I have to start here because some of you have been to church, felt bad about your porn use, but haven't actually believed the Gospel: you're not even sure what it is. And even if you're a church guy who already has an idea of the Gospel, this is too important not to hear again. Nothing else in this program will truly help you if you don't understand the story I'm about to tell. The Gospel is the big story that explains all the others inside it, including yours. It tells you where you are, what your problem is, what your purpose is, and where you're headed.
So what is the Gospel? Is it prosperity and a good family? Is it just being a good person? No. Here it is.
God Created the World Good
God created man and woman in His image with dignity, purpose, strength, responsibility, and the ability to walk in fellowship with Him. We were designed to live under God's rule, enjoy His presence, build families, cultivate the world, and reflect His character. Life under God's reign was whole, ordered, meaningful, and alive.
Humanity Rebelled, and the World Broke
Humanity rejected God's rule and tried to become our own masters, deciding good and evil for ourselves. The Bible calls this sin. Sin shattered our relationship with God and unleashed death, corruption, shame, addiction, violence, fear, lust, pride, and brokenness into the world. Every one of us has participated in that rebellion.
You can see the brokenness everywhere:
- Broken marriages
- Broken minds
- Broken families
- Broken nations and broken hearts
Men try to fix that brokenness through pleasure, success, pornography, money, anger, entertainment, control, substances, achievement, or endless distraction. But no matter how hard we try, we cannot heal ourselves. We remain trapped in cycles of sin and death.
This is about more than porn. It's about disobedience, lying, envy, drunkenness, pride, unkindness, hatred, resentment, and bitterness: the whole pattern you've lived in. If you've never turned from that life, and you're not a believer in Jesus, the Holy Spirit is speaking to you right now, through your own conscience, showing you the brokenness, the foolishness, the cycle of sin and death dragging you toward hell.
This is where the six levels start.
Once you've believed the Gospel, the program walks you through what it looks like to actually live it out, level by level, starting with Level 1.
But God Did Not Abandon Us
He sent Jesus Christ: His Son, fully God and fully man. Jesus entered this broken world and lived the life humanity was supposed to live: holy, obedient, courageous, pure, loving, and completely surrendered to the Father. Then He went to the cross, where He took upon Himself the judgment our sins deserved. Through His death, He defeated sin, Satan, and death itself: He defeated the dark powers that tempted and bound you, and made a mockery of them by His cross.
By His overwhelming love, He offered His own blood as a sacrifice for sin, showing how weak and ineffective those powers really were. His body was placed in a tomb, but in the Spirit He shattered the gates of death itself, so that everyone who had believed from Adam onward could follow Him to Paradise.
On the third day, He rose again, victorious, proving His sacrifice was accepted, appearing to His disciples with a message to share with the whole world:
Jesus is now the rightful King. He has shown He is a King of love by dying in our place. He has shown He is a King of power by defeating sin, Satan, and death in His resurrection. As the rightful King, He offers forgiveness, cleansing, freedom, and new life to all who will repent, believe the Gospel, and follow Him. He does not merely forgive men: He restores them. He teaches them to live again as sons of God under His reign. He begins rebuilding what sin destroyed.
What Happens When a Man Believes
When a man repents and trusts Christ, he enters God's Kingdom. God raises him to new life: the Bible calls this being “born again,” born of the Holy Spirit. He begins a new life as a citizen of the Kingdom of God. His desires, habits, relationships, mind, purpose, and his sexuality are brought under the rule of Jesus. This isn't passive religion. It's surrender, transformation, discipleship, battle, healing, and restoration.
And one day, Jesus will return. He will judge evil forever. He will bring everyone who believed into a new heavens and new earth, remade as it should have been before the rebellion, no more suffering, shame, temptation, addiction, fear, or death. God will dwell with His people forever, and everything sin has broken will finally be made whole.
The Question in Front of You
Will you continue living in rebellion and brokenness, or will you repent, trust Christ, and enter His restoring Kingdom?
If you're ready to be saved right now, here's what the Bible says:
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 10:9
God will raise you from death to life, and put His Holy Spirit within you. That's going to be crucial for the fight against porn.
It's time to admit it: you're not the rightful king of your own life, and you've kept Jesus off the throne of your heart for too long, playing around the edges of religion and defining good and evil for yourself. If you're ready to get right with God right now, take the time to pray and take care of that before you move on.
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This is Day 1 of Victory Over Pornography. Continue to Day 2 →