996. How Do I Confront Discovering Hidden Sexual Sin? | Ask Paul Tripp
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week, Paul responds to two painful questions about discovering sexual sin in the family and how to speak with wisdom, truth, and grace when trust has been shaken.
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| 1:10.4 | Paul, today's episode has multiple questions that we've compiled about confronting someone |
| 1:16.1 | after you discover hidden sexual sin in their life. |
| 1:20.1 | The first comes from a wife in relation to her husband, and then the second from an adult |
| 1:25.0 | daughter in relationship to her father. |
| 1:29.3 | The wife said, I found sexually explicit material on my husband's phone. I knew that he struggled, but I thought he had gotten |
| 1:34.2 | help and had matured in this area, but either way, he has either fallen back into it or he never |
| 1:39.6 | really changed. I'm not sure what to believe about what he says. How do I extend grace and forgiveness to him |
| 1:46.2 | personally? And then should I share this with anyone at the church? Does this disqualify him from |
| 1:52.3 | teaching the youth or adult Sunday school? Then the adult daughter wrote in, I found sexually |
| 1:57.8 | explicit material at my father's house while on family vacation. |
| 2:01.7 | My teenage boys turned on Netflix and his continue watching playlist had some very inappropriate shows. |
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