Run For Your Life, And Don't Look Back!

English Standard Version Chapter 9

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1. The Apostle Paul first of all makes reference to an observance in the natural.

i. Athletes exercise self-control in areas of their life to be the best.

Their diet.

Their exercise.

Their commitment to certain practices.

They train their bodies.

Their life.

2. They do this to obtain a prize that is tomporal.

3. There is a prize to be won that is not temporal but it is eternal.

4.