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Four People You Sin Against When You View Pornography

by Alan Sharpe May 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

One way to quit porn is to appreciate that your sin harms others. Your sexual immorality involves more than just you.

by Alan Sharpe May 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

Watching pornography isn’t a victimless crime. Each time you look at a woman to lust after her, you sin against four people. One way to quit porn is to appreciate that your sin harms others. Your sexual immorality involves more than just you.

When You View Porn, You Sin Against God

“Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight— that You may be found just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.”
Psalm 51:4

Psalm 51 is a prayer of repentance. The author is David. He wrote this psalm after Nathan the prophet confronted him about his adultery with Bathsheba, and about his sin in orchestrating events so that Bathsheba’s husband would be killed in battle s

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To Avoid Sexual Lust, Avoid the Second Look | 2 Samuel 11:1-5

by Alan Sharpe January 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

David sinned not because of where he was, or because he caught a glimpse of a beautiful woman bathing, but because he took the second look.

by Alan Sharpe January 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

As a Christian man, you fight a daily battle with your eyes. Like other men, you are tempted sexually primarily by what you see, and these days, you see a lot. You and I live in a hyper-sexualized culture where provocative images are everywhere. Billboards, TV commercials, magazines, websites, retail storefront displays, social media, beaches, smartphone apps, sidewalks, books, fitness centers, movie streaming services, workplaces, college campuses, public transit, swimming pools, church pews, and hundreds of other places tempt you to lust after women with your eyes.

If you want to gain victory over lustful looks, if you

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Serious About Quitting Porn? Where is Your Vow? | Psalm 101:3

by Alan Sharpe November 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

David vowed to God to never put anything wicked before his eyes. You can do the same thing if you are serious about forsaking pornography.

by Alan Sharpe November 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

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If you are a Christian man who is also married, you have likely made only one vow in your life. And that is the vow you made on your wedding day to your wife. You faced her at the altar, before God and a few other witnesses, and said something like this:

“I, [NAME], take thee, [NAME], to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God’s holy ordinance; and thereto I pledge thee my troth.”

If you find yourself breaking your wedding vow these days by lusting after women you see in movies and magazines, and on websites and apps, you may be ready to make another vow. A vow that helps you break free from the bondage of habitual sexual sin. This is what King David did.

You find David’s vow recorded in Psalm 101, a psalm tha

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