The
No-scoff Zone
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Title:
The No-scoff Zone -------------------
Date: 2/22/2003
Keywords:
"failure"
"success"
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to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand
strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage:
Jude 18-19*
18. "They said to you, 'In
the last times there will be scoffers who will follow
their own ungodly desires.'
19. These are the men who divide
you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have
the Spirit."
Questions
1. What do these verses
mean?
2. Can they apply to your
struggle against Web porn?
Practical
help
Web porn, the naysayers
tell us, is a victimless crime. So much so, it's no
longer even a crime.
Christians contradict this rosy
view at our peril. One peep about consequences out of
us, and the scoffers pounce. "What do you mean
pornography hurts you? How? Does it draw blood?" Or
they trot out a phrase reminiscent of
love-it-or-leave-it patriots, "If you don't like what
you see, just don't look." This is the scoffers'
world; we merely live in it.
Or do we? We know such "natural
instincts" do harm us — morally, interpersonally,
socially and spiritually. That's why societies the
world over have stigmatized wrongs like pornography in
order to channel sexual impulses into the proper
domain of marriage. The scoffers rebel against this
natural law and the divine revelation that supports
it.
In addition, Christians know
that this is God's world. The scoffers may seem to
rule, but their victories will be short-lived. From
Jude's perspective we live in "the last times." Even
if Christ doesn't return next month, death will take
the scoffers soon enough.
So pay them no attention.
Surround yourself with like-minded people who can help
you kick your porn habit. And don't let the naysayers
invade your no-scoff zone.
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