Resisting Porn is a tract explaining why and how we resist seeing bad images, and the sin and problems related to this.

Resisting Porn

Being happy with what you have
By David Cox
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Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Pornography has become a serious problem in our society. Sometimes it seems that one cannot even walk in the street without seeing 100 meter high warnings of naked women. In each corner there are posts that sell pornography, and one cannot be in public places without a television with programs or warnings with partially naked or naked women. One goes to any public place and the women there certainly have little clothes on their sexual parts, or the clothes are transparent, or too tight to attract attention and cause the sin of greed.

Seeing a Woman to covet her

The problems of pornography fall into three main ones: (1) It is to sin against the Lord – One is coveting what is not his, and for God, coveting a woman is just as having sex outside of marriage (adultery or fornication). (2) It is to sin against your partner – One is disloyal, not faithful, to your partner. If one is not married, he is acting in impurity, youth passions (“Flee from youth passions” 2 Timothy 2:22) which is a sin. (3) It is to sin against oneself, against oneself.

Matthew 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

(“To covet” is to take pleasure in something, to desire or to search for oneself (illegitimately) or in an illegitimate objective.) 1 Kings 21 relates the bad maneuver that King Ahab did to remove Nabot and get himself a vineyard. It is not a sin to buy a land, but when they do not leave you, or it is not legal, and to follow with anxiety to get something is to covet it.) Already adulterated with her in his heart.

Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. (Romans 13:9 For you will not commit adultery, you will not kill, you will not steal, you will not say false testimony, you will not covet, and any other commandment, this sentence sums up: You will love your neighbor as yourself.) Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.




Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

(1) Seeing her to covet her is adultery – Here Jesus broadens the definition of adultery to be more than having sex, to having them mentally. Thoughts are where Satan wins us in this battle. If we really talk about this matter, men see naked women because they want them. There is a desire deep in your heart towards this woman, and this desire is only correct when the woman is your legal wife. How sad that men cannot stop thinking like that towards any woman they see, but they ignore and belittle their own wife in this regard.

Ephesians 5:3 But fornication and all filthiness, or greed, not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 5 For you know this, that no fornicator, or filthy, or greedy, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

God makes it hard with greed. People who are fornicators have another god, practice idolatry, and have no part in the kingdom of God (they are not saved). Talk to prostitutes and homosexuals, and you present the gospel to them, and it is always the same, they do not accept the Lord because they want to give up their unbridled sex life. It is his idol.

(2) Disloyalty to his partner (adultery) – After all, Jesus put all this in perspective for us in Matthew 5:27-28. To covet a woman (for seeing, reading, or thinking) is just as sinful as if you were actually going to her and doing it for real. The consequences of AIDS, sexual illness, unwanted babies, etc. may not come, but in the eyes of God, it is the same.

Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Malachi 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

God puts loyalty to your partner in a spiritual context. Wandering from the heart is a spiritual fall with God, both with the vows with your partner.

(3) It is a sin against your own body. Sins of fornication (sexual impurity) are sins that harm the very being of the person who makes them. Spiritually, we harm ourselves in getting into fornication or adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

We must fight to stop and remove all sin from our lives, but especially we must prevent lending to sexual sins. These sins cause God to leave us in them, and God does not bring us closer to help us, but leaves us far from God, because they are particularly disgusting abominations before God.

We must be happy

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

We must be content within God’s plan for us. Happiness is found by working hard and making oneself satisfied with what God provides. God instructs us that if we have sexual desires, and cannot contain ourselves with celibacy, we must marry a young Christian girl.

1 Corinthians 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

(1 Cor 7:36 “do not sin, marry”, 39 “free is to marry whomever you want, as long as it is in the Lord” except, with a believer).

Of course, she must be a Christian, a person of good faith in God. Paul is treated in this chapter about fornication that attacks us. Our biblical defense against fornication is to have relationships (Sex is not a sin. Sex outside marriage with a person is sin, fornication or adultery. We must not lose this point, Hebrews 13:4 Honor be in all the marriage, and the bed without blemish, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. “Bed” is the sexual act of having sex.) With our partner, who once married, is not an option but a duty Spiritual before God. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 for the will of God is your sanctification; that you depart from fornication; 4 that each one of you knows how to have his own wife in holiness and honor;

This is why God sets the rules regarding sex very clear.

1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

God’s solution to the temptation of pornography or to covet a woman is to have her own partner and enjoy it. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Enjoy life with the woman you love, all the days of the life of your vanity that are given to you under the sun, all the days of your vanity; because this is your part in life, and in your work with which you work under the sun.

We must not covet your Neighbor’s Wife

A basis of the ten commandments is a clean relationship with your neighbors. Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything of your neighbor. Our relationship with God is really seen in our relationship with our neighbors. First, we violate the sanctity and privacy of a naked woman’s body, and then this woman certainly has a husband who also violates her rights to her. That they do what they want to sin, but we don’t get into their sins. 1 Tim. 5:22 “do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure. ”

The Problem with Divorced People

There is a serious problem in all this. If one is single and has strong sexual temptations, one should look for a good Christian girl and marry her. If one is married, then one must do everything possible to put his marriage in order, imposing God’s principles on it so that his own wife satisfies him, and you to her. But once married, one cannot marry again without causing more sins on top of sins. ((Matthew 5:32 But I tell you that he who repudiates his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and he who marries the repudiated, commits adultery.)) How then can the divorced person fight against sexual sins? The answer is very hard. This is complicated because God has honored marriage, which cannot be entered and left as one rents an apartment and is changed in a year. Marriage is much more serious, and we cannot enter it or break it slightly. If one decided to divorce, one should consider their future sexual needs. Sex is like a drug. Once you start, getting out of it is a fit of horrible anger, or worse, it is impossible.

1 Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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