1. 1 Corinthians 9:27 - 10:13

2. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after proclaiming to others I myself might be disqualified.

3. “Freedom! Privilege!” “I’ve got rights!” “I do what I wanna do!” “I’m the slave of all!” “I’ll give up my rights!” “I discipline myself!”

4. I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. …Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

5. 10:6 These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did 10:11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.

6. A Fresh Start

7. Intercessor

8. A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished! Deut. 8:3 And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

9. A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished! Jesus Christ offers permanent relief from your thirst!

10. A Fresh Start IntercessorNourished! Leadership Protection

11. A Fresh Start IntercessorNourished! Leadership Protection

12. A Fresh Start IntercessorNourished! Leadership Protection

13. 10:5-11 God’s Provision isn’t enough! A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished!Leadership

14. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after proclaiming to others I myself might be disqualified. “DEPRAVED”

15. 10:5-11 God’s Provision isn’t enough! Idols! A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished!Leadership What is Idol worship? Anything that takes first place in your life other than God What is Idol worship? Anything that takes first place in your life other than God If Christ isn’t Lord of all, he isn’t Lord at all.

16. 10:5-11 God’s Provision isn’t enough! Idols!Hot Sex! A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished!Leadership

17. 10:5-11 God’s Provision isn’t enough! Idols!Hot Sex!Rebellion! A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished!Leadership They were never sick!

18. 10:5-11 God’s Provision isn’t enough! Idols!Hot Sex!Rebellion!Grumblers! A Fresh StartIntercessorNourished!Leadership Rejection of spiritual authority is ultimately rejection of God’s authority

19. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened… Therefore God gave them over… Romans 1:21, 24-25 “adokimos” — depraved, disqualified, worthless, without value…

20. “Freedom! Privilege!” “I’ve got rights!” “I do what I wanna do!” “I’m the slave of all!” “I’ll give up my rights!” “I discipline myself!”