What Is Shaping Your Heart?

Main message: The sermon teaches that believers should not love “the world” in the sense of being drawn to what is contrary to God, but should train their hearts to desire what is good, true, beautiful, just, and pure. The speaker applies this by urging careful discernment about media and social media, asking whether they shape us toward God’s values or worldly ones.

Key points:

• 1 John 2:15 is the central text: “Do not love the world or the things in the world.”
• The speaker uses a parent-child example and Disney songs to illustrate how mixed messages can shape a child’s view of good and evil.
• Christians should cultivate a heart that delights in peace, beauty, righteousness, goodness, and justice.
• Not everything worldly is explicitly bad, but believers should ask what it is forming in their affections and attention.
• Practical application: regularly examine TV and social media with God and ask whether they strengthen love for God’s things or pull you toward worldly desires.

Scriptures mentioned: 1 John 2:15