“If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.”
Matthew 5:29-30
If Twitter causes you to sin, should you keep scrolling? If Facebook tempts you to sin sexually, should you keep clicking? If Instagram causes you to commit sexual immorality, should you continue swiping? If Tik Tok causes you to commit adultery, should you keep watching? No, nope, never, and negatory. The key to gaining and maintaining victory over sexual temptation is twofold: (1) know your triggers, and (2) avoid your triggers.
Jesus establishes this principle in His Sermon on the Mount. He tells you and me and His other disciples, “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you.” That is, if something you see triggers you to sin sexually, eliminate that trigger in such a way that it can’t trigger you now and it can’t trigger you ever again in the future. If you pluck out your right eye and cast it from you, you are never going to use that eye again, right? That’s the weight of Jesus teaching. You must take drastic, costly action to avoid sexual sin. And that preventive action must be permanent. That’s why you don’t just pluck out your right eye. You cast it away as well.
Which brings us to Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Tik Tok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter and every other social media platform. Some of these platforms (like Twitter) allow pornographic videos and images. Other platforms (like Facebook) prohibit porn but allow all manner of sexually suggestive, provocative and otherwise inappropriate content. So, here’s the thing. Do any of these platforms cause you to look at women to lust after them (as Jesus forbids)? Do they cause you to commit adultery in your heart? In short, do any social platforms cause you to sin? Then you must pluck them out and throw them away. You must delete your social accounts. This is what Jesus demands of you.
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