My JTeam talked last night about how to win over temptation. Something we talked a lot about was how hard it is to be a Christ-follower in today's culture. It is so easy to compromise today because we can justify in our minds that we're not as bad as the world. But what we don't realize is how far removed from God the culture has become today. If we are content staying just one step away from the world, we are still going to drift away from God. It's a 24 hour, 7 day a week battle!
Something our pastor, Steve, mentioned in his message a few weeks ago was that freedom isn't free. Think of America. We have soldiers all over the world fighting for our freedom. To stay free, we must sacrifice something...we must fight!
Galatians 5:1 says that "it is for freedom that Christ set us free." Christ didn't set us free so we could continue to live bondaged to the same struggles. No, He set us free so we could enjoy life the way it is truly meant to be lived...FREE. I would encourage you to look at your life and see what things continue to tempt you. Once you realize what they are, avoid them! Don't continue putting yourself in temptations way. As the last part of Galatians 5:1 one says, "stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."
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