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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT MASTURBATION...ANYWAY?

“What They Didn’t Tell Us About Masturbation” contends that there is much more to this delicate, sensitive subject than is usually presented in the mass media . . . and so confidently articulated by our enlightened, broad-minded “professionals”.







Our Church leaders and Christian educators are often divided on this controversial subject and so either provide conflicting, confusing theories or often choose to remain conveniently silent . . . as though by ignoring this reality, it will somehow, mysteriously disappear from our lives.







One of the greatest stumbling blocks in our present, permissive, promiscuous world is that we often function with a shortsightedness that prevents us from seeing beyond the natural realm. We are, therefore, tempted like Lot’s wife in Genesis 19:26 or the Rich Fool in Luke 12:15-21 to keep focusing on the perishable pleasures of this world instead of pursuing those things of lasting value, which have no expiry date.







How you respond to truth, of whatever kind, will definitely reveal the condition of your heart, the degree of your integrity and the authenticity of your convictions. You could discretely close the covers of this book and resort to “what they told you about masturbation”, and no one would ever know that you had read this little book.







The verdict is definitely yours.

The easiest response to make to what appears as an overwhelming vote of confidence, in favor of masturbation, is to yield… concluding like so many others, that this activity must be God-ordained since multitudes are doing it, and high-level personnel are giving it their maximum endorsement.








We must, however, be reminded that the multitudes are not always correct, and that the minds of countless good, intelligent human beings are still being blinded by “the god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4).






Moral issues are not determined by the votes of finite, vulnerable human beings, but rather by the principles of God’s unshakeable Word. We must, therefore, not be seduced into thinking that an impure habit will evolve into a moral activity, simply because “everybody is doing it”.






Masturbation, like potassium cyanide, needs to be speedily identified and militantly addressed, as decisively as possible, before the destructive consequences set in. It needs to be diagnosed, not as a healthy, amoral, therapeutic activity, but as an addictive, sinful practice that blocks the life flow from our spiritual source, resulting in a series of crippling, malignant diseases.




Let us also not forget that it was just the one little sin of a couple (Adam and Eve), somewhere in a private garden called Eden, that has caused all of humanity ever since, to be born in sin and shaped by iniquity. One individual’s private sin certainly has a strange way of affecting communities, nations and even generations.