Dry Springs
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Title: Dry Springs---------------------------------------- Date: 3/23/2000
Keywords:
"boasting" "freedom" "lust" "slaves"
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Passage: 2 Peter 2:17-19*
17. These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm.
Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
18. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the
lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who live in error.
19. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of
depravity -- for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Questions
1. What good is a spring that has no water?
2. What is the boast of pornography?
3. Where can we find freedom?
Practical help
Pornography promises much and delivers nothing. Like a dry
streambed, there is the evidence of the pleasure and joy of running water, but no
substance. Like mists before the storm, dabbling in it may seem innocuous at first, but
soon there's no escape from its clutches. There is something in us that it arouses, a
longing for intimate pleasure and the touch of another person. The desire for that
intimacy, like the need for water, is not bad in itself, and we should never beat
ourselves up about it. But as long as we keep running to the dry well to relieve it, it
will not be quenched. That is the point at which the God-given sexual drive gives birth to
evil, lustful desire -- when it moves us in a direction opposite the source of life. Then
we live as slaves, because we don't know the freedom of the life-giving streams that flow
from the veins of Christ. If freedom is your desire, learn more about the source by clicking here.
This passage offers stern words of warning to those who promote lies
such as pornography. Pray for them that God would reveal to them the truth of their folly,
and that they might be saved. Then pray for yourself, for God's protection from your own
tendency to drink from dry springs.
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