Fireproof Your Marriage!

"Fireproof" is a movie about a fire fighter named Caleb and his wife Catherine, who are on the verge of breaking up. His Christian father gave him a book called a "Love Dare," and asks him to delay divorce proceedings for forty days until he tries the "Dare." 

One of the entries spoke about "parasites," describing them as anything that would suck the life of the marriage and steals one loyalty away from one's spouse. One of the parasites mentioned was "pornography." Caleb cringes, for he is addicted to porn.  Indeed. this is one of the bones of contention between him and his wife, leaving Catherine feeling dirty and ugly and wondering when she stop being "good enough" for her husband.

A few years ago, Trinidad and Tobago had the dubious honor of being in the top countries in the world that watched the most porn. Children are not exempt from this pernicious habit. A while back, the big news was that female students of a certain school were receiving nude pictures of the school's male teachers. 

What people don't realize is that sex is not just a physical act, but it is spiritual. God did not intend it to be done just anywhere or by just anyone. In Genesis 2: 21 - 25 God made woman for man and instituted marriage. They were both naked and yet were not ashamed. Shame for nakedness only came when sin came into the world (Gen3: 7- 11, 21).In Leviticus it was considered a sin to look at some other naked   body except your spouse's body. Sex is the 'glue' that binds two people together on their wedding night. They actually become "one flesh" (Gen 2: 23 - 24). So if sex is the 'glue' that God designed for marriage, and it is a sin to watch naked bodies that is not your wife, then we start to see the danger and sin hat pornography is.

Matthew 18:7-9

Amplified Bible (AMP)

Woe to the world for such temptations to sin and influences to do wrong! It is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the person on whose account or by whom the temptation comes!   And if your eye causes you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw it away from you; it is better (more profitable and wholesome) for you to enter life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the hell (Gehenna) of fire.