Not Home Alone Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Not Home Alone -------------------------------- Date: 12/3/2002 Keyword: “integrity” Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Corinthians 2:17* For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. Questions 1. To what does Paul compare people he knows who do not serve the Lord "sincerely"?   2. What keeps Paul on the road of integrity?   Practical help Included in an actual job performance review given by a British military officer of a subordinate is this comment. "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap." Zing! That senior officer had discovered something about the junior officer that is true about most of us. Who we are when no one's looking says a lot about us! It is no secret that when we are in secret, we are tempted to do things we would never do in a crowd. Alone and unwatched, most of us are more likely to give in to temptation, even seek out misbehaving ways, than if we are supervised. Paul found that the key to his own life of integrity was to remember that he was never alone. The movie making the rounds again this year has a wrong-headed title. We are never "Home Alone." Everything Paul did and said was said and done "in the sight of God." Our fight against porn becomes winnable when we remember that our loving, Heavenly Father (who is also the holy and righteous Almighty!) is with us at every surfing moment. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 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." --