The Media, Their Broadcasts, and Sin?


2009 © Elder Scott Ray S.B.G.

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"Transponder" DEFINITION = An automatic device that receives, amplifies, and retransmits a signal on a different frequency (see also broadcast translator).

In a world of the media, with colors, sounds, pictures, videos, and broadcasts, most of us have at one point or another have probably
heard the term "transponder". Most may not know the meaning of it. Above I have it listed. Why have I done this? Well...our culture &
our media broadcast media that we all react to, in one way or another. Our reactions can be good, by mans terms, or they can be seen
as bad. There is another aspect to take notice. One I have very recently become more conscience of. Our culture and Media, with all
of it's affects, can cause our sinful fleshly bodies, which are vile, to wake up and react to what it hears and sees, and senses.

Our Apostle Paul warns all of us, the Memebers of the Body of Christ in Galatians 5:16, which reads, "This I say then, Walk in the
Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." This is where many true, saved, forgiven believers fail on a daily basis. Can you do
anything, and still go to Heaven? Yes you can. Sould you do sinful things because Christ took away the sin of the World? God
forbid, or in a more modern saying...NO!

Stepping outside of Pauline doctrine to notice what John, who is too Israel, and the "little flock", has to say about the flesh, and
how it reacts to the world around it, says in 1 John 2:16  "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." From what I have quoted, even from an Apostle who  is not in
our Dispensation, who is not even writting to us, we can see that John has knowledge of the issues with the flesh. Just like Paul,
who is our Apostle, in this, the Dispensation of the Grace of God.

With our vile fleshly bodies, if left to not be controlled by the New Man, through the Renewing of the Mind, we can end up acting as
those who are lost, that are the children of disobedience, who are waiting for the wrath of God. We, as the memebers of the Body of
Christ, must always be on guard, that is why our Apostle Paul warns us in 2 Corinthians 13:7 "Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;
not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates." Paul warns us not to do
evil. So can we still sin? Yes. Should we, considering it is all paid for? NO!

Paul even tells us in Romans 12:21, that we are to "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Paul, concerning the words
of wisdom to us in 1 Corinthians 10:6, tells us that the scriptures of the Old Testament "...were our examples, to the intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted." This was dealing with the Jews in the Old Testament, who had been placed on
record as having lusted after evil things. We, the saved are already forgiven, and we are not to "lust after evil things, as they
also lusted."

Even our words must be guarded. Paul points out in 1 Corinthians 15:33, that we are to "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt
good manners." We must remember that according to Galatains 1:4, the Lord Jesus Christ, "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might
deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:" Not doing and not speaking evil is the will of
God and our Father. In reference to evil speaking, Paul warns us through Ephesians 4:31, by telling us to, "Let all bitterness, and
wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:" Infact, according to Ephesians 5:16, we are
to be "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." If you watch the media, and can not see that this is true, you need more time
in daily study of the Word of Truth.

Our Apostle Paul even tells all of us, the Memebers of the Body of Christ, in Colossians 3:5, to "Mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:" These in
verse five can all still be done, and we are to mortify our members, or reckon our flesh dead to these desires, which still exist in
our bodies. To deny it is a lie. To deal with it is prudent and wise, or those who are lost around us will see us doing that which we
ought not be doing, and they will say that we are hypocrites. Kill the desires, or they will kill our testimony before others. It's an
issue of testimony, not if we can still go to Heaven. It's an issue of that according to Ephesians 1:7 "In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" It cost Christ His Blood, for Our Sins! That's the
issue. The Law makes you focus on your sins. Grace makes you accountable, because His Blood bought you in full.

Ephesians 4:4 "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;"