How many times have you looked at a picture of a woman or a girl with lust in your heart or your mind? In our world today with the Internet making pornography so easy to obtain and keep as a “hidden sin” there are many more who fall into this practice than most people would think. The really sad fact is that most of those who do fall “victim” to engaging in watching pornography on the web or looking at pictures from these sites are supposed to be leaders in our churches. Youth ministers and Lead pastors of churches which keep their habits on personal laptops and hopefully not on the church computer.
Why do I bring this up? Because I read an article about it in the AFA Journal that I get each month. It is a very disturbing statistic and it actually funds sex trafficking in a big way as well. This type of sin, which is exactly what it is, is known in the Bible as fornication. This word in the Bible encompasses just a glance, to a touch or anything beyond that but the Bible makes it clear that “fornicators will not inherit eternal life”. The Bible uses the words “sexually immoral” in place of fornicators but it means the same thing.
We are supposed to be better than this! Jesus didn’t call you into any ministry to fall victim to Satan’s temptations to sin! But…in the news, we hear of pastors committing adultery and bishops molesting children. Why aren’t we taking our calling from God more seriously? What has happened to our being a dedicated disciple of Jesus and a servant of God? These are good questions and they deserve answers but I don’t have any answers. God’s Word gives us the answers and it tells us to run from even the idea of these sins, yet there are still people in the church who are being caught in these sins and casting a dark stain on the church as a whole.
Prayer is needed because the statistics are staggering in their implications of how many may be involved in these practices. Much prayer is needed in the church as a whole, not just one denomination but the entire body of the church, the Body of Christ here to serve those who believe. Pastors, ministers, and teachers in the church are supposed to be dedicated to their service to God and to those who look to them for guidance. We are not supposed to exploit anyone, regardless of their age, sex, or in any way which could be looked at as predatory in its nature. If there is anyone who is doing this in any way, they should be prayed for and confronted about it and at the very least try to get them some professional help!
This type of sin is easy to fall into but, if it continues long enough, it is very hard to get out of. Without therapy and professional help and much prayer, I don’t think that anyone could get out of it. It would take a person to be convicted spiritually and personally to know that their sin had been noticed and it needs to be expunged from their lives. I pray that anyone who reads this might use any of these suggestions to either get help or provide help to someone who really needs this.
Thank you for your attention and may God bless the outcome of any good that might come from this. Amen
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I actually used to watch a Pentecostal preacher who used to be addicted to porn, and was cheating after his wife. He claims to have repented, yet he is clearly showing arrogance and kicking people out of the church for not worshipping Trump, whom he has idolized even after he lost the election. I am talking about Jimmy Swaggart and his crew, and their moral hypocrisy. Sins like this are the reason why preachers fall from grace and get exposed. We are supposed to model Christlike behavior yet we run to Satan’s temptations to willfully commit the very sin we speak against?!? I know we are not perfect, but there is zero excuse for anyone leading the flock to tolerate nor exercise such behavior! I don’t need another leader preaching John 3:16, but a leader who refuses to compromise to follow the crowd! If we as a people are truly going to take a firm stand against the kingdom of Satan, we need sincere leaders who go above and beyond to best exemplify the ministry and the lifestyle of Jesus! Let’s not just stand against Satan for what he is doing, but for who he is, and the very behavior he continues to display through these hypocrites!! Amen!