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Pornography & The Home

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Pornography

• Does it belong in the home or anywhere else in our lives?

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Pornography

• “Pornography is an epidemic that is sweeping our country and threatens what moral purity and innocence we have left” Steve Higginbotham

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Pornography

• It is readily available today and many Christians – men and women – have to struggle with the temptation of this sin

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Pornography

• “to depict graphically the use and abuse and perversion of sex in any form or fashion”

• Written material or pictures that portray erotic behavior

• Material designed to produce sinful lusts and actions

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Pornography

• It used to be fairly difficult to get dirty books and other pornographic material

• NOW WE MUST WORK TO AVOID PORNOGRAPHY!

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Pornography

• “What's the bottom Line? Gone are the days when pornography was just associated with dirty theatres in bad neighborhoods and wrapped-up magazines under the counter at the convenience store.

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Pornography

• Gone are the days when persons had to make a deliberate, premeditated choice to get involved with porn. In the "Information Age," by contrast, we each must make a deliberate, premeditated choice not to get involved.” (James Merritt

• http://www.biblecenter.com/sermons/resistingpornography.htm)

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Pornography

• Television• Books• Videos• DVD’s• Movies

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Pornography

• Internet• TV commercials, sitcoms, reality

shows, etc.• Cell phones• Telephone (Dial-a-porn)• Other electronic media

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Pornography

• Magazines • Catalogs

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Pornography

• “Pornography is a “cold blooded attack on society”. Joe Hester, former FBI agent as quoted by Robert R. Taylor

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Pornography

• “Pornography is a cancer that is producing sexual perverts that is destroying the traditional family unit and is eating at the very roots of our country.” (James Merritt http://www.biblecenter.com/sermons/resistingpornography.htm)

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Pornography

• “The increasing number of sex crimes is due precisely to sex literature presented in magazines. Filthy literature is a the great moron maker. It is creating criminals faster that jails can be built.” J. Edgar Hoover as quoted by R. Taylor

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Pornography

• Mr. Hoover died in May 1972, some 20 years before we had world wide access via computer

• Now pornography is sent out at lightning speed via the internet.

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 1. It distorts sex from it’s God given purpose to sheer animal lust

• 2. It assaults the dignity and worth of women – presents them as sex objects

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 3. It brings about a sick desire for illicit and abnormal sex

• 4. It glorifies homosexuality and beastiality

• 5. It corrupts young minds and leads them into immoral conduct

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 6. It contributes to the epidemic of venereal disease in our nation

• 7. It may cause the one addicted to lose the ability to function in a normal, living marriage relationship

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 8. It is a direct cause of rape, violence and even murder against women

• 9. It promotes the sexual abuse of children. “Child pornography is the ultimate plunge into human degradation” J. Waddey

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 10. It makes merchandise of young men and women who are used to produce pornographic materials

• 11. It is addicting and has a desensitizing effect on the user

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Why Pornography Is Wrong

• 12. It destroys trust and has the same hurt as if one had actually committed fornication

• 13. It robs of our children of innocence

• 14. It is a sin!!!

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•What The Bible Says

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Ps 101:3

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Mt. 5:28

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Phil. 4:8

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Gal. 5:19

• Lasciviousness = unbridled lust

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2 Pet. 2:14

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Mt. 5:8

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Js. 4:8

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Defeating Pornography

• 1. We must determine in our hearts not to engage in it

• Ps. 103:1-4

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Ps. 103:1-4

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Defeating Pornography

• “Will I or won’t I permit porn in my life?”

• The time to ask and answer that question is now – not when you are reaching for the magazine or clicking on the forbidden website

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Defeating Pornography

• We must determine in our mind that we will not engage in sexual sins

• 2. We must discipline our senses

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Job 31:1

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Job 31:1

• Job made a covenant that he would not fix his eyes upon objects that might cause him to lust

• 3. Look to God for help – obtain forgiveness – pray for strength – shut out avenues of pornography

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References

• Resisting Pornography http://www.biblecenter.com/sermons/resistingpornography.htm

• The Pernicious Plague of Pornography, tract by Robert R. Taylor, Barber Printing, Tupelo, MS

• Moral Issues: Pornography, Sermon outline by Steve Higginbotham

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References

• The Pollution of Pornography, article by John Waddey

• Pornography’s Pain, tract by Allen Webster (http://www.housetohouse.com/store/Product.aspx?pid=122)