Is it possible to lose salvation if I'm struggling with an addiction to pornography?

Well, that's a heavy first question there, Jared. Welcome back to another episode of Q&A with Chris.

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soon as we can. We'll dive right in here with the first question. Is it possible to lose salvation

if I'm struggling with an addiction to pornography?

Well, that's a heavy first question there, Jared.

So I'm going to, I'm going to be very particular about the language that the question asked,

and I will answer it thus, which is, if you're struggling with pornography, what I would see is a battle between the flesh and the spirit that Galatians chapter 5 talks about. And I think that's an important

characteristic of any kind of sin that we're experiencing. MacArthur puts it this way. He says,

when I was a young man, I sinned more and

hated it less. And now that I've grown up, I sin less and I hate it more. There should be,

I think, what Romans chapter seven talks about. Paul uses this language of a battle within

that the aim, which he goes on to talk about in Corinthians is to put to death the old self

I beat my body and make it my slave that I might finish this race in Christ but particularly

in Roman 7 he says why do I do stuff I know I'm not supposed to do and then why do I refrain

from doing the things that I know is very clear that I'm supposed to do for when I read the law

and I understand the gospel these things should be changing in me and yet I still find in myself a desire

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