Build Your Strategy for Ongoing Purity, Part 2 Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Build Your Strategy for Ongoing Purity, Part 2------------------- Date: 4/26/2003 Keywords: “adultery” “marriage” “singleness” Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. This is the second of a twelve-part series designed to help you build a strategy for ongoing sexual purity. The first six parts are being posted this month, and the last six in late May. Passage: Proverbs 5:18-20* 18. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. 20. For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? Questions 1. How is the sexual relationship of two people shared in marriage described?   2. How careful are you about becoming involved with persons of the opposite sex who are not your spouse?   3. How is Web porn use like becoming involved with someone else?   Practical help God created us with legitimate needs for intimacy, and to deny these needs may make us even more vulnerable to sexual temptation. For married persons, intimacy with one’s spouse must be primary. But married and single persons alike need healthy, godly relationships with others. Intimacy and sexuality are not the same. God also created us to share sexual intimacy exclusively within the bonds and protection of marriage. Porn use, lustful fantasies and inappropriate emotional or physical involvements with someone other than our spouse is likened to adultery in the Scriptures. Faithfulness and sexual exclusivity is the best way! Don’t let the stresses of life rob you of the rich, satisfying relationship God intends for you according to Proverbs 5:18-20. Action Point 2: If married, make your relationship with your spouse your highest priority. If single, seek to build deep, godly relationships with trusted friends. More tomorrow. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 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." ---