Ep. 326 - The Silent Crisis: Christians Living in Secret Sin

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Secret sin is an oxymoron—there is no such thing. Every sin, even those we think are hidden, is exposed before God. Today, Ray, Mark, and Oscar talk about lust, particularly pornography, and how it plagues many, with statistics revealing that 7 out of 10 men and 2 out of 10 women are caught in this so-called secret sin. Society often normalizes pornography, but it is a trap that ensnares and destroys. Many wrongly think that once they get married, their sin won’t plague them anymore, but sin ...

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0:00.0	The key for me to keeping away from secret sin is remember that sin and death always go hand in hand.
0:05.0	Death and sin are bedfellows.
0:08.0	The wages of sin is death.
0:11.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:12.0	And when you realize that the soul that sins that you'll die, that helps you keep away from that which will destroy you.
0:19.0	Not just in this life, but take you to hell in the next.
0:22.1	Whoever looks upon a woman to lust for her has committed adultery already with her in her heart.
0:27.4	When I surfed, we had to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles to find the perfect wave
0:31.3	and risk our legs as shark bait, freezing conditions.
0:35.2	So pleased to be rid of that ego sport that I was into.
0:38.0	Speaking of a perfect wave, I almost drowned a few weeks ago.
0:39.7	You did.
0:40.6	Mark knows.
0:41.3	Tell us about it in a minute.
0:43.4	But when it came to lust, I didn't have to travel anywhere.
0:46.1	It was instantaneous pleasure.
0:48.3	And every man knows that.
0:49.5	It's just, oh, in the mind, imaginations of the heart.
0:53.2	And what it was that caused contrition was seeing the cost the imaginations of the heart. And what it was is that caused contrition was
0:55.9	seeing the cost the father went to to deliver me from that perversion. When I saw the cross,
1:01.2	it broke my heart. That cost. That's what he did so I could have everlasting life. So that
1:06.5	helps me turn from the pleasures of sin for a season. It's always good to acknowledge that sin
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