Expert: Pastor Don Carpenter - 2/25/2009

Question
I have been very confuse on these two
subjects for the last 6 year. I am 16 and I have
been jacking off for like 5 years and watching
porn for about 6 years. And I understand about
lust and all that but when I do those thinks I
don't lust over the women or any thing like
that. So if I don't lust when I jack off or
watching porn can I still do it?

PleaSe be straight forward with me

Answer
Hi Jonn,

I think that you are fooling yourself.  If you are not lusting, why do you watch porn and masturbate?
Masturbation is a form of sex outside of marriage, it is simply sex with yourself.


Matthew 5:27-30
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.  30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

I hope that this helps you.

In Christ
Pastor Don