Is your life centered around this race that the Apostle Paul lays out in 1 Corinthians Chapter 9 or described as a journey to the Celestial City using the jargon of John Bunyan? This is a journey to heaven and it will require significant training and discipline. There's a great temptation to go back to our old ways, remember it's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Pastor Ray talks about falling back into sin both from the scriptures and his own life. There's also a hit list of sorts laid out in 1 Corinthians 10.
Will you heed this warning, repent and refocus your life upon service to Jesus Christ and His kingdom?
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize. 25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable. 26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
1 Corinthians 9:24-26 Berean Study Bible
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