GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

The War for Your Mind

Scott Mayer

01 The Real Cost of Social Media

02 How to Avoid Deception

03 Digital Evangelism

04 Hollywood’s War on God

05 The Trouble with Al

This 1 will be on the topic of touching a little bit on all the different types of media and how they kind of are deceptive in some way, shape, or form, but how to avoid that.

The next 1 will be on Hollywood and their war on God.

The next 1 will be on how to use the technology in evangelism.

And then The next 1 will be on how to use the technology and evangelism.

And then the next 1 will be on AI, the last 1.

So this 1 is literally on just how to avoid A lot of these things that we have in our lives today that are kind of setting our minds up for deception How many of you feel like we're kind of a bit on a carnival ride right now?

Yeah, does it kind of feel like that right?

I mean the world is changing so quick and So fast it's like if you if you really kind of get sucked into 1 thing or the other it's like real quick It's like whoa wait a minute How did I just get down that rabbit hole and that's what I kind of want to address with this particular topic right here The reason I feel passionate to talk about some of these kind of things is because this was 1 of the things that that led me away from God and I paid attention to all the media I went to school for film production and I ended up in Los Angeles for 10 years and I Lost my way And so if there's something that you can learn from our ministry that help will maybe help you not go down that same path, that is my goal, is to really help you avoid getting off on the wrong track.

And that's what we're gonna talk about today.

So as people are coming in, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Dear gracious heavenly Father, Lord, we know that you have told us so many things in your precious word, Lord, that you have desired to guide our paths if we will let you to the right or to the left.

And so it is my fervent prayer, Lord, that as we come into a day and age that that the enemy of souls is is preparing for his masterpiece of deception, Lord, how are we going to protect our minds so that we don't get swept up in that deception, and specifically pertaining to media.

Lord, may this message be clear and may it be heard, and also not just heard and clear, but also to apply it to our lives.

If you haven't heard of our ministry, Little Light Studios, I do want to tell you, obviously for the sake of time, we cannot possibly present everything that is even possible to present.

I have been fortunately blessed with 10 people I work with in our ministry.

Not all of us go out and speak, but many times we are in many different locations around the world in the same weekend and speaking on these kind of topics.

If you want, look for this content online, Little Light Studios.

We have made lots of DVDs and documentaries over the years.

So to kind of illustrate a few points, maybe you guys have seen this before, which box A or B is darker?

Which way is this horse walking, towards you or away from you?

That's kind of like a little bit of a mind game, right?

Because you don't have all of the information, it can be flip-flopping back and forth.

Here's kind of another simple example which way the horse turns.

And if you kind of look at the dots, it's like, oh, is it turning to the left or is it turning to the right?

Now, The only reason I'm showing you these is because I want you to get the concept that basically we can all look at the same static image and see 2 different things.

And that it's just a slight mind shift that makes you go, oh, 0 yeah, now I see it's this or that, right?

Have you seen this 1 flying around the internet?

Is it going down the stairs or is it going up the stairs?

In fact, if I move the line straight across here like this, it's just absolutely straight.

Jesus in the middle of the space the E the SU.

I thought that was pretty cool Somebody needs to make a t-shirt, right?

That's a pretty cool image When Jesus was asked and he's sitting on the mountain, I think he was asked a very, very common question that I just absolutely would have loved to live in Jesus's day.

I would have asked him this question like, tell us what is, What are we gonna look at?

What kind of things are gonna let us know that the end is near?

How many of you think that the end is actually near?

But I think it's very interesting what Jesus answered here, and he said to them, and what is the sign of the coming of the age, when they asked this question, the first thing out of Jesus's mouth is, take heed that no 1 deceives you.

We know that we are coming into a day and age that deception will play a major part in this end time war.

I find it really fascinating that when God said that when you eat this fruit you will die in that day.

If a day is 1000 years to God and 1000 years is a day, nobody has lived over 1, 000 years.

He goes and and now there's a war in heaven and Satan comes to God and he says, you know what?

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The War for Your Mind

02 How to Avoid Deception

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