It's Friday and we are back with Trip Lee and yesterday, in episode 596, we talked about

self-denial and the goodness of God.

We need to make this practical and Trip, as you know, on-screen explicit sexuality is simply

ingrained into pop culture today, and I'm thinking especially of popular television

series like Game of Thrones, but this is also true of movies, not even to mention the

accessibility of explicit pornography online, so what would you say to Christians who are

willing to watch on-screen nudity in an attempt to be culturally relevant?

Well, it's so hard right now because just kind of this explicit sexuality and nudity

is everywhere, you know, just small example.

I was just in a store in my neighborhood yesterday and standing in line, and they're just

porn magazines just out behind, not even covered up.

You don't even have to try right now to see ridiculously sexual-explicit things really

is everywhere.

There's shows I started to watch, and me and my wife started to watch, and we loved, and

there was one that just the writing was brilliant, and you know, all the little strange things

we like about TV shows in it, but we had to stop because of just the kind of explicit

sex, and it seemed to be glorifying, adulterant, there were just reasons that we felt like

we had to stop because the stuff that we take in is really not harmless, it really can

harm our souls.

You know, it can provoke lust in our hearts and desires in our hearts, and that can lead

to even kind of more explicit things.

And so for me, when I think about pop culture and kind of explicit sexuality and it's just

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