Body Detox

Satan wants to make us ineffective.   

 

Romans 7:21-24 (NASB)

21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Jesus wants to set you free.  

John 8:36  (ESV)

36 So if the Son (Jesus)  sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Jesus can set you free from Addictions.   

Romans 6:12-14  (ESV)

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Jesus can set you free from debauchery which is an extreme indulgence in sensuality.  

Ephesians 5:18  (ESV)

18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Jesus can set your free from sexual immorality.   

1 Corinthians 6:15-18 (ESV)

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined (to connect on the deepest level)  to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

God has your best at heart. 

Body Detox

1 Thessalonians 4:4-5 (ESV)

4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1.  Flee from sin 

You don't manage it.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20  (ESV)

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

2. Guard your mind.  

It is much easier to escape sin if you're not feeding it.  Change your thinking. 

Matthew 6:22-23 (ESV)

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Romans 8:5  (ESV)

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

3. Go all in with God.  

Find your purpose, so you wont' have time for all the other stuff. 

1 Corinthians 9:25-27  (ESV)

25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands

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