Sometimes You Just Need to Run Away

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Sometimes You Just Needto Run Away
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The Solution Is Obvious

• Sometimes the obvious solution to a dilemma
  requires no thinking just run!
• Examples in the NT Mt. 213 (Herods decree),
  Mt. 1023 (persecution), Mt. 2416 (fall of
  Jerusalem), Acts 2730 (shipwreck), and Heb.
  1134 (the sword)
• God wants us to run and dont look back (Lk.
  1732 Gen. 1912ff 1 Cor. 1013)!

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The Solution Is Obvious

• Why run?
• We will be less likely to dwell on the sin
  (Josh. 7 2 Sam. 11 Jas. 114-15)
• We will have time for our passion to subside
  (Prov. 1429 1727)
• We will be able to think more clearly about what
  God wants

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Just Run Away

• Flee fornication (1 Cor. 618) run from those
  things that lead to fornication (Gen. 3912 Mt.
  528 Gal. 519)
• Flee idolatry (1 Cor. 1014) run from those
  things that would take Gods place in our heart
  (Ezek. 141ff 1 Jn. 521)
• Flee the love of money (1 Tim. 611) run from
  those material things that cause one to be lost

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Just Run Away

• Flee youthful lusts (2 Tim. 222)
• Youthful advice (1 Kings 1213-14)
• Youthful disrespect (2 Kings 223)
• Youthful peer pressure (Prov. 110)
• Youthful folly (Prov. 14 77)
• Youthful priorities (Mt. 1920,22)

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Just Run Away

• Flee youthful lusts (2 Tim. 222)
• Youthful pride (Prov. 1812)
• Youthful unbelief (Eccl. 121 Psa. 1199)

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Just Run Away

• Every second we delay the more likely we will
  commit the sin
• When we flee sin and temptation, the Devil will
  flee from us (Jas. 47)