2 Peter 2:7

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2 Peter 27

• and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by
  the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
• (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man,
  while living among them, felt his righteous soul
  tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),
• then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from
  temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under
  punishment for the day of judgment,
• and especially those who indulge the flesh in its
  corrupt desires and despise authority.

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Obcene Entertainment
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Indulging the Flesh

• sex sells
• Advertising that grabs our attention
• Big business
• We live in a sex-mad culture
• Tolerated
• Advocated
• Promoted
• Marketed

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Big Business

• Pornography Industry Statistics
• 57 billion world-wide
• 12 billion U.S.
• Internet Pornographic Websites
• 4.2 million
• 12 of total websites

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The Perversion of Gods Gift

• Many scoff at traditional sexual morality.
• Alex Comfort Physician and author of a famous
  sex manual
• Chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
• The assumption that we are under the control of
  primal urges, which not only we cannot control,
  but that we should not seek to reign in at all.

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Hugh Hefner

• Modern father of hedonistic philosophy
• Sex is a function of the body, a drive which man
  shares with animals like eating, drinking, and
  sleeping. It is a physical demand that must be
  satisfied. If you dont satisfy it you will have
  all sorts of neuroses and repression psychoses,
  sex is here to stay. Lets forget the prudery
  that makes us hide from it. Throw away those
  inhibitions.

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Underlying Philosophy

• Absolute sexual freedom
• Expressed any way you want
• With any one you want
• Under any circumstances that you choose
• Freedom at any cost
• It even means you are free to kill the product of
  the sexual union.
• Abortion the murder of the unborn
• sexual fulfillment is more important than life

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Obscene Entertainment

• Primes the pump to engage in sexual acts that
  are condemned by God
• It tempts people to relax inhibitions and moral
  values.

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Obscene

• Derivation from Greek term ob skene meaning
  offstage
• Latin word obscenus, meaning foul, repulsive,
  detestable
• A term to describe expressions (words, images,
  actions) that offend the prevalent sexual
  morality of the time.
• Things that are taboo, indecent, abhorrent or
  disgusting.

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Entertainment

• It is a diversion that holds the attention.
• Because of boredom
• Are we to have diversion from moral thoughts and
  lives?
• It is pleasurable.
• There is godly and ungodly pleasure.
• Can we engage in anything that is pleasurable?
• It is relaxing.
• Are we to relax inhibitions?

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Not a New Problem

• First Century Problem
• Sexual sin was common, tolerated and customary
• No laws to stop the behavior
• No Christian culture to act as a barrier.

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The Bible Answer to the Problem

• Principles of Holy Living
• 1 Thessalonians 41-3Finally then, brethren, we
  request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as
  you received from us instruction as to how you
  ought to walk and please God (just as you
  actually do walk), that you excel still more. For
  you know what commandments we gave you by the
  authority of the Lord Jesus. For this is the will
  of God, your sanctification that is, that you
  abstain from sexual immorality

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1 Thessalonians 41-3

• For this is the will of God
• It pleases God
• It is not mans opinion.

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1 Thessalonians 41-3

• For this is the will of God
• Your sanctification
• hagiosmos separate, set apart, holy
• 1 Peter 29But you are a chosen race, A royal
  priesthood, a holy nation, a people for Gods own
  possession, so that you may proclaim the
  excellencies of Him who has called you out of
  darkness into His marvelous light

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1 Thessalonians 41-3

• For this is the will of God
• Your sanctification
• Abstain from sexual immorality
• Separation from that which is wicked, filthy,
  evil, impure, fleshly, sinful. Rom. 619, 22
• How far away?
• apechomai, complete abstinence, stay away from it
  altogether
• porneia, fornication, illicit sexual behavior.

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1 Thessalonians 41-3

• For this is the will of God
• Your sanctification
• Abstain from sexual immorality
• Heb. 134 Marriage is to be held in honor among
  all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled..
• for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
• 1 Thes. 34-8 1 Cor. 72

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• Ephesians 53But immorality or any impurity or
  greed must not even be named among you, as is
  proper among saints

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• Colossians 33-6For you have died and your life
  is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is
  our life, is revealed, then you also will be
  revealed with Him in glory.Therefore consider
  the members of your earthly body as dead to
  immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and
  greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is
  because of these things that the wrath of God
  will come upon the sons of disobedience,

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Conclusion

• Obscene entertainment is a problem today.
• It was a problem that Christians in the first
  century had to face.
• The Bible addresses the problem
• Gods will
• Your Sanctification
• Abstain from sexual immorality
• Adults
• Turn away from obscene entertainment
• Remember who we are
• Parents
• Protect our children from exposure

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• Romans 622, 23
• But now having been freed from sin and enslaved
  to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in
  sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
• For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
  of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.