FIGHT YOUR PHONE! Your phone is a tool. It was never meant to become your master. One of the greatest disciplines you can develop is the ability to leave a message unread until the right time. Most people cannot do that anymore. A notification comes in, and they immediately stop what they are doing to respond. Before long, they are reacting to everything instead of giving their full attention to what matters. Train the people around you. If something is truly urgent, let them call you. If it is not urgent, it can wait. Learn to open your phone, see five, ten, or even fifty messages, and deliberately leave them until you have finished your work. Self-control is choosing when your phone gets your attention, not allowing it to decide for you. The danger is bigger than wasted time. Constantly checking your phone splinters your mind. Your attention becomes fragmented. You hear instructions but do not fully process them. Important responsibilities are interrupted by trivial conversations, and over time your ability to concentrate becomes weaker. Stop saying you need to be available online every second because you are busy. Some of the busiest people in the world deliberately protect their attention. They understand that productivity is not built by responding to every notification but by giving uninterrupted focus to what truly matters. What begins as a habit of checking messages can eventually affect decisions that carry serious consequences. This generation has grown up with smartphones in our hands, so this discipline will not come naturally. You will have to fight for it. If you do not take control of your attention, someone else will. No training in self-discipline is wasted. Every time you resist unnecessary distraction, you increase your capacity for greater responsibility. Guard your attention. Protect your focus. God cannot trust major responsibilities to a mind that is constantly being pulled in every direction. Happy last Sunday of the month!

TODAY'S KINGDOM INSIGHTS: SERMON TOPIC: TEACH CHILDREN NOT TO BELIEVE EVERY BIBLE QUOTE ONLINE. Theme: Test What You Hear Before You Believe It. Key Scripture «“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.” — 1 John 4:1» We live in a generation where a Bible verse can go viral in seconds—but being viral does not make it biblical. A beautiful picture with a Bible verse, thousands of likes, and a powerful caption can make something look spiritual. But children must learn an important lesson: “It is written online” does not automatically mean “God said it.” Some quotations circulating online are genuine Bible verses. Some are Bible verses taken out of context. Some are only human sayings that have been placed inside quotation marks and falsely presented as Scripture. If we teach our children to believe everything they see online, they may eventually believe a lie simply because the lie is decorated with a Bible verse. The Bible says: «“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21» Our children need more than smartphones. They need biblical discernment. 1. TEACH CHILDREN THAT THE BIBLE IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY 2 Timothy 3:16–17 «“All scripture is given by inspiration of God…”» Paul teaches that Scripture comes from God and is useful for teaching, correction, and instruction in righteousness. This means that when an online statement contradicts God's Word, we don't change the Bible to accommodate the internet. We test the internet by the Bible. Teach your children: “Don't ask first, ‘How many people shared it?’ Ask, ‘Where is it written?’” A statement can have one million shares and still be false. Popularity is not proof. 2. TEACH THEM TO READ THE VERSE IN CONTEXT One of the easiest ways to deceive people is to take a true Bible verse and give it a false meaning. For example: «“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” — Philippians 4:13» This verse is often used online to mean, “I can accomplish absolutely anything I want.” But when you read Philippians 4, Paul is talking about learning to live faithfully in both abundance and need. The verse is about Christ strengthening us to remain faithful in every circumstance, not giving us a guarantee that every personal ambition will succeed. Teach children: Never build a doctrine from a verse you have never read in its chapter. A verse has a context. A chapter has a context. A book of the Bible has a context. And God's Word must be handled faithfully. 3. TEACH THEM THAT NOT EVERY “BIBLE QUOTE” IS FROM THE BIBLE This is extremely important in the digital generation. You may see statements such as: “God helps those who help themselves.” It sounds religious. But it is not a Bible verse. You may also see beautiful motivational statements attributed to Jesus, Paul, Solomon, or other biblical characters that they never actually said. Children need to learn the difference between: “The Bible says…” and “Someone said something that sounds biblical.” Those are not the same thing. Acts 17:11 The Bereans were commended because they listened to Paul's teaching but searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were true. That is biblical discernment. They did not reject everything. They did not accept everything. They examined everything. 4. TEACH CHILDREN TO ASK QUESTIONS Faith is not afraid of honest questions. When your child sees a Bible quotation online, teach them to ask: 1. Where is this written in the Bible? 2. Who actually said it? 3. What is the context? 4. Does another Scripture support or contradict this interpretation? 5. Is this Scripture—or someone's opinion about Scripture? This is not teaching children to doubt God's Word. It is teaching them not to doubt God's Word because of someone's misuse of it. 1 John 4:1 «“Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God…”» Notice the Bible does not say, “Believe everything.” Neither does it say, “Believe nothing.” It says: TEST IT. 5. TEACH THEM THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT CANCEL BIBLICAL DISCERNMENT Some people say, “I just feel that this quote is from God.” But feelings are not the final standard of truth. Isaiah 8:20 «“To the law and to the testimony…”» Whatever we believe must be tested against God's revealed Word. The Holy Spirit leads believers into truth, but the Holy Spirit will never lead us into something that contradicts Scripture. Therefore, teach your children: Don't follow every emotional message. Follow truth. An online preacher may be sincere and still be mistaken. A popular Christian influencer may be knowledgeable and still interpret a passage wrongly. A beautiful quote may sound spiritual and still be unscriptural. Sincerity is not the same as truth. BIBLICAL CASE STUDY: THE SERPENT IN THE GARDEN. Genesis 3:1–5 The serpent approached Eve and questioned what God had said. The strategy was subtle. The enemy did not begin by saying, “Forget God.” He began by distorting God's Word. God had given a clear command, but Satan manipulated the meaning. This teaches us something powerful: The enemy does not always attack God's Word by denying it. Sometimes he attacks it by twisting it. That is exactly why our children must know Scripture for themselves. If they only know Bible quotes from social media, someone can easily manipulate them. But if they know the Word in context, they become harder to deceive. A REAL-LIFE DIGITAL CASE STUDY. Imagine a teenager sees a post saying: «“God wants you to be rich. If you are poor, you are outside God's will.”» Thousands of people have liked it. The teenager believes it. Later, the teenager becomes discouraged because his family is struggling financially. He begins thinking: “Maybe God has rejected us.” But then he opens Scripture and discovers faithful servants of God who experienced hardship, persecution, hunger, rejection, and suffering. Suddenly he realizes: Financial hardship is not automatic evidence that God has abandoned you. One misleading online interpretation could have damaged his understanding of God. This is why biblical education must begin at home, in church, and in our children's daily lives. PRACTICAL ACTION STEPS FOR PARENTS AND CHURCH LEADERS. 1. Teach children to carry a physical or digital Bible Don't let social media become their only Bible. 2. Have family Bible-reading time Read the whole passage, not just isolated verses. 3. Encourage questions When your child asks, “Daddy, is this really in the Bible?” don't silence the question. Search the Scriptures together. 4. Teach them how to check references If someone says, “Jesus said this,” ask: “Where did Jesus say it?” 5. Teach them the difference between Scripture and commentary A person's explanation of Scripture is not Scripture itself. 6. Don't let your children blindly follow Christian influencers Respect people, but test teaching. 7. Model discernment yourself Children learn not only from what we preach but from what they see us share. Before forwarding a Christian message, ask: “Is this actually biblical?” DEEP SPIRITUAL INSIGHT The greatest danger facing the next generation may not be that they stop seeing Bible verses. It may be that they see many Bible verses without learning how to understand the Bible. We can raise children who know hundreds of Christian quotes but do not know the God of Scripture. We can raise children who know Christian hashtags but cannot defend their faith. We can raise children who can recognize a viral preacher but cannot recognize false teaching. Therefore, our assignment is not merely to give children Bible information. Our assignment is to develop biblical discernment. Hosea 4:6 «“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…”» Knowledge matters. Understanding matters. Discernment matters. The next generation needs believers who can say, “That sounds good, but let me check the Word of God.” QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION 1. Do I believe something because it is biblical or because it is popular? 2. Do I read Bible passages in context? 3. Can I distinguish Scripture from someone's interpretation? 4. Am I teaching my children how to examine what they see online? 5. Do I verify Christian messages before sharing them? 6. If someone misquotes Scripture, would I recognize the error? 7. Are my children learning the Bible—or merely learning Bible quotes? POWERFUL PRAYER POIN. 1. Prayer for Discernment Father, give our children spiritual discernment to distinguish truth from error, in Jesus' name. 2. Prayer Against Deception Lord, protect the minds of our children from every form of spiritual deception and false teaching. 3. Prayer for Love of God's Word Father, create in our children a genuine hunger for Your Word. Let them love Scripture and desire to know You. 4. Prayer for Parents Lord, give parents wisdom to teach their children biblical truth and model godly discernment. 5. Prayer for the Digital Generation Father, let social media become a tool for spreading truth rather than a doorway to deception. 6. Prayer for Spiritual Stability Lord, establish our children so deeply in Your Word that no strange teaching will easily move them. CALL TO ACTION Parents, pastors, teachers, and Christian leaders—we must wake up. Our children are being discipled every day. Someone is teaching them through TikTok. Someone is teaching them through YouTube. Someone is teaching them through Facebook. Someone is teaching them through Instagram. The question is not whether our children are being taught. The question is: WHO IS TEACHING THEM? Don't simply tell them: “Don't believe everything online.” Teach them HOW TO TEST EVERYTHING BY THE WORD OF GOD. Don't only give them a Bible. Teach them how to read it. Don't only tell them to follow Jesus. Teach them how to recognize voices that misrepresent Jesus. And don't allow the internet to become your child's Bible teacher. Let God's Word remain the foundation. Remember: Not everything that sounds Christian is biblical. Not everything with a Bible verse is God's message. Not everything that goes viral is true. Test it. Search it. Examine it. Compare it with Scripture. And when truth is found— HOLD FAST TO IT. «“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:21» May God raise a generation that will not merely quote the Bible, but KNOW the Bible, UNDERSTAND the Bible, LIVE the Bible, and DEFEND the truth of God's Word. Amen. Give your life to Jesus today. 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Three Angels Broadcasting Network Devotional. Habits By Elena Varnavskaya August 20th, 2026 “I will set nothing wicked before my eyes.” Psalm 101:3 How, Lord, in our age, is it possible to avoid looking at wicked things when we are assaulted on every side by TV screens, smartphones, and billboards showing images of scantily clad bodies advertising every conceivable product? What do we do with our eyes? Or our children and grandchildren’s eyes? How can we resist wasting precious time on things that don’t make us any better? Recently, we bought our teenaged granddaughter a smartphone. She was very eager for it because all her peers have had one for a long time. Her mother had wisely delayed the purchase, knowing that her daughter seemed easily influenced by other people’s views; but it wasn’t long before the problems began. At first, she stayed on the Internet for hours at a time and didn’t even notice it, so we limited her data usage to one hour a day. But this didn’t stop her, as she quickly caught on to using wi-fi signals. Then it wasn’t long before we got a pretty big shock when we checked her text messages and found some pretty vulgar language! We were horrified that, like a sponge, she seemed to absorb everything that was bad! And to make things worse, her sister, who is three years older, never developed these problems. What could we do? How could we teach our child to only look at things that would change her for the better? We took her phone away, but we all knew that this couldn’t solve the problem. So what can we do to help our children? First, we must understand how we influence them—not only by our words, but by our actions. As one Russian proverb says, “Look at the habits of the parents and you’ll find that the children already have vices.” Only the Lord can help us be rid of our bad habits and acquire good ones in their place. In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul wrote, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2. As parents, we are responsible to God for our children; but before we can change them, we must change ourselves. We all have many more acquired and inherited habits than our children do, and only the Lord can miraculously change us into His image and likeness. What hope can we give parents who see their bad habits replicated in their children and grandchildren? We can tell them to trust the Lord, and pray that the transforming power of the Holy Spirit that changed our lives will work on our children’s hearts, too. God is too wise to fulfill our confused, darkened, and self-serving desires. But He will always fulfill the desires of our transformed, and enlightened hearts. What higher desires can we have than to love God and want communion with Him, to have His will be done in our life, and to have a deeper interaction with His people? Those whom God will take home with Him will want to do His will. They will walk in perfect freedom forever, for there will be nothing in their hearts to give up!

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Amazing Facts Daily Devotionals Responses Available. June 1st, 2026 Educators are concerned about the amount of time children spend in front of screens, from televisions to smartphones and tablets. This is because researchers have found that screen time elicits a biological response that is similar to encountering a danger in the real world. This response includes a faster heartbeat, unusual focus, and higher levels of blood sugar. The life of Christ is the source of our response of faith and love to God. But unlike the negative effects of too much screen time, reflection on the life of Christ can give us both peace and incredible joy. There may be times when we feel that we have to manufacture our religious feelings and decisions, but the Bible explains that even our reactions to God are initiated by Him. Although we can reject God’s attempts to elicit positive responses from us, we all have the opportunity to let God’s goodness lead us to Him. For the apostle Paul, this removes the opportunity for boasting or a sense of religious superiority: “I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). God uses the life of Christ to inspire faith in us because the gift of Jesus is the clearest revelation of God and His love: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Along with inspiring faith in God, the gift of Christ produces in our hearts a love and repentance from sin. When Christ died for us, we saw the culmination of a life of love and goodness. Apply It: Play an outdoor game with a child. Dig Deeper: Romans 2:4; 1 John 4:19; 1 Corinthians 1:30, 31 Key Bible Texts That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:7 KJV)

Vlad Savchuk (Make the Devil Homeless) ... As a young teenager, I got hooked on pornography without the help of smartphones, the internet, or social media. My neighbor had asked me to mind his cats while he was on vacation. Being new to the United States, I was curious to see how other people lived. So I watched some VHS tapes I found in his closet. Something changed in me that day. Immediately I felt guilty and repented. But the pull was too strong. I kept returning to watch more videos. My only hope for stopping was for my neighbor to return and take back his keys. At the time, I thought the issue was simply the lust of the flesh—a sin I needed to repent of and forsake. That’s true for some people, but I kept falling back into pornography no matter how many times I repented. It was as though porn would find me. I would stumble upon it in the most unlikely places, including Christian bookstores. I felt targeted, and I wondered whether something deeper than the lust of the flesh was involved. Eventually I realized that when you’re addicted, you’ve got company. I’m not saying that every addicted person has a demon, but I soon realized that I did. A book opened my eyes to my struggle I understood that I’d been dealing with the symptoms of my issue but missing the root cause. I was trying to eliminate spiderwebs without taking care of the spider. My self-deliverance began with fasting and prayer, and lust lost its grip on my life. But complete deliverance happened later. Although I believe in self-deliverance and will soon guide you through the steps, were very productive: The spirits of Leviathan, Jezebel, death, and lust were all cast out. You might wonder how I knew which spirits came out. Well, they spoke. I thought my problems had started with my exposure to pornography, but there was a deeper issue. Lust was a small demon running errands for the bigger spirit of death. And death itself did the bidding of higher-level spirits like Leviathan and Jezebel. To get to the root of my addiction, I also had to confront and renounce generational curses, especially curses of death. NOT-SO-HARMLESS ENTERTAINMENT In Western culture we often see demons through the lens of movies, art, and entertainment. Movies have thrilled audiences by portraying demons as terrifying forces that possess people, haunt houses, and wreak havoc. Movies like The Exorcist, The Conjuring, and Paranormal Activity depict demons as powerful and almost unbeatable beings. As these films provide glimpses of demonic activity, they often become open doors through which the demons on the screen inhabit movie-goers who sought only to be entertained. Other films and shows normalize demons, turning them into antiheroes or misunderstood creatures. Movies like Hellboy and shows such as Lucifer glamorize demons, presenting them as relatable and even sympathetic characters. This approach deceives people into seeing demons as harmless beings who do good. This deception dulls spiritual discernment and causes people to ignore the dangers of demonic influence. Video games and fantasy stories often use demons as plot devices, including enemies to defeat, bosses to fight, or powers to harness. In games like Doom, Diablo, or Dark Souls, demons are presented as dark, destructive enemies. Harmless as games might seem, they create a fascination with the demonic. Players can become desensitized to the reality of spiritual warfare or drawn to explore occult ideas out of curiosity. Some games go further, allowing characters to use demonic powers or work alongside demons. This is another open door to the demonic. Today’s culture swings between two extremes where demons are concerned. On one hand, demons are presented as terrifying and all-powerful. This approach opens the door to fear. On the other hand, demons are glamorized, normalized, and even mocked as harmless characters who do nothing more than entertain us. This deludes people and makes them more spiritually vulnerable. - Vlad Savchuk (Make the Devil Homeless)

ADDICTED TO APPROVAL (Part 4) How Social Media Wires You for Approval Social media did not create the approval problem. But it handed it a megaphone, a scoreboard, and a 24-hour broadcast channel. Before #smartphones, approval-seeking had natural limits. You could only perform for the people in the room. Feedback was slow, social circles were small, and there were hours in the day when no one was watching. That gave a person time to simply exist without an audience. That space is gone now. And what replaced it is rewiring an entire generation from the inside. The Machine in Your Pocket Here is what is actually happening when you post something and wait for the response. Social media platforms leverage the same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep users engaged. When users receive positive #feedback online, dopamine receptors activate and action potentials propagate through neural networks, creating short-term feedback loops that lure users back for more. That is not a metaphor. It is neuroscience. The same brain chemistry that drives substance addiction is triggered every time you get a like, a comment, or a new follower. The platform designers know this. They built the systems this way deliberately. #Scientists have found that every time you get a notification, a like, or watch a video you enjoy, your brain's reward system, specifically the nucleus accumbens, gets activated. Social media is designed to keep you #hooked, much like gambling. Scientists call this delay discounting, where you choose the immediate reward of scrolling over something more important, like studying, sleeping, or spending time with people in real life. Every pull-to-refresh is a slot machine pull. Every notification is a small hit. And just like any #addictive substance, the brain adjusts. Over time, you need more to feel the same effect. The more you use social media, the harder it becomes for your brain to resist it. The brain starts pruning #neurons to make the reward pathway faster. The shorter pathway means rewards feel faster, but it also makes you more impulsive and less able to stop scrolling. Over time, this pruning shrinks areas like the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, which are key for controlling emotions and making #decisions. This is not about willpower. The platform is winning a biological battle against a brain that was never designed to handle this volume of social feedback. Why Young People Are Most Vulnerable The timing of all this matters enormously. Starting around age 10, children's brains undergo a #fundamental shift that spurs them to seek social rewards, including attention and approval from peers. Social media activity is closely tied to the ventral striatum, a brain region that receives a dopamine rush whenever we experience social rewards. In #adults, two factors reduce the harm: a fixed sense of self that relies less on peer feedback, and a more mature prefrontal cortex that helps regulate emotional responses to social rewards. Young people have neither of these advantages. Read that again. The years when young people are most biologically driven to seek peer approval are the exact years they are handed devices that deliver or withhold that #approval in real time, at scale, around the clock. For the first time in human history, we have given up autonomous control over our social relationships and interactions, and now allow machine learning and artificial intelligence to make decisions for us. As APA chief science officer Mitch Prinstein put it, what is scarier is considering how this may be changing brain development for an entire generation. The Scoreboard Nobody Asked For Before social #media, you could share something and simply not know how many people approved of it. That uncertainty was actually a protection. It forced you to develop your own internal standard. Now everything is quantified. Posts have counts. Profiles have follower numbers. Every piece of content you put into the world comes back with a score. According to research from the Pew Research Center, 59 percent of teenagers report feeling pressure to look good or appear successful on #social media, which erodes self-worth and heightens anxiety. That #pressure is not incidental. It is structural. The platform is built around visibility metrics. When you post and the number is low, your brain registers it as social rejection. When the number is high, it delivers a reward. You did not choose to play this game. But the moment you opened the app, you were entered into it. New likes and new content on social media trigger dopamine again and again, making young people think more and more frequently about what is happening on their feeds, which leads to #anxiety and emotional lows described as depressive states. The result is a person who wakes up and immediately reaches for their phone, not because they want information, but because they need to check the score. They need to know where they stand. They need the approval to start their day. The Comparison Trap Social media does not just measure approval. It manufactures comparison. Every scroll is a curated highlight reel of other people's best moments, best angles, best outcomes. Vacations, achievements, relationships, bodies. All of it filtered, staged, and selected for maximum #impact. The dopamine deficit that follows heavy social media use manifests as depression and anxiety, mimicking the same #symptoms and feelings. Over time, these effects alter the synaptic plasticity of specific brain pathways involved in reward and emotional regulation. A young person comparing their internal reality, their doubts, their struggles, their ordinary Tuesday, to someone else's curated external performance will always come up short. And when that comparison happens hundreds of times a day, the cumulative damage to self-image is significant. This feeds directly into approval #addiction. The young person sees what gets applauded online and begins adjusting themselves accordingly. The clothes they wear, the opinions they express, the places they go, the relationships they show. All of it gets filtered through the question: will this get approved? The self becomes a product. The audience becomes the standard. What the Bible Understood Before the Algorithm Did Proverbs 4:23 says to guard your heart above all else, because everything you do flows from it. The heart, in #biblical terms, is the inner life: your values, your identity, your sense of self. It is the source from which your decisions emerge. Social media is a direct assault on that inner life. It trains you to look outward for direction, to let the crowd determine what is worth keeping and what needs to be cut. It replaces the internal compass with an external scoreboard. Matthew 6:1 records Jesus warning against performing #righteousness before people to be seen by them. The entire logic of social media performance runs against this. Post to be seen. Perform to be validated. Exist only insofar as the audience confirms your existence. That is not freedom. That is a very sophisticated cage. The Exit Is Not Deactivation Deleting the app will not fix what the app exposed. If the approval addiction was there before the platform, it will find another outlet. The phone is not the root problem. The emptiness that the phone exploits is. The real work is building something inside you that does not collapse when the numbers are low. An identity anchored in something more stable than public opinion. A sense of #worth that does not refresh with the feed. That is what the next post addresses: how to break free, and what it actually takes to build a self that does not need the crowd's permission to exist. 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TODAY'S MESSAGE SERMON TITLE: TECHNOLOGY IS POWERFUL — BUT GOD IS SUPREME 1. Introduction We are living in a generation where technology has become very powerful. With a phone in your hand, you can communicate across the world, access information instantly, and influence thousands of people. But there is a danger: when people begin to trust technology more than they trust God. Technology is powerful, but it is not all-powerful. Technology is intelligent, but it is not all-knowing. Technology is fast, but it is not eternal. Only God is Supreme. Psalm 147:5 "Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his understanding is infinite." No system, machine, or invention can compete with the wisdom and authority of God. 2. Understanding the Power of Technology Technology has improved many aspects of human life. Examples: Smartphones Artificial Intelligence Medical technology Internet and communication systems Technology can: Connect nations Heal diseases Spread information quickly But technology cannot replace God. Daniel 2:21 "He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and raises up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding." Even the intelligence used to create technology comes from God. Without God, human wisdom cannot exist. 3. The Danger of Trusting Technology More Than God When people begin to rely completely on technology, they slowly forget God. Today many people: Wake up and check their phones before prayer Trust Google more than God's Word Spend hours online but minutes with God Technology becomes a modern idol when it replaces God in our hearts. Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me." Technology must remain a tool, not a master. 4. God’s Supremacy Over Human Systems Throughout the Bible, God has shown that human power cannot compete with divine authority. Example: Tower of Babel Genesis 11:4 People tried to build a tower to reach heaven using their own intelligence and unity. But God intervened. Genesis 11:7-8 God confused their language and scattered them. Lesson: No matter how advanced human systems become, God still controls the universe. 5. Case Study: When Technology Fails A powerful example occurred during the Titanic disaster in 1912. The Titanic was called "the unsinkable ship." It represented the most advanced technology of its time. But after hitting an iceberg, the ship sank. Thousands died. Human confidence collapsed. The lesson: No matter how advanced technology becomes, it cannot override the sovereignty of God. Psalm 127:1 "Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain." 6. The Proper Place of Technology in a Christian Life Technology is not evil. It can actually be used to serve God's purpose. Examples: Online evangelism Digital Bible apps Christian teaching videos Gospel messages spreading globally The same phone that can distract you can also disciple you. The difference is how you use it. 1 Corinthians 10:31 "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 7. Action Steps for Believers 1. Let God be your first source, not technology Before searching the internet, learn to search the Scriptures. Matthew 6:33 "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." 2. Control technology so it doesn't control you Don't allow devices to dominate your time and attention. Set boundaries for phone use. 1 Corinthians 6:12 "I will not be mastered by anything." 3. Use technology to advance the Gospel Share scriptures, sermons, and encouragement online. Let your digital life reflect your faith. Mark 16:15 "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." 4. Spend more time with God than with devices Your spiritual battery must be charged daily. Prayer and the Word of God are your spiritual power source. Joshua 1:8 "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night." 8. Questions and Answers Question 1 Is technology sinful? Answer: No. Technology itself is neutral. The problem is how people use it. Question 2 Can technology affect spiritual growth? Answer: Yes. Excessive use of technology can reduce prayer time, Bible study, and spiritual focus. Question 3 How can Christians use technology positively? Answer: Share God's Word online Listen to sermons Study the Bible Encourage others through messages Question 4 Why must God remain supreme? Answer: Because only God controls life, destiny, eternity, and the universe. Isaiah 46:9 "I am God, and there is none like me." 9. Prayer Points 1. Lord, help me never to replace You with technology. 2. Father, give me wisdom to use technology for Your glory. 3. Lord, deliver me from every digital distraction affecting my spiritual life. 4. Father, let my relationship with You grow stronger every day. 5. Lord, help me to put You first above every system of this world. 10. Conclusion Technology is powerful. But it cannot forgive sins. It cannot give eternal life. It cannot replace the presence of God. Only God is Supreme. Phones will become outdated. Software will be replaced. Machines will fail. But God remains forever. Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." If you have not given your life to Jesus kindly do so by joining a Bible believing Church. You can get ebooks from my selar shop below https://selar.com/m/umoh-edem1 https://selar.com/m/umoedem CONTACT - WhatsApp +2349024273027, +2349055447540 Email pastor.umoedem@gmail.com

Sometimes I see Christians complain of others posting photos of themselves helping the homeless and hungry. One Facebook friend suggested we “leave the camera at home.” That’s hard to do when most people nowadays use their smartphones to take pictures, but I understand what he meant. Jesus said in Matthew 6:2, “Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men.” However, ministries that specialize in helping the needy like Samaritan’s Purse show photos and videos of what they are doing so donors know how their money is used. During my outreaches, I like to take photos for myself and share them with friends. Except on rare occasions when it’s a unique situation, I avoid taking pictures of homeless individuals to protect their dignity. The Pocket Testament League that supplies me with gospels of John like it when I occasionally email them photos of people I give them to as proof they are being handed out. It all boils down to motive. “Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.” (Galatians 1:10 NLT)