Get Wise

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Title: Get Wise--------------------------- Date: 6/15/2001
Keywords: "methods" "result"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: Matthew 11:18-19*

18. "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'

19. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." 'But wisdom is proved right by her actions.'"

Questions

1. What is Jesus driving at in these verses?

 

2. How can they help us overcome the temptation of Web porn?

 

Practical help

Call it a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Jesus and John the Baptist tried many methods to invite people to God: Talking of the kingdom of heaven, and gloom and doom. Eating and drinking, and fasting and locust.

The point is sometimes methods matter less than the result. Perhaps battling pornography qualifies. After all, you know what methods will help you resist temptation and which ones won't. Be wise to what will help you go porn-free. Some use prayer. Other rely upon accountability partners. Still others depend on Web site-blocking software. It doesn't matter which methods you use to avoid pornography.

Just get there.


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