Culture and religion both often get it wrong when it comes to our sexuality. This message focuses on how that relates to pornography.

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3. “There is a more intense pre-disposition to
changing DNa and enhance the behavioral
patterns of the individual with pornography than
there is with substance abuse...
Dr. Dean Belnap

4. it’s the encroachment upon the opportunity of
the brain to form nerve pathways of a
constructive nature in their growth and
development.”
Dr. Dean Belnap

5. 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.
1 Corinthians 6:18

7. “Because children learn sexual cues early, boys
may train themselves to respond only to images
shaped by porn stars,”
time magazine
while girls may learn that submission and
Brazilian bikini waxes are the keys to pleasing
men. Recent studies show a correlation between
increased aggressiveness in boys and exposure
to pornography, and a link between childhood use
of porn and sexually abusive behavior in
adulthood. quot;It's not easy to shock me,quot; says

8. “while girls may learn that submission
and Brazilian bikini waxes are the keys
to pleasing men.”
time magazine
Recent studies show a correlation between
increased aggressiveness in boys and exposure
to pornography, and a link between childhood use
of porn and sexually abusive behavior in
adulthood. quot;It's not easy to shock me,quot; says
Judith Coche, a therapist in Philadelphia who has
been in practice for 25 years. quot;But one 11-year-

9. “Recent studies show a correlation between
increased aggressiveness in boys and exposure to
pornography, and a link between childhood use of
porn and sexually abusive behavior in adulthood...
time magazine

10. “As such incidents multiply,”
more Americans--parents especially--may come to
[this] conclusion: We have to turn off the porn.
time magazine

11. But among you there must not be even a hint of
sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or
of greed, because these are improper for God's
holy people.
ephesians 5:3

12. The lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as
honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. 4 But
the result is as bitter as poison, sharp as a
double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to the grave.
proverbs 5:1,2

13. For she does not care about the path to life. She
staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t even
realize where it leads.
proverbs 5:3-6

14. But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with
lust has already committed adultery with her in
his heart.
matthew 5:28

15. So now, my sons, listen to me. Never stray from
what I am about to say: Run from her! Don’t go
near the door of her house! If you do, you will
lose your honor and hand over to merciless
people everything you have achieved in life.
proverbs 5:7-9

16. Strangers will obtain your wealth, and someone
else will enjoy the fruit of your labor. Afterward
you will groan in anguish when disease consumes
your body, and you will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not demanded my own way!”
proverbs 5:10-12

17. “Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t
I pay attention to those who gave me
instruction? I have come to the brink of utter
ruin, and now I must face public disgrace.”
proverbs 5:13,14

18. As I stood at the window of my house looking out
through the shutters, Watching the mindless crowd
stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense
Arriving at the corner of the street where she
lived, then turning up the path to her house.
proverbs 7:6-8

19. It was dusk, the evening coming on,
the darkness thickening into night.
proverbs 7:9

20. “You can’t keep a bird from flying over your
head, but you can keep him from building a nest
in your hair.”
martin Luther

21. Just then, a woman met him — she’d been lying in wait
for him, dressed to seduce him. Brazen and brash
she was, restless and roaming, never at home,
Walking the streets, loitering in the mall, hanging
out at every corner in town.
proverbs 7:10-12

22. She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly
took his arm and said, “I’ve got all the makings for a
feast — today I made my offerings, my vows are all
paid, So now I’ve come to find you, hoping to catch
sight of your face — and here you are!”
proverbs 7:13-15

23. “the real evil of masturbation [is it] sends the man
into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of
imaginary brides. This harem, once admitted, works
against his ever getting out and really uniting with a
real woman. For the harem is always accessible
C.S. Lewis

24. always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or
adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and
psychological attractions which no woman can
rival...the man is always adored, always the perfect
lover;
C.S. Lewis

25. no demand is made on his unselfishness, no
mortification ever imposed on his vanity. In the end,
they become merely the medium through which he
increasingly adores himself.
C.S. Lewis

26. Soon she has him eating out of her hand,
bewitched by her honeyed speech. Before you
know it, he’s trotting behind her, like a calf
led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured
into ambush. and then shot with an arrow,
Like a bird flying 7:21-23
proverbs into a net
not knowing that its flying life is over.

27. Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its
flying life is over.
proverbs 7:23

28. So, friends, listen to me, take these words of
mine most seriously. Don’t fool around with a
woman like that; don’t even stroll through
her neighborhood.
proverbs 7:24,25

29. Countless victims come under her spell;
she’s the death of many a poor man. She runs
a halfway house to hell, fits you out with a
shroud and a coffin.
proverbs 7:26,27

30. You have heard the commandment that says, “You
must not commit adultery.” But I say, anyone who
even looks at a woman with lust has already
committed adultery with her in
his heart.
matthew 5:28

31. So if your eye—even your good eye—causes you to
lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better
for you to lose one part of your body than for
your whole body to be thrown into hell.
matthew 5:29

32. and if your hand - even your stronger hand -
causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. it
is better for you to lose one part of your body
than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
matthew 5:30

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35. “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with
lust at a young woman. For what has God above
chosen for us? What is our inheritance from the
Almighty on high?
job 31:1,2

36. Isn’t it calamity for the wicked and
misfortune for those who do evil? Doesn’t
he see everything I do and every step I take?
job 31:3,4

37. confess it
My guilt overwhelms me —
it is a burden too heavy to bear.
psalm 38:4

38. confess it
Confess your sins to each other and pray for
each other so that you may be healed. The
earnest prayer of a righteous person has great
power and produces wonderful results.
james 5:16

40. So I say, let the holy spirit guide your lives. Then
you won’t be doing what your sinful nature
craves.
galatians 5:16