The you're going to do you do you do you do you do you do you do It's fun to watch a little child running around aimlessly going here and there and everywhere just for the sake of running

running. When it comes for the sake of running.

When it comes to the life of faith,

the Apostle Paul exhorts believers to run so as to win the prize.

And today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg teaches us how to stay properly focused and finish

our race victoriously.

You're looking together at the closing verses in 1st Corinthians Chapter 9.

I say no to aimless running.

I say no to shadow boxing. He introduces one of the other elements of the Islian Games.

There was wrestling, there was boxing, there was actually a combination of boxing and wrestling,

which was a perilous sort of activity as it is today, and again he would be identifying in the minds of people what he was saying.

The literal statement where he says, I beat my body, it may say I buffet my body in your version

when he says I beat my body he says this I give my body a black eye

That's what it literally says in the Greek, I punch myself underneath the eye.

Does this sound like self-help? Does this sound like self-esteem? No, this sounds like something different. That's because it is something

different. He says, I recognize I've got a problem, I'm the biggest problem I've got. The biggest thing that prevents me ever from

getting the prize is me, not somebody else. Therefore I'm going to have to take me

under control, I'm going to have to beat me up. Doesn't sound right does it? That's

because we've spent 30 years being told it isn't right. It's not just right is vital. The cross-reference that you need that I need to is

Roman 6 verse 13. Paul has already explained what it is to be justified by faith

he then says since our sins have been forgiven how should we, should we go out and be sinners?

Now he says that's a bad idea.

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