1. Tonight’s message… Pornography & Masturbation: The Taboo Topic

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3. 1 Cor. 6:12-20 (page 794)

4. Ephesians 5:3 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.

6. Heb. 13:4 Heb. 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

7. Fruit of self-gratification: 1.Fueled by lust 2.Self-centered 3.Leads to bondage

8. Addiction Cycle: 1.Thought sparked by what you see/think 2.Justification 3.Acting out 4.Guilt/shame/fear/despair

9. Pornography = any media intended to arouse sexual excitement arouse sexual excitement Internet Internet Artwork Artwork Books Books Television Television Billboards Billboards Newspaper ads Newspaper ads

10. Lasciviousness = stirring up desires that cannot be righteously fulfilled Gal. 5:19-21 “ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

11. 1 Cor. 6:18-20 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

12. Consequences of pornography/self- gratification: 1.Highest form or selfishness 2.Can’t enjoy marital relations 3.Images burned in mind 4.8x more addictive than heroin 5.Law of diminishing returns 6.Guilt of the worst kind 7.Habitual, repetitive sin = door for enemy

13. Lies about pornography/self- gratification: I have to act on my sexual urges or I’ll dieI have to act on my sexual urges or I’ll die It’s only a sexual issueIt’s only a sexual issue

14. How to get free: 1.Be honest with God 2.Get it in light & find accountability

15. Ephesians 5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them. James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to one each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

16. How to get free: 1.Be honest with God 2.Get it in light & find accountability 3.Starve your eyes/mind (boundaries) 4.Engraft purity verses! www.xapurdue.com www.xapurdue.com 5.“14 Ways to Conquer Lust” handout