 Before I get started and tell you what I do and and hopefully help you today I just did you love Patty? I felt prompted to do something she is really One of the things I relate to her. I can't really relate to her story But the magnitude of what she is doing I relate to in The danger spiritually of what she's doing if you understand what I'm saying that the enemy of our souls has every country I go into a lot of countries around the world the lgbtq is not just an American thing It's a global thing even in the most remote regions of Africa and even in the Aboriginal communities of Australia You'll see this the struggle going on and it's been taught So what I'd like to do is I'd like for us to pray for Patty Can we do that and his value heads? Let me lead you in a prayer and what I want to ask God to do is to burden all of us that at some point Anytime the Holy Spirit wants to bring her to our minds throughout the day in and out Journeys that we all have that we would just pray for her as the Lord would prompt us. So let's pray father We thank you for Patty and Lord the the spiritual warfare that she no doubt encounters is massive and God I just pray that you will put inside of us right now a deposit by the Holy Spirit Whereby we will yield to you to pray one for another and that would include Patty Of course she this ministry of hers out of Egypt is so needed right now Protect her open doors for her Keep her in perfect peace But burden us to pray for her and prompt us to do that from time to time It's in Jesus name we ask these things God's people said Love you Patty and appreciate you well Just a little bit about me. I'm married. That is my wife Beth. We were accidentally introduced one time is bad in breath They got tongue-tied so you know which one's bad But there's the mountains that we live in that's not far from our house I think it's probably National National Park. I can't remember but that's what it looks like where we live As you can tell from my accent We are our hillbillies which because I climbed off my mountain and got me some edumacation I'm a high-class hillbilly, which is a hill William I'm the hill William and what I want to do is test the audio here This is a 9-1-1 call that came in and hillbilly country 9-1-1 what's your emergency? Yeah, my wife got attacked by a warthog real bad I need someone to come up with an ambulance and pick her up. Okay, sir. Can you give me your address? Yeah, we're at 1825 Eucalyptus Drive. Okay, could you spell that for me, sir? I'm gonna drag her on over to Oak Street and you can pick her up there What? It's real entertaining where I'm from y'all should come visit well I'm an author and a researcher and by ministry I'm my story is simply this the whole technology thing is I have a four-year degree in computer science I used to teach at a college used to teach it. I was an adjunct at a college and So I have the technical background I graduated from Bible College as well. So I'm ordained as an evangelist So I'm in full-time ministry in the technology part really morphed Into what you are going to hear today One of my stops of research around the world have a number of them But one is at the University of South Africa. It's a long story But I'm part of the Bureau of Market Research in its neuroscience division and what I've been tasked to do is identify trends with young people around the world and their parents and Make proposals to my colleagues the guy on the right to the department head and try to get research projects funded So that's a whole different topic, but that's what I'm interested in if you've seen the Documentary the social dilemma. I don't know if you've seen that you should watch it That's the sort of work that I've been doing for 16 years But the ministry side of me is I preach on Sundays and any given part of the world and I'm heavily involved in education systems including very honored to be one of the speakers at CCEA and the curriculum with Calvary Chapel and the Assemblies of God as well has a group Also a CE and accelerated education enterprises on the continent of Africa and so very much involved with kids on a ground level So this is in Manila the first global homeschool conference was held there a keynote and the other one of the other key stops that I have is in Australia work with law enforcement and we do lots of research They open doors. We have access to kids to do research, which is very hard to get And so we do lots of research and I do speaking engagements and then I go to other countries where Can be a little bit dangerous, but this topic that I have is open doors these kids that you see these Muslim kids They are losing their kids to the to the Quran and to mosque because they're all addicted to pornography and social media and video games Just like our kids and they don't have in this particular case in this country. They didn't have anybody speaking to it So they asked me to come Now you know what I do. I'm not Muslim I'm I believe in the death burn the resurrection of Jesus and there's no other name under heaven by which a man is saved Except through the name of Jesus So that's what God has done in this area of research So the other thing too I spend quite a bit of time in the media. This is the ABC. It's the Australian version of ABC In this particular case and in the media talking about these things. So that's what I do lots of research and writing So out at my table. We have the book digital cocaine. I'm working on a third one. It's all about digital detox You'll get a little bit about that today, but the Spanish version is there as well And then there's a DVD out there it's subtitled in Spanish and English and the audio book is all six and a half Hours it took the voice over guy who has a much manlier voice than me Did the voice over so it's all every chapter in the book all 11 or 12 chapters six and a half hours If you're interested in the audio version of that and probably the most important work I've ever done. This is about five and a half hours on the subject of its videos of Pornography porno is where we get our modern English word It's 25 times in the New Testament the word porno appears we Transliterate that into the English as pornographic in pornography the scripture speaks about it That many times we don't like to talk about it in the American church, but it's in there always in a bad context as well My opening text. I'm not anti-technology. I didn't renounce my computer science degree when I started studying neuroscience I'm not a neuroscientist by the way. I've written a book about the neuroscience of digital addiction and have been asked to join In collaboration But my expertise is in digital addiction addiction But I prefer the scripture over everything else in my life. How about you before science before psychology neuro psychology neuro Biology all that sort of stuff the scripture is the anchor because that's God's word And this is what God says about the issues of life including our technology use everything is permissible I'm using a tablet or brought my own some of my own gear so that I could control everything up here Love it. It's permissible, but not all things are beneficial and then God shows us where the line is And I'll show you where the line is with brain scans in a few minutes But he says this everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved Will not be controlled by or brought under its power or addicted and The problem that we have with the technology is that it's very addictive neuro biologically and then it's brought sweeping cultural changes Leaving example, this is recent research from the partner group and the 360 Institute. This is what this is our American stats But it's generally true around the world Generation Z those born from 97 to 2012 in this country across the board only 4% now have a biblical worldview Their parents the millennials or some of these millions would be their parents It's not much better. Only 6% of them have a biblical worldview now and that's in our Christian schools Christian universities And in our Christian youth groups, that's why when pastor Craig, which by the way, thank you for taking such good care of me Pastor Craig when he talked about the kid trying to show the pastor pornography. That's what he's talking about It's very common The Gen Xers only 7% 10% of the baby boomers and when you look at this research It all comes down to the culture coming through the devices that are influencing them more than we are now Technology is what has caused these stats to become so alarming Before COVID the state of the American church was already dismal Since COVID the partner group has revealed to us that it's likely now that one in five churches are going to close never to reopen So Christianity is more than on the decline in America These are some of the things that Patty deals with this research from Gallup is only about two and a half three weeks old now One in six of our American Gen Xers are identifying in some forms lgbtq. They're either sympathetic They're struggling with the dysphoria and all these sorts of things and when you track it all back Where are they learning it from predominantly? It's their phones this is Extremely disturbing hardly a week goes by I do lots of school tours around the world The kids will come up and they'll pull up their pants legs. They'll pull up their sleeves. They'll show me these horrible cuts the This this comes from Out of every 100,000 Girls in this country The rate that it has gone that it went up between 2011 2012 of self-harm Non-fatal self-harm cutting and in other methods. I've seen kids who will pick it wounds and not allow them to heal And I'll explain to you in a few minutes why they do it, but it went up 62 percent between 2011 2015 in the older group and in that group which includes pre-teens the self-harm went up a hundred and eighty nine percent and even More horrifying the same pattern held with suicide the older teen girls 15 to 19 That's up 70 percent compared to the first decade of this century the preteen girls Who traditionally had very low rates to begin with up? 151 percent and all the research points back one thing social media and The thing that is so horrifying to people like me who are on the ground dealing with this when you do parent meetings taking the device away to Prevent the self-harm and the the suicide the suicidal thoughts the identifying with LGBTQ taking it away or separating is Never an option and and people like me are horrible motivational speakers because we can't offer a pill that will allow them To use their devices 12 and a half hours a day, which is the average that they're using it now That's an average some more some less Have healthy brains good morals and if I can't provide something easy. I'm a terrible speaker There are no pills that will allow that to happen. Do you understand where I'm coming from? This cultural shift of being open to other ideas other than Christianity to where traditionally this country was not like that Starts with the media or comes from the media. Let me give you an example Some of the Mexican death culture, for example shows up in the media quite prevalent Presently so this is our lady of holy death. We've all seen this But this really how it manifests itself with Disney and some of the other big media companies how they propagate this trademarking the dead cocoa and the globalization of the Mexican death culture and That's exactly what it's promoting in a fun childlike way Now I'm not being racist. I'm not being I mean there's the different cultures the different religions I Still hold to the inerrancy of the scriptures the Christian scriptures that there's no other name under heaven by which a man or woman is saved Except through the name of Christ Which means we have to exclude all other religions. Can you say amen? But this the globalization of the different and various cultures that are not good for us are made fun and pleasant for children through Devices at least that's how they're peddling it especially through coven when the cinemas have been shut down now I went into a adult store if you want to find out where the affections and the emotions lie of Millennials and Genziers look no further than their movie library on their devices So I went into the men's department of a store. I think it was Pennies or one of them and this is what you find Captain America flash. These are not it's not the children's section Star Wars Star Wars You ever have any idea what message? The intent of the author Star Wars is I mean what he's trying to pedal have a look at this I Put the force into the movies in order to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people More a belief in God than a belief in any particular You know religious system. I mean the real question is to ask the question Down center on your anxiety. So be one keep your concentration here and now where it belongs But master Yoda said I should be mindful of the future But not at the expense of the moment be mindful of the living force young pattern Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerers ways Lord Vader Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes Are you giving you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels hidden for find your lack of faith disturbing? Here is the path to the dark side Fear leads to anger anger leads to hate hate leads to suffering rises And light to meet it What do you see the island? life and decay That feeds new life warm cold peace violence meditate on this so it's not that When we talk about Gen Z only having a 4% biblical worldview and you talk about The millennials having 6% and so on and so forth. It's not that they become atheists at all But through the devices they have a cult like following many of these Marvel DC Star Wars and Make no mistake about it. They're learning spirituality is just not ours And so it's having a detrimental effect on the American church And so again nor is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by Which we must be saved Jesus said to them I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me one of the leading works of The early works of digital addiction came from dr. Archibald Hart I think he lives out here somewhere now His daughter is in charge of a digital wellness center on a university campus I don't know if you've heard of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia I went down and met with with his daughter and she has my boy I think she read my book. I was introduced to her and we just hit it off and But her dad really was the first one that I discovered in my journey of trying to figure out why this addiction runs So deep he was the first that brought science into it And so what I did is I took his work and I created our design I had somebody else create it But I designed some brain animations to give just a very quick primer on how addiction works because Addiction is addiction. The reason why my book cover has a 13 year old snorting a white substance off of his iPhone, which are actually zeros and ones is not because that's a metaphor of cocaine It's because of brain scans that I'll show you in a few minutes when you compare the brain scans fmri There's spec scanning technology when you compare those brain scans of Cocaine addict and a digit like they're identical Because addictions addiction it happens in the same area of the brain. So that's not just a metaphor It's a scientific fact So based on his research what I did is I designed it that little dot represents the area of the brain called the nucleus Accombinant there any neuroscientists here doctors you would be very familiar with the pleasure center the brain is part of the reward circuit Now it's called the reward circuit because when we stimulate that area with with stimulation of drugs or Visuals that's the area of the brain where you sense had the sensation of joy and pleasure and So the neurotransmitter that's involved here is called dopamine. It's a hormone called the happy chemical Serotonin is also the happy chemical but dopamine is the one responsible for giving us the feelings of euphoria when we entertain ourselves and Entertainment's not necessarily sinful. It can certainly be sinful So let me show you what happens Someone in just alcohol for example So the alcohol Metabolizes through the liver it migrates to the brain and it pushes out dopamine so if they're not actually feeling the alcohol The alcohol is the propellant or the accelerant that pushes the dopamine into the system and high in a high quantity The heroin addict may inject into a vein and so very quickly They'll get a high cocaine same thing is very close to the brain and with visuals It's even quicker because the eyes are connected to the occipital lobe right in the back of the head and the moment They look at something Retaining that the when I played the 9-1-1 call for you you laughed that that's where you experienced it And it was dopamine that caused you to laugh and so it goes in there and you notice it's lighting up because on scans You'll actually see it light up It's not all bad when it but here's where it becomes bad. You see that little wall that's forming That's the brain forming a resistance. It's getting used to it's building up tolerance to the drug So therefore it becomes more difficult for the person to receive joy So what do you do the alcoholic doesn't start off being an alcoholic? the alcoholic may come home and drink a couple of beers to decompress after work for stress relief and It's not actually the alcohol given in the stress relief. It's the dopamine that the That the alcohol is causing to be pushed into the brain But after a while as the brain develops a tolerance to that alcohol They stop feeling it. So if they want to continue to feel that stress relief, what do they have to do if to drink three? And it doesn't mean they're getting more drunk It just means that they have to drink more to get over the barrier that's forming that dopaminergic barrier and That works for a while and then as time goes by it stops working So they end up having to drink for and so on and so forth make sense So that's what tolerance looks like the exact same mechanism happens with screens Exactly that's why the head has to stay down longer That's why it takes longer and longer to get the kid away from the video game console to come to dinner and then everything flares up Now symptomatically with the alcohol, you'll have cirrhosis of the liver with the smoker to be lung issues With digital addiction, I'll give you the full list in a minute. You tell me the babysitter is the tablet of the phone best babysitter that's ever been invented and it works great until it comes time to take it away anger and Aggression particularly on those who are on the spectrum Because their brains are hyperwired. They have too much color. So dopamine for us is bad Dopamine for them is exponentially bad So a psychologist will often prescribe a tablet to help keep them calm and allegedly stay focused neurobiologically you look at scans and you're mortified and You'd say don't ever give them a tablet making sense to you So what eventually happens is that barrier gets really really big and notice the color left and It blocks out all of the dopamine and Emotionally have you ever heard your kids say I'm bored. I'm bored. I'm bored. You think a good lord You have more stuff than we ever had Well, it's because you cannot take a kid who's been on a screen Playing video games for hours suddenly cut it off and say go outside and play Their brain if they're going to be stimulated has to have enough dopamine to penetrate that barrier anything beneath that threshold is non-stimulating and the definition of non-stimulation is what? boredom in that lower threshold of activities that should concern us or things like Bible reading prayer Intimacy with God so they'll always default to the screen now. This is something I don't have very much time We have about 20 minutes left. So I'm not going to be able to go fully into the cutting issue But in essentially what happens is they stop feeling and there's numerous reasons why people self-harm numerous I'm I'm limiting my talk to the digital component of it. There's all kinds of Issues that Patty has very eloquently brought up that it's totally correct. Mine is My contribution to that conversation is they have blocked out the dopamine Because they have a dopaminergic barrier. They stop feeling and so they trick a different hormone endorphins into getting into the system They'll cut themselves or harm themselves and the brain doesn't know if that was an accident or not It just releases these Hormones to help us cope with pain and so they get temporary peace problem is Those hormones are also addictive. So they start to build up tolerance. So the self-harm has to become Deeper longer harder And then eventually it stops working and that's where the deep dark suicidal thoughts come in And when I'm asked about this, I say we'll start with a digital detox. They're like No, I'm sounding the alarm brothers and sisters. This may be the last time I'm ever allowed to speak to you Because it seems so harsh and I'm do you hear my heart I'm not trying to be harsh We're at a very critical point in the in the history of the Christian church where the biblical rule view levels are so low If and just think about voting if we are trying to get people to vote conservatively think what's gonna happen when people in our age group are gone and The next group comes up with only four percent biblical worldview. There's going to be a vacuum Everything progressive left wing is going to automatically win by default We need a spiritual awakening big time and I have good news. God is more than willing to do that You believe that All right, let's lighten it up a little bit. Let me start to give you some solutions. Okay. That was heavy Let me tell you a little story just to break break it in my God sometimes Tells me Brad you're being okay. I've had you be intense now. You need to lighten up Beth now we're in a buffet. I like buffets. I call them hog trough So we're at this pizza buffet and we're went in there and I was waiting in line I don't know how you are at pizza buffets or any buffet But I'm very impatient and I hide it well because I'm a preacher But inside I'm sending like crazy So we're there and I'm looking at these people going. Oh, would you hurry up and stop pushing the thing around and take it? Don't take that piece. That's the one I had my eye on I'm not yeah, I'm not showing it But and as we're standing I reach over out of boredom and I grab her and I'm giving her a back rub and a neck massage And when I looked it wasn't Beth And I went, huh? It was an elderly lady And I went ma'am. I am so sorry. I was not sexually harassing you She looked up at me. She goes, it's okay, honey. I was enjoying it And I was just imagining God going Lighten up Brad All right, what I want to do is talk to you about the distractions and how distractions take over our lives We'll give you what are you? How many of you can multitask raise your women you better at it than the men, okay? No, you're not now What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask you and normally with multitasking we try to juggle tons of stuff Let me tell you what I'm talking about what I'm not talking about I'm not talking about the mother who has three kids and they're going throughout the house Romaging pillaging trying to burn the house down And she can manage that in the phone the washing and all that sort of time. Where's dad? He's on the couch Because if dad had to do all that the children would pretty much die, right? I mean That's not what I'm talking about the digital multitasking Got the phone going you got you got all the stuff you should be doing on the screen all the stuff happening at the Same time and you think your productivity is up when in fact the research clearly shows your productivity drops 40% your IQ goes down as somewhere between 11 and 17% or your cognition rather not IQ your IQ Lowers not that many points Now Although I get around some people like yeah, anyway, that's judging judging correctly about now What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask you to do two things I'm gonna put a poem on the screen. I want you to read Not out loud just to yourself at the same time I'm gonna have a second a different poem being read Audibly and I want you to pay attention to both Then I'm gonna give you a cognitive comprehension test to see how well you can manage two things going on at the same time Are you ready? You know when I do this in high schools, you know, like the guys like Ready to take it on evil little creatures. They still fail anyway. Okay, you ready for this Here we go The moon seems very lovely each night it passes by So beautiful and shiny upon the velvet sky and yet the moon is really dead It's light is not its own though shiny. It may seem it's really just a stone Okay, who participated raise your hands if you predict how many of you got about two seconds into us tonight It's ain't happening. How many of you? Were Finally just said forget it I'll pay attention to one and do the best I can on the stupid test how many of you did that How many have you picked the written one lazy now? Here's the test I don't want you to quote both poems as Brief as they were who can quote just the first line of each poem You know why no one's ever gotten it anywhere in the world. It's because when you're paying attention to one You cannot focus on the other Your brain is a sequential processor for any nerds here. You know what that means. You're not threading You're not hyper threading your brain can only do one thing at a time and then you switch we call it switch tasking in my world not multitasking So it's sort of like when you sit in there and you having coffee and you're unloading a burden And you're trying to talk to someone and their phone goes off and they grab it They're going oh, I'm listening. I'm listening was and I'm know you've never done that to anyone but it's been done to you and and and and Internally you're irritated because you know, they're not paying attention But the weird thing is when you're doing it to someone else you think That you can handle it But it's the same thing You're not able to pay attention to them and that and then the other thing that I would say about distraction is your brain Depending on how emotional that thing was that you just looked out You cannot even though you're looking straight at the person when you finish that call or take that test Text your brain cannot switch you are still thinking about that whilst you're looking at them and That can last anywhere from 10 seconds to 30 minutes depending on how emotional it was So am I am I helping you here? So when when Beth how does this translate into practical things when I get up in the morning to have my devotions Beth And I do there's no phones on whatsoever. They're not in the bedroom. They're off. I mean off out of the way So the first thing I do is not very spiritual. Let's get a cup of coffee and Then when we're at the dinner that phones are in the car I haven't had my phone all day these guys graciously are taking care of processing cards for me out there at my table They have my phones. I haven't had it all day Because I when I'm around patty I want to learn as much as I can You understand where I'm coming from. I don't want to be distracted I'm here to soak it up the problems trust me my problems will still be there when I'm done with this conference They won't go nowhere Deal with them later. Amen. That's called freedom. I trust God with my problems I used to not but I do now hope I'm helping How does this translate? This is a typical study session with kids It could be your office situation But basically you sit down the kids just down to do math and the first thing they do is they had their earbuds in When I take polls and all these big auditoriums full of kids I'll say how many of you listened to music whilst you stay wherever hand goes up We are your brain is switch-asking they'll go home like you really want to argue with me Really? I'm smarter than you So they sit down and I'll ask them how long is it that you study your math before You grab your phone and check social media. They'll go well I study about 20 minutes and then I check something for about two now. They're sincere That's what they actually believe but the research actually shows they sit study a legitimate subject such as math history English for two minutes and Then they toggle that's called rapid toggling and that can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour depending on the level of their addiction Two minutes is not enough for deep thinking the hippocampus, which is the short-term memory has little spurts of information Because they have not allowed the data to go in in a contiguous stream and in long story short They're not sleeping enough at night But what little they do the information get transferred out a short term in the long term in a scattered fashion giving them a scattered brain With fragmented information Grades are going down around the world because of this So then they jump back and this rapid toggling is how office work is done and how they're doing it The poetry test is at work here productivity is way down cognition is even lower Am I helping you here? So what do you do well, I want to give you the solution to this Right away the first thing I would say I'm gonna put that back up in just a moment I want to solve this spiritual. Do you believe that when we look for solutions the first thing we should look to is the word of God? Not science. I like science. Can you tell I like God more? He's a lot more reliable His research is bulletproof When it comes to these cultural issues LGBTQ one in six identifying when it comes to these very low Biblical worldview rates Tracing all the cutting and the suicide back to social media The only thing I can tell you is is that God's word still has the answer that works every time And that is things like this come out from them and be separate We are supposed to be a different people as believers not wrapped up in the world system Any amens now That was weak It was so weak stop touching these unclean things stop not back off But what we have to But but we have to have what they have It's not what God says if it's unclean and it's harming stop touching it separate from it. It's called holiness And if we do that God will receive us make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be separated or holy Do you want it? Do you want this nation to see God again? It's very quiet? Do you still love me? You're laughing with me a minute ago. Now you're like, oh, I don't like you now He's reading wrong scripture. You should cherry pick those scriptures son cherry pick them Grace grace grace do the smiley preacher phone Your best technology now, I don't know. It's So many I'll know exactly what I'm talking about Make every effort to live in peace with everyone to be holy without holiness We won't see the Lord without that work of separation not gonna see it They haven't we have no business touching unclean things. He says that it don't you have a little psychology for me? No, I don't that's what I have for you God's word is enough Can you trust him? Can you trust him? Yes So, how would you fix a situation like this? Well, when you start to study in your office or to do the report for the boss No music total silence. This has there's a lot of science behind everything. I'm telling you believe me You still have time to lay it all out now, but the book there's a book full of this stuff out there In a third one coming No music no phone And no entertainment taps what I mean by that is during COVID one of the legitimate uses of technology is Being able to use Google classroom and zoom. I'm not against any of this stuff Nobody has ever come to me and said print pray for me. I'm so addicted to word Just can't stop typing No, no student has ever come to me. So I can't get out of zoom. I can't wait for class What they do come regularly and say hey, I'm looking at porn And now I can't sleep my brain won't switch off and these images won't leave They do they do see see where I'm coming from So you get rid of those entertainment tabs where there's no email There's no social media nothing and you focus on the math thing that's online If that's how you're having to learn and then when you're done with that no checking anything Then move on to the next subject and the next subject And if I were you and I'm being sincere God is clear that these things are permissible, but the things that enslave us I would get rid of those three and Delete them never to be on my phone ever again or allow them to be on your kids phone and I would never ever Play another video game ever again even Christian ones or education ones especially education ones Now there's science behind everything. I'm telling you I but my time is just about up And I'm sure you have like you want to argue so badly with him, but But we trust me if I tell you I'm coming at this from a research perspective And it's documented So here's what you do if you are addicted Saying things like balance and limit won't work It's sort of like trying to put a band-aid on a broken leg You have to detox first you have to get completely away from it the research is clear takes a minimum of four to six weeks and During that four to six weeks. You can't have any screens that are on television And then you return to limited technology and I want you to use a different Definition of limit in which you're probably already used to using you won't want this one to be based in neurobiology It means it'll be a whole lot different than the vague Definition you've been working with the balance and limit These are hard limits. I mean there's actually numbers here So let me just show you some of the evidence scientifically and then I'll give you a list of stuff and then I'll close in prayer Have I bored you? Okay, good. Are you mad at me? Good Because the exit's way over there All right now that is a baseline of a healthy brain different scanning technology here. This is called SPECT That's what a marijuana's brain a marijuana Problem is every marijuana addict believes are the exception. They don't bother me man. I'm like, that's why you talk like this man Because your brain looks like that man See those holes it's a measure of activity the brain if you were to take it out of the skull doesn't actually look like that But when you scan it the neurons are not firing. They're dead walls up They're anhedonic Same with the meth Let me show you this one. There's the baseline of the healthy brain measure the deviation of a heroin brain See those big dips. That's why heroin addict acts the way they do they'll steal do whatever they have to get the drug Let me show you the worst one of all That's digital addiction. That's the porn brain That stimulation came through the eyes from a phone. See those big holes That's digital addiction and there's healing for all of this Dr. Daniel Amon provides treatment Might be thinking did what do you psychology other drugs? No, he made him stop. I want to show you what Empathy a lack of empathy looks like now give you the quick list and I got three minutes to do it and I'm finished I'll let that play long on purpose and that's just rhetorical So I don't want anybody raising your hands or anything and they come in and embarrass you I I have been so addicted digitally. I have no idea I judge no one I'm only trying to pass on the freedom that God has given me and even though I'm free now I have to be careful every single day It's like like I've lost a lot of weight and gotten really fit But if I eat one Oreo the chances of me eating the whole bag is really high serious You study sugar. It's like heroin brain scans Same with digital I Could easily fall back into it so I judge no one do you hear me? I love you and I mean that I'm trying to pass on the freedom that I have currently and with good accountability But the reason why I let that plays because some of you I think probably inside we're going okay That's enough now. I get it. I get it. You can stop that now. That's I've seen it But I wanted conviction to have its work Not condemnation but conviction So so the message here to help you aren't you glad that God does not treat us this way Whenever we come to him and we want to climb up on his lap He picks us up immediately and stops whatever it is He's doing managing the whole universe and he holds us individually right away And then we're to model that to the kids instead of doing what she did I'm not judging her either because I've been addicted, but you get my point I think by letting that conviction have its work rather than give you a laundry list of stuff to do that Probably helps you more than anything in that brief period of time Because you won't forget that but what I want you to take away from here Remembering his is that God does not treat us that way And he's not mad at you if you have treated your kids that way. He still loves you He will still redeem you and he still adores you and even though you come to him With all that baggage he will still pick you up and hold you on his lap even if you've done that to your kids Because he loves you a Lot That's what the death barrel and the resurrection paid for I Hope you're encouraged because I've had to crawl up on his lap after doing a lot of dumb stuff Just listen to my accent. You can imagine what I've been guilty of I Get around some of these academics because I speak in academic circles. I do all this to him. I'm thinking I Wonder what they would think if they knew I eat squirrels because I do So there so many things I want to tell you but I'm out of time. I want to leave you with this So the whole list of stuff I could give you but still have time but it's in the book. It's not a shameless sell But it is I Have to have technology to do my score Kids tell me all the time or I have to not use technology in order to get a job And I think they're expecting that those two phrases to say, okay, we got you now We've we've defeated all of your science stuff Now look at these evil little creatures and I'll go I agree with you. I do It's a world we live in I didn't renounce my computer science degree Still have it. It's old antiquated, but it got me started If I were to grab their phone, I say here's what I'm talking about if I were to grab any phone in the world I would generally find educational stuff like Google Sheets and Docs or Excel PowerPoint, but I'd also find fortnight Google classroom Netflix Minecraft snapchat tick-tock word Instagram porn YouTube the whole thing But the work of separation the things that will get you a job versus a thing that enslave you it would just look like this I Never once said throw it all out But you should throw some of it out and separate from it and stop touching it because it's unclean You should and that's what it should look like There's the internet still there The technology still there, but it's the stuff that you typically don't get look I Well, I used to use the illustration nobody's ever come to me and said pray for me. I'm so addicted to Excel Then I had a couple of count and say well Quit using now I went to work because of people like you that do something Anyway, so what do you replace it with? Well How about freedom? How about worship? How about nature? How about the scriptures? How about people? face-to-face And that's what you do and the word of God is still the answer This movement called Calvary Chapel God started it and there needs to be a renewal. You still teach the word of God. I do Believe line upon line. Just need a renewal of it to pass it on to the younger ones. Amen, and That's the focus not trying to mix it in with all that other stuff. All right. Let me pray for you Father, I pray that no one will leave here today feeling condemned whatsoever, but let them see Lord God What healing looks like and father in this last image pray that you will spark a personal revival in this last image and that they will walk out of here feeling so built up and So joyful with hope of What you want to do and it's in Jesus name. I ask these things all right put that back up one more time I'll show you the last image There FMRI scans of a kid who's massively addicted to Minecraft lots of research gone into the video games and All the color had left in his brain and you can clearly see it So he's a triplet his brother and sister normal and see that one right there. That's the Minecraft brain see the color gone It's left this child angry Defiant total personality change cognition gone way down They take Minecraft away from him. It's the only parent I've ever known to actually do it They put him in the neuroscience project. They send him off to summer camp. They did horrible things to him They only allowed him to swim play tennis hike fish awful After three weeks of no technology. They brought him back into the lab. They re-scanned his brain and this is what happened to him And that's why I came here was to show you what God wants for all of us. That's called renewal. Amen