Mocking? Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Mocking? Keyword: "mocker" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. This study is part of a short series on blessedness vs. cheap thrills. Passage: Psalm 1:1-6* 1. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6. For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Question Who/what are "mockers" (see verse 1 above)?   Practical help "Mockers" are folks who (1) treat other people with ridicule or contempt and/or (2) mimic them "in sport or derision."** Any mocking going on in porn? Does smut scorn God's design for sex? Does it ridicule moral values your conscience knows are true and right? Does it treat human beings like animals? Back to the sweeping formula in verse 1 above (see previous study). Namely imitating the wicked, sinners and, as we see today, mockers does not make for blessedness (happiness). Smut may bring a momentary curl to your face, only later to smash you with wave upon wave of guilt and shame. In verses 2-3, we see what produces long-lasting satisfaction, which, pathetically, porn can only parody, mocker that it is. Tune in tomorrow as we take up these verses. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2004 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved. **The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.