Guarding Against Pornography | Pastor Well - Ep. 54 

“Hell can't be made attractive,

Jesus help me to resist the sinful desires of the flesh

Here's my story as one who struggled with it . . . . Many years ago I was studying through Hebrews 12:4-11. It talks about how God disciplines (or chastises) those whom He loves. On a walk one day I prayed for about 20 minutes around this passage - and at the end of my prayer I told God that if it were best for me, I give Him permission to discipline me in love if there was something that was keeping me off the narrow path. I gave it little thought over the next week, but exactly 10 days later, in the middle of the night, after watching a video I should never have watched - and I apologize for being vague here - He gave me two signs in a row (unmistakable and crystal clear) which showed me that what I had done was an egregious sin. Not knowing what else to do, I went back to bed. I was woken up probably about 15 minutes later, and I have no better way to explain it other than I began dying. Slowly all my bodily functions began to simply quit. I grabbed my Bible, opened it to John 1 and tried reading out loud for as long as I could. A couple of minutes later I began blacking out. I shut my Bible and kept saying, "Father forgive me.", "Father don't let me die.", "Father I'll do whatever you want." I said these three phrases over and over and over. After another couple of minutes I stabilized. Then I started breathing normally - my cold hands warmed up - my cotton-mouth went away - I stopped shaking - and I could stand up. I grabbed my Bible, pulled it to my chest, and went back to bed that way. He (of course) let me wake up the next morning. There is MUCH, MUCH more that I cannot write here, but from that time on I was free from porn. That was many years ago and I have not watched or looked at a single porn video since - and NEVER will again. God was gracious, merciful, and forgave me. God is so good. Later I would read those verses in Hebrews again and read, "For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." You may not believe me - many don't - but for those of you who do, I plead with you, do not think that watching porn is something God takes lightly. It is VERY serious and you MUST fight the urge to watch it. Thank you, "Southern Seminary" for making this video. It may be far more important than you realize. God bless.

Thank you Dr. York and God bless you! I hope some day you will do a video on the is subject on how to counsel our children who are struggling with this.

Thanks for your podcast series, it's informational.

Halleluyah this is a beautiful message. God bless you pastor

..a well presented podcast of "truth" of the way its been, the way it is, and "sadly" the way we seem to like to be.

Thank you for this word, so true

Thank you for this sir.

Thank-you pastor

Thank you my brother very good teaching may GOD'S peace be upon you this night.

Great teaching!

Thank you for this message

Great message to transform this generation

Thank you for teaching so openly about a typically taboo topic!

It is true that gouging out our eye or cutting off our hand in Matt

Thank you for this

Total commitment to Christ

Thank You

This is the hot potatoe that no one wants to address.Those that do do a terrible job and those that don,t pretend it is not there or accuse people of being paranoid.