Pastor John, here's a question that we get often in the Ask Pastor John email inbox, worded

in various ways.

But here's the main thread in this common question.

Is an addiction to pornography an unpardonable or unforgivable sin?

In the way I understand the Bible about sin, the only sin that cannot be pardoned is the

sin that cannot be repented of.

And what I mean by repented of is at least four things.

One is a sin that produces remorse for the offence to God, not just the pain of the punishment.

And two, a sin that is put consciously by faith under the blood of Christ.

And three, a sin that is fought with dependence on the Holy Spirit, Romans 8, 13, put to death

the deeds of the body by the Spirit.

And fourth, a sin that we renounce, we consciously say no to, renounce, with a genuine embrace

of Christ as our superior treasure.

That's what I mean by the repentance of a sin.

Any sin that you can repent of will be forgiven.

There is though, and this is probably why the question was asked, there is a depth and

extent of sinning that is so deep and so long that the sinner can't repent anymore.

And the reason I feel frighteningly confident to say that is because Esau is given in Hebrews

as an example of that very thing.

And what's so stunningly relevant of that here is because the writer introduces Esau illustrating

the need to fight sexual immorality.

He says in Hebrews 12, 15, see to it that no one is sexually immoral.

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