Introduction

• Mark 2:14-17
• Jesus died for you! He came for those in a spiritual slump.
• I John 1:10
• I John 2:1

Believe that you CAN overcome, escape, and endure.

• James 4:7-8
• I Corinthians 10:13
• There is always something we can do to get through.
• Your spiritual muscles may have atrophied and you don’t trust them yet. It will take time to get them back.

Remember the ugliness of sin.

• Luke 22:60-62
• Acts 5:27
• Romans 6:16-18
• You’re not the person you would be if that sin were not in your life.

Change your environment.

• Proverbs 13:20
• If you are hanging around places where people are sinning, you will eventually sin.
• Proverbs 5:8; 7:7, 25
• I Peter 4:1-5

Surround yourself with Christians.

• Ezra 7:27-8:20 – Ezra assembled good people to go with him.
• Don’t go alone!
• Ecclesiastes 4:9-12