Questions from the Disciples Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Questions from the Disciples Keywords: "building” “sign” “temple" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Mark 13:1-4* 1. And as He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples *said to Him, "Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!" 2. And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another which will not be torn down." 3. And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were questioning Him privately, 4. "Tell us, when will these things be, and what [will be] the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?" Question Are people who view porn near-sighted or far-sighted (spiritually speaking that is)?   Practical help I wonder what Jesus is going to say to His disciples? (To find out, you can either read on in this chapter of the book of Mark and tune in tomorrow). Let’s pretend we have no idea what Jesus will say. Do you think it matters? On the one hand you could argue, “Of course it matters because it’s in the Bible.” That’s certainly true, but there is another way to see if it truly matters to you and me and that is to ask the question, "Will knowing the answer change my live in any way?" Are we people who just like our ears tickled? Do we just like information for information's sake? Perhaps the thinking is that if we know what will happen, when we see it, we will have time to get out of the way. I think a study of history would show more cases where people who chose not to act until the war started or the hurricane hit land were swept up in the catastrophic event. Pornography is a way, frankly, to hide our heads in the sand. To view porn is to decide that nothing going on around us is more important than gratifying our pleasure needs. Do you still have the power to see the signs of the times? If you have the eyes of God and take His words seriously, then you can see that what was true about great buildings being torn down back then is still true today. Furthermore, it is true, not just about large man-made structures, but about us as people as well. To be continued…. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 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. ---