June 2022 - Make No Provision

Quiz

Quiz: 1 Corinthians 6:18

by Alan Sharpe June 30, 2022

Do you understand what “flee sexual immorality” means in 1 Corinthians 6:18? Take this quiz and find out.

by Alan Sharpe June 30, 2022

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18

Questions

What is sexual immorality?
What is fornication?
What are some examples of sexual immorality”
What are you commanded to do with sexual immorality?
What does “flee” mean, exactly?
How do you flee sexual immorality?
What is one reason you are to flee sexual immorality?

Answers

Sexual immorality is any act that defies God’s commands about sexual relations.
Fornication is simply another word for sexual immorality. It is archaic, and rarely used today.
Sexual immorality includes sex outside of marriage, sex with animals, sex with children, sex with close family members, viewing pornography, and masturbating.
You are commanded to fee sexual
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Lust

Escape Worldly Depravity by Escaping Lust | 2 Peter 2:4

by Alan Sharpe June 29, 2022

Pornography is a lust problem. To escape the corruption that it creates, escape the lust that lures you to look.

by Alan Sharpe June 29, 2022

By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 1:4

Lust is something you are to escape. Peter tells you and me that we have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And this escaping is supposed to be permanent. The word in the Greek is apopheúgō, a combination of two words, “away from” and “flee.” It means to escape through flight, and carries the idea of separation, a full breaking away from the previous situation (Wuest). So, you don’t just run away from lust. You escape, and stay away.

You are to escape lust because lust leads to corruption, that is, to depravity, decay, rottenness, and ruin. And notice where this corruption is found—in the world. Co

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Consecration

“See that your soul is happy in the Lord.” || George Müller

by Alan Sharpe June 29, 2022

It is of supreme and paramount importance that you should seek above all things to have your souls truly happy in God Himself.

by Alan Sharpe June 29, 2022

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According to my judgement the most important point to be attended to is this: above all things see to it that your souls are happy in the Lord. Other things may press upon you, the Lord’s work may even have urgent claims upon your attention, but I deliberately repeat, it is of supreme and paramount importance that you should seek above all things to have your souls truly happy in God Himself! Day by day seek to make this the most important business of your life. This has been my firm and settled condition for the last five and thirty years. For the first four years after my conversion I knew not its vast importance, but now after much experience I specially commend this point to the notice of my younger brethren and sisters in Christ: the secret of all true effectual service is joy in God, having experimental acquaintance and fellowship with God Himself.
George Müller

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Lust

You Can Never Have Enough Porn | Proverbs 27:20

by Alan Sharpe June 28, 2022

No matter how much pornography you consume, there will never be enough to satisfy your lust.

by Alan Sharpe June 28, 2022

Hell and Destruction are never full;
So the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:20

Kenneth Shipp, 58, of Jonesboro, Georgia, had 447,268 pornographic images and 19,395 pornographic videos in his possession when agents raided his home in 2016. He was found guilty of possessing and distributing pornography, and sentenced to eight years in federal prison.

If you are a Christian man who looks at pornography but longs to quit, you may wonder why or even how any man would accumulate this volume of pornography. After all, just do the math. If you had a stash of porn this large, you could watch one porn video a day for 53 years and still not reach the last video in your collection. If you had a stash of images as large as Mr. Shipp’s, and if you looked at 10 images an hour, eight hours a day, 7 days a week, you would waste 15 years of your life looking at porn and still never reach the end of your collection.

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Prevention

The Remedy for Porn in One Word | 1 Corinthians 6:18

by Alan Sharpe June 27, 2022

You can abstain from porn today wherever you are, on your own, free of charge, by doing just one thing.

by Alan Sharpe June 27, 2022

Flee sexual immorality.
1 Corinthians 6:18

Conquering pornography isn’t complicated. It’s not easy, I admit, but it isn’t complicated. And yet many people make it complicated. Go online and you will find all manner of psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, counsellors, pastors, Bible teachers and others ready to tell you the many steps you must take to quit porn.

But the biblical answer is simple: “Flee sexual immorality.” That’s three simple words, and one step to victory. It worked in Paul’s day. It works today. Don’t follow the voices that say you must do something else but flee. The cure for pornography is a command you are to obey, and an action you are to take. Flee.

There are multiple helps, of course. You may find a 12-step program helpful. You may find porn-blocking software useful. You may find an accountability partner useful. But don’t let these aids re

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Consecration

“Let prayer keep you in God’s presence.” || Francois Fénelon

by Alan Sharpe June 25, 2022

Let your fixed seasons of prayer keep you in God’s presence through the day, and His presence frequently remembered through it be an ever-fresh spring of prayer.

by Alan Sharpe June 25, 2022

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In God’s name I beseech you let prayer nourish your soul as your meals nourish your body. Let your fixed seasons of prayer keep you in God’s presence through the day, and His presence frequently remembered through it be an ever-fresh spring of prayer. Such a brief, loving recollection of God renews a man’s whole being, quiets his passions, supplies light and counsel in difficulty, gradually subdues the temper, and causes him to possess his soul in patience, or rather gives it up to the possession of God.
Francois Fénelon

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Obedience

With Porn, Whom Do You Obey? | Romans 6:16

by Alan Sharpe June 24, 2022

When you are next tempted to watch pornography, whom will you obey? Because you have to obey someone.

by Alan Sharpe June 24, 2022

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:16

When it comes to watching pornography, you have a choice. And I’m not talking about the choice to look or to not look, the choice to indulge or to abstain. I’m talking about the choice of whom you obey. Because porn is personal. Behind every pornographic image there’s a camera operator. And behind every camera operator there’s another person.

Paul tells us in his letter to the church in Rome that, “to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey.” If you are like me and countless other Christian men, you have read this verse for years but never taken the time to follow it to its logical conclusion. Let’s do that, shall we?

Q. When you are tem

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Prevention

Don’t Ask God for What He Has Already Given | 2 Peter 1:3

by Alan Sharpe June 23, 2022

God promises that the divine power you need to resist porn and masturbation is already yours for the taking. You just have to take it.

by Alan Sharpe June 23, 2022

Don't Ask God for What He Has Already Given | 2 Peter 1:3

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.
2 Peter 1:3

You are guilty of it. I am guilty of it. In the midst of our struggle with sexual sin, we cry out to God, begging Him to give us strength to forsake our sin. We beseech God to give us power to overcome sexual temptation. We pray repeatedly, week in and week out, for God to deliver us from sexual urges. The problem is, He already has. We keep asking God to give us something that He has already given us.

This is the conclusion that you and I must draw from what Peter tells us. After all, if God “has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,” why do we need to ask Him for anything else that pertains to life and godliness? We don’t. If God has already given to us all the divine power, all the resources, and every other thing we need to live a life that’s free of pornography and free of masturbat

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Judgment

How Long Can You Tread Water? | 2 Peter 2:9

by Alan Sharpe June 22, 2022

Noah is proof that God knows how to deliver you out of your sexual temptations (and how to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment).

by Alan Sharpe June 22, 2022

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:9

I don’t suppose you wake up each morning thinking about Noah, but maybe you should. After all, if you have a chronic problem with looking at pornography and masturbating, you do well to remember some lessons from the time of The Flood.

The first lesson is that Noah lived among a generation that Peter in his letter calls “ungodly” (2 Peter 2:5). As far as God was concerned, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). And yet Noah, living among such wicked people and faced with all manner of temptations, found grace in the sight of the Lord.

Another lesson from Noah’s life is that God punished the wicked but delivered Noah and his immediate family. God brought a catastrophic flood upo

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Consecration

“Your whole usefulness depends on holiness.” || Robert Murray McCheyne

by Alan Sharpe June 21, 2022

Study universal holiness of life. Your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week.

by Alan Sharpe June 21, 2022

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer.
Robert Murray McCheyne

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Sanctification

Do You Hate Porn? Love Porn? Both? | James 4:8

by Alan Sharpe June 21, 2022

When you cleanse your hands and purify your heart, you drawn closer to God. The closer you get, the less you sin.

by Alan Sharpe June 21, 2022

Do You Struggle with Porn Because You Are Double-Minded? | James 4:8

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8

If you are a Christian man who struggles with the sin of looking at pornography, your problem might not be porn, or lust, but double-mindedness. You are in two minds about your sin. Part of you loves your sin. Part of you hates it. And so you continue to struggle in defeat.

James tells you and me, in chapter 4 of his letter, that our walk with the Lord must be one of humility. We are to submit to God, draw near to God, cleanse our hands, and purify our hearts. And just who, exactly, are the ones who need their hearts purified? The “double-minded.” That is, those who are wavering and vacillating. The Greek word is dipsuchos, and means to literally be “two souled,” as if a person is split in half, a spiritual schizophrenic.

You likely know this experience of being dou

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Obedience

Do You Consume Porn & Condemn Porn? | Romans 2:22

by Alan Sharpe June 20, 2022

If you have a problem with pornography that is compounded by being a hypocrite on the subject, forsake your sexual sin today. You’ll conquer both sins in one act.

by Alan Sharpe June 20, 2022

You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery?
Romans 2:22

Looking at pornography is bad enough. But looking at it but also judging others for doing the same sin is even worse. A sexually immoral Christian is wicked. But a sexually immoral Christian who is also a hypocrite is even more wicked.

You may not have this problem, of course. You may not preach from a pulpit or teach Sunday school or lead a men’s Bible study. Your sin of looking at porn might be a solitary sin, one that you don’t chastise anyone else for committing. But if you are responsible for preaching, teaching, exhorting and instructing, the bar is set higher for you.

As Paul tells former Jews in the church at Rome in his day, when you teach the law while breaking the law, you dishonor God and blaspheme the name of God among the Gentiles. These days, if you watch pornography in private but preach against it in public, you do the

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Consecration

“The goal of prayer is the ear of God.” || Charles Spurgeon

by Alan Sharpe June 17, 2022

If your prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose.

by Alan Sharpe June 17, 2022

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We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of it may have kindled devotional feeling in our minds, the hearing of it may have comforted and strengthened the hearts of those with whom we have prayed, but if the prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose.

A mere formalist can always pray so as to please himself. What has he to do but to open his book and read the prescribed words, or bow his knee and repeat such phrases as suggest themselves to his memory or his fancy? Like the Tartarian Praying Machine, give but the wind and the wheel, and the business is fully arranged. So much knee-bending and talking, and the prayer is done.

The formalist’s prayers are always good, or, rather, always bad, alike. But the living child of God never offers a prayer which pleases himself; his standard is above his attainments; he wonders that God listens to him, and though he knows he will be heard for Christ’s sa

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Accountability

To Quit Porn, Get Caught | Job 24:15

by Alan Sharpe June 17, 2022

With Covenant Eyes, no matter where I am, no matter what time of day or night it is, if I look at porn, I get caught. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

by Alan Sharpe June 17, 2022

The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he disguises his face.
Job 24:15

If you want to quit pornography, get caught. If you want to put sexual immorality behind you, use every creative tool and method and tactic at your disposal to make your sin known. The cure for habitual porn use is exposure.

The adulterer, after all, as Job observes, waits for twilight before leaving the house to have sex with another man’s wife. He disguises his face, and assures himself that no one will see him. That’s the nature of sexual sin—it thrives in darkness. It demands secrecy and deceit.

If you struggle with pornography, part of your challenge is that watching it in secret is so easy. You can get filthy images and videos on any mobile electronic device, whether laptop, tablet or phone, and you can carry these to any secluded place you want. Engaging in adul

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Consequences

Porn, the Great Sin Multiplier | Jeremiah 23:14

by Alan Sharpe June 16, 2022

Looking at porn makes you an adulterer, a liar, and more. One sin leads to another. But the opposite is also true. Quit porn and you can’t help but quit other sins as well. Bonus, right?

by Alan Sharpe June 16, 2022

Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:14

When you look at porn you break three of the 10 Commandments. You commit adultery. You covet your neighbor’s wife. And you lie. That’s the nature of sexual sin—it never acts alone. If you watch pornography habitually, you are guilty of plenty of other sins as well. One sin can’t help but lead to another.

This was true in Jeremiah’s day. The prophets of Jerusalem committed adultery and walked in lies. They covered their sexual sin by lying about it. They either lied by commission, by telling their wives falsehoods about where they were or who they were with, for example. Or they lied by omission, by failing to confess their sins, a

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Judgment

Porn During the Week But Prayer on Sunday Doesn’t Work | Jeremiah 7:9-10

by Alan Sharpe June 15, 2022

When you continue in sexual sin during the week that grace may abound on Sunday, you make Christ the minister of sin.

by Alan Sharpe June 15, 2022

Porn During the Week But Prayer on Sunday Doesn't Work | Jeremiah 7:9-10

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know, and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?
Jeremiah 7:9-10

No amount of church attendance or profession of faith will profit you if you refuse to repent of watching porn. No amount of religious observance or good works will benefit you if you refuse to amend your ways. This is the message that the prophet had for the people of Israel in his day, and it’s the message that he has for you and me today when it comes to sexual sin.

The words that Jeremiah speaks here are the words that God gave the prophet to speak. These are the words that God commanded Jeremiah to proclaim. They are phrased in the form of a rhetorical question, that is, a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an an

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Lust

Would Stoning Dissuade You? | Leviticus 20:10

by Alan Sharpe June 14, 2022

What if you continue watching porn compulsively, habitually until the day you die, or until the day that the Lord Jesus returns? A fate worse than stoning awaits you.

by Alan Sharpe June 14, 2022

Would Stoning Dissuade You? | Leviticus 20:10

The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20:10

If the penalty for looking at pornography was stoning, would you still be “addicted?” This isn’t an academic exercise because there was a time when the divine penalty for multiple sexual sins was death. In those days, you didn’t sit in a circle with a bunch of other men to discuss your sexual addiction. Instead, a circle of people formed around you and threw stones at you until you were dead.

I am referring, of course, to what is known as the Mosaic Law, that is, the law handed down to Moses by God. You discover this law in the books of Exodus and Leviticus. In Leviticus 20:10-15, in particular, you read the record of what God commands Moses to tell the children of Israel concerning various sexual acts. These include adultery, incest, homosexua

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Consecration

“We are deficient in prayer more than in any other grace.” || Adoniram Judson

by Alan Sharpe June 13, 2022

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

by Alan Sharpe June 13, 2022

“Nothing is impossible to industry,” said one of the seven sages of Greece. Let us change the word industry for persevering prayer, and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption. I am persuaded that we are all more deficient in a spirit of prayer than in any other grace. God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it. And the reason that He loves such prayer is that He loves us and knows that it is a necessary preparation for our receiving the richest blessings which He is waiting and longing to bestow. I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time—no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the last I would have devised, it came.
Adoniram Judson

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Obedience

Find Your Motive Behind “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” | Exodus 20:2

by Alan Sharpe June 13, 2022

God has delivered you from your house of sin and bondage. Now he wants you to never go back. And He’s put that in writing.

by Alan Sharpe June 13, 2022

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage . . . You shall not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:2,14

If you want to conquer pornography, you need to get your motivation from the right source. After all, you can find all manner of reasons to quit. You can quit to save your marriage, quit to avoid scandal, quit to avoid jail time. Or you can quit because of who God is and of what He has done for you.

Consider the 10 Commandments, for example. Moses received them directly from the hand of God, live and in person. God gave the commandments to Moses one by one, and then God inscribed them on tablets of stone. But before God handed down His 10 commandments, He prefaced his remarks by reminding Moses of who He is and of what He had done.

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Quiz

Quiz: Genesis 39:1-12

by Alan Sharpe June 10, 2022

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there. The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority. So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field. Thus he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance. And it came to pass after these things that his master’s wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master�
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Sanctification

“Eternity will be wonderful, except . . .” || Francis Schaeffer

by Alan Sharpe June 9, 2022

Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain.

by Alan Sharpe June 9, 2022

Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.
Francis Schaeffer

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Consecration

“Men, not machinery, are God’s method.” || E. M. Bounds

by Alan Sharpe June 5, 2022

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

by Alan Sharpe June 5, 2022

We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the Gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. “There was a man sent from God whose name was John.” The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.” The world’s salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success.

The glory and efficiency of the Gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that “the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect tow

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Prevention

How to Stop Masturbation as a Christian

by Alan Sharpe June 2, 2022

If you want to stop masturbation as a Christian, get your guidance from the source. Follow these biblical steps to stop masturbating.

by Alan Sharpe June 2, 2022

When is the last time you heard a really great sermon about masturbation? Never, right? Masturbation is one of those topics that’s off-limits in the pulpit but commonplace in the pews. It’s one of those sins that no one wants to discuss but lots of people want to commit. If you want to learn how to stop masturbation as a Christian, you need to get your guidance another way. So here it is. Here are some biblical steps to take to stop masturbating.

Step 1: Admit Your Sin
Psalm 32:5

Step 2: Forsake Pornography
Matthew 5:28-29

Step 3: Resist the Devil
James 4:7

Step 4: Take Every Thought Captive
2 Corinthians 10:3-6

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Consecration

“Seeking admiration for your spirituality is damnable pride.” || David Brainerd

by Alan Sharpe June 1, 2022

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it.

by Alan Sharpe June 1, 2022

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

Excerpted from The Life of Rev. David Brainerd, from the diary of David Brainerd, edited by Jonathan Edwards. Public domain.

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