God's story and porn

I really enjoyed our men's breakfast today. God has laid this on my heart and today I had the privilege of talking to our men about it. Here is the outline of a very short talk. Hope it blesses you.

Men's breakfast:
God's story and porn.

Gn 1:1
Gn 1 everything is good: God places man in a perfect world. SHALOM. Peace, rythm, harmony, perfect synchronism in everything. Even with that perfect set up, God gifts man with a suitable helper. He says that it is not good for man to be alone. He marries them and it is interesting to notice 2 things:
1) Shalom was not compromised by marriage but extended to marriage. Perfect rhythm and union between man and wife. Which points to God himself. Perfect union within the Godhead where 1 God exists in three persons that are in complete and perfect harmony eternally.
2) Thus picture is further displayed with the phrase: "they shall become ONE". This word is used in the SHAMA. Deut 6 the Lord your God is ONE. Diversity within the absolute unity.

We see then that the union between a man and a woman is a very beautiful picture of God. This beauty is loved by those who love God and hated by those who hate Him.
In chapter 3 they get lured by Satan, their pride and desire to be independent from God and they sin.
Now Shalom was shattered. No peace, no synchronism, no rythm, no harmony. No relationship will ever be the same, death comes into the world and even creation itself groans waiting eagerly for the revealing of the sobs of God.
Gn 3:15 the first gospel is announced. Seed of the WOMAN. (no mention of a biological father) Satan has been attacking men ever since.
In Gn 6 God declares the estate of the human heart " every intention is evil". V5
God floods the earth saves 1 family. Another picture of Jesus.
(The ark)
Gen 12 God calls Abram and makes a covenant with him. ( make him a great nation, bless those who bless him. Curse those who curse him.)
From then on the pictures and prophecies of Christ get more and more clear to the point where the prophet Isaiah describes Jesus and his substitutionary death in detail.
God's story culminates in what we call the NT where God himself takes humanity upon himself lives, dies and is resurrected for his people. Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and has promised to come back to wrap up history redeeming completely the totality of his children and condemning those who aren't his, who do not obey his Gospel. (2 thess 1:8,9)
Between now and then we live in a very interesting time wher there is pain, sorrow, tears, death. There is a fierce spiritual battle between God's people and Satan and his servants. They do not want the kingdom of God to be expanded and the surest way they have is to destroy men. If we are behaving like little boys, churches won't flourish, families will not flourish, the next generation won't be trained in the fear of the Lord, our wives won't grow in the Lord because they have to spend the totality of their time acting like our moms and not like a suitable helper the way Gid intended to be so that his glory would be displayed in holy matrimony.
Brothers, St. Paul says in 2 Cor 2:11 that we are not ignorant of Satan's devices. I love you and I don't want you to be ignorant of his devices. I don't want you to be defeated. I don't want you to be a loser. I don't want your family destroyed. I want you to grow into mature men of God. Jesus loving, bible believing, God fearing men who look like Jesus.
Satan has been feeding the lust of our flesh with porn:
Stats:
Seventy percent of American men ages 18–34 view Internet pornography once a month.
Fifty percent of Christian men viewed pornography recently. 60% have viewed it in the last year.
The average age for first time viewing porn is 11 years old. That means that thousands of 9 year olds are exposed to this daily.
Seventy percent of women in the sex industry have been molested as a child. In most cases by a relative or close friend of the family.
I want you to know that as a child of God, you are not enslaved to sin anymore. You have the power by the holy Spirit to say "NO" and not click and not pop that DVD in, not look at that magazine, not use your internet enabled phone as a "porn to go" device.
Also, as men of God, we don't get to live in a lie. If God loves you, he will expose your sin to correct you. The best path for the child of God is repentance.
As men of God, we have to put on the mind of Christ and as we see the women in porn we should remember how much brokenness there is inside that human being who is created in the image of God and think: I wonder who she lost her virginity to. Was it her dad? Uncle? Was it a violent rape? Brokenness in the world should ignite in us compassion and desire to join God in mission, not sexual arousal. Sexual sin is a demonic, cheap imitation of God's great plan for intimacy in marriage and one of the surest ways to welcome demonic activity.
I'll leave you with this verse:


1Cr 16:13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.