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00:04 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:57 ♪ ♪ 01:07 Hello friends. Welcome to 3ABN Today. My name is John Lomacang 01:10 but you know that if you've been here before. If you haven't 01:13 Remember this channel. We believe it's the channel 01:15 ordained of God as we continue going and growing getting ready 01:19 for the coming of Jesus. Today is a very thought-provoking 01:22 program. If you are anyone who knows anything about media. You 01:26 may not know that you know anything about media but if you 01:28 have a cell phone, if you've been on the internet, you might 01:31 have a television in your house. How strange is that in this day 01:34 and age. You may have been outside where you've heard other 01:36 sounds that came from speakers or cars or you've seen 01:39 television screens and massive billboards and you may have even 01:43 been a victim of some kind of false advertising. This program 01:47 is about how to protect yourself from all the wrong lights and our 01:51 guests today are from Little Light Studios. You'll find out 01:54 in just a moment who they are. But thank you for your prayers 01:57 and your financial support of this network as we continue 02:00 going and growing getting ready for the coming of Jesus. Well 02:03 today let me introduce our guests to you. I know who they 02:06 are already so I won't introduce them to myself. But to my right 02:10 is Brittny, good to have you here Brittny. 02:11 Thank you for having me. 02:13 I want to know your name. Now your name is French. Just give 02:16 me the right accent. How does that sound in French. What is it 02:19 My full name or my last name. (Your full name) Brittny 02:22 Desvarieux. 02:24 Okay thank you for telling me what that is. I want to honor 02:26 your name because people really slaughter mine. Good to have you 02:28 here today and what do you do for Little Light Studios? 02:30 So I'm the communications director and so I mainly work 02:33 with the social media and just our weekly newsletter that we 02:37 send out to our donors and just communicating what's going on 02:39 within the studios or within our ministry to the outside world. 02:47 Okay. We'll get back to you and we'll open that up a little bit 02:50 more as time goes on. Welcome back Scott. (Thank you) And your 02:54 last name? (Mayer) You are one of the veterans with the Little 02:58 Light Studio. Give us a little bit about what you do at the 03:00 Little Light. 03:02 I've been there a little while and it's been an absolute 03:04 privilege to see how God has really worked with this ministry 03:08 and really given us a voice with the young people of the church 03:12 and even beyond that. And so it's been neat to see all the 03:16 different people that have come on board. We're up to 10 now 03:21 and it's really neat. So we've got quite a few different minds 03:26 and we just like this collaborative you know spirit 03:29 of just working together to create something that inspires 03:32 somebody to do something. So I feel it's a privilege. I get a 03:36 chance to edit, shoot, create sets. I kind of wear a bunch of 03:41 hats so I got a bit of that going on. 03:44 Okay well welcome back. (Thank you) And we have Brad Burnham 03:46 Am I saying that correctly? (That's correct) And you are in 03:49 what position with Little Light? 03:51 Producer, editor, whatever they tell me to do, but mostly 03:55 producing and editing. 03:56 All right, well good to have you here and you're one of the newer 03:58 members on the scene. (Correct) All right. Before Brittny or 04:02 after. 04:04 Ooo I think I came after, yeah. 04:05 Okay so you're really the new kid on the block at least on 04:08 this program. And Keith. Say your last name for us. 04:14 (Detwieler) Detwieler. What nationality? Is that German? 04:16 Close. It's Swiss and if you go back to the old country, it would 04:23 actually, be pronounced Dotvieler. 04:26 See we're getting all the proper pronunciations. I appreciate 04:29 that but did I do yours right? (Absolutely) And how many ways 04:32 can you say, Mayer? 04:33 People butcher that all the time Maer. John Maer has ruined my 04:38 name. But it's like Metro Goldwyn Mayer or Oscar Mayer, 04:42 like that. 04:44 Yes you've been famous before your time. (Hopefully) 04:46 You know I have watched some of your product and I've really 04:50 been blessed by the collective, the collaborative efforts to 04:56 really keep not only the young minds safe but minds in 04:59 general I mean 05:01 at ASI, at general conference, I've gone by your booth, I've 05:04 watched your programs and I think you guys really are on the 05:07 cutting edge when it comes to addressing a lot of the issues 05:10 that we might say are contemporary issues today. 05:13 Because media could be good, could be bad depending on your 05:18 dosage of it and what it does to you. So I'll start with you 05:20 Scott. Since you've been here and you have a little bit of 05:24 veteran in your name tell us what inspired the beginning of 05:29 this ministry and why the phrase Little Light. 05:33 Um I took film studies in school wanting to actually end up in 05:37 Los Angeles working in television and so quickly 05:40 shortly after my college experience I actually ended up 05:43 in television for 10 years and that is primarily what led me 05:48 astray personally. Being a creative and wanting to make 05:53 those things for a living you kind of pay attention to 05:56 whatever everybody else is doing So I didn't grow up with a lot 05:59 of movies and television in my household. My parents were very 06:05 Adventist and traditional in their upbringing. You know we 06:07 were not encouraged. Most of us played outside all of my 06:10 brothers and I. And so when I started kind of really digesting 06:15 and eating up all the different movies of the world I believe I 06:17 was just kind of filling my time and my life with those messages 06:21 and that's what eventually choked out the truth out of my 06:24 life. So I think when I came back into the truth um I was 06:29 really kind of sharing with everybody else, hey this is 06:31 something that led me astray and this is what I've learned about 06:35 it. Hopefully, it can help you. And that's really what it began. 06:38 And Little Light really came out of...I had lots of friends in 06:44 Los Angeles that would talk to me about their Buddhist faith 06:48 and this faith and that faith and they were searching for 06:51 truth and here I had grown up and understood a lot of truth 06:55 from the Bible and I hid my light under my bushel and I 06:59 didn't share it with anybody. So coming back into the faith that 07:03 was really instrumental in us choosing a name with like Lord 07:06 I'm sorry for actually hiding the truth that I was taught as a 07:10 kid. I will never do that again. And that's where Little Light 07:12 came from. 07:14 Wonderful don't hide it under a bushel. (Singing) This little 07:16 light of mine... That was your mantra in a right way. 07:22 We thought about making one that was Satan sitting on a tack but 07:23 that didn't go over well. 07:26 Yeah well it was an idea but I'm glad you chose Little Light 07:30 because there's something shining about that name and it 07:33 really has been able to open the eyes of many. We're going to get 07:36 into some of the specifics in just a moment but Brad tell us 07:41 about you journey a little bit here and what inspired you to 07:44 get on board. 07:45 Sure will I'd been following them for quite a while but I was 07:47 actually out in Hawaii for a while doing a start-up company 07:50 and I kind of fell away from the faith quite a bit but after I 07:53 decided there was something different about a friend of mine 07:56 that I knew he said you know what you need to go to 08:01 evangelistic training program in Sacramento called AFCO. I went 08:04 out there and then I met Scotty up at Weimar, California, and he 08:08 was doing presentations out there and I said you know what 08:11 you've really got something here and it's really changed the way 08:15 I think about things and so me and him kind of kept in contact 08:18 for about about 10 years and as I worked out there for a while I 08:23 decided you know what I'd like to come back to Tennessee and be 08:28 with family because my family's based out here, so I gave Scotty 08:30 a call. 08:32 Okay, and he said get on board little children, get on board. 08:35 That's good because as we're going to find out in the program 08:39 about the specifics of what Little Light does and maybe even 08:41 address some of the topics you cover because as one who...if 08:47 you've been in any big city or any city now a days, matter of 08:51 fact you don't even have to be in the city. The city finds a 08:55 way to get to you. And I think that's what you're going to be 08:56 addressing here. But before we get to that part, Keith give us 08:59 some of your journey with Little Light Studios. I know you told 09:01 us about the position you hold but what inspired you to be a 09:05 part of this kind of ministry? 09:07 So probably right around the same time as Brad although we 09:10 didn't know each other, I had seen some presentations on 09:15 social media and they were of Scott when he was at Weimar the 09:19 same time frame that these guys were interacting. I don't know 09:22 what the time frame was on those being released and my seeing 09:25 them but they gave me the answer that I needed. So what I 09:32 experienced in my life is God was telling me three things. 09:34 You need to change what you're eating, you need to change what 09:40 you're watching and you need to be willing to move anywhere. 09:42 And these were preparatory steps for ministry. I knew that in my 09:46 own heart. And so those started to change and when I heard these 09:50 presentations by Scott I was like that's the antidote. That 09:53 was the reason of why you don't just let anything into your mind 09:56 So I always tell people what I heard was the three angels 10:00 message in those presentations. And I heard the message of the 10:04 sanctuary and I heard about the cleansing of my mind and I said 10:07 you know what that makes perfect sense. 10:10 Um-hum that's wonderful. I like the way you connected the 10:14 cleansing of my mind. You know Isaiah, cleanse your hands ye 10:17 sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded and wash 10:19 yourselves, make yourselves clean. Isaiah. And Peter talks 10:22 about that too. But that's very interesting because a lot of 10:26 people today don't recognize that, we use this phrase loosely 10:30 that the world is dumping into our minds. And there's really no 10:33 filter there especially when you're exposed to social media 10:36 and things are moving at the rate that they are today. You 10:39 know we want to go to the next G I don't know it's up to 5G, 10:44 maybe 6 but I've heard about 10G already and what that means in 10:47 this world today that just simply means to me, and we'll 10:51 talk about that some, that we could get our addiction 10:54 satisfied a lot quicker. So come back to you Scott. Talk about 10:58 some of the topics. Let's just go to the development of Little 11:00 Light and if you remember in the olden days what were some of the 11:05 early topics you addressed? 11:07 We were just excited. I mean it wasn't a forethought when we 11:11 began this process of really starting in a ministry actually. 11:13 We were just kind of sharing. We got asked to speak at a youth 11:18 rally about our experience of working Hollywood, so what we 11:21 put together...I was very actually pro-Hollywood. I was 11:27 very much interested in Hollywood and I was a collector 11:30 of movies and so I was putting in movies just to kind of get 11:31 some inspiration and in the center of a movie that I had 11:34 really been interested in there was this random scene in the 11:38 middle of the movie that said you have to consider the 11:39 possibility that God doesn't like you, in fact God hates you. 11:42 And then this actor said this huge monologue about how much 11:45 God dislikes me. And I put it on pause and I went what in the 11:50 world, like how did I not recognize that, I didn't see it. 11:52 So that caused me to really say well what's going on in the 11:54 brain that I can watch something and not understand or not hear 11:58 that? I grew up in the church. You know if you told me my mom 12:01 didn't like me I'd remember you or your face. So that's what we 12:05 were sharing with people and then once we started kind of 12:08 understanding like how the brain works and just looking at the 12:11 messages that were coming out I was a big fan of superhero 12:16 movies and you know all the latest and greatest kind of 12:18 popular things and it was amazing how many things attacked 12:22 God or took Biblical concepts and flipped them upside down. 12:26 So that's really what we started putting in our initial projects. 12:30 And as we started sharing those things you know people would 12:33 always say you know Oh I know maybe you don't watch a lot of 12:36 movies but my kids play video games. What do you know about 12:39 that. So then we'd kind of look into that subject and we'd find 12:43 you know wow there's a lot of spiritualism ideas put in there. 12:45 Then we put that together. And then they'd say oh well they 12:47 don't play video games we don't watch movies but you know I just 12:50 can't get my kids off the phones So then, what do you guys know 12:53 about social media. So then we would do projects on that. So 12:56 really our ministry kind of developed and a needed ability 13:01 to basically take the things that a lot of these young people 13:05 were interested in and then sort of kind of point out like here's 13:10 some dangerous, here's some things to think about here's 13:11 what the Bible says. This movie's telling you this but the 13:14 Bible says this. Sometimes they're not the same. And we 13:17 kind of developed really a focus of trying to get people to see 13:22 the world around them through the lens of the Bible and that's 13:25 I think what the most powerful thing with a young person is. 13:29 It's not just a book that was written 2000 years ago. It's 13:32 relevant and it has valuable, beautiful information for us 13:36 today. How do we apply it to the things that we have in our life 13:39 today? 13:40 That's interesting. Talk about your journey in Hollywood 13:43 because as you talked about you know coming out of a home where 13:46 you were shielded pretty much from a lot of the influences of 13:50 outside what made Hollywood addicting? 13:52 You know I think it was a curiosity, a fascination. Of 13:56 course as a kid I knew what Hollywood was. My friends had 14:00 TVs and I would go over to friend's houses and was exposed 14:03 to modern media in that way. Um but I didn't quite know what was 14:09 wrong with it. Um and when I got to Hollywood I quickly realized 14:14 there's a lot of people that aren't necessarily interested in 14:20 God, at least that's not their primary focus. And so I kind of 14:24 surrounded myself with people who really didn't care about God 14:27 whatsoever. We really became about making money or getting 14:32 famous or you know being successful in this world and 14:36 that's what became my focus. And I think the ultimate 14:39 demonstration of success at least publicly is to be famous, 14:43 right? Be successful. To be famous, to make a movie, 14:46 people really need 14:47 recognition, people really respect movie stars and so I 14:50 think I bit into that illusion not realizing there's a lot of 14:56 broken people that are chasing that. So as I started to explore 15:00 that, that's when God opened my eyes a little bit. 15:04 Brad do you want to add anything to that? Okay maybe I'll throw 15:05 it to Keith since you're the second longest-running person on 15:11 this program connected with Little Light. As you hear about 15:15 Scott's journey talk about your journey a little bit, how...I 15:18 know you talked about what interested you in Little Light 15:21 but then what do you see as a need in the world today as it 15:26 relates to pulling back the curtain, letting people see 15:31 what's behind the scenes, what's actually happening and how it's 15:34 affecting them. 15:35 Yeah, I mean everybody when they come to the truth of the Bible 15:40 they have to take that and reevaluate their life. They have 15:44 to say okay is this true or is what's around me true, what the 15:49 world is telling me true. And you have to make a decision 15:52 between those two things. One thing I think that ministries 15:57 like ours are doing is they're servicing people the option 16:00 of knowing versus not knowing. And so if we don't put the 16:05 information out there, there are people who may never know. We 16:09 get testimonies all the time of people who are writing and 16:12 saying you know what, you addressed this topic and because 16:15 of you addressing this topic it's completely changed my life. 16:18 And so that's why you know for us, it's started out as a 16:24 Hollywood thing but as it's progressed we have really moved 16:28 into pop culture, come current events and helping people see 16:33 the world through a Biblical lens. If we don't see it through 16:37 a Biblical lens you know that's going to make it very difficult 16:40 when things really heat up. 16:44 Okay I see Brad was shaking his head there. 16:45 Oh man, it just opens up so many topics when you just mention 16:50 that. The one that really sticking out that has come out 16:52 and is rearing its ugly head at us is this spiritualism topic 16:56 that has happened especially in modern media today. It's really 17:01 fascinating to see so many movies talking about the 17:05 different spiritual aspects of this. But whether you're talking 17:08 about magic, or whether you talk about the strange events that 17:12 are happening like recent government UAP (unidentified 17:16 aerial phenomenon) events that they're talking about recently 17:18 Define what that acronym means. 17:20 Unidentified aerial phenomena. (Okay) and so the government has 17:24 had, and this has been in the news very recently has had lots 17:28 of trouble with this among their most secret military operations. 17:31 So much so that it's gone to congress. And so we're seeing 17:35 this tie in from Hollywood media to what's in real life is 17:41 becoming a real-life problem. So it's really interesting to 17:45 see what's happening here. 17:47 Wow. In communications talk about what encourages you, I 17:52 mean we talked about in the beginning how you keep in touch 17:55 with the donors and all but what other aspect of Little Light 17:58 media impacts your life? 18:00 Um I think it's the fact that it is so...like we're seeing the 18:04 reach that we have. So how I actually came to Little Light 18:08 Studios I was actually a student missionary in Hong Kong even 18:11 thought I was like born and raised in America and the 18:13 ministry's based in America. I didn't actually know about them 18:16 till I was in Hong Kong. And so that's how...there was a youth 18:20 pastor who shared one of the videos that Little Light made 18:24 and it just became part of my Sabbath routine to watch their 18:27 LED Live. And then when I came I remember when I was watching 18:32 and I prayed. I was like God you know I'd love to help them with 18:35 their social media. So if I could get a job with them that 18:37 would be awesome. So I ended up coming back to the States and I 18:41 had I think one more year left before I graduated and I ran 18:46 into one of the producers, Mikey, at a bookstore, and then 18:51 they all just came together for me to be able to work. And so I 18:55 ended up begin able to work with social media and the joys of 18:58 that is that we're just seeing how our videos are making it to 19:03 other parts of the world and it's not necessarily Christians 19:06 Muslims, Buddhists, some atheists and you know they are 19:12 asking us questions that they feel like their church isn't 19:14 talking about. And so we've been able to minister to them. We 19:18 also have gotten in some really inspiring testimonies that have 19:22 come in as well, just how our videos have been impacting 19:25 people. So just like communicating with our 19:29 audience has been a real blessing. 19:31 Wow. You know Hollywood and we talk about putting this all 19:36 together...I'm going to come at it a little differently. 19:38 Hollywood has a message but it intentionally hides the gospel. 19:43 You know there's a passage I want to read this to you and I 19:45 want to get your reaction on it in light of what you do. You 19:48 know in 2 Corinthians 4 verse 3 it says you may look that up 19:53 since you have a Bible. It's really interesting. It says, But 19:55 even if our gospel is veiled it's veiled to those who are 19:59 perishing who's minds the God of this age has blinded who do not 20:04 believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ 20:08 who is the image of God should shine on them. So the reason 20:12 that came to my mind is lest the light of the gospel of the glory 20:16 of God...And so this light that you're turning on, you're 20:20 turning it on for those who the prince of this world has blinded 20:25 Because the gospel in a great degree in Hollywood is hidden. 20:29 We talked about that in the context of all the different 20:32 religions; you know Buddhist and you know when you hear about 20:36 somebody saying I want to thank God for this award they're not 20:41 thinking Jesus Christ. You know they have a different definition 20:45 for god. Talk about that in the context of when you're putting 20:49 your media together. Because here at 3ABN, we have this phrase 20:51 A slogan to counteract the counterfeit. Talk about that in 20:57 the context of this scripture the gospel being hidden but you 21:00 want to bring that back out. 21:02 Yeah, it really is amazing because I grew up with the 21:06 Adventist understanding, the Adventist faith, the things that 21:10 we hold as our understanding in the Bible. And I didn't know 21:15 that much about kind of what other churches really 21:18 believed in certain topics. And you know it's a really 21:22 interesting day and age because most of our work is on YouTube 21:26 and that's how we reach the young people. Well when you're 21:30 on there, you're not necessarily choosing a particular faith or 21:34 demographic. So we may mention something that we are all 21:37 familiar with, that we grew up believing or thinking and then 21:40 it's only through the comments that we realize, Oh wow, they 21:43 don't believe that or they don't see that. And it's really become 21:46 this opportunity but us to share light with them as the topic 21:52 comes up. They'll question. You read the comments and it's like 21:56 hey you mentioned something about you know the Sabbath. What 21:58 do you mean by that? Everybody goes to church on Sunday, you 22:00 know. Those kind of concepts that we can then show hey read 22:05 these verses or look at this and it becomes this like this 22:08 discipleship opportunity which is kind of neat. So a lot of our 22:14 audience is actually of a mixed variety of faiths. 22:18 It's very interesting when you have people...we had this, I 22:23 think I mentioned this on another program, but it's very 22:25 striking to me. We had couple write us who was contemplating 22:29 marriage. The lady was agnostic and her boyfriend was atheist. 22:34 They watch our program and they're writing us and asking 22:38 our thoughts about marriage. You just don't see that happen every 22:42 day. 22:43 I know. Especially from that demographic. 22:45 It's very unusual. And I also wanted to kind of tag team off 22:51 of something that you said. What Hollywood is producing what 22:55 the world is servicing is really a different kind of sermon, if 23:00 you will. One that's not the gospel. And it reminds me of 23:04 something that Paul says in Galatians 1. In verse 6, he says 23:10 you into the grace of Christ to a different gospel. (Okay) To a 23:14 different gospel. And it says, which is not another but there 23:16 are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of 23:19 Christ, which is exactly what we see in Hollywood media. It's a 23:24 perversion of the gospel of Christ. It's a modern form of 23:28 gnosticism. (Okay) And Paul warned them, he says: But even 23:33 if we or an angel from heaven which is fascinating language in 23:37 light of some of the things we are seeing today, preach any 23:40 other gospel to you than what we have preached to you let him be 23:41 accursed. That's not a pleasant flowery statement that Paul is 23:46 making. He's saying this is serious business. You have to 23:49 really know what the truth is because there are consequences 23:53 And of course, if you know what the truth is there are also 23:57 rewards. So. 23:58 So let's get into some of the media avenues. You talk about 24:03 social media. Define some of as you've presented through the 24:08 years in your videos and in your messages some of the pitfalls 24:13 that you see when media is not discretionary. In other words, 24:19 if a person just opens the door talk about some of those things 24:21 that you've addressed in particular age groups because 24:25 now the majority of society when they pass a certain age have a 24:29 cell phone. I mean it's almost like, Mom, I'm going to be 13 24:33 all my friends have a cell phone I need a cell phone. It's going 24:36 to be embarrassing if I don't have a cell phone. The pressures 24:38 of it. Talk about some of that for a moment. 24:40 You know media was probably much harder to get ahold of a variety 24:46 of things. Right? You had to either subscribe to that channel 24:48 or you know pay for that subscription to that particular 24:53 company like HBO or something like that, right? And that's how 24:58 you would kind of see the media. Or you would have to go to the 25:00 video store and rent the video, right? There was a process that 25:02 you really had to do. It's like everything is available at the 25:06 touch of a fingertip at this point. And what a lot of people 25:10 like to speak to what Keith was saying, people don't look at 25:15 their media as this is teaching me or giving me a message. What 25:19 is that message that this thing is relaying, right? I mean it 25:23 could be different for the different types of media. You're 25:24 playing a video game. Everybody is running around playing 25:27 Fortnite The purpose of it is to run around and shoot and kill 25:30 everybody and be the last person standing. What message is that 25:34 in the light of the Bible? Where in the book does it tell you you 25:37 should harm everybody else so that you're the only one 25:39 standing. Nowhere. So it's trying to swing their mind back 25:44 into what does this book here say and what is this media 25:48 really telling you. What's the message you're getting? 25:50 Everybody's dispensable if they are in your way. Make sure that 25:53 when all the chips are down you still, survive. So how does that 25:58 affect a person at different levels. I know we see a lot of 26:01 things happening in society today and any of you could 26:04 address this. Things that would have at a different time been 26:09 innocuous are today very deadly. Because of the conditioning of 26:15 certain types of games and I know you address games in some 26:18 of your videos. Talk about some of those games, you address to 26:22 try to point out the dangers of and I like the way you just said 26:28 that, of conditioning the mind and then when the video game is 26:34 no longer giving you the satisfaction, the dopamine 26:39 flooding, how do you seek to substitute that. Just anybody 26:42 here because we see some of these video games and we can see 26:46 the impact on society. 26:50 I'd say you know Fortnite is probably one of the best 26:53 I can mention and it's one of the best examples because they 26:57 try to lower the rating of the game by saying well there's not 27:01 actual blood. Well they just changed the color of the blood 27:03 and they make the characters more cartoon-like instead of 27:07 realistic like you would find in Call of Duty or something like 27:10 that. 27:11 There's a real high definition. 27:13 Yeah so because it's approached that it's more of a fantasy or a 27:17 cartoon and because they don't have the real blood, it's blue 27:20 instead of red. I think it's a more subtle deception than the 27:24 other. You know it looks less realistic and so you have 27:28 greater buy into the game and all kinds of people...I've even 27:32 read about hiring coaches for their children to get better at 27:37 that game. 27:39 I've heard about it but I've never actually seen it. Hey 27:44 that's a good thing. So the whole. Explain a little bit 27:48 about that. We don't want to increase anybody's inquisitive 27:50 desires to find out more about it. But just since you mentioned 27:53 that so the figures are not these high definition 4K 27:58 realistic pulsing figures look like humans. So that creates... 28:04 They still look like humans but it's like the difference between 28:06 a cartoon and an actual person. When you're playing something 28:08 like Call of Duty, I'm using that one because it's one of the 28:12 top games, everybody looks very realistic. Especially more and 28:16 more people are pushing the envelope with 3D technology and 28:19 they look very realistic. But Fortnite's not that way. And so 28:24 some of the things that they're doing allows them to lower the 28:27 rating just like you would on a movie you know. If you want 28:29 broader appeal most superhero movies are marketed to a PG-13 28:34 audience. There are some that market to a rated R audience but 28:39 it's rare. It's becoming more common but it's more rare. 28:41 Why do they want PG-13? Because they want all the 13-year-olds 28:44 to bring their parents you know and watch it. You get broader 28:47 appeal. That's what Fortnite is doing. With the broader appeal 28:50 you know you're still introducing this same idea 28:53 it just has as different face on it. 28:56 And it's really the spirit of what you're getting out of it, 29:02 right? There's a part of the game where it's like when you 29:05 kill somebody, you can dance over their body. I mean just 29:07 think about that logic. I mean it's just a subtle tiny slippery 29:13 slope to just disregard human life and...You know, we're not 29:16 getting more loving toward each other. We're waxing colder and 29:21 colder right? 29:22 Without natural affection. 29:23 Yeah, isn't that what Jesus said would happen in the end of time. 29:25 I want to read a verse to you that kind of answers that 29:28 question as well. Romans 1:32 (Okay, yeah) and this is a great 29:33 verse to really illustrate what is all this doing because 29:37 Hollywood's done a really good job at making us think well it's 29:41 fake. How can it really affect me. I know what the truth is. 29:44 I'm not going to go out and I'm not going to shoot people and 29:46 I'm not going to shoot people and kill them right? So what's 29:48 wrong with me watching someone else do that? 29:50 But as you see all the producers animator_. 29:55 And the reality is really showing that. There are a lot 29:58 of violent video games. Not everybody is running into malls 30:01 and shooting people. That's not the reality of the world. But I 30:05 think the Bible gives us an illustration that tells us 30:09 what's wrong with that in the big picture. Romans 1:32 says: 30:13 Who knowing the judgment of God they which commit such things 30:15 are worthy of death. Meaning if I run around and I shoot someone 30:20 there's a judgment in the grand picture that I am worthy of if I 30:26 do that action. But Paul takes it one step further and he says 30:29 Not only those that do the same but of those that have pleasure 30:33 in them that do that. So if I'm taking pleasure in somebody else 30:38 running around and shooting someone, watching a bank robbery 30:41 movie. I'm not the one that's robbing the bank. I'm just 30:43 watching them rob the bank and I'm hoping that they get away 30:46 with it. That spirit, I might as well, be doing it myself. And 30:50 that's why Jesus said you know if you're angry with your 30:54 brother you know you're worthy of the judgment of killing him, 30:56 right? 30:58 If you hate him you're already a murderer. 30:59 Yeah it's not like you have to go out and complete that action 31:02 I can actually be a desire that then becomes an issue. So I 31:08 think the devil has created this device where we watch sinful 31:11 things or wicked things. We take pleasure in it even though we 31:14 think we're not doing it but yet the Bible tells us if we're 31:18 taking pleasure in those things you would be judged for then 31:21 you're worthy of that same judgment. 31:23 (Wow) Tag teaming off of that you know Jesus also said in that 31:28 same passage if you look after a woman and lust, you know, lust 31:30 after in your heart, it's the same as committing adultery. 31:32 With social media and having access to all these devices 31:39 there's been a huge increase in pornography. In fact the top 31:45 pornography website I was reading had I think more traffic 31:49 than Instagram. More traffic than Instagram. Instagram is a 31:54 huge site. I mean Facebook paid a billion dollars for that 31:57 platform several years ago. 31:59 You mean that's how much they paid to get Instagram. 32:03 That's how much they paid just to get Instagram. Now it's worth 32:04 many times more than that now. But more traffic than that app 32:09 that so many people are on. That's a huge problem. That's an 32:14 epidemic right there. (Yeah) And so we have access to all 32:18 these things but it's like the tree of knowledge of good and 32:22 evil. You have access to it but it doesn't mean that we should 32:26 be partaking of it. 32:28 That's a very good analogy. Anything Brittny. 32:30 Yeah, we also have the documentary called Pseudology 32:33 that actually goes in... 32:34 Called what? 32:36 Pseudology. (Pseudology) Pseudology (Okay) 32:38 The art of lying. And so it really just talks about the 32:42 harmful effects of media not just on the spiritual end but 32:45 also the scientific end. (Lying) Yeah. (Continue) 32:49 And so in that documentary it mentions that your brain 32:55 actually...like there was an experiment that was done, your 32:57 brain actually cannot tell the difference between like you 33:01 watching something and you actually doing it. Like I think 33:02 your brain lights up the same way and so just in light of the 33:05 scripture that we just read like science can back that up as well 33:09 Wow. When you mention this a little light came on to a 33:15 commercial that you know when you watch television sometimes 33:18 the commercials like, I don't need to see that commercial, 33:21 there's a show, I don't know if it's still on or not but it says 33:25 How To Commit Murder and Get Away With It. That's the title 33:29 of the program. I don't know which one of the networks it's 33:31 on. Who would want (see that) Hey Mom, how to commit murder 33:38 and get away with it. You know you can kill Daddy and nobody 33:41 would know about it. I mean I'm not trying to be facetious here 33:44 but that's what it's in essence saying. There's somebody in 33:48 school you don't like. Let's watch that episode tonight 33:51 and may you can kill them and get away with it. I mean that's 33:54 the mindset that is slowly degrading the conscious mind the 33:59 natural affection is going away. And I think that's why we see 34:03 the crimes becoming more brutal and as the Bible says and Paul 34:09 says, Evil men will wax worse and worse. You know evil men and 34:13 seducers. And so that's the category of media now days. 34:17 Instagram, I mean that statistic blows me away that billion 34:22 dollars for Instagram. Now what about some of the other ones 34:24 in a moment here? 34:25 So you know one of the popular social media sites today is 34:29 Tik Tok. That's where a lot of the young kids are digesting 34:32 I mean hours. They're staying up till four o'clock in the morning 34:36 because they can't get rid of it they can't turn it off. So we're 34:39 not only messing with you know terrible content but it's 34:44 actually biologically addicting to the point where they don't 34:48 have the capacity to stop it. And Wall Street Journal did a 34:54 research on what kind of content is being exposed to these young 34:59 people and they made a bunch of, thousands, of fake accounts for 35:03 13-year-olds and what they found is just within a matter of 35:07 signing up, tell them you're 13, because the way it works is you 35:10 like a picture and then the algorithm learns what you like 35:13 and suggests things to you and these fake accounts at the Wall 35:17 Street Journal came up with they would within one or two clicks 35:22 were suggested pornography to a 13-year-old and they were shown 35:25 straight to the site. So it's like they created these devices 35:29 that are messing with the biology of our brains. Almost 35:33 operating in the same manners of like gambling you know the 35:37 reward system of our brain and then feeding them terrible 35:41 things that they may have a lifetime of addiction to. It's 35:44 really something that we feel called to share some light on 35:49 this. Parents be aware of this stuff. Do some research. I mean 35:52 you don't have to just listen to what we have to say about it. 35:54 But do some research. If your child is into this particular 35:58 piece of media or uses this social media. I mean just do a 36:01 little digging. Is there anything alarming that you 36:04 notice anything and that's pretty much what we've found 36:08 real fast. 36:09 I think it's fascinating because we've seen a slide in society 36:13 even in the way, things are rated because what you said is 36:16 absolutely correct. It's a form of pornography but according to 36:19 the way that the world identifies it today it's not. 36:23 But guarantee it you take it 50 years ago and it would not have 36:27 been allowed. But right now it's still on the app because it is 36:32 just slightly above or covered enough that they will allow it. 36:37 But it's definitely, definitely pushing people in that direction 36:40 Yeah, good Keith. 36:42 I was just going to say you took a step back on all of this and 36:44 you looked at media in general. You say you know what this is a 36:47 mass communication tool. If you were Satan what would you want 36:52 to do? You would want to have mass communication. But to keep 36:56 people plugged into that communication you'd want them 36:58 addicted somehow. 36:59 Let me give you a title real quick. This is an upcoming video 37:03 you're going to put together. Mask Communication. 37:06 There you go. Love it. 37:08 Yeah. Coming 2023. 37:11 So you keep them addicted so that they stay continually 37:14 plugged in, right? If you know anything about the history of 37:17 media you'll know that there was a man named John Logie Baird and 37:22 he was a pioneer in broadcast TV One of the things he used to do 37:27 is he used to go to séances every night and in that the 37:33 mediums would be contacting spirits that wanted to help him 37:38 develop television. If you know the truth of the Bible you know 37:43 that those mediums and those spirits these aren't dead 37:46 inventors. They're demons. So you're going to have to ask 37:49 yourself a question, Why do demons want to help develop 37:54 television? 37:55 Mass Communication. 37:57 Mass communication right? It's not that the platform itself is 38:00 inherently evil. It can definitely be used for good 38:03 things. But in other words what we're seeing is Satan 38:06 sees the potential and so 38:08 he's going to use that potential for his, his, you know what 38:14 Mrs. White said was his master piece of deception. And so he's 38:19 using this and keeping people engaged and addicted because he 38:21 has a message that he's going to put out in the end times to 38:26 everyone and if you've got all these people you know on all 38:28 these platforms they can't get away from them and their minds 38:32 are being corrupted so that they can't tell between what's good 38:35 and what's evil, gotcha. 38:37 It's a burgeoning creation and I'm glad you brought up Tik Tok 38:43 because it seems like if you mention My Space that just 38:48 sounds like did that come out in 1947, it seems so long ago. You 38:52 know. Are you on My Space? You don't ask that question any 38:55 longer. What is that? The changes for the next new 39:00 platform and while we're sitting here some team somewhere is 39:03 trying to come up with a competitive to Tik Tok and the 39:07 whole purpose of it is to get them addicted to that platform 39:11 and it's almost a race. How can we...Because what else would be 39:16 behind paying a billion dollars for a platform other than you 39:19 want to benefit from all the addicted people, people that are 39:23 addicted to that platform. Why would I pay a billion dollars? 39:25 Because that's a lot of advertising, presumably money 39:29 that will come to me. And advertisers know if I can keep 39:33 people watching then I can slip my advertisements in there and 39:35 sell products. But that's interesting how they do that. 39:39 It chisels away at the conscious mind. 39:43 Yeah. They say that you know these things aren't products. 39:46 And they say that you are the product. 39:49 You know I was just going to say that I saw a video not too long 39:51 ago called ooo ah... 39:53 I know which one you're talking about. They said whenever 39:58 something is free you are the product. It was... 40:04 Social Dilemma. Oh you got a social dilemma. And people that 40:08 had participated in creating some of these platforms actually 40:11 looked back in regret and they said my kids don't have cell 40:14 phones. We don't have television in our house. We go outside and 40:17 play. We created this. We know what it does. We are not letting 40:22 our children get affected by it. But then we have a whole society 40:26 Addictions. I think you may have heard of the man Simon Sineck. 40:31 And he says to give a kid a cell phone nowadays, do you remember 40:36 the analogy he connected it to? Here's a bottle of alcohol, have 40:41 at it. No age limit. He said it's worse now days getting a 40:45 cell phone. Not the device in and of itself is dangerous but 40:49 the filtration of it...Oh here's what I was going to say. And 40:52 when you talk about this it brought back to my mind...my 40:54 wife and I went to New York City not too long ago driving around 40:56 you know from Brooklyn so there's a strong Jewish sector 40:59 of Brooklyn. You know they live in communities and I noticed 41:02 that the Hasidic Jews the majority of them had flip phones 41:07 You might want to do a video... They had flip phones and I kept 41:10 saying to my wife...They all have flip phones. They all have 41:17 flip phones. And I went to the Google, Jewish flip phones, and 41:23 they do that to prevent their children from accessing these 41:28 platforms because they say it lets the world in. The only ones 41:32 that are allowed to have the phones that can access media are 41:36 the businessmen for business purposes. But everyone, all the 41:40 men I saw with flip phones and I said this is not an anomaly 41:44 this is actual intentional. And I thought about that. What would 41:48 happen today to the media platforms if parents said you 41:51 know what we're going to go back to a phone the purpose of it is 41:53 to call me not to access the... What would happen? What do you 41:57 think? 41:58 Yeah, you know, I imagine that it's a bit like losing your 42:00 phone you feel like you know like oh no you know my life is 42:04 going to fall apart today. I think we've been so conditioned 42:07 that we need this access to technology. You know I heard 42:11 a statistic that was saying we have access to the world 42:17 libraries at our fingertips and we have access to more 42:20 information in one day that someone in the early 1900s had 42:23 in their entire lifetime. So we can just literally speak to our 42:27 phone, give me this piece of information, and brrr it spits 42:29 it right out right? Um but I really think that where these 42:34 things can be a blessing the devil can also easily twist it 42:39 use it for a curse and I think as we are moving into a more 42:45 technologically advanced society I mean you start looking at you 42:48 know where they're wanting to go with the Mediverse and tapping 42:50 everybody in with this really crazy VR (virtual reality) 42:54 technology I really do...that's why I go back to the Bible and 42:57 I read the words and it says you know if Jesus didn't come 43:00 quickly no flesh would be saved. I think if time were to go on 43:04 far enough we would create so many devices that literally we 43:08 would all be lost. 43:10 We would physiologically implode People would just explode on the 43:14 street because they are overloaded and I think that like 43:16 a machine we'd just cease to function. Keith, anyone, you 43:22 want to add something to this? 43:24 We are digressing as a society. Evolution says we are increasing 43:28 as a society and it's an exact opposite of what's going on in 43:31 those two theories. And so as you can see I mean our idea or 43:37 God's plan original plan is completely different than man's 43:40 plan. 43:42 One of the challenges I see today with parents. You know you 43:44 go out and speak and you get these questions like, Well what 43:47 do I do? And that's a tough thing because we have introduced 43:51 a lot of technology perhaps at a young age when the mind is still 43:54 developing and one of the things I see that's a big problem is 43:58 self-control which is one of the fruits of the Spirit, it's the 44:02 last one listed in Galatians. So I find with my children what I 44:07 am really trying to teach is self-control because what 44:13 happens when the child wants to use that platform or they have 44:16 to use it for school or for whatever purpose and you haven't 44:20 taught them self-control at home and they go out into the world 44:22 and they lack that virtue and then they become a slave. And so 44:28 I have these conversations with my oldest in particular all the 44:31 time and just the other day we we're talking about it in the car 44:32 I was like look I am trying to teach you self-control. That is 44:37 more important to me that you have that than you know if you 44:41 know how to use this device or you have it or you don't have it 44:44 because you're going to have to use some kind of piece of 44:46 technology when you go out into the world to work. You have to 44:49 be able to manage. Well the way we manage is with the Spirit of 44:52 God giving us self-control so we need to help instill that into 44:57 our children. 44:58 Mmm that's a very good analogy about self-control. You know 45:01 there's a text in Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good 45:04 and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness 45:08 bittersweet and sweet for bitter. That's the battle right 45:11 there, the controversy. Okay this is good but it's also evil. 45:13 It's light but it's also darkness, it's sweet but it's 45:16 also bitter and that's the devices we have in our hands 45:19 today because as you know we are a media organization. We have 45:21 social media apps. We have 3ABN plus. There's Amazing Facts, 45:27 there's It Is Written. There's so much good but on the same 45:30 fountain, the knowledge is there 45:33 I want to point just something out about the people that are 45:36 sitting in this room. She watched a video, he...you know 45:40 Brother Keith, he watched a video. I mean the power that we 45:43 can share the gospel and use the tool is there but the difference 45:48 is how do you distinguish between the two and I feel like 45:52 that discernment is what we're really after, trying to get 45:55 people to decide. How do you know what you should listen to 45:58 and what you shouldn't. And we also know that the enemy is 46:03 roaring around, right? He literally is like speaking to us 46:07 through these devices. Are we listening to the voice of Jesus 46:10 and that shepherd or are we listening to the voice of the 46:13 enemy? I think that's a bigger conversation too with the media. 46:18 Okay. There's lots of work to do and I think what the Bible says 46:21 as Jesus said, the workers are few. A lot more workers working 46:25 right now for the opposite team or they might not even know 46:28 they're working for the opposite team. But we need more people 46:31 working in media for the right reason. 46:32 And then in the midst of all of that along come artificial 46:36 intelligence who works for no one but works for everyone. 46:40 It loses the pathos and the compassion of a human and it's 46:46 just programmed to produce. Somebody was talking about that 46:49 the other day. We were driving through Florida. All the people 46:52 that used to collect holes don't work anymore. It's all lights, 46:56 camera, action. Just drive through and that's what's 46:58 happening to the world. It's not slowing down. It's speeding up. 47:00 So in the time, we have remaining let me have you make some 47:04 recommendations because I want to be able to let our viewers 47:07 and listeners know that you are available to come and do 47:10 seminars for their churches, for their schools, for their 47:13 colleges because it's not going to get less engaging. We're 47:16 entering into an area where it's becoming more engaging. Matter 47:21 of fact, all that has to happen for a person to feel like they 47:25 have lost relevance, I forgot my phone on the airplane. It's like 47:29 the whole world just came to an end. Talk about how we can help 47:32 and what are some of the ways that even the viewers can help 47:36 in you going forward and advancing in creating more 47:39 content and expanding Little Light Studios' impact? 47:42 Sure you know we would solicit your prayers. You know I think 47:46 this is a...sometimes it feels like an uphill battle. No young 47:51 person wants to know that the thing that they think is fun is 47:54 potentially spiritually damaging So you know it's a hard and 47:57 difficult demographic of people to speak to but we really feel 48:01 passionate about this so pray for us. Another thing too is if 48:05 you have young children I mean really spend some time 48:09 learning about these things. There's a lot of information on 48:11 the internet. We have had how many videos, 400 videos on 48:17 YouTube we have put out on this kind of stuff. So you know check 48:20 out our YouTube page. Just type in Little Light Studios onto 48:24 YouTube and you will see all the topics that we've handled 48:27 and dealt with. And then you know if you have any desire to 48:34 help us you know like Brad said we are only a few and God has 48:39 really added to our team but sometimes we feel like we're 48:41 throwing a rock into the ocean. It's a big world out there and 48:45 we need more of us and you know I believe God is making a last 48:50 call so if you have any desire to help we would love it. 48:55 Thank you, Scott. Now Brittny from the social media 48:57 perspective. What can you say to our viewers to encourage them to 49:00 get engaged more with Little Light Studios? 49:02 Yeah so I think in this day and age so digital we're called to 49:06 be digital missionaries and so something as simple as sharing 49:10 our content with friends, family You know you have the power to 49:14 change up someone's algorithm by them doing it and also just 49:18 liking and leaving comments under our videos also you now 49:24 helps us get more reach as well. So those are just a few things 49:27 that they can do. 49:28 I'm going to throw this one to Brad. Also, Brad let our audience 49:31 know what are some of the real tangible ways even financially 49:34 that they could help Little Light Studios expand in their 49:37 effectiveness as well as their evangelistic efforts effectively 49:41 Go to the website and donate because we really need your 49:43 funds, we need your help to do this because it needs manpower. 49:47 You can be a part of that process because we are working 49:51 towards the good that's found in the Bible and not against it. 49:54 That's right. And some of the things, I mean, you guys I know 49:58 you use computers, cameras. I know that equipment changes so 50:01 quickly now a days, what are some of the needs that you might have 50:03 A lot of the computers we have in the office well until 50:07 recently have been over 10 years old and you know we've held out 50:12 as long as we can but now it's to the point where technology 50:15 has progressed and it slows down your work. And so we're in the 50:20 process of needing to upgrade some of that. It's probably 50:23 costing us in the vicinity of 20 to 40 thousand dollars. 50:29 Technology is just not cheap and one of our dreams of course is 50:35 to make production faster. One of the ways we can do that is 50:38 with an LED wall. And those are not inexpensive items even small 50:44 ones. I think I was sent a quote the other day just at 16 x 9 LED 50:48 wall was somewhere in the vicinity of $300,000. We'd like 50:52 to have one bigger than that. We'd like to have more than one. 50:54 So I mean the sky's the limit but I mean I could easily see 50:59 you know a million dollars' worth of LED wall in the studio so 51:03 that we're not using green screen all the time to film our 51:07 programs and make engaging content to turn the hearts and 51:11 minds of men. 51:12 And you know I'm looking at the effectiveness of Little Light 51:14 Studios to this point. The content on YouTube as thank you 51:19 for pointing that out, Brittny and all of you that those of you 51:22 who are watching the program can say hey let me guide my young 51:25 people, my children, my grand children, my neighbor's kids, 51:28 maybe some of the kids in your classroom. We might say hey 51:30 today we're going to talk about social media and one of the 51:34 platforms is Little Light and I know that we're going to give 51:37 you an opportunity to get in touch with this ministry and 51:39 find not only spiritual but tangible ways to strengthen 51:43 their ministry and advance the effectiveness of counteracting 51:46 the counterfeit. But don't go away. After this address roll 51:50 we'll be right back. 51:52 If you would like to contact or know more about Little Light 51:55 Studios you can do so in the following ways. You can write to 51:59 them at P.O. Box 70, Ooltewah, TN 37363. You can call them at 52:06 (530) 327-9323. 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