1a. Our Problem With Impurity: — More than one quarter (27%) of adults ages first viewed pornography before puberty — ​Nearly half of young people actively seek out porn monthly or more often — Teens & young adults consider “not recycling” more immoral than viewing pornography — 66% of teens and young adults have received a sexually explicit image and 41% have sent one — More than half of Christian youth pastors have had at least one teen come to them for help in dealing with porn in the past 12 months — 21% of youth pastors and 14% of pastors admit they currently struggle with using porn. About 12% of youth pastors and 5% of pastors say they are addicted to porn (Barna Research Stats)

1a. Our Problem With Impurity: We Like It Every second 28,258 users are watching pornography on the internet Every second $3, is being spent on pornography on the internet 40 million American people regularly visit porn sites 35% of all internet downloads are related to pornography 25% of all search engine queries are related to pornography, or about 68 million search queries a day One third of porn viewers are women Search engines get 116,000 queries every day related to child pornography 2.5 billion s sent or received every day contain porn Every 39 minutes a new pornography video is being created in the United States About 200,000 Americans are “porn addicts” ( life/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers)

1b. Our Problem With Impurity: We Like It… In Spite of the Problems it causes Porn Kills Love Porn Teaches Us Lies Porn Ruins Your Sex Life Porn Hurts Your Partner Porn Leaves You Lonely (

Romans 7:15-20 (NIV) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. [a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

A. Ultimately, The Condition of our Heart: A spiritual problem A human condition B. Combined With Access & Availability Cultural norms Internet world

Always includes hurt to the others (overt) Always includes greater hurt to you (internal) Always adds toxins in my relationship with God 3. The Impact of Impurity

It is Always poisonous 3. The Impact of Impurity Truth: When you bite into impurity in any form, you have beaten the heart of discipleship with a bat

Romans 13:11-13 (NIV) 11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. We are Called to Purity

A. Be Intentional About Behaviors 1)Eph. 5:3 … Not a Hint Ephesians 5:3 (NIV) 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. 2)I Thess. 5:22 … Every Kind of Evil…. There are no shades of gray in God’s economy here- only black and white 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (NIV) 22 reject every kind of evil.

3)I Cor. 6:18 (Flee); Matt. 5:29-30 (Gouge Your Eye Out) …Take Extreme Measures 1 Corinthians 6:18 (NIV) 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 4)Absolute Transparency James 5:16 (NIV) Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

B. Be Open to Growing and Learn to Live with Pain

Abstinence: Stop What I’m Doing Situational: People-Places-Things Behavioral: Do Something Different Thinking: From Twisted to Real Emotional: Deal With Stress Beliefs: True Change From the Inside Out