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Real Christians Don’t Watch Porn

Real Christians don't watch porn, and don't excuse masturbation. I use the slogan "Real Christians Don't" so as to make a point: WE SHOULD NOT...

There are reasons why we engage in these sins, but they are not to be used as excuses. And the reasons are not about needing relief, but about why we believe the lie that it gives us relief, while we block out the whole backdrop and real nature of said relief. The price being paid for us to indulge in our sin is catastrophic, and as long as we ignore it, we're no better than a drunk or a drug addict who's sacrificing their own family's need, because all the money is going toward providing them with a fast-track to their obsessive entitlement for immediate twisted pleasure.

I am a believer. Over the years, I’ve battle with masturbation and pornography and realized that I really am not alone. Two years ago, in the midst of an important spiritual struggle, I finally experienced a breakthrough and ever since, have not engaged in watching any porn, either on the net or printed-paper. And temptations are so few they’re almost non-existent.

Like I said, I was in the midst of a huge struggle, work-related and spiritual. As a member of a Board of Director for a University Community Radio, and Dj of the same, I was faced with the acting out of really nasty spirits of control and discrimination. A bastion of lesbianism, and pagan worship, the radio station had been under severe attack for many years, and men in particular were the targets of vicious attacks aimed at kicking them out. Anything would go: loosely using the Union, harassment, lies and deceit, manipulation, false accusations, etc.

I didn’t succeed in bringing much actual change. My health was badly affected and weird things started happening that were signs that real danger for my wife and I was approaching. In the end I resigned because I couldn’t continue my duties and enjoy it in such an ambiance. Or maybe my time was up, who knows?

However, as I fasted for weeks, the Lord showed me that if I wanted to conquer those spirits at work through those people, I would have to draw a line and conquer the influence of the same kinds of spirits in me. Pornography, sexual deviance and violence go together. The Lord gave me a few pointers and I had an about-face that changed my life. All I needed was to be determined and focused. The addiction stopped having power over me almost overnight.

There are a few things that need to be addressed in our societies about pornography and how it is culturally and economically accepted, justified, encouraged, created, packaged, delivered and protected: that is the objectification of women and men. Make no mistake, the saying is true: the younger the better. If you’re a father, think about this one.

They call it the world’s older. But prostitution is only the final destination of a need to act out the many fantasies spawn by pornographic impulses. Watching and taking pleasure in porn defiles the viewer as well as the object of its lust. Once on the fast track of masturbation, it’s almost impossible to back-out.

During my time of denial and sexual dysfunction (sickness), I’ve seen the most horrible things you can imagine while surfing the porn sites. Yes, there are such things as bestiality, child pornography, children forced to have sex with animals, homosexuality, orgies, outward demonically and ritualistic abuse sites, unashamedly promoted incest and rape of children from the crib up to adolescence, web cams galore, peeping toms, etc.

You don’t even need to surf all these sites, because they pop-up on your screen while surfing other sites, trying to lure you deeper into defilement and eventually pop out your credit card. Ever wondered why they invented pop-up screen stoppers? So people could watch porn without being bothered. The Internet is by far the biggest pool of sexual deviation and twistedness you can find, and your children may easily have access to it.

Do you watch the sex scenes in popular movies or TV dramas? Or do you flick the remote or fast-forward to resume the movie? Do you take your time to follow the lines of the body of a woman or man on a billboard? Do you “check-out” people at work, or while waiting for the light to change, do you get lost looking at ladies cross the street? When in church, are your eyes roaming free to watch young girls or boys? Or the people on the worship team?

Do you ever catch yourself in the process of doing any of the above and not feeling it’s wrong? Do you then go home and surf the net, or buy a magazine to finish off with the stormy emotional lust that’s been unleashed? Or do you feel it’s wrong and wish you’d find a way to stop? There are a few things you can do.

The first one is: call it what it is. A sin. A dysfunction. A deviation. Using people as objects. It’s sleeping with the enemy. It’s a crime too. The only difference is, you’re not there in person. Or maybe you are? Maybe you go to those places where anything goes because it’s called “adult” entertainment. Bestiality is a crime. Child pornography is a crime. Kidnapping is a crime. Rape is a crime.

Countless boys, girls and teenagers are abducted every year to serve in the porn industry, drugged up, beaten, and subjected to the most awful defilement imaginable. Even in their own neighborhood and families, these young people are groomed or lured into reprehensible behavior. And seemingly, the legislation is postured to encourage sexual deviance by listening to those who call for lowering the age of consent.

Addiction to pornography and deviant sexual behavior is excused in our society. Mothers don’t mind watching their daughters being dressed up like pin-ups to the delight of passerby’s. Church goers find it hip and cool to have their teens dress up in provocative ways, not completely oblivious to the charm and the lustful rewards for them. And if some find it offensive, they won’t speak, in fear of making a big deal of something that could blow up in their face: “So, why were you looking at her there? You have the problem, don’t bother my daughter trying to make her feel like a slut.”

Did you know that every year, I hear of government offices and corporations putting out numbers about how many of their own employees have been caught watching porn at work. If you do that, you’ll be found for sure. It’s only a question of time. You can do something about it NOW.

1- When looking at pictures, imagine that woman or man in their real life. Find that place in you that asks if that person is doing these things because they want to, or because they’ve been drugged, beaten, kidnapped and forced into prostitution. Then shut the computer.
2- Pray for the person you’d abnormally be lusting after.
3- Porn isn’t a life, it’s an industry, an image, a bait for your money, but also for your soul. If you’re a father and engage in porn, you are opening your home to the enemy. And he will come in, I guarantee you. You’re exposing your whole family to the demonic spirits you are in bed with. Don’t focus on how badly your teens are acting out, wonder about how you have given access to the warfare they’re stuck in.
4- Tell your spouse or a trustable friend about your problem. You don’t need to name specifics, just that you’re battling with this. And tell them every time you’ve fallen. The first step to reinforce the sin is to hide because of the unbearable shame that could ensue. The first step to deliverance is to stop hiding from the horror pornography actually is.
5- Do not sacrifice your money or substance to the porn idols, for you are actually sacrificing to demons. Masturbation is called “shaking hand with the devil.”
6- ACTIVATE that adult-content filter on your Internet computer. Stop going to any adult video store, change to a video store that doesn’t have an adult section. Throw away any magazine with suggestive pictures. DO NOT linger before the magazine stands in convenience stores, or look at the top shelves to see what’s there.
7- As soon as a thought comes in your mind that would usually drag you down to sin, shake it off you, like a spider from your shoulder. It could be while checking the street before turning, looking at a billboard, seeing an ad on TV, etc. Picture the thought in your mind and see yourself holding a sword and aggressively shred the thing. This should take half a second. Repeat as often as needed. You will quickly overcome.

There is a life after porn addiction. You will allow your spirit to awaken in a way that’s much more alive and crisp than before. You will stand as a guard over your household and not as a traitor who’s negotiating his/her pleasure by exposing your family to the enemy and his filth. Your life will become intercession for territorial purity.

Pornography is a plague. Children are sacrificed to its demons. Relationships, families and ministries are wrecked because of it.

We can do something, if we stop accepting as normal the gradual pull downward from this Age into the mire of defilement. We can’t conquer the sin out there that hasn’t been conquered inside of us. I do hope this blog entry has inspired change and action in your own life.

Let’s stand and be counted.