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Porn Sends You to Hell

by Alan Sharpe November 4, 2024 Leave a Comment

Jesus, Paul, Peter, Jude and other New Testament writers taught that sexual purity is essential for followers of Christ, and they did not shy away from describing the eternal consequences of disregarding this teaching.

by Alan Sharpe November 4, 2024 Leave a Comment

In our digital age, pornography is more accessible than ever before, but its availability does not lessen the danger it poses to our souls. The Bible, especially the New Testament, gives clear and serious warnings about the consequences of sexual immorality, including consuming pornography. Jesus, Paul, and other New Testament writers taught that sexual purity is essential for followers of Christ, and they did not shy away from describing the eternal consequences of disregarding this teaching. Here, we’ll explore what the Bible says about pornography and why it warns that habitual engagement with it can lead to eternal separation from God.

1. Jesus’ Teaching on Lust and Hell

Jesus addresses the issue of sexual lust directly in the Gospel of Matthew. He warns that harboring lustful thoughts is equivalent to committing adultery in one’s heart:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not
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You, Canaan, and God’s Wrath | Leviticus 18:24-25

by Alan Sharpe July 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

God hates pornography. God hates sexual immorality. Just look at what God did to the Canaanites so see how much he hates sexual sin.

by Alan Sharpe July 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:24-25

If you want to understand God’s opinion of pornography, just open your Bible and see what God commanded the children of Israel to do with the nations that were in the Promised Land. These wicked nations practiced incest, homosexuality, child sacrifice, bestiality and more (Leviticus 18:6-23). God commanded Joshua and his armies to destroy these nations, man, woman and child. Joshua and his men obeyed. “They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword” (Joshua 6:21).

Why did God destroy the Canaanites? Because God chose the nation of Israel to be a witness to the world of the true and living God. God commanded the

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

by Alan Sharpe June 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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

by Alan Sharpe June 15, 2022 Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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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Escape for Your Life | Genesis 19:17

by Alan Sharpe May 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

If you want to escape God’s judgment, escape your sexual immorality. Lot escaped the sexually immoral city of Sodom while he had the chance. You should, too.

by Alan Sharpe May 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

“Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.”
Genesis 19:17

God’s advice for the Christian man who watches pornography can be summed up in one word—escape! God will have mercy on you just as He had mercy on Lot, but only if you obey God, escape the wicked city, don’t look back, and go to live somewhere safe.

Lot was a righteous man who lived with his wife and family in Sodom, a city so wicked that the Bible uses the name of the city as a symbol of wickedness. Its destruction at the hands of the Lord is held up as a warning to sinners of coming judgment (Jude 7). God had mercy on Lot and his family by giving them a chance to leave the city before it was consumed from heaven with fire and brimstone.

Today, if your life

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Watch Porn Habitually, Die Spiritually | Romans 8:13

by Alan Sharpe April 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

A man who looks at pornography habitually is, by definition, living according to the flesh. Unless he forsakes his sin, He will die and be separated from God for all eternity.

by Alan Sharpe April 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

“For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”
Romans 8:13

Do you treat forgiveness as a pre-paid credit card? Do you sin sexually, repeatedly and habitually because you believe your sins—past, present, future—are all forgiven, no matter what, guaranteed? Do you look at pornography and masturbate, week in, week out, knowing that on every occasion you can always rely on God for His forgiveness because God is obligated to forgive you?

If you look at pornography and masturbate but want to stop, your inability to conquer your sin might just be tied to your misunderstanding of eternal security. If you believe you are “once saved, always saved” and that you can never fall away, you need to read your New Testament. Every writer in the New Testament warns believers about falling away. When commissioning the 12 disciples, Christ warns them five times about falling away.

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Whoever Abides in Him Does Not Watch Porn | 1 John 3:6

by Alan Sharpe March 29, 2022 Leave a Comment

Jesus teaches that there are people who will be thrown into the Lake of Fire who thought they were saved and eternally secure. Don’t be one of them.

by Alan Sharpe March 29, 2022 Leave a Comment

Whoever Abides in Him Does Not Watch Porn | 1 John 3:6

“Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”
1 John 3:6

There is only one thing worse than being saved but having no assurance, and that is being lost but having assurance. The man who engages in pornography, masturbation and other sexual sins habitually and compulsively and yet thinks he is on his way to glory is the man most to be pitied. He thinks he has eternal security when all he has is a track record of ongoing disobedience that proves he is not a child of God.

This is the clear teaching of 1 John 3:6: “No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him.” Amplified Bible.

Abiding in Christ is incompatible with h

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You the Porn User, Enemy of God | James 4:4

by Alan Sharpe March 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

When you enjoy porn, you make yourself a friend of pornographers and sex traffickers. And with friends like them, who needs enemies?

by Alan Sharpe March 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

You the Porn User, Enemy of God | James 4:4

“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
James 4:4

I don’t suppose you woke up this morning with the express aim of making yourself an enemy of God. You are a Christian, after all. And Christians are supposed to love God with all their heart, and with all their soul, and with all their strength and with all their mind (Luke 10:37). If anyone is an enemy of God, surely it’s not you, right? Wrong.

James tells us that friendship with the world is enmity with God. That is, affection for, fondness of, and love for the world is hostility towards, alienation from and opposition to God. When James refers to “the world,” he doesn’t mean the physical world, such as mountains, lakes and trees. And he doesn’t mean the people of the world. He means the world in a moral sense. He means the spirit that is opposed to God.

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Porn Keeps You Out of the Kingdom of God | Galatians 5:19-21

by Alan Sharpe February 24, 2022 Leave a Comment

Watching pornography and masturbating will keep you out of the kingdom of God. Paul put that in writing.

by Alan Sharpe February 24, 2022 Leave a Comment

Porn Keeps You Out of the Kingdom of God | Galatians 5:19-21

“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21

What would you think if a visiting preacher stepped into your pulpit next Sunday and warned you that you are not going to inherit the kingdom of God if you continue to watch porn and masturbate? Would you label him a heretic? Phone your denominational headquarters and demand that the preacher be removed from the ministry? Or would you believe him?

This preacher visits your church and your home every week in the person of the Apostle Paul. When Paul wrote his letter to the churches of Galatia, he penned his wor

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“Let our evening thoughts be of the day of judgment.” || Jeremy Taylor

by Alan Sharpe February 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

The way to prevent God’s anger is to be angry with ourselves; and by examining our actions . . . to obtain the favour of the court.

by Alan Sharpe February 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

And it will appear highly fitting, if we remember that, at the day of judgment, not only the greatest lines of life, but every branch and circumstance of every action, every word and thought, shall be called to scrutiny and severe judgment; insomuch that it was a great truth which one said, Woe be to the most innocent life, if God should search into it without mixtures of mercy. And therefore we are here to follow St. Paul’s advice, ‘Judge yourselves, and you shall not be judged of the Lord.’ The way to prevent God’s anger is to be angry with ourselves; and by examining our actions, and condemning the criminal, by being assessors in God’s tribunal, at least we shall obtain the favour of the court. As therefore every night we must make our bed the memorial of our grave, so let our evening thoughts be an image of the day of judgment.

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Why You Can’t Pray and Masturbate at the Same Time | Romans 1:28-29

by Alan Sharpe February 4, 2022 Leave a Comment

Habitual masturbation to porn is one symptom of a heart hardened towards God, of a mind that no longer likes to retain a knowledge of God.

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Why You Can't Pray and Masturbate at the Same Time | Romans 1:28-29

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers.” Romans 1:28-29

When God gives up on an individual, He gives them over to sexual immorality. Habitual sexual sin is one symptom of a heart hardened towards God, of a mind that no longer likes to retain a knowledge of God. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18).

If you are a Christian man who habitually masturbates to pornography, and if you desire to quit, reverse-engineer this text to uncover the cause of your bondage—and the remedy. Don’t look to your childhood. Don’t listen to Celebrate Recovery and

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10 Things God Calls You if You Look at Pornography

by Alan Sharpe January 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

If you want to understand how wicked pornography is in the sight of God, just study the words that God uses to describe the sexually immoral.

by Alan Sharpe January 10, 2022 Leave a Comment

10 Things God Calls You if You Watch Porn

Are you a porn addict? No. Not according to the Bible, anyway. The world may tell you that you have an addiction, that you have a wound, that you seek intimacy in the wrong places, and that you have a disease called porn addiction. But this is not how God looks at pornography and sexual immorality. If you want to know God’s view of your habitual sexual sin, simply open your Bible to discover what God calls the sexually immoral.

1. Adulterer

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27

When you watch pornography, you look at a woman to lust after her. Jesus calls that adultery. That makes you an adulterer.

2. Idolater

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Sexually Immoral Christians Are Deceived | 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

by Alan Sharpe January 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

Some professing Christians think they can call Jesus Lord, practice sexual sin, and still inherit the kingdom of God. They are deceived. Are you?

by Alan Sharpe January 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

Sexually Immoral Christians Are Deceived | 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

If you claim to be a Christian but engage in habitual sexual immorality, you are deceived. If you profess Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, but continue to masturbate to pornography, you are deceived. This might be the primary reason that you are failing to get victory over your sexual immorality. You are deluded about how you can be both a Christian and a habitual fornicator at the same time.

So, what are you deceived about? The Bible tells you. In The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, in the sixth chapter, Paul asks the church at Corinth a simple but searching question:

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Sexual Immorality Ends in Divine Judgment | Hebrews 13:4

by Alan Sharpe December 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

The Bible makes plain that those who indulge in sexual sin will pay the ultimate price: eternal judgment in the lake of fire. Can’t say you weren’t warned.

by Alan Sharpe December 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

If you sat down right now and listed all the consequences you can anticipate if you continue in your sexual immorality, where would God’s wrath appear on your list, if at all? One of the prevailing errors of this age is that if you are saved, God will overlook your sexual immorality and adultery. Your place in heaven is reserved, and you will arrive there by and by, no matter the depth, breadth or length of your sexual sin.

But this is not what the Scriptures say. The Bible makes plain that those who indulge in sexual sin will pay the ultimate price. Simply turn to the New Testament book of Hebrews, and read the 13th chapter.

“Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4

Notice that God will not judge the sins of fornication and adultery. God will judge the perpetrators, those who engage in these sins. God’s judgment is res

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You, Porn, and Sodom and Gomorra | Jude 1:5-7

by Alan Sharpe December 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

If you struggle today with viewing pornography, masturbation or another sexual sin, take a warning from the fate of Sodom and Gomorra.

by Alan Sharpe December 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

If you ever wonder what the future looks like for you and your habitual sexual immorality, just look back in human history to the cities of Sodom and Gomorra. God punishes sexual sin, and the fate of these two cities holds a lesson for you. You read about it in the New Testament book of Jude.

“But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
Jude 1:5-7

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Porn and the Point of No Return | Revelation 9:21

by Alan Sharpe December 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

Pornography is a type of sexual immorality that gets progressively more sinful. Don’t assume you can continue for long on the path of sexual sin without facing divine judgment.

by Alan Sharpe December 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

The sin of watching pornography is not static, but progressive. The sinful images you look at today will no longer stimulate you in a few months. You will require images that are progressively more vile, more wicked, to satisfy you. The longer you watch pornography, the deeper you descend into the pit of sin, and the harder it is to climb out. Assuming you ever do climb out.

Just consider the people who are alive at the end of the age, when God brings His judgment upon the earth. You read about them in the New Testament book of Revelation. God brings hail and fire that destroys most plant and aquatic life. God darkens the sun and moon. God sends a plague of demonic locusts that torture those who are unsaved. And God sends an army of horsemen who kill a third of humanity.

And what do you suppose is the response of those still left alive on earth after all of these divine judgments? The Apostle John tells us.

“But the rest of mankind,
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The Naked Truth About Porn | 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

by Alan Sharpe December 6, 2021 Leave a Comment

If you think you can intentionally and regularly view pornography but still inherit the kingdom of God, you are deceived. Paul’s warning is for you.

by Alan Sharpe December 6, 2021 Leave a Comment

What would you think of a Christian brother who ran a protection racket in your neighborhood, extorting money from business owners, but who nevertheless thought he was on his way to glory? What would you think of a Christian man who spends his Sunday mornings with you at church, and his Sunday nights stealing cars, but who nevertheless has assurance of his salvation and is looking forward to reaching heaven by and by?

These two men think there are no eternal consequences for their willful, habitual sin. And so they continue professing Christ while practicing lawlessness. But are they any different from the man who professes Christ but who watches pornography willfully, habitually? Find the answer in 1 Corinthians, chapter six.

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortion
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