Delivers Thee from Evil Women

The point: Oh there may be one in a thousand who returns from that path but my son for all intents and purposes following the course of impurity and sensual sins regardless of what temporal delights they bring to you my son none th…

An analogy of a beautiful but deadly pit where only 1 in 1000 return, illustrating the extreme danger and near-irreversible bondage of sensual sins, making the risk not worth any temporal delight.

Let me illustrate. Suppose it was known that there was a deep pit somewhere out in the west something like a grand canyon filled with sights that brought great delight to the eyes sounds that brought great delights to the ears but it was known that of every thousand people that went down into that pit to behold its beauties only one ever returned to tell about it. The rest died in the pursuit of what ever delights were there in that pit. Now follow.

34:45 - 35:21 Read in full sermon

The point: Remember the flames of hell are in those pages [of pornography]. You start dabbling in that and it won't be long before you'll be hooked on that and you'll be moving to something more so-called sophisticated until you be…

The metaphor of throwing kerosene on a fire to put it out, illustrating that gratifying illicit passions does not assuage them but only inflames them further, leading to eternal hell.

yearning and yearning after strange flesh. If you're a normal human being, you feel the reality of that. But now listen. When the fires of passion begin to burn, and claim to be satisfied by illicit activity in any area of moral purity, remember that to throw upon them the fuel, thinking you can in any way assuage those passions by gratifying them, no. It's like throwing kerosene upon a fire.

41:16 - 41:48 Read in full sermon

The point: Remember the flames of hell are in those pages [of pornography]. You start dabbling in that and it won't be long before you'll be hooked on that and you'll be moving to something more so-called sophisticated until you be…

An example of men addicted to pornography in New York City, demonstrating how dabbling in such things leads to being 'hooked' and bound by the cords of sin, preventing them from thinking of spiritual matters.

suffering the punishment of eternal fire every time you read the narrative in genesis and you read these words and the smoke from the fire and brimstone went up from those planes god says that smoke is a sacramental representation of what happens to all who hanker after strange flesh remember that young men next time you go to buy a newspaper and you see the glossy front page of playboy and penthouse and swank and whatever else garbage is being paraded remember the flames of hell are in those pages you start dabbling in that and it won't be long before you'll be hooked on that and you'll

42:29 - 43:11 Read in full sermon

The point: God help you to discharge your responsibility in the realm of common grace. You can't put sanctifying grace in the hearts of your kids, but you can sure put up some hedges that under God will be used to keep them from ro…

Pastor Martin shares a personal anecdote about chafing under a strict curfew as a young man, but later realizing that those two hours made the difference in being able to give his wife the gift of purity in marriage.

And the longer you live and see how your life is much more rich because you don't have those awful scars to deal with, you'll thank God for it more and more. You say, how do I know? I know from experience, kids. Oh, how I chafed.

53:13 - 53:28 Read in full sermon