The Bible & pornographic images?

I know this is a hard core statement, but I need to say it… The more I study the Bible the more I am convinced that all movies (whatever rated) are in a way just a retelling of Bible history.  For those into romance you have the book of Ruth and Issac & Rebekah.  If you like action, well then David’s life or Samson might be for you!  Others who love the gore stuff will find there way into Revelation and especially Leviticus with bloody lobes flying everywhere as animal sacrifice was quite the bloody mess.  And to top it off there is adult material, PORN, that is from start to finish… For this blog I point to the book of Lamentations where the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah is lamenting the destruction of Babylon at the hands of the Babylonians, and then in the first chapter we are given this analogy of the once glorious city of David, Jerusalem.

Chapter 1

9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.

“ O LORD, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”
10 The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her pleasant things;
For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,

Now I don’t need to spell out all of the imagery here, but please allow me to share this.  My wifes sexual organ is pictured as a sanctuary in this imagery.  That means it is to be something special and holy (separated for me!)  Jerusalem was to be for the people of God, a Holy people, yet it was invaded and trampled by foreigners.  Jeremiah sees the city like a harlot, a prostitute.

The details are pretty intense…  The city was touched in the private, when it should have been a place of worship.  This brings me to a exciting point.  Christian marriage and intimacy should be a place of worship to our Lord, in glorifying his relationship with his bride, the CHURCH.

Do you see intamacy like this?  Or has your experience in intimacy so far been like Jeremiah describes?

Remember Jeremiah is Lamenting…  There is no satisfaction in your sanctuary being touched!  Keep the area sacred!

Sex Addiction?

As we have been inundated with the news panels on the latest adultery scandal with actress Dandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James (News heading below)

“Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James is seeking unspecified in-patient treatment after being caught in a media storm amid reports he had multiple mistresses.”

The debate about sex addiction becomes absolutely boring and a bit foolish.  Is it really a addiction?  Are men just using that as a excuses to not face the consequences of there actions?

The therapy people of the world just love this!  What becomes so frustrating for me in watching this is that the perspectives taken do not get to the root issue of the problems in the peoples lives.  Tiger Woods and his wife had great goals when married, with great thoughts and feelings towards one another no doubt.  They are not stupid people who got married in Vegas after knowing each other for a day or two, but people who dated and thought through there life as husband and wife.  But why then does this not last or prevent adultery?  Because all the right goals and pursuits in this world, no matter how noble or praise worthy is not the glue that holds marriage together in wholeness or better yet…holiness.  Now the world thinks so.  Therapy from the worlds perspective just says you need to be more compatible (hence e-harmony, preached on the Michael Nedveed show), have common goals, spiritually, financially etc… and your good to go.   But as statistics bear out in the church and out of it, that is not the case.

The reason guys or girls (no one mention them, though these guys are having sex with them), engage in sex outside of marriage is simply because they are not satisfied.  Not sexually by there wives, but because they have a porn view of sex, and of life.  They like the women at the well in John chapter 4 went from one pleasure to another because they did not know the one who could give them satisfaction and complete pleasure.  The fact is that no person on the earth can satisfy you!!!  Did you hear that… I don’t care how much alike you are, you will never, ever, ever be complete in another other than your creator.  Only He can give you what you need and the proper view of love which shows itself in the bedroom to the way you relate to enemies.  You are complete in HIM (Christ, Colossians 2:10).  The reason no one on earth can satisfy you is because they are the walking dead, mortal, & sinful.  Discribing people that way helps us understand that we cannot be filled with peace and complete pleasure by this kind of entity.  We need a eternall love and pleasure that brings lasting peace, not bondge.  The pleasure of this world (i.e. sex) does not last, hence the need for Tiger or Jesse James to seek this false pleasure again and again.

Tiger and Jesse are products of a porn way of looking at sex as a way to be pleased (satisfied).  Solomon, King David and many other Biblical guys have fallen into the same pursuit, yet for them it was accepted in the culture.  They were rich, as Tiger and Jessee James and with that financial status comes the opportunity to pursue a King’s pleasures, though they will not satisfy.

Is it a addiction, sure if you define addiction as a habitual behavior that leads to destruction of family, friends and yourself.  Do these guys say this to get out of the responsibility of it?  Time will tell of the intents of the heart, but the only reason it’s considered bad in the culture is because of the way we currently view women (not as property as in the past) and a Christian (though it’s fading) view of marriage, one man and women for life…(this to is passing away in our culture)

Let’s look at things from a Biblical point of view and not a psychological/therapy view.  “In God’s light we see light (clearly)” Psalm 36:9

For more on this subject please check out my book, Porn & A Pastor at http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61566-015-5

PORN KILLS (Seeking a changed heart, to the Glory of God)

PORN KILLS

Quote from a x-porn star

“I did over 100 xxx hardcore movies where I was slapped, hit, choked and forced to to sex scenes I never agreed to.
As I did more and more scenes I abused prescription pills which were given to me anytime I wanted by several Doctors in the San Fernando Valley. I was given Vicodin, Xanax, Norcos, Prozac and Zoloft.” –

The quote above hopefully got your attention!
Psalm 4:2 2 How long, O you sons of men,
Will you turn my glory to shame?
How long will you love worthlessness

This is the message of the Bible in a nutshell. Why do we exchange what is most pleasurable for what is not? This has been done to those that perform in the porn industry and for those that watch it. I find that many that are wanting to get out of the bondage of porn try amputating everything out of their lives (which is good), by not stare at a “good looking” women (or man) when walking or driving, or putting a filter on the computer, or it could be getting rid of the cable box that has caused repetitive stumbling. Now as I have said, this is good and a must, no doubt. But I would like to make a addendum to it if I may. Those of us who have been in this bondage have to have a heart change to remain in a continual place of purity. All the amputation in the world can happen yet lust will still be at the door of your brain, if there is not a change of heart. We have sought worthlessness as pleasure, and to no avail! It has not worked. So let’s do this…Matthew 7:7, Jesus tells us to ask, seek and knock. So let’s ask for a new heart, one that see’s Jesus as more pleasurable than porn, so much so that we like king David in Psalm 27 can say One thing I have desired! What was that one thing? He says, “To behold the beauty of the LORD!”
Oh, how awesome this is. Though King David no doubt had beautiful women at one time in his life around him, he learned through a heart transplant that the Lord was so much more pleasurable.
Our prayer at Running Light Ministries is that we would not only run light, by removing the heavy burden of porn in your life, but by seeking the gift of a heart transplant that see’s God in His splendor, as more pleasurable than anything!

There is nothing pleasurable about the porn industry, it is a illusion. Don’t be deceived!

By Beau Ouellette

Australian sex party on same sex marriage!!! No Joke

After watching a clip from the Aultrailiam Sex Party my heart was deeply burdended.  I hope you are as well.  Linking sexual preference with race as equality issues is not good reasoning.  I’ll take this reasoning to some foolish conclusion…

Some people like to murder, it’s there preference in dealing with situations…they like it!  But let’s not make a law saying that it is ok to do because it’s good for equallity (I mean they can have there fun too..right?)

Race (a misunderstood word), or better people groups, are born people groups.  Wanting to get married to the same sex and have a “family” is something you choose.  Only technology today makes this option available and presentable.  You can’t have kids no matter how many times you try in homosexual relationships.  We live in a day where having children in unatural relations is possible, but that does not mean that is is correct.  You might have a family, but it is a synthetic family interestingly.  This use in technology is re-defining marriage and family.  Owell and Huxley were on to something in 1984 and Brave New World.

Maybe they should call it another name in the law books as to throwout the argument politically?!  Instead of same sex marriage, let’s not call it marriage, but call it something different as to not re-define, but to define.  And instead of family, let’s call it a synthetic family or saccharin family’s.  Something created not naturally, but through tampering.  It would be less of a political hot topic if looked at it in this different way, in my opinion,with laws corresponding to these different ways to live.  But if this is not the real goal of the sexual party and they want to be like “us” by re-defining family and marriage then let the battle continue…because it will.

Some just love a fight…

The Danger of porn or chat

I found this description of how Eskimo’s deal with the danger of wolves to be a picture of sin in our lives.  No one wakes up in the morning and desires to be a porn head.  But with one look at a time, or one chat at a time, danger becomes imminent.  Read over this and think about it.  The quote is taken from bac2torah.com by R’ Richard Pustelniak.

A razor-sharp, double-edged knife is repeatedly dipped into fresh blood, which is allowed to freeze on the blade. This process continues until the blade is rather thickly coated with frozen blood. Then the knife handle is packed into the snow, in an upright position, leaving the blade exposed. Wolves have a keen sense of smell, and soon the wolf is attracted to the fresh blood-sicle.

The first lick excites the wolf and it begins to lick with increasing zeal, meanwhile, the cold of the frozen treat is beginning to numb the tongue. Eventually, the licking will begin to expose the razor sharp blade, but by this time the tongue is well beyond feeling the pain as the blade begins to cut into it.

Now fresh, warm, blood is being released. Without the warning of the pain, the wolf is unaware that it is actually enjoying its own blood. Zeal increases, until, in the morning, the wolf is found…lying in the snow, with a red stain in the snow around its head.

Sin will try to convince one that all that is desired is a small area of the map, and the rest will be left alone. But, it will not be satisfied until the whole map is consumed:

Great filter in Safe Eyes…Get it!

No more excuses for getting a filter on your computer!  Safe Eyes is awesome and will not freak your PC out.  This is moving in the grace of God, towards Him!  It is called cutting off every weight that brings us down.  Hebrews 12:1-2 speak of this weight of sin that we need to throw off.  Porn is just that to millions upon millions of people world wide, DEAD WEIGHT!  I hope this article gives you some insight on the ever increasing need for filtering and it’s technological progress.  GET IT!

Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Stanley Holditch

25 million American households watch online TV and movies every week, and that number is growing. With tech growing increasingly mobile (and all indications at CES 2010 are that it is) TV and movie viewing through the Internet is going to grow as a concern for parents right along with it.

Safe Eyes 6 Family Internet Manager, which will be available for download later this month, gives parents the ability to filter according to standard FCC ratings like TV-MA and R.

This is important because the advent of online TV and movies has created a loophole in terms of filtering out objectionable content for kids. While it remains as important as ever to be vigilant about content created specifically for the web such as your standard video on YouTube, shows like Nip/Tuck, CSI, and Sons of Anarchy are bringing increasingly graphic sexual and violent content to the web. And of course there is no “late night” when it comes to the Internet: these shows are available for viewing on their network sites and sites like Hulu.com.

Safe Eyes 6 gives parents the ability to close this loophole by choosing what ratings are appropriate for their child. This feature works on Hulu.com, iTunes, and all major network sites like NBC.com. Safe Eyes 6 is currently the only product of its kind with this ability, representing another industry first. For more on Safe Eyes 6 and its features, check out our preview page.