Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 23:14
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.
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, and by working hard to appear righteous to their wives, their families, and to the children of Israel.
Looking at pornography makes liars of us all. If you have ever deleted your internet browsing history, flipped to another channel when someone entered the room, bought porn with a credit card your wife doesn’t know you own, looked at porn on Saturday and then preached against sin on Sunday (as I have), then you know that you are a liar. And not just a liar, but someone who “walks in lies,” just as the prophets of Jerusalem did.
The prophets of Jerusalem lied all day, wherever they went. They constantly spoke lies in their daily conversations. That’s the problem with adultery and other sexual sins. They are so shameful that men feel compelled to lie to hide their sin. The longer they remain in their sin, the more lies they must tell to remain undetected, and the bigger the lies become.
The opposite is also true, of course. Men who don’t commit adultery don’t have to lie about it. Men who don’t look at porn don’t have to hide apps on their phones. They don’t have to lie to their wives, deceive their girlfriends, tell falsehoods to their parents, delude their congregations, or mislead their employers.
When you forsake pornography, your load of sin becomes lighter. When you confess your sin to God and to those you have been sinning against, your conscience gets clearer. And you suddenly have a lighter step. You go about your day unafraid of getting caught in the act, or of being found out. When you quit the sin of porn, you quit all manner of other sins as well. Not a bad return on investment, eh?
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