I'm not really one given much to "Christian television", but mysteriously the family pay tv provider has suddenly given access to the Australian Christian Channel and so on occasion I have been sampling its programming, albeit cautiously.
Tonight I accidently turned it on instead of the ABC News and witnessed a simple yet in some ways remarkable film titled, Time Changer.
A seminary professor from the 1890s travels forward in time to get a shocking taste of America in the 1990s.
I know the underlying message of this film was partly of the same heart as ministries like Old Truth, a wake-up call to Christians that going with the flow and the "spirit of the age" is not acceptable to one striving to live a godly life.
The main character Russell Carlisle was so out of place in the degenerate society he found himself in, as we should be if we are truly of the Lord's fold.
Sometimes we become so immersed in the culture we were born into and raised amongst that we fail to see the blackness in some of the things entrenched therein. However, Christ's message that no man can see the Kingdom of Heaven unless he be born again (Jn 3:3) speaks exactly to this issue.
The Spirit of God that gives us new life is not the spirit of the world that led us further into death from the time of our natural birth. The Lord came from above and not below and His ways are truly higher than our ways.
I just hope we can become enemies, not of the people in the world, but of the spirits in the world and once again gain discernment over the issues we face and often neglect in a deteriorating society.
Tonight I accidently turned it on instead of the ABC News and witnessed a simple yet in some ways remarkable film titled, Time Changer.
A seminary professor from the 1890s travels forward in time to get a shocking taste of America in the 1990s.
I know the underlying message of this film was partly of the same heart as ministries like Old Truth, a wake-up call to Christians that going with the flow and the "spirit of the age" is not acceptable to one striving to live a godly life.
The main character Russell Carlisle was so out of place in the degenerate society he found himself in, as we should be if we are truly of the Lord's fold.
Sometimes we become so immersed in the culture we were born into and raised amongst that we fail to see the blackness in some of the things entrenched therein. However, Christ's message that no man can see the Kingdom of Heaven unless he be born again (Jn 3:3) speaks exactly to this issue.
The Spirit of God that gives us new life is not the spirit of the world that led us further into death from the time of our natural birth. The Lord came from above and not below and His ways are truly higher than our ways.
I just hope we can become enemies, not of the people in the world, but of the spirits in the world and once again gain discernment over the issues we face and often neglect in a deteriorating society.
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