Love For Christ Overcomes Sexual Immorality - Craig Mussulman

There's lots of practical things

we can consider and implement,

however you'll never be free

if you fail to see in Jesus Christ

the all-surpassing worth
and glory and value

and desire just to honor Him with
every fiber of your being.

He's worthy of it.

It's possible to construct
a life of self-denial

and establish disciplines that can remove

sexual immorality out of your life.

That is possible.

And yet, if the primary source

of cutting off that from your life

is rooted in just removal
of guilt or shame,

and it's not of love for Jesus Christ,

it's not going to last.

It won't last.

Something of the worthiness

and preciousness of Jesus

is seriously missing in
the porn-viewer's life.

Those two things aren't even worthy

to be mentioned in the same sentence.

They're so distant and so opposite

in what they yield.

Let me just ask you, have you ever seen

your sin to be the wicked
and heinous thing

that it is before a holy God?

You realize what happened
to Jesus is because of sin.

That was God's judgment.

That was God's judgment on His Son.

His perfect Son

in whom He was well pleased.

He never sinned. He never
had an impure thought.

Not one.

Do you fear God?

Can you imagine Christ coming back

in the splendor of His glory

while you're over here pleasing yourself

with some fake God-hating woman

who will quickly become
one of the most hideous,

foul looking creatures imaginable

once she falls under the
divine judgment of God.

She won't be looking like that.

Is that how you want to meet Christ?

I can't think you do.

Do you imagine yourself to be worthy

of anything outside of the pit of hell?

Because you're not.

Do you understand that if you're
a true follower of Jesus Christ -

I want you to get this,

this is for Christians only here -

if you're a true follower of Christ,

He became that porn-viewer on that tree.

He became it for you

so that you might be made the
righteousness of God in Him.

That's beyond remarkable.

Does that mean anything to you?

That's only real to you

if repentance is real in your heart.

And repentance is real in your heart

if an actual change happened in your life.

This excerpt was taken
from the full sermon:

Choose Life or Lust, Christ or Sexual Sin

by Craig Mussulman

who serves as one of the pastors
at Grace Community Church

in San Antonio, Texas.