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Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the words of What a Friend We Have in Jesus, we find, \u201cIn His arms He\u2019ll take and shield thee, Thou wilt find a solace there.\u201d The word solace in simplest definition form is a \u201ccomfort.\u201d Many are taking comfort in the opinions of others on social media. Too many take what they are convicted about through the Holy Spirit and the preaching of the word and bring it horizontally, instead of vertically. They run to people on social media and pour out their heart instead of taking it to Jesus and getting the real comfort!

I was on Facebook recently and came across a post from a young person. We have rules in our Christian School against Social Media because of the dangers it offers, but also because of the platform it gives to an immature youth. This young man had left our Christian School and was severely backslidden. He poured out his heart on Facebook. He took all of the conviction he had from the preaching and used the termite-ridden Facebook pulpit to defend his backsliding and feel better about himself. He said things like, \u201cEven though I miss the church services occasionally, I still love God.\u201d He used Romans to justify cursing, lusting, and outright sinning because \u201cWe are all sinners.\u201d He said he needs to stop being judged.

The post on social media was heartbreaking to me. Here was a young man, convicted of his sin \u2013 cut to the heart! Here was a sinner realizing his need to get back to God! Here was a terrible mess. People began \u201creacting\u201d to the post, telling him how inspirational it was. A man who left our church to chase after new doctrine and heresy shared his enthusiasm with the post. The unsaved and backsliders alike flocked to the pews of this petty pulpiteer to shout \u201camen\u201d and lift up their voice in condemning preaching . I stayed silent on the post as I prefer in-person communication. I met with him after a church service and shared with him Proverbs 28:13 \u2013 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. He did not get the same reaction from me as his other audience did. I urged him to get right with the Lord and get the guilt and shame gone for real. I fear these false friends may have gotten to him. I shared with him Proverbs 29:1 \u2013 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. I prayed with him.

This article is simply to explain the other dangers of Social Media. It has all of the elements needed for false assurance and church-like qualities. There\u2019s a place to preach your message. There\u2019s a place to get a response. Let\u2019s get our young people back to the altar again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Zukowski |\u00a0YP
Scranton Revival Baptist Church | Scranton, PA
http:\/\/www.scrantonrevivalbaptist.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Proverbs 4:23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” In the words of What a Friend We Have in Jesus, we find, \u201cIn His arms He\u2019ll take and shield thee, Thou wilt find a solace there.\u201d The word solace in simplest definition form is a \u201ccomfort.\u201d Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"0","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_food_recipe":[],"enable_food_recipe":"0","food_recipe_title":"","food_recipe_description":"","food_recipe_serve":"","food_recipe_time":"","food_recipe_prep":"","food_recipe_level":"","food_recipe_keywords":"","food_recipe_category":"","food_recipe_cuisine":"","food_recipe_yield":"","food_recipe_calories":"","enable_print_recipe":"0","ingredient":[{"item":""}],"instruction":"","jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_podcast_option":{"enable_podcast":"0","podcast_duration":"","upload":""},"jnews_podcast_series":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28,24],"tags":[505,838,837,839,811,107,54,317],"jnews-series":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-the-yp","category-youth-truth","category-yp-wife","tag-dangers","tag-eric-zukowski","tag-facebook","tag-scranton-revival-baptist","tag-social-media","tag-youth-group","tag-youthtruth","tag-yplife"],"featured_image_src":"","blog_images":{"medium":"","large":""},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"jnews-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yplife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjnews-series&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}