7 Steps to Victory

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7 Steps to Victory
I Cor. 15:57

These 7 points spell VICTORY!

*Vigilance
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Be watchful and on guard. This is a spiritual paranoia that is actually healthy!

Satan is public enemy #1 now that you’ve been saved. He walks about w/ free reign for now, and he CAN devour you and sift you as wheat! This is why we must walk w/ God.

Don’t feed the lion [your flesh].

*Imagine the Consequences
Eccles. 8:11-13
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
[12] Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: [13] But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

1 Tim. 5:24
Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.

This is more about a “Healthy Fear”.

Also imagine the physical, emotional consequences of certain sins.

*Cry out to God
Psalm 34:6
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Cry out when tempted, after you fail, and throughout the day.

*Take thoughts into captivity
2 Cor. 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: [4] (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) [5] Casting down [suppressing] imaginations [thoughts], and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Temptation comes like the serpent in the garden, saying, “yes shall not surely die…you’ll become as Gods!”
This is the kind of thoughts to cast down during temptation.

Thoughts become desires, which turn into actions, which produce habits, that become your life.

The most dangerous form of LSD: Lust-Sin-Death!

*Omnipresence of God
Genesis 39:7-9
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. [8] But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; [9] There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

His omnipresence means He sees it all, His omniscience means He knows it all, and His omnipotence means…well, He’s big enough to deal w/ us when we sin as children!

Psalm 139:2
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

*Rely on the Scriptures
Psalm 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Memorize, meditate [Josh. 1:8]
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