Pornography is a Murderer

The Suicide of the Soul

By: David D. Edgington PhD

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 1 hr and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

The title of this book may seem contradictory – porn “murders” yet your soul commits “suicide.” So, which is it – murder or suicide? Actually it is both. There is no contradiction here – the enemy of our souls uses pornography to “murder” us, yet it is we ourselves who hang ourselves with it. Pornography is a murderer, but it doesn’t just murder in isolation. It murders romance. It murders a relationship with your spouse. It murders your ability to parent your children with integrity. It murders holiness. It murders a relationship with God. It murders contentment. It murders peace. It murders your own soul. But pornography is also suicide to the soul. It is self-destructive. You yourself hollow out your own soul. You snuff out the life of the Holy Spirit in your own soul. You kill a relationship with your spouse – and with your God. If you view yourself as a “victim” of pornography, you will not find freedom. If you believe you are helpless in the face of this foe, you will not find hope. If you think God hasn’t helped you enough, you don’t know God as well as you think you do. If you see this as an “unwanted” temptation, then you don’t understand your own heart. Unless your heart changes, none of your behavior will change for very long. I see it every day in counseling hurting and lost souls. The ones who merely institute rules, put filters on their phones, have an “accountability” partner and make outward behavioral changes never see their change last for very long. But the ones whose hearts truly change by the power of God using the Word of God – the ones who truly deal with their own lusts, their own demands, their own temper tantrums, their own entitlement mindset – these are the ones who find freedom and peace and contentment and joy in the Holy Spirit. The good news has to be grasped as “the best news ever” not merely as facts to which we assent. The Holy Spirit has to be welcomed and powerfully residing in and filling your soul. God’s amazing grace must be seen in its “abounding abundance” (far, far more than you “need”) not simply as information or as intellectual facts. The idols have to be smashed and obliterated. The reality of spiritual warfare needs to not only be respected, but also strategically fought by the weapons of God not the weapons of our flesh (2 Corinthians 10:3-4). You can overcome the lure of pornography. Don’t let it murder you. You don’t have to view it. Don’t kill your own soul. My deepest desire is that this book will lead you to find the freedom that can only come through seeking the Lord Jesus Christ through the Word of God by means of the Spirit of God.