I John 2:15 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." This was the verse that came to my mind when I saw about 30 seconds of the very popular Jersey Shore TV show. I saw nothing but pure wickedness in that short amount of time and I was shocked when I got on facebook and saw so many people calling today Jersday and saying how excited they were about seeing tonight's show. What breaks my heart even more is that many of those people are professing Christians. Glorifying alcohol and getting drunk every night, premarital sex and fornication, and loving self more than loving God or even others. Really? Is this what we want to be linked to? Is this really what we as Christians want to be a part of? II Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new." When a show lifts up sin and promotes wickedness, there is no way that someone who truly loves the Lord could support it! The Bible plainly shows us that salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ brings a change to our lives that compels us to love pure and holy things and to eschew that which is evil and contradictory to the things of God. Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary to save us from sin, not for us to entertain ourselves with it! Jersday... God help us!!!
I've never seen the show, but hear talk about it. Sounds like your assessment is right on target. Thanks for the reminder that we need to be careful about our TV viewing.
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