in the last verse of I john the apostle john says, little children, keep yourselves from idols. amen. paul says that 'there is nothing unclean of itself' (romans 14.14) and so this is true of the tv. but although the tv set is not evil in itself it has the continual capacity to function as an 'occasion for evil' to occur. have many images in my heart about the hideousness of tv in my mind along this line. i remember the horror and spiritual revulsion as seeing a whole room of men and women in their 70's and up, sitting like zombies, eyes glued to the single set in the front of the room on which was an ongoing spewing of the most salacious (lustful, lecherous) activity between the men and women images on the screen. in my spirit, confronted with the horror of such an image of wholesale acceptance of such evil on the part of, one would think, such unlikely subjects...i had the vision of how incredibly tuned to satanic activity of seeking to corrupt and destroy any remnant of the image of God remaining in us..the image likening watching the tv as being akin to opening the top of one's skull, putting in a huge funnel and pour raw, spiritual sewage in..of 'mainlining' what is akin to a spiritual drug whose effect is to totally destroy all that good and innocence of evil in us.
when i think of tv i also think of the images portrayed on it as two dimensional portrayals of what, before tv could only appear in three dimensions. now, in tv, we can be in the presence of evil influence which was once only possible when we were in the presence of real people who modeled in some way evil. so i take the warning paul gave in I corinthians 15.33- BE NOT DECEIVED, EVIL COMPANY CORRUPTS GOOD MORALS. it took me a long time, it was a long, spiritually arduous process by which i was finally delivered from this powerful influence for evil in my life. i hope that God helps me never to yield to the ongoing temptation to return to this, to me- evil spiritual drug, again. and my prayer for you is that you may be delivered COMPLETELY from it...something that is a hydra-headed fountainhead of evil influence.
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