Ultimate Reality
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title: Ultimate Reality------------------------------ Date: 7/31/2001
Keywords:
"perception" "reality"
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to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual
temptation.
Passage: Revelation 3:18*
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become
rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness;
and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Questions
1. What is Jesus telling the church at Laodicea?
2. How can this message help us overcome the temptation of Web porn?
Practical help
In the science fiction movie "The Matrix," the heroes battle against a
computer system designed to fool the Earth's inhabitants into believing in
an artificial reality. Though all of their senses tell them the world is as
they experience it, alien bad guys feed them that inaccurate picture of
reality.
The Laodicean church suffered from a similar misperception of reality, and
the risen Christ wastes no time pointing out the discrepancy: Your wealth
has caused you to wrongfully believe that you are clothed and perceptive. Is
there a better description of the American justification for pornography? We
believe our fat bank accounts prove that we know what we're doing on the
spiritual front.
But Jesus shatters our illusions with a glimpse of ultimate reality; our
obsession with Web porn reveals our spiritual bankruptcy. He offers us the
same solution he extended to the Laodiceans: Invest in the things of God,
and he will meet our true needs.
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