Home Improvement Relationship Series #4 "Fighting Temptation pt 2
How serious should we take sexual temptation/lust
1st Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee (escape/To run Away) from sexual immorality (Fornication, selling off, idolatry). All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.
Five This to consider in how to take flight as you fight temptation:
1. Identify trigger points (What are things that causes temptation, lust and fornication)
2. Build a firewall (boundaries around your mind)
3. Gather a gang of 5 to combat the temptation (cause your eye, brain, heart, feelings and actions to respond to other stimulus)
- Eye (Information)
- Brain (Memory)
- Heart (Storage)
- Feelings (Emotions)
- Actions (Habits or Patterns)
4. Take control of your body (Your impulses don’t have to control you)
5. Resist going back to past habit