Well, hey, we're back.

Again, this is Hank Bowen.

We are on a mini-series here.

You could call it the pursuit of holiness.

In our previous episode, we talked about fighting sin.

And I just kind of laid out four principles for fighting sin,

which first of which was discipline is required in the fight against sin. Paul says in 1st

Timothy 4.7 that we are to train ourselves for the purpose of godliness. And then we said

flee, don't fight, which would be the second one, meaning that Joseph encountered the temptation with Potipers'

wife, and then he didn't choose to stay and fight. He chose the wise route, which was to flee.

And then you gave a good example with the Mike Tyson.

Yeah, absolutely. Easiest way not to lose to Mike Tyson, don't get in the ring.

Yeah. So in regards to temptation, don't get in the ring. If there's something that you struggle with, if there's a sin that is lurking,

if you struggle with pornography, don't go to bed with your computer. So there's a lot of different

practical elements there in regards to fighting sin. The third of which is starve, don't feed.

Romans 13, 14 says, make no provision for the flesh. So there's a lot of morally neutral things

probably that are in our life

that are not illicitly sinful, but they're like gateway drugs to that which actually causes us to

sin. So you could take your phone, not, you know, explicitly a bad thing, but you have a brothel in

your pocket. If you struggle with certain sin, you should make no provision for the flesh and go get a flip phone, dude. Number four, regiment not reckless, meaning that the battle for holiness

is a battle that we fight together. So that's part of the strategy, but one of the things we talk

through is that it's not just playing defense. Yeah, absolutely. So again, three part series,

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