Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach

wrock and in today's episode we're

asking the question can Jesus Save the

Internet returning to a topic we've

covered before in a little bit of a

different way and that is the growing

fight against internet pornography

particularly limiting its access uh to

children or limiting the access children

have to pornography the Supreme Court is

currently uh considering an argument uh

in favor of uh age verification software

being used by states to require

pornography companies to ensure the

people accessing their material are the

appropriate age uh 19 States across our

country have enacted these Technologies

requiring them by law and the

pornography companies are suing saying

that that is a free speech violation and

it is anticipated hopefully that the

Supreme Court is going to rule against

the pornography companies legitimizing

that states can use technology to ensure

that children aren't accessing

pornography it is bizarre to me that

this is something we're even arguing

about but let's leave that for another

day the truth is that rapid advancements

in technology are making it so that we

really can do this you really can make

sure that someone accessing pornography

is an adult and not a child which means

that more and more as technology

advances we can continue to make the

internet a safer place which is good

news because I think that's exactly what

Jesus wants and would expect of his

church at least for those of us that are

working in the technology industry uh

Jesus does want the internet to be a

place for human flourishing now the

reason why I say that is because at the

end of the New Testament The Book of

Revelation Jesus says behold I am making

all things new and all things as you

might imagine in the original language

means all things that includes the

internet Jesus's vision of the internet

is that it is made new it is a place

fitting with the idea that he has of

human flourishing but we are a long way

off from that eventual destination but

the work of redeeming the internet is

the work of Christians this is what Paul

means in Romans 12 when he talks about

overcoming evil with good that is the

work of the church finding evil in our

world and working to eradicate it to

destroy it to minimize it that is the

work we're called to in Matthew 5 Jesus

tells us we're the salt of the earth we

are the light of the world what is he

saying that we are called to season and

clarify our world with truth he's not

just talking about preaching the gospel

although certainly he's talking about in

every Avenue of Life everywhere we go we

bring the truth with us in this case

saying the truth is pornography is evil

it is V and children shouldn't be as

accessing it listen when we talk about

spiritual warfare we're not talking

about something esoteric when I read

that the pornography companies are

arguing that if we limit access to

pornography on the Internet it's a it's

a blow against Free Speech anywhere

that's laughable to me of course we're

restricting children that's just the

kind of arguments you make when you're

working for evil and make no mistake

about it pornography is evil it's

working for evil it's an industry in

which Satan is moving which is why we

have to meet him on the battlefield on

the battlefield of the internet on the

battlefield of legislation or in

courtrooms or wherever he goes fighting

darkness is our job listen as a kid

growing up in the church I often had

this view of Christianity that Jesus had

come to live and die for my sin he had

risen from the dead I needed to give my

life to him to be forgiven and then I

was just waiting around for heaven to

come it didn't feel like Christianity

offered much in the way of daytoday

meaning and purpose but it does and if

you're feeling like I was feeling back

then I want you to see that

opportunities like this to push back

against darkness is our daytoday work

and we can win 19 states have done this

why not 39 why not 49 why not 50 listen

we need more and more Christians to

connect their faith to their work in a

way that says I am pushing back against

Darkness I'm pushing back against evil

can Jesus Save the Internet absolutely

and anything else that his people take

him seriously about hey thanks so much

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