PJ Smyth preaches about the Porn epidemic among Christians

My friend PJ Smyth preached the above video sermon at the Movement Conference (other videos also available online).  He began by saying “”I want to talk about porn.”  This is a very good sermon that I highly commend you consider watching, especially if you are a man, though of course if you are a woman who has become hooked on porn this will also be very relevant for you.

Here are a few notes I took when I watched this live online:

• “Every second 3000 dollars are spent on porn. 40% of Christians say they struggle with it. Porn revolution is reprogramming women also”
• “porn is like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by listening to someone grunt a few bars”
• “Women know men like porn. They feel they can’t compete with the porn girls so it destroys their self esteem”
• “Porn girls never say no.” so the imaginery ruins real relationships
• “to Adam, Eve was perfect. She was his standard of beauty. Porn cuts that.”
• “the purpose of porn is to look at a woman lustfully. To Jesus that’s adultery.”
• “freedom isn’t the absence of restrictions it’s the presence of the right restrictions..eg a parachute”
• “sex in marriage is so important the devil does everything he can to get us into bed before we are married & stay out of bed when we are”
• “two ways to overcome sin: to receive power from God and for US to resist sin”
• “make a covenant and don’t lend your eyes out to sin. God has given you eyelids”
• “about 60% of the power of sin dissipates the moment you confess it to someone else”
• “the gospel & marriage teaches me that I am WAY worse than I thought, AND that I am WAY more loved & accepted than I thought.”
• “be a Churchill not a Chamberlain with sin”
• “spending time in Gods presence is one of the most underrated ways to deal with sin”
• “the gospel melts us and our hearts area changed by a higher affection”
• “godliness with contentment is a big destroyer of the I don’t have enough root of sin” ‪

UPDATE:  One man’s story Naked Women, Naked Girls is definitely worth a read.