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Let's bring it on with this question

from a viewer, who says, "Why is sexual immorality so common?

And why is it so difficult to overcome?

I'm a 23-year-old male, and I am in bondage

to pornography and lust.

"I don't want this sin in my heart,

and I-- and it scares me where it

says, 'Know ye not that the righteous shall not

inherit the Kingdom of God?

Be not deceived.

Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,

nor adulterers shall enter the Kingdom of God.'

"I really want to serve God with all my heart.

I have repented, but then I fail and feel guilty.

Help."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, the question

is, why is it so pervasive?

Look, you are a sexual being.

God made you that way.

You have appetites.

You have a desire to eat food.

We can eat food.

As a matter of fact, gluttony seems

to be the approved sin in the Baptist church.

They have huge, you know, potluck suppers.

And everybody gets fat.

Yeah.

It might not just be the Baptists, can I just say?

Yeah, all those--

[CHUCKLING]

OK, the churches.

OK.

Drinking, you know, water-- we have thirst.

And of course, you know, people drink beer.

And they drink wine, and they drink all these things.

But nevertheless, that-- it's the drunkenness part

that's bad.

But the other is sexual desire.

And that is what God put in to procreate the race.

But He said, in order to bring forth Godly offspring,

you've got to do it in the confines of marriage

because the children need a mother, and they need a father.

So that which is outside of it is, you know, is fornication,

or it's adultery.

Now, what does the Bible say?

Whew, it's better to marry than to burn with desire.

Now, you say, well, the Bible says that?

Yes, it does.

And so let everybody have his own wife,

and every woman have her own husband.

And that marriage is what God has

set up so that those desires can be legitimately exercised

without any fear of condemnation.

So you're a young guy.

You're 23.

May I please recommend that you seek romance

and stay off of porn because porn is a substitute.

And it is illusory.

And it is deadly.

And it has every bit of the addictive power

of heroin or cocaine-- every bit, if not worse, OK?

This is Leanne who says, "Is it OK to personalize scripture

based on your own life circumstances?

For instance, Ephesians 5:28 says, 'In the same way,

husbands ought to love their wives

as they love their own bodies.

For a man who loves his wife actually shows love

for himself.'" Can we change "husband" and "wife"

to "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" if we aren't married yet

but just dating?

[CHUCKLING]

I really don't think so.

It doesn't say "your boyfriend."

You love your wife like your own body because there's a union.

Because this-- well, a man will leave his mother and father

and cleave to his wife.

And they become one flesh.

You ain't one flesh with your boyfriend.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Or shouldn't be.

You shouldn't be.

(CHUCKLING) No.

One of the two.

So yeah, you get married.

So no, you can't substitute.

All right, what else?

TERRY MEEUWSEN: OK, this is Sarah

who says, "A year ago I stopped being friends with someone who

is a nonbeliever.

We've been friends since fourth grade.

And you can only imagine the connection we had.

We're both married and have children.

"All this time, I thought she did believe.

But when she told me she didn't, I felt lied to.

My decision was extremely hard for me,

and I couldn't do it face to face.

And so I wrote her a letter.

"Now, months have gone by, and it's haunting me

if I made the right decision.

Maybe I was the one to show her God.

But then again, I'm not her Savior.

I just really need complete closure,

and I'm struggling to understand.

Did I make the wrong choice?"

You made the wrong decision.

There ain't a question about it.

I mean, this is your dear friend.

You've grown up together.

You're lifelong friends.

And the fact that she is not a believer after all these years

is no reason to cut her off.

She's not leading you into sin.

And I think what-- she is the one that you

could lead to the Lord.

It's your love for her as a friend

that would enable you to introduce her to Jesus Christ.

And if you haven't done that, you certainly should.

So you say, did I do the wrong thing?

No, you did do the wrong thing, yes.

What.

Mm-hm.

This is a viewer who says, "My husband has

been playing an online game with other people.

And the game includes elements of witchcraft.

He doesn't think it's bad.

But since he's started playing the game,

my daughters and I have witnessed really weird things

happening in our home.

"We've anointed the house.

How do I pray for my husband?

And how do I convince him that he's bringing

bad things into our home?

He gets angry when I bring it up."

Well, I think you need to get a senior person.

Maybe you can find a minister or some trusted advisor who would

tell him this is a problem.

There was a game called Dragon-- what, Dungeons & Dragons--

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Dungeons & Dragons?

Mm-hm.

---that people got into.

They got into role-playing.

The next thing you know, they were in a fantasy world

that really captured them.

So it is demonic.

Demons are out to destroy you.

And your husband needs to understand that.

We leave you with Today's Power Minute

from Nehemiah, chapter 8.

"The joy of the Lord is your strength."