"87% of those convicted for child molestation admit to being
users of hardcore pornography...86% of convicted rapists
used pornography, and 57% of these rapists said they were
trying to imitate pornographic images when they committed
their crimes."
~via Breakpoint, Prison Fellowship Ministries.
Did I hear someone say once that what we watch on
TV and at the movies doesn’t affect our thinking and
sometimes our very actions? Listen, if you insist on
watching these types of programs, you’re insisting upon
filling your mind and entertaining yourself with the same
types of things which put the Lord on the cross. It doesn’t
just end with pornography. We shouldn’t be watching
sit-coms and other programs and movies that fill our
thoughts with dancing, drinking, homosexuality, adultery,
lying, cheating, stealing, filthy language and a host of other
works of the flesh.
Most would agree that it’s wrong to
watch pornography, then they show their inconsistency by
saying it’s ok to watch other sins. I guess these other sins
are insignificant and ok to watch. If you can watch your
program that has “only one or two cuss words,” then I can
watch my program that has only one or two hardcore sex
scenes. It’s just as much a sin to approve of these things as
it is to practice them (Rom. 1:32). Paul commanded that we
abstain from the very appearance of evil (1 Thess. 5:22).
King David was wise for the decision he made, “I will set
nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who
fall away” (Psa. 101:3). Won’t you be a man after God’s
own heart?
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