Psalm 101.
I will sing of mercy and judgment, unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way, O when wilt thou come unto me?
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart,
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes,
I hate the work of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave to me.
A froward heart shall depart from me, I will not know a wicked person.
Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off.
Him that have in high look and a proud heart, will not I suffer.
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me.
He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
He that worketh deceit, shall not dwell within my house.
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all wicked
doers from the city of the Lord.
He that filtrated the homes of America, and that's what we read about in the psalm right
here in verse number three, actually verse two at the end, he said,
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
You see it's one thing to be outside, it's one thing to be at church or on the job
and to walk right when people are watching, to do what's right when other people are around,
to do what's right in front of other people, but what about when you're in your house?
David said when I'm in my house, all by myself, he said in verse number three
he said I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes.
He said when I'm in my house, I will not take that opportunity of being by myself
or alone outside the crowd to put something wicked in front of my eyes.
Then he said I hate the work of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave to me.
A forward heart shall depart from me, I will not know a wicked person,
who so privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off,
and that hath a high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Mine eyes, notice again he's talking about what he's putting in front of his eyes,
shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me.
He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
He that worketh deceit, he's saying basically a liar,
somebody who's a deceiver, shall not dwell within my house.
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight.
He said I don't want to watch or look at somebody who's a liar.
I don't want to watch something that's wicked.
And I'm going to tell you something tonight,
the television is what I'm preaching against tonight,
and the television is nothing but sitting down and watching wickedness, lies,
deceit, garbage, smut, filth, nudity, blasphemy.
You know that's what's on TV and that's what I'm preaching against tonight.
Now, I don't care whether you say,
well, I've never heard a pastor preach against the television,
probably because he's got a television in his living room that he watches.
That's why he never heard it before.
I don't have a television.
So I can get up and stand by the pulpit and preach against it,
because you know what, I've not even watched TV
on anybody's television for over six years.
And I haven't owned a television in about eight years,
since I've been married pretty much, I didn't have a television.
And I'm going to tell you something, television's wicked.
And tonight's sermon is called this,
and don't have a preconceived idea right now
and just turn me off.
Why don't you listen tonight as what the Bible says
and what I'm going to preach,
and then you walk away and be the judge at the end.
But don't answer it in your mind before you've heard the sermon.
Listen to the sermon, listen to the word of God,
and then if you think that I'm wrong,
you're entitled to your opinion.
And you can be wrong about it.
But look at Revelation chapter 18.
Look at the last book in the Bible, Revelation,
and turn to chapter 18.
Now, in the average church,
you'll hear the pastor get up and say,
hey, be careful with your television.
What's that supposed to mean?
Don't sit too close to it?
You know, when your kid mom says,
don't sit too close to the TV,
be careful with it.
Well, let's see what the Bible says.
Look at Revelation 18.
I'm going to teach you a word
that's used a lot in the Bible,
and I've got the dictionary definition,
but I'm going to show you how the Bible teaches
the same definition, and that word is sorcery.
Look, if you would, at Revelation 18, verse 23.
The Bible reads,
and the light of a candle shall shine no more
at all in thee, and the voice of the bridegroom
and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee.
For thy merchants were the great men of the earth.
Watch this.
For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Now, if you would, turn to Acts chapter eight.
So he said there, for by thy sorceries,
he's talking to a nation.
Probably the United States would be a great example,
but he says, by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Now, let me read for you
the dictionary definition of sorcery.
This is from the American Heritage Dictionary
of the English language, fourth edition, 2006.
The dictionary definition of sorcerer is a noun,
and it means the use of supernatural power over others.
Are you listening to that?
The use of supernatural power over others
through the assistance of spirits and witchcraft.
So that's what sorcery is.
It's using demonic, right, demonic powers
or evil spirits or witchcraft
to try to use power over other people,
to use power to control other people,
to use power to manipulate other people.
That's what it means.
Look at Acts chapter eight, verse nine.
It says, but there was a certain man called Simon,
which before time in the same city used sorcery,
and bewitched the people of Samaria,
giving out that himself was some great one,
to whom they all gave heed.
Are you listening to this?
They obeyed him.
I mean, they looked to him as a leader,
and he bewitched a group of people.
Sorcery is directed at certain people.
Do you see that?
It's to deceive people, it's to manipulate people,
and these people, because of his sorcery,
they all gave heed to him,
from the least of the greatest,
saying, this man is the great power of God.
And to him they had regard, why?
Why did they regard him?
Because that of a long time,
he had bewitched them with sorceries.
But when they believed Philip preaching
the things concerning the kingdom of God
and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized, both men went.
So here's a man who's manipulating
a whole group of people, right?
And whatever he says, they just believe it.
They just follow him blindly
because they're enchanted by him, right?
They're bewitched by him.
He's a sorcerer, the Bible says.
That's what sorcery means.
Now, it's funny because I'm not one of these preachers
that goes back to the Greek and everything,
and you don't need to go back to the Greek
to understand the Bible at all.
But it's just interesting, it's just a good anecdote,
that the word sorcery in Greek is pharmacia.
Did you know that?
Because a lot of manipulating and controlling other people
is done through drugs.
I mean, it's true.
Now, go to the drug dealer on the street corner.
He doesn't just sell a product.
He is manipulating people, right?
Many times they'll have prostitutes
that are being manipulated through drugs.
There are kids that are being controlled
and manipulated through drugs.
Organized crime that basically is preying upon people
who are addicted to drugs.
And so the drug dealer is a sorcerer.
I mean, he's using drugs to control people.
Go into the legalized drugs, the prescription drugs.
We've got doctors and psychiatrists
who are getting people hooked on drugs,
for financial gain, for filthy liquor.
They will get you hooked on drugs.
They'll get your kids hooked on drugs.
Your kid acts up in school.
He doesn't want to sit still all day.
Get him out, he wants to go out and play or whatever.
And so what do they do?
They put him on dope, they put him on Ritalin,
and why?
Why do they put the kid on Ritalin?
Because they want him to think like they think,
act like they act, believe what they believe,
and just mindlessly take whatever's taught
to them in that school.
That's why.
And you know what, what's taught in the school?
Half of it's wrong anyway.
I mean, if I was down there,
they'd want to put me on Ritalin.
I don't believe in evolution.
I don't believe that man came from a monkey.
I believe man came from God.
You say, oh, you're crazy.
Hey, I think you're crazy
because you think a monkey is God.
You think a paramecium is God.
Hey, God gave us humankind, not an animal.
And so I don't believe what they teach down at the school.
I don't believe that there is no God.
I don't believe that man came from animals.
I don't believe half the stuff they teach,
but what they want to do is get people on drugs
so that they'll believe whatever they're told.
And that's why they got all these kids on Ritalin.
What is it, one in six or something?
And you know, now the public school
is forcing kids on Ritalin.
They're sending home notes.
I've personally known people,
they got a note home from the school that says,
put your kid on Ritalin
or we're kicking them out of the school.
I mean, forcing parents to put their kids on drugs
if they want to send them to school.
But the point is that sorcery is a way of mind control,
whether it's through drugs,
whether it's through witchcraft,
whether it's through demonic means.
But let me tell you something,
and this is the title of my sermon,
The Sorcery of Television.
It's interesting because I've been studying about TV
and what it does.
And you know, TV actually has physical effects on you.
Let me explain to you how that is.
First of all, when I was a teenager
and when I was a child growing up,
I literally watched five or six hours of TV a day.
At least.
And you know, I was reading a statistic
and that's the average person in America
watches about five to six hours of TV a day.
And I can testify that was me.
As a child, as a teenager,
I watched TV five, six hours a day, easy.
And I'm gonna tell you something,
from the time that I was about 12
to the time that I was 19 years old
and got married, left the house, quit watching TV,
I used to have trouble sleeping.
And I think there was two reasons
why I had trouble sleeping.
Number one, I wasn't working that hard.
You know, I'm sitting in school all day,
I'm sitting around in front of a TV.
But number two, just the flickering of the screen
has a physical effect on you.
You know, it flashes 30 times a second, that screen.
And when you're watching that screen,
it has a way of keeping you up at night.
And so I'd watch TV for hours,
then I'd go to bed at night, lay in bed,
and I'd go to bed at nine o'clock every night.
I'd lay in bed and it's like my eye is still TV, you know,
still flashing in my eyes kind of with my eyes shut.
And I used to fall asleep at about 11.30.
I mean, I'd lay in bed at nine, fall asleep at 11,
and wake up tired because of the fact
that I was just watching so much TV,
it had that adverse effect.
When I was a kid, I used to have bags under my eyes.
And my parents told me, you're watching too much TV,
you're playing too many video games, you know?
And I had these dark circles on my eyes
and bags under my eyes, couldn't sleep at night.
There are physical effects.
But listen to this article.
Here's a scientific article that I got on the internet.
It says this.
It says, watching TV puts the viewer
into a highly suggestible sleep-like hypnotic state.
This provides easy access to the subconscious.
When you watch TV, brain activity
switches from the left side of your brain,
which is responsible for logical thought
and critical analysis, to the right side of your brain.
This is significant because the right side of the brain
does not critically analyze incoming information.
Instead, it uses an emotional response.
This means there is little or no analysis
of incoming information.
Right brain activity causes the body to release chemicals,
which make it feel good.
Endorphins, you know, the reward center
of your brain is affected.
And so when you watch TV, it kind of puts you
in a little bit of a, you know,
you sit in front of the TV and, right?
Right?
And people have a tendency to believe
what they see on TV is what, you know,
just to put this in simple terms,
what it's saying here is that when you sit
in front of TV, the way it affects you
is that you have a tendency to believe
everything that you see on TV.
You just uncritically just take it as fact,
what comes in on that TV.
Now this is evidenced in our society.
You can see, and I'll get into that a little bit later.
But I'm going to tell you something.
And turn to 1 John chapter two in your Bible
toward the end of the New Testament.
1 John chapter two.
Now you have to ask yourself this question.
Who is it that's producing today's TV programming?
Is it Jesus?
Is it God?
Is it Christians?
Is it Baptists?
Is it soul owners?
No.
It's some of the most wicked people in this world
that are putting out the programming that's on TV.
And I'm going to get to that.
I'm going to prove that to you in a little bit.
But watch what the Bible says
in 1 John chapter two, verse 15.
Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world.
If any man loved the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life is not of the Father,
but is of the world.
And the world passeth away and the lust thereof,
but he that doeth the will of God,
Now when it says it's not of the world,
he's talking about the source.
Where did it come from?
Okay, did it come from the Father?
Did it come from God or did it come from the world?
And God is teaching us here,
anything that comes from the world
pretty much is these three categories.
He said, for all that is in the world, comma,
and then he's going to state for us what's in the world.
The lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes and the pride of life,
he said, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
He said, love the Father and you don't love the world.
You love the world, you don't love the Father.
You gotta choose whether you love what God has to offer
or what the world has to offer.
Now, listen to this scripture.
Job 14, four, you don't have to turn there.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
He's saying you can't pull something clean
out of something dirty.
Imagine if I were to tell you
that in the garbage can back here,
there is a Subway sandwich.
A perfectly good Subway sandwich.
Nobody ate off it, nothing.
It was made at the Subway right across the street
and somebody threw it in that garbage can.
Now, at the very bottom of that garbage can,
go pull out that sandwich and eat it.
You'd say, wait a minute, Pastor Vincent,
you cannot take something clean
out of something that's unclean, right?
Because that sandwich has been tainted
by being in that garbage can.
Now, I guarantee if you dig in that garbage can,
you could probably find something good
in that garbage can.
In fact, I just saw a guy the other day
digging in that garbage can.
And there are people, that's what they do, right?
Homeless people and they just dig in the garbage can.
And they're looking for that treasure
that you threw out.
They're looking for a piece of food
or something to recycle or something of value,
something that could be,
because sometimes we throw stuff out
but some people might.
You know, you're ever driving down the road
and somebody threw their couch out
and you're like, hey, let's pick that up.
Or their bookcase.
Who's ever done something like that?
Come on, everybody.
You see something, somebody else threw it out,
but you're like, hey, I want that.
You pull over and get it.
But let me tell you something.
You say, well, I think that there's some good stuff
on TV.
I think you're wrong, number one.
But if you do think that,
are you willing to go swim in the garbage can of TV
to go find it?
I mean, are you willing to wade through all the filth
and all the smut and all the blasphemy
and all the nudity and all the wickedness
to find that one show that has nothing wrong?
And when you find it and you tell me,
oh, I found this one show, there's nothing wrong.
You just don't know what's wrong with it.
Come talk to me, I'll tell you what's wrong with it.
I mean, I can find something wrong with it.
Because it's from the world.
I already know it's gonna be bad.
Okay, it's already gonna have something in it,
some hidden agenda.
And let me, here's what I'm gonna preach about tonight.
It's not the things that most people think of
that are the most dangerous part of television.
Most people think of like,
well, this is the worst part about television, the cussing.
Right, the cussing.
Or they'll say the nudity, right?
And those are the two things that you know,
the ratings, the PG, the PG-13, the R,
pretty much based on those two things, right?
Or maybe violence, you know, violence, nudity, cussing.
You know, and that's the big thing
that's wrong with TV.
But I really think that those three things are probably,
those are bad, don't get me wrong.
I think that that's probably
the least problem with television.
I'll tell you what's the worst part about television
is the programming, the philosophy, okay?
I mean, the manipulating of your mind.
The philosophy, the mentality,
the system of thinking, the ideology.
That's what's wrong with television.
That's what's wrong with the movie.
That's where they're really getting in your head.
Take for example, Walt Disney, right?
And many people that will preach against the TV,
they'll preach against the movies,
they'll preach against Hollywood
because it's obvious that that stuff is bad.
But then they'll say, well, we watch Disney movies.
And I've been to the home of preachers and Christians
who would never watch TV or the movies,
but yet they have the whole library
of the Walt Disney movies.
You know those white plastic cases?
And they have them all lined up.
And I mean, they have tons of them lined up.
I don't know how many there are,
but there's hundreds of them.
And they have them lined up and lined up.
And they have their kids watching those movies
all day long.
I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna prove to you right now
that those movies are wicked.
Say, what?
Disney movies?
Come on, you're crazy.
They're rated G.
Well, let's see.
First of all, did you know this?
Did you know that Disney movies
are filled with subliminal messages?
Subliminal messages.
What are we talking about tonight?
Sorcery.
What are we talking about tonight?
Getting inside your mind and messing with you.
Controlling your thought process
by supernatural means or demonic means.
Hey, I'm gonna tell you something.
Disney movies are filled with subliminal messages.
And you say, oh, that's a hoax.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
When I was a teenager, I had a friend of mine
sit me down at his house
and show me the subliminal messages in the Disney movies.
They're filled with subliminal messages.
Let me give you some examples.
The Lion King, filled with subliminal messages.
Okay, all throughout the movie,
there are pornographic pictures hidden in the movie.
Like you'll be watching the movie
and just for a few seconds,
something filthy will come on.
Like off to the side, there'll be some kind of a,
you know, reproductive anatomy will pop up.
You know, over here and then over here.
There's this one point where the lion,
you know, he kinda goes like, like this.
And a cloud of dust comes up and just spells the word sex.
And the word sex is put in the Lion King movie
subliminally, literally hundreds of times.
Hundreds of times, the shapes on the screen
will spell the word.
And I've seen it.
I mean, I had my friend sit me down at his house
and pausing the movie,
showing me the word S-E-X popping up on the screen
a different time because he knew where they were.
And he would show me these things.
Another one, and they all are filled with it.
You know, Aladdin is another one.
In the movie Aladdin, there's a part in the movie
where the guy, what's his name, Aladdin?
And then, what's that?
Is the main character named Aladdin, right?
The young guy in the movie?
Okay.
Aladdin and then what's the girl's name?
Jasmine.
You are watching the, you are busted.
But, you know, Jasmine, right?
There's a point in the movie where he tells Jasmine
to take all her clothes off.
But you don't even know it unless you know it's there.
You listen to it and he mumbles it
kind of under his breath.
And I mean, once you know it's there,
you hear it just as clear as day.
But you didn't know that it was there.
You wouldn't hear it.
And the Little Mermaid has a filthy picture drawn
in the cover on the front of the Little Mermaid.
And nobody would realize it until somebody shows you
and says, look at this.
And you look at it, whoa.
And all throughout the movie there are scenes,
I'm not even gonna describe some of the scenes
in the Little Mermaid where subliminal messages
are coming on the screen.
The other movie, Beauty and the Beast,
there, you know, a nude woman pops up a few times
in the background of Beauty and the Beast
filled with subliminal messages.
Your kids are watching it and their mind
is maybe not even seeing it,
but it's going into their subconscious.
Words flashing on the screen over and over,
S-E-X, S-E-X, you know, nudity, filth,
all the smut is just coming on the screen.
Oh, those movies are harmless.
They're filled with subliminal messages.
Who knows what your kids are being programmed?
Oh, but you know what?
I'm sure that it's only just the Disney movies.
I guarantee you it's the rest of Hollywood
probably doing the same thing.
And these Disney movies, at first when I was a teenager
and somebody showed me this,
I thought it was just a couple movies,
a couple scenes, but you know,
as time has gone on,
I've realized that virtually every Disney movie
is packed with hundreds of subliminal messages
to program the minds of your children.
Okay, but then forget the subliminal message.
Just the message of the Disney movies is perverted.
Even if you just forget the subliminal message.
I mean, what movies did we bring up?
The Little Mermaid.
You know, a half animal, half human being.
That's perverted in and of itself.
All throughout the Bible,
every false god is a half animal, half human being.
They're constantly merging of animals and human beings.
It's paganism, it's wicked.
And yet every Disney movie is pretty much based
on the merging of a human being with an animal.
It's described in the Bible.
And the movie The Little Mermaid,
you know, she's topless the whole time, right?
She's just wearing like a bikini top.
How is that?
Is that how you want your daughter to dress?
Oh, but there's no cussing, there's no nudity.
Do you want your daughter going around in a bikini top?
Is that modest apparel?
Is that what Jesus Christ would have you to wear, ladies?
No.
The movie's filled with Satanism, witchcraft.
There's some, what is it?
Ursula, some witch that's casting spells
and using sorcery and demonism.
Oh, pretty innocent, right?
All of them are filled with it.
Take Beauty and the Beast.
Beauty and the Beast is a movie about a woman
who falls in love with an animal.
And in the movie, they keep acting like,
well, he's just ugly.
He's not ugly, he's an animal.
There's a difference between being ugly.
Let's see, who here is really ugly now?
I was gonna have somebody stand up for an example,
but just kidding, but you know,
you can look at a guy that's ugly,
but there's a difference between being ugly
and being a beast, being an animal.
And if you've seen the cartoon, it's an animal.
It's like a dog, it's like a big dog man or something.
It's clearly an animal, and yet she falls in love with him
while he's an animal.
You know, only when she kisses an animal
does he become a human being.
Oh, wow.
And you say, well, what's wrong with that?
Read the Bible sometime.
Read Leviticus chapter 20.
Leviticus chapter 20 lists all kinds
of perverted, filthy things.
And it lists off, and it starts out
with, you know, the homos.
He says, whosoever lieth with mankind
as he lieth with a woman, you know,
talking about homosexuality,
he said, shall surely be put to death.
Their blood shall be upon them.
The next verse says that if a man lies with a beast
or a woman lies with a beast,
they shall be put to death.
You say, oh, that's off the wall, that's crazy.
Well, if our society has accepted the one,
hey, the one's not any weirder than the other.
They're both perverted, they're both filthy.
No one normal would even think of either one,
would even dream of either one.
And yet it's being accepted in our society.
Kids are being programmed that animals are like people,
that animals have a soul and a spirit like people have.
And then we fall in love with an animal.
It's perverted, it's sick.
And in the movie Beauty and the Beast,
the whole first half of the movie
is these prostitutes in the town
that are dressed as half naked, dancing around,
admiring this guy, the big, strong, handsome guy.
I don't know the movie.
I saw it like 10 years ago or something.
But all these girls are dressed indecently.
They're obscene in their gestures, subliminal messages.
And then the whole movie is basically just exalting
a certain physical standard of appearance.
And all of TV and all of movies does this,
but look if you would at,
let me show you what I'm talking about.
Look in your Bible at Ecclesiastes chapter three.
Ecclesiastes chapter number three,
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes.
See, this is what I'm talking about the philosophies
that movies portray and TV portrays.
Look at Ecclesiastes chapter number three.
And the Bible reads in verse number 11,
he had made everything beautiful in his time.
Also, he had set the world in their hearts
so that no man can find out the work that God make it
from the beginning to the end.
So the Bible says he had made everything beautiful
in his time.
Look at Psalm 139, go back a few pages to Psalm 139.
And while you're turning there, Genesis 131 reads,
and God saw everything that he had made
and behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Look at Psalm 139 verse 14.
The Bible says, I will praise thee
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
marvelous are thy works
and that my soul knoweth right well.
So according to the Bible, God created,
cause in Psalm 139, the context,
he's talking about being formed and fashioned
in his mother's womb.
I mean, while his mother was pregnant,
he was being formed and fashioned
and God was forming him and making him
into a certain person, a certain shape,
a certain appearance.
And God said, he made everything beautiful.
When he finished making everything,
he said it was very good.
And yet Hollywood and Walt Disney
and the world portrayed a very limited image
of what beautiful is, don't they?
And if a woman is beautiful,
she has to fit this certain mold of being,
you know, skinny and maybe blonde hair,
maybe a certain look.
And they say that is what is beautiful and this is not.
And yet God says that every person is beautiful.
And yet we buy into the world's philosophy
that says, well, you know, 90% of people are ugly, right?
It's just that 10% that's just this perfect model
or these, and by the way,
those bodies and those people
that are flashed across the screen, it's not even real.
Have you ever seen,
have you ever run into the movie stars in real life?
Go to LA and when you bump it,
they don't look the same
because they've got makeup, they're doctored up,
the screen's doctored up.
It's fake, it's an illusion, it's a fantasy,
it's not real.
And yet girls grow up with eating disorders,
you know, afraid that they don't fit some certain mold
because they're trying to be as skinny
as some model on TV or something.
Hey, not everybody's designed to be skinny as a real.
You know what I'm saying?
And yet we think that everybody,
every girl you talk to seems like
is starving themselves to try to be super skinny.
Now look, I don't think, you know,
I don't think you should overeat.
And obviously the Bible talks about gluttony or overeat.
I don't think you should eat junk food
and, you know, gain a bunch of weight and stuff.
But at the same time, I mean, come on,
do you think that a person who's 40
is supposed to look like somebody who's 20?
No.
Is a person who,
some people are built to be a little bit bigger,
you know what I mean?
And they're not built to be super skinny.
And yet the world puts out this thing
that says measure up to our standard
of what good looks is.
Now look, who in the world says
that a girl being very skinny is what is attractive?
Who taught you that?
The world.
You see what I'm saying?
And so a lot of times girls that are just a normal size,
guys that are just a normal build
for what they're built are told,
oh, you're fat, you know, you're overweight or something.
This is the world says you're overweight
because they set this standard
of you have to look like we look,
you gotta dress like we dress.
And so look, your kids are picking up
more than just cussing and nudity
when they watch TV.
They're picking up a philosophy that says,
look like Britney Spears to be cool.
If you wanna be beautiful,
you have to look like Madonna
and you have to look like,
I don't know who they are.
Who are the,
Angelina Jolie or you know,
help me out worldly people.
What is it?
Jennifer Aniston or something.
You know, they put out this philosophy that says,
this is what's beautiful.
Cake yourself in makeup and you're beautiful.
Hey, when God says I made you beautiful,
you don't have to paint your face
and change everything about the way.
Why don't you just accept who you are,
be proud of who you are
and not feel like you have to live up
to somebody else's standard of what they look like
and go through life with a chip on your shoulder
cause you're not Hollywood's version of beautiful.
You know what God said is beautiful?
Holiness.
The Bible says,
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
And I'll tell you something,
there's nothing more beautiful
than a woman who is dressed decently
and modestly like a woman.
That's a beautiful thing.
I mean, to see a woman wearing a long skirt
and dressed decently and appropriately and modestly,
hey, that's what a normal, godly, righteous man
will find beautiful.
But the world says it's beautiful
to go around the bikini top.
The world says in order to be beautiful,
you gotta go around half naked.
And so your little daughter is picking up
more than just cussing in nudity.
She's watching a bunch of girls in tight clothing,
stripped half naked.
She's watching them strut around,
be promiscuous, be flirtatious, be obscene.
And that's what's being programmed into her little mind.
If you think my little daughter is gonna sit around
and watch a bunch of girls that are sleazy and obscene,
you're wrong.
I'm not gonna let her be influenced like that.
I want my little daughter to come to church
and see women that are dressed decently
and act like ladies and that are feminine
and that are godly and righteous and modest.
Not just, and to be around her mother that's modest
and to be around ladies at church that are modest
and you say, oh, they're sheltered.
They're not sheltered
because we take them out soul-winning
and they see the world.
They go out and they knock the doors with us.
They go to the grocery store.
They go to the, you know, whatever.
I don't know, where do you go, honey?
Walmart, I don't know.
The grocery store, the post office, the bank.
But the difference is that they see it in reality.
Not a doctored up version where everybody
is looking great while they sin,
looking great while they drink,
feeling good while they smoke,
everything's great while they do drugs.
It's not reality.
It's fake.
It's a lie, it's deceit.
And if you're deceived by it, you're not wise.
If you, the Bible says wine is a mocker
and strong drink is raging
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
And if you sit down and watch TV
and the Budweiser ad comes on,
they don't show some guy laying in the gutter
in his own vomit.
They don't show some guy throw his wife across the room
and beat her up and say this Bud's for you.
They don't show a guy who's having his stomach
part of it removed and his liver removed
and his nose has grown to twice its normal size
and turned bright red because,
and his eyes are yellow because he's,
and he's got a big beer belly.
Well that's real attractive, right?
A beer belly from drinking.
They show you some sleek, cool,
young, athletic guy and drink Budweiser.
That's not what he's gonna look like 20 years from now.
That's not what he's gonna look like
after a life of drinking.
That's not what he's gonna look like
when he gets in an accident, drunk driving
and gets his face mutilated by the windshield.
It's a lie.
It's deceit.
They show you alcohol, it's a lie.
You say, well, do your kids ever see alcohol?
My kids see alcohol.
We go out soul winning in the ghetto
and in the slums, hey, they see alcohol
and they see a filthy house.
They see alcohol and they see kids
who don't know who their parents are.
They see alcohol and they smell alcohol.
They smell the smell of sin and filth.
Go, you wanna see alcohol?
Go down to the bar and go to the public restroom
in the bar and smell alcohol.
Smell sin.
But on TV it all looks great
because TV is a deceiver and TV is a sorcerer.
Why is TV sorcery?
Number one, it's filled with subliminal messages
planting images in your mind
that you didn't even know you were seeing
because TV flashes at 30 frames a second
and the human mind can only pick up images
at 23 frames a second.
Anything above 23 frames a second,
you can't see the individual pictures anymore.
It blurs into one video.
And so what happens is,
let's say you got 30 frames a second,
they'll just flash one frame.
One frame will be, you know, could be a filthy picture.
One frame could be a message telling you something.
You know, advertising.
They did experiments with this back in the 1940s.
They did experiments where they would have people
go to a movie theater, 30 frames a second,
they would flash up a picture of popcorn.
Just one frame, you know, you can't even see it.
They'd flash a soda.
They'd flash a candy.
And they tested it and people would buy more soda,
buy more popcorn, then they'd come in
and, you know, go row to row selling it.
They'd sell more when they had those images.
But people realized the power of it
and it became illegal.
And so now nobody ever does it anymore.
I doubt it.
I've seen it in the Disney movies, just one example.
I've been exposed to it in other situations
of other TV and other movies.
Subliminal messages are being used by wicked people.
The Bible says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
And you say, why would Walt Disney
put in all these dirty messages and just,
I mean, come on, Disney movies are geared at kids.
They're marketed to kids
and they're putting in a nude woman.
They're putting in dirty pictures.
They're putting in flashing words
on the screen that are obscene.
Well, I wonder if this has something to do with it.
I wonder if it has something to do with it
that the former CEO
and one of the major stockholders
of Walt Disney Corporation,
the former, he was the CEO until 2005,
he estimated, he was quoted as saying
that he thinks that 40% of Disney's
63,000 employees are homos.
That's what he said.
The CEO of the company said that he would guess
that probably about maybe 40%
of the 63,000 employees of Disney are queers.
That's what he said.
Did you know that twice a year at Disneyland,
they have Gay Day?
And at Disneyland, I mean, who goes to Disneyland?
It's young guys in their 20s, right?
Just think Disneyland's the coolest thing in the world.
These guys are, you know, these young single guys
in their 20s are like, forget it.
I mean, is that really the coolest place
in the world to you right now, guys?
Disneyland.
I mean, come on, you're gonna go to what?
Magic Mountain or something, you know, come on.
But Disneyland's geared toward what?
Children or families with children.
Okay, and yet, why would a place
that's geared toward children have a homosexual day
twice a year?
Does that make any sense to you?
You say, I don't believe you.
Okay, the last one was Saturday, October 4th of 2008.
So what was that, a month and a half ago?
That was the last one.
We were at Legoland last summer, okay?
And we're at Legoland and the guy behind us on the ride,
he was a real nice guy, had a nice family.
He had his parents with him and his kids with him
and some people, you know.
And it was a big like family reunion thing
they were at Legoland.
He said, well, he said, good night.
He was talking to them and I was over hearing,
you know, listening in.
He said, you know, last year we went to Disneyland
and we didn't know about this, you know,
queer day that they have at Disneyland.
And it says here, let me read this for you.
Gay day at Disneyland, 9 a.m. until you drop.
That's the time that it's gonna happen.
Saturday, October 4th.
Put on your red shirt and get ready to ride.
Join APGF and thousands of other family, quote, members,
as we invade Disneyland for a fun-filled day
at the happiest place on earth
as it becomes the gayest too.
This is the eighth annual Gay Days at Disneyland.
And organizers say they expect, and this is in LA,
you know, Anaheim, anybody ever been there?
Disneyland, Anna?
It says they expect more than 30,000 gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender people to attend the main day
at Disneyland on Saturday.
30,000 were expected to attend this year.
Attendees to Gay Days wear red shirts
to stand out in the crowd.
For more details about the event, go to GayDaySanaheim.com
Okay, so this guy says, well, I was at this Disneyland.
I didn't know anything about it.
And the guy while he was telling the story
was wearing a red shirt.
And he said, guess what?
On that day, I was wearing a red shirt.
So here he is at Disneyland wearing a red t-shirt.
He has no idea that it's a, he's looking around
and all these queers and freaks are around him
wearing red t-shirts
and pretty soon some queer is hitting on him.
He had to go to the gift shop and buy a shirt.
I mean, I would have gotten just no shirt.
It pays, you know what I mean?
And I'm not the type of guy who,
I don't go to Disneyland with no shirt on.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
I would have gone into the gift shop with no shirt on
and said, hey, take your guess what I'm here to buy.
You got three guesses what I'm here to buy.
I would have, that red shirt would have been
thrown in the moat around Cinderella's castle
a long time ago.
But the guy was, he said it was ridiculous.
He said, you think they'd tell you or something?
He plans a trip.
He goes there and he's filled with queers
and he's got some queer making googly eyes
and he had to strip off his red shirt
and buy a Disney shirt.
And that's a true story.
That was last summer.
Somebody told us that at Legoland,
just a stranger that we didn't know.
They allow, the Disney company allows the homo organizers
to use Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as the example
of a queer couple in their advertisements.
They allow them to use that copyrighted trademark
when they're promoting this day.
And Disney has the largest homo employee organization
in the entire entertainment industry.
And yet that's the one thing that independent Baptists
seem to accept for their kids.
Come on, it's Disney.
Come on, lighten up.
Are you fanatic?
Are you crazy?
I guess I am.
I guess I'm crazy.
Cause I don't want my kids watching movies
that are produced by queers.
Produced by pedophiles, homos.
And by the way, don't let the media deceive you.
I can tell some of you have already been brainwashed
because you know what, not the Bible,
but is it the Bible?
Some of you have already been brainwashed
because you know what?
They're not reproducers, they're recruiters.
Come on, man.
Have you ever picked up a newspaper?
Who are these guys molesting?
Boys.
It's all over the news.
It's in Phoenix.
It's across America.
And the Bible teaches it in Genesis 9
and then Genesis 19 and Judges 19.
They're always recruiting the innocents
into their filthy actions.
They're always trying to get a hold of somebody
and prey upon them.
They're predators.
Why do you think they love
to go to a children's theme park
and invade it with their filth?
Why do you think they love
to put out children's movies
that have subliminal, perverted messages in them?
And you can sit there and say that I'm crazy,
but you know what, I think you're crazy
if you'll just put your kids in front of it.
You know, go ahead and take your chances with it.
It's garbage.
Every Disney movie has a slant.
It has a perverted theme.
It has a perverted,
whether it's Beauty and the Beast
or The Lion King with soundtracks
sung by queer Elton John.
The Lion King, which has queer characters in it.
Walt Disney even said that Simba and Pumbaa
were their first openly queer characters
because they act so queer in the movie.
You know, I don't even remember seeing the movie.
Thank God.
But I'm going to tell you something.
If you think that that's...
Look, if the Disney movies are bad,
you say, what else is wicked about television?
Well, number one, are the people on television
dressed the way a Christian's supposed to dress?
Now, I haven't watched TV in years and years,
but can somebody tell me,
has TV gotten a lot cleaner in the last six years?
Because I might be preaching the wrong sermon.
Have they cleaned it up?
It's worse? You're kidding.
And yet, when I was watching TV,
you want to know the last time I ever watched TV?
You know what the last show I ever watched was?
The Twilight Zone.
I watched the old black and white Twilight Zone.
And as I watched The Twilight Zone,
on the show,
the guy on the show,
Burgess Meredith was the actor in this pretty good episode.
He was quoting the King James Bible.
He was quoting the Psalm 53,
the fool that said in his heart, there is no God.
He quoted the whole Psalm.
Start to finish.
And I was thinking to myself,
oh, you know, finally something good to watch on television.
You know, it's a good episode.
And this fast,
this fast, a commercial break came on with no warning,
and it was literally,
literally, girls in their underwear.
Completely in their underwear,
dancing around in some Victoria Secret or something, ad.
And I'm just thinking to myself,
here I am, you know, trying to watch TV,
trying to watch the cleanest thing I could find,
is quoting the Bible,
it's The Twilight Zone,
and, you know, boom, this comes on.
And I just said,
I just said, God,
you've shown me something here,
I'm done with television.
I'm through with it.
You know, and I didn't even have a television in my house before that.
But just, I would watch it,
I was watching it in my parents' house
when I saw that, you know.
And that came on.
And the second to last time I watched television,
was when I was at my sister's house,
and we were watching the show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
And I thought, oh yeah, great, you know,
Harlem was trivia, I love trivia, I love trivia games.
And one of the contestants was a Solomite.
I'm like, goodnight, you think I want to watch this fairy?
Want to be a millionaire?
And, you know, same thing.
And then right about the same time,
I was going soul winning in a nursing home.
And I'm in a guy's room, and I was like,
oh, what are you watching?
He was watching something that seemed pretty innocent,
and then boom, that fast.
Commercial came on, and it was a strip club.
I mean, things that I didn't want to be exposed to,
I didn't want to see that image.
And David said, I said no wicked thing before my night,
I hate the work of them that turn aside.
It shall not cleave to me.
You see, what you watch on television cleaves to you.
I mean, when you see that filthy image,
you say, well, whenever something bad comes on,
I turn the channel.
It's too late.
You saw the bad thing, and then you turned the channel,
you already saw it, and it'll stay with you.
That image will be in your mind.
It'll come back to haunt you.
It'll come back, it'll come.
Things go in, but they don't go out.
And everything that goes in,
you want your kids to see that image
right before you flip the channel?
And you say, well, wait a minute,
Pastor Anderson, I can control my TV viewing.
I know what's good and what's bad,
and I can control it.
I've got it under control.
Now let me say this.
When I first got rid of my TV,
if I would have had a TV in my house,
I would have watched it.
Because the temptation is so great.
You know, there it is.
You know, you just plop down.
You just want to turn something on
and just veg for a while in front of the TV.
Now that's the way it went.
I mean, if I would have had it in the house,
I would have watched it.
So I got rid of it.
You know, I just threw it out, got rid of it,
removed the temptation.
But today, today I could literally,
I'm sure that I could have a TV
hooked up in my house today,
plugged into cable, satellite, whatever.
I would never even think of turning it on,
because I haven't watched it in so long.
And I'll prove that to you.
Every single week I travel around
and I'm usually in a hotel
about once a week.
And what's in the hotel room?
What's in every hotel room in America?
TV.
And what's on the counter?
Ads, HBO, you know, special movies, special programs.
The thought never even enters my mind
to turn on the TV.
You know what I mean?
Because it's just I haven't watched it in so long.
I know what it is.
I know it's wicked.
And if you say, I don't think TV is that bad,
here's what you ought to do.
Just take four weeks and don't watch TV.
And at the end of four weeks,
turn it back on and then it'll shock you how filthy it is.
But right now you're watching every day,
you're just used to it.
You're just immune to it.
You think I'm crazy right now,
but it just shows that you're used to it so much
that you think it's okay.
You think it's fine.
You think the homos that you see on there are fine
when God said the death penalty for homos.
I didn't write that.
I didn't write that as Leviticus 20, 13.
Came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ.
In the beginning was the Word.
Word was with God.
The Word was God.
And I basically,
I could probably have a TV in my house
hooked up to cable television.
I would never even touch the thing.
Wouldn't even dream of it.
But would my kids ever touch it?
Now stop and think about it.
Say, oh, I can handle it.
Can your wife handle it?
Can your kids handle it?
See, you're not the only one that lives in that house.
And you know, you bring something into your house
and say, I can handle it.
Can your wife handle it?
Can your kids handle it?
Stop and think about that.
And you gotta think that you're not the only person
that you're in charge.
Listen, Dad.
You're responsible for that whole house.
I feel responsible for anything wicked that's in my house.
If my wife or my kids have something in my house
that was wicked like, for example,
a magazine that was inappropriate.
You know what I mean?
Or like a dirty magazine or an obscene book.
I would take it about myself to throw it away.
I wouldn't ask them,
is it alright if I get rid of this?
I'm the one paying the bills.
I own that house.
And you know what?
If something's wicked in it,
I'm gonna get rid of it.
And so my job is to guard my home from evil.
The Bible says not to bring
the cursed thing into your house.
Then you say, well, is the physical machine wicked?
It's not the machine that's wicked,
it's everything that's played on it.
Okay?
That's wicked.
But you know what?
You're responsible if you have the thing
and you got the cable
and you got the satellite
or whatever you got, the DVDs.
You know, you're responsible
for what's being played in your house,
whether it's your kids playing it
or your wife playing it.
I believe that, personally.
And so the point is that
maybe you could handle it, but
can everybody in your house handle it?
And ask yourself,
can you really even handle it?
Let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed less default.
Now, I said theoretically,
I think I could have a TV in my house
without being tempted to watch it
or watch anything on it.
I wouldn't even touch the thing.
But do I really know that?
Have I ever really had it in my house?
Day after day, week after week?
I'm not even gonna try it.
Because I don't want to let filth into my mind.
I don't want smut to come into my house.
Now, this preaching is maybe an odd ball today.
It's off the deep end.
But you know what?
This world's off the deep end.
You're listening to the voice of reason right now.
You're listening to the voice of somebody
who still thinks that nudity is wrong.
That still thinks that people are supposed to get married
and be married till death do us part.
That's what I believe.
You're listening to somebody who believes
that women getting pregnant out of wedlock
is a sin and it's wicked.
It's fornication.
I believe that.
You're looking at somebody who still believes
that men should dress like men
and that women should dress like women.
I don't believe that.
And I believe that effeminacy is wicked in a man.
I believe that the TV is promoting male effeminacy.
The stars on TV, they're effeminate.
The actors are quick.
Keanu Reeves is a queer.
News flash.
Leonardo DiCaprio is an open sodomite.
News flash for you.
These are the stars and the actors of today.
The star of the new Batman movie.
I don't know if it was Batman or the Joker
or what he was.
But he's queer as a stinking $3 bill.
And now he's dead.
What was his name?
Heath Ledger.
Who was he in the movie?
Joker.
Man, you guys know this too well.
That's why I need to preach this tonight.
So the bad guy, the Joker,
is a filthy queer.
And don't get mad at me for calling him filthy.
Hey, the Bible says in Jude
that they're filthy dreamers,
that they defile the flesh like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Hey, that's what the Bible says.
But the movie will teach you that the queer is funny.
The movies will teach you
that the queer is something to laugh about.
And some guy acts like a girl
and acts like a food cake and a Twinkie
and we're supposed to make a joke out of it.
There's nothing funny about a pervert.
There's nothing funny about a man
who molests little boys.
Would it be funny if it's your kid?
Would you still watch it on TV?
You say you're crazy.
This world's crazy
because this whole city of Tempe
is filled with queers.
And that's why every single day
in the newspaper
some kid's being molested.
Some kid in the public school's being defiled.
Some kid in America
is being molested probably every 5 or 10 minutes
because no Baptist pastor
has the courage to get up
and face the congregation
and say, I don't care if your moms are queer.
I don't care if your brothers are queer.
I don't care who is a queer.
That's what the Bible says.
Like it or lump it.
Fade to deal with it.
And you know what?
If every preacher in America would get up
and actually get some boldness
get some courage, become a man
quit being a Twinkie spineless wimp
and get up and preach it
like God preached it
and say they that do such things are worthy of death
Romans 1 32
Leviticus 20 13
they're filthy dreamers
they're perverted, they're after your children
that we wouldn't be living in the cesspool
that we're living in today.
You say, you don't have love.
Hey, I was out knocking the doors preaching the gospel
to every preacher this afternoon.
Where were you?
Right there with me.
That's love.
Hey, this is the love of God
that we keep his commandments.
His commandments are not grievous.
Hey, love is the truth.
Love is protecting my kids
from the freaks and weirdos out there.
Love is warning you so that your kids
don't twist their mind and warp their mind
on a bunch of porno
that's packaged as a children's movie.
Now look,
if you want to come to church
and be lied to, then go somewhere else.
And you can pretty much go to any independent Baptist church
in this town, you may not hear
this kind of preaching.
You take your pick.
In fact, come to me after service, I'll help you find one.
I'll give you a ride, I'll drop you off.
But if you want to hear the truth,
hey, I'm preaching the truth tonight.
And you know what, there's two kinds
of people in this world. Those who like the truth
and those who don't like the truth.
And there are also two other kinds of people in this world.
Those who watch television and those who don't.
And you know, it's funny because
you talk to the people who their mind is so
their head is so far into television
you try to explain to them
the most basic things. You try to teach them
the Bible. You try to preach to them.
They look at you like they have two heads
and they're brainwashed.
That's why they look at you like you're crazy.
That's why they don't know what I'm talking about right now.
Because their head is so far into TV
they don't even know what the truth is anymore.
And look, I've been there.
I grew up with this garbage.
I grew up having it crammed down my throat
and it was a great day
when I decided to get rid of the TV
and I decided to think for myself.
I decided that me and the Holy Spirit
and the Bible were going to form opinions about things.
And not let Hollywood
and Steven Spielberg
and the news media cram their agenda
and their philosophy down our throat.
Which is a one world government
a one world religion
which is homosexuality is fine
which is promiscuity is fine
all religions are fine
everything is true, we all go to heaven
we're all going to get reincarnated
everything is wonderful, everything is great
and you know what, we all go to hell.
This country goes to hell.
Hey, why do you think this country elected a devil
to Barack Obama? Why?
Because the news media crammed him down our throat.
Hey, you know what, get the hell out of here
if you don't like this kind of preaching.
Because you know what, Barack Obama is a devil
Barack Obama is a
partial birth abortion
if you don't like to hear the truth
then get the hell out of my church
because I'm here to tell you something
Barack Obama is for partial birth abortion
Barack Obama is a murderer
Barack Obama is wicked as hell
and you cannot let the door hit you on your way out
because Barack Obama is wicked
and the other one that they had out there for us
to make us feel like we had a choice
John McCain was as wicked as he is
but you know what
the house of God is not wicked
because in this church
we're still preaching the truth
they can turn the White House into a whorehouse
like Bill Clinton
they can turn the White House into a queer house
like George W. Bush has
they can turn the White House into a communist revolution
like Barack Obama is
but down at Faith Lord Baptist Church
hey, nothing's changed down here
we're going to preach it
like it says it in the Bible
you say, oh you're turning people away
oh really?
I'm shocked
but you know what, the people are turned away by the truth
deal with it
and you know what
this sermon needs to be preached
because you know what, if I don't preach this every once in a while
you're going to get a soft spot for the old hella visit
that's right
you're going to get a soft spot for the queers
you're going to get a soft spot for pedophiles
you're going to get a soft spot for Walt Disney
and I'm here to tell you something
we need to get back to hating sin
God said love the good and hate the evil
and you ought to hate what's wrong and wicked
and sinful and perverted
you can't love the flowers unless you hate the weeds
and you know what
if you don't hate those
who want to destroy my family
who want to put me in prison
for preaching like I'm preaching right now
who want to let pedophiles run our school system
and have a field day with those kids
if you don't hate what's destroying America
do you really love my kids
and love my family
hey do you really love this church
hey I'm here to tell you something
this world is wicked
and if you love this world then the love of the father is not in you
and that's not my fault
I'm preaching the truth tonight
if you love the father you'll love God's word
and God's word says
that the homosexual deserves the death penalty
God's word says
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes
God's word says
I hate the work of them that turn aside
it shall not cling to me
God's word said to go out and preach the gospel
to every creature
and you know what the same guy who goes out
and preaches the gospel
until he can't even talk anymore
the same soul winning Christian
who goes out and wins souls
is the same one who comes to a church
the same one preacher
that gets up and rebukes sin
because love has two sides of the coin my friend
one that loves the good
and one that hates the evil
hey God is love
but God's angry with the wicked everyday
hey God is love
but holy is the Lord
and so you can't have one without the other
you show me the loving
charitable
giving soul winning church
I'll show you the hell fire
it's true
the only place I ever felt loved was in a fundamental Baptist church
I never felt loved in one of these
new evangelical churches
money money money
twenty minute little feel good sermon
you know where I felt loved
is when I sat down and had a pastor
tell me not what I wanted to hear
but what I needed to hear
and I thank God that when I was
seventeen years old I sat down
in a chair in an independent
fundamental Baptist church
and I looked like the world
I dressed like the world
I talked like the world
I acted like the world
I dressed like a fool
I had my hair punked out
I listened to all the world's music
I watched all the world's movies
and I sat down and I listened to that preacher get up
and preach against Ellen DeGeneres
and Seinfeld and Roseanne
and Friends and all the movies
and the list them off one by one
church that taught me how to win souls
after attending for two weeks
after two weeks of attending that church
they had me out soul winning with a guy named
Dan Dion he took me out for
two and a half hours he showed me how to win
souls he showed me how it was done
he got some people saved I learned from
him I learned from others in the church
the same church that will breathe
fire against sin
is the same church that loves and cares
about the people in this city
and people
seem like they want to have the one without the other
oh I suppose on your
birthday you just eat the frosting and you don't eat the cake
are you one of those people?
not to preach against
you Miriam
you give Miriam a donut
she eats it like she's eating corn on the cob
you know what I mean?
like she just eats all the frosting
off the outside and you got this
like interior skeleton of a donut
left
you know that's not where you can't go through
life like that I mean when you're one you can
get by with it but look
you got to take the good with
the bad you got to take
the mean with the loving
because if you say I want all love
love love love well let's just love the devil
then
right? let's love Satan
what kind of a world would
that be?
and look
you can't have
the one without the other there are two sides of the
same coin now let me get back
into my regular scheduled broadcast
at this time
where was I?
television
brain washes you let's see
I already got into that subliminal
messages check
warped view of the physical
body right? check
that's what TV promotes
I mean some of the girls on TV are so skinny
it's not even healthy
and yet that's the standard that girls feel like
they have to live up to you know you need
a little insulation on the wiring of your body
you know what I mean? what happens if
you get sick? and you go to
and you lose weight and there's nothing to lose
that's not healthy that's not right
you say well what's the balance
right here? no I'm just kidding anyway the point
is don't let the world
tell you what beauty is don't let the
world tell you what right and wrong is
but my last point is this
turn to Proverbs
chapter number 6 I got to hurry I'm running out of time
Proverbs chapter 6 verse 9
the Bible says
in Proverbs 6 9
I'll give you a second
to turn there
and I'm going to tell you
something this cough drop you gave me is like a miracle
that was amazing do you have another one
of those? because I lost her
hey there we go
good night
tonight's sermon is sponsored by Hals
I thought I was going to lose my voice
a long time ago
look at Proverbs 6 verse 9 the Bible says
how long wilt thou sleep O sluggard
when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep
yet a little sleep a little slumber
a little folding of the hands to sleep
so shall thy poverty come
as one that travelth in thy want as an
armed man now
I talked a little bit earlier about television causing
insomnia which is true I mean there's
studies on it that
television viewing can cause insomnia
it can cause you not to be able to sleep at night
and I remember when I was a teenager
I had trouble going to sleep
but the other thing was that
television
creates a lazy
mentality because I mean
everybody's heard of the couch potato right
and listen
I'm sure that there are some videos out there
that are fine you know what I mean
like a DVD of my preaching
you know I'm not against that
you know
Ken Hovind has
videos you know I'm not
necessarily I haven't seen them
I've listened to the audio from a lot of them
I'm not endorsing them or anything
but as far as I know I think they're pretty
interesting pretty good things and
there are a lot of good things that are put out by
Christians you know they're of the Father not of the world
but you know I still wouldn't
even sit down and watch them and I wouldn't
even set my kids in front of them just for the simple
reason that I think it's an
unhealthy bad habit to get
home from TV or to get home from work
and just plop down in front of anything
you know and we live
in a society culture that's become lazy
where you work from
7.30 to 4
and then you get off work you sit
out and have dinner and then you just plop in front of a
TV for the whole rest of your night
now there's got to be something better to do
with your life than sitting down
and watching anything
because you ought not be I mean God says
look at Proverbs 24
he said look how long are you going to sleep
sluggard how long are you going to sit on
the couch? Arise
he says arise
out of sleep he says
yet a little sleep a little slumber
a little folding of the hands to sleep
look at verse number 30 of chapter 24
I went by the
field of the slothful
and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding
and lo it was all
grown over with thorns and nettles that covered
the face thereof and the stonewall thereof
was broken down then I saw
and considered it well I looked upon it
and received instruction yet a little
sleep a little slumber
a little folding of the hands to sleep
so shall thy poverty come
as one that travelth and thy want as an armed man
you don't have to turn there but chapter 20 verse 13
love not sleep
lest thou come to poverty open
thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with
bread bread you know what
bread is right? Money okay?
Look we live in a lazy man
society
and you wonder why people look at me
and say how do you get so much done
and I don't get that I'm not a
superman I'm not
some work machine or something
but look I'll tell you something is that
I don't sit around watching TV
and I don't sit around watching anything
I don't sit around watching good
DVD's or good videos
or any just because I want to
work with my life
six days shalt thou
labor God said
and the seventh day is the Sabbath unto me
now we don't observe the Sabbath today
but the principle was there of God
asking people to work a six day work week
okay?
and so we live in a society that says
you work your 40 hours and you're done
sit around on the couch
veg out I don't believe that
and you say
well I only work 40 hours at my job
hey put some time in out soloing
do something with your life I mean work
now I can't even survive working
40 hours just financially
I mean it'd be great to work
40 hours but you know what I can't work
40 hours and even make it financially
because we live in a society that's built on a two
income household my wife doesn't
work my wife stays home with the kids
and so I have to do the work of two people
to make ends meet and you men
that are married and have children you know what
I'm talking about because you're going through the same thing
you know you got to work hard in order
to make ends meet in today's world in today's
society you got to go out and work hard
and struggle and you know what
but if I only work 40 hours a week man
I'd find something to do with my time
that's work for God
do something for God you know
get out and knock doors
go out and win some souls
read the Bible
preach
teach your family the Bible I mean do something
with your life that matters
I don't want my kids to get in the habit
of sitting in front of a TV
or a screen and we don't even have a TV
but sitting in front of a screen and just
watching things
and you say well I think that videos
can be very educational you know there's nothing
more educational than reading
if DVDs were the best way to learn
God would have given us the Bible on a DVD
there's something about reading because when you
read you're actually
working reading makes you tired
I mean you're working you're doing something it burns
calories to read
and so I find that when I read
a book about history if I read
a book about the French Revolution now I know all
about the French Revolution but if I watch the video
on the French Revolution you
don't retain it the same way I mean it's just a fact
you do not retain things that you
watch as well as what you read
we need to get back to reading in this country
we live in a dumbed down society
and yet kids are watching more educational
programming than they've ever watched
they're in school watching educational
videos parents are sitting in front of
educational programming educational this
educational that but the child who
grows up on Sesame Street and
Barney staring at that screen
in daycare it's amazing how they
can't read as well as the child
who lived with stay at home mom who
sat him down and read with him
there's just something about physically
reading that does what videos
just can't do for you
so seek you out in the book of the Lord and read
that's what the Bible said you got to read
work don't be idle
and sitting in front of videos is idleness
you say well I love to
listen to preaching I don't even just
sit and listen to preaching I
listen to preaching while I'm driving
I listen to preaching while I'm working
I mean turn on a sermon
and clean the house
right do something
build something make something
do something with your life now there's a time for
rest yes but
but you know what we do too much rest
and you'd have
more energy if you rested less
you think I'm crazy it's true
you sleep too much you don't have enough
I mean if you sleep 9 hours a night
you're going to be drained you're not going to have
energy it's true
and yet sometimes I'll sleep
very little I'm working
hard I'm working 16 hour days
sometimes that's the most energetic I ever feel
because
I'm doing something you know and
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength the Bible says and so man
especially I guess I'm preaching to the man especially
right now hey get out there and
work do something build
something or preach to
your family spend time with your family play a game
with your family play sports
go out and do something don't
sit around in front of the
TV or videos or computer or
whatever
it's just not healthy it's just not
a good lifestyle and then you know you
may be putting your kids in front of the cleanest video
they're going to grow up and just you know
they may just be in that habit of
watching and then they might go up and
watch the wrong things you never know
and so what am I
saying tonight television is a sorcerer
number one it's filled with subliminal
messages number two it's
the world number three it's
an unhealthy lifestyle number four
it's brainwashing you to think that
queers are fine that
that Jesus is
a joke that all religions
are fine global
economy one world government
one world religion
accept everybody
accept the transgender
on and on and on
I don't know what else to tell you tonight
let's just close in prayer because if you're going to go watch TV
you're probably just going to go watch it anyway
and probably most of the people here
90 some percent of the people I'm preaching
to don't even watch TV anyway
but we need this reminder
because we need to realize that it's wicked
and you know what if you're ever talking to a Christian
are you listening to me if you're ever talking to a Christian
and they don't understand what you're saying
and you're trying to show them stuff in the Bible
and they're just not getting it
they're probably just a real big
TV watcher
so you got to just be patient with them
because their head is so far into TV they can't discern
truth anymore
let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Father thank you so much
for the great day that we have on
soul winning today a new record
the most people saved ever in the history of our church
God I thank you so much
for the things I preached about this morning
just that you're going to enable us
to do greater and better things
Father thank you for your promises
help us to keep on moving forward
and pressing forward and Father
others are beguiled tonight
others are deceived
from the pastor to the pew
it seems that most people
have been deceived by the television
and they're bewitched by the sorceries
of Hollywood and Disney
but Father help us not to be among
the number that are deceived
help us not to be foolish
and help us to understand what the will of the Lord is
not to let any wicked thing
come in front of our eyes
not to listen to that which is ungodly and wicked
and we love you and thank you very much
for our church
and please bless us this week
keep us clean and keep us on the right path
we love you