It is breathtaking just how far a ‘Christian’ culture or people group can move away from the gospel in just one generation.  Church history certainly attests to that fact.  Therefore, how we need frequent instruction in the gospel, for our propensity to forget the gospel seems to be boundless.

“The meaning of marriage is the display of the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his people.” “When the impossible day comes that Christ breaks his vow, ‘I am with you always, to the end of the age,’ then, on that day, a human being may break his marriage covenant.” —John and Noël Piper

Porn is a lie cast in a drama by actors.  The lie is that mankind is not broken by sin in all his faculties and relations.  An idealized ‘Eve’ is subjugated by an idealized ‘Adam’ in porn films.  Because men have a gender-specific curse, a ‘broken scepter’ inherited from Adam’s fall, our deeply wounded adequacy cries for power and potency.  Therefore, porn is the most ingenious trap ever invented to capture and bind the male temperament.  As a consequence, porn is not only a deadly habit, but also a symptom.  It is symptomatic of a masculine crisis.

What does it mean to find our story in God’s story?  That is our theme in part two of this series.  As we saw in session one, first of all we must know what God’s story is all about.  And, when the message of God’s story fills our consciousness, we will live differently.  But, in order for God’s Word to dominate exceptionally in our lives, it will require the very deliberate, intentional exercise of what Scripture refers to as the eyes of our heart (Eph 1:18).