Hacksaw Ridge 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee. Not Resist.
Desmond Doss
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Hacksaw Ridge Flee. Not Resist. 2016
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don't seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.”
Desmond Doss
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How This Connects to Your Life

Desmond Doss did not negotiate with his conviction at the door. He held it completely through the court martial, up the ridge, until there was no one left to help.

Joseph did not stand at the door of Potiphar's wife's room and try to negotiate his desire down. He fled. The instruction is not to win the battle at the location of temptation. It is to remove yourself.

The sexual patterns you establish in private do not stay there. They shape how you see your wife, how you pray, how you lead your home.

1 Corinthians 6:18
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“Flee from sexual immorality.”
God called your body a temple. Sexual sin is not just a moral failure. It is a violation of a dwelling that belongs to God.
Three Questions.
No wrong answers. Just honest ones.
1
What are you resisting when you should be fleeing?
2
Where have you set yourself up in a location where the temptation is guaranteed to arrive?
3
Who knows the real name of your battle in this area?
The History Behind the Film

Hacksaw Ridge is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.

The History Behind the Scripture

1 Corinthians 6:18 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.

How It All Connects

The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.

This Week
1
Name the specific temptation or pattern that most frequently derails you, to God first, then to one man you trust.
2
Identify the trigger that most reliably precedes the fall. Change one thing about that trigger this week.
3
If pornography is part of the battle, get accountability software on every device today. Not eventually. Today.
4
Build a plan for the craving before it comes: pray, call someone, leave. Write the plan now.
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