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How to Fight Addiction in a Pornographic Culture

Voddie Baucham exposes the pornographic nature of our culture and provides men and women with a key tool necessary to fight addiction.

How to fight the addiction of sin!

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Theologian Jonathan Edwards (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions , that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power. In other words, sin has a powerful effect in which your own freedom, your freedom towant the good, to will the good, and to think or understand the good, is all being undermined. By sin, you are more and more losing your freedom. Sin undermines your mind, it undermines your emotions, and it undermines your will. Sin Is Addiction All sin is addiction. Whether it's bitterness, whether it's envy, whether it's materialism, whether it's laziness, whether it's impurity —