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TechnoratiPornography is one of the most powerful weapons in Satan’s arsenal. He uses it to corrupt God’s beautiful plans for us as sexual beings. Pornography encourages lust, which then enslaves us, for sexual desire is the second most powerful motivation that human beings have after the survival instinct.
The Bible tells us, “Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. Because everything that belongs to the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle-is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.” (1 John 2:15-17, Holman Christian Standard Bible).
Pornography is a medium of both mental and physical images. We must constantly remind ourselves that we live in a world distorted by sin and must be careful of what we allow our eyes to see.
Unfortunately, one reason many in our society have been so susceptible to pornography is that far too often in American churches, particularly in conservative churches, we have shied away from teaching the full biblical revelation concerning human sexuality.
We know all about the don’ts. We know that First Corinthians 6 says our bodies are not intended for sexual immorality. But too often evangelical Christians have failed to adequately understand the Song of Solomon and share its truths with our young people. If First Corinthians records the don’ts, the Song of Solomon records the do’s. The Song of Solomon says that sex is holy and that God created us as sexual beings to bring about the most loving, caring, giving union that a man and a woman can know this side of heaven. If you think God does not approve of sex, you need to read a good modern translation of the Song of Solomon. However, our culture has made it dirty by selfish misapplication.
Hebrews 13:4 says the marriage bed should be kept pure and that marriage should be honored by all. If anyone needed to be told the appropriate place and purpose for sexual relations it was the first-century Corinthians. Corinth was the cultural cesspool of the Roman Empire. The Romans had a word for someone who had been hopelessly debauched. They’d say, “Well, he has been Corinthianized.” That’s how bad it was in Corinth.
It was out of this degenerate society that the Corinthian Christians were saved. And Paul admonishes them in 1 Corinthians 6:18, “Flee from sexual immorality! ‘Every sin a person can commit is outside the body,’ but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body” (HCSB). Paul knew that God created us as sexual beings to make of two people one flesh, and that we cannot separate ourselves from our sexuality.
Paul says there is no such thing as casual sex, for a person who has been promiscuous is profoundly changed. This flies in the face of those in the pornography industry who insist that pornography is a private matter and doesn’t affect anyone else. People who view pornography are changed in their view of women, their view of procreation, and their view of the world. And that means they affect you and me.
Pornography perverts and distorts all of the God-given purposes for sexual intimacy. Pornography teaches people to disregard the sanctity of marriage and the one gift of knowing one person intimately within its confines. It teaches people to view sex as a form of recreation without regard for the welfare of one’s sexual partner. Continue »
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