Nothing
to Hide, Pretend or Fake
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Title:
Nothing to Hide, Pretend or
Fake-------------------------------------
Date: 10/7/2002
Keyword:
"Spirit"
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to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand
strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage:
2 Corinthians 3:12,
17-18*
12. Having therefore such
a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,
17. Now the Lord is the Spirit;
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.
18. But we all, with unveiled
face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory
to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit.
Questions
1. As you anticipate your
future with Christ, for what are you most
hopeful?
2. What kind of liberty does the
Spirit of God bring with Him?
Practical
help
Addiction to porn is
shackling. It binds whoever uses it. It narrows a
world to the screen on a desk. It creates a mad
obsession.
Life with Christ, though, is a
life of liberation. That liberation is a gift of the
Holy Spirit, who is the perpetual presence of God in
our lives. (If you have never come to know Christ by
faith, click
here to find out how
to establish a relationship with God.)
Where the sovereign Spirit
dwells, there is liberty — and a specific kind of
liberty. It is the freedom to take off the mask of
pretending, to be genuine. That is the sense of verse
12 (above). "Boldness" speaks of a transparency where
nothing is hidden and nothing is faked. There is
nothing to be defensive about because we know that we
are still works in progress — we haven't
"arrived" and we don't "have it all
together."
If porn is a current struggle
with you, perhaps one of the reasons you haven't gone
to a trusted friend with an honest confession is that
you are afraid of what that person might think. Paul
says to put that fear behind you. The Spirit of God is
with you. There is no reason to fear. Jump into the
world of Spirit freedom with a commitment to let
someone in your world know you as you really are. And
watch the Spirit take who you really are and transform
you into someone who stands strong in the face of
sexual temptation.
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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."
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