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Studying Managing for the Master until He comes in the SSnet.org series Lesson 6 may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Escape from digimodern sins for Morning Manna in the Sabbath School Series Managing for the Master until He comes

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 46.

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https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:1Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ123_06.pdf

---This week the lesson is going to focus on the importance of the target of our thinking.

---The issue in life is: to what are you looking for?

---What are you spending most of your free time looking at?

---What is free time? Not work. Leisure time. Just sitting. Just looking.

---Smartphone?

---Flick, picture, flick, picture, flick, picture, flick one line message, flick, one line message. Flick, flick, flick, flick, flick zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………?

---Where is your Bible and how far from you? Next to you. When last did you open it? Not regular.

---So where is your mind in off-times. Cleaning the car. Cleaning the swimming pool. Page through car magazines.

---Jesus said: Where your treasure is…there will be your heart also.

---Was Jesus right?

---Well, obvious we have a problem. Right?

---So how to get out of this problem in a digimodernism age.

---The problem is modern digital devices.

---How to get out of it?

---Don’t look at images any longer. No TV dramas, movies, news, nothing. Turn the eyes away and walk away.

---Come on we are not Amish but Adventists.

---Sure. But you have an obsession with images. So you have a problem.

---After all, the Bible is next to you in free time untouched. That is a serious problem for the spiritual life.

---So stop watching youtube videos. What! Yes.

---But they are documentaries.

---Does not matter. They are images. Images damage.

---How do you know that?

---God told Moses. Do not make an image of what is in heaven or on earth.

---That is why Jewish people did not like to be artists in biblical times but there are evidence of copies of surrounding nations.

---They had the vineyard motif, menorah, lotus motif, very minimal. While Assyria was making wall imprints of their achievements, Israel was only text-based with floury language. Text instead of Image. Why us Isaiah so vivid. Or the Joseph narrative? No images in Virtual Reality. Only text.

---So now you got it. Right?

---The cognitive part of the brain said God, is damaged by Virtual Reality Images. Do not make images or watch them.

---God’s reality is flowing, and growing and changing and transforming.

---Youtube is limiting the flowing with no growing, no changing, and no transforming after the video. That is not included.

---Someone is bad on the video but one cannot see how they converted later and changed their lives. That is what it means.

---So this week, our lesson will look at the Patriarchs one by one and Moses last to see how they placed their eyes on heavenly things and not worldly earthly things.

---Want to join them? Is it about time to ponder on why God said we should not make Virtual Images of anything in heaven or earth?

---Now you know. Right?

---There is an invisible chain onto our arms with the smartphone at the end.

---Over our brains are prison bars because we are incarcerated with Virtual Reality of Images. Cognitively imprisoned. Our thinking is controlled by media. ---That is the issue. Escape from Images is the key in digimodern sins.