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And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful.
- Mark 4:19
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
- Luke 9:25
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
- Proverbs 27:20
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 5:15-16
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
- Colossians 4:5
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Romans 6:12-14
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On television, everything can be pictured, discussed, and examined without reference to God or His Word. The viewing public determines that which will be shown. Man, without God, and apart from God, is glorified.
Happiness is continually portrayed as something you can buy or get. Television does its best to convince everyone of this "truth." "You need and must have everything the world can offer," is the television spirit. However, worldly entertainments and possessions have unquenchable appetites which leave their victims with greater hunger pangs and discontentment problems.
Television brings this anti-Christian spirit of secular humarlism and materialism into one's home to influence his farrlily with the most powerful and convincing sight and sound productions we can produce today.
The average television viewer in our society spends five-and a-half hours a day watching TV. By the time an average young person becomes sixty-five years old, he will have spent a full fourteen years of his life watching television (compared to one year in church, Sunday School, and catechism classes combined, if he faithfully attends all).
Children from three to five years of age spend fifty-four hours every week watching television, which is sixty-four percent of their waking time. When the average high school graduate receives his diploma at seventeen years of age, he will have spent eleven thousand hours of his life in school, but twenty-two thousand hours watching television.
Time is a precious God-given commodity; once used, it is gone forever.
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