Enough rubbish. Tired of hearing it. Tired of reading it. A craving and insatiable appetite for pornography in the so-called Christian community? So, there’s time, looks like a lot of time, to get on a computer, smartphone, tablet — what have you — and become glued to the images on the screen which is a clear sign of no prayer life, a fake, faithless merely symbolic prayer life, and certainly no time in God’s Word to have it, hold it in one’s heart and mind when facing the wiles of the devil, the onslaught of the spiritual war we’re all engaged in.
Enough of the 20th, 21st-century psychobabble about addiction and it being a disease. Perhaps a chemical imbalance. There is genuinely crazy, truly crazy, and in need of professional help and then there is the sea of excuse-makers. Playing the helpless victim.
Below, in the article by Jonathon Van Maren, one survey example cited;
- 84 percent of porn users say that they have nobody helping them avoid pornography.
Really, Christian?
Ever heard of the Holy Spirit? Ever heard of it ain’t real unless it’s being born again? Just growing up in a home where parents belonged to a certain denomination because their parents belonged to a certain denomination doesn’t make a person a Christian.
Going to church, religiously, doesn’t make a person a Christian.
Wearing a shiny gold, silver, or platinum cross around your neck doesn’t make you a Chrisitan.
Saying that you’re a Christian doesn’t make you a Christian.
Carrying a Bible, whoa, what am I thinking!? Carry a real Bible when it’s almost universal now to only have an app on one’s phone! Probably right next to the porn apps, eh?
Do I seem hard? Lacking compassion? No, when it comes to sin and pretenders, falseness was Jesus soft, nothing but sweetness and tenderness, tolerant how 21st-century people who fantasize about what THEIR Jesus is like that way? Or was Jesus, were all the apostles very direct with regard to sin and obedience to God?
I’m an old guy. But I’m still in the flesh. Even old guys in the flesh have moments when they see a beautiful woman, and so on, where there are not pure thoughts that pop into their minds. Even old guys are not dead. Yet.
But here’s the difference.
When the flesh appears to take over from the spirit, when lust, carnal desires appear and want to do more than creep in THEN it is time, to have been born again, having a healthy prayer life taking everything to the Lord in prayer, having spiritual development rather than carnal desires be able to take over having spent more time in the faithful reading, study, and meditation — taking time to deeply think, do soul searching, some homework, additional prayer, and study — and instead of being captured by Satan and allowing him to hold you when you ought to be firmly held in the faith, in the arms of Jesus and indwelt of the Holy Spirit, BOTH Individuals are God, not created beings like Satan, and there is no comparison to the power of Jesus and the Holy Spirit versus Satan, so why do you, CHRISTIAN, fall prey to the temptations of the devil, the desires of the flesh leading to death, eternal death consume you when you have THE POWER of THE LORD & THE HOLY SPIRIT?
Eh?
Ever try this when an urge comes upon you?
Pray out loud if need be, but pray — “Lord Jesus, REBUKE these thoughts, cast this sinful desire in me away, far from me, and remove Satan and his evil tempting from me! In Your name, Amen!”
Ever try that instead of automatically going to PORNHUB and spending — yes, God knows how long — there?
When the carnal desires to sin, to seek out porn come it isn’t an addiction. It is an obsession to rebel against God, it is an obsession to serve Satan rather than the Lord, and it is an obsession to seek fleeting fleshly pleasure that is fake. Not even real. Imagined. So strong in the fleshly desire, momentary pleasure [imagined] while so weak in the faith, in spiritual maturity, and the walk with Christ. Why, Christ and the Holy Spirit aren’t even in the room with you when, right? If they were? Your heart, your mind, your spirit would be pricked, pierced and you would know. But you refuse obedience to the Lord and opt for obedience to Satan who cares not about your burning in hell alongside of him.
Here’s an idea…
Why not really take the plunge? Have REAL SEX, REAL LOVEMAKING with a wife? A husband? In marriage. If professing to be a Christian.
Enough of the 20th, 21st-century rubbish that everyone dives into the dumpster to sift through, find their approved moldy morsel to eat as they ignore God, ignore Jesus, ignore the Holy Spirit, do not read, study, or meditate within God’s inerrant infallible unchanging living and active eternal Word.
Pornography is an epidemic within the Christian community?
Yeah, because many are not truly Christ followers. Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Born anew. Indelt with the Holy Spirit. As in the most accurate polls and surveys by the best information gatherers, only 4% of the American population possess a Biblical worldview while over 60% profess to be Christian.
I know there’s always this rubbish called new math, and I might be an old guy — still not dead — and I might not be an Einstein or an Elon Musk but the numbers don’t add up.
Want to turn from sin? From being such a carnal, sinful person and truly be a Christian? And forget about being evangelical. That word has become as bastardized as the word gay. If you truly are having sin problems, carnal burning desires and you say or think you can’t break away from them what you need to do is earnestly, sincerely, truly — not pretending, not truly convicted in your heart, not some halfway step — you need to repent. Turn from the sin. Turn to the Lord. Even if that means talking to the Lord 23 hours a day until you are spiritually healed. Spending as much time in FAITHFUL FERVENT prayer and Bible study as possible.
Born anew? Truly changed from within? Or just going through the motions? Pretending, thinking that you’re playing a good game. I’ve been there. Right there. And it doesn’t work.
God knows.
And are you foolish enough to believe you can get one over on God? That sin doesn’t matter? Or are you so deceived in your life in these times you tell yourself that pornography isn’t a sin? Boy, that Satan is a smooth talker and the greatest liar ever, isn’t he?
So, what to do?
For one, more time in those pursuits should keep you from seeking the false pleasures on whatever screen you’re viewing them on, with the person, the people on the other side of that screen not even knowing that you exist — and most importantly? Not caring if you burn in hell for eternity.
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans 8:6
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Are those merely words in a book? Somehow they don’t apply to us today?
I don’t know you. But I do care if you burn in hell for eternity.
Why not repent? Why not put all your faith, trust, and life in the Lord’s hands? REALLY doing that.
And let’s meet in heaven someday…
Clean, perfected, as we choose to serve the Lord rather than serving Satan, as we seek a pure heart as David did after his great sin [see Psalm 51].
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Ken Pullen, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Porn addiction is a massive crisis in the Christian community
October 15, 2024
Reprinted from The Bridgehead
For years, a handful of scholars like David Ley have run cover for the porn industry, insisting that “porn addiction” does not actually exist. Millions of people struggling with porn addiction would beg to differ.
In fact, a recent study showed that the phrase “porn addiction symptoms” is searched an average of 70,000 times per month in the United States, with “porn addiction signs” and “porn addiction” ranking as the most commonly searched terms related to addiction. The study indicates that porn addiction appears to be the most common form of addiction in the United States.
I have spoken to thousands of students about pornography in the last several years, and I can state unequivocally that not only is porn addiction a growing problem – porn addiction is starting at younger and younger ages.
I have met porn addicts who started when they were five years old and had been hooked for a decade by the time they turned 15. I have met teens who were first exposed at ages 7, 8, or 9. I most frequently hear that porn addiction begins around Grade 6, with one school I recently spoke at having an issue with pornography in Grade 5. This problem is real, it is growing, and every community must recognize and respond to that fact.
Pure Desire Ministries recently released a new report that contains some revealing data. According to their report:
- 61 percent of American adults admit to using pornography, with half of porn users saying that nobody knows.
- 84 percent of porn users say that they have nobody helping them avoid pornography.
- 44 percent still mistakenly believe that if they only view a “little” bit of porn, it will not impact other aspects of their life. (As one expert put it, you do not have one brain for porn and another for fantasy – it is the same brain, and everything bleeds together.)
- 63 percent mistakenly believe that porn consumption can be compatible with a sexually healthy lifestyle.
- 62 percent of self-identified Christians – three in five – told Barna that people can view porn regularly and have a sexually healthy lifestyle.
- 58 percent of Christians say it is important to them that their church has programming that helps people avoid or recover from porn addiction – but only 10 percent say their church offers such help.
- 89 percent of Christian youth leaders say they wish teens were taught about healthy sexuality by their parents, and 69 percent say that “friends” and “social media” have the biggest influence on what teens think of sex.
- 75 percent of American pastors say that they are personally helping people struggling with porn addiction. 51 percent of those seeking help are married men.
- 67 percent of pastors admit to having a history of porn use, with 18 percent saying that the struggle is current and 86 percent saying that they feel porn use is common amongst pastors.
These numbers are not surprising to me in the least. In our digital age, young people will be catechized by online culture – that is, pornography, entertainment, and social media – or by their parents.
Most young people receive next to no instruction or mentorship on healthy sexuality, while they are simultaneously bombarded by destructive and often vile messaging from the culture. As a result, the sexual economy of Christian communities has been badly damaged over the past decade and a half in particular, and I believe it is of the utmost importance that parents, educators, and church leaders take this seriously. To put it bluntly, I believe it is an emergency.
The good news is that many of those struggling want to get help. They want parents to mentor them. They want recovery groups that will help them get freedom. They want accountability partners to help them beat their addictions. They want to recover some sense of what healthy sexuality and genuine intimacy look like. They know that pornography is destructive but feel trapped and are often too ashamed to ask for help. That means it is up to us to confront this problem, and to offer help to the struggling.
The culture is evangelical. We must recognize that they are winning miserable converts through Pornhub and other dens of sleaze and horror, and that it is our task to fight back.
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