103. READING AND VIEWING         --page 820--

         Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? (Pro.6:27).

         1. Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
         2. If you clutter up your mind with little things, will there be any room left for the big things?
         3. If you keep your mind too open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
         4. I think moviemakers have failed their responsibility when there is no message to their movie.
         5. If it's not the Word of God written by a man of God, then it is the word of the Devil written by a man of Satan!
         6. If it's not pictures of loving, gentle, affectionate, good, kind, clean sex, then it's certainly not of the Lord!
         7. I'd call those porno movies junk sex, and I think it's just as bad for people as junk food!
         8. If you can't tell the difference between good and bad sex, and good and bad movies, then you ought to quit both!
         9. The Lord lets a lot of these sci-fi movies be made to give you a glimpse of the future!
         10. Watch out for what you've learned from Bible movies! Be sure you have studied the Word, because that's the only thing that's reliable.
         11. You can develop a perverted appetite by reading or over-reading the wrong things.
         12. You are what you read, and what you're hungry for!
         13. Whatever you're reading is spiritual food!--Spiritually good or spiritually bad!
         14. How could you neglect the Words of life for what are only the words of death?
         15. Perversions of truth are more dangerous than outright lies! Part of what the Devil says is often true.
         16. I just don't understand how anybody could be interested in the diabolical lies, deceits and fabrications of man's cunningly devised fables!
         17. I seldom read anything else but the Word of God after I was really filled with the Spirit.
         18. I never read any worldly man's writings in my life that weren't dumber than the Bible.
         19. Some of my best information or greatest inspiration that I have received and passed on to you has come from seeing movies.
         20. I like the believable real stories about real life. The truer to life the thing is, the better.
         21. I like movies that really have an ideal and a message.
         22. We need to watch things that are meaningful and applicable and apt to influence our lives and affect us positively and are important for us to know, or are at least educational--travelogues, documentaries, people, history, etc.
         23. Any kind of violence in movies or TV is very bad for children.
         24. It's always edifying if it's a story that inspires you and lifts you up and makes you admire someone's character and ability and spirit.
         25. It's ridiculous to spend your time reading the foolish wisdom of man! It's worse than trash because it is a vaunted wisdom of man, it pretends to be so know-it-all in its sophistry of man and all its philosophies and psychology and theories.
         26. Deliver us from these lying cunningly devised fables of the Devil and all his unprofitable foolish so-called wisdom: The lies of science falsely so-called. (1Ti.6:20)
         27. If you don't get a message out of a movie, if you don't get the point, what's the use of wasting your time watching it?
         28. When you watch a movie, always try to see what they're driving at, what kind of propaganda, what message are they putting across?
         29. Almost every modern movie has got some kind of statement, and most of it's anti-Christ propaganda! Watch out!

         (See also No. 54, 62, 320, 326A, 775, 776, 800, 802, 935, 964, 988, 1137,1657.)

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