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· 1 viewWe need to guard our hearts and minds in Christ.
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The algorithm is scary isn’t it?…
I was scrolling Facebook today and paused on a Babylon Bee article for like ten seconds and then I got three or four more in a row.
According to the Pew Research study, which polled teens between 13 and 17, when asked about how often they used particular social media platforms, over half fell into the “several times a day” or “almost constantly” category for YouTube and right at 50% fell in one of those categories for TikTok.
You can’t spend that much time on something without it having an impact on what you think about and how you think about it.
We need to guard our hearts and minds in Christ.
We need to guard our hearts and minds in Christ.
read verses 4-9
What are you sharing?
What are you sharing?
Don’t be putting anything out there that isn’t helpful to others.
There’s this game called Catch Phrase…
I don’t usually do this if I’m playing with students or our kids, but when I’m just playing with friends, I like to do what I call playing on hard mode. I just scream random things that have nothing to do with anything while the other team is going.
verses 4-7
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
The things that we post and share should lift others up. Should speak truth. Should bring joy. Should direct people towards the Lord.
That doesn’t mean everything you post should be a Bible verse, but you should never endorse or celebrate sin. It doesn’t mean you should never say anything negative, but you should always have the goal of redirecting people to Jesus.
Be a good presence on social media, because there are plenty of bad ones…
Who are you trusting?
Who are you trusting?
Don’t believe everything post you see.
Set up and then show the State Farm commercial
verses 6-7
The voices and topics you let in on social media get get you all messed up.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
So what are we to do? How do we know? We have some encouraging Words from Jesus in John’s Gospel
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
You’ve got to be discerning about who and what you are seeing.
How are you being fed?
How are you being fed?
Don’t let your mind and heart be filled up with things that will lead you away from the Lord.
Imagine you are going on a road trip. We are planning to go to Lake Michigan on vacation this summer and we will drive there. If we get on the road and I set the GPS on my phone and on Kristen’s phone, but set them to different destinations, which one will I follow?
verses 8-9
Is your feed… ?
What voices online do you have turned up the loudest? What accounts do you keep the closest?
sexual immorality
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
jealousy
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
What are you feeding yourself on your timeline?
If we aren’t careful, social media can make us feel overwhelmed with all the craziness in the world. I can distract us and lead us astray. We have got to be sure that in every area of life, including our social media use, that Jesus is our firm foundation. That we fill our minds with Him…
That begins with putting our faith in Him…
You may realize that you need to drastically change the way you use social media. You may even need to delete some or get off of it all together. That may be difficult, but…
