Self-control

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Title: Self-control ------------- Date: 08/18/1998

 

Keywords: "I Thessalonians" "friends" "pornography" "self-control" "sexual immorality"


 

In this study, we continue our look at Paul's letter to the people in Thessalonica.

Passage: I Thessalonians 4: 3-5 (New American Standard Version*)

3. It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

4. that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

5. not in passionate lust like the heathen who do not know God;

Questions

1. What activities would jeopardize your control of your body?

 

2. Does pornography help you control your own body in an honorable way?

 

3. Do you control pornography, or does it control you?

 

4. Do you control your body as though it were holy?

 

Practical help

How many of us desire more self-control? Most everyone would like to improve in this area. One of the ways we increase self-control is by rejecting the things in life which rob us of our self-control. Sexual immorality, in all its forms, such as web porn, is one of those negative influences. Ask God to help you say no to Internet pornography.

For tomorrow

In other three-minute studies, we'll look at additional issues from this Bible passage about escaping Internet pornography.


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*"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."