Look, God gave you a child, the Bible says children are an heritage of the Lord and when
that child comes to you it's like a blank piece of paper.
Nobody has written on that paper, nobody has taught them anything, nobody has given them
any kind of information, I mean they're yours and God says I'm giving you this child because
I think that you sir and you ma'am are the best parents that this child could have and
I'm giving this child to you and I want you to raise this child in the nurture and admonition
of the Lord and then what do you do, you take that child because you're too lazy to play
with the child, you're too lazy to teach the child, you sit the child in a little boppy
or whatever they call it, I don't know, they put it in its little boppy, its little chair
in front of the television and you let Bert and Ernie teach your child.
I'm going to tell you something, you know why I'm an independent fundamental Baptist
today, you know why I'm a hellfire and damnation preacher, you know why I believe in righteous
living, you know why I knock doors and go soul winning and win people to Christ every
week of my life, I'll tell you why, because when I was a little kid, there was a little
phase when I was about 4, 5, 6 years old and we just happened to be in some really good
churches during that time, really good preaching, very fundamental, very straight down the line,
the whole rest of my life we kind of went to more liberal, loose churches and when I
was a teenager we were going to very liberal churches, very liberal Baptist churches, how
is it that by the time I was 17, 18 years old, I came to myself, I came full circle
and here I am back where I was at when I was 4, 5, 6 years old, the same things I believe
right now is what I believe as a 4, 5, and 6 year old boy, how did that happen?
Because those are the formative years, that's the vital time of training, that's where you're
programming these children, that's where you're training up a child in the way he should
go.
I remember when I was in Indiana, I was a Sunday school teacher for ages 4, 5, and then
all the way up through 2nd grade, and I remember thinking to myself, and I'm not exaggerating,
I'm not kidding at all, I said to myself, I have the most important job, and I told
the pastor, I said, you know, you're preaching to people and half the adults in the crowd,
they don't agree with you, or they're deciding whether they believe what you're saying or
not, and they're sitting there skeptical and whatever, these 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 year olds, I'm
preaching to them the word of God, they're just sucking it up like a sponge, they believe
everything that's preached to them out of the Bible, they just believe it, and they're
being programmed for life, I said, man, this is important, I'm not going to take it lightly,
I've got to prepare these sermons, I've got to do this right, I've got to make sure that
what I'm preaching is right, because I have the most important job with young children,
but who's the one who's spending the most time in front of the TV, little Johnny, little
Susie, are being sent in front of the television, that's their mom, that's their baby sitter,
that's their dad, that's who's training them, and are they being taught the things of God,
are they being taught the King James Bible, are they being taught how to live a clean
life, no, well you know, maybe that's why, I wonder if that has anything to do with the
fact that one million unmarried teenage girls will become pregnant this year, I wonder if
that has something to do with that, I don't think those statistics were like that before
the 1940s when the television was invented, I don't think so at all, maybe that's why
there's 43% of teenage girls today don't think there's anything wrong with marriage relationship
outside of marriage, maybe that's why 36% of teenage girls say they plan to live with
a man before they marry him, maybe that's why 80% of women who marry are not pure when
they get married, they're not virgins, and maybe that's why 2.5 million men and women
in the United States today live together and bypass getting married completely, huh, I
wonder where they learned that, did they learn it at church, did they learn it from their
mom and dad who were married, or did they learn it from the television, you be the judge,
and the other thing about these Disney movies, you gotta watch out, look at the voices, who's
doing the voice, Robin Williams, who's a stinking pervert, you say, millions, he's
in all these PG rated movies, why don't you go down to the video store and rent one of
his stand up comedy acts, and he'll give you just the filthiest stuff, you say, well Eddie
Murphy's doing the voice, oh you're talking about Eddie Murphy, who is coming out of the
closet as a sodomite now, just recently, you're talking about Eddie Murphy, who if you get
his stand up comedy act, every other word's gonna be the F word, and every other word's
gonna be some vile thing, you say, but he plays this little cartoon, and this little
face from around, yeah but you don't understand, these little kids, they're being programmed,
and they hear that voice, ha ha ha, and they think it's funny, and they like it, and they
hear that voice, and then they grow up and they hear the voice again, Eddie Murphy, oh
I like Eddie Murphy, oh I like Robin Williams, and then they watch a movie about Robin Williams
dressing in drag, as Mrs. Doubtfire, and they watch the movie, ha ha ha, it's not funny,
when you look at the result, get your head out of the stinkin' sand and see what's going
on, you say, well you're a fanatic, you're radical, you're over the top, I'm not, I'm
not the one that's promoting violence 12,000 times, I'm not the one who's teaching girls
to go destroy their purity and get diseases and ruin their life, you're the one that's
the addict, I'm not addicted to anything, I do whatever I want, you see what I mean,
you say, well, I, you know, maybe you're the man or whatever, and you say, well, you know,
I want to get rid of my television, I don't think it's right, I don't think we should
be watching it, but you know what, I'm at work all day, and my wife and kids, you know,
they're bored and they just watch the thing, and I tried to talk to them about getting
rid of it, and I said, you know, maybe we should get rid of this thing, but my wife
just wasn't going for it, and you know, and the kids, they whine and fuss about it, so
I just, I just don't know what to do, pastor, because I just can't, look, I will show you
what you need to do, I will show you what you need to do right now, okay, but you know
what, I forgot to unveil my, this was supposed to be unveiled for the whole sermon, but,
you know, first of all, this would be a good place to start right here, you cut the cord
on the television, okay, but listen, but you say, well, you know, I tried to explain it
to them, and they just don't get it, and then, pastor, I just don't want to fight this battle
in my home, well, I'm going to show you, I'm going to demonstrate to you, okay, exactly
how to explain it to them, okay, you know, you say, well, how do I explain it to them,
how do I tell, how do I break the ice on this subject, you say, well, okay, let me give
you an example, you just got home from work, okay, you roll in the door, you get home from
work, everybody's in a good mood, it's a good time, you know, to break the news, about what
you heard in church on Sunday, you know, and you get home, here, let me, I'll act it out
for you, okay, this is exactly what you say, this is exactly what you do.
And that's how you explain it to your family who doesn't seem to understand why they shouldn't
be watching that kind of garbage, and I just have a funny feeling that they're going to
understand it right away, you say, well, what if they go buy another one, what if I come
home and they bought another one, they're not going to buy another one, okay, you know,
it's funny, but that's how I feel about it, and that's the truth.