Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now, we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles

of trust, self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

And now we're going to get right into it with Rick and part two of a message called maintaining moral purity.

Now, one of the practical ways that you can do this, if you want to get a pure mind in a polluted world, is number three, monitor my media intake.

That means you just don't indiscriminately allow garbage into your mind through movies,

through books, through magazines, through media, through television, things like that.

Proverbs 15, verse 14, read it with me.

The fool feeds on trash.

That's amazing.

That was written 2,000 years before television.

But there it is.

The fool feeds on trash.

Now, what you feed your body is just as important as what you feed your mind. In fact,

it may be more important. What do you feed your mind? Do you just allow any thought into your mind,

or do you feed it good food? I mean, could you live healthy on, say, a diet of Coke and Twinkies?

No, no, you really couldn't and yet the moral equivalent of a twinkie is network television I mean there's very little

nutritional value in it oh there is some but a lot of it's just fluff and chemicals

that you really don't need in your body.

Listen to these statistics about television. You see, most people don't realize that in your life, you will spend more time watching TV than you do any single thing else you do except sleep and work.

In your lifetime, you will amass about nine and a half years of solid TV viewing.

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