About Face!
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Title: About Face!----------------------------------------- Date: 04/08/2000
Keywords:
"actions" "commitment" "weak"
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temptation.
Passage: Romans 6:18-19*
18. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to
righteousness.
19. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural
selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to
ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to
holiness.
Questions
1. Although this passage is addressed to believers who are no longer
slaves to sin, what do they still need to remember about themselves?
2. Did the downward spiral into impurity and increasing wickedness
begin with active or passive behavior?
3. While God has declared these believers righteous and holy because
of their faith in Christ, what do they need to do to begin living in that righteousness?
Does this sound active or passive?
Practical help
Because you are weak in your natural self, it is all too easy
to believe that falling back into the trap of internet porn just happens. Don't kid
yourself. Spend some time thinking back over what you did just before your last few slip
ups. What seemingly small actions did you take, what subtle arrangements did you make,
what rationalizations were in your mind just before you offered the parts of your
body to impurity? Be brutally honest with yourself here and be as specific as possible.
Then make a commitment to be on the alert for those same actions, arrangements and
thoughts. Sin doesn't just happen any more than righteous behavior does.
Make advance plans for those moments when you catch yourself in time
to make an abrupt about-face. How will you offer your body to righteousness instead of to
impurity? What will you do? Where will you go? Who will you talk to? Ask God to give you
some creative and wise ideas.
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