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Is it right or wrong to indulge in masturbation?

 Masturbation 

 

Guys are we being set up here to fail?  We all know about the age old debate on masturbation.  Is it right or wrong to indulge? The bible isn’t doing us any favours by not printing the rules in easy to follow steps i.e. Leviticus 18 Unlawful sexual relations, Deut 28 Blessing and Curses. So why doesn’t scripture come straight out and say “yes it’s fine, it’s your body do with it as you like”? God has given us these hormones and urges that almost send us crazy unless relieved, so masturbation must be the answer.  Right?  Well not so quick!

 

– What is Gods best for you? –

We know that God’s best for us is to enter into a marriage and satisfy each other through sexual relations, but each time the church refuses to address this subject, it strengthens society’s hold and opinion over millions of lives.

So what is masturbation? Is it a form of worship to show gratitude and pay homage to the deity behind the porno film that you watch? Or a form of self-comfort, you do it when you feel bad about yourself and want a lift, a boost or a quick fix to the problems that you are facing in life.

There’s a difference between teenagers whose hormones are on fire, experiencing and finding out what their bodies can do coming through puberty. However, for the men who are still single or the married person who is still involved in masturbation you will need to seek the Holy Spirit and ask the hard questions to find out why you are still behaving this way. You can’t cast out your hormones, but understanding the root behind pornography you can quit that which seeks to enslave you.

Masturbation has almost become a recreational past time for our youth, it’s just another habit like brushing their teeth. While the act of masturbation may seem harmless and pleasurable, it still has a negative effect on our spirit, soul and body. The act itself is not demonic but it allows the enemy to gain a stronghold by using past hurts, lust, fantasies, temptations, pornography, perversions that keep it fuelled.

– Tithes and Offerings – 

Pornography is more than a simple film it’s a pre-recorded religious service, a sacred ritual of sex worship that is being offered up to Baal-Peor/Satan, and you the viewer are endorsing it. You are not innocent by any means. If Christ were to return today how would you justify yourself being found behind enemy lines? Never mind being found in the wrong denomination you’re worshipping with the wrong congregation. The tithe that you leave behind, your freewill offering, is your precious seed that you spill onto the floor or into a tissue as you show your appreciation and pay homage to your lord Baal-Peor for what he has supplied.

Emotionally and physically, masturbation provides the pay-off for pornography, but what if you have successfully given up pornography and still masturbate? What’s the cause? Well you were once a trophy that Satan proudly showed off to God and he still wants your worship. Satan doesn’t mind you going to church every night in the week and doing what you do, and serving where you serve.  Just as long as you continue to pay your daily or weekly tithe to him and to help you along the way he will continually bombard your mind with ungodly images to make the act easier.

We know from Job 1 that God has put a hedge of protection around every spirit filled believer. The enemy is aware of that hedge and he can’t get at you because of it. He can’t penetrate that hedge – it’s impossible. So he tries to lure you out by placing a Trojan horse in front of the hedge, waiting and hoping that you will drag it in behind.

– So what is a Trojan horse?-

Well it could be anything from a girlie mag, a 2 min clip in a film, a TV show, lingering over a dirty thought and once it gains entry an elite troop of demons spill out and cause havoc with your thought life flooding your mind with feelings of ecstasy.  Very soon this becomes a habit and your body starts to depend on it for a quick fix. You respond by sticking your arm out to grab it and as you do (Ecc 10 8) the serpent sticks his fangs into your arteries and the poison takes root. But that’s not all, every time you break through the hedge, grabbing after your lustful desires, you wear a hole and now Satan’s arrows have entrance points into the dark recesses of your mind, working you, coaxing you, seducing you, to masturbate over that image which is leading you ever deeper away from the truth of God.

When Satan can’t penetrate that hedge, he goes after your will, your mind and emotions.  When you lie in bed feeling disappointed because you’ve been let down or betrayed, cheated on, back stabbed, depressed, frustrated, something goes badly wrong, your lies have been exposed, feeling defeated and deflated the flesh crying at you “I don’t deserve this! Life isn’t meant to be like this! I don’t want to be treated this way! I need a quick fix to feel good again” – your flesh doesn’t care how low you sink or how perverse you indulge.  It cries, “I like that feeling, I enjoy that experience, get me that same high again at any cost”. So you access from memory to see where the last pleasure hit came from and you end up sticking out your arm through the hedge again to grab hold of something/anything that will give you a quick release.

Now, on top of all this happening emotionally, the enemy decides to join in spiritually and unleashes a volley of arrows through the holes in your hedge, directed towards your mind and thought life with sordid fantasies, lust, ungodly scenarios, explicit images, and soon the body becomes a total wreck, masturbating more frequently and your thoughts going even deeper into perversion and bondage just to maintain the same high. Remember behind every pornographic image are spirits who are specialists in polluting men’s minds and imaginations.

Amongst all this chaos is the soft voice of the Holy Spirit providing a way out for you, plucking your conscience and bringing scripture to mind, stand firm or flee from your torment. Unfortunately by this stage you can become so desensitized that you miss the prompting and another opportunity is blown to get Jesus involved. By this stage masturbating once a day is no-longer sufficient. Satan is laying it onto you hot and heavy images and thoughts that used to turn your stomach now appeal to you in a way like never before. Your drowning in your own fifth and don’t know how to save yourself.

God’s word is all about disciplining the flesh, not giving in to earthly temptations that seek to enslave us. While masturbation isn’t a salvation issue, it will keep you from experiencing freedom from mind controlling fantasies, freedom from demonic control, freedom from lust, freedom from sinful behaviours and freedom from pornography/sex-worship.

– Spiritual Adultery –

In Matt 6:27 Jesus said “that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has committed adultery with her in his heart” So what is Jesus saying? If we consider how good it would be to be in bed with that person and start allowing our minds to unpack that visually, Jesus is saying that this person has already committed spiritual adultery in their heart, i.e. their mind, will and emotions, their bodies aren’t involved in this case but they are allowing themselves to enter into the temptation mentally which is still very dangerous. So if a person continues to indulge in visualisation of sex to somebody that they’re not married too, the next step is that they’re very likely to act out and masturbate. So they can have masturbatory – mental, emotional relationships, usually with people they know through a picture or an image.  This is very defiling to the mind and affects the spirit because all sex is spiritual, so with masturbatory relationships, Jesus is saying that you are still committing adultery.

1 Cor 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators., nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Thess 4:2-5   For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

God would rather have you messy than not have you at all, but through the process you must learn to surrender and give over to the Lord what’s driving you to masturbate. Your struggle with masturbation will be the greatest lesson that you could learn in controlling your selfish desires. Click here for Masturbation prayer

Gen3x – Fighting Pornography Together

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. “Deuteronomy 20v3

 

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Eyes that are blind, Ears that are deaf

Are you reading the Warning Signs?

We are taught from a young age to discern the different types of warning signs that surround us in everyday life. Signs that stop us from getting hurt, injured or even killed, so why then are e=we slow to act on the warning signs that the word of God has to say about sexual immorality? Our churches may be silent or slow to address the problem of sexual immorality, but the Bible isn’t silent or behind the door, it’s quick to point out just where the person who indulges in sexual sin will end up.

– a lost inheritance –

The power that is behind sexual sin is so deceiving and so cunning that it can completely convince Christian men and women that it’s okay to look at pornography, indulge in sexual immorality and still go to heaven. If you are a spirit filled believer, what lengths have you gone to in order to drown out the voice or the prompting of the Holy Spirit? Have you swapped the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature? Romans 1:25. Or, are you so deceived and blinded (Psalm 119) that you can’t think straight for yourself to discern the Holy Spirit’s prompting? What price are you prepared to pay to have your cake and eat it? Most Christian men who view pornography can’t be too worried about the coming judgement or perhaps maybe they believe that they can’t be judged because of the Blood of Jesus. Click here to find out what the Bible has to say about your judgement. You push away every thought of coming disaster but your actions only bring the day of judgement closer.  Amos 6:3 

If I knew back then that I was worshipping at the altar of Baal-Peor, there is no way that I would have kept hidden for so long or went to the lengths that I did to justify or defend pornography. Men who use pornography can forfeit their place in heaven and lose the companionship of the Holy Spirit. After years of faithful service in church or ministry, what could be more sorrowful and heart wrenching than not hearing “well done my good and faithful servant, come and enter into my rest” Matt 24:21.  When the fact is, the only thing you were faithful to was worshipping Satan through pornography. If you have read “Who gets the Worship” you’ll know exactly who you are serving.

Do you understand the seriousness of scripture? And what the Bible has to say about fornication, adultery, Idolatry, homosexuality; all acts that God condemns. Our churches are good at getting the message to us, but getting the message through and into us is another thing. Click here to read more verses straight from the Word of God.

It isn’t a simple matter of once saved always saved! Those verses show that we can lose our inheritance if we continually indulge in what God forbids, we can’t simply do as we like and still go to heaven. Jesus made no mistakes in what He said. He didn’t ever play around with words or give false impressions, I don’t recall Jesus stumbling or mincing His words. He knows all about the power of scripture and the seriousness it carries. When Christ said that we cannot serve two masters He meant it.

Proverbs 14; 12 there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end leads to death

– Is this you? –

Are you one of the deceived that marches into Church every Sunday, the Bible tucked under your arm, singing songs of worship and hiding your reckless lifestyle behind a well-groomed appearance, having filled your mind with pornography from the week before and out worked the appetite of your demons on your wife and family? Well if you think that you’re going to get a wink and a nod of approval from Jesus about your activity think again.

What part of Matt 7: 23, Depart from ME, You who practice LAWLESSNESS don’t you understand?  Pornography, masturbation and immorality is total rebellion against God in the extreme. He won’t have it and won’t stand for it at all. He cares for you so much that He only has your best interest in mind.  Yes, we will all struggle with sin and his grace will cover our short comings, but if you remain comfortable in your sin without doing anything to help yourself, then you have to ask the hard question, “Am I really saved at all?”

If you are caught up in your bondage and are passive about your freedom, if the lure of the negative still outweighs the positive, scripture warns that you will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. The more a person gets involved in sin the less he sees it or recognises it for what it is.

Hold on to this thought: Having treated God’s word with contempt, called God a liar throughout life, taken God’s place, sided with Satan against God—what makes a man think that when he dies, God is going to receive him into heaven? Take a man who has lived a rebellious life in pornography, dishonouring to God but then expects God to honour him. Isn’t it incredible? Yet that’s what men believe. If you have any idea how God hates this sin, the fear of God would be enough to turn you away – but unfortunately, it isn’t enough to stop you from crawling back. Paul reminds us in 1 Cor 10:8 that 23,000 fell in a single day because of sexual immorality,  Leviticus20:10 commanded death for adultery, the seventh commandment warns against adultery and again Jesus covered it in the Sermon on the Mount Matt 5:27,28. The sad fact is that some men enjoy being deceived so that they can continue to indulge in their fleshly pleasures Rom 1:28; 2 Tim 3:1-7; Titus 3:3-7.

If you insist on having your own way, God by His grace will do two things to help you. Either He will expose your dirty little secret and all will be revealed Luke 12: 2-3 or He will remove His covering from you and hand you over to Satan so that your spirit may be saved 1 Cor 5:5. Either way, God will not be mocked He will not allow you to claim the name of His son Jesus and allow you to keep on living as if nothing has changed. You already know that it’s not God’s will for you to perish, that He has put the warning signs in place because He loves you. So how much more scripture will it take? How many more verses do you need to inform you that you will not inherit the kingdom of heaven? How large and bright do the signs have to be to get your attention?    Click here for  Are you reading the Warning Signs? Prayer 

Not everybody who calls out to me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Mathew 7: 21

 

Gen 3x – Fighting Pornography Addiction

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. “Deuteronomy 20v3

 

 

 

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Walking in Goliath’s footsteps

How Big is Porn?

As a child sitting through my Sunday school classes, I was always thrilled to hear the story of King David killing Goliath. Sitting there, my imagination would run riot about how big and fierce this guy was and how he would mock God in front of His presence and get away with it. Well, we all know the story, God raised up David, the most unlikely hero and Goliath was slain by him.  That was that, job done, no more mocking my God – not until a new giant came upon the scene. Pornography, a giant, just like the last one, is mocking and taunting God and keeping His army in fear because they didn’t know how to handle it approach it and more importantly slay it.

Pornography is a multi-billion dollar bully/industry that thrives on working through loop-holes, with no clear definition or governing body to regulate it or more importantly enforce it. Pornography’s strength lies behind the separate and divide rule.  What is tolerated in some regions of the world, like bestiality and violent porn will not be tolerated in others, while the age of purchasing porn in some countries could be as low as 15, in others you could end up facing the death penalty. And the money that is up for grabs greedy politicians will never find enough morality to say no.

The size of the pornography industry is mind boggling.  It is an incredibility lucrative business in sexual exploitation that thrives on never satisfying the consumer.

Steve Orenstein, president of Wicked Pictures, “You have to try really hard to lose money in this business” 

Is it any wonder with the cash that is being spent on it!

  • Every second $3,000 or £2,000 is being spent on porn.
  • Every second 28.258 Internet users are viewing porn.
  • Every second 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engine.
  • Every 39 minutes a new pornographic movie is being created in the United States that adds up to 150 new releases every week. If you watched porn 24 hours a day, it would take several years just to get through the 13,558 hard-core titles released last year as opposed to Hollywood’s mere 400 movies.
  • 2 Million Pornographic websites.
  • 420 million Pornographic pages.
  • 68 million daily porn search engine requests.
  • 5 billion Daily porn emails sent.
  • 7% of internet users who view porn.
  • 5 billion Monthly porn downloads.
  • 72 million monthly visitors to porn websites.
  • Internet sales 4.9 billion dollars.
  • 100,000 websites offer illegal child porn – it has become one of the fastest growing businesses online.
  • 000 daily child pornography requests worth over 3 billion alone in 2005
  • Web pages US 244.661.900, UK is 3rd with 8.506.800.  33% of internet users in the UK search for porn

 

 – It’s all about the money –

  • China spends the most on porn, with a staggering $27.40 billion a year, followed by S. Korea with 25.73 Billion. Japan 19.98 next is US, Australia and then the UK 6th with 1.97 billion spent on the filth.
  • Globally the annual revenue of pornography exceeds 97 billion dollars, that’s bigger than the revenue of the top tech companies Micro Soft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix, and Earth Link combined.
  • In the US there are more adult outlets for hard core porn than McDonalds restaurants almost on a 3:1 basis.
  • Pornographic products out sell nappies 2-1 and more money is spend in strip clubs than on Broadway shows, Regional Theatres and orchestral performances,
  • And also, more than Americans spend on Baseball, basket ball and football combined.

– Business or pleasure –

Scott Maslow from Pornication, “Rich people go where the money is, so it was only a matter of time until morality got thrown out the window”. So porn has moved into the boardroom as well.

General Motors, the world’s largest company, was at one time earning more money through a company that it owned called TV Direct, selling porn via cable to homes across America, than it was at producing and selling cars.  In fact, they were selling more explicit films than hustler.

Hotel chains have also jumped on the band wagon.  Up to 50% of customers rent porn and nearly 70% of their overall profits from room services come from hiring porn movies. And not forgetting all those broadband providers who are also raking it in.

To be realistic, the pornography industry is probably set to grow even bigger and stronger, by intimidating those who oppose it and lining the pockets of those who smooth the way for it. The only organisation that can stand up to this threat is the body of Christ, it can’t be bought or bribed by it’s millions.  It can’t fall under it’s seducing hypnotic powers of lust and free sex.  The bigger this porn industry grows, the greater the glory will be given to Christ as He pulls it down.  Click here for  So how big is Porn? Prayer

   

 

Gen 3x – Addicted to Porn?

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. “Deuteronomy 20v3

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F B Meyer

J.H. Jowett recounts the following story: “Dr. Meyer has told us that his early Christian life was marred and his ministry paralyzed just because he had kept back one thing from the bunch of keys he had given to the Lord. Every key save one! The key of one room was kept for personal use, and the Lord shut out. The effect of the incomplete consecration was found in lack of power, lack of assurance, lack of joy and peace. The joy of the Lord begins when we hand over the last key. We sit with Christ on His throne as soon as we have surrendered our crowns, and made Him sole and only ruler of our life and its possessions.”

F. B. Meyer experienced the lordship of Jesus Christ when he handed over the last key.  He had kept back the key to one room in his life and it brought great defeat. Remember, if He is not Lord of all (of every room), then He is not Lord at all.

Does He have the key to that room in your life?

Is there a room marked “private – keep out Lord?”

If so, you must be willing to surrender that key to the Lord and bring glory to God right now.

Luke 6 46 “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you do not do what I say. 

 

Gen3x – Fighting Pornography Together

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. “Deuteronomy 20v3

 

 

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What are the shepherds getting up to?

Over half of evangelical Pastors admitted viewing porn last year and 30% of these had visited pornographic sites within the last 30 days. 51% of pastors say pornography is a possible temptation, 37% tell us that it is a current struggle.  So if that’s true 4 out of 10 pastors looked at porn today, 75% of pastors do not make themselves accountable to anyone for their Internet use, 37% of the pastors surveyed confessed to having been involved in inappropriate sexual behaviour with someone in the church. 48% of lay leaders and 23% of Pastors in church have admitted to being unfaithful to their spouses during their marriage.

In his book, “Men’s Secret Wars”, Patrick Means reveals a confidential survey of evangelical pastors and church lay leaders. 64% of these Christian leaders confirm that they are struggling with sexual addiction or sexual compulsion including, but not limited to use of pornography, compulsive masturbation, or other secret sexual activity.

It seems that some Pastors are spending more time hanging around the altar of sexual idolatry than at the feet of Jesus.

That’s what the shepherds are getting up to, now what’s the rest of the flock doing?

Well it varies, anywhere between 50 – 90% + are struggling with porn. 38% of Christian men think that it’s acceptable to view porn. 96% of Christian males under the age of 20 and 61% of Christian married men masturbate regularly.  25% of married Christian men have had an affair since becoming a Christian, and another 15% have had inappropriate physical contact with women other than their wives.  20- 30% of women in the church could also be struggling with pornography as well, probably being introduced by a husband/ boyfriend/abuser or through a chat room. Interesting that women make up about 70% of visits to sexuality explicit chat rooms and 50% to cybersex-sites.

Let me leave you with this final thought “Why do these believers want to go to heaven when they seem to be happy and comfortable hanging out with Pornography, adultery, immorality etc”? whatever final destination you choose pornography won’t be there to welcome you.

 

Gen3x – Fighting Pornography Together

“Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. “Deuteronomy 20v3