Your Important Connection Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Your Important Connection ------------------------------------- Date: 4/13/2002 Keywords: "fruit" "newness" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Romans 7:4* Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. Questions 1. Has pornography sapped the life out of you yet? Are you feeling emotionally dead and ashamed?   2. List all the methods you have tried to rid yourself from pornography.   Practical help Some people mistakenly believe that the Bible teaches that when we come to Christ, we are free from the Law and therefore, free to sin. It is true that when we sin, God promises to forgive us and cleans us (1 John 1:9), but more than this, He wants to transform us into people who represent Him well and bear fruit. Some of the fruit He wants in our lives is listed in Galatians 5:22 — sacrificial love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The presence of pornography is like a worm that will invade and destroy our fruit. This passages says that we are freed from living under Law by the death of Christ. He died in our place so we could be joined to Him and walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4). Claim it as you walk through life today. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 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." ---