PORNOGRAPHY SUBTLE,  INSIDIOUS,  DESTRUCTIVE, VICIOUS

 Fifty per cent of men in USA and Australia are continually enslaved by pornography, which includes every abnormal branch of sexual experience.    My family medicine provided an ideal background for this study; plus God’s insistence that I write from medicine and bible teaching.      

It is the major temptation in our sophisticated culture; robbing many of delight in husband-wife relationship; and robbing many of the certainty of eternal life.   

 Did David initiate the temptation with Bathsheba or was she the temptress, bathing openly in view of the nearby palace.     Were they both guilty? DVD, TV, appealing, glossy literature publications have hellish propensity to stir the sexual realm: but in David’s day direct vision.   

David   broke the law of God pulverizing each of the Ten Commandments in his lust-filled passion for this attractive, young woman.       She was another’s wife- and he was fighting the king’s battles.     My brother went to pieces, his life crumbled, during WW11, returning from overseas to find his wife pregnant after she had lived unfaithfully.      He was crushed, never fully recovering.   

 John the Baptist was imprisoned for undauntedly affirming, ‘It is not lawful for you, King Herod, to have Herodias, your brother Philip’s wife.’   Although Herod would slay him, he feared the multitude because they counted him a prophet.      Therefore, he promised with an oath to grant Herodias’ daughter’s request.       When Herod celebrated his birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, exciting Herod.        Uninhibited demonstrations of the flesh awakened demonic lust in the King.        Real life, flesh and blood allurement prevailed.        Prompted by her mother (oh, the potential of womanly godliness or immodest seduction), she said, ‘Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.’    Christ rated him the greatest man born of woman.   

The king was very sorry, nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him at the table (peer pressure governs   response in company), he cowardly commanded her request be granted.       He sent and beheaded John the Baptist in prison.      Gruesome sight!   ‘His head was brought on a platter, and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.       Heaven grieved.    Matthew 14: 1-12.        Lustful exhibitionism, John the Baptist was decapitated, but immediately received by his exalted Lord.      Pornography links with death, especially where faithfully bared and out in the open.      Lustful dancing never enriches or deepens the marriage of husband and wife.   

The appropriate English for the unique nearness of husband and wife is ‘intimate’, synonymous with closeness , cherished, warm embrace, bosom friend, dearest,   cozy oneness or close connection.     God designed an indescribably precious relationship, uniting husband and wife.   

David’s son pressed for sexual union with his virgin half sister; trapped her when she prepared a special meal, seduced, raped and abandoned her, his lust rehashed into savage, brutal, soul-destroying hateful, rejection.      He isolated her and ravaged their relationship.       He relegated her to the scrapheap, dishonoring her as a weighed down, young woman.      His mental pornography robbed her of dignity.      It cost him his life at the hand of his vengeful brother.       An awful price!

In God’s creation, Adam, one man, married one woman, Eve.      The Scripture reveals they were completely at one and at home with each other.     ‘Naked, they were not ashamed.      They knew no other relationship, for sin had not contaminated that unique, God-given oneness.     Pornography yields a degenerate harvest of intimate shame, contravening God’s pure purpose for them.   

In sexual intimacy, husband and wife completely enjoy each other.       No third person should intrude.     In most families, an unbreakable, unwritten law holds,    ‘Do not enter if door shut.’

Pornography allows another person on DVD or video to infringe on their privacy, whereas the pure living Architect has sole right, whose presence sweetens the entire procedure.   

 Some human has infringed the sweet oneness designed to strengthen a godly man and woman.   

 Two persons (exclusively in marriage bond) can express their deep love for each other without embarrassment or restraint.

The sight or voice of an intruder mars the sweet atmosphere God demands for His sovereignty.     The sight of another person pollutes the atmosphere, while their instructions will jar and wound sensitive believers.      While a partner opposes this invasion, she may be overruled by one who initiated the external supplement.   

Married persons will seek the fulfillment of the other in a mutual climax of their oneness (desc ribed as an orgasm.)   While the ejaculation of fluid is the male climax, womanhood’s reaction is    divided as to the necessity or intensity of this highlight.      Some claim it is not essential, telling of a lifetime of sweet blessedness without demanding a decisive point or peak.      Medically, views were equally gender-divided.      No intrusive electronic equipment, film, video or DVD   will hasten a climax: rather it will anger the sensitive partner, robbing her of a decisive, spontaneous conclusion.      God meant it to be an exclusive, deep oneness of their sexual union.      God fashioned the anatomy of man and woman, the vascular and nervous supply facilitating this response.     While man and woman’s anatomy (the structure) and physiology function) are standard, God created man and woman as distinct individuals and their personal response cannot be duplicated.    A further reason why God planned it to be a life-time oneness.

Married persons may kiss each other, awakening desire for physical union.       After pronouncing they are husband and wife after God’s holy ordinance, the officiating pastor will declare, ‘You may kiss the bride.’    The veil is drawn back and one kisses the other.       Some have vowed to wait until that moment before kissing each other.       ‘One confessed, ‘Oh the chemistry that flowed in that first delicate kiss.      God designed an ongoing response to a simple embrace and kissing.   

No other person or voice may influence that holy moment when man and woman begin the act of un ion, their lips initiating the process.   

Married persons enjoy breast fondling, which Scripture, especially the Song of Solomon endorses as a delight to the husband:   Gotha was neither ashamed nor reticent.   

A woman’s breasts not only nourish the baby or infant, but indicate when she is psychologically and physically prepared to receive her partner.       In His creation, God has done all things well.   

A woman should jealously guard her bosom from social or public display, lest she tempt a man with her brazenness.      I vote with remote control, when the media has encroached its right limit.     

The promiscuous woman will parade as much of her body, especially breasts and thighs as will drive males to furiously lust after her.      So her comparable lust will be gratified when she claims her victim.      Converted to Christ, former cocktail participants reveal they lined up a person for their sexual expression.       Both man and woman may initiate and scheme to win one of the other sex, each boasting of their prowess.       How ungodly when the Lord has made marriage holy.   

A man and woman were designed by the Lord to fulfill the longings of each other only in the security of marriage.       Both husband and wife will discover areas of the other’s body which respond to gentle loving fondling.      That’s why God intended us to be in a life-time oneness, which no other person can emulate.       This debars external, physical means of stimulation, (as sex shops promote) as inadequate substitutes for a sensitive, pulsating body.   

In Ed Murphy’s ‘principles of spiritual warfare’, Bill Hybels from Willow Creek has this searching extract on pornography.      He had observed a dramatic intensity in development of pornography in a generation; where mild presentations degenerated into lurid, uninhibited, debasing of man and woman.    .   

It is an eight billion dollar annual industry in USA, eroding sexual purity in many lives.   

It fosters masturbation,(personally-induced response sexually) as the aim of fantasy, which is released in pornography.   

The devil targets godly leaders sexually.       He instances Christian leaders in slavery to pornography or in unfaithful, sexual relationships.       Women are bound, gagged, raped, whipped or abused.      Womanhood is demeaned .

Multiple sexual partners are revealed and encouraged in pornography.      He counseled one leader with numerous sexual partners in one church.   

This practice fostered gang rape, bestiality (debasing men and women) and torture.   

Children as young as eight years are depicted in sexual poses.      This distorts their childish concept of sexual oneness in married life: blurring their understanding for later life.       He volunteered that adult sex book shops (a polluted stream of literature) in USA outnumber the 20,000 branches of Mc.    Donald’s.      Literature may precipitate hankering (or hunger) for pornography.   

Accessible videos vie for seductive, appealing presentation of godless sexuality.    This renders the soil of our spiritual life barren and unproductive.    The volcanic soil of Java produces crops of rice, Soya, and sadly tobacco each year.    Pornographic readers poison the spiritual soil of their soul.     Is your’s productive for your Lord?    

The addictive nature of pornography is seductive as alcohol or drugs: where Satan programs men/women to elude a God-granted holiness in the married oneness.     

It invalidates and paralyses the spiritual life of the one caught in this practice.     Does this explain the helplessness of many believers to break into spiritual freedom?    One wife complained of her extravagant husband telephoning 20 sources of pornography each night.

Many women are compelled to watch their husbands follow tarnished practices feel degraded, used and abused.   

They feel filthy, guilty and empty.   

Many men falsely consider that woman has a continual desire for sexual expression, forgetting that she must be wakened in the holy atmosphere of Christ-centered love.   

Pornography undermines marriage, white-ant-eating the holy oneness possible only in sexual oneness.     Prayer and reading of the precious Word of God ideally precedes the sweet union of husband and wife.    While recognizing the spontaneity of love’s expression, God’s magnificent gift to His creatures will deepen and sweeten the oneness.     You may launch life’s cherished vessel on the sea of sanctified emotion.      

Pornography devastates children.    In California, the depraved quote circulated,

‘Sex before eight- before too late‘.    Sexual fantasy shatters a child’s development.   

This horrifies every godly parent whose precious children are in their care.   

Pastor Hybels   counseled a missionary from the Pacific whose sexual attraction to her husband slumped because of his pornographic enslavement.    He urgently needed counsel.    She needed pure, unadulterated dynamic husband love.   

If you have existed in the seamy world of pornography, you must repent with tears and trembling, repentance, burning confession and restored harmony with your life partner.    Let it begin with your small fellowship group: and proceed with your elders to tell the church of Christ’s restoration of your intimate life.     Looking to the Lord of glory.     God’s word reasons,     ‘Come out from among them, and be separate says the Lord.    Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you.    I will be a father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord almighty.    ‘Are we too sensitive teachers, lest we embarrass some?

Having these precious promises, we must cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and Spirit.     Perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.    Open your hearts to us.’    2 Corinthians 7:1,2.     

Such candidness before a congregation or an assembly, whether large or small may have an explosive effect- recognizing that 50 per cent of men are enslaved with pornographic chains.      We have masked what is devilish-while God alone is holy: He longs for the purified life.   

Congregational shame, guilt and tears would follow such a declaration of guilt.     The Holy Spirit would move in revival.    Why not? 2 Chronicles 7;14 is peculiarly applicable.    ‘Turn from their wicked ways’   is pertinent counsel for the sexually imprisoned.   

You may need to burn some objects, smash others, in a deliberate severing from the old degenerate life.    A dear one in Singapore led an idol-worshipper to the Lord.    (Pornography is idolatry- and objects of literature, electronic instruments have become gods.    He burned every satanic thing in his complex.    The precious blood of Christ cleansed him - the outward trappings were inflames, and soon ashes.     He was free.    God will teach you the way you should go!

Reassuring comfort from knowing that if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

In this sensitive area of family life, we desperately need the powerful touch of the cleansing blood of the Lord of glory.    He promised, ‘If we confess our sins, He will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’

 When our walk with God is blessed, the holy expression of husband-wife love will be heavenly, deeply satisfying and eternally bonding.

                                                   Harrold