Way of Purity Testimony: Charlie

The first 24 years of my life are defined by my sin: selfishness, entitlement, pornography, and an overall arrogance that was fed by a veil of humility. Sin was what defined my life and I loved it, even at the expense of others. I found my dad's video and magazines and from there was hooked. My first experience with sex was pornography and that shaped my relationships up until just recently. I loved looking at porn, though I would feel guilt afterward as I had heard it was a sin. I figured that since I wasn't married and sex was something I was entitled to, it was ok.

In November of 2007, I heard the Gospel for the first time and my life changed. I do think that I was genuinely saved at this point, my attitudes changed and I loved the Word. However, I had just been married and since my experiences with sex and relationships had been skewed, my relationship with my wife wasn't what it could be. After being saved, I learned a lot and bore fruit for the Kingdom, but didn't fully deal with sins in my life.

My wife became pregnant and unable to be intimate with me, so my sense of entitlement kicked in. I went back into porn and gratifying the flesh as I thought I deserved it. It eventually got to the point where I began flirting with women at work, and one actually began flirting back. Given enough time and the right opportunity, who knows what would have happened there. This is where God took over and began His work!

He brought me to the Setting Captives Free course and I took it begrudgingly at first. I was still falling even though I knew my mentor and accountability partner would find out. I had some good weeks and bad weeks, and eventually my mentor made me go back to Day 30 even though I was almost done. This was the best thing that could have happened!! It made me reassess my commitment to the Lord and since then I've been completely free from any image, video, or self-pleasing!

God has worked mightily in my life and granted me repentance from a sin that was once so severe in my life and so dangerous as I thought I was deserving of my sexual sin as though God owed me for something! By His amazing, wonderful grace I have been free for well over two months and when temptations arise I have the God-given tools to deal with them.

Setting Captives Free has been a huge blessing to me and my family, my wife is aware of what I've done and we've worked together to find true intimacy and become closer to Jesus together! I'm not recommending this course to give you a better earthly life, that is a wonderful consequence of living to honor Jesus in everything you do. I recommend it because God can use it to restore your relationship to Him.

God is great and uses the Biblical tools found in this course to bring purity to my life and restore my relationships. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!