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Now, we've got good and bad with where we're at right now. There's a mix. The good thing is is that never before in history has there ever been so much ability to spread information freely with very minimal resources, with very small backing, right? Usually people who have a lot of money or big operation, they're able to invest, they're able to spend the money to get the, whether it be a newspaper, print publication, things like that, all of these things cost money. Today with the internet and with the various media forums, I mean, you can create these movies, these videos, these print, whatever, audio recordings, and get them out and distribute them to a mass number of people. But along with that is you've got the good with the bad, so you've got everybody able to do this. One of the biggest influences today that I believe that is a satanic influence comes to us through media. It comes through the movies, through the music, through the television, even the news, even your nightly news, the news broadcasters, all of these medium, these sources of information are a huge influence and Satan has infiltrated these mediums I'm not saying the medium itself is bad. I'm not saying that the technology of a motion picture is evil. I'm not saying the technology of audio recordings or any of this stuff, none of them are inherently bad or wicked or evil. But Satan has definitely gotten involved to use these mediums because they're so effective at teaching and at propaganda, mass propaganda. To steal a line from Infowars, there is a war on for your mind. This is true, it's the spiritual battle in the Bible but there really is a war of ideas. There's a war of righteousness versus wickedness. There's a war of biblical truth versus everything else which is versus world religion versus Balaam versus satanic religions. There's always been this going on and it's a struggle and because it's a spiritual war, we're not fighting this with swords and guns and shields and stuff, it's with words and it's with ideas and actions. So unfortunately though, I believe with Infowars is that they've abandoned their integrity and are pretty much propagandists at this point. They've gone beyond what they originally stood for, it seems to me, and just become a mouthpiece for our current president. But that aside, that's not really even that important. What we are seeing though, and that is one element of what we're seeing, is just propaganda in general. You can see this, if you could take a step back when you're looking at various outlets of information, no matter where it's coming from, if you're able to get a little higher level view and see what are they pushing out every day, is it propaganda or are they truly interested just in information? Are they using fear mongering and scare tactics and every single day there's a new red alert and everything is about to end and the sky is falling? Or is it people who are just interested in information? Now, no matter who you are, no matter what organization you're part of or not a part of, all of us are gonna be, whatever is even considered to be newsworthy is up to your opinion, it's up to your worldview, it's up to the way that you perceive the world. Some things that happen, you may not even consider to be newsworthy, someone else might be based on their understanding of the world and what they think is important. So there's always gonna be a bias coming through no matter what, no matter what. But there's a difference between the natural bias that we all have and a very strong concerted effort to push a particular narrative because that's just what you believe in, right? Now, obviously when you come to church here, you are going to hear a narrative that has to do with scripture, that has to do with the Bible. And I would think that would be obvious, coming to a church, right? That this is where we're coming from, that it's the standpoint that this is true so the worldview is this is the truth and we're gonna preach this book and apply it to the rest of the world in light of this truth. And, but that's not the way that we receive the rest of our worldly information, if you call it the news or anything like that. The vast majority of people, they don't have that view. So they're gonna be coming from a different angle. But anyways, I don't wanna get too far off on that either. What my point is is we're supposed to be vigilant and not on the lookout for satanic influences. And one of those influences is through propaganda. It's through this instrument of hammering down a certain point to the point where you might not believe it the first time, or the second time, or the third time, but they'll keep on hitting and hitting and hitting a point to get you to start to consider or change your mind or just to back off a little bit on what you know to be true. Because if you hear something often enough, what was it, there was a famous quote from Hitler and I'm totally gonna butch it, but it's like, talking about if you tell people paradise is in hell or something like that, often enough, they'll believe, repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, right? And I don't remember the quote, but it's true. If you repeat something over and over and over and over and over again, in general, a mass amount of people will start to just accept it as being true. Oh yeah, I've heard that before. You hear it once here and you're like, oh yeah, that's not true. Then you hear it again over here. No, no, no, that's not true. Then you hear it again, maybe from a third source. And even without having any of your own information, you'll stop resisting or challenging what you're hearing because if you hear it from, especially from multiple times and from multiple sources, you'll just start to accept it as, well, maybe this is true. And that's the way that propaganda works, is that they try to influence mass opinion by hammering it down, but it happens relatively gradually. It's not something that happens overnight. Now, what we have today is a very few amount of people who are controlling the narrative. And this is important to recognize also because even with the independent media that we have and this ability with the internet and so many people out there that could report news and that could provide information and everything else, you'll notice that people are still talking about the same things. Why is that? Why is it that there are certain stories that just, this is what everybody's talking about? And many times, it's something stupid, it's something that doesn't really mean that much, it has to do with entertainment or it has to do with something else, but you'll get, even these independent sources that have nothing to do with it, it's one thing to see it coming from the CNNs and the MSNBCs and the Fox News, these big corporations, these big media outlets that have billions of dollars, that are owned by just a relatively very small number of people at the top that are operating these news organizations. It's one thing to see it from them, but see, they still have, even though a lot of people are kind of distancing themselves from those organizations, they're still controlling the narratives. They're still controlling the talking points. And we need to be aware of that and to the sense that we're not getting caught up in these distractions from the real issue, because even the narratives themselves will help to change your opinion on things without you even realizing it.