Porn and The Gospel

9 Steps Toward a Changed Life

A lot of people want to change without changing anything.
Example - “I want to quit looking at for good.” OR “I want to get in shape.” - so many examples to choose from.
And yet nothing really changes in their life. They’re still looking at the same social accounts, still have the same morning routine, evening routine, eating habits, workout habits.
Instead, they download some internet blocking software that might make the change for them. Or take a pill. Or blame the government or their spouse or anyone else but themselves.
Over the past three years, I have learned a lot about change mostly through trial and error and failing and a little success.
In my opinion, the best way to change is to identify small daily opportunities (and there are many to choose from) that will produce large changes over time.
In this podcast, I'll walk you through nine important changes I made in my life that were part of my freedom from pornography.
There’s nothing complicated about any of these. As a matter of fact, someone might say these are ‘common sense.’ But common sense isn’t common practice from what I’ve observed.
And even though they’re simple. They are easier not to do than to do.
That is a choice you have to make.

3 Indications You Will Always Struggle with

Men (who are also followers of Christ) who have struggled with for years and years and possibly decades and decades have sought to be free in many ways.
blockers
Accountability
Will power
Meetings
The list could go on.
And still, they stay stuck...WHY?
What keeps them in the pit of not able to live out of purpose? What keeps them living in the shadows afraid in the night and avoiding the light?
There are many answers to these questions...many complex answers.
But I can point to at least three indicators...three signs...that a follower of Christ will continue struggling with .
In this podcast, we'll examine each of these in order to see if you yourself can identify with this list.

3 Types of Men - Which One Are You?

There are three types of men in this world and you need to know which one you are.
This is especially vital when it comes to how each of these men responds to the Word of God.
Why is this relevant? Because this world is not our home and we have a promised rest for any who persevere to the end.
Hebrews 4:11-13
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Listen in to determine the type of man you are...and if you find that it's not the man you want to be, there's good news...God is patient with us and promises to transform us.

The Root And Remedy For Your Addiction

I was speaking with a man this morning about his addiction and he described all of his issues:
and acting out
Anger
Depression
Loneliness
And then I asked him a question we all need to ask...I said, "Those all sound like symptoms and not the deep root issue...what do you think the issue beneath the surface is?"
And that's the subject of this podcast.
But we don't stop with the root...we'll also explore the remedy.
Hebrews 3:12-13"12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin."

Are You Seeking Freedom? Expect Resistance

Anytime you want to change something in your life...to grow...to improve...you should expect resistance.
Change is hard. But as believers, we're after transformation (Romans 12:2). And that's impossible without the supernatural work of the Spirit.
If a man commits to being transformed, the first thing he needs to know is that there will be resistance. There will be resistance from within and without.
But if you are constantly asking yourself 'who am I becoming' and aligning your thoughts, patterns, habits, and addictions accordingly, then resistance becomes a signal that you're moving in the right direction.
If there's no resistance in your life, it's likely because you're comfortable with your current status quo.
In this episode, we'll examine how God's people have experienced resistance for thousands of years and what both Peter and the author of Hebrews command God's people to do/believe in order to overcome the resistance.
"Surrounded with millions of foes without, and infected with a legion of enemies within." - George Whitfield

You Can Be Saved and Still Be a Slave

YOU CAN BE SAVED BUT STILL BE A SLAVE!
We don't like to admit this, but it's the truth.
Men who are stuck in the pit of feel like they're in a prison they can't escape. They desperately want to escape but they can't find a way out.
We read in Hebrews 2:14-15n that the death of Jesus on the cross accomplished two things:
He destroyed the devil
He delivered us from lifelong slavery
He's talking about eternal salvation in this passage. And it's true if we're God's children, we are no longer slaves. But it's also true that many still live as slaves and not as free men.
When is a part of your life it's a clear indication that you are living not a victorious life, but an anxious, powerless, purposeless life with little to no power before God.
In this episode, we'll look at God's Word and talk about how we can become free.
https://www.naturalpornkiller.com/podcasts/-and-the-gospel

The Drift

In this episode, we'll circle back to the discussion of the truth of your current condition and offer you an assessment that you can use for yourself to better understand where you are.
Then we're going to look at the great DRIFT. This is something we all do and we need to recognize in ourselves. Like a ship drifting at sea, if we aren't careful, we'll wind up in a place we never imagined.
The problem is the drift and the remedy is paying close attention to the truth of the Gospel.
Hebrews 2:1 - "Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it."
“We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in your mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”
CS Lewis

The Truth of Your Current Condition

It always blew my mind to walk into a community and see how people lived for generations. They lived with no access to clean water which meant certain results in their homes:
Poverty
Sickness
Lack of education
Women and children suffered the most
But I was no different inwardly.
The only difference was I was able to hide my sickness and spiritual poverty from my wife, my friends, my church. All the while pretending I had everything under control.
In this episode, we are going to discuss the desperate need of men who are willing tell the truth. Men who are willing to face the facts of their situation.
Pilate asked Jesus a very powerful question, "What is truth?"
This is a questions worth exploring because if we're not dealing with the truth of our current condition, it's a clear indication we're lying to ourselves.
The passage we'll look at is found in Psalm 139.
Psalms 139:7-127 Where shall I go from your Spirit?Or where shall I flee from your presence?8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!9 If I take the wings of the morningand dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,10 even there your hand shall lead me,and your right hand shall hold me.11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,and the light about me be night,”12 even the darkness is not dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you.
Psalms 139:23-2423 Search me, O God, and know my heart!Try me and know my thoughts!24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting!

My Story - From Peak to Pit

What happens when a man's heart is continually conditioned by years of pornography? In this episode, Spencer will share his story of how changed his heart and lead to an implosion in 2013. We'll also discuss why men continue to hide, isolate, and sedate even when they desperately want to be done with use.

You’ve Been Called to Bear Fruit

In our first episode, we'll share what you can expect from upcoming episodes, some of Spencer's background, the heart behind the podcast, and we'll close with thoughts on Psalm 1:1-3.