Choices in Life!

This course is a follow-up course to the Weight Loss Bootcamp course.  Please do not enroll in this course unless you have completed the Weight Loss Bootcamp course.

Jackie writes, "Setting Captives Free is the most biblical and detailed understanding of our lives with Christ I have ever had the honor of learning from. Every word, every sentence points us to Jesus and to His word. My heart is changed for it, and I am so much more in love with Jesus than all my 24 years as a Christian. Washing at the cross is key for me. When I am washing at the cross in total attention and focus, I can almost feel the arms of Jesus around me. Between the Setting Captives Free Weight Loss Bootcamp and this Follow-Up course, I have lost 25 pounds!"

Janet writes: "Learning more about Jesus' overwhelming love in the weight loss courses at Setting Captives Free is so powerful in learning to fight against my fleshly desires. I am three to four sizes smaller and physically feel better than I have in years, but the most amazing change is in my walk with Christ and being led by the Holy Spirit. My body is a much better temple now. These courses are phenomenal."

Molly writes, "Going through this Weight Loss Follow-Up course has helped me to understand more about the love of Jesus, and it is helping me to be able to apply what the cross means in the area of eating. I know that God loves me because he saved my soul but going through this course, there have been some times where washing brought me back to a place of intimacy that I once knew when I was newly saved, and this has been wonderful to rekindle my relationship with God. It's almost like I am being born again - again! That's the best way I can describe it, even though I know that I am being sanctified.  Food was an area that I couldn't quite pinpoint the sin, and going through the Setting Captives Free Weight Loss courses has helped me name the different sins associated with the way that I eat. Gluttony, idolatry, laziness, and other sins have been shown to me because God loves me, and He disciplines those He loves. I am so thankful for His love for me, and whether I eat or drink or whatever I do, I will do all to the glory of God! He is worthy."

The following are additional resources to help you in your studies: 

Join the Men's Weight Loss group on Facebook.   Join the Women's Weight Loss Group on Facebook.

Join the Women's Marco Polo Discussion Group.  Join the Men's Marco Polo Discussion Group

This is a 30 lesson follow up course to Weight Loss Bootcamp.  Enroll in this course after you complete the Weight Loss Bootcamp.

A Gospel-centered approach

Weight Loss Follow-Up

Lesson 1: Ongoing Heart Change

Lesson 2: Method of Heart Change

Lesson 3 Washing at the Cross: United with Christ in His Death

Lesson 4: Washing at the cross: United with Christ in His Resurrection

Lesson 5: Walking by the Spirit: Motivation

Lesson 6: Walking by the Spirit: Transformation

Lesson 7: Warring Against the Flesh: Putting to Death the Misdeeds of the Body

Lesson 8: Warring Against the Flesh - Following Jesus in Suffering

Lesson 9: Washing at the Cross: Freedom From Slavery

Lesson 10  Washing at the cross: Freedom Through Grace

Lesson 12 Walking by the Spirit: Changed Into a New Person

Lesson 11: Walking by the Spirit: Freedom From the Flesh

Lesson 13 Warring Against the Flesh, Praying God’s Word

Lesson 14: Warring Against the Flesh: Casting Down Imaginations

Lesson 15: Washing, Walking and Warring: An Illustration

Lesson 16: Washing at the Cross: New Creation Living

Lesson 19: Warring against the Flesh: the Power of the Mind

Lesson 17: Washing at the Cross: the Power of the Message

Lesson 18: Walking by the Spirit: the Power of the Spirit

Lesson 20: Washing at the Cross: Freedom From Sin

Lesson 21: Walking by the Spirit: Freedom From False Comforts

Lesson 22: Warring against the Flesh: Getting Our Plan From God

Lesson 23: Washing at the Cross: Freedom From Sin and Death

Lesson 24: Walking by the Spirit: Having a Spiritual Mindset

Lesson 25: Warring Against the Flesh with Resurrection Power

Lesson 26: Washing at the Cross: From Captivity to Freedom and Fullness

Lesson 27: Walking by the Spirit: Feeling Jesus’ Love

Lesson 30 Conclusion

Lesson 28: Warring Against the Flesh: Freedom Through Slavery

Lesson 29: Dying to Self and Serving Others

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“Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:5-8 NIV).

Romans 8:5-8 teaches that there are two contrasting desires, that of the flesh and that of the Spirit. Our minds are either governed by the flesh to gratify its cravings or governed by the Spirit to crucify our flesh.

Believers are to be those whose minds are governed by the Spirit, not those governed by the flesh. Indeed, Paul spells it out for us in the next paragraph:

"You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you." Romans 8:9-11 (NIV) 

Believers are in the realm of the Spirit because when they first saw the cross and heard the good news of their forgiveness through Jesus Christ, they received the Spirit. Spiritual maturity comes when we learn to walk by the Spirit and keep in step with the Spirit, who is ever leading us away from self-gratification.

Lesson 24: Walking by the Spirit: Having a Spiritual Mindset

Questions 2, 3, 4, and 5

Question 2. What are the two contrasting desires listed in Romans 8:5-8 NIV?

Question 3. List everything Romans 8:5-8 NIV says about the mind governed by the flesh:

Question 4. List everything Romans 8:5-8 NIV says about the mind governed by the Spirit.

Question 5. According to Romans 8:11 NIV, what power does the Spirit of God use to make changes in the believer?