Truth vs. Idols The Armor of Truth (Part 5) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Truth vs. Idols ----------------------- Date: 04/05/1999 Keywords: "falsehood" "idols" "truth" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.   The following is one of 42 studies on the "armor of God" as it relates to resisting Web porn. Some of the studies will examine Ephesians chapter six, which is famous for the armor theme. Some of the other studies, however, will examine how the armor pieces are discussed elsewhere in Scripture. All 42 studies are listed in the three-minute study index for the dates April 1 through May 12, 1999. Feel free to study and/or download the entire set. We welcome your feedback to this thematic approach in the three-minute studies. Passage: Joshua 24:14*   Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. Questions   1. In Joshua 24, Joshua is urging God’s people to serve God in a certain way. What is to characterize their service to God?   2. As they serve God in this new way, they are challenged to stop serving something else they had been serving. What is that?   3. When had they served this "something else"?   Practical help When Joshua spoke to God’s people, they were living in the Promised Land. In fact, they had been living there for some time. Yet he still needed to give them the challenge to stop serving (literally "worshiping") the gods they had formerly served. Those other gods were false gods. The Jews had looked to these gods for their fulfillment as opposed to the true God. A "god" is anything we look to for life. Many men involve themselves with pornography in hopes that the fleeting pleasure it brings will give them a measure of life. However, porn is a false god. It can’t satisfy. It is artificial, removed, non-relational and manipulative - everything the true God is not. The challenge of Joshua 24:14 is not an invitation to give up the life offered by false gods for the life offered by the true God. It is an invitation to abandon the death that the false god actually delivers and enter into the life that comes when we serve the true God. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."