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We Become Like the Videos We Behold

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

For better or worse, we become what we behold. How should this truth affect our media consumption in the digital age?

Transcript

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We become like what we watch.

0:09.2

The objects of our attention shape our becoming.

0:14.1

Our potential as creatures is realized by what we behold.

0:19.4

We are moldable creatures of clay conforming to whatever attracts our gaze most.

0:28.5

What we behold shapes us for better or for worse, and obviously, this is a profound

0:33.4

reality that carries with it massive implications for our media diets in the digital age, as

0:38.4

we will hear today from Pastor John, preaching long before the digital age.

0:43.8

In this clip, over 30 years old, Pastor John is applying the glorious text of 2 Corinthians

0:50.5

3, verse 18, to our media diets.

0:54.8

Here's Pastor John to explain.

0:57.3

And understanding.

0:58.1

And then finally, my fourth suggestion, and probably it's the most needful to hear and

1:06.5

the most practically applicable for change right now in your life, perhaps, is focus your

1:16.6

attention on the glory of God.

1:21.2

Focus your attention on the glory of God, and there's a reason for this, you become what

1:28.1

you behold.

1:29.9

Now, that's not just a nifty little saying, that's a straight-out biblical paraphrase of

1:40.5

2 Corinthians 3, 18, I'll read it to you.

1:45.7

In Corinthians 3, 18 says, and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord

1:55.4

are being changed, just stop right there.

2:01.2

How do you get changed?

2:03.6

Behold the glory of God.

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