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Sometimes You Just Need to Run Away

Finding the answer to your dilemma could be as simple as running away. Explore biblical examples and reasons why running is sometimes the best choice. Discover how fleeing can lead to clarity and God's will.

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Sometimes You Just Need to Run Away

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  1. Sometimes You Just Needto Run Away

  2. The Solution Is Obvious • Sometimes the obvious solution to a dilemma requires no thinking … just run! • Examples in the NT: Mt. 2:13 (Herod’s decree), Mt. 10:23 (persecution), Mt. 24:16 (fall of Jerusalem), Acts 27:30 (shipwreck), and Heb. 11:34 (the sword) • God wants us to run and don’t look back (Lk. 17:32 [Gen. 19:12ff]; 1 Cor. 10:13)!

  3. The Solution Is Obvious Why run? • We will be less likely to dwell on the sin (Josh. 7; 2 Sam. 11; Jas. 1:14-15) • We will have time for our passion to subside (Prov. 14:29; 17:27) • We will be able to think more clearly about what God wants

  4. Just Run Away • Flee fornication (1 Cor. 6:18) – run from those things that lead to fornication (Gen. 39:12; Mt. 5:28; Gal. 5:19) • Flee idolatry (1 Cor. 10:14) – run from those things that would take God’s place in our heart (Ezek. 14:1ff; 1 Jn. 5:21) • Flee the love of money (1 Tim. 6:11) – run from those material things that cause one to be lost

  5. Just Run Away • Flee youthful lusts (2 Tim. 2:22) • Youthful advice (1 Kings 12:13-14) • Youthful disrespect (2 Kings 2:23) • Youthful peer pressure (Prov. 1:10) • Youthful folly (Prov. 1:4; 7:7) • Youthful priorities (Mt. 19:20,22)

  6. Just Run Away • Flee youthful lusts (2 Tim. 2:22) • Youthful pride (Prov. 18:12) • Youthful unbelief (Eccl. 12:1; Psa. 119:9)

  7. Just Run Away • Every second we delay the more likely we will commit the sin • When we “flee” sin and temptation, the Devil will “flee” from us (Jas. 4:7)

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