While speaking with the Desiring God ministry, Trip Lee addressed the effects of porn on today's Christian men.
"It's come to the point where if I talk to a young man about his life, whether it's somebody my age or a little bit younger, I'm not at all surprised to hear that there's some kind of struggle with porn. And I would be shocked if I met a young man who hasn't had a struggle with it at some point because it's so easily accessible," said Lee in a video posted on the Desiring God site on June 30.
The rapper explained that Christians who struggle with pornography but look to honor Jesus are often in "deep despair" over it due to the nature of the sin.
"It's a unique sin. Because at this point you don't have to go anywhere to indulge in it. You don't have to make a long series of bad decisions to fall into it. There's often this kind of despair feeling they're imprisoned by their sin," said Lee.
Lee said the struggle with porn is a constant battle for Christian men since it can be accessed so easily from the smartphone in their pocket. He also offered young men who struggle with this sin some encouraging words.
"One of the first things I want to do is remind them of the gracious Gospel of Jesus. [They] could have looked at porn every day for the last five hundred days and Jesus has not run out of grace. That same cross that you heard about the first time is the same cross than can forgive you now," said Lee.
Lee said he'd also stress the seriousness of that sin to a person struggling with it and how it not only affects them, but offends God and creates a demand for more of this explicit content to be created.
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