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Anime – The Subtle & Insidious
“Some women who have experienced the tragedy of sexual assault go on to be tormented by tremendous psychological turmoil over sexual fantasies of rape and forceful sex. They feel angry and upset with themselves, confused that they and their bodies are responding with sexual arousal to a fantasy similar to an event that was so traumatic and devastating.Sexual fantasy about rape is exceedingly common among women, with as many as 25 to 65 percent of women endorsing some form of this fantasy, at least once in their lives, in one form or another.” David Ley
Dis-respect of Women
Instinct leads me to another flow
Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
Why Pornography Thrives
A growing industry
Now we can! We are animals, so why not go with the flow! Relationships are hard and tiresome, it’s easier to do what I want. I haven’t felt good in a long time. I know it’s wrong to do that, but I cant say it really is wrong, is it? It’s my right to do what I want with my sexuality! Wow, that girl (guy) is hot I’d like to _______ her (him)!!!
Male Leadership and Sex
I get the privilege of weekly teaching at the Salvation Army long term rehabilitation center in my city. We meet with 70 men. My colleague, Peter, & I had one of our fiery discussions on lust, sex, porn, love & the Bible. For many of these men it is new to discuss all of these topics in a large group setting. But to say the least, they are awesome times, for them, and for us.
The orgasm has become today’s secular sacrament. Dinesh D’Souza
“Love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery…” Hosea 3:1
I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, and offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.
“For out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fortification, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man. Mark 7:21-23
Male Leadership and Porn
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The orgasm has become today’s secular sacrament. Dinesh D’Souza
“Love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery…” Hosea 3:1
I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, and offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.
“For out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fortification, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man. Mark 7:21-23
With, In and Upon!
Sweep The Legs!
When I think of football I think of chopping off someone at the knees to bring them down!
Especially when I was a kid playing outdoor tackle football with the neighbors who were bigger then me! If you can get the legs, then the’ll come down my dad always told me. And he was right!
Just as without legs a person will fall down in a football game, so there are also legs that we stand in in our life philosophies. If the legs get taken out, then the top will crumble as well.
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
We live in a world of ideas, and those ideas shape us, and dare I say, some of those ideas undercut us at the knees to where it becomes easy to fall. I can’t think of a greater one in our day than the teaching of macro evolution.
Macro evolution, or ape to man evolution, if a fact, destroys not only Christianity, but most religious endeavors. I grew up being taught evolution. I am familiar with it.
To believe in the Bible’s truth statements of the creation, the fall, the curse, the catastrophe, the confusing, the cross & the consummation would seem ridiculous if popular historical science today has it right.
Why throw of religious inquiry and substitute it for secular materialism?
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do.
For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
Now hear me…Evolution is not the cause of us wanting to watch pornography or commit adultery, but it certainly provides the worldview to continue to do it! But’s it’s not the only one. People use religion as well to continue there lifestyles. To Joseph Smith or Brigham Young (Of Mormon fame), those who practiced monogamy were in the wrong! So in both worldviews, the evolutionist or the Biblical believer, you can use your worldview to do what you want to do. So what are we to do?
The true undercutting of faith seems to me to be the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Even Paul, the follower of Jesus who wrote most of the New Testament agreed! In his letter to the Corinthian Church he writes that if Jesus is not raised from the dead then our preaching is useless and we are to pitted above all men! What did Jesus think about lust, men & women? What was Jesus worldview and is he a credible person to trust on issues of life & death?
This brings me personally to the choices that I need to make in life. Is Jesus who he claimed to be? If so, then we need to think through what we do in light of what he said. If it seems that there is a focus to undermine the validity of the Bible, and in turn, the life of Jesus. Well you are right. The evolutionist and the Mormon both have done just that! You can either see evidence for the non-existence of Jesus (The Atheist) or you can mis-represent what it is written about Jesus and what he said. In both circumstance Jesus is not a source of truth. And that’s what this boils down to; what is truth. Is it ok to commit adultery? TO watch pornography? etc… What is our source of truth, of right or wrong?
Its our belief system that brings us to think something like pornography or adultery is wrong. We can change our beliefs anytime. But we also can be renewed in our mind to see things Jesus way.
To cut out Jesus from history is to sweep the legs, bringing down the Christian worldview on sex, marriage, lust & love.
The following is a great video teaching from one of team members of Stand To Reason Ministries called Shattering The Icons of Evolution. Enjoy!
Fighting for us! Wisdom
This week at Church we studied Proverbs chapter 9. This Proverb is about Wisdom. For those of us that struggle with desires that go astray, wisdom is needed.
Now what is extremely interesting about this Proverb but not taught on is that Solomon was the most wisest man in the world, yet he was the most lustful too. What does this mean?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “If it don’t work at home, don’t export it?” We’ll I hate to inform you of this, but the Bible is filled with those that did not live such good lives as we might think, yet they wrote what is in the Bible! Go figure. God uses who he wants.
It’s interesting but we usually think of the men that God used as first being Holy don’t we. Read this passage below:
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2nd Peter 1:21 KJV
But I find it interesting that the NIV translators decided to express the meaning of the passage this way:
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2nd Peter 1:21 NIV
NIV seems to translate the passage in a way that helps us understand that these men where not Holy in the sense of being perfect in character, they were holy by how they were used by God. God used these guys. And some were much messier than others; Solomon being one of them.
Another interesting aspect of this Proverb is that Lustful sex is used by God to show (a picture of)
the negative in human behavior. This is not the first or the last time the Bible uses sexual language to communicate bad behavior that isn’t necessarily sexual.
When Jerusalem is being taken over by foreign enemies, we read that:
Jerusalem has sinned gravely, therefore she has become vile. Jerusalem is a lady! And as you read on, she has shown her body to the enemies to sleep with them, allowing the enemy to feel them up and down! Radical for sure. But the context is the destruction of Jerusalem a city.
Solomon seems to do this years before in this Proverb. Wisdom says come in here so we can draw close, yet so does the harlot as well. Which will I choose? What will my behavior be?
Can God use you as a person who sins? The clear answer is yes.
Yet how do you make the right decisions when it is so difficult in our culture? The best answer I see from this Proverb is understanding what is competing for your mind, and seek to make choices that would move towards God’s ways. God’s ways are always better.
“Taste and see that I am good!” Psalms 34:8
Sex is amazing. Pornography can be so very exciting. To not admit it is to put my head in the sand to the obvious. God understands the pull that sex has on us and so he uses it to help show many kinds of bad behaviors. This battle we have does not move God. He understands it fully and is ready to give us an alternative.
I don’t try to say over and over, “I hate porn…I hate porn…,” hoping that it will sink in. Instead I come to God honestly and tell him that there is something about it that I like, yet kill it in me, and replace that secular seed with your pleasure. God must do it! If it is not God that changes us, we will become proud and self righteous. God is concerned about His righteousness, so we shouldn’t compete with Him.
“God will make a way of escape!” 1st Corinthians 10:13. His wisdom which is seen greatest in Jesus, is it. Help us Lord to follow your lead and say yes to your invitation to dine with you.