Q+A With Chris 005 | 437
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jerrad and Chris continue their Q&A series by answering more real questions from listeners. In this episode, they talk about addiction, divorce, friendships, and how to interpret parts of the Bible.
They discuss how to take sin seriously without falling into shame, and how to lead your family with clarity and conviction.
What You’ll hear:
• Can you lose your salvation if you're addicted to porn?
• What real repentance looks like for struggling believers
• Are Bible stories like Job literal or symbolic?
• Should married men and women have opposite-sex friendships?
• Can someone who’s been divorced get remarried without sinning?
• Why some Gospel stories seem to conflict—and how to read them rightly
This is a solid, truth-filled episode for men who want to lead well and stay grounded in God’s Word.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is it possible to lose salvation if I'm struggling with an addiction to pornography? |
| 0:07.7 | Well, that's a heavy first question there, Jared. Welcome back to another episode of Q&A with Chris. |
| 0:28.5 | We were here with Pastor Chris. |
| 0:29.9 | Hillkin, we do this every Friday. |
| 0:31.2 | If you want your question to be talked about on this show, we would love to ask it. |
| 0:35.4 | You can do that. |
| 0:36.5 | Submit a question anonymously by going to |
| 0:38.1 | Dadtire.com forward slash question, and we will get your anonymous question answered on the show as |
| 0:43.5 | soon as we can. We'll dive right in here with the first question. Is it possible to lose salvation |
| 0:49.4 | if I'm struggling with an addiction to pornography? |
| 0:57.6 | Well, that's a heavy first question there, Jared. |
| 1:05.2 | So I'm going to, I'm going to be very particular about the language that the question asked, |
| 1:15.9 | and I will answer it thus, which is, if you're struggling with pornography, what I would see is a battle between the flesh and the spirit that Galatians chapter 5 talks about. And I think that's an important |
| 1:20.7 | characteristic of any kind of sin that we're experiencing. MacArthur puts it this way. He says, |
| 1:26.3 | when I was a young man, I sinned more and |
| 1:28.9 | hated it less. And now that I've grown up, I sin less and I hate it more. There should be, |
| 1:34.3 | I think, what Romans chapter seven talks about. Paul uses this language of a battle within |
| 1:40.0 | that the aim, which he goes on to talk about in Corinthians is to put to death the old self |
| 1:46.3 | I beat my body and make it my slave that I might finish this race in Christ but particularly |
| 1:51.2 | in Roman 7 he says why do I do stuff I know I'm not supposed to do and then why do I refrain |
| 1:56.3 | from doing the things that I know is very clear that I'm supposed to do for when I read the law |
| 2:00.1 | and I understand the gospel these things should be changing in me and yet I still find in myself a desire |
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