United in Christ

Note: Jesus Christ does not endorse, support, finance, or lend His name to any part of the sex industry.

So why do we? Why did I? A number of different reasons for a number of different people. Hurt, lost, sick, confused, lonely, broke, separation, divorce, relief from feelings of grief, anger control, curiosity, intimacy issues, need to feel wanted, looking for love or people just looking for something they don't have at home, this list could get really long if I keep going. The point is we are seeking false comforts in the sexual realm. The result is this: Profits in the billions each year from our emotional pains, curiosities, and lack of moral convictions (let me put that one in perspective, the United States alone boasts profits of about 6 billion dollars per year in pornography, which is more than accumulated profits of all professional sports team combined). Child pornography profits in the United States according to Internet sources are over 3 billion dollars per year. That is a total of over 9 billion dollars per year in the United States spent just on pornography. That does not include money from strip clubs, bottle clubs, prostitutes, Internet adult date sites, novelty toy companies, and swingers papers. I wonder how much was tithed last year to our church's and charities? I am going to bet it was not 9 billion dollars, call me crazy.

Yes Satan is making a killing in the United States, he is collecting souls and lining the pockets of his peddlers. Let me remind you though, these were just the numbers for the U.S. there is whole planet out there. I am sure the world wide number is staggering.

We have to stop this, I myself gave money and supported porn sites in Germany, Russia, the U.S., Mexico, and someplace in Asia. My church didn't get anything, if they did it was $5 or $10 dollars. The girls I looked at were noticeably drunk, drugged up, or just plain removed from the situation. It was misery with a paycheck for some and others I am sure didn't have a choice, they were I am going to venture a guess and say part of the human trafficking trade. These were the sites I visited on a regular basis. Where was Christ in all this? I saw some Cross's hanging on the walls of the amateur sites shot in peoples houses, hotels, or apartments but what was going had absolutely nothing to do with Christ other than Him protecting the victims in those scenarios.

The craziness of this life is stressful, the problems it causes vast, and we as the participants willingly use others, let others use us, we forsake our marriages and families and give into the compulsion above all else. We can not live the biblical life we are called to live and be involved in active sexual addiction. I can say that because I have lived it and know it is impossible. We may tell ourselves lies like I did that "I am a good person I help others"  we may be for the most part good people, but see if this makes sense. We donate money to charity to help feed and cloth orphans and homeless children and families, so we give to one group of people but then turn around and take from another. An example from my life is, at one point I sponsored a child overseas, however, during that time I frequented prostitutes that were out trying to earn meal money to feed their children. They have told me so, in one instance I saw the kids for myself and took their mother someplace private. The good Christian man, well number one, wouldn't of visited a prostitute but two, would have given the mother money for food for the kids and not required anything. But that is not what happens when we are active.

Truly I know the pain of sexual addiction, my wife knows the pain of sexual addiction, you know the pain of sexual addiction and so does Christ. Did we ask to be abused, or to become sexually addicted? No. I have said before I had to be that man and do those things to become the man I am today. A man that can share a story, admit mistakes, strive for something better, share Gospel, and be able to humble myself in front of God and say willingly "Father in Heaven I need your help". To receive that help I have to be willing to be united with Christ and not support, endorse, finance or lend my name to any of Satan's works. Therefore, I have to recover for myself, my family and my God. Come out of the woodwork, tell someone what is going and confess it to God. Then be willing to distance yourself from this lifestyle. Whatever we are looking for or needing from any of our acting out can be found with Christ. He took the beatings and died a cruel, unimaginable death for every mouse click on porn sites, every dollar spent on anything sexual, every rape or murder that was to be committed in the name of sex or control of the opposite gender, for every family we would ruin with our sins, every lustful thought, every act of adultery, the drugs used on innocent victims, the children and women that are forcibly sold into sexual slavery for our enjoyment and so on and so on. We are forgiven if we ask for Jesus to be our Master and Savior. God knew that the only way to absolve us of sin was to sacrifice a sinless man in the name of sin. Because of that we as Children of God are called to turn away from such things and rightly so considering what He endured out of pure love for us. The following speaks of this:

2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said:

"I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God and they will be my people. Therefore, come out among the unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. And I will be your Father and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty".

We must stop worshipping our pornography, and using people sexually. As the scripture says, "we are the living temple of God" the key word there is "we" that means all humans have God living inside of them. All of us no matter what the role we play in Satan's reign in the sex industry have a chance to stop and receive Christ and have that sin washed away. So a more disturbing thought that causes me great regret is, if we are all the living temple of God, then what I have I made other temples of God do for the sake of my pleasure and emotional retreat? I know those sins are forgiven when I asked Jesus into my life. I may be forgiven but I don't forget, I live with that even though Heaven may not remember. But Jesus helps me through it and I have seen my life bring Him glory and help others. That is a wonderful thing but still I am human and I don't think I would be if none of my past bothered me, and that's ok because it helps me remember and chose better.

In conclusion, we have to be united with Christ, we must do His work, we must turn to get better and we have to have the same goal Christ did which is do our part to save souls and proclaim the Gospel through life experience and help others. As a team with Christ we can win, on our own we will lose and we will lose it all.

Father in Heaven, we pray to be united with you so we can be reunited with you. This world we live in now is so much about insecurity, emotional pain, finding relief and Satan knows it. Father we ask that we have your strength and call on you to achieve freedom from an addiction that will literally kill our souls one day. To be one with Christ and respect His sacrifice is what we want to do. Father our flesh is weak but you are strong and standing united with you we know the enemy's reign will stop over us and you will take the rightful place on the throne in our little temple. Therefore, Father we pray for unification with the Kingdom and desire to let all know that we are united with Christ. We pray this in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

My prayers are with you. Jason.