I’m Stuck in Sexual Sin — Should I Excommunicate Myself?

Ask Pastor John
Episode: 1911

[somemedic]

I was addicted to pornography for four years. I couldn’t spend more than two days without masturbating or watching pornography. I prayed and tried many times to quit but it seemed impossible. I listened to many psychiatrists and psychologist but still nothing. I was stuck, it got to a point that I even told God that if I’m going to go to hell then so be it. After listening to this sermon, I immediately felt some kind of relief and lost all my desire to watch porn instantaneously. I don’t know how it happened but somehow it did. I spent two months without even touching porn. Every time the devil tempted me I just told him that he has no power over me and replied him with scripture, “sin can no longer have dominion over you, for you are no longer under the law but under grace”. I pray that this testimony will encourage someone to know that it is possible to quit porn by the power of God’s grace. To him be the glory.

[maxi]

God must have heard my cry. Thank you, Ps John, for this message, it came within hours of the cry.

[bnato]

I can relate to this brother's struggle in spades. I desperately wanted to live out my true born again nature in Christ, but could not break free from the entanglements of sexual sin UNTIL I did this: I got on my knees and poured out my heart and cried out in a sincere prayer to my Father in Heaven confessing all my sexual sins and asked Him to give me obedience and victory in this area. And when I got up off my knees, I clearly sensed something in me changed and I have not returned to that sin since. Unlike anytime before in the past decades of my struggle, I walk in obedience and victory every day in His power, praise the Lord. Another really important change I made is to really commune with the Lord in His Word daily and pray daily individually and with my wife. I also am proactive when I am on the internet to block any potential for inticing videos or pictures. My relationship with the Lord has now reached a significantly deeper intimacy and a practical walking out of holiness and maturity. There is hope, the Lord wants all of His children to be sanctified and Holy in their conduct. He can and will do it. In His kindness and mercy He grants repentance and renews a right spirit.

[nonebutchrist]

PLEASE PRAY FOR ME, IVE BATTLED THIS FOR DECADES. LITERALLY DECADES. IVE CONQUERED MANY OTHER STRONGHOLDS IN MY LIFE BUT THIS SEXUAL SIN HAS INSLAVED ME FOR YEARS. IVE BATTLED THIS LITERALLY 1000'S OF TIMES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. I JUST NEED ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRAYER FROM TRUE BELIEVERS. THANK YOU.

[ChristianCorrectionsCorporal]

So glad I have attained victory over this, my former most potent sin. At 26 years old I gave up porn completely as I could feel it hardening my heart and damaging my soul. Having been saved at 13 I struggled with it for far too long, but happy to say I’ve been over a year free from its enticement. It elicits the disgust that it deserves any time the temptation is offered by the evil one. I truly didn’t know if I was ever going to see the day, but Christ’s deliverance does not disappoint those who truly repent and die to their own desires so that He can provide us new righteous ones.

[conduit]

To the young man who asked for advice against his sexual sin : scripture.... memorize it. Find a verse that deals directly with the victory over sexual sin, and memorize it. Memorize a few. When Christ was fasting ing the desert, and Satan came to Him to tempt Him, He used scripture to ward off Satan. There is power in the word. TRUE POWER AT OUR DISPOSAL!

[adeyemilasisi]

Stand up as a Man. Strike your Sin. You are not your own. Don't concede Defeat. Don't be deceived, don't be a lackey, don't be a fool to Devil and his wickedness. Wake up Christian Friend, you are not destined for the destructive end of sin.

[vshrum]

“It is not noble” (5:09) exactly! 👏🏼 Be a man and choose the difficult things; purity and holiness. Its easy (and weak) to throw up your hands and give up. Now you want permission to just give up!? Our culture is one of weakness and this is a prime example. Choose God over your sin; you won’t regret it.

[bonniek]

As a mother of a wayward son who’s struggling, I weep and beg the Lord for my son’s repentance to turn away from wickedness and return to our merciful Lord.

[Loveknowsyou]

I am no longer stuck in sexual sin and it's because Jesus intervened in my situation. I was addicted to masturbation when I was little till I was 18 years old where I felt this electricity current in my body about the fear of dying come into my body. I opened a gateway for the enemy to come in and tried to kill, steal and destroy me. But I believe this fear was to make me believe that sex is now tainted and I was no longer allowed to feel pleasure but the Lord showed me otherwise. The enemy's plan backfired because not only did I stop masturbating but I turned to Jesus who tells me that sex is sacred and reserved for the one guy who God ordains for me to marry.

[mr.happyfunguy]

I just deleted Tinder… praise God. The Spirit clearly used Pastor John to prevent me from going down a dark road leading to an emotional cliff. If not for his sharp, piercing words, Lord forbid (and He has) I would have turned lukewarm.

Praise, honor, glory to the Father.

[jeremymaendel]

I am not stranger to the battle with sexual sin. Sometimes I’d have victory, sometimes I wouldn’t. Last I cried out God to be more steadfast! He has definitely helped me this week. I praise God that He gives me victory. This episode is heartbreaking. Saints never striving to mortify your flesh. Do not rely on your own strength. Get desperate and get on your knees before God for His help

[steve]

Amen! A lot of us needed to hear that. Lust is very difficult to control. It's the hardest thing I feel I deal with.

[anthonyviljoen]

I like podcasts like this. Straight forward, hard, biblically downright truth.

[jbzt]

praise God, this couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. I’ve been struggling with returning to pornography myself and i desperately want to kill this sin in my life

[TaciturnTerror]

I know Christ cares for me because this messages showed up right when I needed it. I was able to battle sexual sin for weeks right until this week. I fell earlier this week and felt so, so distant from God, and then this video pops up. I shall repent, retrospect and fix those things that caused me to fall. More than that I am grateful that even through such a situation, God has shown me how I can better myself and fix those issues that led me to fall. I am truly grateful to God for using Pastor John to reach out to people.

[JesusChristIsLordoflords]

I pray part of this psalm through “let them not have dominion over me” every morning and evening. Try it everybody struggling with a persistent sin.

Psalm 19:13 NKJV
[13] Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

[rwzjtdv]

Been in a similar place. God gave me the strength and I am recovered from sexual addiction. Praise God. If you're reading this, it's possible by relying on God and walking through it with other believers.

[arrikgibbs]

I think this was a blessing I stumbled upon this video as soon I woke up today & I have been struggling with this sexual sin for years now with you’re courageous & strong powerful words Pastor I’m truly grateful & inspired to finally stop being a slave to this sin!

[JoshuaW]

Lord make me a vessel of blessing and not curse! That I would love Jesus with my whole heart and purge all sin from my members. God free me from the sin that so easily entangles this mortal flesh. Help me to see your glorious truths that are not burdensome but are life eternal. Oh Lord Jesus have mercy on me and my brothers and sisters in this dark world! Thank you for the blood.