In this episode, the boys talk about video games and why it's not a bad thing to play them. They also talk about pornography and why you shouldn't be wasting your time and energy on them. If you've been blessed by our content and you like this show, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts!
00:01:00.000I like Michael Foster says this, when we say it's good to be a man, we don't mean it's bad to be a
00:01:04.000woman, but we're not going to have that disclaimer. Every single time we talk about that, I can just
00:01:08.220say it's good to be a man and it's good to be a woman, but I don't have to say that every single
00:01:13.120time. It's just, it's good to be a man. It's not something to be ashamed of. It's not something
00:01:17.400wrong. It's good to be a man. So read that book, Michael Foster. He talks a little bit about video
00:01:21.980games and things like that. I don't know if he talks about it so much in the book, but I've heard
00:01:25.460him in some of his podcasts and other platforms talking about that issue. And what he says in a
00:01:30.080nutshell is this. He says that a lot of video games that are geared towards men, most video
00:01:34.020games are, it's exactly what God gave to Adam as his mandate in the garden, but in a fake world,
00:01:43.800all right? Like World of Warcraft, you know, or I don't even know. I haven't played video games
00:01:48.760in a very long time, although I can beat Mario 3 for the NES in under 13 minutes with one life.
00:01:59.180Yes, I use three whistles. Nope, I use two whistles. You use one whistle to get to the
00:02:03.620whistle map, and then you use another whistle on the whistle map that takes you straight to
00:02:08.440the eighth world, bada boom, bada bang. So I'm fantastic, Mario 3. But even that, it's been
00:02:13.480years since I've played Mario 3. So I think the most recent game that I've played that's actually
00:02:18.640been like developed is Halo. And when I say Halo, I mean the first Halo. Halo 2, it's like two guns
00:02:23.720at the same time. This is chaotic, right? It's either Christ or chaos, way too much chaos with
00:02:29.020dual wielding. I just want a grenade in one hand and a gun in the other. Halo's as far as I got,
00:02:33.900right? Now, all that said, my point is, I think Michael Foster is right. You look at a lot of
00:02:39.040video games, maybe not Mario, but the first person shooters, but especially these video
00:02:43.040games where you're building worlds. You're, you're literally like the, the game is to build
00:02:48.240civilizations and develop armies and then also commodities and resources and this and that. And
00:02:54.220like that, that there's already a game like that, that God made. It's called life. It's called the
00:03:00.880human existence. It's, it's called this world, God's world. And I think, you know, men, it's
00:03:08.340kind of like, you could say it like this. In the same way that pornography, it's not just that it's
00:03:15.600perverse, that it's wicked in that sense, that it's perverse, but it takes something good in men,
00:03:23.320not speaking of women, not even speaking of that element of pornography, but just as it relates to
00:03:27.540men, it's taking something that God has put in you and wasting it, right? If you're a married0.89
00:03:34.180man and you're looking at pornography, you are draining the godly affection that is supposed to
00:03:41.020be for your wife. You're wasting it. You're giving your strength to women, right? As the scripture,
00:03:47.360do not give your strength to women. Well, also don't give your strength to video games. So I1.00
00:03:52.700don't think that it's just inherently wrong to play video games at all, right? So I'm not making
00:03:59.380some hard, fast, legalistic rule, but you know what I mean, right? Take this with a grain of
00:04:05.040salt. Within measure, there is a point where you're giving your strength to video games,
00:04:12.040meaning you're giving a lot of time and a lot of thought, right? To where even when you shut off
00:04:17.820the game, you're still thinking about it. You're giving your heart and soul, your intent,
00:04:23.560your strategies, your thinking, your obsession, your ambition is being drained, right? I think
00:04:33.440for the population as a whole, right? Our government loves marijuana, right? Drain the
00:04:39.200population of their ambition. Keep them docile, right? Give weed to the populace, give porn to
00:04:45.700the men, and give video games to boys, right? It's just like that's in every way. It's the
00:04:51.800same principle. It's just, there's something good. It's good to be a man, and it just drains it.
00:04:59.120It decreases it. It makes men docile. And the last thing I'll say in sympathy towards men
00:05:05.700is I think that one of the reasons why men are prone towards video games is because they have
00:05:11.840been so exasperated by life, right? The Bible says, fathers, do not exasperate your sons.
00:05:19.420and i think a lot of men they're like yeah i'd rather be doing these kinds of things in real
00:05:24.960life but how like our world is so subdued by the spirit of feminism our world hates men
00:05:35.620and men feel that right they're like our world hates men and hates masculinity they don't want
00:05:44.080me to build. They don't want me to contribute to society. They don't want me to be a leader.
00:05:49.420They won't let me lead. They won't let me do this. They won't let me do that. But at least I'm still
00:05:53.360allowed to do it in this echo chamber, in this virtual fake reality. At least there, I can
00:06:00.400pretend to be a man. I can't even pretend to be a man in the world, in the real world.
00:06:07.360and i get that i've felt that um and i guess my answer to you is uh get over it
00:06:17.320try try harder keep going it's not a suggestion from god it's not an option take it or leave it
00:06:25.600it's a command you were made to be a man it's good to be a man you must be a man you're commanded
00:06:31.640to be a man. You are commanded to work, to produce, to protect, to lead, to love. You're
00:06:39.120commanded to be a man, whether society loves men or hates them. I mean, in that sense,
00:06:46.780it's no different than the principle of being a Christian. There are times throughout church
00:06:50.360history, right? The dispensational premill will lose her mind when I say this, but there have
00:06:54.240been times when everyone's not all against Christians, when Christians aren't always
00:06:59.960being persecuted. When those who are Christians are praised, right? That's what John Bunyan writes
00:07:06.240in his Pilgrim's Progress. He talks about Mr. By-ins is one of the characters. I love Pilgrim's0.58
00:07:11.260Progress. But Mr. By-ins, he's basically, the whole thing is he just does things that benefit0.99
00:07:17.040himself. He's a man of convenience. He is a Christian in word, not really in deed, but he is
00:07:22.560a Christian, a false convert, but claims to be a Christian, but a fair weathered fan, if you will.
00:07:29.440and he he has this one line he says i love to walk with religion and john bunyan as all the
00:07:34.600puritans they're using the word religion in the positive sense right that's really a recent
00:07:38.840phenomenon in american christianity is like it's not a religion it's a relationship religion was
00:07:43.440a good thing so bunyan's using it in the good way he's like i love to walk with religion when it
00:07:49.420wears its silver slippers right when it's paraded in the public and receives the praise of men
00:07:56.360But when religion is under fire, when it's not popular, when religion is named public enemy number one, well, then maybe I don't walk with religion very much, or at least not publicly, right?
00:08:11.920So that's the principle applied to just the Christian faith, right?