Apostolic Lighthouse
Comfortably Numb (Part 2) - Bro Kaleb
He's the one that's truly worthy. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. He's so good to us, ain't he? Better than I deserve. And I don't deserve it, but he's good to me. I'm thankful for that today, and you may be seated. I want to say that I'm thankful for all of our visitors that's here, the House of the Lord tonight, and another said God gave him a thought. He could have went right on with it, and probably beats this old trench in Brother Jordan that I'm going to endeavor to do, but I feel that this is important to us in the day and hour that we are living, and once again, you'll pray for my wife and we'll be leaving again in the morning, head him back to the visitation and funeral, and they are taking it very, very hard and so unexpected, and so we're not promised tomorrow, and we don't know from the next to our next breath, but I do know who holds tomorrow in his hand, and I want to trust in him and believe in him, and so I'm going to continue to talk to us from last week's, you can just, I guess, title this part two of comfortably numb. If you wasn't here last week, I'm talking about comfortably numb, I'm talking about media, and we dealt with some of the things that is going on in the world today, and you say brother Caleb, do you, and you, we don't know about you, you preach against everything. Well, it's not that I'm preaching all of this is a sin, but I want us, and I feel like that we need to be careful with some of this stuff, and if we just put our head in the sand and just come breath, go breath, it's going to come back to get us one day. So I feel like it is very needful to talk about, say, well, if you wasn't here last week, comfortably numb, I hurt my knee, I went to the doctor, and they gave me a shot in my knee, and they told me, I said, no, listen, it's going to feel, it's going to feel like everything's okay, it's going to feel like it's good, and it's going to feel comfortable and great, and you're going to feel good, and you're going to do things that you shouldn't be doing, because really on the inside, even though you feel good, you're hurt, and so they gave me this shot, man, numbed it up, and man, you are right, if you're not careful, you will overdo it, and I have overdone it, but I don't want to live that way in the day and hour that we are living. I don't want to live comfortably numb with the things that's going on around me in the house of God, and media, talking about media, media comes from the word median, median is a fortune teller, it is the connection from the natural world to the spiritual world, it is where the author connects with the reader, it's the connection from one to many. We talked a little bit for a little while, last week, and talking about, and I am using the LGBTQ community as the agenda, and there's so many different agendas that we can use, and I'll brush on a few of these at the end of this tonight, but there's so many that we can use, but I'm using this because I feel like it's so prevalent in the day and age and time that we are living, and in June 18th of 2002, there was, they come out with a special edition, and it's called "My Family Is Different," and the children that's living with this gay and lesbian couple, and this is a show on television, the parents of this episode are featured, they're gay and lesbians on this show, and they are trying to talk with the traditional couples, and the kids, they're trying to explain to them that this is natural, they're trying to convince them that this way of life is natural, and this was in 2002. Also in 2002, Nickelodeon come out with a little episode and featuring a gay couple, and in 2002, they had so much pushback on it that they scrapped it and took it off of the air because it was bringing such an uproar about this, and so they took it off the air, but what happens is, is they push, and they push, and they push, and finally when the Christians of this country finally get enough and they stand up against their agendas that they are pushing down our throats, that we finally stand up and say, "Okay, I've had enough, I'm tired of hearing it," or, "Man, we make an uproar whether it be on social media or just across the country," that they'll quit pushing, and they'll take a step back, but the problem is when they take a step back, is they push, they push, they push, and then they take a step back, and they might have started way over here, but then they take a step back and say, "Okay, we'll scrap it, we'll take it off the air," and we've really felt like we've done something, but what the problem is, is they've made it a little bit farther. They might have not, in other words, if you can allow me to put it like this, they might have not, by the DJ score to touch down, but they definitely moved the ball down the field, and we thought, "Man, we've done something," and so we stand up and we push them back, but what's really happened is, that they have got their agenda just a little bit farther, and now they are pushing these different and crazy agendas with transgender and gay and lesbians, that now they are, it's coming at us from so many different angles. I say, "Man, Brother Caleb, where you coming, man, you're just going to have to clip in to last week or last Wednesday and get the front part of this," but we were talking about the different, the different ways of media, there's books, there's movies, there's videos, there's social media, YouTube, man, there's music. There's so many different types of media that they are pushing their agenda through, and man, we stand up and we, we buck the trend and we, we go against it, and man, while we are celebrating, they're celebrating more. Nickelodeon called the Loud House, now we were in July 20th of 2016. Remember the Nickelodeon special edition called Nick News in June 18th of 2002 aired, and it got such an uproar that they took it off the air, but now here July 20th of 2016, they debuted the episode called Harold and Howard McBride, the first international gay couple, and they said it was a broadcast that it was so overwhelmingly, from a positive reaction from the country that it went over so well. Say, "Brother Caleb, man, you, you, you, you just, you don't like her, you hate these kind of, I'm going to just tell you something, I've got, I've got family that's like this. I don't hate the person, I hate the sin. I had a family member that is like this the other day, I don't want, I've been accused of, of hate on this certain topic, but I had a family member that called my wife the other day in dire need, he needed a little bit of financial help, never, has retched out, never has talked to me before and retched out, and my wife come in and said, "Yeah, I'm willing to help them, let's help them, I want to help them. I want to help them come out of the muck and the mire that they are in, and so I want to make that very plain, I'm not against the people, I'm against the sin, I'm against their agenda." They keep pushing and pushing and pushing, and it went over so well, and now in 2019, we have, it's called PBS Kids, and PBS comes out and it's an author, his name is author and he has a preschool cartoon entitled Mr. Ratburn, and his special someone, it features his name Patrick, and Mr. Ratburn and Patrick, a male school teacher and his boyfriend marry each other. Now this is a preschool cartoon, they had a complete wedding ceremony, and in this preschool cartoon they are two men walking down the aisle marrying each other. Now I want you to understand this, this did not start out this way, this episode didn't start out, these two individuals was brought in later in these episodes. So what are you talking about, Brother Caleb, I'm just letting you know I'm not doing this, they're doing it, and you need to wake up and realize what's going on. Netflix had a show about a person named Walton, and this show is about transformers and these type of characters and these robots/transformers, they would interact with humans, and as you go through the multiple, multiple episodes, and mainly what it's about is these robots/transformers are fighting against one another, and it seems very harmless, and as this goes for multiple seasons, but at the end of the last season, at the end of the last episode, the two main boy characters kiss one another and walk off holding hands out of nowhere. Nothing was portrayed in this other than the fact that the very last episode, at the very last scene, you have this that come up in the Rose. Another show that's called Three Below, the end of the world is coming, two girls are sitting there, and they say we'll never have another chance to do this again, and so they just start making out with one another. Say, Brother Caleb, boy, you're pretty blunt, you've got really young kids in here, I'm going to tell you something, what do they have access to? What have they been watching? We put cell phones and iPads in their hands to have them babysitted, and we look at these episodes and say, oh man, this is just harmless, this is, and what you don't realize is as time goes on, the episodes go on, they'll slip a little deal in on you. How many shows are not up front with these characters, but as seasons, as these few seasons and series go by, they start looking for a way to do the bait and switch and show their true colors? These TV show producers have quoted that they have pushed their agendas right into our living rooms, and if we are not careful as being apostolic, we'll open the door. I'm trying to keep the door shut here tonight. My point is simply that this is an agenda that they push by the media. The media is more powerful than what you think. I'm not trying to be rude here tonight, I'm not trying to attack a certain group of people here tonight. I'm just telling you, if you open the door, if you crack the door to sin, the next thing you know the elder would say, he'll have a little toe hold, and then he'll have a foot hold, and then he'll have an arm hold, and then he'll have a total possession. You can't say, well, it's just Disney, it's just, man, it's just Disney or Nickelodeon, they, man, it's harmless, I'm going to tell you something, they all have their agendas, and there's not a person in this building here tonight that cannot stand up and say that we do not know or we haven't heard about Disney World having gay pride day, or throwing little things within their new episodes and their new movies. Mom and dads, we need to wake up. If you will agree with me, you have to admit that there is a reserve when somebody you are around or a preacher gets up and starts talking about the LGBTQ community. It's a little quiet, you're trying to admit, well, what way is this going to go? Who's going to, who's going to agree and who's not going to agree and am I going to be in the middle of it, and if we're not careful, we will be pressured as Christians, as saints of God, as preachers, Sunday school teachers, as school teacher, Christian school teachers, as being moms and dads and grandma and grandpa. If we're not careful, we'll let the pressure of this hour, this pressure cooker hour push us in the corner, we'll keep our mouth shut about it. We'll just be quiet about it. I don't want them to think we're full of hate, or, man, there were this hate speech or we're racist. I come to tell you today, I'm going to stand up in the face of sin and say sin as sin. If you would have talked or preached like this twenty, twenty-five years ago, they would have been up on the, they wouldn't nobody have been quiet about the subject. There wouldn't have been no hesitation about it, they would have got up and they would have been again to preach and say, "Preach on preacher, tell me, tell my kids, tell my kids about sin, tell my kids how to be a man, tell my girls how to be girls, tell my kids how to live for God." Oh, there wouldn't have been no bit. Now we want to hesitate, we want to be quiet a little bit because, man, it's the pressure that we're living. Why? Because it's coming through medians, coming through our phones and our iPads and our television and whatever you got going on, it's the pressure, the pressure, the pressure. I'm just going to tell you something here today, say, "Well, Brother Samson, Brother Caleb, I don't like this kind of preacher," it makes me feel, "Well, this church and I'm not being mean, I don't want nobody to leave. I'm going to tell you, there's not a person that don't leave this church that I don't reach out for. I want everybody to be here, but I want you to know that we are going to preach against sin and this type of sin in this church as long as I'm here and as long as that elder's here. I want you to preach against this sin." I read to you a lot of these from CBS and ABC and Disney and all of these different producers, these head producers and how they have been openly telling about their agendas. How I read to you last week, how when they passed this about gay marriage, they was blown away that it barely passed because of all of the pushing that they have been doing through social media and television and music and all their books in different ways. You have to remember a media or a media is the connection between some person's thoughts to many and they're pushing this agenda little by little by little by little, just a little thing here. We throw an uproar about it, we'll take it off and then pretty soon it's here and then the next thing, you know, it's just a little ad and there's two men sitting there in the ad with a small child. Nothing said, just perception, throwing it out there. So well, preacher, it's not affecting me, it's affecting you. It's coming against you, it's coming against your mind, it's affecting your thoughts, it's affecting the world that you are living in and I promise you the devil knows how to manipulate you, he knows how to manipulate your children, he knows what to do, he knows how to say it, he knows how to present it, he knows how to put it before you. What are you talking about? I think we need to wake up. We need to realize that there is an agenda, we can't let our children go the way that the world's going. I've been talking about just one agenda, this LGBTQ community and all of this but there's so many different agendas that they are after, they're after your marriage, they're after your children, they're after your husband, they're after your wife, they're after grandma and grandpa, they're after your older kids, they're after your preschool kids. Why do you think, what do you think man when COVID hit all of this corruption and all of this that our kids was learning that nobody had an idea about, they brought that stuff home and they started looking at them books and what was going on and seeing and hearing and figuring out what was really there was an uproar in this country because we really had no idea what our kids was even learning, they had our kids in the colleges, they had our kids in the public schools and now we got a bunch of kids that don't know if they're men or if they don't know if they're a woman or if they're a kitty cat or a dog and now they want the teachers to me out back to them because they identify as a cat, they can't even be talking, there's less shit leather, there's lawsuits going right now as I'm speaking about some teacher that didn't converse with some kid and a kitty cat me out because this kid identified, we are messed up in the day and hour that we are living but I thank God every day for a church that knows truth, not a pre-truth, not a live truth, not a walking truth. They have a plan and they have a purpose, that plan and that purpose is to disrupt your child's thinking, to disrupt your thinking, to keep you quiet on sin, they can just keep you quiet on it, they can keep pushing their agenda and they can keep moving forward. I told you last week and I'm going to tell you this week, I got an agenda too, I got a purpose too, I got an agenda, my agenda is I'm going to be saved, my purpose is I'm going to save myself, I'm going to save my family from this untoward generation, they got a agenda, they want to see killing destroy my family, they want to cause division within my family, they want my boys to grow up and not realize that they're boys, they want my dollar to grow up and I realize that she's a woman, but I'm telling you I got an agenda too, imagine the years, I'm going to say hey, come out from amongst them and be separate, say it to Lord and touch not the unclean thing. I think I'm just going to work on my agenda too, I'm going to push my agenda too, I'm going to push my purpose too, and that's saving my family, that's pushing my family, that's bringing my family to the altar, that instead of just throwing an iPad and an iPhone in their hand, why don't you get a mother hand and lead it to an altar, why don't you get a mother hand and take it to a prayer room, push your agenda, push your purpose. You can't sit in this place here today and tell me that these people will not be forceful and get right in your face about it, Lord help me here today, some in here need to make a plan and a commitment to God that you're going to fight for your family and for your children, for your wife, for your husband, can I tell you today, it's from every form of media that you have to pay attention to, you can say I'm not going to get this or I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to watch this or I'm not going to listen to that but I'm going to tell you something, it's every form of media and you say well I don't watch television, well do you read a book, do you get on your cell phone, do you flip open your iPad, do you turn on your radio, it's on the radio, I got serious satellite radio, brother Jimbo and I like listening old time stories, Johnny Dollar and Richard Diamond, man no cussing on there, I would recommend that to anybody but all of a sudden between shows there's some ignite, they'll come in there and start doing an advertisement for SCX and what they can do for you and help you, I'm going to tell you something, it's in your face every day and what it's trying to do is just bring down, just demoralize it just a little bit, we had such a thing in this day and this in America was culture, we had, and we had high culture, it's when we had the golden rule when you love God and did good unto others, doing unto others as you'd have them do unto you and man there was just a principle about things in America but all of a sudden I understand it's a good day in America when man and nobody can become somebody and they can work their self up and have something in America today, I'm not putting, I'm not going that way or pushing that but I'm going to tell you something, oh it is the day and the time that we are living in that we don't have no society or no high culture or any any culture, it's just man if they'll loot and they'll go destroy and they'll throw rocks through building and glass and man they'll torch and they'll destroy and they'll burn just because they didn't get their way, we literally had huge universities, universities that are top in our country that literally gave a day the next day on Wednesday for counseling because Trump won the election, wanting them to cope with it, that's the problem that I have and I believe, who is it, Dixie Stampede or, it ain't even Dixie Stampede anymore, what is it called, the Stampede, Dolly Stampede, yeah she'll say, "Anybody here's the winner, give ribbons to everybody," but that's the problem that we have when we give ribbons and trophies to the losers because then we expect it, I was top growing up, the second place was the first loser, you just didn't want to lose, that's why I won't play my wife, what is that game, Sister Kelly, play nines or nerds or something, nerds, yeah I won't play my wife in it, she beats me every time, I hate it, remember that Aaron played her and Sister Kelly one time, we thrashed him, I enjoyed every minute of it, I guess it took somebody smarter than me to help me win, but it's okay to lose sometimes, it teaches you something, it teaches you, and I never was good at it, Sister Wood, she come to me a while back and she said, "You are getting better on losing," I wanted to say, you just ain't played with me in the right game yet, sis, because it still bothers me, it's every form of media, and we got to pay attention to it, church, what part of media, books, movies, YouTube, social media, television, radio, video games, media, media, the connection from this world to the spirit realm, the oldest form of media that has probably impacted our society over the years more than anything else is the printed page, I know you're here tonight and saying, "What in the world? You talking about books, you ain't going to preach against books either, are you?" I'm going to preach against the wrong kind of books, say, "Preacher, you really think that books really affect us?" I hope they do, I pray they do, it's more than just a book because it's a median between us and the one who wrote it, the one who wrote it to the one who receives it, because it's who they are that's affecting what we are, say, "Well, preacher, I'm not affected by what I read," that's pretty elementary, I thank God every day that He gave me this book right here, and it's affecting my life. I said, "This book's affecting my life," elder brother Nathaniel, you're right, you can read this book and see something else, oh man, how did I miss that, where did that come from brother Malman? Well, we'll get a notepad like the elder tonight and go write something down because it was something that we haven't seen or grasped before, and man, we can read the Bible again and all of a sudden, man, we see something within the pages that we are reading that it's affecting me, I've been affected by the book, I said I've been affected by the book, it's changed the person who I am, it's changed the way I walked, it's changed the way I walked, it's changed the way I talked, it's changed the way I live. I challenge you, say, "Well, I'm not affected," I challenge you tonight. For the next six months, you go find you some good Christian wholesome books to read, and you come back to me in six months, and I want to know, I want to see where you're at spiritually. I'll tell you where you'll be at, you'll be a lot farther along, you was six months before you started, but you go get you six books, or you go read six months with the books of romance, or all of this other junk that'll cloud your mind, Star Wars, or whatever this junk is, sorcery, come to me in six months and see what kind of prayer life you have. You'll preach, "I'm not affected," you are affected. When you're reading that Bible, you're connecting with God. Why? Because he's on the other side. He's on the other side of this book. It's his words. This book was written under inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and when you're reading one of them nasty, no-account books, what's on the other side of that? Who is the author of that book? What kind of junk are they trying to put in your mind and trying to sew within your brain? Connecting. I want to connect with God's agenda. I want to realize that we are affected about what we bring into our lives. Mom's dad, you need to realize what's on the other side of the things that's affecting your kids. What else are you talking about? Let's move to another form of media, and the oldest form of media, probably, is music. Music. Need to understand that media is something that transfers, transferring one spirit to masses. When people hear me, you look at me, everyone of y'all, I'm going to tell you something. Music is spiritual. Music is spiritual. Do not take music lightly. Well, this is just a love song, or this is a man we always joked. I think I said it last week. I believe I did. They said play the old country and Western song backwards, and you get your house back, your dog back, your car back, your wife back. Well, I like the beat of that. I like the way that thing sounds. I'm going to tell you what's on the other side of that song. Second Kings chapter 3 and verse 15, so my Lord, he finally going to read the scripture. This is when Elijah was trying to get a word from God, and he's having trouble getting it. As he do, verse 15 says, "And now bring me the ministry and come to pass, and when the ministry played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him." What is he saying? When he was in trouble and he needed a word from God. What is this? It was a musician. It was music. He said, "Hey, bring me some music. I need to get the mind of God. I need to get God on my side. I'm going to tell you something, you listen to all this type of junk and put it in your mind and warn against your mind. All of this junk that they're singing and it's slowly creeping in your mind. And man, when you get done listening to that junk, I'm going to tell you something. You can't tell me that you feel like going to pray. You can't tell me that you feel like there's a connection between you and God. But I'm going to tell you something when they sing about the old, rugged cross and man, if there's nothing but the blood and all the blood that flows from Calvary and when the saints go marching in, I'm going to fly away. Oh, glory, I'm going to fly away. There's something about them songs that gives you a connection between you and what's on the other side of what you're feeling, that connection of the Holy Ghost, that connection of the Holy Spirit. That's why it's important. That's why we sing. Man, it's important to get the mind of God like we did tonight in prayer and they begin to sing the most songs and man, you begin as the elder said that he just felt something with him when Brother Zach was singing it, resonated within his spirit of what he was already feeling, what was he feeling, he was feeling what was on the other side of them songs. I'm going to tell you something and when you're listening to Hell's Bells and oh, man, all this other junk that AC/DC and all this, I'm going to tell you what I want you to do. It'll make your babies want to go commit suicide. Your suicidal spirits behind this music help me, Lord, why? Because music is spiritual. What are you talking about? Are you sure? Yeah. What about Saul? 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 23, and when it come to pass when the evil spirit from God was upon, Saul that David took a heart and played with his hand, so Saul was refreshed and was well and the evil spirit departed from him. The connection between music and spirituality, a connection when you begin to worship God and lift up your hands, does that music that you're listening to have your best interest in mind, what he's saying, brother, Samson, they're trying to destroy you, say, "Well, preacher, there's other people listening to it too, I understand that, I understand that." That's why the Bible said, "Save yourself." He didn't say, "And I know, go to the highways and byways and propel it to compel them to come, tell them to come." But the Bible said when the root of it, when you get down to the very root of this thing, you've got to save yourself. The foolish couldn't get enough oil from the wise, they had just enough for themselves. I'm going to tell you something. It's going to take your own dedication, your own prayer life, your own worship. You're going to have to get a walk with God for yourself. You can't live off Brother Simpson's co-tell. You can't live off Sister Simpson's co-tell. You can't live off Grandma on Grandpa's co-tell. You've got to get a walk with God and save yourself. Say well, preacher, you're just saying that. I'm not just saying that. Keith Richardson with Rolling Stones said this quote, "Music works in mysterious ways. When it goes in, you really have no say in what it does to you." This ain't just me. They're saying the same thing that all these top producers and these big television dealers were trying to push it down your throat. They were trying to cause confusion. Why? Because they have an agenda. Perry Fowler from James Addiction, he said this, "The mosquitoes," which he was talking about the parents. That's what they think of us, the parents, the mosquitoes. We have more influence over your children with our music than you do. Eminem, the rapper, said, "If he listens to me, he is an innocent victim and he will become a puppet." The good old boys Conway Twitty said this as a country artist, "I'm not proud of a lot of things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decay of the world." Billie Joel said this, "You know all these things?" They said about rock 'n' roll in the early days, "How make all of your youth want to grow up and have sex and make them all go crazy and do drugs?" Well, guess what? They're right. I'm just giving you quotes from what these people in this field says. Madonna, a lot of the people, and you'll have to agree that she opened the door for so much of sexual sins and perversion in this world today. She used her powerful influence and impacted so many with her perverted causes, and she said this, "If they, all of these on these so many different levels, if these people keep seeing it and seeing it and seeing it eventually, it's not going to be such a strange thing to them. Can I tell you? I said it last week, "Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, just drip, it's just a little drip." Oh, I'm not, it's just a little drip, but the next thing you know, it's not just a little drip, then it becomes a steady stream, and then it becomes a little creek, and then it becomes a river, and then the next thing you know, you are in the middle of an ocean. Why? Because it's little by little. If we just keep showing it, and if we just keep putting it out there, we're open to tell you something, "I'm going to come on Sunday morning, I'm going to tell you it's a sin. I'm going to come back Sunday night, I'm going to tell you it's a sin. I'm going to come back, I'm going to pray on Monday night, I'm going to come back on Wednesday night and say it's still a sin." They're going to get up and say, "Well, it's just whatever you feel like you are today. That's what you are. I'm going to get up, and I'm going to declare young men, you're men, young ladies, you're ladies, young ladies, you'll never be a man, young men, you'll never be a woman. God created you to be a man, young lady, He created you to be a woman." What are you talking about, oh, Mandy, you really think that it's, they just keep showing it all. I'm going to tell you something. Why all of a sudden do they start making music videos to influence you? Let's write out why because the picture paints a thousand words. Beyonce, who is one of the biggest stars of the latest last decade, she had been paid millions and millions of dollars from companies like Pepsi and all of these different companies. Why? Because they understand the power of her influence. How you sure about that? I'm going to tell you something. These companies are smart enough to realize that they are paying her millions and millions and millions of dollars, and they keep doing it because they are getting a return off of her influence. They wouldn't keep paying her if they wasn't getting a return. I'll preach her, I like that song she sings, it's cute, I like it, I like the beat. What about the spirit that's laying on the other side of that? What are you talking about? There's just a little bit of cyanide poisoning in an elder and every time you take it, it's slowly, but surely it's killing you. Taylor Swift, who's one of the richest women in the world, she is a billionaire from her influence with music. When you begin to study her, you'll see that she plays with spirits and witchcraft, and in her concert she's doing satanic rituals. Are you talking? I'm just scratching the surface, I could preach on this, I could do a 20 part series. I'm just scratching the surface, but you can go do your own research and find out I'm telling you the truth. After Grammys in 2023, they performed this singer called Sam Smith and some other performers performed a song that was called unholy, and he dressed up as Satan at the Grammys, and he had these transvestite dancers dancing dressed up as demons on poles on the stage as the crowd went wild. I don't believe it. Go, you won't get on your phone, you won't be on your phone, googled that up. I'm preaching truth to you tonight. You open the door to all these spirits, these people, they come in and when you ain't prayed and you ain't been faithful to church and you ain't found the prayer room. You don't even know the last time you read your Bible, you don't even know the last time your knees hit the altar, and you come in here and there's no more spirituality inside of you, and then you're trying to combat the devil and all of this, a median that's transforming your mind to the spirit realm, and it ain't got nothing to do with God, and it's nothing, that's satanic hellish, straight from the demons of hell that's creeping in your mind, and then we want to know, man, we said, man, what happened to him? Man, I never would have dreamed that of him, I never would have dreamed that of her, I'm going to tell you something, they just kept entertaining, and they just kept listening, and they just kept watching, and they just kept reading, and they just kept being apart, but I thank God every day for churches like Neo Show Apostolic Lighthouse, that's got enough spirituality in them that they'll understand and they'll decipher between what down of the spirit realm of hell, and what's in the spirit realm of God, and what God wants. There's an agenda, there's something on the other side, social media, it's devastating our children, teen suicide is out of control. You can't say, well, that's not true, preacher, it is true. I'm not going to go into much detail, but I'm going to tell you something, how to get a friend of mine, his boy just this past week committed suicide 18 years of age, and you just come in and you hand your kids a device, and you just throw it to them and let it baby set them. Let me tell you, there's two things that happen when this goes on. The first thing that happens is when you hand your kids a device in social media, you are giving them access to the world. Oh, really, yeah, but there's the other side of that too. There's a flip side of that, what's on the other side of that, brother DJ, on the other side of this, you are giving the world access to your child. All these suicides, suicides, kids under 13 years of age, 3.4 kids a day under 13 years of age are committing suicide every day in the world we're living in, and when they begin to dig into this, and when they begin to look at this and pull this up elder, they begin to realize that social media was the leading cause of being suicide in the world today. They never realized that their kids were going through like body shaming, shaming one another for how they look, what size they was. They never realized who they was coming in contact with, what pedophile was on there, pedophile, and their child, what you said on the corner, and why your kid was being babysatted on an iPad or an iPhone or whatever it is, and man, we want to jump up and we can preach against television and all this, but I'm going to tell you something. That thing right there honey, it's ten times worse than a television, a VCR, a video, a DVD. You can sit there with your head in the sand, or say in the sand, and you can sit there as I'm preaching and I comfortably numb at everything going around you, and you never realize and that's when they say, man, I never thought, I never realized if I only would have known, if they only would have come and talked to me, they tried. Oh, brothers, Caleb, you're preaching now, I'm preaching to myself too. Talk into a restaurant, leave this place tonight, go into a restaurant, see how many families are sitting there at the table with their cell phones, kids, moms, dads, nobody talking to one another. Nobody conversing with one another. That's when you can realize what, I can't, I've got to quit using a little giant little Susie on Kajani, I was going down the road the other day and Kobe said, dad, I just want to know, I like to meet this little Johnny little Susie, but that's when your kids is trying to, that would be the time that you realize, hey, something's off right here. You're fighting something right here. Body shaming, being pedophiled by grown adults, they don't even know what's going on. They're still trying to figure out at 13 years of age what's going on in their own bodies. And all in this whole time, Satan's at work through media, through the spirit realm, into your child's mind. Trying to figure out why our kids, how they doing this, it's because media and social media feeding them, all the garbage and the junk, it's pumping into them from every angle. They don't even know how to handle this stuff. What are you doing, moms and dads? I'll tell you what you're doing, you are giving your kids a loaded gun and you are letting the world point that right at them and pull the trigger. Let me rephrase that. We are giving our kids a loaded gun. I'm here to tell us tonight, we got to wake up, wake up. My God, we got to wake up. Preacher, what's happened to my kids, what's happening to my family? I'll tell you what's happening. The Bible says evil communication corrupts good manners. There's no manners in this world, there's no high culture in this world anymore. They can destroy, they can go and take paint and just paint over artifacts and history artifacts, just paint, paint, glue themselves and destroy it in our museums. When you're connecting with people that have the wrong attitude and the wrong agenda, I promise you church, it will affect you. It'll start affecting your mind, it'll start affecting your worship, it'll start affecting your family, it'll start affecting your kids, it'll affect your prayer life, it'll affect your marriage. Hell yeah, I said it'll affect your marriage, it'll affect your marriage, a family that prays together, will stay together, a family that'll pray and worship together, a family that'll be faithful to church together, I promise you they'll stay together, but I'm going to tell you something, a family that'll get on their cell phones and be so disconnected from one another, be so disconnected from their kids, I promise you it's going to come crashing down. There's an agenda that they're pushing and it's a lie from the enemy, you better hear me tonight, God I got a hurry, if you would dig behind the curtain of social media and all this grand and all the glitter and all the things that look so good, I promise you what you'll find, you'll find a bunch of misery, and let me tell you about misery. Misery loves company, miserable people love to see other people miserable too, you get them all the pornography and you look at all this junk, the world tries to tell you ain't it good, isn't it good, I'm going to tell you something, and they know how to present it to you, they get it and they have everything looking so grand and you, I'm going to tell you something, parents, moms and dads, husband and wives, you can never live up to all that junk, it's being fed through media, being fed. Generation Z spins over nine hours a day on all of this junk, sexual fanities, men and women are looking all this junk, it's messing with their minds, I believe it's almost 60 something percent now marriage has failed, porn is prevalent in our world today, it's being fed, approximately 40 million in the United States are sexually involved on the internet, 2.5 billion, 2.5 billion with the B emails are sent every day, and 2.5 over 2.5 of them emails, there's more than that being sent, but 2.5 of them emails are pornographic in nature, 25% of all search engine requests on a daily basis are pornographic in nature. This is the number one topic that is searched on the internet today, so I'll put you, don't say that where we have little kids in here, I'm going to tell you, they know more about it than I'm probably you do, 72 million internet users have admitted to viewing pornography this past year, even women, 34% of women that go to church have said they haven't watched and visited a porn site online in this past year, where we're being bombarded, we think this is what we want, we got to have this, this will help our marriage, let me tell you something, I got to hurry, go ahead and make your way to the music, need a few more moments, I want to tell you something, you young married couples in this, the ones that's going to get married, wives, ladies, don't never let that come in to your marriage, why are you saying, because the woman is going to be more apt to stop it than the man, the man is visual, don't let it come into your marriage, stop it, say well no, this will help, no, it will destroy your marriage, it's not if, it's just when, Psalms chapter 10 and verse 3, I will set no wicked dang before my eyes, I hate the work of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave to me, don't set no wicked dang before your eyes, I ain't got time, I could deal with that for a moment, first you on chapter 2, love not the world, neither the dangs that are in the world, if any man love the world, the love of the fathers not in him, for all that are in the world, what's in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life is not of the Father, but it's of the world, and the world all passes away and the lust around, but he that doeth the will of God, a biteeth forever. I'll say don't ever let it, don't ever let it in your home, don't never let it in your life, don't let it ever in your marriage, if you want it to buy forever, if you want your marriage to stay together, I'm going to tell you something, keep the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life, out of it, well preacher, I'd never do that, why would somebody would take pleasure in getting on their cell phones and on the internet to watch this stuff, the Bible talks about that in Romans chapter 1 and verse 32, who knowing the judgment of God, but they which commit such things are worthy of death, if you do them, if you're a part of that, you're worthy of death. Not only to do the same, but to have pleasure in them that do it, study that out, that's the ones that's not doing it, but they have pleasure in watching somebody else do it, they have pleasure in getting on their cell phones and watching this, they take pleasure in it, you know what the Bible says, you're worthy of death. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse number 1, where foreseen we are also compassion about with the greater cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and see Him that we so easily beset us and let us run with patience, the race that is set before us, what's so easily besetting us, the weights and the sins, as everything I'm preaching about tonight, a lot of this, yeah, a lot of this is sin, don't get me wrong, but there is some weights to this, we all got cell phones, most of us got iPads, most of us got computers. And I ask you tonight, what happened to personal convictions? What the pastor sets up here is just a parameter, just a minimum, but what happened to personal convictions within the home, say no honey, we're not going to get involved in that, we're not going to do that, we're not going to listen to that, we're not going to pertain with that, we're not going to put that on, we're not going to get involved in all that. Personal convictions. Do we have to get rid of it, this family, other people, they're doing it, they're getting by with it, are they really, are they really getting by, the Bible said because the judgment of God is not executed speedily, setting the hearts and minds of the people to do, the evil, wicked things, because it's a man, you're preaching a life that nobody can ever, I know we're human, we're all born in sin and shaping, there's nobody in this house, it's perfect. If you are standing, I want to shake your hand. I failed Brother Rotten and I failed miserably so many times, you got to own up to your mistakes, you got to know where you went wrong, as Elder Nathaniel says, I'm not down, I'm either up or I'm getting up. What about television? I don't think Hollywood needs to be in your home. The Cryptor Mine, the internet, what about the internet? I don't feel like there should be any person on this walk with God that has Snapchat, Tiptalk, you can't handle it. If you can't handle Facebook or Instagram, whatever, I'll tell you what you need to do, you need to get rid of it, the weights, the weights that's weighted you down. What about our kids? I'm not, he's the pastor tonight, I'm not the pastor, I know I'm in line, he's made it known, whatever he says goes, I'm going to tell you how I feel about it, he's gave me the liberty. I don't think a kid under 18 or under years of age needs to have Facebook, needs to have social media, my kids don't have it. I got a kid that's 18 and I still won't let him have it. I know it's quiet, my mom's and dad's, we need to realize, you need to realize what's your kid's doing, oh, not my kid, yeah, your kid, your kid, he's not exempt. What can we do about it? How can we handle these problems? Let me tell you how you can do it. If you're having problems, I'll tell you what you need to do, you need to go to your spouse, one or the other and say, hey, put a security, I'm putting, you put a security deal on my phone where I can't access this stuff and only you know the passcode and if I need it, if you can't handle it, get you a joint account together. Put your accounts together if you can't handle it. I'm throwing things at you, I'm trying to quit, I've been long-winded tonight, I understand. You're going to use your iPhones and iPads to watch Hollywood movies, Hollywood shouldn't be in your home than it shouldn't be on your iPad or your cell phone. If you're going to watch 10 minutes segments and 10 minutes here and 10 minutes here and 10 minutes here till you watch the whole movie, you might as well just go get the movie. Try to justify yourself all you want with it, but what about your convictions? What about your personal convictions on your cell phone? Well, I understand, I got kids, I got a daughter, you go on trips, she does nothing but scream. I'm not one to try to beat around the bush or go away from it. I understand, you get them, give them games, it does help them be quiet. You can literally drive with a little piece within the car, but I'm going back to your personal conviction, your conviction. You know what this church stands for, get some convictions about yourself. The Bill Acre preach, don't let the little, don't let the little cheater grow up to be a big cheater because it kills, it destroys. Man, keep it Bible based, keep it, keep it about God, keep it about the Bible. We don't go to movie theaters. One person said this about the movie theater. When you're in a movie theater, the atmosphere connects you within the movie and within everybody else that's around you. What's on the other side of that? What's the spirit that's on the other side of that? After you connecting yourself with video games, if it says mature, it's on there for a reason. It wasn't something apostolic that put that on them video games. I don't feel like an apostolic child of God should have a video game that endorses rape, sex, molesting, mass murders, cussing, vulgar language, say, oh, I don't, do you understand parents that these kids get on their headsets with a microphone and they play these games as they are playing against other individuals around the world and when they kill somebody on that video game, they literally kill that person playing that video game somewhere else in the world. When they kill somebody, they literally just knock somebody out of the game, brother Aaron, somebody in the world, just throw it there. It'll throw it down because they just got killed and you know who are the leaders and the top scores in these games, kids. Man, it worked for me, come in, his boy was cussing, vulgar, cussing, cussing his mom out, screaming in her face, cussing and talking to her and he said, my God son, where did you learn? Why? Why did you get this and it boiled down to his video game and he let your kid go into a room in a back room and get a video game and a controller and play this game and they are raping women on this game. Books, magazines, parents, need to pay attention what you bring in your home. Fashion magazines today is just like about looking at a pornography book. You can handle it, but what about your 12, 13-year-old kid? I'm being real with us tonight, I'm trying to shake us tonight. I gotta quit. What are some things we can do, preacher? Number one, you can get on that cell phone and figure out what your kids is on, delete some apps, delete some things. If you go in and their search engine and their history is blank, it's probably blank for a reason. They probably went in there and raced a bunch of stuff, you don't want them to see it. That kid is smarter than you are. That kid can do more with your cell phone than you can, sir, ma'am. There's some safeguards, we'll throw some at you, accountable to you, covenant eyes, canopy, common sense media. All these things that you can get on that will safeguard your home, safeguard your phone, safeguard the things that you buy, the things that you purchase to bring in your home. I'm sure there's more, I'd encourage you, dads and moms to not only put some safeguards on, your kids' phone, but probably put some safeguards on your own phone. As we all stand, I gotta quit. The connection from this world to the spirit realm, what's on the other side of what we've been entertaining, what we've been allowing, what we've been listening to, what we've been reading, what we've been watching, millions and billions of dollars being spent every day, why they call the influencers because they're influencing people every day, every day they're influencing, every day they're trying to bring down sin, not make sin look so bad, just a little bit, just a little bit, how it ain't that bad. It's just a Babylonian scarmon, just a bunch of gold and a few pieces of silver. It's not that bad, aching, aching, it's not that bad. And just get it, put it in your tent, where did he put it, he put it in the middle. What about your heart tonight, what's going on in your heart tonight, what's in the middle of you? I'm gonna open these altars tonight, the elder, if I've got out of turn, if I've said something, you line me out, but parents, the median, the sorcerer, the fortune teller, that's what media comes from, median, the sorcerer, the fortune. What are they telling? I'll tell you what they're telling, the telling that we're on it, we got our one-way ticket with our kids, and if we don't turn around, we're dragging them to hell by the things we're letting them be involved in. Can we shake ourselves tonight? Can we all find a place to pray, just have a little check up from the toes up, see where we're really at, what we're really going through, hallelujah, sing, Sister Kim. ♪ Talk with you ♪