Mass Media

Continuing the exposition of 'walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,' Pastor Martin identifies the mass media of communication -- television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and advertising -- as a primary channel through which ungodly counsel reaches believers. He exposes four philosophies permeating the mass media: materialism, sensualism, moral relativism, and anti-God intellectualism, and offers practical counsel for guarding oneself and one's family against their subtle influence.

Addressing the philosophy of sensualism that permeates the mass media, Pastor Martin shows from Scripture that sensual pleasure was never meant to be the basis of blessedness, that sin enters when men seek it outside God's will, and that judgment falls on those who do. He rejects both the sensualist extreme and the ascetic extreme, teaching instead that God created man's sensual capacities as good gifts to be received with thanksgiving, subjected to God's laws of glory, moderation, and purity, and regulated in light of remaining sin.