On the spiritual level
1. Pornography and masturbation seriously affect communion with God.
Those who are under this yoke feel it and know it.
2. Loss of taste for divine things
Disinterestedness in listening to the Word of God, reading the Bible, prayer, fasting etc.
3. Doors wide open to demonic possessions
The spirit of seduction, impurity, prostitution, homosexuality, night husbands, night wives, zoophilia, etc., are all part of this.
4. You exchange your glorious destiny in Jesus Christ for the pleasure of the flesh.
The devil actually has no power over us, so none! His only strategy to get into our lives is to push us into sin. Because he knows that once we sin, we are separated from God and that is when he will have access to our lives. In reality our lives are hidden in Jesus Christ, but sin is that door that, once opened, brings Jesus out and lets the devil enter. It is in this logic that the devil keeps people in pornography and masturbation to keep them constantly away from the presence of God, so he can do whatever he wants with their lives. Why does satan use pornography, why does he use masturbation? It is precisely because sex is very powerful! Through sex you can lose all your glorious destiny in five minutes of pleasure.
Brothers and sisters, the spiritual world is a world of exchanges. I wish you could understand why I say it is a world of exchange. For example, if I need to get something from the Lord, what am I going to do? I will pray, won’t I? And if my prayer is accepted by the Lord, He in turn will answer me. I prayed, and the Lord Jesus answered. So there was an exchange; I gave Jesus my concerns through prayer, and in return He gave me the answer. As if to say, if I had not prayed there would have been no answer. I gave my prayer, and Jesus gave his answer. Did you understand this exchange? You give your prayer and I give you the answer. No prayer, no answer. Prayer of faith is like the currency that allows us to procure spiritual goods. No money, no good! You give money, you get the good. That’s the exchange!
I will give a second example of spiritual exchange. Do you know the story of Joseph the son of Jacob? He was sold by his brothers as a slave. Arrived in Egypt, he was taken as a servant in the house of Potiphar. Seeing that everything Joseph was doing was successful, Potiphar decided to entrust him with the management of his house. Everything was going very well, Potiphar’s house prospered in Joseph’s hands until the day Potiphar’s wife wanted to sleep with Joseph because he was a handsome man, but he refused. Then the woman decided to slander Joseph in front of her husband. She told her husband that Joseph wanted to rape her and sleep with her by force. As a result of this slander, Joseph was put in prison. It was from the prison that circumstances followed one another so that Joseph became the prime minister of the whole country of Egypt. You can read the whole story of Joseph from Genesis chapter 37 to chapter 41.
Through this story I would like you to understand where the exchange is taking place. We can see very well that after all these trials, Joseph had become Prime Minister of the whole country of Egypt. It is a position that God had reserved for him since he was still a child. For from his young age he had dreams that he would be a great man (Genesis 37:7). Just as the Lord has prepared beautiful things for you. < For I know the plans that I have made for you, says The LORD, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and hope.> Jeremiah 29:11.
Understand this! If Joseph had agreed to lie with Potiphar`s wife, do you think he would have gone to prison? No! Since that woman was going to cover it up, wouldn’t she? So that from time to time they could sleep together in secret. Joseph would probably have become her lover. This is where the exchange takes place! If Joseph had slept with her, he wouldn’t have gone to prison, and if he hadn’t gone to prison, he wouldn’t have become prime minister (because it all started in prison). By sleeping with Potiphar’s wife, Joseph would have exchanged his future position as Prime Minister for a few minutes of sexual pleasure. Did you understand this? If you didn’t understand, please read it again!
It’s the same with you! While you indulge in pornography and masturbation for a few minutes of pleasure, you have no idea what the devil is stealing from you. You exchange your glorious destiny for a five-minute pornographic movie. That means, the devil gives you pleasure through pornography and in return you pay him with your destiny. But all these things you don’t know when you masturbate and watch pornography. This is how the lives of many people, especially young people, do not progress in spite of the studies made, in spite of the level of intelligence, etc. Through pornography and masturbation, they have sold their destinies to satan! Don’t sell your destiny anymore! Pornography puts you in alliance with the devil.
And even if Potiphar should catch them one day, and Joseph should be put in prison, he would have gone to prison without the presence of God.
The same thing with Esther, if she wasn’t a virgin, she wouldn’t be chosen to be a candidate for queenship. If she had lost her virginity, she would also have lost her future position as queen. Don’t just look at the present, look at your future as well. Pornography and masturbation steal your glorious destiny.
5. Loss of mission
To each one of us the Lord has entrusted a particular mission here on earth. The more you cling to pornography, the less you will cling to the Lord. As a result, you will not even have an idea of the real reason for your existence here on earth. Why did God create you? If you immerse yourself in pornography, you will not be able to discover your true reason for being. You have great things to do for God, but pornography is stifling your potential. If I were still attached to pornography, would you be reading this book? In you God has put books, songs, business ideas, and many other things. But you are stifling them through sexual immorality. Pull yourself together!