Pornography: Satan’s Distortion of God’s Good Gift
Pornography is wreaking havoc in our culture. It’s destroying relationships, polluting minds and hearts, and causing people to be trapped in a bondage that they often feel they can never escape from.
Pornography’s source is Satan, who is not a mythical character. The Bible describes Satan as a real entity that stands opposed to God in everything and is an evil adversary of God’s human creation.
I Peter 5:8 (NLT) says, “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.”
Satan’s desire is to distort and destroy every good thing that God has created, not the least of which is sex. God created sex as a good gift to be experienced and enjoyed within the safe context of the marriage covenant, between a man and a woman. God’s design, as Creator, is “male & female” in a committed relationship as “husband and wife” (see: Genesis 1:27; 2:25; 5:2). In the New Testament, Jesus affirmed this design of human creation (see: Matthew 19:4-6 & Mark 10:6 – 9).
If pornography is something that you have engaged with, and maybe feel trapped in, I encourage you to check out the following link to a helpful podcast. It’s intended to equip men and women on their journey toward freedom and victory from the effects of pornography – Pure Victory Podcast: https://www.restoredministries.ca/purevictory
Just so you are aware, one of the podcast hosts, Braden Hafner, is someone our church helps to support (along with his wife Kristen) through our Eaglemont missions giving. They are Regional Directors with Family Life Canada which is a great ministry that works to bring help and hope to marriages and families.
There is help and hope. Reach out. Receive the support, prayer and resources that are available in this ‘fight’!
Pastor Marlo