Counsel, Advise, and Exhortations (a)

Driving home: In fact, there are three words in the unwritten constitution of today's youth's subculture. Three unwritten but very real words that describe the disposition of that subculture with respect to parental authority, relatio…

Martin uses the example of a biker subculture in Daytona Beach to illustrate what a subculture is: a group with distinct standards, goals, and interests that set it apart from the mainstream culture.

It is a culture that, contrary to the overarching climate of the larger culture, it has its own distinct standards, its own distinct goals, and its own distinct interests. We have a biker's culture. I'm thinking of it these days because where my mother-in-law lives down in Florida, I've been there during the time when bikers by the thousands come in to Daytona Beach. And one look at a group of bikers, and you identify them immediately as a subculture.

6:15 - 6:55 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Today's youth subculture with that unwritten constitution that says as far as parental influence is concerned rivalry rebellion rejection that youth culture in great measure is identified with shaped by and perpetuated i…

He cites Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, and American Idol as examples of how the music industry dictates appearance and moral standards for preteen and teenage girls, shaping them into 'little clones' who reject decency.

You hearing me? That subculture is being primarily identified with propagated by shaped in all of its facets by today's music industry and its leading lights. We have a whole generation of preteen and teenage girls whose super low slung jeans and bare midriffs are little clones of Britney Spears Christina Aguilera Jennifer Lopez and her ilk. And if you say you don't know

15:15 - 15:59 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Today's youth subculture with that unwritten constitution that says as far as parental influence is concerned rivalry rebellion rejection that youth culture in great measure is identified with shaped by and perpetuated i…

Martin uses rappers and R&B icons as examples of how the music industry dictates dress codes (backward caps, baggy pants) and promotes foul language and anger among young men, fostering a spirit of rivalry, rebellion, and rejection.

And the more you look at it you'll become like it in your soul. Until the amoral standards of the lives of the American idols shape your morals and your standards. We have a generation of kids young men with their backward caps their billowy ground dragging pants and baggy t-shirts dictated by rappers. And R&B icons who tell them this is the way you gotta dress to be cool.

17:19 - 17:57 Read in full sermon

The point: Beware of being drawn into the youth subculture, understanding it as a powerful whirlpool that will eventually swallow you up.

The youth subculture is compared to a powerful whirlpool that gradually draws in and swallows up a piece of wood, illustrating how the devil subtly ensnares young people by getting them to 'play with the outer swirls' before being consumed by its destructive vortex.

It's like a powerful whirlpool. You've seen a powerful whirlpool? Here's a piece of wood floating on the surface of the water minding its own business going wherever the little eddies and waves will take it. And there's a whirlpool.

22:20 - 22:35 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not defend elements of the youth subculture that your parents forbid in your home, and do not sneak behind their back to dabble in it.

He uses the analogy of someone fighting their parents to put poison in their food at dinner to illustrate the spiritual madness of fighting parents who want to keep spiritual poison (the youth subculture) from entering a child's soul.

Why will you sneak behind their back to dabble in it? It's madness. Just as it would be madness if someone were seeking to put poison in your food at your evening meal and your mom and dad are saying no poison on this table and you're pushing their hands back and fighting them to keep the poison off your plate. Someone would say you've gone nuts.

26:48 - 27:11 Read in full sermon