The Lust ‘Escape Hatch’ Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: The Lust “Escape Hatch” ----------------------- Date: 9/24/1999 Keyword: "corruption" "lust" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Peter 1:3-4* 3. seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of {the} divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Questions 1. God's glory and excellence prompted Him to grant us promises (v. 3). What kind of promises (v. 4)?   2. The purpose of these promises is that Christians will become partakers of God's own nature. What a thought! That is possible because of what Peter says we have escaped (look at the end of verse 4, above). What is it that we have escaped?   Practical help These verses say two things of note. First, they tell us that the Christian has escaped corruption, and that is good to know! In the most important sense, the Christian is not in the land of the living going to the land of the dying. He is in the land of the living going to the land of the living! Corruption doesn't win. Life wins! Second, these verses tell us that lust brings about corruption! In the broadest sense, lust is longing for (and even planning for) something or someone we have no right to possess. That is the evil of pornography, but it is also the evil of lust, generally. Wanting something God doesn't intend for us to have produces corruption. For the believer, that cycle has been broken! So, how nutty is it for a Christian, who has escaped the "lust-to-corruption cycle" to place himself right back in it by purposefully viewing pornography, a practice that can only succeed in revving up the lust engine from which he has been saved! eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 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."