Waging War On Porn | Costi Hinn & Owen Strachan | EP 203

[@specialneedsdad]

It is possible. I’ve been at the brink of divorce because of it. But I cried out the Jesus and He pulled me out of it. I’m clean and my marriage is stronger than ever because of Christ!

[@ruthowens1521]

It’s scary that just 3 days ago this video put out right before it breaks about S.Lawson and in this video Owen Strachan used a quote from S.Lawson in this video yet S.Lawson has been caught in the devil’s snare. Prayer badly needed for S.Lawson. This is so heartbreakingly sad.

[@loganbaumstark8950]

One of the most powerful and helpful discussions I have ever seen on this!

[@dawnbrown9898]

Brother Costi, Thank you so much for these podcasts. And your honesty and integrity and willingness to discuss this!❤

[@alexkorolchuk858]

Thank you for this!

[@eliz5645]

24:40 "Body and soul are linked" Getting Shaolin Monk vibes Dr. Strachan, love it. Train on the Mount of Transfiguration.

[@jessief5017]

Great conversation. Thank you!

[@DeAndria9967]

Amen, this video is very helpful and sound in biblical truth. There needs to be more pastors speaking on topics like this.

[@10thmountainsoldier90]

2019 free of porn. Started Porn in the late 80s I’m 42 now.

[@tburton2877]

I’m struggling , I’m Christian I feel like I’m hopeless

[@10thmountainsoldier90]

I’ve been in it since the late 80s I’m 42 and I’ve been porn/ masterbation free for over 5 years 2019.

[@RemixkingDystansy]

I glad that are aware of your situation, seek God in your struggles, seek God in your weakness. Allow him to light your path to hope through salvation.

[@travisrusko]

You aren't hopeless. Christ is your hope. Come to Him in repentance. He is faithful to forgive you. Then, don't look at His grace as a license to sin. Lol at it as a reason to serve Him in obedience.

[@travisrusko]

*Look not Lol

[@kate60]

Seek The Lord. Put no confidence in the flesh

[@BenTrotterNZ]

PRAISE our LORD Jesus Christ!!! He is ALWAYS KING of kings and LORD of lords!!! thank you my elder brothers!!

[@jinata67]

Thank you brothers for the conviction of sins that I personally have been struggling with for so many years. I pray that Jesus truly is Lord of my life and he is my victory.

[@jacobbyarlay3420]

I know what it's like to get to a place of license and thinking you'll just ask forgiveness and be ok. Biggest mistake of my life. Truly, if you hear His voice, do not harden your heart.

[@dsanders74]

Very helpful discussion from my brothers!

[@langstonmcguire386]

Thank you guys for this!!!

[@W3sker]

I needed to hear that pornography will never ever bring satisfaction Thank you

[@dontfollowthecrowd5195]

Yes, no survivors, definitely needed in the fight for the battle. Awesome fight just not alone. In Jesus Christ. Amen❤

[@bobdon2851]

Ive been struggling with this my whole life pretty much. I’ve just recently in the past year and a half been really fighting this sin. The Lord has blessed me with many victories. But I haven’t been able to become completely free of this. I’m now very worried as I am getting married in 6 months. I’m unsure of what to do. I feel like I’m trying everything.

[@sanidan2010]

I notice the focus on the "diabolical" and "more and more violent." You guys who talk and write on the subject need to address the porn that involves individual models, not just hard-core. Same thing with Victorias Secret catalogs and SI Swimsuit edition. Otherwise, there is a whole subgroup that will try to justify their "soft" porn. Why not address fantasizing about women that men know or encounter? It's a spirit, heart and mind matter for sure and should invoke 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. Thanks.

[@TommyNitro]

I think they were simply making the point that it is getting worse and worse in our culture. Not that this was for people who struggle with that stuff.

[@Shakes-u4n]

I am a Christian and I have been struggling with porn for a while now. Sometimes I've gone for a couple of months without watching it but I sometimes go back to it and begin struggling again. I would say I'm in such a phase at the moment. I really hate it and the impact I see it have on my life and I've sometimes wished that I would literally remove the organs/hormones (e.g. testosterone) that lead me to such sin as Christ talks about in Matthew 5 (though I know He doesn't mean it literally). How could I get over my addiction and what sort of steps could I take. My desire everyday is to become more like Jesus but porn has been such a huge hinderance. I've listened to this video and it was definitely helpful but I just wanted to know, are there more practical steps I could take to wage war against my sin? Is there anyone here who has gotten over it and could share some things that were helpful to you.

[@phieble]

I hope you don't mind reading something lengthy... Your question is the key issue that I rarely hear Christians discussing this topic address sufficiently. True Christians know that pornography is a perverse substitute of the devil who takes advantage of our urges and discontentment and lures us to sin, and we know it can destroy our lives and most importantly, it displeases God. We truly desire freedom, but as to what to do practically to get totally free is often oversimplified and not very practical at all. Part of the reason, I think, is because either 1. The Christians leading the discussion have not dealt with pornography use themselves and had be to freed from it experientially, but they just address it like they do other sind they don't struggle with much or 2. if they have dealt with it and experienced freedom from it then that freedom was either through the benefits of marriage or shortly before marriage. I think that most Christians with pornography struggles are single, and for those who are married and sexually active that still struggle with pornography there issues are deeper in some aspect and should probably be addressed in other ways. As a 24 year old single Christian who has struggled with pornography for over 10 years, I've found it helpful to dig deep beyond pornography use and masturbation itself to the root of my tendencies which have to do with the particular unmet needs I have and then examine why it is that I'm going to pornography specifically to cope. I've found that my depression is part of it but also loneliness, lack of the sexual and non-sexual intimacy that I desire with a spouse that I'm not in the position to have right now, and my seeking to numb or stimulate myself to deal with stress and anxiety. Those things, rather than lust itself (which is insatiable), have been my issues. The reasons I've gone to pornography specifically to deal with those issues are multi-layered and some reasons may even be elusive to me, but the ones I'm conscious of include that in pornography I live sorta vicariously through what the performers are doing that I may like to do, excepting that hopefully within my relationship there will be genuine love, consent, and godly pleasure. It needs to be pointed out that not everyone watching pornography wants to do the abusive, dark, bizarrely kinky stuff, and not everything seen in pornography is wicked in and of itself or is necessarily done for the sake of pleasing the man or the woman only rather than both parties. These are misconceptions or overgeneralizations of porn and its viewers, at least from my personal experience. Some people watch things in porn that would be perfectly okay for them to do within a marriage covenant with mutual consent and no one else watching or participating. Not that it's okay for anyone to watch even those more conventional categories of porn, but the point is that not everyone watching pornography has perverted desires but some may just be going about indulging their healthy desires in the perverse way that is watching others have sex who aren't even married themselves. Noticing which kind of consumer you have been in this regard is CRUCIAL because it helps you and others who may hold you accountable to have a more precise evaluation of how deep your porn problem is. If you find yourself going deeper into the more forbidden, diabolical stuff and watching pornography on a predictably consistent basis beyond being in scenarios of pressure and you're actually expecting to beat your initial or most previous high and reach satisfaction, than lust or something more serious may be a particular issue. Porn has also been a particular go-to for me, even while I know it's wrong and I want total freedom, because unlike anything else, porn offers the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and highest form of sensation besides in-person sex that I've known and it doesn't damage as visibly, as sooo, and as bodily as drugs, alcohol, gluttony, and other addictions, and even the stuff that we hear supposedly happens in our brains, emotions, and relationships have effects and extents of severity that vary on a person by person basis and can take a while to kick in and start doing irreparable damage. All of that being the case, Satan is very crafty with this particular device and it's also a lot easier to hide for many people for a longer period of time while having a seemingly productive or ordinary life like others until a boiling point down the road. Being more aware to what some of my particular issues are and how pornography is offering to assist as a substitute for pure gratification helps me to pray and strategize some ways to battle against it. In my case, assuming that my desires are not perverse and inordinate, I should be more prayerful and practically intentional about biblically preparing for marriage and becoming the kind of man who can serve and lead more than I hope to receive from a wife. Simultaneously, I have to accept that it may not be God's will that I get married so I can't treat marriage as the one solution for my sexual frustration and work toward contentment, disciplined-gratification practices, and the highest level of consistent productivity as possible in case I am to remain single even while praying that God may reveal that I am to be married. In the meantime, I have to find other sources of stress relief and healthy stimulation that don't take too much time and exhaustion to attain but that are also not too minimal leaving the door open for me to turn to pornography after everything else have been trumped in efficacy. Because of the particular characteristics of pornography, finding healthy substitute pleasures have been nearly impossible but with prayer and interaction with people whose company edifies and entertains me, I can have more victories than losses. Keeping a record of when I fall to temptation what I did wrong to put myself in the situation and some things I can potentially do differently next time is also helpful. Also, minimizing sexual stimulation from "soft-porn" content that are gateways to the sites and masturbations opportunities, is another thing I'm now taking more seriously. Ultimately, the reason we fall to any sort of sin at all is because we are not consciously aware enough of God's presence to find our needs and desires satisfied in him, so if we can be more filled with the Holy Spirit who gives us power to reject sin and be fruitful and if we could palpably experience God's fellowship more then are worship would be greater and longer lasting and our sinful tendencies would gradually lose more and more power over us until eventually Jesus returns and our freedom from the presence of sin is established so we can enjoy God perfectly and uninhibited forever, which is the chief desire of all true Christians. Pursuing deeper and greater intimacy with God through continual earnest prayers and specific passages in mind is the primary thing I'm doing everyday along with seeking to be obedient to his commands in non-sexual areas, confidently anticipating that God will respond to my pursuits with grace that matures me in holiness and usefulness to my brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm convinced that with greater enjoyment of and contentment in God, whether married or unmarried, whether abstinent or sexually fulfilled, or whether relatively comfortable in life or circumstantially miserable, we can endure all things through Christ who strengthens us and we can live pure lives with the conviction that everything is as dung compared to knowing and being with Jesus who alone satisfies. We must keep in mind above all things that the Gospel is our only hope of salvation and satisfaction so we get nowhere without it.

[@JSkeleton]

Hey friend, know that many are with you in the fight and right there arm in arm with you in the trenches, even if you don't know certain people personally. That said, I think perhaps Emeal Zwayne's new book 'Fight Like A Man' might be helpful for you and although I'm still reading it (over half done) it's been very good and thorough and may be really helpful! :) Practical steps have both general and personal applications. For example, some people may have to switch to a flip phone, others may need to not have a computer in a private area, some may just need to put some internet blockers on their internet to block sites to cause hurdles. That said, those are steps to help discourage you in moments of temptation, but the ultimate key I think is to really be as much in the Word of God as possible from actually reading and studying it, to listening to videos like this and sound teachings/sermons and stuff, just overall filling your mind with the right things and saturating your mind with godly things as much as you can. Prayer is powerful man, don't neglect really praying consistently and deeply. What's hard is that when you're in that stuff, it physically/neurologically messes with your brain in addition to the spiritual side of it all, and so the brain fog can make it hard to think and see straight, which is why finding other godly men who are free from it can also be very helpful. I also found personally that researching the affects on the physical brain neurologically and whatnot to be helpful to understand what's being done to the brain with this filth, and also helpful to understand the physical healing process as well as the spiritual. Porn is a great evil that digs it's claws so deep into way too many people and in our age where it's become way too accessible, so many have also become numb to it and we need to cry out to God to give us a clear, sharp conscience that will be strongly convicted of it as we ought to be, and that we would feel the real shock of it all and how God sees it. PS: I would also urge you to focus on God and the sin it is against Him first and foremost. While we ought to care for those around us such as wife, kids, friends/family, etc. and anyone else we are sinning against as a by-product of it, we are ultimately sinning against God. For example, the husband more afraid of what his Wife will think than what God thinks will only most likely end up having worldly sorrow rather than godly sorrow, which in turn will end up being more about behaviour modification as opposed to actual transformation into the image and mind of Christ. So really focus on God and what Christ went through to redeem us and how you want to be an honorable vessel fit for use in the short time you're on this earth, and to redeem the time because the days are evil, and to be a godly witness in the deepest parts of your being, to walk in a manner worthy of your calling, and to glorify God and enjoy Him and experience the joy of His salvation (we most certainly can forfeit said joy with sins like these and I'm sure you are desperate to really live in that joy). What happens with the brain is an unnatural over-surge of dopamine and so the things that SHOULD bring you joy in life, feel just dissatisfactory which is a real consequence of such sin. I'm sure you know from the couple months you were free that your mind was starting to heal and so strive to continue that because it can take a while for it to completely heal, but every hour, day, week, and month that you go, the more your brain will heal, and you will certainly also experience more joy in Christ and His salvation. I'm not sure how helpful that is, if it is at all then glorify God, but again, know that many are with you in the trenches. I will pray for you and pray for me, my friend. For the glory of Christ our Savior.

[@maxmaximum-sh4bx]

For the algorithm

[@JBM101]

Lawson outing shows that you cannot "discipline your. flesh" or " keep the law" ... if the grace message is so greasy what about the mix of law and grace ... seems even more so. They cannot slam the grace message any longer ... these guys need to see that living under the law to be a better christian leads to more sinful behaviour

[@annnabananaaa]

Thank you for this video! @pb

[@baektix]

😂

[@LairenJohnson]

As a man that is fighting this battle for 8 months now. Feb 11 2024 was the last day I watched Corn or Master bated. What u must do is find a Small group like Samson Society or Pure desire at a local church. And confess your Sexual Sin to other men that are in this Battle. I know this is the 1st true step. Because I fought and lost after two years with out corn. I never confessed my Sin and I still master bated. So the second step is letting go of Masterbation. The 3rd step is taking this battle to the for front each and every day. That can include small group each day. Thats why I love Samson Society. U can find a meeting each and everyday. With Christian Men fighting this Battle each and every day. And remember U are so strong in Christ Jesus AMEN

[@fruity_mango6539]

If one chooses not to attend said meetings (*daily*, as you stated 🤥), because they would rather watch college football for hours or dedicate more time to conspiracy theory videos, these meetings will not be helpful. Also, choosing to check-out (emotionally, not initiating connection), rather than leaning in to the people that you have damaged with your addiction, will also not promote healing within the relationships. Prayer is good, but God wants action on our part, not just words.

[@ManuelDRodriguez]

Rebirth ❤️‍🩹

[@susanmcconkey5219]

Im second😊

[@StephenItanagar]

I am first here