The Adventist Home -- Study Guide
Section XIV — Guarding the avenues of the soul
Date _________ AH-SG 43.1
A. Read pages 401-418. AH-SG 43.2
B. Check your knowledge: AH-SG 43.3
1. What does Sister White call the senses? (401:2.)
AH-SG 43.4
2. What is Satan’s endeavor with regard to our senses? (401:4.)
AH-SG 43.5
3. What assurance do we have when we are exposed to the assaults of unseen and invisible foes? (402:2.)
AH-SG 43.6
4. What does the sight of deeds of crime do to the mind? (406:1.)
AH-SG 43.7
5. Complete: “In Christian homes a bulwark should be built against __________________________.” (406:2.) AH-SG 43.8
6. What passage of Scripture should be the rule as we seek to guard the influences in our homes? (408, 409.) AH-SG 43.9
7. Complete: “Music, when not abused, is a great blessing; but when put to a wrong use, it is a ________________ ____________.” (408:0.) AH-SG 43.10
8. Complete: “The heart is corrupted through the ______________.” (408:1.) AH-SG 43.11
9. Choose from this list of words the right ones to insert in the following quotations: demoralize, exciting, knowledge, brain, tables.
a. “The susceptible, expanding mind of the child longs for __________________________.” (410:1.)
b. “Children need proper reading which will afford amusement and recreation and not ______________________________ the mind or wear the body.” (411:2.)
c. “Intemperate habits of reading have an effect upon the _____________ similar to that which intemperate habits of eating and drinking have upon the body.” (414:3.)
d. “Let publications upon moral and religious subjects be found on your _____________________ and in your libraries.” (416:0.)
e. “Children should be taught to reject trashy, _______________ tales and to turn to sensible reading, which will lead the mind to take an interest in Bible story, history, and argument.” (417:1.)
AH-SG 43.12
10. How can parents prevent the enemy from sowing tares in their children’s hearts? (410:2.)
AH-SG 43.13
11. What responsibility do parents of youth who are eager for reading have? (410, 411.)
AH-SG 43.14
12. What is a result of hasty, superficial reading? (415:1.)
AH-SG 44.1
13. What are compared to the frogs of Egypt? (415: 1.)
AH-SG 44.2
14. If we are truly consecrated, will we take secular papers in preference to denominational literature in our homes? (415:2.)
AH-SG 44.3
C. Rate the quality of your reading: Excellent. ______ Good ______ Poor _____Soul-destroying___ AH-SG 44.4
1. What kind of reading helps you the most? _____________ __________________________________________________ AH-SG 44.5
2. What kind of reading hinders you the most? __________ __________________________________________________ AH-SG 44.6
D. Discuss with others: AH-SG 44.7
1. For what did God give us—
a. Eyes?
b. Ears?
c. Speech?
d. A heart? (401:1.)
AH-SG 44.8
2. Name some agencies through which Satan can reach the senses. (402,403.)
AH-SG 44.9
3. What means is Satan using to popularize crime and vice? (406:2.)
AH-SG 44.10
4. To what dangers are young men and women especially exposed? (407:1.)
AH-SG 44.11
5. How can we keep the resolution suggested in the last paragraph on page 409?
AH-SG 44.12
6. What effect do love stories, fiction, books on sensational topics, exciting tales, works of infidel authors, myths, and fairy tales have on children and young people?
AH-SG 44.13
7. Make suggested lists of the types of literature that can profitably and safely be introduced into our homes.
AH-SG 44.14
8. Do the principles laid down to govern the choice of reading apply as well to programs presented on the radio and television?
AH-SG 44.15
E. Think on these things: AH-SG 44.16
1. “In no case can Satan obtain dominion over the thoughts, words. and actions, unless we voluntarily open the door and invite him to enter.” (402:2.) AH-SG 44.17
2. “So far as in us lies, we should close every avenue by which the tempter may find access to us.” (403:0.) AH-SG 44.18
3. “Those who would not fall a prey to Satan’s devices must guard well the avenues of the soul; they must avoid reading, seeing, or hearing that which will suggest impure thoughts.” (403:3.) AH-SG 45.1
4. “The mind must not be left to dwell at random upon every subject that the enemy of souls may suggest.” (403:3.) AH-SG 45.2
F. Name the book you will read next. AH-SG 45.3