Physical Demands Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Physical Demands ----------------------------------- Date: 11/17/2000 Keywords:    "demands" "payment" "physical" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Colossians 1:21-23* 21. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation — 23. if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Questions 1. When your body seems to demand something, how do you respond?   2. How do you feel when someone pays a debt for you?   Practical help Does it sometimes seem like a resisting porn is impossible because you can't control the physical demands of your body? We've all let God down and, believe it or not, the price for even one "let down" is the ultimate physical demand — your very life. Sounds harsh, but God created you to live in a world free of "let downs." They're just not supposed to happen, and when they do, payment is due. The good news here is that someone loves you enough to meet your ultimate physical demand — Jesus Christ. Do you know that every "let down," every failure to resist the lesser physical demands, has been paid for by the greatest physical demand of all time — the life of God's own son! (If you didn't know this, click here.) Relatively speaking, can that make controlling lesser physical demands possible? You decide. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.