A Blameless Life

Literally, this word meant "a thing of Belial." Belial was a false god. David promises not to allow false religion into his home. He promised that he would not allow himself to look upon the false gods of his day. We can learn much from David’s commitment. We should have no contact with anything associated with evil. Think about the shows on televison. They are all to often filled with false ideas contrary to our God. Our Lord is offended as we laugh at the sinful practices of this world. There is little difference between our tolerance of evil entertainment and someone in David’s world tolerating false idols in their homes.

Scripture informs us to separate from ungodly influence, (Psalm 1:1) " Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers."

Further, we are instructed to separate from carnal Christians. " It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. . .But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat." (1 Corinthians 5:1,11)

We are also told to separate from all sinful activity. "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret." (Ephesians 5:11-12)

There was a time in my years growing up in conservative Christian circles that some objected to practicing second and third degree separation, meaning that some Christians struggled with separating from someone because they did not separate from a particular sinful activity or association. Friends, today we don’t even practice first degree separation!

Charles Spurgeon wrote, "If I have wickedness brought before me by others I will turn away from it, I will not gaze upon it with pleasure. Not only shall it not dwell in his heart, but not even before his eyes, for what fascinates the eye is very apt to gain admission into the heart," (Spurgeon, The Treasury of David). Remember that he wrote this almost 100 years before the onslaught of television! What would this great preacher say today?

Television programs like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Will and Grace" mack a mockery of homosexual lifestyles. Reality TV shows entertain their audiences by degrading marriage, encouraging confrontation and elevating wickedness. These programs are nothing more that an electronic form of voyeurism - peering into the private lives of others for personal pleasuer. It’s wickedness and we are tolerating it in our homes!

The Computer.

Time magazine recently described the contributing factors leading to divorce.

- 2 of 3 divorces involve porn as one of the contributing factor.

- 1 of 3 list porn as the MAIN FACTOR

Porn is a ten billion a year business. 1 of 5 video rentals is pornographic. Pornography deceives it’s victims in the following ways: