may be controlled and they don't know it. 01:28 This is a program that you cannot afford 01:30 to turn away from. 01:31 We have three very special guests today 01:33 that will open the door on a subject 01:35 that is rare and often not heard of, 01:40 but very informative, very timely, 01:42 very contemporary. 01:44 So if you wanna hit the record button right now, 01:45 I would suggest you do that. 01:48 If you want to take down the address 01:49 at the end of the program to a get a copy of it, 01:50 that's a very important thing to do. 01:52 But get your children together, your family members together, 01:55 sit them down right now because the topic "Controlled" 01:58 is so necessary to understand 02:01 that you'll only come to the light of it 02:04 as you continue to listen with an intent ear. 02:07 And we often encourage, if you're Christian 02:09 and you're watching this program 02:11 really breathe a word of prayer 02:13 that the Lord can allow your ears to hear 02:15 what the Spirit has to say to the churches. 02:17 On a different note, we thank you for your prayers 02:19 and your financial support of 3ABN 02:21 that continues going and growing 02:23 as we prepare for the coming of our Lord. 02:25 And thank you so much on behalf of Danny Shelton and all of us 02:28 who are part of this 3ABN family. 02:31 Now before we get into our topic 02:33 and before we introduce to our guests, 02:35 we have some music by one of our very own, 02:37 ET Everett is going to play a song entitled "Redeemed". 02:42 Sit back and enjoy. 06:52 Thank you so much, ET, for that song "Redeemed" 06:55 and that would be the intent of this program. 06:58 "To redeem someone from the control 07:01 that has taken over our world." 07:04 Let's meet our guests at this time, 07:05 to my immediate right is Keith. 07:07 Say your last name for me, Keith. 07:09 Detweiler. Detweiler. 07:10 Good to have you here. It's nice to be here, John. 07:12 So glad to see you and to get a chance to meet you 07:16 prior to the program, 07:17 and I know it's gonna be exciting. 07:19 Just for brief for our audience that's watching and listening, 07:22 just tell us what you do and where you're from? 07:25 Well, right now I'm from Collegedale, 07:27 Tennessee area. 07:28 I live in McDonald technically 07:30 but I work with Little Light ministries. 07:32 I'm a speaker, and I also do editing, 07:35 and so little bit of accounting, 07:37 and some shipping, and a little bit of everything. 07:39 Okay. Well, good to have you here. 07:40 We'll get more specific in just a moment. 07:41 But, Scott Mayer, 07:43 founder of Little Light Studios. 07:47 Good to have you here. Thank you. 07:48 Kind of give us an overview of... 07:49 Thank you for having us. 07:51 You know, I've been working with Little Light 07:53 since about 2008, 2009, it's kind of when we started. 07:57 And the way that God place this ministry in front of us, 08:04 it was never something that I woke up one day 08:05 and said, "Hey, I want to work in ministry 08:07 or I want to do this." 08:08 I just saw, you know, God opening this door 08:11 and that door and I always had an interest in video 08:13 and that's what I took in college 08:15 So I took film classes and ended up down in Hollywood 08:19 working in the film industry, till God got a hold of my heart 08:22 and opened up the door for this, 08:24 so we started working in full time ministry 08:26 in about 2009. 08:27 Wow, I'm so glad 08:28 that you've decided to take on that challenge. 08:30 We'll talk about how that happened 08:31 in the moment. 08:32 But, Danique, good to have you here also. 08:34 Thank you. Glad to be here. 08:35 And I found out where you were from originally 08:38 but tell our audience? 08:39 I am originally from the Netherlands. 08:41 I'm actually half South African. 08:43 Okay. 08:44 But so I ended up in United States, 08:45 felt like God was calling me to do this kind of work. 08:48 And so I do, just like Scott and Keith do, 08:51 pretty much everything, editing, graphic design, 08:53 shooting, doing some marketing recently social media, 08:57 it's mainly Keith and I do that kind of stuff 08:59 so pretty much everything that needs to be done. 09:02 Wow, a very excited team, a very purpose-driven team, 09:06 and your work has been appreciated by so many, 09:08 you've been able to go to GYCs, and ASI, 09:11 and the General Conference, 09:13 those are events that happened here 09:15 in the Seventh-day Adventist church. 09:16 A GYC, a large youth movement, beautiful spiritual movement. 09:20 ASI, Adventist Service is in Laymen industry. 09:24 How to share God in the marketplace 09:26 and General Conference which is something 09:28 that happens once every five years, 09:29 thousands and thousands of people. 09:31 But your media has really made it around the globe. 09:34 Just to kind of dive into the program, 09:37 Scott, I want to ask you, 09:39 where did the inspiration come from 09:41 to start Little Light Studios? 09:44 Well... And what is it? 09:46 Well, since my brother and I 09:49 and a childhood best friend of mine, 09:50 we all took film studies classes in college. 09:53 And my brother and I ended up 09:55 working in the television industry 09:56 down in Los Angeles. 09:58 And we had some pretty miraculous things 10:02 that God did to really wake us up 10:04 and shake us up and, you know, 10:06 we were raised Adventist but we kind of left the church 10:08 and had nothing to do with Christianity. 10:10 And when we came back into the church, 10:14 one of the first things that was asked of us 10:17 was an old youth pastor from our hometown said, 10:20 "Hey, why don't you come and you know, 10:21 speak to the youth about Hollywood, 10:23 they know you work in the industry 10:25 and they, all kids love movies these days, 10:28 so why don't you come and maybe show a movie 10:29 and talk about God?" 10:31 So the first time that 10:32 that our ministry ever started was, 10:34 we were going to, you know, show a movie. 10:38 Take for example, like, you know, 10:39 a Superman or Batman or something like that, 10:41 and somehow equate those characters to Jesus. 10:46 But we started opening our Bibles. 10:47 We started praying God what You want us to say. 10:49 We started looking into where did movies 10:51 and TV come from, 10:52 and once we started really asking for the Holy Spirit 10:55 to impress upon us, what He wanted us to say, 10:59 we started noticing that this movie 11:01 or that movie was actually saying things 11:03 that were opposite than the Bible. 11:05 So we did this presentation 11:08 and we never intended a ministry to start 11:10 but it kind of blossomed and we got asked to speak 11:12 all over the country in different universities 11:15 and churches, and then we started making videos 11:17 about some of the effects 11:19 that Hollywood has on your brain. 11:21 And then our ministry really kind of developed 11:23 into trying to talk about relevant issues, 11:27 lot of things that kids deal with these days, 11:29 and maybe there isn't a lot of information on them. 11:31 So we're trying to really open up the conversation 11:34 and aim people back at the Bible. 11:36 What does the Bible say? 11:38 And the things then this world, 11:40 they're trying to teach you opposite things so. 11:43 Wow, I tell you, it's been... 11:45 I've seen your product. 11:47 I've heard the name, 11:49 and I've heard people talk about it, 11:51 young people in particular talk about the product. 11:54 And some people have said, "You've got to see this DVD, 11:58 we got to see this presentation." 12:00 Praise God. 12:01 And praise the Lord for that 12:02 because what happens is the society 12:04 in which we live today is not coincidentally designed, 12:08 but it's intentionally designed. 12:09 Correct. 12:10 Keith, talk about that I mean, we look at the media today 12:14 and since Scott and Danique and you are all 12:17 collectively together in a market to say, 12:20 "Open your eyes, wake up. 12:22 This is what's happening." 12:24 What impact have you seen media have on, 12:28 not just the minds of the young but society in general? 12:30 Oh, well. 12:31 You know, it's really interesting 12:33 I was just surveying some of the Super Bowl 12:34 commercials recently and saying, 12:36 "You know what, what are these about?" 12:38 And there were two that were very striking to me. 12:40 One was a commercial 12:42 for a alcoholic beverage company, I won't name, 12:44 but they had an immigration theme 12:47 to their commercial. 12:49 And the other one was by Airbnb and they were talking 12:52 about how they accept every religion, 12:54 every kind of ethnicity, every kind of person. 12:56 And if you think about what our country 12:58 is going through right now, 12:59 the "Muslim Ban", you know, that's a very hot topic. 13:03 And here these companies used the largest commercial 13:08 viewing audience on the face of the planet 13:10 to put a message out in front of people, 13:12 that they don't agree with some of the things 13:14 that were going on in the government 13:15 so I mean, they know it works 13:17 otherwise they wouldn't be choosing that platform 13:20 to put that message out there. 13:22 Wow, that's true. 13:23 So they use these little snippets 13:25 and these are not long commercials. 13:26 You know, years ago my wife and I 13:28 worked for an advertising company in New York. 13:30 And they dealt with advertising for Coca-Cola 13:33 and they noticed around the Super Bowl on major events, 13:36 World Series, NBA Finals, 13:38 a lot of these sporting events, 13:40 that people were willing to pay millions of dollars 13:44 for 15 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds was considered like, 13:48 if you could pay for 30 seconds you got deep pockets. 13:50 And so we talk about some of these commercials, 13:52 because and they... 13:53 Let me ask another question, I'll ask Danique, 13:56 or anyone of you could answer this question. 13:58 Do you think that the, in being in Hollywood, 14:01 do you think that the Hollywood industry 14:03 studies the human mind? 14:06 I think for sure in today's technology I mean, 14:09 they're starting to test every film 14:13 that's coming out of various different media productions 14:16 with putting people in FMRI machines. 14:18 I mean, this is like medical imagery 14:20 that looks at what parts of the brain are activated 14:23 when you're viewing whatever pieces of media. 14:25 I mean, there's major Hollywood movies 14:27 like the James Cameron film "Avatar", 14:30 I mean, they did a lot of testing 14:32 with FMRI's when that film came out. 14:34 So they know that... 14:36 FMRI's here so that's an acronym for? 14:38 For functional MRI, so what it's studying is 14:41 that in the hemoglobin in your blood is iron-rich, 14:46 so it's tracking and it's basically a big magnet 14:49 that's tracking what parts of the brain 14:50 are using the most amounts of blood. 14:53 So they can see if you're, you know, 14:56 scared in a movie which part of your brain 14:58 that is dealing with fear, so your medulla and, you know, 15:03 your fight-or-flight system and... 15:05 Limbic system. ..Yeah limbic system. 15:07 So what they'll do is they will tailor the movie 15:09 to give you the maximum amount of effect 15:11 that it has upon you 15:12 because the more gradate emotional response 15:15 that you have, the more money they make 15:17 because you want to go and see it. 15:18 So that's why, you know, 15:20 commercials during the Super Bowl 15:21 are 5 million dollars for 30 seconds because 15:23 everyone is in a heightened state of emotion, 15:26 and those commercials affect you differently 15:29 in that state of emotion. 15:30 So I'm sure Hollywood knows a lot about that the way 15:35 the mind works and the technology 15:36 and they're using it to their advantage 15:38 to sell their messages to you. 15:40 And we've actually done quite a bit of research 15:42 about this how media affects your brain 15:44 in one of our documentaries "Pseudology, The Art of Lying". 15:49 And I think we watched this one... 15:50 The Art of Lying? The Art of Lying. 15:51 That's right. Okay. 15:53 I watched this one before I ever joined Little Light. 15:55 And by that time I think I was like 17 maybe. 15:59 And I already decided, no, I don't think I really watch 16:01 that much stuff anymore 16:03 because it's kind of a waste of time, 16:04 but that really convicted me 16:06 the way the media influences your brain, the frontal lobe 16:09 which is the part of your brain 16:11 used to make decisions, your moralities, 16:14 your spirituality, so use that to choose to worship God 16:17 and say, I'm gonna follow the Lord. 16:19 And what happens is 16:20 when you watch these television, and movies, 16:24 and entertainment, the shots change so frequently 16:27 your brain can't handle it because it's like, 16:29 this is not natural to me 16:30 and you go right into what they call an alpha state 16:33 which is a slower brain wave pattern 16:35 instead of the beta which is very fast paced, 16:38 which is what we're doing right now. 16:39 We're critically analyzing 16:41 what we're seeing and everything. 16:43 And alpha state is nothing else 16:45 than just a highly suggestible state 16:47 or also a state of trance, hypnotherapist 16:50 trying to get you into an alpha state 16:52 'cause they know then they can reach the subconscious 16:54 and preach to you whatever they want 16:57 and you can't reject it. 16:59 Doctor Neil Nedley, he talks about this 17:01 in our documentary he says, 17:03 "You can't reject the message. 17:04 It goes right into your brain 17:05 and it changes your character, right there." 17:07 And even music, let me ask you a question 17:09 but they even choose the kind of music 17:11 because what happens is the music opens a gateway 17:14 to allow the information to be poured in. 17:16 Yeah. 17:17 And music is a powerful tool. 17:19 I mean, you think about 17:20 why did Moses teach the children of Israel 17:22 to sing the Ten Commandments to song? 17:25 Why do you learn the ABC's to a song? 17:27 Because when you associate a certain piece of information 17:31 with the music, it seals it into your mind and you, 17:34 there's no delete button. 17:36 I mean, you know, I'm sure anyone that ever spent time 17:39 listening to worldly music, 17:41 and you've walked into a grocery store, 17:43 you've been in a building where all of a sudden 17:45 they play that song that you remember 17:46 when you were in high school, 17:48 your mind goes right back to where that song was played 17:51 because there's no delete button, 17:53 you cannot get rid of that out of your brain. 17:56 And so when they associate those particular words 17:58 or those themes with that, it's just one more way 18:02 of like impacting our brains that much more. 18:04 And you have some samples, 18:06 you've brought some clips with you today. 18:07 But I like you to set up that first one 18:09 that we're going to see, and give us an idea 18:11 because these are a compilation of different clips. 18:16 Talk about that? 18:17 So the clip that you're just about ready to see here, 18:20 it really is kind of a sample 18:22 of a lot of different mainstream Hollywood movies. 18:26 You know, some people think that Hollywood is just fake, 18:29 it's make-believe, it doesn't have any profound effect 18:32 upon your spiritual life. 18:33 But yet, in a lot of these movies, 18:34 they're discussing very spiritual topics, 18:37 and you'll hear, you know, God's name thrown out there. 18:41 You'll hear some of the things 18:42 that you've heard in your Bible, 18:44 but most often it is 18:46 from sort of a negative perspective of God... 18:48 Or a coulter. 18:50 Or the coulter, yeah. 18:51 And so this will just give you a little bit of a sample 18:54 of what some of the mainstream Hollywood films are discussing. 18:59 I'd like to issue a disclaimer 19:00 about what you're just about to watch, 19:02 these are in fact clips from existing movies. 19:06 If you're not comfortable with your children 19:07 watching these movies or any kind of entertainment, 19:10 this might be the portion that you would like to exclude. 19:14 But it is not graphic 19:15 and it is considered something informative 19:19 for you to understand. 19:20 Here they are. 19:25 I've been called many things over many lifetimes. 19:31 Ram, Krishna, Yahweh. 19:38 God is tribal. God takes sides. 19:41 No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me 19:43 from Daddy's fist and abominations. 19:49 I figured it out way back, if God is all-powerful, 19:53 He cannot be all-good. 20:01 You are a king. 20:02 You lived in a cloud city 20:04 but evil forces came and cast you out. 20:07 I consider the possibility that God does not like you. 20:11 He never wanted you. 20:12 In all probability He hates you. 20:14 It's not the worst thing that can happen. 20:16 It isn't? We don't need him. 20:18 We don't. I agree. 20:19 We are God's unwanted children, so be it. 20:23 All around you are spirits, child. 20:29 I, Odin Allfather, cast you out! 20:36 I always like to think of it as, 20:38 I got him sitting there with the little message at them, 20:41 with the little moral at them, 20:42 with the little of what my view of the world is 20:44 because that's what every good film maker does. 20:53 And this was a story about Christ. 20:55 It's all about sacrifice, 20:57 the world like hear their cries. 20:59 So what happens? 21:01 He gets the knife on his side and later he falls to the earth 21:04 in the shape of crucifix. 21:11 You might save a man, I want personal Jesus Christ. 21:18 It's very, very destructive 21:20 in pretty much every facet of life. 21:23 Wherever this being was he always had four followers. 21:26 He would imbue with power. 21:28 Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 21:30 He got that one from the Bible. 21:31 Or the Bible got it from him. 21:33 You will never see anyone argue with their television set, 21:36 when entertainment television is going up. 21:38 They're not going to argue with the set 21:40 'cause they don't have the ability. 22:09 Wow. 22:11 Tell us what we just saw. 22:13 You saw a compilation of a lot of different films 22:17 that were either mentioning the concept of there is a God 22:22 but he's actually evil and we don't need him. 22:26 And, you know, they like in the video game, 22:30 little section that you saw it there, 22:31 they said that it was actually the king that was cast out. 22:35 And so they're kind of taking the ideas 22:37 that are taught in the Bible 22:38 and flipping them upside down. 22:40 What many people don't realize is 22:43 how your brain works just like what Dr. Neil Nedley said, 22:47 "You don't have the ability to stand up in the middle 22:50 of a movie and argue with it 22:52 because your mind is taking in all of these things, 22:55 and so what happens is they just soak into your brain, 22:58 and then they sit in there and you wonder why, you know, 23:03 kids leave the churches and by the hundreds 23:06 and thousands, and then many of them don't come back, 23:09 and many of them are, you know, immersed in this digital age." 23:13 So that was kind of just a sample of that, 23:15 a lot of our documentaries 23:17 really pick apart some of these modern mediums 23:19 and show you point-by-point, 23:23 this is what the Bible says, 23:24 this is what this movie is teaching you, 23:26 and a lot of times they are two opposite things. 23:29 Anything else? Keith, Danique? 23:31 What I think is interesting is what is it that altered, 23:35 called again that the whole video with Baby Einstein, 23:40 the whole presentation of Ted... 23:41 Dimitri Christakis. Yes. 23:43 So we interviewed him actually 23:45 in our documentary of pseudology. 23:47 And he talks of Baby Einstein which is a program 23:50 for toddlers or something. 23:51 And he talks about this baby on the farm, 23:55 when you see all these shots they're so freaking, 23:58 and they're in your face and then he talks about 24:00 "Well, what if a kid goes to the normal farm 24:03 because this is a show in which they're at the farm. 24:06 Kid goes to a normal farm and he gets bored, 24:09 because he's like why there is no sheep 24:10 popping into my face? 24:12 Why is this not happening? Why is that not happening? 24:14 And isn't that the same way with our Bibles. 24:17 All this stuff is popping your face, it's violence, 24:20 it's this, it's that, and then you have your Bible 24:22 and it's like people are like, "Oh, it's just some pages. 24:25 It's not interesting." 24:27 That's, I feel like that's what's happening to you 24:29 when you watch this kind of stuff, 24:31 it's just not interest to you anymore, you know. 24:34 That's true. 24:35 If you think about what a movie and what the Bible are doing, 24:39 they're both feeding you information. 24:40 That's right. 24:42 They're both feeding information about a world view, 24:44 your place in humanity. 24:46 I mean, they are... 24:48 they have a lot more flashy tools, and, you know, 24:51 their ways are using all manners of dazzle to get us 24:57 interested in their content, but, you know, 24:59 when you read the Bible, it's the Holy Spirit 25:01 that pieces together all these things in our imagination. 25:05 And I think like what Danique said, 25:07 one of the default problems that a lot of entertainment 25:10 does is it robs us of this beautiful imagination 25:13 that we have, so that when we do sit down 25:15 and want to dive into the Bible, 25:19 you often hear it's boring. 25:20 It's not as exciting as this movie or that movie. 25:23 And, you know, so I think some of these things 25:25 are just naturally addicting us to that form of information 25:31 and we're losing our desire for the truth. 25:34 Even the medium that's communicating 25:36 the information because the key is, 25:38 if I can get the information fast, 25:40 the point I want also emphasize you meant, you mentioned, was 25:44 that the images change so rapidly 25:46 that the mind doesn't get a chance to analyze it... 25:50 So its just recording it, it's recording it 25:52 because we all often look at something to say, 25:54 well, do I need that? 25:55 Do I want that? How much does it cost? 25:56 What is it all about? 25:58 Our mind, our frontal lobes or whatever system, 26:01 limbic system, I'm surely not a doctor. 26:04 But our reasoning powers are not allowed to grab it 26:07 and hold on to it because while we're holding on to it, 26:10 something else comes along we grab that 26:12 and something else comes along 26:13 and in 30 seconds you could sit there... 26:16 Yeah. Zoned out. 26:17 And when the commercial is done, it's like, 26:20 your body has just gone through a trauma 26:22 and you can't do anything about it. 26:24 Keith? 26:26 One thing that's really striking to me, 26:27 well, there's a couple of things. 26:28 One is the, the Gnostic themes that are presented to you. 26:31 A few years ago there was a movie 26:33 called "Man of Steel" it's about Superman. 26:34 Man of Steel. 26:36 ..A popular comic book character. 26:37 And in that film they really built up the similarities 26:41 to how much he was like Jesus. 26:43 The news media reported about it, 26:45 you could even go online at one point, I saved the PDF. 26:48 And download sermon notes, so that you could present 26:52 the different facets of this movie, 26:54 comparing the two characters. 26:56 And they provided you with media clips, and things 26:59 so that you could see how Jesus is like Superman. 27:03 Well, if you followed the lineage of that movie, 27:07 in the next one they took the character 27:10 and they tore him down. 27:12 And so Superman was this guy who was at odds with society, 27:15 and not as well-liked 27:17 and you could even see in the trailer 27:18 how they would call him a false God 27:19 and things like this. 27:21 And so what does that do to a person in the mind? 27:23 What does it do to their perception? 27:24 Because you're taking the two and associating them, 27:27 and then you're destroying that association, you know. 27:30 And so it's like well, what am I, 27:32 what seed is being planted for me to think about Christ, 27:35 you know. 27:36 The other thing that was very striking to me is 27:39 how violent things are getting. 27:41 There is a movie called "Deadpool" 27:44 that was released recently. 27:45 It's about another comic book character. 27:47 Very violent movie. 27:49 It was so violent they had to give it a rated R 27:51 rating which is very rare for a comic book movie 27:54 because they want those 13 year olds to be able to go 27:57 and watch, and you know, 27:58 their parents to go with them and things, 28:00 they want to make it more of a family type event, 28:01 but this one wasn't that way. 28:03 And it exploded, it was very popular. 28:07 It did very well financially. 28:09 And so what it did is it opened the door for Hollywood to say, 28:12 well, if it worked, now we can push the envelope 28:15 with more movies and give it that rated R rating 28:19 because we know that the audience 28:20 is accepting of it, they want it, 28:22 they desire that violent image to be put in front of them 28:26 and they'll pay to see it. 28:28 Well, and that's the seduction of it. 28:31 Push the envelope, but let's see 28:33 what kind of reaction we get 28:34 and if the reaction is favorable, 28:36 "Hey, let's keep pushing the envelope." 28:39 The thing that you talked about 28:40 Superman and Jesus being compared, 28:41 when the Bible says, there is none like me... 28:43 Okay. 28:44 And so but now you take a finite image 28:47 that doesn't really exist, a fictitious character 28:51 in comparison to the Christ... 28:53 Yeah. 28:54 ..who is true and real, and doesn't change. 28:56 And then in the next movie you have that character changed 28:59 which in fact he can't be like Christ, 29:00 'cause Christ never changes and then you tear him down, 29:03 and that stains the image in the mind. 29:06 Even let me go to some other themes and tell me 29:08 what you think about this, 29:09 and maybe you've looked in this area. 29:11 Even the formation of doctrinal beliefs like the second coming, 29:15 the movies like The Secret Rapture 29:17 distorts that, that's how Satan has taken 29:19 on the religious theme and completely, you know, 29:23 fought against the Bible truth on that topic. 29:25 The other one, Noah's Ark. 29:27 Yeah. Yeah. 29:29 You know, somebody that saw, I never went to see it 29:31 after somebody told me about it, I said, 29:33 "I don't want to see that garbage. 29:34 That's not Noah's Ark." Yeah. 29:35 Yeah. You know. 29:37 So an interesting thing about Noah's ark, you know, 29:39 on their actual webpage for that film, 29:41 they said that they stayed true to the integrity 29:44 of the biblical story that is a pillar of the Bible. 29:48 I mean, this was on their actual website, 29:50 on the front page. 29:52 And what's interesting is like 29:54 and there's a scene in there when Noah is telling his kids 29:57 about the creation of the world. 30:00 And what you hear is you hear Noah tell the creation story. 30:03 So he says, "You know, 30:04 God created the different animals and the plants, 30:07 and this on that day." 30:09 But what they visually show you is 30:11 one cell splits into two cells 30:13 which turns into a fish which grows feet, 30:15 which walks out on the land, which then turns into a monkey, 30:18 and then the next thing you see is Adam and Eve. 30:21 So they visually showed you the story of evolution, 30:26 but they verbally told you the story of creation, 30:29 which means if your mind is not able to sit 30:32 and decipher that information as it's going in... 30:35 Those two get married together, 30:37 they go into your mind 30:38 and then what happens in our church, 30:39 you know, there's many conversations today 30:43 about maybe God really didn't create the world 30:46 in six literal days and you know, seven days. 30:49 And so it's interesting that they're putting this idea 30:54 that this is a Christian kind of based movie, 30:56 but yet it's full of things that are erroneous. 31:00 I know and even in some religious circles, 31:02 not naming any denominational leaders, 31:04 have opened the door. 31:05 Well, it's possible that evolution and creation 31:07 could merge together in certain areas. 31:10 The Ten Commandments into the new version, 31:12 people are more likely today 31:14 and I've seen the impact of the movie industry, 31:16 they are becoming more likely today to determine 31:19 what they believe based on the movie, 31:22 rather than the study of God's Word. 31:24 And I think that's what Little Light 31:25 is trying to reverse. 31:26 That's right. 31:28 Talk about that little bit more? 31:29 So what we really try to do with all of our productions is 31:32 we try to aim people back at the Bible. 31:34 You know, it's the only way 31:37 that you can tell a counterfeit is to study the genuine. 31:39 That's right. 31:40 The genuine is going to be able to 31:43 instill the truth inside of you. 31:45 You cannot just study this movie 31:46 and that movie and then try to piece together 31:48 because there's so many different ideas, 31:51 there's so many different people 31:53 that write those stories. 31:54 And, you know, 31:56 especially some of the ones that claim they're Christian, 31:58 I mean, you have to consider the possibility that 32:00 if they are not sold-out to the message, 32:03 and they are not dedicated, consecrated Christians, 32:07 then we know that the devil can suggest starts to us, 32:10 so they may think, 32:11 "Hey, I came up with this great idea for this movie. 32:13 It's artistic and understanding of the story, 32:16 but they don't realize 32:17 who is suggesting that story to you. 32:19 And then audiences go and they sit and watch those 32:21 and soak those thoughts. 32:23 And so we really want our young people, 32:26 you know, we used to be the people of the book. 32:28 Right? That's right. 32:29 Then get back in the Bible because this is the guideline 32:32 that will keep us connected to God. 32:35 And, you know, just because, you know, 32:38 you started a movie doesn't necessarily make it evil, 32:43 I want to say that. 32:45 I want to say a disclaimer that 32:46 media can be used to share the gospel. 32:49 I mean, look at what 3ABN is doing. 32:50 Look at what we do. 32:52 I mean, all we do, all day long, 32:53 is create media productions. 32:55 That's right. 32:56 But I think at the end of the day, 32:58 we would rather, you know, 33:00 go to the Bible to get your information. 33:03 Don't just accept it because you saw in the film. 33:06 I want you to set up this next clip 33:07 that we're gonna look at 33:09 because what we're talking about here, 33:10 and what you're hearing us say is in fact, 33:13 people are losing their desire to become gold-diggers. 33:17 And let me just emphasize that, 33:20 I live in California where there are 33:21 people did panning, they did gold-digging, 33:23 you know, a lot of people go to Utah 33:25 and Colorado and out, you know, Yellowstone, 33:28 they do panning and gold-digging. 33:30 And it's an arduous task. 33:32 You don't find the gold or the diamonds on the surface. 33:36 Right. 33:37 And the very same thing is true about the Bible, 33:38 you don't find them in a nanosecond 33:41 or in 500 themes going by in 30 seconds, 33:45 you don't find it that way. 33:46 But the movies and the media is doing 33:49 is not only giving false pictures 33:50 of the true representations in the Bible, 33:53 the true characters of the Bible, 33:54 and even the word character is not even the good word. 33:57 The true personalities in the Bible. 33:59 Noah, a personality, Jesus, the Christ. 34:04 If we use characters, 34:05 then that's equated to the movie, 34:06 "What character did you play?" 34:08 I don't even like to use word character with the Bible. 34:11 But it's breaking down that 34:13 true representation of a message 34:15 that has stood the test of time. 34:16 The one thing that gives me 34:18 courage, Keith, Danique, and Scott 34:19 is this that there is an illustration 34:21 many years ago, it says, 34:23 "The anvil of truth 34:25 has worn out many hammers of false teachings." 34:29 The anvil of truth, 34:31 you can hit that thing for years 34:32 many hammers have replaced, 34:34 keep hitting the same anvil, 34:35 the anvil of truth wears out 34:37 many hammers of false teachings. 34:39 But set up the next clip for us? 34:41 I like Danique do that. Sure. 34:42 She actually really helped a lot with the editing on 34:45 in the creation of this documentary 34:47 that we made called controller about video game so. 34:50 Yeah, so it's a little disclaimer. 34:53 I was actually a video game addict for many, many years. 34:55 Okay. 34:57 I only realized that I had been an addict 34:58 when I listen to Scott Ritsema's Talk Media 35:00 on the brain on AudioVerse. 35:03 But so when I was there in 2015, I was in... 35:07 we were still in California, went to visit them. 35:10 And I worked for them for two months, and they were like, 35:12 "Well, why don't you make Controlled level three", 35:14 'cause we already had number one, number two, 35:16 two other documentaries about video games. 35:18 So this is our latest documentary we released it, 35:21 well, maybe I don't know a few months ago. 35:23 And, yeah, I would talk to... 35:25 we're discussing those games that are played most. 35:28 So Halo, Grand Theft Auto, 35:30 Call of Duty, and Assassin's Creed, 35:32 very popular games, 35:34 not just focusing on the violence 35:35 because that's just obvious 35:36 but focusing on the biblical messages 35:39 that are put on its head 35:40 and how is that impacting your relationship with God. 35:43 Okay. 35:44 Once again the disclaimer fits for all of those other clips 35:47 that we are gonna include today, 35:49 but here's what Danique just introduced. 36:19 It separates you from God and before you know. 36:23 You distance yourself in every way 36:25 from anything to do with God. 36:30 Bible became a boring book, 36:32 book that was dull and dissatisfying 36:34 because of the excitement and nothing natural. 36:37 World that was putting myself in playing computer games 36:41 was destroying my relationship with God. 36:53 P. Shavaun Scott and Niels Clark 36:55 in the book 'Game Addicts' 36:57 talk about that there is some sort of hypnosis 37:00 that occurs when you are playing video games. 37:09 You lived in a cloud city 37:11 but evil forces came and cast you out. 37:14 You take your image of the creators 37:16 from an ancient book written by men. 37:19 It is Master Chief who attacks the covenant, 37:21 he attacks Christ's plan of salvation. 37:33 Everyone is searching for something. 37:35 It gives you the ability to become someone else 37:39 or someone who is powerful 37:41 who can break the rules 37:43 without actually getting arrested. 37:45 And they found that many, many school shootings 37:49 are also linked to playing video games. 37:51 This satanic mean offers life after death 37:55 in the frozen forest. 37:57 Before you know it, it's not only applying, 38:00 anyway it's very, very destructive 38:03 in pretty much every facet of life. 38:09 It was completely effective 38:11 in destructing and making the great controversy 38:13 that was raging around me. 38:15 I just but totally absorbed in this thing. 38:44 Wow. 38:45 Once again, video games, I made the comment 38:48 because it's called Controller 3. 38:51 That's right. 38:52 So the inference would be who is controlling whom. 38:56 Talk about that for a moment... Sure. 38:57 'Cause you said you're video game addict, 38:59 I don't know if they caught that. 39:00 Yeah, so I was actually a video game addict. 39:03 I was completely a different person 39:05 before I became a Christian. 39:06 I grew up with Nintendo, 39:08 we had all kinds of devices in our house. 39:12 Me and my brother are very much into games. 39:14 And I mean, now I look like a very acquiescent, 39:17 Paul's probably say feminine person. 39:18 But I was wearing hoodies and jeans 39:21 and I was kind of a tomboy. 39:23 And I played all those games 39:25 that are actually in this documentary 39:27 so I played Halo, played Assassin's Creed, 39:29 played Grand Theft Auto as a girl. 39:32 All that I would say junk 39:35 played The Sims as well, of course. 39:36 And I... 39:38 Yeah, you know, I really, really, believe 39:39 that has an impact on you 39:41 and even has such an impact that 39:44 when I was researching for this documentary, 39:47 I was doing it for a whole day. 39:49 At the end of the day, I felt so far away from God. 39:52 I was like I have to get on my knees and pray again 39:54 'cause I feel drained right now. 39:57 So I really believe it has an impact on you 39:59 and this is what's happening. 40:02 And you set to put this together, 40:04 you had to step back and not continue them 40:07 to reintroduce yourself to things 40:08 that you had abandoned. 40:09 That's right. You felt that lack of... 40:11 It was hard. It was really hard. 40:13 I mean, I was, these were games 40:15 that I played hours in a row. 40:17 I once played The Sims through the night. 40:19 And you know, the Sims is a game 40:20 where you can raise a family and all that and simulate life. 40:25 And in the game, while I was playing it through the night 40:28 and I was able to get my child, 40:31 my Sim child grow from a baby to a teenager 40:34 and those who played Sims know it takes quite sometime. 40:37 And I was maybe 12 years old or something 40:39 and, you know, it's crazy. 40:42 And the thing is I was like, okay, 40:45 let's analyze these games, 40:46 I played these games and they're super popular, 40:48 know they're violent 40:50 but I don't want to focus on that 40:51 because every hardcore gamer will say 40:53 whatever I don't care about that. 40:54 But I wanna focus 40:56 on the spiritual message that is in there, 40:57 and when I discovered some of these things like 41:00 Halo, or Grand Theft Auto, it blew my mind. 41:04 And I thought why I have never seen those things. 41:07 Because your mind was controlled by it. 41:10 My brain was... Yeah. 41:11 My frontal lobe was suppressed 41:12 and I was not able to understand 41:14 and dig through these things. 41:17 And even when I was analyzing these games, 41:19 it took me forever to figure this out. 41:21 It's like you have to dig through 41:22 layer and layer and layer, 41:24 and I was just praying Lord, 41:26 I see there's something there 41:27 but I can't really wrap my head around it, 41:30 help me to understand it and then finally it hit me 41:32 and I was like "Oh, wow. 41:34 This is crazy." 41:36 What messages are in these games. 41:37 It's just insane. 41:39 And it setup, Keith and Scott, 41:41 in such a way that it keeps you 41:42 wanting to go to the next level. 41:43 That's right. 41:45 Talk about the appeal 'cause as speaker evangelists, 41:48 you also work in a lot of the graphic areas too. 41:50 When you go and stand before an audience of young people, 41:54 how do you say to them? 41:56 What do you say to them? 41:57 Well, you know, I typically always start out with science. 42:01 Okay. 42:02 You never know who's in your audience. 42:04 And so I think science as a good bridge 42:06 to establish some facts. 42:08 And once you establish some facts about 42:10 how that brain works, 42:11 what kind of effect it has on you, 42:13 what kind of effect it has on your limbic system, 42:15 and things like this, 42:17 you can really then begin to build a bridge 42:19 with your audience and say, okay, 42:20 now that we've established this truth, 42:23 let's go into the truth of what the Bible has to say 42:27 and see if these themes that are being taught 42:30 are match-up with this book. 42:32 And if they don't, 42:34 well, now we have to re-evaluate 42:35 our situation and say, "Is this the best thing for us? 42:38 Is this what God would have us to do?" 42:41 And if it's not, 42:42 then it's time to repent, right? 42:45 And it's time to move on from that to something else 42:49 by claiming the promises of God that He has the power 42:51 to deliver us from these things, 42:53 and to set us free, 42:55 and then live a victorious life based on his merits. 42:58 That's right. 43:00 Scott, would you say coming from the movie industry 43:02 trying to get people out of this, 43:04 this is almost like drug rehabilitation? 43:06 It is. 43:07 Because you know the dopamine that's released in your brain, 43:10 it's a very attractive thing. 43:12 I mean, if you're really addicted to TV, 43:15 if you try to just stop, 43:17 you will notice the withdrawal symptoms, 43:19 your brain will try to talk you into 43:21 why you need to see this movie or that movie? 43:23 I mean, the reason why they show trailers before movies 43:26 is because it's like bringing you to the next level 43:28 and continuing on forward. 43:30 So what we have found that the best way to do it 43:34 is you have to replace it with something, 43:36 you cannot just take it away, stop, 43:38 it has to be replaced. 43:41 And the thing to replace it with is 43:43 I believe we are out of time in this world stage. 43:48 I mean, we are standing on the precipice of time, 43:51 and you see the thing that the devil got, the Israelites, 43:55 when they were standing 43:56 on the edge of the Jordan to do, 43:57 was, you know, worship some other god 44:01 or some other thing in the world, 44:03 and then, of course, we know that calamity 44:05 happened to the Israelites, right? 44:07 Well, the devil has no new tricks, 44:09 he's doing the same thing to us. 44:10 Same thing. 44:12 He's getting us to worship everything else 44:13 other than our God. 44:15 So if we can unplug from these distractions of this world 44:20 and begin to build our relationship 44:23 based on the foundations and the truths of the Bible, 44:26 just like that song says, 44:27 "The things of this world will grow strangely dim." 44:31 And you see, I was addicted to movies like each one of us. 44:33 I think why God asked us to be involved in this ministry 44:37 and do what we're doing is because 44:38 I personally was addicted to movies, 44:40 to the point where I wanted to go to Hollywood 44:43 and make them. 44:44 That was my passion, that was my life, 44:46 that's what I wanted to do. 44:47 So people can't say to you, 44:49 you don't know what we're talking about? 44:50 Yeah, I was there. 44:51 I mean, in college I spent every weekend 44:54 at the movie theater, every movie. 44:56 Didn't matter what rating it was or nothing. 44:59 And step-by-step before I knew it, 45:02 I was far away from God 45:03 and had nothing to do with religion. 45:05 But there is some good news we're talking about here today, 45:07 because there's a way to reverse it now 45:08 as you set up this final clip 45:10 that we're gonna show, which there is no need to, 45:13 you know, turn away from this clip 45:14 because this in fact, to me, 45:16 is an introduction 45:18 and to how to recalibrate the brain. 45:22 How to get people involved, 45:25 rather than become meaningful, 45:29 wandering generalities, 45:30 they could become meaningful specifics. 45:33 And so set this third clip up because it's very... 45:35 I mean this is important. 45:37 It's taking young people that are trapped in a, 45:39 I can't do anything about it world, 45:41 to be able to do something about it. 45:43 So this is a neat project. 45:46 A lot of times people ask our ministry, 45:47 "So is there anything good for us to watch?" 45:50 So what we wanted to do is work on a documentary 45:52 that was a positive that was showing, 45:55 "Hey, here's a nice form of media 45:57 in a nice way to teach in an educational way." 46:03 And so this was following around an Adventist teacher 46:06 that takes the students on a wagon trip, 46:09 and takes away all the media, 46:11 and places them back in the 1850s, 46:13 and educates them properly. 46:16 Okay. Let's go right to the clip. 46:17 It's about four minutes. Don't turn away. 46:21 First page in the seventh grade health notebook 46:24 I still have it. 46:26 Question asks, it's kind of faded there. 46:29 It basically, "What kind of a profession you want to do 46:32 when you're an adult?" 46:34 "I would like to be a teacher 46:36 because I like young people and I like to help them." 46:40 Now there is a 13-year-old boy 46:42 who cut this picture out and stuck it on here and said, 46:45 "This is what I think I will look like when I'm a teacher." 46:48 The picture that seventh grade boy 46:49 pasted in that tablet 46:51 represented teaching as he envisioned it 46:52 would be over the years, but that's not what happened. 46:56 It changed, it grew, it took on its own life 46:59 and changed into the teaching that I experience now. 47:02 Students have been introduced to their journals. 47:04 Journals are significant in the immigration experience. 47:08 They became primary resources to us. 47:10 This is 1849, 47:12 he went on the trail you're going on. 47:14 And it's probably the first natural trail guide 47:16 that was written, it was a diary. 47:18 He kept meticulous records. 47:20 Campsites where you can find water and... 47:23 At school we have high structure. 47:25 It's very common, teacher will give a topic 47:27 and you will pull the topic. 47:29 And it's hard for them 47:30 to develop a freedom to write. 47:32 And they won't write because they need to, 47:34 they want to be right. 47:36 If I tell them what to write, 47:37 I miss out on where their trail's going. 47:39 I miss on their journey. 47:41 Today we're taking a new road to Oregon, right? 47:43 That route often leads to California by the way. 47:46 Push, help me push. 47:48 I can take these students on a wagon trip, 47:50 where the environment itself becomes a teaching component. 47:52 'Cause you don't have all of the day before you, 47:55 and unless you learn how to become efficient, 47:57 and work well, and use your morning 47:59 so that your night is well planned for, 48:04 you're gonna find yourself in a lot of, 48:06 well, you're gonna sleep on a better consequences. 48:08 Well, I'd like to have you considered, 48:10 what does it mean to be we? 48:19 Hey, who wants the dry dishes? 48:21 Can you reach back, 48:22 figure out the things you did yesterday, 48:24 make the adjustments that you need 48:26 and see if you can improve today. 48:27 In the meantime, 48:28 you're interacting with other people to make it work, 48:30 you're doing team work. 48:32 I mean, these are the things that industry wants. 48:33 These are things that business wishes 48:36 teachers and schools would instill in their kids. 48:39 Cooperation, and innovation, and having a goal, 48:44 and then finding your resources 48:46 and working them out to make it happen, 48:48 and then evaluating how that's going to turn out, 48:50 and then making the adjustments that you need, 48:52 do critical thinking. 48:54 Once I found these trails 48:56 and found out that they existed. 48:57 As an adult I was surprised they were there, still there, 48:59 but they're disappearing fast. 49:01 And I became acquainted 49:02 with an Oregon California Trails Association, 49:05 who started 30 years ago. 49:08 And their purpose was to identify these trails 49:11 and educate people about it 49:12 and maybe try to preserve them if they could. 49:14 So it's bigger than just me 49:15 taking kids out on these trails, 49:17 it's bigger than that. 49:18 It reaches out to other people of the country in the world. 49:21 This is a national, not a national, 49:24 this was a world movement. 49:26 The whole world can identify with this. 49:27 It was unique in the history of the world 49:29 and that affected the world, that migration to the West. 49:34 '62. 1948. 49:37 We had a way harder 49:38 but I think we're getting to a pretty good hill 49:40 like since we're used to our 21st century, 49:43 this is like the way stretching us. 49:45 And I think I'm getting a pretty good feel 49:47 how they felt, 49:48 how exhausted they were each day, 49:50 and like how dirty they were 49:52 and how they really didn't care if they... 49:54 People's hands are dirty 49:55 and they were just catching food and eating it. 49:57 It was pretty and it was, I feel we're thankful to that. 50:01 'Cause you have got to survive this desert to get to there, 50:04 then when they go out into what they call the real world, 50:07 it appears real. 50:08 Well, I science today, I'm doing math right now, 50:10 I need to do a little bit of Latin language right now. 50:13 When students going down the wagon train, 50:15 they're not aware that they're doing math, and science, 50:17 and history but they are. 50:18 They're doing in such a natural way 50:19 that feels like life. 50:21 That's what the wagon trip is, that's real life. 50:24 And I even simulated it into real life 50:26 and environment becomes the teacher. 50:46 As you can see, 50:48 that is one of the suggested ways of 50:51 getting your people back to a normal, 50:53 functioning, thinking state in life. 50:56 But, Scott, just kind of summarize, 50:59 we have some ways of participating 51:01 in keeping Little Light going and growing. 51:03 Talk about that? 51:04 First of all, we would love you guys' prayers. 51:06 I mean, this is more work than we can possibly handle, 51:09 we have a passion for young people. 51:11 That's right. 51:12 I wanna get young people involved, 51:13 I wanna make, we wanna make content 51:16 that young people are dealing with. 51:18 There's a lot of subjects that need to be talked about, 51:20 I mean, the internet, the social media, the media, 51:23 I mean, this is what kids are roped into. 51:25 So we need to be able to give them that information 51:28 and put it in a relevant way 51:30 and point people back at the Bible. 51:32 Many ways you guys can get involved. 51:34 Visit our website, 51:36 we have a donation page on there, 51:38 I mean, ministries need funding, 51:41 it takes money to make media productions. 51:43 That's why Hollywood makes movies that make look so good, 51:46 it's because they pour millions of dollars into it. 51:48 We need help. 51:50 We've got lots of people 51:51 that are willing to help us out, 51:53 so we're building a studio right now 51:56 in the Tennessee area, 51:57 and our passion is to get some of those young kids 51:59 that are being trained how to make media productions 52:01 to come and get involved so... 52:03 Wonderful. 52:04 I wanna make sure that the audience 52:06 gets the address roll 52:07 to know how to get in touch with a Little Light Studios 52:08 to get access to their DVD's, their YouTube free information, 52:12 and here is what you need to be able to participate 52:15 and what Scott just shared with you. 52:19 Little Light Studios mission is to create experiences 52:22 that optimize the restoration 52:24 of a healthy mind, body, and soul. 52:26 If you would like to learn more, 52:28 you can contact them at 10676, 52:31 Adlar Court, Apison, Tennessee, 37302. 52:36 That's 10676, 52:38 Adlar Court, Apison, Tennessee, 37302. 52:42 You can call them at 530-327-9323. 52:47 That's 530-327-9323. 52:52 You can also visit them online at littlelightstudios.tv. 52:57 That's littlelightstudios.tv. |
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