Growing Up Who is Your Teacher?

Growing Up

Who is Your Teacher? 

For most of us the media has become our teacher

Who is your teacher?

Jesus said, I am the way the TRUTH and the LIGHT

How much time are you spending with the TEACHER?

Have you noticed that you go to church on

Sunday and learn God’s principles for life…

 Then Monday through Saturday the things the media is

communicating gives us a different point of view.

 Media is a means of communication

i.e. radio, television, newspaper, the internet.

   

The media is reaching to influence people.

I don’t think most of us think about it when we turn on our

devices for entertainment or information that there is an agenda.

There is a belief system that wants you to

think like them behind every broadcast.

I remember in English class being

taught the meaning of “bandwagon”.

Media uses the “bandwagon” principle to get us to think

that their message is fashionable and popular and you are

the only one not on the wagon enjoying it.

The media has been very successful at shaping our minds.

I many times will hear someone say they saw

a good movie and I will ask, “Why was it good?”.

I get answers like the graphics were great, the

actors were incredible, but very seldom do I

get the message was profound and full of truth.

Maybe one of the saddest things about humanity

is we really don’t care about the message.

 

God tells us that it is not good for unwholesome

words to come out of our mouth.

 But when I turn on my television

cursing comes across as cool and acceptable.

I could mention so many subjects like sex, family, violence, etc.
that give us an unwholesome view.

After the 2016 presidential elections, it seems every-

one was talking about how the media missed it.

There was a bias views said the majority

But those who had that view were wrong.

My point is this…

 If we are to grow up and become mature according to
God's Word who gave us life and numbered our days…

We need to recognize there are “winds of doctrine”.

 “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves,

and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning

and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.”     

The winds of doctrine are simply stated "beliefs".

It is more than some world religion or cult.

Beliefs are blowing around us every day.

You and I are affected by those winds.

If we look at the time we are

in the wind of the world view.

Verses the time we are in the

influence of the wind of the Holy Spirit.

The time we are influenced gives us a clue to why we so
easily get tossed around in our Personal Belief System.

I want to be informed.

 I want entertainment so I turn on the media.

But I realize I must be very careful.

I need to make sure I am strong

in my convictions of God’s Word.

I cannot let my soft side say that is ok

and I cannot let my hard side pick fights.

You and I need to make sure we

have a good foundation in God’s Word.

We need to give more time to the teaching

of God’s Word by the 5-fold ministry.

We need to limit our exposure to the winds

of this world, the doctrines of the media.

Many of us do not know who our teacher is because

we don’t think about why we believe what we believe.

This is so true when what we believe is so

acceptable by the world, the “bandwagon”.

Who is your teacher?

Jesus said, I am the way the TRUTH and the LIGHT.

How much time are you spending with the TEACHER?

Nothing is more important than your faith.

Because what you believe will

shape everything you do and are.

Fear and doubt reveals the stability of our faith.

They reveal the effects of the wind of doctrines.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:11-19 NIV

11 It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.