Okay, we got another video to react to.

I don't know where you find these.

Well, TikTok.

A scroll on TikTok.

My algorithm is feeding me some good content right now.

I like this, all right, play it.

The thing about TikTok real quick though, thing about TikTok.

It can be all over the place too.

You can be going along, you can have some great church videos, you can get some deep theology going along, and then there's the husband and wife that tell a dirty joke and then it flips back.

It's like, how did that get in there?

That's so random?

Something I have to do with China.

I guess the title on this all I could see is the title says, this one habit could change how you fight temptation piqued your interest yet, Okay, let me hear it here.

It is.

Have you ever been in a situation where it's like, Okay, I'm watching porn and I feel bad, and it's like, oh, I probably should just turn this off, but you decide to just keep on doing it because it's like I'm already in it.

I'm already in it, so I as well just keep going right, Well, you're in sin at that point right, But there are things that you can do even at that stage.

I'll give you one of the ones that I the Lord showed me.

It's like complete, God's merciful.

He is merciful, bro.

But I you know, so the Lord gave me this.

This I'm giving you.

I'm giving you some real, real stuff.

But there's a point when I was going through my process where the Lord gave me this idea about creating essentially what it's called or talk me down video.

And this is for the moments where I don't have the strength to correct myself.

So I'm not in the mindset to be able to say, you know what, I'm not gonna do this.

I can't pray, I don't want to pray, I don't want to read my Bible.

I'm just not there, right.

But what the Lord showed me was that you don't have to be there in that moment.

You can actually do something prior to the instance and it'll be just as powerful as if you were in that space.

So the Lord told me to create what's essentially called a talk me down video, which is a time where I am super sober, like in my mind super sober, and I actually went to the extent of like praying and like having a really deep time with the Lord before doing this, And I actually recorded a video of myself encouraging myself and basically coaching myself out of walking in sin.

So I was literally telling myself, like, Bro, you know what this is going to lead to.

You know what ends up getting you to this point.

I know how you feel right now.

You feel like you just want to do X, Y or Z.

But this is the reason why you shouldn't do it.

Remember, this is what God has called you to.

This is what God has for you in the future.

And if you do it right, if you allow yourself to literally allow the spirit of God to like infuse this conversation that you have with yourself.

You put it on your phone and you say you don't watch it over, you just save it.

And in the moment of temptation, when you're at that point where you're in sin, right, you're like, you got the website up and you're like, I want to stop.

I haven't gone all the way, but I just don't know how.

If you play that video, I promise you it will suck the air out of the ta.

It sucks, like I believe it, Bro, how about that.

Yeah, I think it's I mean, it's solid to be able to think through ideas like this.

You and I have run into a lot of questions about this.

I mean, porn is devastating.

It's devastating, and it has to be eradicated.

You have to fight it like a war, like you're in a war.

So yeah, A couple thoughts, just initial reactions.

I hope that in that video he's making there is there's the concept that Christ died for sin, died died for sin to not not only like a like a in a way that we would think a painful, bloody death, but in a way that he absorbed the wrath of God.

So when you read through the Old Testament and you see the wrath of God coming down on people or towns or cities or all, this wrath, this this stored up wrath, as Paul says in Romans, is all directed towards that the person of Christ for that porn addiction.

Yep.

So I hope that that that's in the video say that.

In that talk me down video and talk me down video.

A couple of thoughts.

I also, like, I thought, Man, if this guy's married, the wife should be in the talk Me Down video?

Oh yeah, oh absolutely, you think about that?

Yeah, yeah, if you are in that, if if you're in a battle where you're you actually want to defeat this and sin, bring bring your mom if you're not married, and your wife if you are married, and say hey, here we are watching you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So so there's that, And there's also the idea of would would a person do that, Would they click on that video or would they think I know that video is in my photo album, go in there.

It depends.

I think it depends on how serious you are about defeating the sin and fighting this.

War, because then if you're if you are that serious, there's other things like you need to go to a flip phone.

There you go.

Yeah, that's like a go to the flip phone.

I've heard I've heard guys say that they could change their setting to black and white.

That's what I was about to say.

I've seen that.

Yeah, I've seen a guy.

I noticed his phone was black and he told me, he goes, yeah, I have a problem with born.

Yeah, and this takes most of the the enticement out of it.

Yeah.

Interesting.

And then there's also the Covenant Eyes dot com.

You and I have talked about before.

It's it's a this is a an organization that will take your IP addresses on your computer and your phone, and if you go to one of those compromising websites, it sends a notification to your safety crew, your mom, your girlfriend, your your wife, accountability group, accountability group, for sure, it says, Bob, visit this website at this time and send it to mom.

Yeah, so that's and and then there's other way.

There's there's more practical accountability ways where you text your accountability buddy and you say, tonight, I feel compromised tonight.

I'm gonna text you at seven o'clock tomorrow morning and tell you what happened.

And then the accountability buddy says, don't do it.

I'll wait to hear from you at seven.

Yeah, you know, And then seven am, how was last night?

It was defeated, you know, or whatever.

I think the point what I'm talking about here is that we should fight these things with every piece of weaponry we could come up with.

And if that if that guy, I think that's a good idea, and if that's something that works for him, yeah, fantastic.

I love that whole idea of a time when you know that you're strong, when you feel when you're in the Lord's press.

Of course, taking that opportunity to fight the battle before the battle comes to you.

We've talked about being on the offensive, being an offensive Christian, taking the battle to or taking the fight to the battle.

And rather than waiting for it to come at you.

And if you wait for it to come at you, it's only looking for you at your most compromised time.

It's not coming at you when you're strong.

It doesn't come at you Sunday morning when your group of believers is around you at church.

Holy that's right.

It comes at things like this come at you when you are tired and you're hungry, and you're your run down and you haven't been in the Word and you have.

Boy, if you start your day and the Word and you start you and I were talking about that this before this conversation on camera.

But starting your day in repentance, not repenting after something happens, but start your day by turning from the world and turning to God.

This is another great I mean, you find yourself in a situation that you and it doesn't have to be just pornography.

It can be anything that you struggle with that you need to help talking down, make one of those for yourself.

That's great.

You know in water safety that Amber and I speak a bunch about It's it's always about layers we talk about We talk about it in terms of layers of protection.

Just one thing is not enough, But the more layers you add to protect yourself, the better chance you have of avoiding or defeating the problem.

That's good.

This is a good layer.

That's a great layer.

Thanks for the video.