What Are You Allowing Yourself to be Taught?

Okay, There is a lot I want to say to you this morning, however I am listening to voice of the Holy Spirit as I write to make sure it is more of Him and less of me. My studies this month have been coming out of the book of II Timothy. Now fro those of you who do not know that this is the Apostle Paul's second letter to Timothy from prison. To sum up the theme of this particular book would be to say that it was a warning from Paul to Timothy to be on alert for wrong teachings and to cling to the truth.

What are you allowing yourself to be taught? This is very important question that we as believers need to ask ourselves on a consistent basis because it is important that we be aware of the type of teachings that we are receiving into our spirits. Job said in the sixth chapter & twenty-fourth verse, "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. David said in Psalms 24:5, 4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.


The definition of "Teach" is to show or explain to (someone) how to do something. Synonyms to the word are instruct-train-educate-school-
tutor.


What are you talking about Stancil? Okay lets make this real practical. Because Honestly at first I was like okay Lord we can tell them to be careful of what preachers they are listening to etc, but in reality most people barely listen to preachers anyway. However there are a lot of teachers in their lives that are leading them astray. Such teachers as the Media.


The Media is an institution that house many instructors with classes that are leading the people of God astray and ultimately to Hell. First instructor that is misleading believers, and pretty much everyone who sits under it's teaching is porn. Porn teaches you that it is okay to have sex with multiple people by creating fantasy situations that causes the believer to suffer from insecurities, self hate, lust, and low self esteem simply because they may not measure up to the size of the guy/women in the video or feel a false sense of denial because their girlfriend/boyfriend never did that! Which most often leads to masturbation and other perversions. Why? Because every time you sit at a computer or turn on the television to watch porn you are sitting in a class being taught/instructed on sin. And any good student who learns something new always desires to teach or share with someone else what they learned and depending on the willingness, or resistance, of the individual that they are desiring to teach can lead to molestation, rape, or even murder.What Are You allowing Yourself to be taught?


            Jumping to music and Television, have you ever notice how you feel after listening to certain songs. Okay so you wake up in the morning you are getting ready for work and you get in your car and turn on the radio. For about 30minutes to an hour you are in another class being instructed, the question is, What are you allowing yourself to be taught? Are you listening to gossip shows, or music that completely contradicts what our heavenly father has raised us up on? Music that instructs you on how to hate, be bitter & angry.            
           Listening to morning shows that instruct you on how to be envious and jealous of what others have and you do not.Listening to music that tells you its okay for you to be called everything but a child of God. What Are You Allowing Yourself to Be Taught? And now your morning quote...

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.-Romans 12:2(KJV)