Participants: Brittany-Hill Morales (Host), Jacques LaGuerre, Myesha Lawson, Timothy Lawson, Xavier Morales
Series Code: PC
Program Code: PC000096A
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00:03 The following program discusses sensitive issues.
00:05 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:07 may be too candid for younger children. 00:44 Good day. Welcome to Pure Choices. 00:47 Yes, we have a really good program 00:49 for you today. 00:50 And I have such an amazing esteemed panel with me. 00:54 Of course, my wonderful husband Xavier Morales. 00:58 Over here, we have Jacques LaGuerre. 01:00 We have Ms. Myesha Lawson 01:03 and Mr. Timothy Lawson, her husband. 01:06 Today, we are talking about having covenant eyes. 01:11 Yes, pornography, 01:12 before we jump right into it, let's pray. 01:16 Dear kind most Heavenly Father, 01:18 I pray to Lord that you will be with us as a panel 01:20 and You also be with the viewers at home, 01:22 that you will bless our time together, dear Lord, 01:25 that we can be able to make pure choices, 01:27 in Jesus' name, Amen. 01:29 Amen 01:31 Pornography, what is it? 01:37 Go ahead, Jacques. 01:39 I say pornography could be described 01:40 as anything that you use to get some sort of unlawful, 01:45 unbiblical sexual expression or any sort of sexual high. 01:52 Anybody else? 01:53 Any... 01:54 Because there's different degrees of pornography. 01:56 There's, you know, hard porn, soft porn, pictures, videos 01:59 or I think it's any type of sexual display 02:04 that's used to arouse, you know, another person. 02:10 Good. And anybody else? 02:12 I think it's also something, you know, any type of, 02:14 like Tim said, you know, videos, pictures 02:17 or anything that would stimulate your pleasuredome, 02:21 your pleasure centre of your brain 02:22 to find some sort of, you know, release. 02:27 So are they like different forms of pornography? 02:31 Yes, there is. 02:33 In my experience of pornography, 02:37 I was the one who took pictures. 02:42 Different poses, different backgrounds, 02:46 different clothing 02:47 if not wearing any at all, was a form of pornography. 02:51 I'm the one that they're going to look at, 02:53 I'm the one that is going to arouse them. 02:56 And then in other form of pornography is 02:59 when I was a dancer. 03:02 I'm on stage touching and feeling on myself 03:06 and the guy is looking at me, 03:09 so I'm doing live porn or live pornography 03:13 and those are the two different, 03:16 you know, pornographies. 03:18 Well, there are different types of porn 03:20 and different degrees of porn. 03:21 And so obviously, there's two main... 03:25 the three main types would be the pictures, movies 03:29 or, you know, live shows. 03:32 And in each one of those categories, 03:34 you have the two categories of soft pornography 03:38 and hard pornography. 03:40 And so soft would be more of showing people in the nude, 03:45 maybe just kissing 03:47 and heavy touching and things like that 03:49 and hardcore pornography 03:51 is always heavy sexual positions 03:54 showing every body part and showing heavy penetration 03:59 and so those are kind of the categories it's been in. 04:02 I think another form of softcore porn 04:05 that comes to mind 04:06 and is very prevalent on social media is, 04:09 you know, I call it selfie porn, 04:12 you know, where you have, 04:14 you know, different people taking pictures of themselves, 04:17 you know, have clothes or, you know, exposing 04:21 and I have seen these, you know, not just in males 04:24 but you see in females 04:25 where they expose themselves so much in that picture 04:29 that it pretty much leaves nothing to the imagination 04:32 and it's all over, you know, the internet. 04:35 And these are pictures that they use too 04:37 when they are sexting as well. 04:40 Also I want to interject something else. 04:42 And also some porn, softcore porn 04:46 like he said with the pictures 04:47 can be anything that arouses you. 04:50 There are certain things out there maybe a lingerie picture 04:53 or a lingerie magazine, 04:55 now a woman might look at it 04:56 because she's trying to buy different bra and panties. 04:59 But to a guy, that could be a form of pornography 05:02 that he could stimulate himself off of to. 05:04 So something that seems innocent 05:06 can be perverted by the devil used for other things to. 05:10 Okay. 05:11 And to talk about 05:13 what Xavier was talking about with a selfie porn, 05:16 I was watching a video of a young girl 05:19 she was 14, 05:20 and she was uploading pictures to Facebook of herself 05:23 in all these risky positions 05:25 and, you know, her cleavage is exposed 05:29 and someone in the porn industry 05:31 saw that picture and began to run with it. 05:35 And now her picture is on like the sites 05:38 and all these advertisement 05:39 and all the banners of thousands of websites. 05:44 And they tried to contact the police, 05:46 there's a 14-year old girl, 05:47 but because she was not fully nude 05:49 the police couldn't do anything about it. 05:52 And so she had to change schools, 05:55 she was getting death threats, she was getting rape threats, 05:58 all this stuff was going on. 06:01 And one of the things that she says 06:03 at the end of the video is, 06:05 "I don't know why this happened to me 06:07 because, all of my friends 06:09 have pictures of the same quality on Facebook, 06:14 on social media." 06:16 And so these are the things that we have to be careful of 06:18 not to post these things on social media websites 06:21 thinking that nobody will see them. 06:23 So you're kind of saying 06:24 that there are different levels of danger 06:26 when it comes to pornography. 06:28 Definitely. Oh, yeah, most definitely. 06:31 The dangers are, I mean, it can become an addiction. 06:36 You know, it's... 06:39 I mean, I think it became an addiction for me. 06:42 I'm the one that's maybe performing, 06:46 you know, the pornography, 06:48 but it became an addiction to me 06:51 because I'm the one that's giving it, 06:54 you know, and I like the attention. 06:57 So those are the dangers to it 06:58 and obviously if you're getting attention that you want, 07:01 you are going to constantly keep doing it. 07:03 And it became damaging to me 07:05 for as myself worth, my mind, my physical body 07:11 because I wanted to change my body 07:13 to get more attention or to get more money for it, 07:16 and those were the damaging things. 07:19 Like can it go worse than just being an addiction? 07:22 Can it get more crazy 07:23 when you start doing pornography? 07:24 Oh, yeah. 07:26 That can get really crazy 07:27 because the person can start to get infatuated 07:33 with whoever they are looking at, 07:34 whoever they're talking to, 07:36 and all that stuff and they can become a... 07:39 you know, they can stalk the person, 07:40 they can potentially end up 07:43 having an incorrect fantasy about the person 07:47 and actually maybe want to hurt them. 07:50 The thing is with pornography like sex and other things, 07:55 it targets the brain, the chemicals in the brain. 07:58 And with pornography 08:00 because it's unrealistic situation, 08:03 it's not real, 08:05 you trigger things in the brain, 08:08 your chemical synopsis, the chemistry, 08:10 you completely alter your brain to the point 08:14 where it does increase. 08:15 You know, you have people that start off 08:17 with softcore porn or even magazines 08:20 and increase from there to hardcore, 08:21 and then from there to bondage, 08:23 and you have private forums 08:25 that engage in things like murder porn. 08:29 Murder porn, such as, you know, 08:31 people killing other people literally 08:33 and then engaging in necrophilia 08:35 which is having sex with a dead body. 08:38 And these are private forms to the point where, 08:41 you know, a lot of manpower has been devoted 08:43 to catching these perps. 08:46 But because of these people, the way they do things, 08:49 sometimes they're not caught and so you have not just murder 08:53 but you're also having, 08:55 you know, engaging in sex with their bodies 08:57 and it all started with softcore porn. 09:01 I was thinking about it. 09:03 People, they get into the pornography 09:04 for so many different reasons like three 09:06 that I can think of is maybe stress. 09:09 They're dealing with high levels of stress 09:10 so they go on like, 09:11 "I'm just going to find a little bit of release. 09:13 I'm going to watch pornography to help me decompress." 09:16 Or if they have depression, 09:18 they use it to help with that depression 09:20 to try to get them on that different level where, 09:23 "Okay, I'm not so hurry. 09:25 Don't feel so bad about life. 09:26 If I watch a little pornography, 09:28 it'll make me feel better 09:29 'cause somebody else is having fun." 09:30 Or even if it's fantasy, 09:32 "I wouldn't want to do this in real life 09:33 but I can't really do it in real life, 09:35 so I'm going to watch maybe some pornography. 09:37 So at least in my mind, 09:38 I can go to that place where maybe I could pretend to be 09:41 with these multiple guys or these multiple girls 09:43 and do these different things." 09:45 There's also some different reasons 09:48 and I just wanted remind our viewers, 09:51 if you are a sex addict 09:53 and you're watching pornography, 09:55 you are not sober, 09:57 you are still continuing the cycle. 10:00 You may think, 10:01 "Okay, I'm not having sex, that means I'm fine." 10:04 But no, you're not fine, 10:07 you are still feeding your mind 10:10 and sex doesn't just start physically, 10:13 the sexual arousal starts in your mind. 10:17 Jacques? 10:19 The interesting thing about pornography is that 10:22 it takes a natural desire and it corrupts it. 10:26 God made us as men with desire to express ourselves sexually. 10:32 God made women with the desire 10:34 to want to be desired. 10:37 And one sex I call just to put it this way, 10:42 He says that, 10:43 "Well, men are tempted to watch pornography 10:46 because the way they're wired, 10:48 women are tempted to commit pornography." 10:51 And He goes on to say that, 10:53 "Whenever you act or whenever you dress 10:55 or whenever you talk in a way 10:58 to try to seduce someone or to sexualize yourself, 11:02 you might not be watching pornography 11:04 but you are committing pornography 11:05 with your very life. 11:07 Yeah. 11:08 And you were talking about the mental aspects, 11:12 something that came up in my brain was, 11:14 you know, the damaging parts 11:15 that there is some scientific information 11:17 that it affects the brain in such a way 11:19 that it can cause shrinkage 11:21 in some of the grey matter or white matter, 11:23 but also, you know, scripture, 11:25 Matthew 5, I think it's 28, that says, 11:27 "If you look on a woman to lust, 11:28 you've committed it in your heart." 11:30 There's some new scientific research 11:32 on something called a mirror neuron, 11:35 and when you commit an act 11:38 as far as me reaching out and grabbing her like this, 11:42 a particular neuron fires in my brain. 11:44 But when I watch somebody else commit the same act 11:47 that same neuron fires in my brain 11:49 as if I would have did it. 11:51 So like when you say a person 11:52 who is struggling with sex addiction not doing it 11:54 but they're watching it, 11:56 their brain is still getting the same high 11:58 and feeding of the same kind of emotion. 12:01 And I think, you know, to jump off of that too, 12:03 I think people understand that, 12:05 you know, one method of Holy Spirit communicating 12:07 is through your frontal lobe, 12:09 you know, and they did studies on serial killers 12:13 that whose frontal lobe was non functional, 12:15 it was dark, there was no activity 12:17 because all the synopsis were inhibited. 12:21 You know, so you have... 12:22 when you put before... 12:23 not just pornography 12:25 but anything that is not of God, 12:27 but mainly with pornography, 12:28 you know, you're inhibiting, your brain receptors, 12:31 to the point where you are essentially 12:33 you yourself are numbing out 12:34 your ability to communicate with God. 12:37 So even if you are a Christian, you know, sin knows no bounds. 12:41 Even if you are Christian, 12:43 you are inhibiting that communication, 12:44 you are numbing out your right from wrong. 12:46 You essentially now 12:48 cannot judge between right from wrong 12:50 when it comes to sex. 12:51 Let alone when it comes to normal everyday life. 12:55 So watching pornography is kind of like being stoned. 13:00 So pornography is mainly, you know, 13:04 that worldly man's problem, right? 13:09 I wouldn't say. 13:12 I wouldn't go that far. 13:14 It's... Look... 13:16 There's a lot of stigmas in the church 13:18 that people in the church don't do this x, y, and z, 13:21 but the church is a sick house for sick people to come. 13:23 And even though somebody might have been in the church 13:25 or grew up in the church, everybody has problems. 13:27 So it's looked as it's like it's a worldly man's problems 13:30 but we are finding out 13:32 sin is humanity's problem, you know. 13:37 And I went to 13:38 two Adventist colleges or universities 13:43 and it was something that I know that 13:46 I should have lived while I was there 13:47 while I was been fed spiritually, 13:49 I was still struggling with this thing 13:50 and also, you know, 13:52 when you are using your friend's computer 13:54 or when you're using your phone 'cause you don't have yours, 13:57 you know, you might just see a link 13:59 or you would see the last video he watched 14:03 or you would see the last thing he texted, 14:05 and so I could say that even among the young people 14:09 that were at our Adventist institutions, 14:11 they were struggling as well. 14:14 I think to... 14:15 you know, like I'll use myself as an example. 14:18 When I became a Christian, 14:19 I was struggling with pornography still. 14:21 But because the common argument 14:23 is that the Bible doesn't talk about masturbation. 14:26 That it's okay 14:28 because it doesn't talk about it. 14:30 I found that okay because number one, 14:31 the Bible doesn't talk about masturbation specifically. 14:34 It does talk about self gratification 14:36 instead of self denial. 14:39 And it doesn't talk about... 14:40 you know, I am not having sex with anybody, 14:42 I'm just looking at it. 14:43 So therefore, I'm not doing anything wrong 14:45 so I justified my own sinful behavior 14:49 and it carried me through all the way 14:50 through my undergrad phase, 14:52 even into seminary 14:53 and it wasn't until 14:55 I came to a realization through a support group 14:58 that this is dangerous. 15:01 It is a sin not 15:02 because the Bible does not talk about it, 15:04 it is a sin in many levels for many different reasons 15:06 and if you study the Word of God, 15:08 you will see those reasons why. 15:11 And it's interesting that you said like before, 15:13 you went through your different studies. 15:16 Christianity, they did a survey 15:17 and they said 40% of pastors do suffer, 15:21 struggle with pornography. 15:23 And this group of DGM, 15:25 they did a survey on 700 Christian women 15:28 and they found out that 40% of these women 15:31 have struggled with pornography. 15:33 And in another survey question, 15:35 it said that 60% of women stated 15:37 that they had struggled with pornography. 15:39 So it's one of those secrets things 15:41 that even though men are talked about more, 15:43 women also do struggle with pornography. 15:47 So when do I know that I have a problem? 15:50 I think, you know, you have a problem 15:54 as soon as you've clicked on the button 15:59 and started watching the thing. 16:01 You know, if you don't deal with the reasons 16:04 why you went to that site or clicked on that button, 16:09 you might not do it all the time 16:10 but sooner or later, it's going to come up again. 16:12 So as soon as you engage, you have a problem, you know. 16:17 I'd have to agree with Tim on this one as well 16:20 like there is no healthy amount of pornography. 16:24 Right. 16:26 You know, that just doesn't exist 16:28 until if you're indulging once a week, 16:31 once a month, you know, once a year, 16:33 there's a problem there. 16:34 You know, many times, 16:36 I know from the male perspective, 16:38 there are a lot of men 16:39 who watch pornography is 'cause of low self-esteem. 16:41 You know, they feel like, 16:43 "This woman can make me more of a man 16:44 and this woman makes me feel good. 16:46 She never questions me, 16:47 she never asks me for anything." 16:50 You know, and so 16:52 if you are watching this at all, 16:54 you might be struggling with your own self-esteem 16:56 and so you need to seek help. 16:58 When do you know that you need professional help? 17:02 I think, you know, for me, for example, 17:04 it got to the point 17:05 where it was like an automatic reaction to many situations, 17:10 "Let's watch pornography." 17:11 Or, "I'm just going to put it out there 17:15 if I would go to church and see some..." 17:18 Or the females, the way they were dressed, 17:19 that would automatically trigger certain things 17:22 that I had viewed in pornography 17:26 and they were wearing 17:27 that same style of dress or that same look. 17:30 And that would trigger things in my mind where essentially, 17:33 I was having pornographic images 17:35 in my head while in church 17:37 because of the way 17:38 these particular women were dressed. 17:41 And I would go home and I would have to sit there 17:45 and I'm like, "God, I know I'm not supposed to do it 17:47 but my brain has already been wired to react. 17:51 Not to just sit there and pray about it, 17:53 my brain has already went beyond that line of where 17:57 I can no longer control those inhibitions." 18:01 One thing... 18:04 But first, 18:05 I'm going tell a story of a news specialize scene 18:07 and then say something. 18:08 I was watching a news special on pornography, 18:10 I forgot what channel it was on, 18:12 but it was a young man and he was struggling with it. 18:15 And it had got so bad for him that while they were driving, 18:19 him and the reporter, 18:20 while they were driving in the car 18:22 and they passed a woman 18:24 who was dressed really revealing, 18:27 the young man had to pull over 18:29 and go on a side somewhere, going to bathroom 18:31 and take care of his issues and he came back. 18:34 And the news reporter asks him, 18:36 "Did you, you know, did you go in there masturbating?" 18:38 And he admitted, "Yeah I did". 18:40 That's how bad it had, you know, gotten for him. 18:44 But I think you can know you have exactly a problem 18:48 until you know it's wrong for you to do it. 18:50 And once you know it's wrong, 18:51 you're trying to stop it and you can't, 18:53 then I think you know you have a problem then. 18:55 Okay, let me just go ahead and say something. 18:59 I just realized... 19:02 Can I be honest with you guys for now? 19:04 Can we be honest? Sure. 19:05 Okay, I didn't know 19:07 that I struggled with pornography 19:09 until right now. 19:12 Right now, I didn't have... 19:15 I mean, the life that I lived, the things that I have done, 19:19 I did not realize the struggle. 19:23 I didn't see it until just now on this program. 19:27 That's crazy. 19:28 But it's still a blessing 19:30 because now you have a better understanding 19:31 of who you are. 19:34 And there are going to be some people who watching this, 19:36 you know, program and they are going to say, 19:38 "Pornography isn't a problem for us." 19:40 They probably have their hands up like that too. 19:42 You know, "It's an informative tool. 19:44 We use it to have better ideas 19:46 what we need to be doing to enhance our sex life." 19:49 What would you say about that? 19:53 Pornography being an informative tool, 19:57 informing them kind of how? 19:59 Just informing people 20:01 on what to do and things like that? 20:03 I would say, 20:05 whether they're using that for information, 20:07 all of the bad things 20:08 that we still stated can happen, 20:10 can still happen to those people 20:13 if they're using it for that. 20:16 I think to understand that, 20:17 if you want an informative tool 20:19 about lovemaking, go to Song of Solomon. 20:22 My question, is God in your bedroom? 20:24 It's Song of Solomon. 20:25 It's got, I mean, I thought I was reading out... 20:27 When I read it, I was like, "This is in the Bible? Wow!" 20:30 You know, it was really... 20:32 it's not sex, you know, God presented us lovemaking. 20:37 In the Song of Solomon, presented as lovemaking 20:40 and it takes it to a whole different level 20:42 rather than just pornographic, 20:44 you know, "Hey, let's have sex." 20:45 And that's it. 20:47 And going with that element of lovemaking, 20:48 what about Christian pornography? 20:50 The person was saying, 20:52 "You know, Christian pornography, 20:53 it expresses the beauty of sex. 20:55 You know, it isn't like bondage and those other things." 21:00 The interesting thing about Christian pornography, 21:02 when I was in research on this new genre of pornography 21:07 that I didn't even know existed, 21:09 they said that it wasn't as dangerous 21:13 and it could be used to transition 21:15 one off pornography 21:17 and the actors, they're married couple 21:21 and they don't use profanity and they don't add the violence 21:25 and all the other things. 21:26 And so this website in a way 21:28 it was trying to promote it as a healthy alternative, 21:32 and I think that's absolutely ludicrous 21:35 because it's a thing that I can't watch two people 21:38 whether they're married or not, 21:40 engaged in something that is supposed to be private, 21:43 and then I can masturbate to that, 21:46 that is not pure 21:48 just because the people on the screen are married, 21:50 that's just corrupt. 21:53 That's so true. It's corruption. 21:56 And that goes to the question 21:57 of how does pornography affect one's sex life? 22:02 As a married, my ma'am, my wife, 22:06 I am, you know, I used to... 22:08 Because of the struggle with pornography before, 22:11 it really took a lot of prayer to understand my body again 22:16 because and I hate it, 22:18 I don't hate to say it like this 22:20 but it's true, 22:21 as how strong you are as man, 22:23 I got to the point where I just didn't like sex 22:26 like it was just boring like sex again, like really? 22:31 You know, it really did mess up my brain. 22:33 But, you know, I praise God for transformation. 22:39 Well, I think the affix says, a woman, for example, 22:44 can watch pornography right before 22:48 she perform lovemaking with her husband 22:51 and if her husband is not performing 22:56 which she just watched prior, 22:59 she might make some suggestions like, 23:01 "No, husband, could you pull my hair 23:04 or smack me or give it to me rough. 23:10 "You know, all these crazy things 23:14 and bringing it forth into their marriage 23:16 and the husband is like, "What's going on?" 23:19 So I think that can have some effects on, 23:22 you know, within the relationship. 23:25 What a lot of doctors and councilors are now noticing 23:28 is something called 23:29 porn-induced erectile dysfunction 23:32 and they having to prescribe 23:34 a lot of erectile dysfunction medication 23:36 to men in their 20s 23:38 because they've been watching so much pornography 23:40 that they really cannot perform, 23:44 if I can use that word, 23:45 when it comes to a real life or live woman, 23:49 you know, they are used to the over stimulation 23:51 and even in my own life I started to see the effects. 23:54 You know, I would think that 23:56 there was something wrong with the girl, 23:58 you know, "Maybe she's not just pretty enough 23:59 or maybe x, y, and z." 24:01 But the problem was that 24:02 I was starting to suffer from this condition. 24:06 Wow, pornography 24:07 is really a dangerous thing and it affects, 24:10 you know, not only you but also your partner. 24:12 Your partner might feel like they have been cheated on, 24:14 they may not fully understand it, 24:16 but they feel like you are not there with them. 24:18 So now that we know all the risk 24:20 and cons of pornography, 24:22 how do I prevent, 24:23 you know, my loved one from falling into this trap? 24:26 Well, from a parental standpoint, 24:30 you have to have a, 24:32 you know, if you are going to give you a kid tablets 24:34 and all these things 24:35 they make them for kids and stuff 24:36 and you can get on the internet, 24:38 you have to have lock controls, 24:39 you have to know what they're watching, 24:41 you need to be in the same room when they're playing with this, 24:43 and know exactly what they're seeing 24:45 so they don't stumble on any sites 24:48 because things just pop up nowadays 24:50 and so we have to have communication open. 24:52 To ask them, you know, 24:53 did they see something at school 24:55 'cause nowadays, kids got cell phones in school, 24:58 it's easy to pull anything up, 25:00 and if it's a family member, 25:01 you know, I think having the communication lines open 25:05 to talk about it. 25:07 I think too this over-sexualized society 25:09 we live in, 25:10 aside from, you know, tablets and parental controls with, 25:14 with our loved ones, 25:16 it's also helping them to understand, 25:18 you know, their bodies, 25:19 helping them to understand their defects of certain things 25:23 because, you know, and essentially, realistically, 25:26 pornography is everywhere 25:27 you look at them in billboards, 25:29 you look at outside. 25:30 And eventually, say pornography is even in our church today. 25:33 You know, in the way we dress and the attire and everything, 25:35 so it's we are an over-sexualized society 25:38 and I think just educating ourselves 25:40 or educating our loved ones 25:42 and being a support system for our loved ones. 25:44 And if we have children, helping them to understand 25:47 before their world helps them to understand. 25:50 Thank you so much for saying that, Xavier. 25:52 And the Bible says in the Psalm 101:3, 25:55 "I will set nothing wicked before my eyes. 25:58 I hate the work of those who fall away, 26:00 it shall not cling to me". 26:02 As I think about my own history, 26:04 my own testimony, 26:05 I was only four years old 26:07 when I first saw something pornographic. 26:10 I had no idea what it was. 26:12 All I know is my body started feeling a certain way 26:15 and I started having desires 26:17 and then it didn't really make much sense to me. 26:19 And then as time progressed, 26:20 I started to see stuff on my computer, 26:24 and as it even progressed more by the time 26:26 I was 11 where I actually had sexual education. 26:29 I was already hooked. 26:30 I had no idea why I was hooked to this thing. 26:33 I just didn't really understand it. 26:35 And that's why it's so important 26:38 to really teach your children about sex. 26:42 Give them the proper view, really be able to... 26:46 also be careful of what they watch on TV 26:49 and what they're watching on their computers. 26:51 And really be part of that process 26:53 because as time progress, 26:56 things just got crazier and crazier and crazier. 26:59 I did things that I never thought 27:00 I would have done. 27:02 I saw things I never thought I would have ever seen. 27:04 And in a long run, 27:06 it affected my relationship with not only God 27:09 but also with my now spouse 27:12 because you have thoughts and you have images 27:15 and it just coming to your mind 27:17 and it just causes that disconnect. 27:19 So I don't know what you are struggling with. 27:22 But if you are struggling with pornography, 27:24 please, please realize that there is hope. 27:29 And you are not alone, you are not the first, 27:31 and probably won't be the last 27:32 but God can bring refuge to you, 27:35 He can set you free. 27:37 Think about it, 27:39 what forms of pornography have you seen, 27:40 what are you indulging in, why are you indulging in it? 27:45 When you focus on that key factor and you say, 27:47 "God, take it, take it from me. 27:50 I'm doing it 27:51 because I'm stressed or depressed. 27:53 Please, dear Lord, take it from me." 27:54 He will take it from you. 27:57 So please remember to make pure choices. |
Revised 2017-11-26