Ep 1239 | The Robertsons’ Best Advice for Avoiding Pornography

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Al, Zach, John Luke, and Christian explore one of the Bible’s most sobering warnings about sexual sin through the story of King David. The guys explain why pornography and sexual temptation rarely begin with desire alone, but with idleness, boredom, and abandoning responsibility—long before the “rooftop moment.” Al explains David’s repentance in Psalm 51 as both a warning and a hope, reminding listeners that while sexual sin carries real consequences, God’s covenant faithfulness still offers a path back. In this episode: 1 Samuel 13, verse 14; 1 Samuel 16, verse 7; 2 Samuel 7, verses 8–16; 2 Samuel 11, verses 1–27; Psalm 22; Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 139, verses 13–16; Matthew 12, verses 43–45; Hebrews 12, verses 28–29 Today's conversation is about Lesson 6 of The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King taught by Hillsdale Professor Justin Jackson. Take the course with us at no cost to you! Sign up at http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ More about The David Story: Encounter the beauty of the Bible. The David Story: Shepherd, Father, King explores the lives of Israel's first two kings—Saul and David—to discover the Bible’s profound lessons about fatherhood, the nature of sin, and the consequences of sin on both a family and a nation. While David suffers great tragedies due to his own transgressions, he models a path to redemption through repentance. Join Professor Justin Jackson in a careful reading of First and Second Samuel to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning and beauty of this story that is not only fundamental to the Christian and Jewish faiths, but also a literary masterpiece. Join us today in this pursuit of a deeper understanding of the Bible in “The David Story.” Sign up at ⁠http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-home-with-phil-robertson/id1835224621 Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Chapters: 00:00-05:15 Christian joins the bearded brotherhood 05:16-12:56 David was a man of extremes 12:57-19:18 Great leaders are still deeply flawed 19:19-29:59 Using God’s name to advance a political agenda 30:00-40:02 Boredom leads to spiritual vulnerability 40:03-51:03 David didn’t have a phone, he had rooftops — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Father, I just want to come to you, and I'm so grateful that Zach had the awareness that we should, you know, pause and just ask you to bless everything that we do.
0:11.4	And especially into this very important Bible study, I know people are following along with us, and we get the opportunity and really the pleasure of getting to study this together and be impacted by it as I was this morning already.
0:27.3	So thank you for that.
0:28.9	Just pray Holy Spirit that these words will be your words.
0:33.8	Not only the ones that you carried along all those years ago through David, through the lineage that led to Jesus, but also the same thing you do in our lives every day.
0:44.0	And that's lead us closer to you and closer to Christ.
0:47.4	So just pray that you will do what you do best today and that we won't get in your way.
0:52.5	We love you.
0:53.2	We thank you for Jesus in his name.
0:55.1	Amen.
0:55.7	Amen.
0:57.7	I am unashamed.
0:59.9	What about you?
1:02.7	Well, welcome back to the Unashamed podcast Hillsdale episode.
1:08.2	This is great because I know that Christian, you said you got, you were up at 3 a.m.
1:15.1	in the morning going through these courses.
1:17.6	You know it's good when somebody gets up at 3 a.m. to go through a.
1:21.6	Hillsdale course.
1:22.3	Yeah, I was.
1:22.9	I was going deer hunting, but I was really wanting to go deer hunting just so I could listen to Dr.
1:27.0	Jackson at 3 a.m. But, Matt, did you get that picture? You had to show, Mattie will show the picture on the show, because he took a picture of it. Of course, I would never even know how to do that in my truck. Like, I was marveling at the fact you were able to do it. I was like, well, I can only do it on my computer with my blue notepad.
1:47.8	I was like, once again, the technical.
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