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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The Regent Business Review Published an excellent article about the problem that impacts millions: “Conquering Lust on the Job.” Thank you, Regent, for talking openly about a life-or-death issue, and for publishing a well-written piece.

 

The results of scientific surveys say that the majority of Christian men have a problem with either real, printed, or electronically produced pornography—including the short skirts of women at work. (Women have problems, too.)

 

The article offers a host of practical suggestions to the harassed businessman on how to avoid or curtail exposure to temptation. Self-denying common sense. Good advice. Do it. You have a wife at home and kids; don’t betray them. Keep clean. The article frankly quotes the Bible commandments as rules that must be obeyed.

 

And they must.

 

But God knows we need more than rigorous law and good advice, even divine law—unless it is understood in the light of the New rather than the Old Covenant. The Ten Commandments are severe Old Covenant rules unless the great Preamble is understood and believed (Ex. 20:2): Christ has (past tense!) “brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” He has Himself conquered lust “in the likeness of [our] sinful flesh, on account of sin; He condemned sin in the flesh [our flesh!], that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled [the word means perfectly!] in us....” (Rom. 8:3, 4). Through such New Covenant faith the ten laws become ten promises; our salvation does not depend on us promising to keep those rules; it depends on our believing His promise to us. Get acquainted with Jesus as He truly is—the One “in all points tempted like [not unlike] as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15, KJV). “He also Himself likewise took part of the same [flesh and blood]” that we inherit from the fallen Adam (2:14). Open your heart to appreciate what Jesus accomplished on His cross—He died your second death, conquered hell for you. Let this truth of His cross be the anchor of your soul in raging storms of temptation.

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