The Lot of Slaves Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: The Lot of Slaves-------------------------- Date: 4/25/2001 Keywords: "freedom" "slave" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Exodus 1:14* [The Egyptians] made [the Israelites'] lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly. Questions 1. How do enslavers treat slaves?   2. Does pornography enslave you the same way?   Practical help My first car was a 1968 Karmann Ghia, a two-seater that looked fast but sported an anemic 1.6 liter engine. Many Mustangs and Camaros dared me to race them; I wisely waved them on. When it came to speed and the Ghia, appearance did not match reality. The same observation holds true for pornography. It may appear to provide excitement and life, yet instead it holds out entrapment and death. Pornography enslaves the viewer. And slaves — as you may have noticed from the passage above — get the worst. Look at the operative words: "hard," "bitter," "ruthlessly." Unless we want these terms to describe our lives, we must seek freedom from pornography. Then perhaps their antonyms will characterize us. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.