Today I'd like to tell you about my very first exposure to pornography.

Is that an awkward way to start? Because it feels awkward to me. I go, we're going to go there today

and yes, we are. I'll tell you about my very first exposure to pornography. If those of you,

maybe you're about my age, you realized that when we were growing up, you didn't have the easy

access to porn that so many people have today on mobile devices and such. For my age, you kind of

had to almost like stumble upon a discarded magazine or have a friend who had a dad that had a secret

stash. I had a friend named Stephen who discovered his dad's secret stash and Stephen came to school

to tell me, oh my gosh, you're not going to believe what I found. You want to come to my house to

look at it. That was the day I hate to admit it, but I did not walk home from school, but I ran

home from school to Stephen's house to see what he had found. And I remember very clearly, even

though it was decades ago, my first exposure to porn. I remember looking going, oh, so that's what

those are. And I felt this rush of excitement, this thrill, this adrenaline hit, this buzz.

I didn't want to feel that way. It wasn't premeditated. I didn't choose it, but that's what I felt.

Then it was followed by this very real sense of guilt and shame, like I'd done something wrong,

which was only amplified when I came home and my mom was waiting for me at home and said,

hi, my little sugar sweetheart, I love you so much. I didn't tell her about mom. I'm going to hell.

I'm going to hell. And that was my first exposure to porn when I was maybe 10 or 11 years of age.

And it started a war in my mind of desiring to see something that was thrilling and exciting and

yet feeling incredibly guilty. I'm talking to warriors today. And the good news is that you have

the heart of a warrior with a kingdom to advance in someone to protect and a battle to win.

And yet you have to understand, though, warriors, that you have a very real spiritual enemy.

And his goal is to steal, kill and destroy. He wants to distract you, disengage you,

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