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Joshua 9; Joshua 10; Joshua 11; 1 Corinthians 6
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Scripture

1 Corinthians 6

18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Observation

Sexual sin affects the body worse than any other and the Bible says, RUN from it. Do you just sit in front of the television when sex scenes appear in a program that you are watching or how about when a Victoria Secret commercial comes on do you just sit there and enjoy it? Let me encourage you not to do that especially if you are a man let me encourage you instead to get up and leave the room or at least cover or turn your face. You may be thinking to yourself, that is ridiculous, but I’m telling you it has been a huge help to me.

The Bible says, “RUN”. Did you know that about 20 to 30 percent of all pornography viewed on the Internet is viewed by women so maybe if you are a woman you should do the same as I am saying for the men. Teenagers and also those pre-teens are now becoming addicted to pornography on the Internet and make up a huge percentage of Internet pornography viewers.

I read this verse a few months back Job 31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman” and after I read this verse I decided to make a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman (or even not so young women). So now when an attractive girl catches my eye and I start to take a second look I say to myself, “I have made a covenant with my eyes not to lust.” The Bible says, “Run”. Sexual sin is the most destructive sin because it is a sin against your body, and it destroys not only you but it can destroy a lot of other people that you love.

If when you are tempted to click over to a porn site you yield to that temptation and visit that site or maybe you have now developed a habit of looking at pornography then you need to do one or two things: throw your computer out in the yard or put on a filter that will keep you honest. No family that has children in the home should ever have a computer in their home that doesn’t have a filter on it. If you do then you are just down right “stupid”. I know that my wording is a little strong but you still are “stupid” if you allow the possibility of your children to be damaged and possibly destroyed by pornography reaching them by your computer.

It is said that addiction to pornography is stronger than an addiction to drugs or alcohol. I believe that someone, especially someone that is a Christian that is addicted to pornography sometimes may also be addicted to drugs or alcohol and they drink or do drugs just so they can numb or deaden the guilt of this sexual perversion.

Application

I will honor God with my body and I will keep the covenant that I have made with my eyes not to look lustfully at women. How about you? If you need help with any kind of addiction you can find it through a ministry called "Celebrate Recovery." Click here for more information.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me keep the covenant that I have made with you to keep my life pure. Don’t allow the evil one to have a victory in my life through things that my eyes see. Give me the strength to turn and not look when what I am tempted to look at something that would cause me to sin. Help those that I know that struggle with an addiction to pornography to have victory over this sin before it completely destroys them. Do whatever it takes to rescue them from this horrible sin. I know that because I have written this blog today about sexual sin that today I will probably come under attack in this area. Help me Lord to please you and help me to honor you with what my eyes focus on. In Jesus Name Amen.

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