We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Learn to take sin seriously—be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin's power and live a holy and godly life.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God's voice, we must tune out this world's noise.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.

We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to "make not provision for the flesh" [Romans 13:14 KJV].

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.