Time for a Checkup
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title: Time for a Checkup------------------------------ Date: 11/23/2002
Keywords:
"conscience" "healthy" "sick"
Welcome
to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual
temptation.
Passage: Matthew 9:12*
On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."
Questions
1. What does this verse mean?
2. How can it help you resist Web porn?
Practical help
Congratulations! Viewing this Web site proves that you're sick.
That's a complement. Really. Jesus made it clear that only people who recognize their unhealthiness will look for a doctor. By spending time at eXXit, you acknowledge that pornography has made you spiritually sick. That's progress.
Many people say the opposite. If Web porn offends your conscience, they say, get a new conscience; it's a mixed-up guide that you need to squelch.
The Bible takes a different tack: Read your conscience like a thermometer. Then let a bad reading send you to the Great Physician.
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