Dangers...and Blessings

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Title: Dangers...and Blessings ------------------------- Date: 3/1/2000
Keywords:   "rebukes" "stiff-necked"

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Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: Proverbs 29:1*

A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed — without remedy.

Question

What does the term "stiff-necked" mean to you (see verse above)?

 

 

Practical help

"Stubborn and arrogant or aloof" — words that describe "stiff-necked" (American Heritage Dictionary).

Do they also describe you?

Perhaps yes, if you've hardened your heart to the dangers of Web porn despite "many rebukes" from Scripture, family and friends.

This proverb doesn't add to the rebukes. It only warns where stiff-necked resistance leads, namely irreversible destruction.

A harsh prediction, but one that does you a favor: telling you like it is.

Which is more than you get — ever — from online smut, the stock and trade of which is deceit.

So, far from kicking you when you're down, the proverb above actually offers a hand up: If you want to avoid destruction from porn, stop being stiff-necked.

There's more. The same Bible that brings you this proverb also delivers news of abundant living, based not on deceit but on truth. In other words, the Bible doesn't just enumerate dangers; it provides a concise compass for blessings.

To read more, click here.

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