Ascending the Heights Keeping Ourselves Pure Step 15 Natalies Story 1.

The man who decides to struggle against his flesh and to overcome it by his own effort is fighting in vain. 2. What is Chastity? The chaste man is not someone with a body undefiled but rather a person whose members are in complete subjection to the soul. 3. The goal of both the married and the unmarried is the same, not the repression of natural desire but its transfiguration through fulfillment. Shawns Story 4. Submit the desires of the body to the demands of the soul. Either you control your sexual desires or they will destroy you. 5. How do we fight against them? Do serious battle with evil thoughts.

Co-Habitation Statistics Chastity begins in the mind. Questions to ponder this week. 1 Are we being desensitized by the present evil world? Do things that once shocked us now pass us by with little notice? Have our sexual ethics slackened? Where do our minds wander when we have no duties to perform? What are we reading? Are there books or magazines or files in our libraries that we want no one else to see? What are we renting at the local video stores? How many hours do we spend watching TV? How many adulteries did we watch last week? How many murders? How many did we watch with our children? How many chapters of the Bible did we read last week?

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