Panic and pitfall have come upon us, Devastation and destruction; Lamentations 3:47. Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. proverbs 11:14. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6.
We will have pitfalls in our lives as it pertains to this series on our TVs. There is no way of getting rid of pitfalls but there is a way we can deal with them. there are many pitfalls that we can deal with on or when we deal with our TVs. I will talk about a few of the pitfalls then if time permits, I will talk about the way or ways to deal with the pitfalls of our TVs. If there is not time I will talk about it tomorrow, as I said this series will take as long as it takes.
The first pitfall is one that is out of your control and that is if some suggest something you need to watch or sends it to watch on your TV. My people have become lost sheep; Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, They have forgotten their resting place. Jeremiah 50:6. People will try to lead you astray on purpose or not intentionally but still lead you astray.
I want to touch on a point and that is not intentionally part of what I just said. People may not think that the thing they send you or suggest watching is a pitfall but if can be, it may not have been for them, or they do not know that it is a pitfall even for them, they may not be Christian or do not have good discernment. In terms of the unintentional part this can be true, they might not know that they are doing this. an example of this can be found in Deuteronomy 4:42, for one to flee there who unintentionally killed his neighbor, without having hatred for him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live. To explain this verse someone kills unintentionally he is not to be put to death because he did not hate. The same can be said in the same way for our series, if someone leads you unintentionally to have you watch something on your TV they are not at fault because they did not know.
Now let's talk about the on-purpose part of what I said above. They can be trying to lead you astray from Jesus and His Kingdom on-purpose. For people do want to do us harm just because we are Christian. For as the bible says, If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18. They will want to do it on-purpose just because also they do not like you or just hate you and not in the Christian sense. Whatever it is here this can be a pitfall for us on our TVs. if we are Christians, they will send of a movie that has stuff unholy on it and they, do it on-purpose because they know we are Christian and mock us for trying to be holy. There are many ways they might do it but it all culminated to it being a pitfall for us.
We have a choice to look at what they suggested or to not. They can create peer pressure for you to watch or others can know of it can say you should also watch it. Either way the decision is yours. This is all I got to talk about today I will continue to talk about this tomorrow about pitfalls. I do not want to rush through this stuff because I think it is so important to know and understand.
Today I want to end with a verse I used in the beginning, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6.
All Bible Verse taken from the ESV, NASB
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