Would you be
tempted to stare down
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the barrel of a
loaded 12 gauge shot gun,
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set to go off some
time in the next 100 years?
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In 1982, people lined up
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to do just that.
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Staring down the
barrel of a loaded gun
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is not my idea of fun
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but it seems that many
people disagree with me.
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Why are people tempted
to gamble with their lives.
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The human race is
drawn to temptation
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like a moth is to flame.
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The actual gun in the
art exhibit was loaded
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and set to fire a fatal
blast sometime within 100 years
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when the clock was set.
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I'll bet you that
not a single person
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sitting in front
of that deadly barrel
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thought the gun with fire,
while they were in a chair.
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But who can rest assure that
when you're toy would danger
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that devil will
always pull the trigger.
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When we mess
around the temptation,
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we will get hurt.
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But the good news is you
and I don't need to get hurt
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by temptation any longer.
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Ideal country saying goes
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I was knee-high to a grasshopper
when I start fishing.
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We're going up fishing
serve two purposes actually
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we put, food on the table
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and was just loads of
fun the fish would dead.
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Well, I have the
opportunity to fish from
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Central America to Alaska
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which brings up
other country saying,
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"the worst day of
fishing is better than
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the best day of working."
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Fishing is one of
the oldest professions
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in past times of the human race.
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The paralegal
fishing can be as easy as
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having a stick some line
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and hook with the
worm at the end of it.
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Well, in some countries
they don't even use the stick.
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If it's a commercial venture,
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it could cost
millions to stock of boats
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and prepare for
a day in the ocean.
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One key ingredient is the bait.
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I've used flies, layers, eggs,
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well, different kinds of bait
and the list actually goes on.
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You see, fishing is a real
art and if you fly fishing,
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you catch what bugs were
out and you select to fly
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that looks just like the bug
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that are near the
water on that day.
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Then after studying the stream,
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you determine the
location where the fish will be
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and your place where
fly in that perfect spot
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to just guide it right past
of nose that unsuspecting fish.
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No matter what type of bait
or setup the fish it may use
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they're all
designed to do one thing,
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tempt the fish to
bite on a concealed hook.
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This exactly what
the devil is doing
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when he dangles
temptation in front of you.
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He is trying to lure you,
to a trap to just seduce you
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to bite on a hidden
hook and make no mistake.
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They're always hidden hooks
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ready to slice
deep into your flesh.
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But just like the
fish in the stream,
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you don't need to
bite regardless of
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how tempting the meal
is flowing past you maybe.
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Because of the devil's alarming
success rate at fishing for sin,
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we've been doped into the belief
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that simply seen or
wiggling worm must be sin.
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In other words,
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many Christians believe
the temptation itself is sin.
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Do you think that's true?
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Well, even if
you don't believe it,
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I would venture to say
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that you probably
act like you do anyway.
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I'm convinced
that if the devil can
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keep only one truth
from you, this would be it.
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Temptation is not sin
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and God has the
power to keep you
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from surrendering to
it from biting on it.
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It is a complete lie
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that you must
accept His biblical fact
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that falling for every
temptation is unavoidable.
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You and I have been held captive
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to this lie far too long.
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Hebrews 4:15 says,
"When Jesus lived on earth,
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He was very
tempted in every way.
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He was tempted in the same ways
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we are tempted
but never sinned."
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Our Lord came to show
us how to walk the rock
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and provide all
the power to do so.
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There is no pressure to sin
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that is greater than
the power of almighty God
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to deliver you from it.
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Just to make it
very clear one last time,
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fishing is called
fishing and not catching
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because it depends on whether
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the fish decide
to bite the bait.
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As a fisherman, I don't
stand in the water grabbing fish
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and manually hooking them up.
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It is the same
with the devil and you.
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He can dangle
all the tempting bait
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he wants in front of you
but you don't need to bite.
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According to Ellen White,
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"Through belief in Satan's
misrepresentations of God,
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man's character and
destiny were changed,
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but if men will
believe in the word of God,
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they will be transformed
in mind and character,
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and fitted for eternal life."
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God's word said the Lord knows
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how to deliver the
godly out of temptation.
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By way of
example I want to address
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a temptation
that is so sensitive
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that most people don't
even want to discuss it.
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Biting on this temptation
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is destroyed
multitudes of marriages
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and has wrecked entire families.
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It is infiltrated
every level of our society
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including the church
because of devil make sure
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that it rarely
stops with just a look.
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In some cases, it is led to
the most terrible of crimes.
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What is the temptation?
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It's pornography.
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The devil dangled sex in front
of us at every opportunity.
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At the super
market checkout counter
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portrayed by scantily
cloud woman on magazine covers.
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On Television, on our computers,
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even in public today,
sometimes even in the church
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exhibit in the way
men and women dress.
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The devil is dangling
his bait at every corner.
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I want you to meet Larry.
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Larry is not his real
name and he has requested that
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we do not show his face
nor reveal his true voice
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due to the sensitive
nature of his past addiction.
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Hi, Jim, as to what the
affects with pornography
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was in my life and my
family or others around me.
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I guess the biggest thing
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it was talk about
younger age first was it
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I drafted my
younger siblings into it.
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I really haven't talk
much about it I tried to--
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I was just pointing your life
I guess we need younger 15, 16
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we get you separate ways
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and try to pretend those things
didn't happen at younger life.
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I've only approached
one of our siblings to it,
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to really discuss it
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and basically
asked for forgiveness,
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since I led him into this.
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The other one doesn't
want talk about it as to them
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and don't want
to in discuss with
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so like that we left doing that.
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But at least in the teens
early 20 years and those years
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it definitely made
a rift in our family
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and at least as far as
my siblings are concerned.
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I realized more
and more how much
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this was affecting my
relationship with God.
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Not that I didn't
realize that before
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but the cycle had interested
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imposed with my life
and enough is enough.
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And I was at a low
point probably about a year,
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year and half
within a year whatever.
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And Lord has a way of reaching
people in their low points.
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In fact, I-- I will
say sincere believer that
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He pushes us side of
sometimes allow things to happen
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that what we focus in our lives.
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And about that time,
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I received a
manuscript from a good friend,
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that manuscript
turned out to be the
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what was now or
what was now knows as
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the book of transformation.
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And it did transform
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and I'm a big push of behind Jim
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trying to get this thing out.
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It changed my life.
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It-- it brought me into
a much deeper relationship
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with God and Bible.
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My daily worship schedule was
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if he to say at least
my prayer time was there
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but my prayers
never went further than
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the introduction
of chapter or book
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where he talks about payers
now going through the ceiling.
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That's all I felt.
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They never made it
through the ceiling.
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I was sure God love me
I've never had any claims
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all my life in that area.
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It was just my relationship
with God was their fault
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and I didn't know how
to get it back on track.
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I think Benjamin Franklin
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put his finger on the
problem with temptation
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when he said,
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what makes resisting temptation
difficult for many people,
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is it they don't want to
discourage you completely.
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Could that be what
happens with you and me?
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Many times we will
make the conscious choice
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to open the door of
temptation, just a tiny bit.
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We're scared to
close the door completely
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even though
leaving the door open
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will result in our destruction.
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Satan's soul focus is to destroy
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every hint of Christ in you
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which is why he's in the
business of tempting you.
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But when you're
faced to what seems like an
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overwhelming errs to
sin, you have an out.
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"God dwelling in you, therefore
submit yourselves to God
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resist the
devil," the Bible says
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and he will flee from you.
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You see God can do
anything He wants to do
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because after all He's
God, and when He's living in you
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while He wants to
keep you from sinning.
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Remember the angel told
Mary to call his name Jesus
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for He shall save his
people from their sins.
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Here's the key,
your prayers and mine
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will be far more effective
in the battle with evil
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if we start by surrendering all
to God, not just 99% but all.
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We need to completely
close the door to temptation
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and lock it, the devil
does not own bold cutters.
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And contrary to what
Satan was like us to believe
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temptation is not
sin, don't miss this.
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The first look is not
sin, but we must turn away
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from the second look.
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This is critical, at
the moment of recognition,
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call out to God and He
will give you the power
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to turn away to
keep you from sinning.
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This is not just wishful
thanking, its Bible truth.
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Just as falling out of
the tree resulting gravity
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pulling you down to the ground.
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Well, then resisting the devil
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will resulted him
bolting from the scene
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when we appeal to our best
friend Jesus Christ in prayer.
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At that moment it
becomes God's battle.
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And, well, when you
appear to, to be overwhelmed.
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You're fighting
against all odds,
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those things will soon evaporate
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and leave an empty battlefield
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when you call upon Jesus Christ.
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Ever wonder why
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the powerful
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The temptations way on
you and leave you saying,
00:11:40.65\00:11:43.44
maybe I'm not trying
hard enough for wondering
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if God's holding up
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Could there be some
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Even better than
resisting temptation
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once you're confirmed with it,
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is to do all
you can to avoid it.
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And if you're once
a smoker and alcoholic
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you certainly will not choose
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to hangout at the
bars or the liquor store.
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And if you're a
drug dealer like I was
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you wouldn't
hangout around the pot shops
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that sell the stuff.
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Temptations were always there.
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In fact, I share with Jim that
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it's been about a year
and I felt a few weeks back
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it was, it was not
a joyous experience.
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When the Lord's up
on that we feel again,
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but I can honestly say that
I haven't since my teen years
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I have not gone a
year without indulging
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in these addictions.
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Well, I be tempted,
probably rest of my life.
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Satan knows
everybody's weaknesses
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and he learned this
weakness on-- long time ago.
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He will probably
continue to tell me.
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I know now that and I did know
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before I just
didn't want to accept
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I went to acknowledge it.
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I know that with God's
help I can beat this addiction.
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When I feel an urged with--
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hey, I need
something to fill an addiction
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I turn the other way.
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I used to stay stare at ladies,
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did I found attractive.
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I don't do that anymore,
so I'd like that my own wife
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I don't know another
wife where to look at.
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Where are you
looking for anyway?
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I know there's a
higher power of responsible
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to this higher
power baby creatively
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and gave me a will to
make choices to accept Him
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and to be a friend of His.
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First thing I
would say is acknowledge
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that you have an addiction.
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That's far first thing
than any step to recovery
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is to acknowledge
there is a problem.
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The second is to
seek obviously God's help.
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Confess your sin to the Lord,
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let Him know that you're sorry
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and you want to make a change.
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And I think He's for people here
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on earth to help
us on these things,
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seek out of friends
somebody you can be accountable
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for and make that
friend accountable
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ask you questions
to check in on you.
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And it's got to be
somebody of your trust
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and we will hold
your confidentiality.
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But to make
yourself accountable,
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to a spouse to your friend
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there is nothing like
that for feel pressure
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if you want to use the word
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it somebody tangible right here
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not those every
God is intangible.
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But God has a small voice.
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So friend can be pretty
pesky right in front of you
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and it's hard to
tell him to their face
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that you done something to leave
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they've been encouraging
you for a while not to do.
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I'm a firm believer
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that you can't just
throw something out.
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The Bible is pretty clear
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that when we speak a
room and clean in our mind,
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and if we don't
focus something else,
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the devil is
gonna move right in.
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And I've been down
that room many times
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before I don't
know how many times
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I had given up this addiction.
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And that would last
about two weeks at the most
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and we're back to and it's
worse than the time before.
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It's-- the sorry state of sin.
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You know, if you
think you got to cleaned up
00:16:26.01\00:16:28.13
and the next
time around is worse
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and worse and worse.
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Now this time we got
to felt with something.
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The Book of James says,
"Therefore submit to God,
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resist the devil he
will flee from you."
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Moses had all the richest
of Egypt at his disposal.
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He was inline to become pharaoh
00:16:43.65\00:16:45.16
but he decided to
turn away from all of it
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because he realized
that it would cost him
00:16:47.36\00:16:50.06
his eternal position of
royalty in the courts above.
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The same royal court
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you and I are
destined to live in
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and reign for eternity.
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You know, we tend to exercise
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our physical bodies
so we can build muscle.
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We tend go to the gym jump,
00:17:08.49\00:17:09.90
the track all these places
to exercise those muscles.
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But what do we do
about our spiritual muscles?
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You know it's
easier to resist temptation
00:17:16.17\00:17:19.07
when we exercise our
spiritual muscles as well.
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The more we exercise our
power of choice for good.
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Well, it's easier to
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00:17:24.68\00:17:27.63
that's our part in the
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00:17:27.66\00:17:30.51
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This is the key, God
allows us to exercise freewill.
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We can select
the road to oblivion
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which is a coming to temptation.
00:19:27.35\00:19:29.41
It's very wide, nicely paved
00:19:29.44\00:19:31.88
and gradually
descends to destruction.
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There're times when on this road
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you would never have a clue
00:19:36.33\00:19:37.83
that the Lord ends in
complete annihilation.
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C.S. Lewis, once wrote and quote
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"Indeed the safest road
to Hell is the gradual one,
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the gentle
slope, soft underfoot,
00:19:46.78\00:19:48.74
without sudden turnings,
00:19:48.77\00:19:50.06
without
milestones, without signposts."
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We must understand and
when speaking of temptation
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a Christian cannot
use the excuse that,
00:19:57.00\00:19:59.52
that devil made me do it.
00:19:59.55\00:20:02.00
God has given
every human free choice.
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That's why we're here
00:20:04.64\00:20:05.67
in this messed up
world in the first place
00:20:05.70\00:20:08.20
because our first
parents Adam and Eve
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bit on to the devil temptation.
00:20:10.13\00:20:12.33
That's why Jesus came
to provide an alternative
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to continually
falling for every temptation
00:20:14.87\00:20:17.54
that comes our way.
00:20:17.57\00:20:19.21
As soon as He was baptized
00:20:19.24\00:20:20.68
the Holy Spirit
led Him to the desert
00:20:20.71\00:20:22.77
to do battle with
same and show us the way.
00:20:22.80\00:20:25.90
But don't miss this, the
first item of preparation
00:20:25.93\00:20:28.50
for battle was to
spend 40 days in prayer.
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Perhaps it was the
touch of a supernatural being
00:20:37.19\00:20:39.40
that brought Him out of His
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40 days of
communion with the Father.
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When He looked up there
it was this dazzling being
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who said "I come
to warn you about one.
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Well, a matter of
fact, you look like the one.
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If you're really who you say
00:20:51.41\00:20:52.57
you're the savior
of the world-- here
00:20:52.60\00:20:54.73
take this stone
and turn it to bread."
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Well, for Jesus
it was a temptation,
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He was the God of the universe
incarnated in human form.
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He looked at that one
and He said no, no, no
00:21:03.05\00:21:04.98
"Man shall not
live by bread alone
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but by every word that proceeds
00:21:06.86\00:21:08.70
from the mouth of God."
00:21:08.73\00:21:11.80
Now temptation number two,
00:21:11.83\00:21:13.06
the devil takes Him
up to a high temple,
00:21:13.09\00:21:14.97
he says if you're really the
Son of God cast yourself down.
00:21:15.00\00:21:18.95
And Jesus quotes scripture,
00:21:18.98\00:21:21.65
now the devil
pulls His mask away
00:21:21.68\00:21:23.67
takes Him up to the
highest mountain top,
00:21:23.70\00:21:25.30
shows Him all of the
glories of planet earth he says
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I got it from Adam it's
mine, I claim it as mine.
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But if you bow down
and worship me as your lord
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I'll give it all to you
all the riches of planet earth.
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And Jesus says Satan get
behind me now, it's full blown.
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He says no, no, no.
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I want none of your temptations.
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My friends,
temptation does not have
00:21:44.86\00:21:47.61
to be something
that we abide on.
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Jesus provided the way
to get his past temptation.
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We know longer have
to succumb to temptation.
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So let's bring these temptations
of Jesus down to our day.
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The first was lust of the flesh.
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That's food and drugs and
alcohol fit in this category
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along with many
other consumable items.
00:22:06.67\00:22:10.15
It's evident in our world that
00:22:10.18\00:22:11.51
this is a major
area of temptation.
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It was part of the
temptation of thief.
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Abuse of the natural appetite
was also the first temptation
00:22:16.56\00:22:19.57
that the devil tried to
hook Jesus with when he said,
00:22:19.60\00:22:22.33
turn these stones to bread.
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The lust of the eyes is actually
number two after Eve fell,
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she ran to Adam as
the devil's temptress.
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Adam saw what
she had done and knew
00:22:31.48\00:22:34.06
that the penalty for
her disobedience was death.
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He looked upon her beauty
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and he desired the woman
more than he desired God.
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So he took out the
fruit and he ate it.
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In the final when
is the pride of life.
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So many things
fit into this category
00:22:48.01\00:22:49.94
but they'll focus on the
power the fame and the wealth.
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None of these things
are sins ended themselves
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but power, fame and wealth
are easily abused by those
00:22:56.96\00:23:00.31
who are humbled before God
00:23:00.34\00:23:02.52
and they can
become idols to those
00:23:02.55\00:23:04.18
who seek after them
before they seek after God.
00:23:04.21\00:23:08.26
Satan tempted
evil with his power
00:23:08.29\00:23:10.40
and she desired to have it,
00:23:10.43\00:23:12.88
her pride of life went
out over her love for God.
00:23:12.91\00:23:17.41
Jesus gained the
victory just as we must gain.
00:23:17.44\00:23:21.09
He laid aside every bit
of Himself and instead relied
00:23:21.12\00:23:24.33
upon the Father's
power to overcome.
00:23:24.36\00:23:27.42
He defeated the devil on
every level of temptation
00:23:27.45\00:23:30.30
and He did it for you
and for me in the same way
00:23:30.33\00:23:33.71
that we must do it by
relying upon the power
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.93
of the indwelling Holy Spirit
00:23:36.96\00:23:38.80
that third
person of the Godhead.
00:23:38.83\00:23:41.30
In order for us to
be victorious Christians
00:23:41.33\00:23:43.60
avoiding falling for temptation,
00:23:43.63\00:23:45.78
we must choose to
tapping into that mighty power
00:23:45.81\00:23:48.32
that Jesus
offers you and me today.
00:23:48.35\00:23:53.64
You know Jesus had
asked the disciples
00:23:53.67\00:23:55.42
to get in the boat
and go to the other side
00:23:55.45\00:23:57.64
that someway somehow
He would meet them there.
00:23:57.67\00:24:00.28
Well, as they're
rowing in the middle of night
00:24:00.31\00:24:02.07
the waves are getting bigger
00:24:02.10\00:24:03.26
and bigger and
they're quite huge
00:24:03.29\00:24:05.34
and the disciples are getting
little nervous about this
00:24:05.37\00:24:07.70
and all of a
sudden they see this foam,
00:24:07.73\00:24:09.51
walking across the water.
00:24:09.54\00:24:11.05
And they think who is
this, is this is the bad omen,
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.50
is this an omen
that we're going to die.
00:24:13.53\00:24:16.16
And then all of a
sudden they finally see that,
00:24:16.19\00:24:18.03
that maybe it's Jesus
00:24:18.06\00:24:19.15
and Peter said
Lord, is that you?
00:24:19.18\00:24:21.83
Tell me to get out the boat.
00:24:21.86\00:24:23.53
Oh, tell me to get out the boat
00:24:23.56\00:24:25.36
and the Lord said
sure come on Peter,
00:24:25.39\00:24:27.11
come on get out the boat.
00:24:27.14\00:24:28.60
So Peter steps out,
00:24:28.63\00:24:29.78
he and gets one of
the top of the water
00:24:29.81\00:24:31.22
while he is walking
just like it cement.
00:24:31.25\00:24:33.49
He walks across towards Jesus
00:24:33.52\00:24:34.93
but then he does
an interesting thing
00:24:34.96\00:24:36.39
he turns back to look at
the rest of the disciples
00:24:36.42\00:24:38.69
kind of like hey, check
me out, look what I'm doing.
00:24:38.72\00:24:41.99
And about that time,
the bigger wave comes up
00:24:42.02\00:24:43.97
between Jesus and
Peter and Peter turns back
00:24:44.00\00:24:47.89
and looks he can't see
Christ and he sinks like a rock.
00:24:47.92\00:24:50.52
Man and he is gone
his eyes were off of Jesus
00:24:50.55\00:24:53.00
don't miss this part.
00:24:53.03\00:24:54.17
His eyes were off of
Jesus began sinking like a rock
00:24:54.20\00:24:56.91
and immediately Peter cries out
00:24:56.94\00:24:58.38
Lord, save me, and
Jesus says right there.
00:24:58.41\00:25:01.80
Picks him up by the hand
00:25:01.83\00:25:02.86
and the next thing
they're in the boat
00:25:02.89\00:25:04.64
and they're all
their way to shore.
00:25:04.67\00:25:06.97
It's amazing the power of God.
00:25:07.00\00:25:09.01
You know I
made-- I'd always giving
00:25:09.04\00:25:11.77
Peter a bad time
about his failures
00:25:11.80\00:25:13.72
until one day I
thought, forget the storm,
00:25:13.75\00:25:16.15
but I've even gotten on the
boat even in calm conditions.
00:25:16.18\00:25:20.25
Well it's truly Peter received
a mildly rebuke from the Lord
00:25:20.28\00:25:23.47
but it wasn't
because he didn't trust Jesus
00:25:23.50\00:25:25.82
when he got out of the boat.
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When he got out of the boat
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he had faith that Jesus
could take him a distance,
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he was only on the way
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that Peter began
to having a troubles.
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You know the Lord
says, interesting thing
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and the Lord says,
go and sin no more.
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Are you really going to
get out of the boat of sin
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because you know
you believe Jesus,
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you believe in Him or
you gonna stay in the boat
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with the rest the crowd
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and never test His mighty
power to save you from sin.
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I think it's interesting
that the Bible doesn't tell us,
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how Peter got back in the boat.
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Already I think you know
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did he walk back
what really happen.
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I like the think that the
Lord when He picked him up
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they walked arm and arm
all away back to the boat
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with the power
and strength of Jesus,
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he became a waterlog.
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You know we think
about this central
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wonder about these things
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and we try and
deal with these stones
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in our lives for
things that are happening.
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But with God along side of his,
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we become water walkers were
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we can learn how to become
water walkers with Christ.
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You know this is where,
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this is where I
shrink from temptation
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originally--
remember it's firm temptation.
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That's what all
originates is in Him.
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What He wants to do
in and through you to,
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to make you an over-comer.
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Its mind boggling but in
order to walk on the water
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you need to choose
to get out to the boat.
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It's basically that simple.
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As you go arm
and arm with Jesus,
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you can walk anywhere
God wants you to walk.
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When He told the pretty lady
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and the prostitute to
sin no more He was saying,
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hey don't loose sight of me,
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don't let go in my arm
and I will lead you to victor.
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That's what He was telling.
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Remember as you
cooperate with the will of God,
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it becomes omnipotent.
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If you want to walk on water,
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you need to trust Jesus
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and actually
get out of the boat.
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He will be trusted as
the creator God of universe
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He is able to keep
you above the waves
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you use your life or you don't.
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If you don't trust
Him, you will loose out
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on an unbelievable
experience walking on water.
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The reality of the situation
is that there is no need to sink
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beneath the ways of temptation
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that bid against
every moment and every day.
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Call out to God right now,
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ask Him to turn you
from the temptations
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that are plugging
you at this very moment.
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Pledge for a His strength,
look into His loving eyes
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and He will
take you by the hand,
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lift you up in
arm and arm with God,
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you will become a water walker.
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