Full Transcript for Enslaved With a Click: The Destructive Reality of Porn

00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:54.479 Um, the top three porn sites on the web uh actually generate 5.81 billion site visits per month. 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:56.800 I mean, that's a lot of traffic. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:16.959 And in 2021, the second most popular uh porn site called Pornhub had over 42 billion total visits, and that grew almost doubled from uh 2016, where it was 23 billion. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:32.879 And in a 2020 survey, uh it found that the majority of kids are actually exposed to porn uh by the age of 13, with some being exposed as early as seven. 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:38.639 You probably remember how you first were exposed to pornography. 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.560 Back when I grew up, uh it was through Playboy magazine. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:50.800 Usually a friend had a dad who had a subscription and they brought it over, and you looked at it for the first time and something came alive in you. 00:04:51.040 --> 00:05:16.000 And that is actually our enemy's attempt to hijack uh the gift of attraction uh that God meant for good and to be a blessing uh to us, but also reserved for when we meet that rib that God brings into our life, that woman that we're supposed to um recognize and be joined in marriage with. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:29.279 And so when we are actually introduced to pornography at an early age, things come alive that are not designed by God to come alive in us until years later. 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:45.920 In the United States, uh there is 84.4 percent of males and 57% of females aged 14 to 18 have been exposed to pornography. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:47.600 That's a lot. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:06:09.279 84% of males by the age of 18 and 57% of females have been exposed to pornography, and so that's actually hijacking norms and standards that are designed to be developed in a godly environment. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.079 So, what does porn actually do? 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:13.920 Why is it a weapon? 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.680 It's it's massively uh consumed. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:31.360 Um 70% is consumed on people's cell phones, very easy access, things that kids have, and that's why the ages are getting younger and younger, uh, from 13 down to seven now. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.199 And so what does it do? 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:42.639 Well, the first thing it does is it hijacks and reformats your brain, which can physically enslave you to sin. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:48.319 The second thing it does is it steals the gifts of attraction and intimacy. 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.079 These are gifts from God. 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:51.920 So it actually steals though. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.480 Remember the mission of our enemy, John 10, 10, to steal, kill, and destroy. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:07.759 It objectifies women and fuels the demand for human trafficking, the sex trade, and which is modern-day slavery. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:25.120 It destroys marriage and family, it defiles the temple of our body,

and it gives demons access to us and perpetuates what we find in the Bible as generational curses. 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:35.600 It can also enslave you spiritually or make you a slave in the spirit realm through shame and fear. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:41.199 So let's take a look at each of these things to understand really what we're dealing with. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:50.480 The first is it hijacks and reformats your brain, which can physically enslave you to sin. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:57.040 So 80% of young men report that they actually feel addicted to porn. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.560 And so, what's the science behind being addicted to porn? 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:09.199 Well, it says here, and I'm getting this from perplexityai.com. 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.920 This is where I did my research on this. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:19.199 It says viewing pornography triggers a large release of dopamine in the brain's reward center. 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:25.040 And this flood of dopamine creates feelings of pleasure and reinforces the behavior. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:33.440 Now remember, God's designed this, this is God's design, and it's being hijacked prematurely by the enemy. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:46.960 With repeated exposure, the brain can become desensitized, requiring more extreme content to achieve the same dopamine high. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:59.440 And so the more porn you watch, the more desensitization occurs, and the more porn in more extreme formats you need to watch. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:05.360 A key protein involved in porn addiction is Delta FOS B. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:23.360 So porn use actually causes the Delta FOS B protein to accumulate in the brain's reward circuitry, and this leads to neuroplastic changes that reinforce addictive behavior. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:30.559 And this has all been verified by MRIs on the brain in observation. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:47.600 So specifically, Delta FOS B, um the accumulation of it strengthens neural connections associated with porn use, and it causes cravings and compulsive porn-seeking behavior. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:10:15.919 And so prolonged porn use can lead to hypofrontality, and this is a reduced functioning of the prefrontal cortex of our brain, and this is the brain, um, part of the brain that's actually responsible for our impulse control as men, uh decision making, and actually willpower. 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:26.799 So hyperfrontality or hypofrontality makes it harder to resist urges and exercise self-control around porneus. 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:37.919 So it's actually in complete contrast in opposing the fruit of the spirit of self-control, which is a key to experiencing freedom, by the way. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:45.919 So as a male, your prefrontal cortex doesn't even finish developing till around 25 years old. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:53.600 So if you're on porn before 25, say as the stats say, around 13 years old, what's happening? 00:10:53.840 --> 00:11:14.799

Your brain's actually being formatted, it's being hijacked by the enemy, and your norms and standards for sex are being developed or being parented by what you're subjecting yourself to, which is um unrealistic sexual expectations that pornography depicts. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:37.759 So the good news over all of the physical addictive science is that um Delta FOS B levels will actually return to normal uh normal dopamine levels uh within six to eight weeks if you're fasting pornography. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:50.159 So um the neural pathways, however, which when you have a thought, there are pathways that are created by neurons that go down it like a like a car. 00:11:50.399 --> 00:12:00.879 And so your first thought would be like having a point man on patrol with a machete having to cut bush to make a trail for everyone else. 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:26.799 And then pretty soon that trail is used by pack animals, and then after a while, those pack animals turn into carts and that are pulled, and then after that you have vehicles, and after that you have tanks, and then pretty soon you put uh gravel down on it, and then after that you pave it, and you've got a concrete highway, so it's very easy to travel down that neural pathway. 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:49.120 And those neural pathways that um actually they continue to be present, but they can be overgrown and actually healed and removed supernaturally by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:13:08.080 So the bottom line is that porn addiction involves complex changes to the brain's structure and chemistry, particularly related to the dopamine system and Delta Fos B accumulation. 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.840 And this is just scientific fact, guys. 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:22.960 So with your brain hijacked and reformatted to unrealistic norms and standards with pornography, what happens? 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:30.639 Two, uh, the second thing porn does is steals the gifts of intimacy and attraction. 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:39.919 So attraction, uh being attracted to someone of the opposite sex is actually a gift of God. 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:44.000 It's a gift of God, it's not a sin to be attracted. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:14:52.240 And when mutual attraction occurs, God has actually designed the male to pursue the female and the female to respond, and then the two grow in emotional intimacy, and that emotional intimacy is designed to have an outlet or an expression or fruit of the emotional intimacy, and that emotional intimacy is sexual intercourse, and it's through sex that you're actually knit together or united, you become one flesh through this, and so there's a coalescence of not just um your body, but your souls in the spirit realm, the unseen world, there is a coalescence, and so pornography actually uh robs you of the gift of attraction and the gift of intimacy, which God actually designed as a blessing. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:15:11.840 If you're married and you start watching pornography, your norms and standards are going to be reformatted, and you very may well likely not find your wife attractive based on the images and things that have saturated your brain through porn. 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:26.879 And that's actually why a lot of men, not all, um, are on ED medication or erectile dysfunction medication because they can't get aroused um through a normal process. 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:44.000 They need uh further help in this process, and a lot of it's because their brains have been reformatted and hijacked, and now the gift of attraction and the gift of intimacy that were designed to be blessings from God have been stolen. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:51.039 Remember the enemy's mission to steal, to kill, and destroy. 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:56.480 So the third thing porn does is it objectifies women. 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:06.720 Uh in Genesis chapter 1, verse 26, and we can go there uh in our Bibles if you have one, Genesis 1.26. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:16.000 And in Genesis 1, 26, you actually have the creation of man by God. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:28.240 And it says here in verse 26, it says, Then God said, Let us make man in our image according to the our likeness. 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:39.600 Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:49.840 Notice that God created man, male and female, and they're to have dominion together. 00:16:50.080 --> 00:17:00.240 They're to rule together, they're to co-reign over everything on the earth, as as partners, as co-equals. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:09.200 And so in verse 27 it says, so God created man in his own image, in the image of God, he created him, male and female, he created them. 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:26.960 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea and over every the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:46.480 And so what happens here is you begin to look at a woman as an object instead of one who is designed to be a blessing to rule over what the Lord gives you to steward together. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:57.200 In Genesis 2, 21 through 25, it says the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept and he took one of his ribs. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:18:05.119 Okay, a rib is close to vital organs, which communicates intimacy. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:12.079 And the ribs protect the heart, they protect the heart of man. 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:25.839 And so the Lord took the closest thing to our vital organs, our heart and our lungs, our breath, our life, and made a woman out of that. 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:33.599 And it says here, then the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, he made into a woman, and he brought her to the man. 00:18:33.680 -->

00:18:37.359 And Adam said, Now this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.720 She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:49.599 Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 00:18:49.759 --> 00:19:03.440 There's that, there's that one flesh through physical intimacy, sexual intercourse, and it says, and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:12.160 So the bride is actually designed to rule with you as your wife. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.359 She's to rule by your side. 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:26.480 And we're told in 1 Peter 3, I think it's verse 7, that she's a fellow heir, a co-heir, and we're to honor our wives. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.119 And so what happens here? 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.920 Uh pornography objectifies women. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:46.799 You begin to look at women as objects designed for your sexual fulfillment as opposed to human beings that are to be valued and daughters of God. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:20:00.400 And so it converts a woman from being a co-ware that you're to co-rule with and honor into a subject to be dominated. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:11.839 Uh it also therefore demeans and dehumanizes women, and it looks at them as consumable products or objects. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.920 And objects can be what? 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.759 Bought and sold. 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:32.799 And so that's why, and there's the connection in how pornography fuels the demand for the commercial sex trade, human sex trafficking, and sex tourism, which is extremely popular. 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:52.319 My wife and I were in a Caribbean uh nation going down doing some anti-human trafficking work, and it was amazing to see uh how these girls had been redeemed from that, and now we're walking in freedom and we're believers in Jesus. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:57.200 But when they were rescued, they were under 17 years old. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:14.240 And when I talked to our point man uh down in this nation, he was communicating to me how these girls are actually trafficked into this and how sex tourism is a huge industry in his country. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.920 And so obviously, how do you even get to that point? 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.000 You have to objectify women. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:21.599 Where did you learn that? 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:34.160 Through pornography, and so, gentlemen, we're actually the solution to this problem when we start walking in the freedom of our calling and arise and shine. 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.559 So, what's the fourth thing pornography can do and will do? 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.039 It can spiritually enslave you. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:46.880 In Genesis chapter five, or actually chapter two, uh, verse twenty five. 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.039 We were just there talking about shame. 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:53.759 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:59.759 Well, in Genesis 3 7, it actually communicates that they. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:17.119 They became aware of their nakedness, and when their eyes were open after they sinned, that's when they acquired an actual sin nature, and therefore they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves coverings. 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:24.000 They're trying to cover up the shame that they were experiencing because of their sin. 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:32.640 So shame and fear are the means by which Satan actually rules and reigns his kingdom. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:35.200 It's how he enslaves people. 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:44.880 And there is actually a spirit of fear that can enter into you, and a spirit of shame as well that can torment you. 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:51.279 And there's a fear of being exposed as well as a spirit of fear. 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.400 So shame and fear keep things covered up and in the dark. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:08.559 And that's why when you start getting freedom, everything gets exposed by the light of Jesus Christ, the light of his countenance. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.640 And when this gets brought out into the open, you can deal with it. 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.640 That's why it says, confess your sins to one another that you may be healed. 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:20.240 And then the enemy has no hold on you anymore. 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:26.799 And that slavery, that bond can actually be broken through deliverance. 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:33.279 The fifth thing that pornography does is it destroys marriage and family. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:53.599 You see, in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, God establishes marriage and family as institutions that are to be a blessing and stabilizer to society or culture. 00:23:53.839 --> 00:24:04.160 So God actually designed marriage and family to produce stability, peace, and blessing in our society or cultures today. 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:12.880 Dad, the male, is designed to be the protector where everybody gets their identity from and their provision from. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:18.559 And there's the aspect of learning healthily about God the Father. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:31.200 Mom, she is the encourager, she's the teacher, she's the sensitive one, she's the nurturer, if you will, there's the Holy Spirit. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.559 And then you have the children as siblings. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.680 There's Jesus represented in that. 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:48.880 And what happens is if you remove the dad, there goes protection and provision that God has designed to be in place. 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.400 And so the children become vulnerable to attack. 00:24:52.559 --> 00:25:00.559 They are placed in harm's way when either the dad or the mom are removed from the equation. 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:02.559 And so why is this important? 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00:25:07.680 Well, our belief system begins to solidify around nine years old. 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:15.839 And so it is developed through the things we see, taste, touch, smell, experience, hear. 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:51.599 And so when that belief system is being established, it's designed to be established under the protection and safety of a home where a father is fulfilling his God-ordained responsibilities as a provider, a protector, and one with whom you identify with or get your identity from as a son or daughter of him, and where the kids experience the nurturing tenderness, excuse me, the nurturing tenderness of a mother, the encouragement from a mother and a teacher. 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.359 And so I remember one time I tried out for uh football. 00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:02.960 I was very young, and I came home after we got pads, and I was so sore, and I literally wanted to quit. 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:09.519 And my mom put me in a bathtub full of Epsom salts and just said, You will be there the next day. 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:12.640 And she made sure I was in pads and she drove me there. 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:14.640 And that was mom, man. 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:22.160 She encouraged me, she nurtured me, she tended to me and got me back out on that field. 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.960 And it was a life lesson I learned from mom. 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:38.960 And so um when your belief system is formatted very early on without a mother or father in the home, there are only things that a mom can impart, and there are only things that a dad can impart. 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:45.680 And that part is missing, which leaves you vulnerable as you grow up in relationships. 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:53.920 And um, so divorce obviously is extremely traumatic for children. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:27:14.400 They're sub their design, kids, are to actually uh acquire skills for healthy conflict resolution, and when they don't see mom and dad uh functioning as they should, they don't get to see or learn how to resolve conflict healthily. 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:29.279 And so the trauma of divorce uh can cause arrested development, and that means when there's a trauma, your development in a certain area can be arrested to within 24 months of that event. 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:36.880 This often happens with sexual trauma, molestation, rape, abuse, things of that nature. 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:47.759 Uh certain emotional areas a person may not develop in in emotional maturity because they've been arrested to within 24 months of that. 00:27:47.920 --> 00:28:00.079 And 95% of most of the issues we deal with as adults are rooted in emotional damage that occurs before the age of 13. 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:24.640 So you can see how God has designed a family to be intact with a mother and a father and siblings to learn certain things, not just about the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but also about the protection that it provides and the kingdom of

God in how to treat others and how to forgive and things of that nature. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:39.200 And so there's an attack on that family, and stats are all over the place regarding what happens to a culture that loses the presence of a father in the home. 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:43.599 The crime rate is directly correlated to that. 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:48.319 So there is fruit of that, and this is why God hates divorce. 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:50.160 Look, he does not hate you. 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:51.200 Divorces happen. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:52.720 I've been through a divorce. 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.240 I had shame uh for going through a divorce. 00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:02.480 But man, I'm here to tell you you can be healed from this, and your kids can be redeemed as well. 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.559 So what is the sixth thing pornography does? 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.160 It defiles the temple of our body. 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:16.480 This is found in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verses 18 through 20. 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:20.000 We are told to flee sexual immorality. 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:23.279 Pornography is sexual immorality. 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:28.319 We're to flee every sin that has to do in this category. 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:32.160 So 1 Corinthians 6 18, flee sexual immorality. 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.480 Every sin that a man does is outside the body. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.160 In other words, stealing. 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:38.640 Okay. 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:45.839 Um, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:50.480 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you? 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:54.480 That's if you've received the baptism with the Holy Spirit. 00:29:54.799 --> 00:29:58.480 Whom you have from God, that's God's promise, the promise of the Father. 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:01.039 We will get into these here in our next videos. 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.559 And you are not your own. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:10.640 In other words, you you aren't your own ruler in a sense. 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.240 You are owned by another. 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:15.440 And it says here in verse 20, for you were bought with a price. 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:16.480 And what was that price? 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:17.759 It was the blood of Christ. 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.039 He redeemed you when you were a slave to sin. 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.680 And now that you've been redeemed, you belong to him. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:34.559 Whether you appropriate that and submit to that, that's where a lot of blessing and freedom comes in when you finally surrender to Jesus as the Lord of your life. 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:46.000 And so it says here, therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:46.799 Alright. 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:57.119 The seventh thing pornography does is it gives demons access to you and

perpetuates generational curses. 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:06.559 So in 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 20, we saw that sexual immorality is a sin against one's body or temple. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:14.640 This is the temple designed, our bodies are designed to be temples, which means they're designed to be occupied. 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:25.119 Okay, with the Holy Spirit, which is God's design, but the enemy can what also indwell you. 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.640 You can be demonized. 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:39.039 And so we are commanded to flee from sexual immorality because our bodies are temples and they can be actually defiled. 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:49.680 And so those engaging in sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God according to 1 Corinthians 6 again. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.799 Now remember, the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. 00:31:54.960 --> 00:32:05.599 So if you're engaging in sexual immorality, which is sin, there's no way you're going to experience the peace of God which surpasseth understanding his righteousness. 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.720 You will never wake up to righteousness and not sin. 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:19.359 And you're not going to enjoy the joy that's available to you, the joy of the Holy Spirit that is not contingent on your circumstances. 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:23.519 And that's all found in Romans 14, 17. 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:31.039 So sexual immorality also grieves the Holy Spirit of God, according to Ephesians 4 30. 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:39.920 And so sex is not just a physical union, it is a spiritual union which creates soul ties. 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:54.960 In other words, that one flesh, when you become one flesh, we saw back in Genesis, and there's that bond that happens between partners from Genesis 2.24 and 1 Corinthians 6.16. 00:32:55.279 --> 00:33:05.279 So a soul tie is an immaterial bond where you're you're knitted together in the spirit realm. 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:22.480 And this spiritual union is blessed by God in marriage, but it's actually cursed outside of marriage, and it's why people have so many problems because of sex prior to marriage. 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:31.839 So demons actually use these bridges or ties, and they can be transferred during sex. 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:44.400 Ephesians 4.27 says, do not give a place or a foothold or an opportunity to the devil. 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:50.640 And foothold in that particular passage is uh tapos in the Greek. 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:57.599 And the whole context of Ephesians 4.27, because it says don't grieve the Holy Spirit, is sin. 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:06.559 And so a place or a tapos is actually a space that can be occupied. 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:14.320 Don't give a tapos to the devil, a space or a foothold to the devil. 00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:28.239 And this is the same exact word that Jesus uses in Matthew 12, 43, when he's talking about where demons go after they leave a person's space or body. 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:48.000 It says when the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless tapas or places, places that they are now occupying or in, places that they move to and from within, spaces. 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:58.320 So don't give a space or a place for the enemy or his demons to get a foothold in you, which becomes a stronghold. 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.880 And so what are we saying here? 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:01.840 How is that done? 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.000 It's done through sexual sin and other forms of sin. 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:20.400 In Luke chapter 8, verses 1 through 3, we see that Mary from Mogdala, or Mary Magdalene, she was from the city of Magdala, that's right at the Sea of Galilee. 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.559 It's actually a beautiful area up there. 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:34.559 But Mary had seven demons cast out of her, and they obviously had a tapas or a place to occupy within her. 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:49.840 And when you look at Acts chapter 5, verses 1 through 3, you have two born-again believers, Ananias and Sapphira, and it says that Satan filled, Peter said Satan had filled their hearts. 00:35:50.960 --> 00:36:04.719 Additionally, 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 26 says, in reference to a couple Christians, that they're being held captive by Satan to do his will. 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:14.239 And so obviously, we can give a foothold that can become a stronghold, and it's something that you can't quit, you can't put down. 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:19.440 And there's that spiritual enslavement that needs to be broken. 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.440 You need deliverance at that point. 00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:30.239 Let's talk about generational curses that we're opened up to and perpetuate through pornography use and sexual immorality. 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:42.239 In Exodus chapter 20, verses 3 through 6, it says that God visits the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generations. 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:52.960 Additionally, in Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 2, you have the curse of the illegitimate child. 00:36:53.199 --> 00:37:00.159 This is really a curse of being rejected from, in that passage, the common wealth of Israel. 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:04.159 But what happens is it's a spirit of rejection. 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:13.199 And so no matter how well your parents love you, you can't fully receive that love because of the curse. 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:18.880 And that curse is visited for 10 generations. 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.679 That's 400 years. 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:29.840 I have personal experience in getting delivered from this because my mom was actually an illegitimate child. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.440 She was conceived out of wedlock. 00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:37.519 My grandfather was married and had an affair. 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:38.960 And what happened? 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:48.880 Well, uh, he impregnated a nurse in his hospital, and so he sent her out of state to bring my mother to term. 00:37:49.119 --> 00:38:13.679 Well, he divorced his wife, and then when my mom and my grandmother came back, he married my grandmother, and my mom would had a real hard time celebrating her birthday and always celebrated two months later than her physical birthday because she had shame because of how she was conceived or when. 00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.400 So these are very real things. 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:17.920 How did that affect me? 00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:31.280 My parents were very loving, they were married for 45 years, and no matter how well they loved me, I had issues receiving that love. 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:49.199 I was prevented from fully receiving their love, and that's why I got very into performance, and in that came a spirit of anger and a spirit of rage and things of that nature, and I had to get delivered from all of those things. 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:57.119 So, bottom line, two questions here in light of the damaging effects of pornography. 00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:59.440 One, do you want freedom from it? 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:02.239 And if the answer to that is yes, that's good. 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.400 The second thing is, are you willing to acknowledge it as sin? 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:26.000 And if you want freedom from it, and you are willing to acknowledge this as sin, sexual immorality, you are well on the road to freedom and actually being the solution to the human trafficking problem in the world today. 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:36.320 But let's start with you first entering into the freedom and walking into the freedom from sin that Jesus purchased for you on the cross. 00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:37.199 That's right. 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:50.400 Jesus purchased freedom for you to enjoy here and now on this side of heaven, and you no longer have to be enslaved by sexual sin or pornography.