Growing up, I was told all masturbation was a sin.
Matthew 5:28 says "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
To me, this means Porn/Masturbation is a sin.
My question is, is it a sin to masturbate while thinking or looking at your wife? (not at porn)
I mean, when my wife is not willing or able to be intimate with you (For example; time of the month), is it ok?
Am I allowed to lust over my wife?
brother consider this type of thinking now that you have received Gods holy spirit
“But
he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Flee fornication.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have
of God, and
ye are not your own? For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
1 Corinthians 6:17-20 KJV
If we believe the gospel we believe that gods holy spirit is present in our minds and hearts like when he entered the Old Testament man made temple and his spirit filled the temple . Gods presence is always with a Christian when we wake and walk and talk and sleep and wake and do good or do wrong when we’re imagining good and wholesome things of God and also when we’re watching a pornography film and imagining in our minds these things everything we do and say and think is being done in Gods holy presence now , if we really believe what is in the gospel we’re made aware of this truth
The place where God dwells with us is in our mind and heart our thoughts and the inner places our dreams and hopes and desires . There is power like no other in Christ to realize Godnis always there with us and everything we do the holt spirit is right there witnessing it all whether it is a good wholesome marriage and the design of God for sexual intimacy between spouses , or if we let lust and sexual desire constantly fill our minds and imaginations because we sit and fill up on all that stuff that we know the holt spirit doesn’t want and doesn’t approve of
Im saying this because in my own time I’ve also done many things that I know God doesn’t want in his sight and doesn’t want me doing because I belong to him now , a porn is just one design of how Satan puts evil knowledge and desire into our minds and hearts and causes this in Gods temple purchased his blood
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
Mark 7:21-23 KJV
And then this type of a battle plan always will lead us to freedom where that same old lustful desire doesn’t have us shared and trapped
“Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”( the lord is here now within )
Philippians 4:8
“(for
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds)
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 KJV
Our thought life is important we can pre empty a lot of temptations by knowing whatever we are looking at and imagining the lord is also