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THE CHRISTIAN is
one who is to be plainly seen, and yet his life is hidden; he is a
man in the world, but not a man of the world; he converses with
other men, and yet his conversation is in heaven.
He is one who lives to die, and dies to live; yet he is dead while
he lives, and lives when he dies.
He is one who lives in another, and for another; he seeks not
himself when he aims most at his own good; God is his all, and his
all is God; he aims at no end but the glory of God, of which there
is no end.
by
C. H. Spurgeon
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Daily Devotion by
C. H. Spurgeon |
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What is Porn Power?
Recently a young man made a
shocking confession. For quite sometime he had been hooked to the
internet on his computer. Everyday he would browse around websites
that would present hardcore pornography. Eventually, he became so
bound to this abominable addiction that it stopped him from even
going to college.
   All
he could think of almost all 24 hours was immorality. Any time he
looked at a woman it was with extreme lust. He had such a strong
sensual drive that he could not look at his godly mother as a
loving caring mother but as a stuff to satisfy his lustful
desires. He was ashamed to confess that sometimes at night without
his knowledge, his body would roll towards his mothers bed! Thank
god, he managed to somehow struggle and came back to his bed every
time that happened.
When he made this confession,
some Saints of God prayed with him for a number of days he himself
cried to god earnestly day and night and finally he was completely
set free.
Why does pornography have such
a stronghold strength over the mind? It is because it operates
much like a drug. It has a strong drive, which is so strong that
it can take over the reaction of the mind; the person wants more
and more of this pleasure, until finally it leads to destruction.
Ted bundy grew up in a holy
Christian home with loving parents who didn't smoke or gamble and
they all regularly attended church. But when he was 12 or 13 he
saw pornographic magazines and this got hold of him. He kept
wanting something stronger and stronger and finally not being able
to satisfy the addiction, he killed someone for just pleasure
sakes. He felt awful after that but the drive was so strong that
he soon did it again and again, and finally became a serial
killer. The day before he was executed he said, in an interview
that he wanted his testimony to be a warning of the dangers of
pornography – of how it could turn a child with such an excellent
upbringing into a horrible killer. Ted said that every violent
criminal he had met in prison, without exception had been
motivated by pornography.
The images of pornographic
materials are cut in, and engraved in your heart and mind,
bringing torments in your spirit soul and body. The holy spirit
wants to write his laws in our heart and mind to enable us to do
them." A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I
put within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall
keep my judgments, and do them " (Ezek 36:26,27). Similarly
Satan's unclean spirits want to write and draw images of unclean
things in our hearts and minds – to make us do (enact) them.
Many young people (some old
people too) do not realize that the power of pornography is
a devastating power coming from the very pit of hell. After
viewing or reading pornographic materials, people fantasise about
it – which leads to serious immoral activities. Every fantasy
becomes another link in the chain encircling the soul. Eventually
such a person has difficulty in interacting with others without
being dominated by impure thoughts and desires. As seen in the
life of that young man, you loose all your normal moral feelings
towards even your own sister mother or daughter. See what the word
of god says about such people "Who being past feeling have given
themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness" (Eph 4:19). Therefore porn addiction is, your normal
emotions or feelings being replaced in every part of your spirit,
soul and body. Finally you find yourself a mental wreck, corrupt
to the core.
 Most internet users believe
that unless they go looking for porn, it will not find them. What
they do not realize is, that pornographers are aggressively
implementing new strategies to market and push pornography to
innocent internet users without their consent and sometimes even
without their knowledge. If the user is spiritually unguarded he
becomes a new customer to the diabolic recruiters and slowly a
slave to porn power. So if as an unwitting customer you are thrust
into the visual import of
a porn display immediately get off that website (that has popped up on
your screen as a pop-up) bind that thought from corrupting your
mind and bring the residual imagination left in the mind, captive
to the obedience of Jesus Christ(2Cor 10:5).
Mat 6:22 The light of
the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness!
This shows that, in one sense, if your eyes are corrupt, you are
corrupt; if your eyes are evil, you are evil and you r life is
full of darkness. If we give room to the lust of the eyes,
one day you will be definitely bound by the devil and your
spiritual eyes will be put out. The eyes are connected to the
heart and mind (thoughts) (Proverbs 15:30; Job 31:1). When the
eyes are defiled, the heart and mind are also defiled.
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