New Resource from Setting Captives Free
40 Days to Freedom From Pornography and Sexual Impurity
Introducing 40 Days to Freedom from Pornography and Sexual Impurity:
How the Gospel Reaches the Heart Where Willpower Cannot
There is a passage in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians that stops me every time I read it slowly. He has just finished listing the kinds of people who will not inherit the kingdom of God, and the list is unflinching: the sexually immoral, adulterers, those enslaved to every kind of impurity. Then he turns a corner with seven words that carry the weight of the entire gospel.
Let’s read 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 together:
“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (NIV)
That is what some of you were.
Past tense. The Corinthian church was full of people who had been captured by sexual impurity, people who had lived inside exactly the kind of bondage that may have driven you to pick up this book. And the gospel of Jesus Christ had reached them, washed them, set them apart, and declared them righteous in the sight of God. They were no longer who they had been. The cross had done something to them that no program, no resolve, and no accumulated discipline could ever accomplish.
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This 40-day journey is built on three biblical pillars that Scripture itself provides for anyone who wants to walk out of sexual bondage and into genuine freedom: washing at the cross, walking by the Spirit, and warring against the flesh. These are the language of the New Testament, and together they form the most complete picture Scripture offers of how a captive heart is set free and kept free.
If you have been part of Setting Captives Free before, you will recognize those pillars. God used our earlier purity resources to bring freedom to many, and the core gospel truths at the heart of those materials have not changed, because the gospel never changes. But this book is not a revision of what came before. It is something new.
In the years since those earlier resources were written, one truth has pressed itself deeper into my understanding of how lasting freedom actually works. It is this: we always live according to who we believe ourselves to be. Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in their heart, so they are. Paul writes in Romans 12:2 that transformation comes through the renewing of the mind. And in 2 Corinthians 5:17 he declares that anyone in Christ is a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come.
Identity is not merely a theological category. It is the engine of behavior. Show me what a person genuinely believes about who they are, and you will see how they live.
This is why the final section of this 40-day journey is entirely new: a sustained look at who you actually are in Christ, so that the freedom the gospel provides is carried into every ordinary moment of your life. The washing, the walking, and the warring all land differently when you know whose name you bear.
Here is how the forty days unfold. The journey opens with six days of honest diagnosis, because a physician who rushes to treatment before completing the examination does his patient no favors. Before grace can be embraced, bondage must be understood. Then we move into the three biblical pillars that form the heart of the journey.
The first pillar is washing at the cross, seven days of standing at the fountain Zechariah saw opened when the shepherd was struck, receiving what the blood of Christ actually accomplishes in the deepest places of a person’s conscience and identity. The second pillar is walking by the Spirit, seven days of learning to live from what the cross accomplished, to walk by the Spirit’s power into a freedom that is not merely declared but experienced. The third pillar is warring against the flesh, eleven days of taking up the weapons Scripture provides and learning to stand firm with growing strength.
And then comes the final section, ten days asking and answering the question that everything else has been building toward: who are you now? The Corinthians who received Paul’s letter were captives. But they had been washed, sanctified, and justified. And the gospel had made them into something altogether different. This closing section is designed to press that same reality deep into your bones, so that it is a truth you live from, not merely a doctrine you carry in your head.
Whether you are brand new to Setting Captives Free or have walked with us for years, whether you have tried every program available or are just now reaching for something different, welcome. The same gospel that turned “that is what some of you were” into a past-tense sentence for the Corinthians is fully capable of doing the same for you.
The answer is not a better system. It never was. The answer is a Person, and His name is Jesus, and He sets captives free.