Every Young Man's Battle Guide by Stephen Arterburn

Author:Stephen Arterburn [Arterburn, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55302-7
Publisher: Crown Religion/Business/Forum
Published: 2012-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

In God’s kingdom, Old Testament or New Testament, choosing obedience has always been central to intimacy with God. Trouble is, we aren’t in search of obedience. We’re in search of mere excellence, and His command is not enough. We push back, responding, “Why should I eliminate every hint? That’s too hard!”

We have countless churches filled with countless men encumbered by sexual sin, weakened by low-grade sexual fevers—men happy enough to go to Promise Keepers but too sickly to be promise keepers.

A spiritual battle for purity is going on in every heart and soul. The costs are real. Obedience is hard, requiring humility and meekness, very rare elements indeed.

—adapted from Every Man’s Battle

Don’t you realize that whatever you choose to obey becomes your master? You can choose sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God and receive his approval.

ROMANS 6:16, NLT

Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD?

To obey is better than sacrifice,

and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is like the sin of divination,

and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

1 SAMUEL 15:22–23, NIV

This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world.

1 JOHN 5:3, NIV

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