Would you ever take pornography to Church and look at it during worship? You may as well, because God is just as present in your bedroom as He is in the church building.
Face the fact that you may not be saved. Examine yourself to ensure that Christ is living within you.
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Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV |
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the
lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield
yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but
under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God
forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom
ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye
were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak
after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to
righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is
death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:11-23 KJV |
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There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they
that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please
God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body
is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him
that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors,
not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 8:1-14 KJV |
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But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as
becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient:
but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor
covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no
man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians 5:3-8 KJV |
Realize that when you give yourself to pornography, you are committing adultery.
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Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery But I say unto
you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart.
Matthew 5:27,28 KJV |
Grasp the serious nature of your sin. Jesus said that it would be better for you to be blind and go to heaven, than for your eye to cause you to sin and end up in hell.
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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee
that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 5:29 KJV |
Those who profess to be Christians yet give themselves to pornographic material evidently lack the fear of God.
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By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Proverbs 16:6 KJV |
Cultivate your fear of God by reading Proverbs 2:1-5.
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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline
thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,
and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as
for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:1-5 KJV |
Read Psalms 51 and make it your own prayer.
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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me
from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee
only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou
speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my
mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou
shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may
rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy
holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from
bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou
desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in
thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the
sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer
bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms:51:1-19 KJV |
Memorize James 1:14,15 and 1 Corinthians 10:13.
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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath
conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 1:14,15 KJV |
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There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV |
Follow Jesus' example as shown in Matthew and quote the Word of God when you are tempted (see Ephesians 6:12-20).
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And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be
made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy
city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their
hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto
him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into
an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then
saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and
ministered unto him.
Matthew 4:3-11 KJV |
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take
unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done
all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above
all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that
I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador
in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians 6:12-20 KJV |
Make no provision for your flesh.
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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Romans 13:14 KJV |
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war
against the soul;
1 Peter 2:11 KJV |
Get rid of every access to pornographic material - the Internet, printed literature, TV, videos, and movies. Stop feeding the fire.
Guard your heart with all diligence.
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Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 4:23 KJV |
Don't let the demonic realm have access to your thought-life. If you give yourself to it, you will become its slave.
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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:16 KJV |
Read the Bible daily, without fail. As you submit to God, the devil will flee.
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God,
and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double
minded.
James 4:7,8 KJV |
The next time temptation comes, do fifty push-ups, then fifty sit-ups. If you are still burning, repeat the process.
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But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached
to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV |
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