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PORNOGRAPHY What's the Big Deal? by Laurie Hall The woman next to me on the plane was talkative. We discussed how many times we’d flown before and shared a bit about our families. Then she asked, "What do you do?" "I’m a writer,"- I replied. "How exciting! What do you write?" she asked, leaning toward me. "Right now I’m working on a book about how pornography destroys marriages," I replied. "Oh!" she gasped. "I know what you mean." Turning away, she hid her face, but not before I saw tears in eyes that moments before had been bright with excitement. A month later, a friend from church asked me how my book on pornography was going. "I’m amazed," I said. "Every time I turn around, I find out about more families who’ve been devastated by it." Looking me in the eye, she said, "And you haven’t even talked to me yet." The First Shot in the Sexual Revolution Before Playboy magazine hit the newsstands in 1954, sexually explicit pictures were not readily available to mainstream America. Sure, if he went to the sleazy part of town and knew where to look, a guy could find some "dirty" pictures. That’s all they were though, "dirty" pictures. No one pretended they were anything more. Playboy’s approach took porn to new levels of acceptability. The marketing strategy worked too. Playboy magazines were put on regular newsstands with respected periodicals, and pretty soon, that respectability rubbed off. By 1970 the President’s commission on Obscenity and Pornography described the average consumers of pornography as predominately white, middle-class, middle-aged, married males dressed in business suits or neat casual attire. Pornography is a $13 billion industry - more than the combined annual revenues of the Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas Corporations. A Victimless Crime? We’d like to believe that pornography is strictly an intellectual activity, that it has no behavioral repercussions or emotional implications. We have been told that it’s a matter of free speech. We’ve been told that it’s a "victimless crime" because we can’t see any immediate victim. There is no corpus delicti to prove something has been killed. There is no empty shell to show us what has been robbed. There is no pile of wreckage that can be parked outside the local high school to warn others of the consequences of dangerous activities. Though there is no smoking gun, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence that a death has taken place. Those who want you to believe pornography is a First Amendment right won’t talk about the silent devastation that occurs in the hearts of men, women and children when someone in their family adopts the Playboy philosophy of disposable relationships. At one Promise Keepers event, 50 percent of the attendees admitted to dabbling in porn during the previous week. They just argue that pornography is "free speech" and try to persuade you that it has no effect other than the brief thrill of the moment. They want you to think that pornography is but a moment of time in an otherwise productive life. They don’t want you to know that the images of, and experiences produced by, pornography are permanently burned into your mind by a curious mixture of hormones that are released when sexually explicit materials are viewed. They don’t want you to know that this mix of hormones becomes more potent when the sex portrayed involves violence or fear. They especially don’t want you to know that as a result of this imprinting process, sex for you will now be linked with fear, violence and shame. They also don’t want you to believe that these permanently imbedded images recur at will, much like LSD flashbacks. These recurrences draw the pornography participant further and further into a world of fantasy. Over a period of time, the lines between what is fantasy and what is real become blurred. The mind begins a process of dissolution as thoughts track only one way. Eventually, the pornography participant becomes an empty shell of a man. Hollow to the core, he wanders through life, seeking only one thing: fulfillment of the lust that has taken hold of him. Every other achievement becomes merely a means to that end. Until at last, instead of spending his time achieving, he spends most of his time fantasizing. No wonder Proverbs 6:26, 28, 32 says "For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul"(KJV). Just One Bad Apple Whether we want to believe it or not, who we are affects what our communities are. The way we live our lives affects the way our neighbors live theirs. The way we behave in private becomes the way we behave in public. We are salt and we are light, and if our salt has lost its savor and our light has been dimmed, everyone around us is affected. In an article about the psychological and social effects of pornography, Dr. Harold Voth, a professor at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry, writes: "By permitting the ever-expanding display of pornography, or sexually explicit material on the printed page, in theaters, on television (regular TV, cable and satellite), our social structure is being bombarded continuously by powerful erosive stimuli. Sexuality in its mature form is a necessary aspect of the heterosexual bond and the stability of the family. The massive unleashing of sexuality which is occurring in Western civilization is a reflection of cultural decline. It is well-known that an inverse relationship exists between indiscriminate sexual expression and cultural excellence." The ripple effects of the playboy philosophy are broad based. In a society where using people is tolerated, more and more people will become "users" resulting in more and more "victims." Those who break trust on the most intimate matters will eventually begin to apply the same mind-set to business and civil-rights matters, saying and doing whatever it takes to get whatever they want. In a society where using others is tolerated, the used find their security continually threatened as each day brings a new violation of trust. It doesn’t take too many violations of trust for an individual to lose his ability to trust. When the number of untrusting individuals reaches critical mass, the society they live in loses its ability to trust. Losing our ability to trust is a grave matter. Without trust, our souls wither and die. Without trust, there can be no civilization. The Way of Wisdom Would it surprise you to know that the ancient Hebrews believed that wisdom is closely related to the things we look at? The Hebrew word for wise skal gives us the understanding that the things we look at and think about affect our ability to be intelligent and prudent. Because of this, what we take in through our eyes is extremely important. The eye is the window to the soul. Satan knew this and because he desired access to their soul, he used Adam’s and Eve’s eyes when he tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit. First Satan told Adam and Eve that having wisdom would somehow affect their eyes, "for God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5, KJV, emphasis added). Then, "the woman saw that the tree was good" (Genesis 3:6, KJV, emphasis added). Finally, immediately after they ate the fruit, "the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew they were naked…and Adam and his wife hid themselves" (Genesis 3:7-8, KJV). See No Evil Opening our eyes to evil has relational consequences. Once their minds were awakened to evil, Adam and Eve immediately saw their nakedness in a new light. Where moments before they had viewed their bodies with no shame, suddenly they felt so much shame that they hid from themselves, from each other, and from God. By focusing the soul on nakedness in a way that produces shame and isolation from self, from others, and from God, looking at evil destroys both freedom (the ability to know ones self) and intimacy (the ability to share oneself with others). Jesus also talked about how exposing our eyes to evil is related to our ability to be wise. In Matthew 6:22-23, He said, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (KJV). The Greek word for evil - poneros - means that which is malicious and deliberately harmful of others. In other words, if our eyes are looking at things that are malicious and willfully harming others, we are closing ourselves off to truth. The result will be a plunge into darkness. Exploiting others for personal gain is evil in its rawest form. A man who feasts his eyes on pictures that have been made by expiating others is plucking out his own eyes. He is plunging himself into darkness. He will lose his ability to be wise. Today, we don’t talk much about how what we see affects our ability to be wise. We just keep wondering why our society is losing its soul. Could it have anything to do with the window dressings we allow it to have? Could it have something to do with pornography? I think that it does. I saw my husband lose his soul to pornography. I have held other women and listened to them weep as they told me how their husbands also lost their souls to pornography. Pornography kills the soul, steals the heart, and destroys the mind.Pornography is not a victimless crime. As of April 1, 1990, the population of the United States was 248,709,873. That same year, over 300,000,000 X-rated videos were distributed in our neighborhoods. Since then. Sales and rentals of adult videos have risen 75 percent. Taken from An Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall. Published by Focus on the Family. Copyright 1996 by Laurie Hall. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used by permission of the author June 9, 1998. An Affair of the Mind is now in its 9th printing and is available here.

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Does God Love Israel?  

To the people of Israel:

"Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace."(Exodus 14:13-14)

God loves you, people of Israel, do not fear these growing trials of the world, or that which man can bring against you, but fear and honor Him who covers you with His protective hand.. Just as God did not bring you out of Egypt to destroy you in the wilderness, so He has not restored you as a people and a nation only to allow you to be destroyed by evil men today.

God restored you to your land to fulfill His promise that all the nations would be blessed through you. Be encouraged, trust in your God and rest in His promises to you.

"For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up."(Jeremiah 24:6)

We, as Scripture believing Christians, yearn to see your people given thrones of judgment to rule over this planet. We trust in God's choice of the Jews as the ruling race for all eternity.

But we challenge you to search the teachings of your own prophets and the teaching of God through your own Torah in order to find the Name of your true Messiah. See: Y'SHUAH  

You are His People
The Jews are "the children of the promise" (Romans 9:7-9), the physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. God calls the Jews His chosen:

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.Deuteronomy 14:2

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God. 2 Samuel 7:24

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Psalm 33:12

For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Psalm 135:4

So that we not mistakenly think the Jews are a special race outside of the honor afforded them through God, we must consider that the Jews are not God's chosen people through any merit of their own, but because He loves them as a nation:

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: Deuteronomy 7:7-8

We gentile Christians are sinners, as also the Jews are sinners, and we all, gentile and Jew, are in need of redemption.

  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3;23

However, unlike us gentiles, the Jewish people have been chosen and set apart as a nation.  God Himself went out to redeem them as a nation:

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeems to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? 2 Samuel 7:23

As great as was their calling, so too, great is the cost of their failing in that calling, as Moses warned the children of Israel it would be.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee...Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The Jews (as all of us) have rebelled, sinned, and for a time, have turned their back on God, yet in His love for Israel, God did not make a complete end of them: 

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Ezekiel 11:17 God's commitment to Israel is eternal and will not fail 

Although He promised to scatter the Jews, and cause them to "pay double for all their sins," God also swore that He would one day gather those who were left and return them to their land:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. Isaiah 11:11  

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:12
God said that this restoration to their land would follow an unprecedented time of suffering at the hands of gentiles, but that He would save them out from under it:

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.... Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Jeremiah 30:7-10

And He promised that this physical ingathering and replanting as a people in their ancient homeland would be both a positive event, and a permanent one:

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. Amos 9:14

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD thy God. Amos 9:15 God said that He would restore the Jews to their land in their blind and sinful state. But He has also promised that after they are back in their land, He will cause them to call out to Him for forgiveness. And when they do, He will cleanse them and thoroughly restore them in their relationship to Him: 
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Zechariah 12:10

In conclusion; Yes, God does love Israel, and the Jewish people all over the world are His chosen ones.

  

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