Generation Porn 11 & 12

 Here are the final two reasons to give up porn. These will resonate mostly to Christians, and will make us uneasy. But I'm sure that point 11 is relevant to many other spheres of life too. An addiction to porn will keep you from doing many, many things.
How sad that many people have turned away from a life full of worthwhile service to Jesus Christ because of their habit and guilt. 

11.             Porn weakens your service (p11)

Hear the testimony of one user:

I’ve been less able to serve Jesus as I was in effect living two lives. The stress of managing that kept me from being of any real use in the kingdom. I helped at a church youth group for around a year, but giving talks where I was meant to be sharing about what God was doing in my life became too much of a strain, so I stopped.  (ie. stopped ministry.)

In 2007 John Piper wrote an article for Christianity Today called ‘Gutsy Guilt’. He describes speaking at a conference with Goeroge Verwer :

Verwer’s burden at that conference was the tragic number of young people who at one point in their lives dreamed of radical obedience to Jesus, but then faded into useless American prosperity. A gnawing sense of guilt and unworthiness over sexual failure gradually gave way to spiritual powerlessness and the dead-end dream of middle class security and comfort.

The tragedy is not masturbation and pornography. “The tragedy is that Satan uses guilt from these failures to strip you of every radical dream you ever had or might have. In their place, he gives you a happy, safe, secure, American life of superficial pleasures, until you die in your lakeside rocking chair.”

(Chester, p88)

Porn is a sin against your church.

·      You spend time on porn you could use in ministry

·      Your relationship with God is corroded, and so your service of others is impaired

·      Consider this: Will you ask challenging questions of your brothers if you’ve used porn in the last month. Probably not, because they might ask you questions in return.

12.             God’s wrath is against people who use porn (12)

One of the secrets of the power of porn is its Anonymity. (The other two are Accessibility and Affordability.) But porn is not anonymous.

³ But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. ⁴ Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.^{[a] 6} Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. ⁷ Therefore do not be partners with them.

Ephesians 5:3-7

Again and again, God’s word warns against sexual sin, while celebrating sex.