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but then, on the other hand, they do know about it.\u00a0 They sense something isn\u2019t quite right.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe message that we\u2019re going to hear\u2014that was given at The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, by Dr. Russell Moore\u2014this is a pretty hard-hitting message.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He\u2019s talking about the subject of purity in marriage\u2014sexual purity\u2014moral purity in a marriage relationship:\u00a0 \u201cHow do you keep your marriage bed undefiled?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHow do you keep it protected?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think a lot of times somebody will say, \u201cWell, that means you keep from having an affair.\u201d\u00a0 They don\u2019t see pornography as an affair.\u00a0 Yet, Jesus said, \u201cIf you look at a woman, to lust; it is adultery.\u201d\u00a0 So, we do have to elevate this issue.\u00a0 We have to see it the way Jesus sees it\u2014the way the Bible sees it\u2014rather than the way contemporary culture sees it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s where Dr. Moore is going to lead us today as we hear Part Three of his message on moral purity in a marriage relationship.\u00a0 Here is Dr. Russell Moore.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Recorded message]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Russell:<\/strong>\u00a0 This issue has become almost ubiquitous to such a degree that pornography\u2014in terms of spiritual warfare\u2014has been weaponized, including in our churches.\u00a0 Now, when a couple comes in to see me and they say to me:\u00a0 \u201cWe just don\u2019t know what\u2019s wrong in our marriage.\u00a0 We just don\u2019t have any intimacy.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have sex with each other anymore.\u00a0 We just feel cold.\u201d\u00a0 I immediately say, \u201cHow long has the porn been going on?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHusband, typically, looks at me, like I\u2019m an Old Testament prophet or a New Age psychic.\u00a0 \u201cHow did you know?\u00a0 Are you working for the cable\/internet company or something?\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s because it happens so often and with such regularity, and it always has the same satanic results.\u00a0 Pornography is uniquely satanic because it drives you further, and further, and further from intimacy.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because there is an occult pull upon you that is driving you toward the kind of mystery and the kind of intimacy that you are designed to find in the one-flesh union.\u00a0 It severs that away from real life\u2014covenant, flesh and blood love\u2014in such a way that you become numbed over to the joy of sexual intimacy itself.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tPornography lures you in with sexiness; and then, totally eviscerates your capacity for sexual intimacy.\u00a0 Pornography will move in and destroy you because it will start to create you into the kind of person for whom intimacy is simply body parts rubbing together\u2014not one flesh.\u00a0 You will, ultimately, find yourself when you have seen every image you want to see\u2014like Esau, vomiting up the red stuff that he craved so badly.\u00a0 Pornography has some of you, in this room, enslaved precisely because the satanic powers love to work by helping you to hide your sin.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe, some in this room are called to ministry\u2014you\u2019re able to erase that internet history.\u00a0 You\u2019re able to walk away for a little while.\u00a0 Nobody knows.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want anybody to know, yet.\u00a0 They want to wait.\u00a0 They have time\u2014until you are somebody\u2019s pastor, somebody\u2019s missionary, somebody\u2019s women\u2019s ministry leader, somebody\u2019s counselor, somebody\u2019s church leader\u2014in order to, then, take everything that has been hidden and bring it forward into the light of day so that the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the family that you have put together, and the life that you have worked so hard for is destroyed.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019re able to do it by giving you a kind of sham repentance.\u00a0 You <em>feel<\/em> repentant because, after the pornography episode is over, you feel sick, and self-loathing, and guilty.\u00a0 <em>Everybody<\/em> feels that way after pornography\u2014Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, secularist, Wiccan\u2014because pornography is sad, and lonely, and pathetic.\u00a0 That is not repentance.\u00a0 Repentance is being driven to the kind of desperation that that man of the tombs was in when he found Jesus and cried out for deliverance because he was being terrorized inside.\u00a0 Some of you are in that exact same place, right now, with whatever is luring you into this deadly and destructive force.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe answer to all of that is\u2014number one, for the wives in this room\u2014or in the case when it\u2019s the other, the husbands in this room\u2014to recognize the truth of what Paul is saying here when he says, \u201cA husband\u2019s body does not belong to himself.\u00a0 A wife\u2019s body does not belong to herself.\u201d\u00a0 Some of you wives, in this room, are suffering silently alone while your husbands are enslaved to porn.\u00a0 You believe you are doing so because you are being a submissive wife.\u00a0 No, no, no, no.\u00a0 The Bible says, \u201cWives, submit yourselves....\u201d\u00a0 The Bible never tells women to submit to men, generally.\u00a0 It says for a wife to submit herself to her own husband.\u00a0 But the Scripture also says that what a husband is doing sexually with his body is a violation of his wife; and she, the Scripture says, has ownership over his body.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLadies, if your husband is entrapped in pornography, confront him in his sin.\u00a0 If he refuses to repent and to show you how he is repenting, take it to the pastors of the church.\u00a0 You are not being un-submissive.\u00a0 You are saying to the powers\u2014the authorities that God has put in your life\u2014\u201cOur marriage is in crisis.\u00a0 I love him.\u00a0 I want you to help me to help him.\u201d\u00a0 You, as a joint heir with your husband\u2014following after, going according to his authority\u2014when Satan has gotten him, fight for your man.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHusbands, if your wife is entrapped with some form of sexual fantasy\u2014whether it\u2019s <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> or whatever the Christian version of that is these days\u2014if she is pursuing a romantic fantasy or a sexual fantasy\u2014first of all, ask, \u201cWhat in our marriage is causing her to seek this out elsewhere?\u201d and, then, bring in those who can come into your marriage and deal with the crisis.\u00a0 Why?\u2014because this is not just a relationship issue.\u00a0 This is a spiritual warfare issue, and there are beings who want to work with your passions to destroy you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are some of you, in this room today, perhaps, who are vulnerable.\u00a0 There are some of you, in this room\u2014perhaps, even today\u2014who are accusable.\u00a0 The power that Satan has over you is only two-fold.\u00a0 Satan\u2019s power is to take those things that God created for good in your life\u2014including the impulse toward intimacy\u2014and to twist it slightly away from its intended object so that you become more and more entrapped and enslaved, in your own deception, that you are exactly in the situation that the Apostle Paul speaks of with unbelievers, \u201c...following after the Prince of the Power of the Air through the passions of the body and of the mind.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s one power.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the only other power he has is Revelation 12, \u201c\u2026to accuse the brothers.\u201d\u00a0 Some of you are staying in hiding, right now.\u00a0 When you are at the place in your life\u2014where if there is enough of a sense of the urgency of the situation\u2014you can save your life.\u00a0 You can save your ministry.\u00a0 You can save your marriage.\u00a0 You can save your children.\u00a0 You can save your grandchildren; but you are hiding, out of shame and of fear, back there in the bushes, where our prehistoric parents are.\u00a0 But there is a voice that comes through the Word of God as it does in every generation, that asks the same question, \u201cAdam, where are you?\u201d\u00a0 The only way that you will break yourself free from the pull toward immorality is to come out of hiding.\u00a0 \u201cLord, have mercy upon me, the sinner.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The only way that the power of Satan can be defeated is, first of all, by recognizing that the goodness that God has given you in that one-flesh union, in your marriage, is to point you to something that is even better news than that.\u00a0 So, the very act of holding that husband, wives\u2014holding that wife, husbands\u2014crying and weeping in repentance together\u2014that very act is a physical picture of what the Apostle Paul says of the church of Colossae when he says all of that legal record of our condemnation\u2014that list of thoughts, and intents, and archived internet histories\u2014has been nailed to His cross, disarming the principalities and powers by making a public display of them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you are in this room as someone who is unclean in hands, or in lips, or in mind, the answer for you is not to stay in hiding.\u00a0 The answer for you is step forward with your brothers and sisters to receive the forgiveness that comes with the blood of Christ, and to receive the power that comes with the Spirit of Christ, and standing with those who are able to bear you up\u2014who are more spiritual\u2014to defeat the power of slavery in your life and, then, defeat the power of accusation by turning and looking into those reptilian eyes and saying: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u201cYou are exactly right.\u00a0 I am a sexually-immoral rebel against God.\u00a0 I deserve to hear nothing from Him but: \u201cDepart from Me, you worker of iniquity.\u00a0 I never knew you.\u201d\u00a0 I am guilty of joining myself\u2014in thought, or in mind, or in deed\u2014to an occult power that is seeking to destroy the image of the Gospel in my life.\u00a0 You are right about that.\u00a0 But my sin\u2014oh, the bliss of this glorious thought\u2014my sin, <em>not in part<\/em>, but the<em> whole<\/em>\u2014is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more.\u00a0 Praise the Lord, oh my soul!\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s where freedom comes from.\u00a0 [Clapping]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat that means is being a husband and being a wife together.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just about being romantic partners.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just about being moms and dads with good family values.\u00a0 It\u2019s about being crucified people, who stand in the power of Christ, and who wrestle demons together.\u00a0 That\u2019s what marriage is.\u00a0 As you wrestle those demons together and you bear each other up through that, you find the kind of joy that comes in being on a mission together\u2014a mission of Gospel truth.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, again, today, we have been listening to Dr. Russell Moore.\u00a0 Right there, at the end, he sounded like he\u2019d been listening to you because you\u2019ve been preaching that same message about being on mission together, in a marriage relationship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s really, really important, Bob.\u00a0 There is both a defense that couples need to play\u2014where they protect their marriage from evil on the outside\u2014and there is also the need for a couple to go on the offensive and to be making a difference in the lives of others.\u00a0 We\u2019ve focused on protecting your marriage from pornography, from relationships with the opposite sex, this week; but I\u2019d just like to turn it in just a little different direction, here at the end, and talk to couples who are listening who\u2019ve got healthy marriages and they\u2019re growing\u2014maybe, they\u2019ve been to a <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> <sup>\u00ae <\/sup>in times past\u2014but they\u2019re thinking, \u201cYou know, I\u2019d like to make a difference in other people\u2019s marriages and families\u2014some of our friends in our community.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>I just want to challenge you to think about picking up one of these tools we\u2019ve created, just for you, to make a difference where you live\u2014in your church, your neighborhood, your business, your community.\u00a0 One of them is called<em> The<\/em> <em>Art of Marriage<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve talked about it, back in January, here on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u2014just about how laymen and women are grabbing a hold of this tool; and they are making a difference where they live. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere, at Valentine\u2019s\u2014you know, this is a great time to be thinking about, \u201cHow could you use marriage and family as a way to reach out and hook people who won\u2019t go to church\u2014who, maybe, wouldn\u2019t join you in a Bible study\u2014but they might get away with you to, maybe, a hotel or to your basement downstairs, where you put this on a screen, and you watch it together, and you have a lot of fun together?\u201d\u00a0 You get some popcorn.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou make it an experience so that they leave there, better equipped for their marriage to go the distance; because I\u2019m going to promise you something\u2014everybody in this culture is facing some kind of challenge\u2014some kind of temptation, some kind of issue\u2014where they need someone just to come alongside them and say: \u201cHere\u2019s the way you can handle this.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how you can have a better marriage relationship.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 For a marriage to survive, in this culture, you can\u2019t just put it on auto-pilot and say, \u201cWell, this will all work out.\u201d\u00a0 You have got to be investing.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to be doing regular maintenance on your marriage.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to be maintaining\u2014not just maintaining\u2014but building into\u2014strengthening your marriage relationship\u2014because the culture is working against it.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to know how to deal with it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s one of the reasons why we encourage couples to attend a <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway.\u00a0 A number of our listeners have said, \u201cYou know, we ought to do that sometime;\u201d and you\u2019ve just never done it.\u00a0 Can I encourage you\u2014this spring, find a city, near where you live, and just do it?\u00a0 Just get away, the two of you.\u00a0 Have a fun, romantic weekend together where you learn the biblical basics for building a strong marriage relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd you know what?\u00a0 I\u2019ve talked to people who have been in churches for their whole lives\u2014I\u2019ve talked to pastors, who have attended a <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em>\u2014and they\u2019ve said to me:\u00a0 \u201cI learned some things about marriage that I had never seen in the Scriptures before, by being here this weekend.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWe learned some things about one another that we just hadn\u2019t talked about before we were here together this weekend.\u201d\u00a0 It really is a great weekend for couples.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There is a link there for the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway.\u00a0 You can click on that link.\u00a0 Find out when a getaway is happening in a city near where you live.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, this weekend.\u00a0 You can register over the phone or register online.\u00a0 Again, the website\u2014FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014or call, toll-free:\u00a0 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 Just a heads-up:\u00a0 \u201cIf you haven\u2019t taken care of Valentine\u2019s Day, you can register for a <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> and make that a Valentine\u2019s gift for your spouse.\u201d\u00a0 Again, call 1-800-FL-TODAY; or go online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, I had a chance to speak at a <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em>, a while back, and spoke on the subject of marital intimacy\u2014some of what we\u2019ve been talking about today, and some of the challenges, like pornography, and like a whole list of other things that can weaken or threaten the intimacy in a marriage relationship.\u00a0 And we talked about the essential ingredients that make marital intimacy all that God intended for it to be.\u00a0 Our team captured that message on audio CD.\u00a0 We\u2019re making it available, this week, when you make a donation to support <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Without your donations, we couldn\u2019t do this program.\u00a0 We\u2019re listener-supported, and the money that you send us goes to help defray the production and syndication costs for this daily radio program.\u00a0 So, we appreciate your support of the ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you go online at FamilyLifeToday.com, right now, and click the button that says, \u201cI CARE\u201d, you can make an online donation; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation over the phone.\u00a0 We\u2019re happy to send you, as a thank-you gift, the CD on marital intimacy, along with our gratitude for your support of the ministry.\u00a0 We really do appreciate your partnership with us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we want you to be back again with us tomorrow on Valentine\u2019s Day when Dr. Michael Haykin is going to join us.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to hear about some of the love letters that have been shared between well-known Christians in Church history\u2014be a fun show, tomorrow, on Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0 Hope you can be with us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHelp for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you.\u00a0 However, there is a cost to produce them for our website.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2013 FamilyLife.\u00a0 All rights reserved.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/\">www.FamilyLife.com<\/a>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t1\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>","theme_header_position":"","post_header_is_sticky":"","is_header_overlay":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast\/302683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302683"},{"taxonomy":"podcast_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast_series?post=302683"},{"taxonomy":"cwp_profile","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cwp_profile?post=302683"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=302683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}