EZ Zwayne

You got to control yourself to do it.

Everything is self-control.

You could apply that to anything, but ultimately it comes down to the fear of God.

It comes down to love for Christ.

The last C is Christ, and that principle is seek the sweet Savior for strength, satisfaction, and sympathetic support.

It has to be Christ.

And what blows my mind is it tells us in Hebrews 4 that we don't have a high priest who can't sympathize with our weaknesses.

He was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin and says, so we can come boldly to the throne of grace, we'll receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.

So Christ isn't looking at you as a believer in your struggle with porn and just rolling his eyes and saying, you dumb idiot.

He's looking at you and saying,

I love you.

I was tempted in all points as you are, right?

I mean, the general temptation of lust, of course, Christ would have been tempted by that.

So he feels with you.

He sympathizes with your weaknesses and he calls you to run boldly to him.

Scripture says that he doesn't quench a smoldering wick.

He doesn't break a bruised reed.

You see a little wick with an ember barely on there.

He fans it back into a flame.

A bruised reed, he doesn't just break it and throw it away.