THE CHRISTIAN is one who is to be plainly seen, and yet his life is hidden; he is a man in the world, but not a man of the world; he converses with other men, and yet his conversation is in heaven.
He is one who lives to die, and dies to live; yet he is dead while he lives, and lives when he dies.
He is one who lives in another, and for another; he seeks not himself when he aims most at his own good; God is his all, and his all is God; he aims at no end but the glory of God, of which there is no end. by C. H. Spurgeon
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What is Porn Power?
Recently a young man made a shocking confession. For quite sometime he had been hooked to the internet on his computer. Everyday he would browse around websites that would present hardcore pornography. Eventually, he became so bound to this abominable addiction that it stopped him from even going to college. All he could think of almost all 24 hours was immorality. Any time he looked at a woman it was with extreme lust. He had such a strong sensual drive that he could not look at his godly mother as a loving caring mother but as a stuff to satisfy his lustful desires. He was ashamed to confess that sometimes at night without his knowledge, his body would roll towards his mothers bed! Thank god, he managed to somehow struggle and came back to his bed every time that happened.
When he made this confession, some Saints of God prayed with him for a number of days he himself cried to god earnestly day and night and finally he was completely set free.
Why does pornography have such a stronghold strength over the mind? It is because it operates much like a drug. It has a strong drive, which is so strong that it can take over the reaction of the mind; the person wants more and more of this pleasure, until finally it leads to destruction.
Ted bundy grew up in a holy Christian home with loving parents who didn't smoke or gamble and they all regularly attended church. But when he was 12 or 13 he saw pornographic magazines and this got hold of him. He kept wanting something stronger and stronger and finally not being able to satisfy the addiction, he killed someone for just pleasure sakes. He felt awful after that but the drive was so strong that he soon did it again and again, and finally became a serial killer. The day before he was executed he said, in an interview that he wanted his testimony to be a warning of the dangers of pornography – of how it could turn a child with such an excellent upbringing into a horrible killer. Ted said that every violent criminal he had met in prison, without exception had been motivated by pornography.
The images of pornographic materials are cut in, and engraved in your heart and mind, bringing torments in your spirit soul and body. The holy spirit wants to write his laws in our heart and mind to enable us to do them." A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them " (Ezek 36:26,27). Similarly Satan's unclean spirits want to write and draw images of unclean things in our hearts and minds – to make us do (enact) them.
Many young people (some old people too) do not realize that the power of pornography is a devastating power coming from the very pit of hell. After viewing or reading pornographic materials, people fantasise about it – which leads to serious immoral activities. Every fantasy becomes another link in the chain encircling the soul. Eventually such a person has difficulty in interacting with others without being dominated by impure thoughts and desires. As seen in the life of that young man, you loose all your normal moral feelings towards even your own sister mother or daughter. See what the word of god says about such people "Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness" (Eph 4:19). Therefore porn addiction is, your normal emotions or feelings being replaced in every part of your spirit, soul and body. Finally you find yourself a mental wreck, corrupt to the core.
Most internet users believe that unless they go looking for porn, it will not find them. What they do not realize is, that pornographers are aggressively implementing new strategies to market and push pornography to innocent internet users without their consent and sometimes even without their knowledge. If the user is spiritually unguarded he becomes a new customer to the diabolic recruiters and slowly a slave to porn power. So if as an unwitting customer you are thrust into the visual import of a porn display immediately get off that website (that has popped up on your screen as a pop-up) bind that thought from corrupting your mind and bring the residual imagination left in the mind, captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ(2Cor 10:5).
Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
This shows that, in one sense, if your eyes are corrupt, you are corrupt; if your eyes are evil, you are evil and you r life is full of darkness. If we give room to the lust of the eyes, one day you will be definitely bound by the devil and your spiritual eyes will be put out. The eyes are connected to the heart and mind (thoughts) (Proverbs 15:30; Job 31:1). When the eyes are defiled, the heart and mind are also defiled.
Courtesy The Pentecost Magazine, TPM