[Biblemat] Two articles for your consideration

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Two  articles for your consideration 
Number  1 - AND TIME GOES ON! 
By  Garreth L. Clair 


Each day that we live here in the world we are continually exposed to all  
that goes on in our world.  The  good, the bad, the disgusting, etc. are all 
show to us via the electronic  media.  Nothing happens in our world  that we do 
not know about almost immediately.  For some strange reason the electronic  
media and the printed media show mostly the awful, evil, side of events that  
occur.  Perhaps these media moguls  are convinced that sensationalism is the way 
to build ratings for their shows,  apparently they believe horror, mayhem, 
sex, and violence sells anything.   
As we consider these things let us always be aware of the potential  danger 
that exposure to this type of media exposure may bring us.  It is not too great 
an exaggeration to  suggest that whatever we allow ourselves to imbibe within 
our mind will  eventually influence our character.  Read Matthew 15:17-20 17  
       Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth 
goeth  into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18            But those 
things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the  heart; and they 
defile the man. 19  For out of the heart proceed evil  thoughts, murders, 
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,  blasphemies: 20            These 
are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands  defiles not a 
man.  We are all  products of whatever we allow to enter our heart (i.e., 
seat of intellect)  through our eyes and through our hearing.  Because our 
character is established by whatever we see and hear, we must  be very careful of 
those things that we hear and see. 
Each  day that we live we will occupy our time doing something.  We would be 
ill advised to spend too  much time observing media programming that is 
designed for our viewing, it will  surely have an effect upon our character 
eventually.   There may be some programs that  will not adversely affect our character 
but at this particular point in time I  know of no such program. 
Time goes on!  That is a fact  for all of us to deal with day after day.  
Dealing with spare time may become a problem for those who have an  abundance of 
it.  Remember  this:  nothing is valuable if it is  does not increase our 
faith in God, Christ, and spiritual things in  general;    Ecclesiastes 10:18, “By 
much slothfulness the building decayeth;  and through idleness of the hands 
the house droppeth through.  (KJV) --- 1 Timothy 4:13, "Till I come, give 
attendance to reading, to  exhortation, to doctrine."         

Number  2 - RESISTING GOD 
Do you think it is impossible to resist God?  Since God created the universe, 
it would  seem that the question is foolish yet the Bible teaches that man 
has resisted  God's goodness toward him from the very beginning.  Please notice 
the following verses of  Scripture about man's capacity to resist God: 
Acts  7:51 
51        Ye  stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always 
resist the Holy  Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 
2  Timothy 3:8 
8          Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist 
the  truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the  faith. 
2  Chronicles 30:8 
8          Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield 
yourselves  unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified 
for ever:  and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may 
turn away from  you.  (KJV) 
Acts  7:51 
51        Ye  stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always 
resist the Holy  Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.   (KJV) 
Jeremiah  8:5-6 
5          Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual  
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to  return. 
6          I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented 
him of  his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his 
course, as the  horse rusheth into the battle.  (KJV) 
Hosea  11:7 
7          And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called 
them to  the most High, none at all would exalt him.   glc 




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