Pastor John, in a previous podcast, you expressed how important deep enriched theology is in

the fight against point addiction and lust.

That was the theme of podcast number 19, and I want to revisit this and look more closely

at how Christian men can serve each other.

What would you say to a man who has friends committed to helping him win the battle against

lust and point addiction?

Yeah, I've been thinking a lot recently about Paul's text in 1 Corinthians 9, where

it says, he pommels his own body.

The word is literally, he gives his body a black eye.

He says, I don't box beating the air.

In other words, I know where to land my punches.

And he's talking about the sins in his life that need to be punched out.

They need to be put to death.

And so he's talking about a kind of self denial and a kind of self opposition that stands up and pokes himself.

And I think he's just extending Jesus' words where he says, if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out.

Well, that's a pretty good punch, you know, to the eye.

I mean, it's taking your eye out.

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.

I mean, we know that's not meant to be literal because he says, if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out.

Well, you've got your left eye left over, you need to see the naked woman just as well, your left eye is your right eye.

So we know that the literal tearing out of the right eye wouldn't solve the problem.

He means be as vigilant and as forceful in your opposition of sin as you need to be in order to kill it in your life.

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