Want to Quit Porn and Masturbation? Say “No.” | Titus 2:11-12

The biblical remedy for porn, masturbation and sexual immorality isn’t complicated. It can be summed up in one word.

Want to Quit Porn and Masturbation. Say "No." | Titus 2:11-12

“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.”
Titus 2:11-12 NIV

Want to know the secret to quitting porn? Quit porn. Want to know the secret to not masturbating? Don’t masturbate. I realize that this sounds like simplistic advice, because it is. The guaranteed way to quit sexual immorality is to quit sexual immorality. That’s what the Bible says.

How do you quit porn? Say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions. How do you quit masturbation? Say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions. That’s the formula, that’s the proven method, that’s the biblical remedy. It’s not complicated.

Celebrate Recovery, Sexaholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs complicate this issue of forsaking sexual sin. Celebrate Recovery, for example, requires you to follow the Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps and Biblical Comparisons, plus follow the Celebrate Recovery Eight Recovery Principles, plus recite the Prayer for Serenity at each meeting, plus follow the five rules in their Small Group Guidelines. To get victory over sexual sin using their method, you must call yourself an addict, make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself, admit your sexual sins to someone you trust, make a list of people you have harmed, evaluate all your relationships, make amends to people you have harmed, and on, and on, and on.

But biblical victory isn’t this complicated. In fact, it’s not complicated at all. You are commanded to say “No” to sexual temptation. You are commanded to say “No” to sexual immorality. The biblical remedy for porn and masturbation is self-denial plus godly living. Period. When tempted, you say “No.” When a wicked thought enters your mind, you say “No.” When you feel a powerful urge to fall back into sin, you say “No.”

To do this successfully, you need only one thing: God’s grace. The grace that saved you is the same grace that teaches you to say “No” to sexual sin. Don’t overcomplicate this. You know how to say “No,” right? Then say it. Say it now. Say it all day today. One word. One syllable. That’s your path to victory.


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