Teaching Seven Pornography
12 Questions and Answers at the end of teaching three on this topic
Video Point – 2
Goal
Flee From Idolatry
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Our God Is The True God
They Tell How You Turned To God
From Idols
To Serve
The Living And True God,
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Point Two
Pornography Is Devoted To Destruction
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Surely Her House Leads Down To Death
And
Her Paths To The Spirits Of The Dead.
Scripture Uses The Words Path And The Word Way A Lot
And What I Want To Show You Is That Pornography
Is A Dark And Devious Path
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With The Growth Of Pornography On The Internet It Is Easy For Potential Addicts, The Possibility
The Likelihood And / Or Unfortunately Soon-To-Be Addicts To Get Hooked On Pornography
What Does Pornography Do
It Causes You To Think Perverted Thoughts
And
Form In Your Mind Evil Desires
That Is A Poison Both To Your Mind And Heart
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Question?
What Is Pornography
Soft-Porn
R-Rated Movies
Eye Candy
Thumbnails
Chat Rooms
Sexting
Erotic Stories
It Can Be Legal Or Illegal
And the tragic reality is, it has saturated every level of our media today. To the point we have grown a custom to seeing it, we have become numb to it.
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Definition
It Is The Depiction Of Any Erotic Material
Behavior Or Acts Intended To Cause Sexual Excitement
In Other Words Anything You Can
See Read Or Hear
That’s Designed To Cause Sexual Arousal
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The Four Stages Of Continual Use Of Pornography
1 – Addiction
2 – Escalation
3 – Desensitization
4 – Acting Out
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1 – Addiction
Definition
When You Repeatedly Return To Pornographic Material
For Sexual Excitement
As You Know
When We View This Material Our Intent Most Often Is To Accompany It With Masturbation
Often An Addiction Progresses Like This
We Have A Legitimate
Hunger Or Longing
We Can Turn To God
Or For Us Who Struggle With An Out Of Control Sex Drive
We May Turn To Something Like – Maybe Pornography
In A Very Short Time We Find That We Have Created
A Habit
And Before We Know What Happen It Has Turned Into
A Dependency
In Other Words We Do Not Want To Lived Without It
The Next Thing We Know It Is
A Compulsion – A Craving – An Obsession
We Are Consumed By It
And Finally We Wake Up One Day And We Realize That Are
Slaves To It
Once Again When We Are Enslaved In This Deception
That Is Devoted To Destruction
We Cannot At The Same Time Be Able
To Worship Our God Or
Do Spiritual Warfare
You Need To Know That Viewing Pornography
Is A Doorway To Sexual Addiction
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2 Escalation
Definition
To Increase – To Intensify
A Need For The Content To Be Stronger
In Other Words
The Person Has A Need For More
- Explicit
- Bizarre And
- Sexually Shocking Material
To Achieve The Same Level Of Sexual Stimulation
The Tolerance Level Keeps Needing More And More
To Sustain That Same Level Of Stimulation
Addiction Most Often Is Progressive
The Hence Slippery Slopes
In Other Words
A Little Never Seems To Be Enough
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3 Desensitization
Definition
To Be Emotionally Insensitive Or Callous
To Be
Unfeeling – Numb – Frozen – Deadened
What Initially Would Be Gross And Shocking Material
Becomes More And More Acceptable To The Addict
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4 Acting Out
Definition
What Starts Out In Private Eventually Affects Real Life Relationships
There Is An Increased Tendency To Act Out Sexual Activities Seen In Pornography
The Addiction Often Seduces A Person Into These Behaviors
No Matter How Bad The Consequences
It Can Even Increase The Possibility Of A Person Committing A Serious Sex Crime
According To the New York Times (July 2011) In The U.S.
There Are 650,000 Registered Sex Offenders
And Another 100,000 Estimated At Large Not Registered
(CNN )
What Do I Want You To Keep From This Point Here
That Pornography Is Destroying
Great Numbers Of Our Brothers In Christ
All Over The World
And The Reality Is That Satan Wants You And Me To Be In That Number
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Point Two
Pornography Is Devoted To Destruction
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Goal
Flee From Idolatry
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Pray
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Our God Is The True God
They Tell How You Turned To God
From Idols
To Serve
The Living And True God
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The Choice And The Challenge Seminar © 2006
Teaching Seven
Pornography