Michael Pearl gives it to you straight. This is why I enjoy listening to him more than any other preacher. He NEVER waters down his teaching in any way. Yesterday, I decided to listen to his teachings on 2 Corinthians since I am teaching this in the chat room. He began Chapter 7 with this dire warning to parents ~
I predict within ten years your young
people won’t be able to find spouses, especially the girls. We often get letters like
this one this past week: a girl had been married two years and was married through a
betrothal {something that Michael doesn't endorse}. You know, one of those beautiful kind where the parents all get
involved, the church is all involved and two people who are wonderfully protected, guarded
and homeschooled come together in marriage and after two years of being
married, she comes home and he’s wearing her clothes. He’d been wearing her lingerie
but finally he dressed out completely.
That’s getting to be normal. People who
start looking at pornography; young boys will be wearing girls clothes and molesting
children before it is over with. It’s happening in epidemic proportions.
There
are some other Christian groups on YouTube and talking about the epidemic that
is around them about what they’re seeing. They’re talking that the first generation
of homeschoolers who did great but now that they are training their own, they aren’t
doing so well. They say the first reason is that the children that were
homeschooled and home-churched and brought along never got born again; never
got saved. They were really raised well and very religious but they never got
born again; never got the Spirit of God.
Young boys, they get up and sneak
around on the computer and look at pornography. They watch TV. The TV is
enough pornography for a thirteen year old boy; commercials and all that stuff.
They watch TV and they get all worked up good. A lot of them don’t like girls; they like their self too much. They just enjoy themselves.
I go to prisons
where a lot of those people are and some of them are locked up for 20 years.
They should have been shot or hung or their heads cut off because they messed
with kids, with children. I’m glad they are there so I can witness to some of
them. Some of them get saved but if they only had three months to live and they
had a chance to get saved, they’d get saved. You tell them that they are going
to be killed and it’s going to be in three months; they’ll have plenty of time
to hear the Gospel. There’d be plenty of preachers in there giving it to them.
Some of you kids right now who are sneaking around looking at pornography, don’t
expect to marry any of the decent girls here. Nobody’s going to want you
because you aren’t going to be a decent husband or father. You’re just going to
be trash. If that’s where you are now, know where you are headed. I just had to
say this. {He is calling "trash" those who end up molesting children which is happening FAR too often today and destroying many children's lives. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Luke 17:2}
When you allow pornography into your life, you are giving Satan a foothold into your life. "Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, brings forth death" James 1:15.
Therefore, parents, there MUST be a balance between sharing the Gospel often with your children, living it out in front of them, loving them deeply, being joyful and setting boundaries in contrast to not being involved enough in protecting them, not walking the talk, setting boundaries without relationship and love and not verbally teaching them God's Word. Don't let what Michael Pearl said happen to your children. It doesn't have to but it is your job as parents to diligently teach, love, and model to your children God's ways with His grace giving you the strength to do so.
When you allow pornography into your life, you are giving Satan a foothold into your life. "Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, brings forth death" James 1:15.
Therefore, parents, there MUST be a balance between sharing the Gospel often with your children, living it out in front of them, loving them deeply, being joyful and setting boundaries in contrast to not being involved enough in protecting them, not walking the talk, setting boundaries without relationship and love and not verbally teaching them God's Word. Don't let what Michael Pearl said happen to your children. It doesn't have to but it is your job as parents to diligently teach, love, and model to your children God's ways with His grace giving you the strength to do so.
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1
What are "these promises?" "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" and "I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters" {2 Corinthians 6:16-18}.
***Michael Pearl gives many good ways to protect your sons from porn.
Accountable2You is a GREAT application that protects your family from porn for a very low fee and can be put on everything you own that gives access to porn.
***Michael Pearl gives many good ways to protect your sons from porn.
Accountable2You is a GREAT application that protects your family from porn for a very low fee and can be put on everything you own that gives access to porn.
