Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

eventual heart attacks. I would suggest we must all examine our physical lifestyles and make adjustments to maintain a strong and healthy temple if we wish to live out our days. Certainly in any believer’s life there can be both sins and weights that beset , or weigh a person down from effectively running the race of faith (Heb. 12:1). We know from reading the Scriptures there are certain practices that are sin. No gray lines —simply sin. Lying, stealing, fornication, murder—all these are sins (Gal. 5:19–21). There are also weights that can easily slow us down. Hebrew 12:1 ( KJV ) says: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. In this passage the Greek word for “weight” is ogkos , and it means, “a burden that causes you to be bent over or that weighs you down spiritually or mentally.” 2 Figuratively it can allude to a hindrance that distracts you from fully running your race to gain the prize. The word beset is an old English word that, in Greek, refers to someone standing near a runner attempting to thwart, distract, or disrupt the race in whatever direction the runner is running. A smoking habit, like other habits, can weigh a person down in several areas: in the cost of purchasing the cigarettes, which is an added weight of expense; in the odors that cling to your clothes, in your car,