20 Power Points for Defeating Porn Addiction! (Much of this applies to other bondages)

1. It's complex and it's simple. To see it as a singular issue is to fail, yes it is SIN, but sin ain't all that simple -that's why it has power. We are body, soul and spirit and this issue has roots in all three aspects of who we are. Dig up all these roots and you overcome it.
It's a study on the "mystery of iniquity" - the what and why of evil and it's mysterious hold on us and the universe - why are we "bent/crooked" and susceptible -why do we ever choose it and can't seem to ignore the seduction of it. The only known quick fix
for porn addiction is death - so plan on investing time and effort and you will overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit and obedience to the Word of God.

2. Porn is chemical (drug) addiction! This is a little understood fact and a powerful underlying aspect of why it is habit forming and destructive to the brain. The visual images provoke instantaneous release of powerful hormones and brain chemicals that wash the brain and actually alter it's form over time. (much like adrenalin works). These chemicals arouse the body, affect the heart, lungs, sex organs, etc. provoking powerful feelings and arousal- a chemical driven sexual high. After the "session" the addict feels all the withdrawal symptoms, often even feeling sick to the stomach and dis-ease, shaking, restless and empty. Like any addiction, the craving is for more and that means an ever downward spiral into more and more depraved and perverse sexual desires - lust cannot be satisfied, it always demands more until it kills: body, soul, spirit. Porn is slow but sure chemical death. These chemicals also dull the moral conscience which is part of our brain (soul: mind, will, emotions) by totally overriding this delicate part of our reasoning, erasing it. Porn addiction must be seen and treated much like any chemical addiction in order to be totally overcome. It is the height of SELFISHNESS, yet strangely, it is the height of SELF HATRED and is in reality SUICIDE - death by self. If a person loves himself as God loves him, they will choose to hate PORN and will choose to repent and overcome it by dying to self and taking up the cross. It's life or death. It is fornication, it is adultery, it is sodomy, it is enmity with God - it is spiritual suicide and any such person will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Porn always corrupts normal healthy sexual desire and safety parameters - it causes God given barriers to fall, opening the soul and body to crossover into all forms of perversion including obsessions, homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, sadism and violence.

Jesus made it clear that "thinking" in your heart is "doing"! Porn will introduce sickness, early aging and death to the physical body. It is surely more than a sin of the mind/heart, it degrades our health in all respects. Read 1Cor. 6:12-20 carefully. Sexual immorality directly affects your physical body's health - long term consequences. Destruction is a seed that takes time to grow in us. We only think STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases); NO! - think all manner of physical defects and debilitation diseases common to man: cancer, heart disease/stroke, organ failures, etc. Why? Because porn directly affects our body's immune system and our emotional and spiritual immune systems are compromised -our protective walls are damaged, demons are given entrance! Our souls go dark, we are destroyed by guilt and shame and double-mindedness - we are alienated from God, we grieve the Holy Spirit!

FASTING - Consecrated fasting (no food, pure water only, with prayer and meditation) for 7 days will break the power of any kind of addiction! (Physical/Emotional/Spiritual) The psychological habit "routines" require additional discipleship, counsel, inner-healing, deliverance and accountability. The fast accomplishes the purging and detoxifying of the chemical/drug residue from the organs/fatty tissues, it allows rest and healing of damaged organs, it produces faith and spiritual bondage breakthroughs. Such a fast is usually only uncomfortable for the first 2-4 days of food/addiction withdrawal, after that hunger and withdrawal symptoms subside allowing continuation up until hunger returns, which signals the end of fasting and the beginning of starvation - most reasonably healthy persons can fast for up to 40 or more days. Longer fasts of 15-21 days are desirable for anyone seeking healing from any illness symptoms associated (or not) with their addiction. Those who fast with pure motives of repentance and hunger for intimacy and righteousness report victorious and life changing results and breakthroughs including healing from chronic and serious physical illnesses as well. God designed and called us to fast for our consecration, bodily healing and maintenance and spiritual well-being. The longer fast is very important for restoration and healing of brain damage and drug/hormonal imbalances caused by porn over stimulation -this includes healing of the heart and other organs that have been stressed.

3.Jesus said, " as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" - ie: thinking is doing -thinking fantasy lust/immorality is doing same. Temptation thoughts can be rejected and denied; when we fail to reject these, we are doing them. Thinking produces doing. What percentage of porn addicts truly escape actually eventually carrying out sinful acts related to their "harmless fantasy"? It all starts in the heart of man. Internet porn includes every possible permutation of evil acts and imagination invented by satan, every kind of perversion and crime against God is included and heralded. Soft porn is only the introductory chapter of the Hard porn manual of death. Porn is worldwide mega-billion dollar commerce. (Pornea is the greek word that includes fornication - this word is an umbrella word that covers the whole sewer system of immorality) Engaging in porn effectively breaks 6 of the 10 Commandments: 1,2,5,7,8,10 .

The Porn Sewer System: lust, fornication, adultery, divorce, sodomy, homosexuality, fetishes and perversions, bestiality -sex with animals, masturbation and other self-abuses, transgender confusion, betrayal, incest, molestation, pedophilia and sex abuse of children, prostitution, idolatry, paganism and worship of the creature/creation rather than God, demonization, sadism, masochism, bondage and slavery, rape, violence and torture, mutilation, murder, kidnaping, abortion, uncleanness, orgies, lewdness, nakedness and exhibition, voyeurism, criminal enterprises, seared conscience and mental breakdown, fears and shame, witchcraft and sorcery, drug addiction and alcoholism, inordinate affections (compulsions and behaviors), STD, diseases, suicide. Do not be deceived, do not delay, those who do agree with and or do these things shall not enter Heaven nor the Kingdom of God (Rev. 22:14-15).

4. No one can say they cannot choose to follow Christ, no one can say that Christ will not save them from themselves, sin, addiction, or damnation - IF they want! Addiction is not a disease, it is your personal rational, moral, and spiritual choice. No one is a victim of their sin, they are active willing participants. God puts the choice to us: Choose Life or Choose Death. IF we choose Life, He gives us the power to Live (for Him). All men everywhere are commanded by God to repent, be baptized (water) in the name of Jesus Christ, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (baptism). Acts 2:38 If we respond and obey, the Holy Spirit will enable us to walk in self-control -denying self and sin, loving our Savior and making Him Lord. If we choose death, we give satan (demons) the power ineof death over us, we have no life, no hope, no help, only certain judgment and eternal damnation and loss! Delay in choice is choice! Denial is choice! Compromise is choice! (check www.rational.org-this is a secular organization fighting addictions that debunks the "disease/victimology" approach -worth reading/considering, their approach has the taste of ROMANS : no man has an excuse, it's choice!, we have a beast living in us which must be put to death, etc.)
5. You cannot have porn without having demons! Get real! Willful disobedience and sin opens the legal door to demonization. Demons come by invitation, they stay and make themselves to home until they are thrown out legally. Demons are a symptom, not the
cause. They tempt, we agree or disagree. No man can say the devil made me do it. Crucify the flesh, cast out the demons. In that order, it cannot be reversed. See attached articles on Deliverance and Spirit Warfare. Anyone who says "christians" cannot have demons is wrong and deceived. Christians can chose to have any kind of sin, error, demon, or destruction living in them - "my people perish" daily due to lack of knowledge and by denying the truth/reality by grieving the Holy Spirit. One sign that a believer has transitioned to being a disciple is found succinctly in Mark 16:15-20, it's no longer theology and theory, it's doing the works of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. How can a believer claim to be a disciple of Christ without the fruits of the Holy Spirit and the power (gifts) of the Holy Spirit which produce the works of Jesus? Deliverance is the children's bread, it's for believers who believe! Book: The Bondage Breaker, Neil Anderson; Pigs in the Parlor, Frank Hammond - (see Kerry’s article: Deliverance Ministry)

6. You are only as SICK as your SECRETS. Humility is one of the most powerful life giving, freedom giving gifts to mankind. James 3:13 - 4:17! PUBLICLY CONFESS YOUR SIN/WEAKNESS and ask for help! This is DYNAMITE. Without confessing sin/bondage and humbly seeking help from the Body of Christ, you remain sick and helpless! This confession breaks the power of bondage to sin! All unforgiveness, bitterness (bitter roots), envy, strife, evil speaking, pride, judgment of others, lawlessness of any kind (attitude against authority, laws, despising father/mother, 10 commandment stuff), must be renounced and confessed and repented of.

If just one person will stand up and confess their sin, it will start an avalanche of repentance and deliverance in the local church! Start with confessing to one trusted person, then to one small group, then to the church! You will end up with a testimony for Christ, you will become free and you will set others free!

This is the time when we need to start agreeing with the devil! Yes, when he comes to accuse us and expose us, we need to agree - WE ARE IN SIN! Now, take that SIN directly to your merciful and gracious Savior and make Him Lord over it and your life! Then confess this to the church, give glory and power to the Blood of Jesus and give thanks to God for your forgiveness, salvation and imputed righteousness. You thereby defeat your adversary/accuser by living in the light and no longer in darkness or fear or guilt or shame or bondage! Now you have a testimony of saving grace and peace with your God!

The roots of PORN are in this and other related passages that deal with our HEART issues (Gal. 5). Do not think that PORN is all about sex, get discernment! Look beneath the surface! PORN is fruit on a tree that is supported by the roots mentioned above. Yes, there can be generational sin: INIQUITY- inherited "bent, crooked", (see article on Generational Sin), BUT this is no excuse and each generation, each human has to make their own choices and live with the eternal consequences. Believers die before their time, lose their health, destroy their lives and relationships, are tormented by demons/sin, grieve the Holy Spirit, lose eternal reward and some even turn away from Christ and are lost (you don't lose your salvation, you choose your salvation!) - others become disciples, bear eternal fruit, are Spirit-filled overcomers and enter heaven with great joy and eternal reward! 2Tim. 2:8-3:9 perilous times are here for believers who are not disciples.......... We need each other, we need the Body of Christ!

7. Worship is Warfare! In the midst of your struggle, your failures, your sin, your weakness, your powerlessness and your dark times, WORSHIP your SAVIOR and you give him POWER over and in your heart and life! WARFARE is done OUT LOUD! Singing
praises and worship, SPEAKING THE WORD of GOD (the Psalms, the promise scriptures), etc. is submitting to God so you can resist the devil. What kind of music are you bathing your brain and spirit in? WORSHIP is WASHING! The porn brain needs

washing by Worship and the water of the Word. Speaking the Word of God out loud is spirit warfare, it is a means of rewriting the damaged memory cores of our brains. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God! Porn overwrites our brains with harmful images and memories, clouding our faith with guilt and shame and uncleanness. "Porn brain"renewal (Rom. 12:1-2) is not a quick fix -this takes time and persistence, real effort in the Word, taking your stand, walking and talking with the Spirit, (Eph.5-6). "But fornication ("pornication"!) and all uncleanness ......let it not even be named among you .....neither filthiness.......For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person....who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you ....because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience". If you choose to Worship God, your porn brain images will insert themselves immediately between you and God -this is spirit war! - you must resist continue on and make your stand - you must continue to glorify God and Worship through to victory!

8. COMMUNION - (see article: Eat His Flesh, Drink His Blood and be healed.) "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you." John 6:53 THIS IS SO POWERFUL! Be careful to read 1Cor. 11 instructions and warning concerning examining yourself and repentance! The communion table is a place of transparency, a place of confession, a place of surrender and commitment, a place of forgiveness, healing and power, a place of renewal, a place of worship, a place for the broken and needy, a place where your future is determined. It's the FOOD we are eating that gives us life or death! Renew your covenant with Jesus! Communion is about relationship, it is fidelity or betrayal time. Communion is the decision to affirm your covenant relationship with your Savior, or to betray Him for 30 pieces (porn). It is a place of love or hate - see Luke 16:13.Which disciple are you? John or Judas? Remember, Judas embraced and kissed Jesus and called Him "Master". To avoid His Flesh and the Blood, is to leave the upper room and Jesus ..........to go out into the darkness. Jesus is offering you the bread and the wine, will you partake of Him?

9. If your eye offends you, better to pluck it out and enter heaven blinded than enter hell with your eyes wide open (Matt 5:27-30). Practically, this means cut off INTERNET access. No private, alone, computer usage, only use the internet when you are in company and under accountability. Have someone check your computer website visitation log regularly. Shut the door, keep out the devil. Trash trash TV and movies! Arrange accountability so that every week, you have someone asking you point blank about your struggle with porn. REPLACE! Replace PORN with those things which are lovely, life giving, joy producing, spiritually rewarding and growth producing! Turn off insipid entertainment, pursue quietness and listen to the Holy Spirit, stack up some spiritually rewarding books and go to work reading -feast on the things of the Lord. Quit giving satan easy careless access to your eyes, ears, and soul! Quit going to places where your eyes and heart are tempted. Stay away from the magazine rack! Stay out of the video stores! You must burn all porn in your possession! In this case, ruthless is righteous!

10. Emotional Wounds! Porn is offered by demons as an analgesic to emotional pain. When you are hurting, REJECTED, wounded, lonely, despairing, hopeless, suffering from tragedy or loss, you can be sure that demons will show up and offer you instant
gratification and pain relief. Consider how people become alcoholics/druggies - in them, there is always an empty hole, pain and a wounded heart waiting for the quick fix! Pursue inner-healing and deliverance ministry to clean out all wounds and spiritual/emotional infections
- forgiveness is critical!!!!!!!! Clean the house, every dark aspect of your childhood must be redeemed and healed! Seek help and ministry! This is not a quick fix, it takes time to clean house! If you have been sexually abused, especially if it is a secret and you
have not been healed of this trauma, you are wide open to sexual immorality and demonic torment. You can forgive, you can be healed, cleansed and delivered and free! (see attached articles) Wounded child - wounded adult! Sexual abnormalities, fetishes, cravings, and perversions can originate in the womb, even from the sins of father and mother, from infancy and childhood trauma and experience. A child that is not bonded, breast fed and nurtured in a mother’s love can be open to deep insecurities. A child that is not secure in a mother and father’s love can become prey to a lifetime of iniquities. Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment, wisdom and guidance to healing and freedom - pursue this fervently! You are not alone in this need! Let the Holy Spirit speak to you, give you the right questions and the healing answers. Book: How to Pray for Inner Healing, Rita Bennett.http://www.theophostic.com.

Theophostic Prayer Ministry (see www.theophostic.com) is a powerful prayer methodology that unmasks, identifies and destroys the power of "embedded lie based pain" in our lives. This is powerful application of John 8:31-36: if you hear -know - see - embrace- believe the truth, it will set you free! It is this "lies from satan pain" that opens the door to demonic bondage and torment and thus addictions arise to medicate this relentless pain. Please give serious attention to the free articles on the website and pursue this ministry and be set free! TPM is a powerful root analysis tool for defeating any kind of addiction or bondage!

11. Baptism by Immersion with understanding! Bury the dead old man of sin, be resurrected as a new creation in Christ! This is spiritual warfare step one for everyone who repents and believes on Christ Jesus! Obedience produces freedom! If you have not obeyed these commands (Acts 2:38), make haste to obey, but do it with understanding. You cannot have spiritual power or victory without obedience, step by step obedience. Do not dare question baptism’s importance - obedience is the beginning of understanding! If you were baptized and now looking back, it doesn’t have meaning, there is no scriptural reason why you cannot now do it with meaning and understanding. Put your thumb in the devil’s eye! Read Romans 6 carefully! The wages of porn is death! Choose your death - death, burial and resurrection life in Christ, or eternal death with satan.

Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues! This is God's will for every believer - you must be filled with the Holy Spirit and evidence of fruit and gifts -otherwise you are not on the discipleship path and you will have little power
to live for and produce the works of righteousness. Tongues is your daily internet connection with the Holy Spirit - you download, you are edified and strengthened and know God's will, power is released, the other gifts become functional! Correction comes!
If you are not involved in producing the works of Jesus, something is wrong, something is missing. All believers can and should be involved in healing the sick, casting out demons, seeing miracles, leading others to Christ, giving, serving, loving, worshiping, praying, in
fellowship. It is impossible for a "Spirit-filled" believer to not have and manifest "charisma"(supernatural gifting)! Those who take the Word at face value "get this", it's yours! Quit accepting less! It’s your choice, listen to the Word of God and act on it or listen to traditions of men and the lies of satan. Those who act on the Word of God in faith activate it’s power and reality in their lives! You get to write Acts 29!

12. Fellowship is not a 1 hr church service on Sunday. It’s what happens 7 days a week. Get real! Who are you eating with, and hangin with, and being real with? DUH! If you want to be on fire for Christ, jump into a blazing fellowship. Cut off ungodly fellowship - bad company corrupts good character! Porn addict, you need new real friends! Get in God’s kitchen and feel the heat! Get uncomfortable! Exactly why is it that you are not actively part of a home group, a Bible study group, a prayer group, a recovery group, a service group, or two or three? Do not be trapped in a church box! Go wherever the help is offered for your need(s) in the larger Body of Christ! Expand your fellowship tent!

13. You cannot have REAL LIFE, REAL ROMANCE, REAL RELATIONSHIP, REAL MARRIAGE, REAL JOY and PEACE, REAL MEANING, SELF RESPECT, and
REAL LOVE, with Porn in your life -it's a DIRTY UNREALITY BOMB that kills every real living thing in your life with contamination. Love Porn, hate self, hate others, hate life, hate God. What's your for sale price? Are you destroying the future that God has for you? Are you rejecting God's blessings for your life? This is DESTINY! Dr. Phil would ask: How is this working for you? Today, decide: Is it blessing or cursing I want? Decision produces action to back it up. The Kingdom of God is taken by the violent, ie: those who are desperate and push through the crowd and the roadblocks! Satan cannot keep you from exercising your will to be free and to choose obedience if you so desire.

14. Friends and family, if you love someone, you will not ignore the signs, you will pray and take action. DO AN INTERVENTION -assemble a team! To confront evil is righteousness. When a person is sick, they need a physician - you be the EMT that gets them to the Emergency Truth Encounter! Directly question them eye to eye, get a direct answer eye to eye (spirit to spirit)! Some Signs are: dead spirit, fear, guilt, shame, secrecy, irritableness, selfishness, change in living and sleeping patterns, loss of interests, no prayer or worship life, loss of fellowship, broken relationships, isolation, sadness, depression, withdrawal, compensations, etc. Check the computer website history log daily, adjust it to save history for 30 days.

15. Porn is direct attack on children! Increasingly our children are being exposed via the internet to graphic porn, this can come at home or at a "harmless" sleepover, or at play after school at a neighbors. Wake up church! This is seriously damaging to children. If your child takes a downturn emotionally or personality wise, shows depression/mood changes, shows signs of withdrawal or shame, acts out sexually, becomes insular or secretive, shows signs of spiritual malaise, etc. act! Please pray into this and fully investigate, do not believe surface denials, get experienced help. What are you doing to protect your child? Where's the outrage? This epidemic is raging and it includes molestation, rape, kidnaping and murder in our daily news. Incest and molestation can be found hidden in our local churches - I testify to dealing with many such victims personally. I am willing to believe that it can be found in any/every church in America at this point. Victims hide in secrecy, shame and guilt, suffer memory blackouts and isolation and emotional devastation. This is one of the major issues in the root of homosexuality (not the only issue). Tragic! The most fearful condemnation and judgment is reserved by God for those who harm (and don't protect) children! (Matt. 18:6-9) Porn addict, the devil has plans to use you to harm (your) children, it's only a matter of time.

Talk to your children - protect them with truth! Get out of denial, if something doesn’t feel right, it isn’t!

16. God is not slack concerning His promises! He promises to discipline every true child. How do you want your discipline? Exposure, shame and guilt and destruction comes to those who refuse to come out into the light. Self-disclosure, humility, confession and repentance to the Body of Christ brings healing, deliverance and restoration (of honor). Be sure that it's just a matter of time, your sin will find you out. What a relief it is to come out into the light voluntarily. It works for you! God and people respect the individual who is transparent. Dynamite the devil! - your current mess will become part of your message for Christ if you will only obey. Do it now! We have all sinned and fallen short, quit pretending you hypocrite - come out of hiding! Do not think that you can get out of this quagmire by only secretly confessing to God, I am quite sure He demands humility before your fellow believers in order to break the power of this sin in your life.

Here's the test: if God does not discipline you for porn, you are not his child. Heb. 12:8 The decision is yours, who's child are you? Time is of the essence!

17. Porn produces Passivity, passivity is an open door to porn! Spiritual is practical and includes the physical realm. Paul teaches that we must bring our bodies unto subjection and control in order to run the race of the disciple. 1Cor. 6 & 9. The passive mind produces the passive body which opens the door to demonic control. To break the power of porn, break the patterns of body, soul and spirit passivity that come with it!

Physical exercise/work/service/action produces health in body and soul. Get to work, get up and go! Discipline the body with proper diet, exercise/action, and rest. The couch, the computer chair, is the enemy of your soul in this battle. Busy is good in this battle, not busy
for busy sake, be busy serving! Porn is an indoor sin - get outdoors! If you lay down in this battle, you will lose! Gird up your loins and run! Proper nutrition is integral. The porn addict is likely a food junkie and careless about diet, exercise and health. Fasting breaks the constipation and passivity and toxicity of the body, soul and spirit.

18. Biblical World View! Improper spiritual foundation or false conversion produces weak spindly faulty faith. When a believer has a faulty foundation of doctrine, they are easy pickings for demons. If you can watch the Passion and not be shaken, if you don't fear a Holy God, if you don't really have a revelation of the sufferings of Christ for you, if you don’t have certainty of coming judgment and of hell and of heaven, if you don't believe Christians can die before their time or suffer eternal loss of reward, if you haven't looked death and demons in the face, if, if, if, if........ Go back to start and review and renew your foundation in Christ. Forsake worldly fellowship, commit to a fellowship of believers who are on fire for Christ. Hit the Book! Hit your knees! How do you know you are saved? Can you stand up and prove it? Precisely what are your proofs? What is your testimony? The proof test of your belief system is your life lived. If you have weak faith, you have weak repentance. The Law demands the death penalty for your adultery! God’s Law condemns you, God’s Law points you to the Cross of Christ, the Fear of God (His Law and your coming death and judgment) brings you to the place of repentance - the Cross. You must be decisive, you must be convinced, you must repent and not turn back! Will it be the Law or will it be God’s grace in Christ? The Gospel of Matthew is called the Gospel of the Kingdom of God - it emphasizes a worldview and Kingdom values that are 180 degrees opposite to "worldly/fleshly/natural" values. Carefully pray and study your way through this Gospel, repenting (changing your thinking/values) accordingly, relying on the Holy Spirit to convict and empower you to new life in Christ!

19. THE NEW MAN! "This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

"But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness............ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." 1Thes. 4:17-30 NKJV The "new man" has repented, been baptized and received the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ. Are you truly a "new man"?

"Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us,......... But fornication (porneia) and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them (in the final judgment and hell).....Walk as children of light.............have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them ..........for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret." Eph. 5 NKJV

20. REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM of GOD is HERE! REPENT: (met-an-eh-oh: Greek): decisive change in your thinking and your will producing action which causes you to turn and submit to Christ. Understand that the Key to Scriptural Repentance is not the turning away from sin - it is you changing your mind, it is the decision to turn to Jesus Christ! No man has the power to turn away from or defeat (all) sin, all men are by nature sinners and transgressors of the perfect Law of God. It is only by the mercy and grace of God through the Gospel, the Cross, the person of Jesus Christ and the work and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, that any man can be saved! If you will turn to and to the extent that you focus your heart on loving Jesus Christ and being in Communion with Him, sin will no longer have power and control in your life. Turn to Jesus and you will be turning away from sin. "And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come into the light, lest his deeds should be exposed". Jn 3:19-20. The repentant sinner is the one who in absolute terror, grief and sorrow at the revelation of their sin, filthiness, hopelessness, condemnation and imminent eternal judgment, is desperately and absolutely determined at any cost to have Jesus as Savior and Lord!

The prodigal son, tired, dirty and hungry in the pig pen, got desperate, made a critical decision, got up and turned to go home - humbly, just as he was, just as he had become -it was clearly his only hope. If you attempt to face and deal with your sin, clean up your act, do penance, struggle and war against sin, you will continue to fail because you don’t have the power. Your focus will be on overcoming sin (works) and not on Christ (grace). Quit fighting the darkness- turn to the Way, the Truth, the Light! Focus on a right loving relationship with Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord through faith and you will fulfill the greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind!" (Matt. 22:37) In so doing, you will go on to fulfill all the commandments and be filled with the Spirit of Christ. Through grace (God’s Resources at Christ’s Expense), Sin shall not have dominion over you! Take your sin, guilt and shame to the foot of the Cross! The proof of repentance is new life in Christ with all the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:16-26) .

Victory in Jesus!: Internet Resources:

Kerry Slattery www.thechildrensbread.net

YWAM Missionary www.greatbiblestudy.com

kslatte@msn.com www.tbm.org www.theophostic.com

to request mentioned articles www.victimsofpornography.org

Kerry has been a believer for over 50 years. Kerry was raised in a Christian home and has been involved in evangelical churches, serving as a deacon, teacher and in street evangelism, deliverance and healing ministry, missions and church planting. Kerry has a BA from George Fox University and attended Christ for the Nations Institute. He became a charismatic believer in 1980 and has been involved in various ministry groups and simple church ministry as well as traditional churches. He and his wife Penni, married in 1969, are serving in Worcester, South Africa YWAM .