God’s Velvet Covered Brick Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: God's Velvet Covered Brick ------------- Date: 09/04/1998 Keywords: "deception" "James 1" "love" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Introduction: We find more help in our fight against temptation as James gives us a brief but very necessary warning. Passage: James 1:16* Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Questions 1. James warns about deception in verse 16. What deception is involved in thinking that clicking on to Internet pornography is harmless or even beneficial (refer back to James 1:15)?   2. Look, too, at the way James addresses his audience. Are you surprised at the "name-calling" in which James engages?   3. What is significant about calling people who are prone to self-deception "beloved brethren"?   Thought for the day When God deals with a man or a woman struggling with temptation (like the temptation to go places on the web they know they shouldn't), He does so with loving firmness. He doesn't minimize the real danger involved with yielding to temptation. But, he doesn't stop loving tempted people! He continues to tenderly call us His beloved while warning of the danger of death if we yield to the temptation to sin. Today, when you are tempted, remember that God loves you, struggles and all, and loves you so much that He warns you to flee sin. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1998 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."