Movies
Consider the number of movies that are produced weekly. Who would want the task of watching every one, then making a list of those which are acceptable for a Christian to watch and those which are forbidden? To propose such a thing is not only absurd, it’s impractical.

How then can a Christian, who fears God, who wants to please Him, and who in no way wants to grieve the Holy Spirit by feasting on evil images and other wicked content–how can they know if a movie won’t throw a curve halfway through, and they will get blasted with profanities, blasphemies, antichrist philosophies, sexual innuendos, partially or fully nude bodies, and even overt sexual scenes?

Are Ratings Enough?
Consider the G-rated movies. Are all of them innocent? How many of them are filled with witchcraft, sorcery, and demons? Is that innocent? How many of them communicate alternate lifestyles as being acceptable? How many of them make a mockery of Christ and promote human-centered philosophies?

Movies are not made in a corner. They are strategized and well-planned. The writers, producers, directors, and actors have all conspired to communicate a message. The message of most movies produced is destructive to the Kingdom of God. They destroy lives and marriages and impregnate the minds of children and young people with philosophical hooks that pull them away from Christ throughout their entire lives.

Consider the Christians—the ones the Bible describes as being salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16). They are the ones who are to radiate God’s glory so brightly, that the evil in these movies would be exposed and illuminated.

But as it is, there are Christians who sit, for hours on end, consuming this concoction of poison, at times ignorant of the harmful effects, but most of the time, deliberately and consciously knowing that they are grieving the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30).

Are Christians aware that watching sexual scenes is voyeurism? Though the movie may not have an X-rating, how many Christians will rent or stream movies into their homes and watch sexual acts, becoming a peeping Tom (or Tommie), and think it has no effect on them, their family, or their spiritual life?

Do wives really think their husbands can watch women in these movies, scantily clad or with nothing on, strutting around before their eyes, and it has no effect on them? Do men think their wives can watch men doing the same, and it not affect them? Then, when this husband and wife engage in sexual intimacy, who do you think they are having sex with? Is it possible both are so blinded?

Does anyone find it tragic that ministers will use R-rated movies for sermon illustrations, knowing they are filled with vulgarities, sexual innuendos, open nudity, and sexual acts? Isn’t it clear that that minister, by using that movie, supposedly to communicate a holy and spiritual principle, has placed their endorsement on everything in it, and by so doing, encouraged their congregants to go feast on it?

Only a Little Perversity

• It only had three “F” words.
• It only had two sex scenes.
• It only had one scene of two men kissing.
• It only had one rape scene.
• It only had eight sexual innuendos.
• it only blasphemed Jesus four times.

Consider the power of compromise. When a Christian compromises their values and watches only a little perversity, doesn’t that little perversity form a little layer of hardness over the heart—a callous? When another compromise is made, and again, only a little perversity is entertained and tolerated, isn’t it true that yet another layer of callous envelops the heart? Eventually they can watch a lot of perversity and not recognize anything has changed. When compromises like this are made, don’t hearts become so hardened that they can no longer feel the Holy Spirit’s convicting power? And doesn’t it seem like it becomes easier and easier for these individuals to simply brush off any suggestion that the content of the movie is damning their soul and those of their children and future generations?

Ungodly Music
Consider the power of music. Isn’t a song written with the purpose of hooking the soul and drawing it into the direction the artist intended? Whether the lyrics of the song are godly or immoral, that is the direction the soul will be pulled. Music is extremely powerful, with the tune and lyrics being fixed in the mind, often repeating itself for hours on end.

As with movies, ungodly music also has demonic influences and purposes behind it. This music, and any of the arts, have the ability to influence thought and alter the mind, corrupting it and turning it away from being Christ-centered.

Veil Still in Place
Consider the veil that is over the minds of those who do not have a relationship with Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). Is it possible for a veil to still be blinding the eyes of God’s people? The scripture referenced says that it is Satan that places the veil over the eyes. Does he have the power to blind Christians to that which is harmful and destructive?

Pollution by Association
Consider musical recording artists that produce a neutral song–one that does not have any negative connotations. By that song having been written by a person who may have written many overtly antichristian songs, or songs glorifying evil, wouldn’t it make that song defiled and polluted by association?

May God give church leaders wisdom and courage to stand against this barrier to revival, and when necessary, “Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching” (2 Timothy 4:2).

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