I do get heated whenever I see people blame pornography usage on a wife. I think that makes people assume it must be because this is a personal issue for me. It is personal in that although I have never dealt with this pain in my own marriage (thank the Lord), I have ministered to many Christian wives who have been forced to deal with it in their marriages.
I have personally known too many devoted Christian women who kept themselves free from sexual immorality before marriage and then once married, were loving, supportive wives, yet still had their hearts torn out by husbands who secretly and repeatedly returned to habits of porn usage that they had started as single men long before they ever met their wife for me not to get very angry when wives are blamed for a husband’s enslavement to pornography.
It is a lie from the pit of Hell. It contradicts the clear teaching of God’s Word that sin is the result of lust in an individual’s own heart, and it doubly victimizes wives who simply cannot satisfy the craving porn creates for things that are forbidden and who are already in agony, knowing that their husband does not delight in their love alone and that they have corrupted the marriage bed by bringing into it the impurity wrought by seeking sexual satisfaction with untold numbers of strange women online.
Their husband is not a one-woman man. He has betrayed the marriage covenant. He does not (and never actually did) have eyes for her alone, and the pain these wives suffer as a result is beyond imagination.
@fireflymagnolia Such a disgusting and, yes, disturbing post. From a pastor of all people. Like his post is going to turn hearts to Christ….sheesh. Me thinkest the man doth protest much.
@KriegsMarino@sola_chad Where is what the Catholics believe in the Bible? Worshipping Mary? Praying to saints? Purgatory? Lloyd-jones merely wanted ppl to realize what the Bible says—that salvation comes only thru Jesus’s atoning work. There is no other way.
@IMPERATORAUS@sola_chad But perhaps, Lloyd-Jones is basing it off of the Bible? The Catholics are the ones who do not believe in Sola Scriptura. They are the ones adding to it.
@sola_chad If you read the Bible, you would have to agree. Catholicism is not “just another denomination.” It is a false sense of security. People “feel” closer to God by going thru all the rituals, but often, they don’t know the Gospel. Right where Satan wants people.
@zoomertea This girl shoulda been a teacher in the public school system in a bad part of town. Then she would think being a mom is nothing! All about perspective.
@creation247 Lots of women are too overweight these days to look good in this, but I still think having this as the fashion would be a motivating factor to get women to care more about their weight.