"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
Hebrews 12:1






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Overcoming Sexual Sins


Races are fun to watch and join in if you are in shape! But what happens when you are not in good shape and are found to be in a race?!

By default we are in a race for sexual purity. God, our family and the world are our onlookers. Victory means life, but stepping out of the race means death. The consequences are eternal.



The image of a race helps us in several ways:

- The participation
- The urgency
- The course
- The difficulties
- The victory

One of the first facts we must understand is that the race is not yet over. No matter how many mistakes we have made or how many people's lives we have fouled up, we can step back into that race and go on.

There are two things that disqualify us from winning this race:

1) Death - no more running

2) Persistent refusal to run



So if you can read this, then you can start running again in that race which God has signed you up for - a race for sexual purity. You can run it. You can win it. You might be ashamed of your past like I am. That is unchangeable. But we need not be ashamed of the future! God has made a way for you and I to run steady to the end.



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Romans 12:1-2
New Living Translation (NLT)

A Living Sacrifice to God

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.



Thanks for sharing. We have been bought with a price!

Thank you, Laura10, for sharing as well!

We're in this race together.

For sin shall not have dominion over you......mortify therefore your members which are on earth,fornication......If we confess our sins,he is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Remember not the former things,nor consider the things of old.......For behold,i will make a new covenant with the house of Israel....their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.Behold if any man is in Christ Jesus,he is a new creation,old things have passed away and all things are now new.The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness.I love our God who gives second,third,fourth,fifth,sixth and hundreds of chances for us to amend our ways while alive.Halleluyah