PORNOGRAPHY: THE
INTOXICATION OF THE
Proverbs 6:20-29
Introduction: Pornography destroys the mind. Consider a teenaged
boy who begins to view pornography at that young age. The allurement triggers
his hormones that are already raging. He sees a countless number of woman and
girls in various positions engaged in a wide variety of acts offering what he
at the time can only imagine he was a party to. In time he meets a real woman
with whom he desires to have a relationship. Only this time, the woman is a
live person who has opinions and ideas. Now the guy begins to realize that this
live person is not a life size sex toy. He does not understand why it is she is
not meeting the bizarre sexual fantasies he had with the women he saw on the
internet. She is not the bimbo he has come to believe that all women are.
Unfortunately for him his mind is messed up and any sexual experience, even
with a wife, will not be what it could have been, if he had not had this kind
of intoxication. Now, he cannot relate to the woman as a person. He does not
know how to demonstrate respect to her. He is void of any understanding about
courtship and romance. I am amazed at the number of women who allow themselves
to become objects and wonder why men treat them as objects.
I.
Pornography
and the Bible
A.
Definition --
the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause
sexual excitement; Greek Elicit sexual intercourse (PORNEIA) recorded on
paper [Internet] (GRAPHE)
B.
Warnings
against
1.
Proverbs
7:6-23
2.
Proverbs 23:26-28
3.
Matthew 5:28
4.
1 Corinthians
10:6-9
II.
Pornography
is a lie
A.
Best sex is
outside of marriage (Pro.
B.
Delivers
pleasure, but only for a season (Heb.
C.
Lustful sin
brings forth death (James
1.
Death to
self-esteem
2.
Death to meaningful
relationships His eyes roam across the images of unblinking faces, leering at
women who make no demands upon him, who never speak back and who can never say
no
3.
Death to
moral absolutes there is no exchange of respect, no exchange of love and
nothing more than the using of women as sex objects for his individual and
perverted sexual pleasure
D.
Delivers a
lower net return each time again Ask David
1.
Needs more
explicit images to excite interest
2.
Like a drug
or alcohol tolerance (Toxicant)
III.
Warning to
women and young girls
A.
Be careful
how you dress Men will look if you show it and that he will take off the rest
of your clothes with an eyeball, undressing if only you hint at what else is
underneath there.
B.
You are n
advertisement youd better be willing to deliver the merchandise on your own
billboard and if you wont freely give it to him he will take it with the
imagination you have sparked in his mind.
IV.
How to
prevent such from intoxicating ones mind
A.
Galatians
5:16-24
B.
Titus 2:11-15
C.
1 Peter 1:13-16