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Growing Up in the Lord: A Study for Teenage Girls
 

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Study Questions

  1. What is the difference between desire and lust?
  2. What does lasciviousness mean?
  3. What are the three devices Satan uses to tempt us to sin according to I John 2:15-16?
  4. How does Satan use our desires to lead us into sin?
  5. What did Potiphar's wife want of Joseph? Why would this have been tempting to Joseph?
  6. How did Joseph avoid giving into the temptation that Potiphar's wife offered him?
  7. Is looking a photographs of partially clad men sinful? Why or why not?
  8. Why should a Christian keep himself pure?
  9. List three ways from your own life that Satan used to change your normal sexual desire into lust.

Class Discussion

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  • Why would advertisers use sexual themes to sell products?
  • Would watching a show or movie involving a sexual situation be wrong?
  • Would listening to music that mentions having sex outside of marriage be sinful?
  • Is pornography harmful?
  • How have you successfully avoided a temptation to have sex?
  • Would joking about sex be wrong?

Your Questions

Q

Becky (age 14)

My friend wants to know if it is ok to go swimming where there are boys? I asked Daddy and he says he did not think that was right and I do not do that. I told my friend, but she still does.

A

This will take a bit to explain, so click below for the answer.

ANSWER

Q

Dina (15)

If I have a sexual dream about a boy that I like, who doesn't have a girlfriend, is that a sin?

A

Whether the boy has a girlfriend or not doesn't matter. Dreams are something that you cannot directly control. When you sleep, your brain takes advantage of your "off" time to organize all the events and thoughts that you had during the day. One purpose of that organization is to connect past memories to current ones so that you can recall events. But sometimes those connections are a bit odd. That is why something that seems totally unrelated to the subject at hand suddenly pops into your mind. But those odd connections are also what triggers our creativity as well.

When you dream you are basically watching those connections being made. I suppose the boy that you dreamed about is one you have some interest in. That interest may have been connected to some movie that you saw or something suggested in a song or in a book, but then the people in the roles are substituted and small things are altered along the way. The result is a weird dream that you won't have purposely thought about while you are awake.

Daydreaming about having sex with a boy with whom you are not married is a sin. You are then filling your mind with ideas that are not proper. "But I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matthew 5:28). Exchanging the role of the man and woman is still equally sinful.

But the only thing you can do about dreams at night is to avoid filling your mind with sexual garbage. Give your brain less sinful material to work with and dreams about sin will happen with less frequency. Not that it will ever go away because we all get exposed to ideas that we should not contemplate.

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