What It Really Is The Armor of the Sword of the Spirit (Part 4) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: What It Really Is ----------------------- Date: 05/04/1999 Keywords: "believe" "really is" "word of God" 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: 1 Thessalonians 2:13* And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. Questions 1. When you read these Bible studies, how do you accept the word of God's message?   2. What happens to you when you believe the Bible is truly God's word?   Practical help Words are everywhere. They're right here on your computer screen. In your newspaper. In books, magazines, signs, posters, letters, printed on just about every product sold. They're just about everyplace you turn. So many words, but only two sources: from people or from God. God has certainly given people free will to write anything they want. Some write great things worthy of your readership, and others write things worthy only of being ignored, while the rest are somewhere in between. Any of their writings may have a profound effect in your life, but how many can actually effect a new life within you? Answer: None, from the human's pen. The thing that sets the Bible apart from all other words is the author -- God. He used men and the styles He gifted them with to pen it, but the content is all God. Not only is God the author, but because He is, the words have to be true. If you want to stand strong in a struggle with pornography, you need something that can change old desires into new desires and old ways into new ways. You need something that can effect in you a new life. (Click here if you want to know how God's word can lead you to a new life). Trust the Bible for what it is -- God's true message to you -- and believe it will perform its work in you. 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."