By : Beau James

Micah 2:1 “Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds!  At the morning they practice it.”

I have lived this before with porn.  Everyone who has been in bondage to pornography or sexual immorality of any kind has gone through this dark night of the soul.  So many thoughts at night while trying to sleep.  Sometimes even begging for sleep, knowing that the pull of lust is far greater then one realized.  Over time we give up the fight and just buy into it.  Living with it becomes easier then battling it.   This is a no fun place to be.  Oh, the inward moaning that rips us apart.  C.S. Lewis once said that a man with a obsession has very little sales resistance.  On our bed’s this is true.  Obsession wins the battle in our minds, every time.

Jesus breaks this bondage.  John 8:36 “If the Son set’s you free you are free indeed!”

When Jesus became more than (Matthew 10:37) porn, our pleasure is now found in Him.  What battle used to rage in the mind and hearts of us on those dark nights in bed cease, for what was once a obsession, is no longer so good looking, we have something far more pleasurable and eternal!

2nd Corinthians 4:17 “For our light affliction, whih is but for moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.”

For us to abstain from porn is a great gain a eternal weight of Glory.

Of curse this only will make sense if you believe in the eternal.

ANDERSON COOPER: It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

“It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.”

So true.

Now, if you’re too old, or too high, to get it, here’s the joke: The lefty media are goofing on the tea parties by calling it tea-bagging, a phrase used to describe an act of oral sex performed by a man either on another man, woman or — in Alec Baldwin’s case — a cheeseburger.

The above was taken from a article on FOxNews.com

The influence of Porn is just amazingly huge in this country.  With the current tea party’s happening all over the country certain news networks have chosen to make fun of the events by referring to the tea party’s by using porn tactics!  Using porn lingo like “tea bag” for the current protest shows that the porn influence is the norm for this world, even for our news.  Now “Teabag” is a way of describing a sexual act, and is no way to be used to describe the bank bailout protest’s that are going on.  But this is my generation that is now news anchors and the swayers of public opinion.  We are a porn generation.

But the Word tells us.. “Woe to those who devise iniquity.”

By: Beau James

This title is takin from Isaiah 47:10

It also talks about those enemy’s of Israel that were so confident in the sin.  “Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, who dwell securely, who say in your heart, I am, and there is no one else besides me.”

This is a passage that has convicted me in dealing with bondage to porn.

People who are in bondage to porn have done it secretly (most people).  It usally at night, late at night when the family has gone to bed.  You might have been the guy or girl who has stayed awake for the purpose of finding privacy to drink from the well of Porn only to find regret the next day at work as you are totlally exhausted from staying up way to late.  Sin is never satisfied, nor are the eyes.

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Porn effects all those around us in our lives, yet we live in the illusionment that “No one sees me.”  While we drink from the mud of Porn early in the morning, we no longer are able to see things properly in the day.  We have slowly become of no use.  That reminds me of the movie ‘Toy Story’ where the toys where so afraid to be shelved and no longer of any use.  Most of those married can testify that our spouses new something was going on, they could just sence it.  Familes fall apart, our work becuase a burden, and money is spent on what does not satisfy. (Isaiah 55)

Are you a person that has seen this “No one sees me” happen in your own life?  Have you bought into that illusion that your bondage to sexual sin is just your little secret and your hurting no-one?

Millions and millions have (including me) have gone that way, only to find that the secrecy of porn’s payoff was not freedom, but total bondage.

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By Beau James
OK, with that title I need to do some defending.  Please hear me out.
I begin my defense by stating a Christian doctrine so true and foundational yet not without its proponents, “God is Sovereign.”
This is a direct quote from the scriptures themselves (Gen 15:2)

Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD”
Now the awkwardness with the Sovereignty of God is abroad in the Christian culture.  “How can God be in control of all?”  “How can a Holy God allow such evil and wrong doing in the world?”
On our subject we could say, “How can God allow such behavior that by nature does not work?”
But in my own heart there became a wonderfully gentle peace that has come over me when I grabbed a hold of the truth that God does all things for His Glory. (Psalm 115:1 “Not to us but to your name be the Glory”)
All things, even evil things are allowed and purposed to His utter Glory (Job, Acts 2:23)
Now where I use to get muddled with this is when I would look at a statement like the above and then look to my own end as a argument against such a statement.
My own end, is what I think, is the right thing.  This ‘right thing’ is usually what makes me “Happy.”  There was a time when our own happiness was not such dominant thought in the world, but more issues of survival and virtue.  This ‘right thing’ that we all think God should be about the business of doing is birthed from our own sinful state of thinking we are the center of the universe, or ours.  “How could God allow that, look at the bloodshed and the atrocity, the injustice?”  “How does God get the Glory for that?”  Notice that these common thoughts come from the perspective not of faith in what the scriptures teach, which is again, “All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His Purpose (His Glory.)  These well known arguments against the purpose of God come from our reasoning that God is not doing things as I think are right.
Now my argument is that God is purposing all things for His Glory.  Whether the Pharaoh of Egypt or the Homosexual agenda in America.
I now would like to share why I believe this generation in America is allowing such behavior.  One world…Guilt.
What pain is to the body, guilt is to the soul.  And this generation of leaders is guilty.  I remember sitting with some family members in my living room watching a sporting event when they asked where my son was.  They knew he was in his room playing his “evil” video games, wasting his 14 year old life away, yet they asked and then went on to say how bad it is to be into video games like that.  I quickly thought about what I was doing at 14 as the son of a 50/60’s generation that smoked dope all day while taking off their clothes listening to the most stoned out music in the rain!  I was not any different.  So I asked my family members, “Now what is it that your generation added to our society, Porn & Pot!?”
My parent’s generation was a mess and has a bolder amount of guilt like yeast has gone through the batch of dough.  This generation I believe is extremely guilty.   Abortions are 46,000,000 since Roe v.s. Wade, We have a massive drug problem in the country, America generates more porn than any other country (90% of the porn sites are U.S. created), music has become less innovative than ever, and now Gay marriage.
To my generation this is normal behavior that’s why I think the younger generation say’s, “what’s the big deal, let them get married, so what.”  It’s not because of guilt for the younger generation, it’s plain, allowed normal behavior.
I believe the response to guilt in the leaders of this generation is either a extreme brokenness before God, and the breaking of his commandments or a further allowance of behavior that makes for a atonement for their own sins.  If they were to say that Gay marriage is wrong then consequently they would have to look at their own lives of having massive sex, smoking extreme quantities of the ganja, and simply not parenting their children because they where to into their BMW’s and boats.   The change of this world is a temporary change for self exaltation, while the humility and brokenness that is found in Jesus is for His exaltation.   This current generation is for self exaltation.
God will purpose in the hardness of heart of this generation in such a way as to make the riches of His grace known.  Simply put, “Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more” (Rom 5:20).
God is moving all things to a place where this grace in Jesus abounds all the more.   Today I know look at such trends in American culture though the lens of God’s perspective and no longer what I think is right.  “How can God allow this in America?”  My answer is, “Why not?”  What makes you think God revolves around what you think and not His purpose, exalting his Glory through the grace in Jesus to a lost world?
 22What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory…Romans 9:22
This will make uncomfortable who think of justice from their own prejudices of right and wrong.  But as one famous Christian Pastor put it in his 1st Chapter, first sentence, “It’s not about you.”
God is concerned about his Glory and the current push to have same sex marriages in America will be used by God to further the maximum Glory to His Name.
What could the results of such a law be in America?  For sure a certain further distancing between Christina ethics and the worlds for sure.  What if Pastor’s will have to perform same sex marriages?  Some will no doubt go to jail.  From the perspective of some this is bad, because who would want to go to jail?  But for the one who knows the ultimate purpose of God is for His Glory jail is a opportunity to be used by the Masters Hand to minister to others and suffer, if it be the Lord’s will, to His Glory.  How sufferings show the Glory of God?  Because when we suffer for Christ name we show to a dying world the infinite worth of following Christ!  This glorifies God.  We are satisfied in Him and Him alone.  “There is nothing I desire on the earth besides you” Psalm 73:25.
If we see the allowance of more and more then it is sure to exalt the holiness of others more and more!
With this is mind, let us believers in Christ fight for what we believe in through a peaceful, law abiding way.   If the Homosexual agenda in America get’s its way, I believe there victory will result in an outpouring of opportunity for the grace in Christ to be sent for those desperately trying to atone for their sins through false pleasure and allowance.  No matter…God wins.

By R.L.M. staff member – Karen A.

What a title! Hope it got your attention. It’s amazing how this open economy we live in has created wonderful things like a microwave and on the other hand has given such fuel to a beast like the Porn industry. Arizona is making some great strides at being one of the most influential states, in the US for the distribution of Porn. In the wonderful, lovely & predominately wealthy Scottsdale resides one of the most famous Porn stars ever! With Club Jenna, Erotica in Arizona is happening coming in ninth place on the Erotica most important cities in the U.S. list! Not bad, I must say, not bad at all. Not only is the Porn industry cranking 97 billion annually a year with the U.S. at just under 14 billion, it’s important I’m sure to our government to keep the ball rolling. Playboy has 700 employee’s which adds up to some good tax dollars to help out the Feds shopping spree. But in all seriousness…(not that what I’ve mentioned isn’t serious), but a real sad effect of such a free market without regulation on what is being sold is seen here in Arizona. In analyzing Google trends, when the word “Porn” is researched for the most hits in a U.S. city, Chandler comes in at number four! Chandler goes down a notch to seventh place when it comes to the searching for “XXX”. And tenth place when “Sex” is typed in.

Porn addiction is synonymous with darkness. The clubs I went to with friends were dark. Vegas is only cool at night and the sunset strip is too! There is something to be said about doing deeds of darkness in darkness, for the light seems to quench it’s power. Accountability is about bringing the addiction into the light. I remember the old vampire flicks from Elvira, the mistress of the dark. I thought they were so spooky. The scenes were in creepy looking houses that were ancient. Who in there right mind would want to watch a scary flick like that in the day? That messes the whole thing up!

Have you every thought that people who are Atheist are smarter then you? And because they are smart…scientific people they don’t believe in a God? Why would they…they have all the answers right…

Well once again the Super Bowl game has given us more then we asked for!